Join us this week as we talk with Myllie Taylor, longtime La Mirada resident and historian, about Bill Neff, whose sale of his grandfather’s 2,000+ acre citrus and olive farms in the early 1950s led to the community’s development. We’ll also visit with Claudia Heller, President of the Duarte Historical Society, to hear about the legendary Trails Restaurant, a staple of old Route 66 from 1952 to its abrupt closure in 2001.

Duarte Historical Society's Museum info.

Claudia Heller's book, Life on Route 66: Personal Accounts Along the Mother Road to California.

Norms La Cienega preservation alert.

A new look for the El Dorado hotel lobby. (And the destroyed tile tale is here.)

Taco Bell #1 in peril.

Thom Mayne demolishes Ray Bradbury's house.

Starchitect Thom Mayne is Tearing Down Ray Bradbury's Cheviot Hills House Right Now

 

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

Monthly Sunday LAVA Salon February 2015

LAVA Forensic Science Seminar: Hot Lead and Hot Leads: Forensic Firearm / Gang Communication Analysis

 

Upcoming Bus Tours

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

Boyle Heights & The San Gabriel Valley: The Hidden Histories of L.A.‘s Melting Pot

Route 66 Road Trip: Roadside Architecture, Citrus, Drive-Ins & Cemeteries

The Lowdown on Downtown

Wild Wild Westside

Weird West Adams

Pasadena Confidential