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You Can’t Eat the Sunshine is the podcast of Esotouric, the offbeat Los Angeles company that turns the notion of guided bus tours on its ear. Each week, join Kim Cooper and Richard Schave on their Southern California adventures, as they visit with fascinating characters for wide-ranging interviews that reveal the myths, contradictions, inspirations and passions of the place. There’s never been a city quite like Los Angeles. Tune in if you’d like to find out why.
Join us this month as we talk with preservationist Steve Luftman about his efforts to save Kurt Meyer’s Lytton Savings, a mid-century landmark threatened with demolition because it sits on the land where Frank Gehry hopes to build a huge mixed use development. We’ll also visit with filmmaker Douglas Quill to learn about his last-ditch campaign to preserve Frank Sinatra’s motion picture bungalow on the old Goldwyn Studios lot in Hollywood.
We’ll also discuss the City of Los Angeles’ plans to demolish Welton Becket’s Parker Center and how Peter Zumthor’s updated proposal for LACMA continues to threaten William Pereira’s 1965 museum campus.
Our guests:
Friends of Lytton Savings campaign (Facebook, Twitter)
Frank Sinatra bungalow petition
Closely watched trains:
Parker Center: Los Angeles Conservancy action alert webpage, LAVA Sunday Salon walking tour video, vintage photos from LAPL’s collection
LACMA: newest redesign renderings, Pereira in Peril webpage featuring video from our LACMA walking tour
Upcoming events:
LAVA Sunday Salon – April 2017 (Fort Moore Hill Pioneer Memorial)
LAVA Sunday Salon – May 2017 (S.A. Griffin on Charles Bukowski)
Esotouric’s Tenth Anniversary special event calendar