Join us this week as we visit with amateur historian Dennis Harbach, who has recently completed the herculean project of identifying almost all the names inscribed in the guestbook at Charles Fletcher Lummis’ historic Highland Park home, El Alisal. We’ll also talk with Jeremiah Alexrod, professor of history at Occidental College, and author of Inventing Autopia: Dreams and Visions of the Modern Metropolis in Jazz Age Los Angeles, about the past century of automative annoyance.

About Dennis Harbach's work with the El Alisal housebook. (To purchase a copy of his two-volume book about the housebook, call El Alisal at 323-222-0546.)

An update on the status of the Lummis House.

Professor Jeremiah B.C. Axelrod's college website.

Jeremiah's book, Inventing Autopia: Dreams and Visions of the Modern Metropolis in Jazz Age Los Angeles.

The Cultural Heritage Commission reconsiders the landmark status of the Bartlett House (PDF link).

Route 66 gas station restoration in Rancho Cucamonga continues.

Warner Theatre Huntington Park info page, and new photos by Hunter Kerhart.

Loretta Ayeroff's "California Ruins and Historic Sites" webpage.

Suit accuses state of neglecting Lake Norconian Club.

Los Angeles making it illegal to secretly demolish old buildings.

 

January's arson-themed forensic science seminar.

Upcoming Bus Tours

Pasadena Confidential with Crimebo the Clown

Eastside Babylon

The Real Black Dahlia

Charles Bukowski’s Haunts of a Dirty Old Man

In A Lonely Place: Raymond Chandler’s Los Angeles

Birth of Noir: James M. Cain’s Los Angeles