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Esotouric's Secret Los Angeles @esotouric.bsky.social · 1h

GASP! A.F. Gilmore Company, the family office that developed and maintains the Original Farmer’s Market, has purchased the landmarked Fairfax Theatre facade and the land inside it for a very fair $7.2 Million. atlasbrief.la/atlas-brief/...

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Esotouric's Secret Los Angeles @esotouric.bsky.social · 2h

We Filed a Cure and Correct Demand Over the Flawed Pershing Square Renaming Vote. Just because the fix is in at City Hall doesn't mean Angelenos should look the other way when our precious history is twisted for political purposes. WWI memorials matter! esotouric.substack.com/biddymason5

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Esotouric's Secret Los Angeles @esotouric.bsky.social · 19h

Media waits outside the courthouse moments after Nicole Linton was convicted. Hope this brings some peace to the families and witnesses.

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Esotouric's Secret Los Angeles @esotouric.bsky.social · 21h

Dreamy pond and tall, jungle plantings in the Los Altos Apartments entryway have the feel of old Pershing Square!

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KoHoSo @kohoso.bsky.social · 23h

You have to be absolutely ******* kidding me that even the slightest thought of tearing this place down would be allowed! #SaveThePenguin #Route66 #SoCal 🐧

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Esotouric's Secret Los Angeles @esotouric.bsky.social · 22h

No Bunker Noir walking tour tomorrow--it's too hot for time travel! We'll make another date to explore lost landscapes with Nathan Marsak and Gordon Pattison, two magical cats who can actually see the demolished Victorian vistas and want to make you feel at home in them.

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Esotouric's Secret Los Angeles @esotouric.bsky.social · 23h

When The Penguin by Googie masters Armét & Davis was listed for sale last year, the Santa Monica and Los Angeles Conservancies initiated a landmark nomination. It squeaked in just before a demo application. Can the end of Route 66 stay cool? Stay tuned! www.laconservancy.org/learn/histor...

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Esotouric's Secret Los Angeles @esotouric.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Six years after a deceptive redevelopment project marked The Silver Platter for demolition, the historic gay bar is safe! City Planning: "For whatever reason the permits were not issued. It appears the developer just stopped working on this project.” esotouric.substack.com/silverplatter

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Esotouric's Secret Los Angeles @esotouric.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

We were really looking forward to Nathan Marsak's Bunker Noir! But it's going to be a real scorcher on Saturday, and this tour requires a cooler atmosphere for your and our guest host's comfort. We'll reschedule it for a date to be determined - stay tuned!

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Esotouric's Secret Los Angeles @esotouric.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Help protect the trees, birds and historic landscape of MacArthur Park from a confused, expensive fence project with a one-click email sent before 9:30am--or you can come to Pan Pacific Rec Center and make public comment in person. esotouric.substack.com/westlakefence

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Esotouric's Secret Los Angeles @esotouric.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Urgent! Please send an email NOW or come to the RAP hearing Thursday morning to oppose a half-baked MacArthur Park fence that will KILL heritage trees and HARM migratory birds. Cultural Heritage Commissioner who objected was already removed by Karen Bass! esotouric.substack.com/p/westlakefe...

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Esotouric's Secret Los Angeles @esotouric.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

The St. George Hotel was renovated in 2004 and got awards for the conversion from dereliction to dignified affordable housing. The decline since is a Skid Row Rashomon tale, with vulnerable tenants back on the street. Like all else, it's the city's fault. capitalandmain.com/downtown-l-a...

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Downtown L.A. Residential Hotel Closed by City, Leaving Some Tenants Homeless

A developer bet he could clean up the St. George Hotel. But former tenants describe mold, bedbugs and neglect. City records show conditions had deteriorated.

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Esotouric's Secret Los Angeles @esotouric.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

There's wild stuff in the Black Dahlia Oracle, which uses your mood to tap into unpublished investigation files we obtained via a public records request. Here an anonymous informant blows the whistle on a lesbian crash pad behind the Florentine Gardens. esotouric.substack.com/oracle

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Esotouric's Secret Los Angeles @esotouric.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

New podcast launching soon: Echoes from the Hill tells untold stories of Angelino Heights, the city's first Historic Preservation Overlay Zone, created to impress '84 Olympics visitors. We think Los Angeles could learn a lot from its public policy past! www.instagram.com/echoesfromth...

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Esotouric's Secret Los Angeles @esotouric.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Breaking: Judge Percy "No Mercy" Anderson just threw out the Marilyn Monroe house owners’ federal lawsuit against the City of Los Angeles.

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Esotouric's Secret Los Angeles @esotouric.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

How do you think it feels to be an FBI agent tasked with photographing stacks of cash hoarded by the operator of a Los Angeles homeless services nonprofit, getting this great Yeezy Boost shot, and then local media just ignores the criminal complaint? esotouric.substack.com/homeatlast

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Esotouric's Secret Los Angeles @esotouric.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Saturday: a very occasional tour you won't want to miss takes you deep inside lost Bunker Hill with a focus on the wild crimes that helped the jerks in City Hall justify the neighborhood's destruction, displacement of 9000 souls. esotouric.com/event/bunker...

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BUNKER NOIR! TRUE CRIME ON LOS ANGELES’ BUNKER HILL TOUR

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Here, the ghost is me. @highway62.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Wish I was gonna be there for this one. I know. I *could* be there. Don't give me any ideas.

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Esotouric's Secret Los Angeles @esotouric.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Scoop: IRS and FBI Allege Multi-Million Dollar LAHSA Wire Fraud by Politically Connected Home At Last Shelter Operator Michael Young. Read the 47-page complaint and learn where all that money intended to help Angelenos get off the streets really went. esotouric.substack.com/homeatlast

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Esotouric's Secret Los Angeles @esotouric.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Saturday! The spooky season starts with a bang as we're joined by Nathan Marsak, the twisted mind behind the red hot true crime zine Bunker Noir, on a stroll through a lost Bunker Hill world of sinister sirens, lurid love dens and... LIZARD PEOPLE!? esotouric.com/event/bunker...

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Esotouric's Secret Los Angeles @esotouric.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Met this sweet flock of Egyptian geese (Alopochen aegyptiaca) just chilling today on the west side of MacArthur Park lake. A fence would spoil this landmark and cost so much, with no real reason why. City of LA: care for the park and invest in making it better, not locked up!

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Esotouric's Secret Los Angeles @esotouric.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Grab a pal or two and join us at 10:30am for a deep history walking tour around the Westlake Park district, including some stunning time capsule interiors. Deadly parrots, wall bed horror, bats in the trees, wild nights with the Elks & much more! esotouric.substack.com/westlakeandyou

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Esotouric's Secret Los Angeles @esotouric.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Still digging around in the sofa cushions intending to make an offer on HCM #145, the Christian Anderson-Balthazar Madrid Residence that is on sale for the first time in almost a century? Sorry--it's under contract now. www.zillow.com/homedetails/...

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Esotouric's Secret Los Angeles @esotouric.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

MacArthur Park is a landmark, its lawns and heritage trees protected. A Mayor can trample over that. Only one Angeleno thinks a fence is a good idea. Karen Bass, there's no shame in saying "I was wrong." Saturday: see the park before it's wrecked! esotouric.substack.com/westlakeandyou

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Esotouric's Secret Los Angeles @esotouric.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Save the Silver Platter! One of America's oldest gay bars, threatened by a vaporware development project and City Planning carelessness. We'll pay our respects to this still breathing Queen on Saturday's Westlake Park tour--join us, tickets are half off! esotouric.substack.com/westlakeandyou

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Esotouric's Secret Los Angeles @esotouric.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Kay Martin spent months on Bunker Hill before the CRA destroyed the Victorian neighborhood, painting each house and the locals, with love. She gave her life's work to Los Angeles to be on view forever, for free. Then the NHM locked it up. Give it back! bunkerhilllosangeles.com/kaymartin/

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Esotouric's Secret Los Angeles @esotouric.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Saturday- 50% off special! Join us on the Westlake Park walking tour packed with beautiful buildings and strange tales of oddball old time Angelenos. There is so much history to share--come take a time travel trip! esotouric.substack.com/westlakeandyou

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Esotouric's Secret Los Angeles @esotouric.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Bunker Hill historian Nathan Marsak hadn't visited the tabletop Downtown model in years, so he went to the Natural History Museum and was shocked to find wall labels packed with LIES about his beloved Los Angeles. The truth is messy, but we need that mess. bunkerhilllosangeles.com/2026/09/23/t...

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Esotouric's Secret Los Angeles @esotouric.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Were you planning to play hooky on Monday to attend the Marilyn Monroe house landmarking hearing at the Federal Courthouse? No need: the Hon. Percy “no mercy” Anderson will rule without oral argument. Watch this space! esotouric.substack.com/marilynmonroe

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Esotouric's Secret Los Angeles @esotouric.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

New, highly restrictive grave decoration rules at Hollywood Forever could make it impossible to keep the beautiful artificial floral sprays that are love offerings for the great exotica vocalist Yma Sumac and her fans who come from all over the world. www.facebook.com/photo?fbid=1...

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Esotouric's Secret Los Angeles @esotouric.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Organized crime is doing great in Los Angeles! In 2023, Seamus Hughes broke the story of nearly $1B laundered on Pershing Square by a Chinese-Sinaloan syndicate. The fentanyl trade ties directly to all-cash real estate transactions for houses held empty. esotouric.substack.com/operationapex

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Esotouric's Secret Los Angeles @esotouric.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

So, what's your star sign? Find it rendered in gross old chewing gum on the west side of Broadway between 4th & 5th Streets--definitely the work of Downtown's own surrealist trickster S.C. Mero!

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Esotouric's Secret Los Angeles @esotouric.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

DON'T JUST COMPLAIN ABOUT L.A. - SMELL IT ! And save when you sniff with a very special 50% discount offer for two or more explorers on this Saturday's Westlake Park Time Travel Trip. esotouric.substack.com/westlakeandyou

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Esotouric's Secret Los Angeles @esotouric.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

You are not hallucinating--well, maybe you are, but there really are a lot more Circus Liquor stores around L.A. as the family business expands its footprint. The terrifying neon clown is now a brand ambassador here at Laurel Canyon and Saticoy. @circusliquor #circusliquor

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Esotouric's Secret Los Angeles @esotouric.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Marilyn Monroe house landmarking lawsuit drama advances, as the Hon. Percy Anderson reviews the arguments. Is the world famous property worth just $820k? Could the owners get a demolition permit (or a house move permit) if they tried? Who will prevail? esotouric.substack.com/marilynmonroe

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Esotouric's Secret Los Angeles @esotouric.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Among 9 good reasons to slow down before renaming Pershing Square after Biddy Mason and seeking major LA28 sponsorships: Skid Row's neglected San Julian Park is much higher on the list as needing City Hall's attention. esotouric.substack.com/biddymason4

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Esotouric's Secret Los Angeles @esotouric.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Saturday, on the Know Your Downtown LA tour, we arrived at Biddy Mason Memorial Park, a site specific public art masterpiece, to find a Los Angeles Conservancy group already there. This is not uncommon--but Broadway signage would bring even more people in! esotouric.substack.com/biddymason4

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Esotouric's Secret Los Angeles @esotouric.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Wild, sad quote in this CalMatters story on Tanner Blackman's SD-based LA building permit consultancy: “After having been inside the beast for a while, I was less convinced that I was on the side of good. I felt like the villain in a Kafka novel.”

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Esotouric's Secret Los Angeles @esotouric.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Saturday on the Know Your Downtown LA tour, Richard stepped into the imaginary world of S.C. Mero's Chateau Broadway installation--pirates, public corruption, severed dragon heads, royal intrigue!--to draw attention to the real busted safe pushed out of the burned-out building.

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Esotouric's Secret Los Angeles @esotouric.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Why is the Los Angeles City Planning Department blocking citizens from commenting on its lame attempt at making upzoning into a cute meme? (Fun fact: that architecturally distinguished Skid Row Housing Trust building went into blighted receivership.) www.facebook.com/photo?fbid=1...

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Esotouric's Secret Los Angeles @esotouric.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Profoundly unsettled by the text messages sent between Lakiya Malone and Alexander Soofer, conspiring to bill LAHSA for non-existent Abundant Blessings homeless services clients they called "ghosts," as about seven people die on L.A. streets each day. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

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Esotouric's Secret Los Angeles @esotouric.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

The cranky Preservation Imp wants YOU to honor the California soldiers whose sacrifices are memorialized not just with the Spanish American War monument in Pershing Square, but in the very name of the park itself--it might be America's 1st WWI monument! esotouric.substack.com/biddymason4

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Esotouric's Secret Los Angeles @esotouric.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Strange tales of dangerous women and the saps who fell hard. A spooky--mostly demolished--neighborhood. A tour guide who knows where all the bodies are buried. Add 'em all together & you get Bunker Noir! with Nathan Marsak, a walk you won't want to miss! esotouric.com/event/bunker...

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Esotouric's Secret Los Angeles @esotouric.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Join us on Saturday for the Westlake Park tour and a stop at Alexis Smith's terrazzo tribute to Raymond Chandler, who dreamed up his earliest detective stories in the neighborhood, while juggling difficult women. esotouric.com/event/westla...

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Esotouric's Secret Los Angeles @esotouric.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

64 years ago--the very day Marilyn Monroe died--Los Angeles declared Leonis Adobe our Historic-Cultural Monument Number 1, halting demo for a supermarket. So why is there a 60th Anniversary party on Saturday night? Because it took four years to restore! www.leonisadobemuseum.org/60th-anniver...

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Esotouric's Secret Los Angeles @esotouric.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Preservation pal Damian Sullivan stopped by the Original Pantry Cafe and found a crew patching the walls and taking the candy striped awnings down to repaint. Still no pancakes flipping, but any activity is worth noting!

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Esotouric's Secret Los Angeles @esotouric.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Five days since the DOJ announced the arrest of Michael Young on alleged misuse of $12M in homelessness funds and his charging documents are still nowhere to be found on the docket. www.justice.gov/usao-cdca/pr... Are elected or appointed officials named within? www.reddit.com/r/LosAngeles...

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Esotouric's Secret Los Angeles @esotouric.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Empty Los Angeles previews tomorrow's Building & Safety Commission hearing (ens.lacity.org/ladbs/commag...) and the decaying, vacant historic housing likely to be slapped with a demolition order. There's got to be a better way! www.emptylosangeles.com/p/two-troubl...

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Esotouric's Secret Los Angeles @esotouric.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

In April, we peeped inside a dumpster to see dozens of retro chairs from a stalled renovation of the long-shuttered Hotel Clark at 4th and Hill Streets in Downtown Los Angeles. Probably related: Jose Huizar tried to shake the owners down in 2013. www.ladowntownnews.com/news/hotel-c...

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Esotouric's Secret Los Angeles @esotouric.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

We've still got room for YOU to join us today for the Know Your Downtown LA tour featuring speakeasy tunnels, Bradbury Building occult inspirations and the Dutch Chocolate Shop. Departs 10:30am from Grand Central Market bound for the beguiling past! esotouric.com/event/know-y...

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KNOW YOUR DOWNTOWN LA: BRADBURY BUILDING, BASEMENTS OF YORE AND THE DUTCH CHOCOLATE SHOP

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