Join us this week as we visit with Louise Ivers, Long Beach architectural historian and preservationist, for an overview of that city’s rich and quickly disappearing architectural legacy. We’ll also talk with writer Steffie Nelson about the people and ideas that have helped shape her concept of “Cosmic Los Angeles.â€

Steffie Nelson's website.

Louise Ivers' book Long Beach: A History Through Its Architecture is available from the Historical Society of Long Beach. 

Kim discovers Raymond Chandler's lost comic operetta The Princess and the Pedlar.

Preservation concerns about Redlands Passenger Rail Project.

Sidewalk vending opposed by some business interests.

KCRW's DNA report "Will Pershing Square Get a Design Overhaul?"

Kim's free Pasadena Public Library talk on Raymond Chandler and The Kept Girl.

Forensic science seminar Where There's Smoke.

 

Upcoming Bus Tours

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