Roadtrip: Etan Does Idyllwild

Roadtrip: Etan Does Idyllwild

May 20, 2022
For my 40th birthday, I visited the NRHP-listed landmarks in the SoCal mountain town of Idyllwild: a livable yellow UFO, a John Lautner cabin made of tree trunks and zig-zagging glass, a wooded State Park and a modernist tram station at 8,500 feet.
#95: Villa Bonita (Hollywood)

#95: Villa Bonita (Hollywood)

April 24, 2022
This 1929 apartment complex once housed Errol Flynn and Francis Ford Coppola. It distinguishes itself from the many Whitley Heights high-rises by the spectacular vines that wrap around it, as if mama nature herself designed the facade.