Etan R.
Music omnivore, student of LA history, beer snob and amateur father. Working my way through the canon.
The hub of Central Avenue's vibrant jazz scene in the late '20s through the early '50s, the Dunbar Hotel hosted everyone from Ella Fitzgerald to Thurgood Marshall to Joe Louis, and served as a symbol of Black achievement during the Jim Crow era
The century-old Victorian and craftsman homes of the 27th Street Historic District have housed generations of minority communities in LA – including a large population of African Americans during the heyday of Central Avenue
The original headquarters of one of the most successful African-American-owned businesses west of the Mississippi, and an anchor of the Black community around Central Ave. in the late 1920s - '40s
A center of Black community life since 1926, Second Baptist Church has hosted MLK, Malcolm X & James Baldwin, and is an early work of noted LA architect Paul R. Williams
Standing tall in Hollywood since 1931, this art deco high-rise once housed Gene Hackman, Montgomery Clift, Mickey Rooney and Ronald Reagan
A triumph of light and space for mid-century modernist John Lautner, the Harpel House pointed the way to his later masterworks
While this 1920s Hollywood apartment building is anything but glamorous, its story says a lot about the development of Hollywood over the past century.
This 1882 mansion was the home of Altadena's founding Woodbury family, and later expanded by a prominent pump organ vendor
Malibu’s famous Surfrider Beach was the birthplace of modern surfing, and witnessed important moments in Chumash, Spanish & American history
An imaginative playground of concrete dragons, whales and octopi created by master artisan Benjamin Dominguez
All eyes are on Pasadena this week for the Rose Parade. Get to know the historic buildings that line the route of Pasadena's Rose Parade, a new year's day tradition since 1890.
The community center of the defunct, WWI-era utopian Little Landers society is now a museum dedicated to its history.
Architect Pierre Koenig's thoroughly modern jewel in the Hollywood Hills epitomized the Case Study House program.
This electrical power station, right on Olvera Street, powered 40% of LA's streetcars from 1905-1963
The birthplace of Los Angeles and its one-time commercial/social hub, housing dozens of historic buildings and monuments to the founders of LA
