Westlake Walk — An Esotouric™ Walking Tour

Westlake Walk — An Esotouric™ Walking Tour

William Penn Hotel / Westlake Theater

• AIDS Healthcare Foundation
• Healthy Housing Foundation
• E.B. Rust, architect of William Penn Hotel
• Richie Brockelman, Private Eye (Westlake Theater Marquee)

Neon Signs in Westlake

• DRONESCAPE: Los Angeles Scaffold Signs

Eat At The Bamboo Inn

• 2005 W. Seventh St — Map location.
• Chop Suey Joint That Time Forgot

Fencing The Park

• Plan to fence MacArthur Park sparks opposition

John Bengtson, Silent Film Location Historian

• Chaplin-Keaton-Lloyd film locations (and more) — By John Bengtson, the great detective of silent film locations.

Grand View Bungalow Court RIP

• RIP to the Grand View Bungalow Court in the Westlake District
• Abode Communities is building 100 apartments at 714 S. Grand View Street
• L.A. City Council approves $53M in funding for affordable housing near MacArthur Park
• Elks Lodge Dronescape

Trees In The Park

• Poisonous Sausage Tree
• Save M Flax
• M Flax Dronescape

Wilshire Royale, Hayworth Theater & Higgins Hirsch House

• The Arcady Apts/Wilshire Royale Apts HCM
• Hayworth Theater
• Dynasty Typewriter — In the Hayworth Theater.
• Higgins Hirsch House (John C. Austin, 1902) — Where the Wilshire Royale is now.

Rampart

• Edward S. Curtis’ The North American Indian
• Edward S. Curtis
• Granada Shoppes and Studios, 672 S. Lafayette Park Place
• George Hurrell

Silver Platter (Where is the blade sign?)

• Save The Silver Platter
• As demolition looms, the State shuts down the Silver Platter, Westlake’s oldest gay bar
• Participate in the Silver Platter Bar’s Conditional Use Hearing
• The Silver Platter Conditional Use Permit Hearing Goes off the Rails
• Wildness (Wu Tsang, 2012)

Silver Platter Update

• Scoops! Marilyn Monroe house landmarking appealed & Silver Platter redevelopment project expired
• ‘A Beautiful, Horny, Gorgeous, Stylish Time’: An Oral History of Casa de Estrogen

Machado Bernard House

• 4 Ladies Dancing (2022) — Director, Rocky Schenck.
• 4 Ladies Dancing Trailer
• Rocky Schenck Filmography
• HCM No. 208, Bernard Residence and Carriage House

SurveyLA: Westlake

• Interactive map of the 2009 Westlake CRA-LA survey (977 parcels) — Every surveyed parcel, colored by 2009 eligibility status.
• Intensive Survey Westlake CRA-LA 2009