Franklin Village Old Hollywood Time Travel Trip — An Esotouric™ Walking Tour

Franklin Village Old Hollywood Time Travel Trip — An Esotouric™ Walking Tour

Vedanta Society & Gerald Heard

• Hollywood Temple & Bookshop — Vedanta Society of Southern California
• Vedanta Press — purchase books online
• Lectures and other videos from the Vedanta Society of Southern California
• Video of the Vedanta Place LA DOT Plaque square unveiling
• Gerald Heard
• Pain, Sex and Time: A New Outlook on Evolution and the Future of Man. Gerald Heard, 1939

Isherwood, Huxley & Vedanta

• Isherwood & Vedanta Diaries, 1943
• Round About Hollywood — 1931 (British Pathé Films)
• My Guru and His Disciple. Christopher Isherwood, 1980
• Vedanta Press — writings archive
• The History and Impact of the Swami Prabhavananda–Isherwood Bhagavad Gita Translation
• Christopher Isherwood Bhagavad Gita Translation, New Edition 2023
• Ramakrishna-Vedanta in Southern California: From Swami Vivekananda to the Present

Huxley, Heard & Isherwood at the Huntington Library

• Aldous Huxley Oral History Papers, 1985–1990 — finding aid
• Christopher Isherwood Papers, 1864–2049 — finding aid
• Vedanta for the Western World (1945), Christopher Isherwood — first edition
• The Perennial Philosophy (1945), Aldous Huxley — first US edition
• Edwin Hubble Papers — Huxley’s radio interviews and lectures
• The Writer & Vedanta — Huntington catalog

Chateau Alto Nido & Sunset Boulevard

• Chateau Alto Nido Apartments — official site
• Sunset Boulevard (1950)
• Ghostwriting Gloria Swanson: The Strange, Sexually Charged Genesis of a Legendary Autobiography
• Billy Wilder in Hollywood. Maurice Zolotow, 1987
• Nancy Olson on Wilder, Holden and Why She Walked Away From Stardom

1817 N Ivar — Nathanael West & Miss Lonelyhearts

• “Miss Lonelyhearts” with Eric Roberts — American Playhouse, 1983
• Eric Roberts’ message to walk attendees
• Nathanael West and the writing of The Day of the Locust
• Nathanael West: The Art of His Life. Jay Martin, 1970
• The Day of the Locust. Nathanael West, 1939
• Vine Tower HCM nomination

Yucca & Argyle — John Walsh & the Fight for Preservation

• John Walsh Blog — archived
• In Memory of John Walsh, Who Fought for the Soul of Hollywood
• The Freak Who Stopped the Subway — Susan Goldsmith, New Times, 1998
• The Dream World of Dion McGregor: He Talks in His Sleep — from John Walsh’s record collection

1535 N Las Palmas & Yucca/Vine — Housing Fights

• Landmark status for garden apartments threatened by Crossroads redevelopment rejected by committee — Curbed LA, archived
• Save the Pink Magnolia in the demolition-threatened Las Palmas Apartments
• Councilmember Hugo Soto-Martinez: stop demolition of 40 RSO units at Yucca & Argyle
• Empty RSO Housing, Public Corruption, and Fire: Hell Is Other People
• Vista Del Mar, the Albert G. Bartlett Estate, Hollywood, 1908

The Little Country Church of Hollywood

• A visit to the secret Little Country Church of Hollywood garden
• Little Country Church of Hollywood — HCM #567
• Hollywood’s Little Country Church — Emblem of Bygone Days

Argyle & Franklin

• Erwin “Machine-Gun” Walker — He Walked by Night (1948)
• Relocation permit for 1830 N Argyle to move to 2623 N Beachwood Dr

Hollywood Tower & the Rosicrucians

• Rosicrucian Fellowship, Oceanside
• Mount Ecclesia
• The Oceanside Rosicrucian Fellowship Story (1997)

Villa Carlotta

• Sylvie Shain & the fight for the Villa Carlotta
• Tenants got a rare chance to come back after being evicted — but most didn’t. LA Times
• Villa Carlotta’s tenant warriors fight to save homes and history
• Scoop: Hollywood Neighborhood Council member sued by apartment owner for filing complaints

Franklin & Bronson — Wallace Neff & Lost Storefronts

• Wallace Neff Photograph Collection — Huntington, finding aid
• The Legacy of Wallace Neff
• Henry L. Gogerty and Carl Jules Weyl’s Cahuenga & Selma building — later Shelly’s Manne-Hole Club
• Hollywood bids a tearful farewell to Victor’s Square Restaurant (2015)

Monastery of the Angels

• Order the Monastery’s pumpkin bread online
• Esotouric’s Monastery of the Angels advocacy campaign
• Our plan to save the Monastery
• Official site — Monastery of the Angels
• Nuns, friars partner to explore future for iconic shuttered Hollywood monastery
• Home of the Angels — official site (formerly Monastery of the Angels)

Castle Argyle

• Timelapse: Castle Argyle roof sign restoration

Hollywood Preservation & Redevelopment Overviews

• Hollywood Boulevard Commercial and Entertainment District — National Register
• Preservation of Hollywood Boulevard
• Endangered and at-risk in Hollywood
• The importance of planning & the Hollywood Community Plan
• Historic Resources Survey Report — Hollywood Redevelopment Plan Area (PDF)