Architecture & Interior Design | Threatened History & Preservation

Studio City's famed Sportsmen's Lodge hotel could be replaced by 520-unit apartment complex

Studio City's Sportsmen's Lodge hotel could be demolished and replaced with 520 apartment units.

They tore the restaurant down to build a mall, they always planned to tear the hotel down too. This is what developers do. They target historic sites, claim to care about some form of preservation, get what they want and then tear down everything else connected to the site. This is a historic and beautiful hotel that is one of the few things left that makes Studio City unique. But they want to destroy everything unique. L.A. will become a huge landscape of generic, plain, soulless boxes. The problem is that far too many people have the idiotic idea that all change is good. It’s the same moronic idea that drives the politics, in general, of California.

History | Historic Los Angeles

So Long, Sears. What Comes Next For These Empty Architectural Behemoths?: LAist

In Boyle Heights, the nine-story, Art Deco store that started it all is a strange mix of bustling commerce and yawning, empty space.

Architecture & Interior Design | Threatened History & Preservation

The Academy Museum Is Restoring This 1939 Mid-Wilshire Landmark - Los Angeles Magazine

Here's what's happening at Wilshire and Fairfax

Only in LA can a site be deemed to be historic but still legally have everything but its facade gutted. I am happy that they are restoring the outside, but essentially the actual building is gone. This happens over and over again here. The problem with that is that once you gut the inside of a historic building, it's no longer truly historic and its value as is severely diminished.

Architecture & Interior Design | Threatened History & Preservation

UPDATE: Iconic Irish Pub Tom Bergin’s Reduces Hours, Future Uncertain - Los Angeles Magazine

After slashing staff, hours, and its food menu, it appears one of L.A.’s oldest bars is in jeopardy

NOW is the time to start supporting this historic treasure!

Miscellaneous | Places You Can Still Go

LA's Oldest Restaurant Keeps a 130-Year Diner Tradition Alive

Saugus Cafe serves a side of history with every meal

Food & Drink | Food & Drink

25 Great LA Restaurants With 50+ Years Under Their Belts

Nothing but the classics with vintage photos

Miscellaneous | The Hometown

Tour Los Angeles during its ‘Golden Age of neon’

A new book features hundreds of vintage photos of LA’s best neon signs

I've always loved old neon signs. I may need to get this book.

History | Historic Los Angeles

5 Eateries Where Hollywood Legends Were Made

While you can’t catch a glimpse of Old Hollywood icons like Mae West or Cary Grant strolling down Rodeo Drive, their legacy lives on at these beloved restaurants, where Tinseltown’s brightest stars have been dining for decades. Here, five L.A. spots to dine like royalty from Hollywood’s Golden Age.

History | Downtown

A Split-Screen Tour of Los Angeles, Seventy Years Ago and Today - The New Yorker

A short film by Keven McAlester examines the streets of downtown Los Angeles’s Bunker Hill, past and present.