When we're not leading tours exploring the secret heart of Los Angeles, you'll find us advocating to protect interesting landmarks and calling out the land use corruption that has warped the city we love. L.A. Noir is now--but it's not forever! Newsletter:

@PplsCityCouncil @MayorOfLA Community Partners is a nonprofit incubator that aids nonprofits that do not yet have 501(c)(3) tax exempt status, and takes a cut of donations for their management work.

Look closer! A century old East Hollywood charmer, this mixed use commercial and residential block was built for Elizabeth Bailie confectioners. The floral relief lunette in the former beauty shop space is coated in battleship gray paint, but still delightful.

No tour today, but we're back next Saturday for Film Noir / Real Noir. Join a self selecting crew of hardcore cinema fans to seek out the ghosts of tough dames and doomed marks, shadowy alleys and decaying Victorian mansions, on a moody time travel trip.

@glenjay3 That was a nice save of a newer, well designed commercial sign--pup loving Wm S. Hart approves! We're advocating for keeping the Arby's sign on the Sunset Boulevard corridor, which has a 100 year history of innovative signage intended to be viewed from a moving automobile.

@cd1losangeles @writerkathymcd Thank you for looking out for Carroll Avenue and its UNDERGROUNDED power lines, a topic of great interest for all Angelenos!

@laplphotos That streetcar platform still exists beneath Hill Street! Here's Bunker Hill native son Gordon Pattison on what it was like to be an Angeleno living in the historic heart of Los Angeles before the demented redevelopment agency tore it all down.

Preservation pal Chris Casady alerts us to a favorite architectural gem lost in the Palisades fire: Myrna Loy's sweet farmhouse compound at 919 Rivas Cyn Rd. MLS listing Greg Flewin's FB post

It's Bradbury Building Planchette Day! On 2/6/1892 the family of George Wyman summoned his dead brother to ask if the young architect dared take the most significant commission of his lifetime. Mark said "YES" and L.A. rejoiced!

Dirty terrazzo stars still glimmer outside the Westlake Theatre.

RT @mmcphate: Northern California’s storms brought enough rain to lift Lake Berryessa in Napa County above its famed bellmouth spillway thr…

@CalMatters We have sufficient housing held vacant or as illegal Airbnbs. The urgency is no greater after the fires than it was in 2024. We don't have a housing crisis, it's a housing USE crisis. @newton_jim

@VictorShi_LA What is the role of Neighborhood Council boards in these discussions? The city has a deep bench of engaged citizen volunteers, though on the Westside many prefer not to be subject to the Brown Act and maintain private entities. Use that bench!

@FilmThePoliceLA Now it will think you are its mother and follow you everywhere.

Up next: preservation superhero James Dastoli presents on two character RSO apartment houses up for landmark nomination. First the Du Barry on Catalina, with its spectacular Gothic neon rooftop sign. Then the Dover on Beverly.