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Music omnivore, LA history dork and amateur father, working my way through the canon. Follow @etandoesla for my LA history posts.
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#losangeles#lahistory#architecture#nationalregisterofhistoricplaces#historicpreservation#milesdavis#passover#franklloydwright#freedom#historicplaces
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Happy Mischief Night to the very small cohort of people who know what that is! It’s a lucky year to get to have the school Halloween parade on a Friday & Halloween on a Saturday. Gotta say HER costume turned out to be my favorite I’ve ever made! Really happy with my mossy vest I made too. More / better pics tomorrow 🍄🪵
She looked so cute from the back I had to snap a paparazzi photo at drop off haha
Very tired Sasquatch & mossy log pre-coffee at the 8:30am school Halloween parade. Right after that I got to zoom about human skin books with a group of Houston archivists & heard some amazing other Halloween themed archives talks! Tonight I get to celebrate some colleagues’ amazing new history of science book set at @thehuntingtonlibrary what a day!
My girl won the class costume contest look how thrilled she is! Before that a mom came up to me and asked, “Are you the mushroom’s mom?” and complimented my handiwork and I bet I had a face like hers when she did that I was so pleased 🍄
30 Oct 2026
Today marks five years that I’ve been posting about LA landmarks on the National Register of Historic Places. I get a lot of questions about my research methods. So as a little Etan Does LA birthday party favor, here are five of the most indispensable resources I return to over and over again.
Some highlights from the past year of my project:
📍Visited 32 historic LA sites on the National Register of Historic Places (including 20 I haven’t posted about yet)
📍Hit 20,000 followers on IG, and 10,000 on some other platform
📍Visited all 72 branches of the LA Public Library
📍Secured my first paid collaboration with LA Metro
📍Gave lectures for the Homestead Museum and the Book Club of California
📍Drove Route 66 from LA to the Grand Canyon (more to come on that)
📍Installed a neon sign of my logo
In retrospect, I had no idea back in 2021 how irrevocably Etan Does LA would change my life. Things were so carefree back when my research skills sucked and I got a normal amount of sleep most nights. Now I’ve accepted that historic building research is part of the fabric of my daily life, as nourishing as breakfast, as soothing as the Hebrew lullaby I sing to my kid every night.
A (mostly) unpaid passion requires other kinds of motivation for continuing. For me, one of the big ones is the community I’ve built while doing this. THANK YOU to everyone who’s followed me, encouraged me, left a comment, shared a story, visited my website or taught me something new. Thanks for doing LA with me.
#lahistory #losangeles #historicpreservation #architecture
26 Sep 2026
Appreciation post for my wife @libraryatnight for making the best damn pumpkin soup I’ve ever eaten. A little swirl of sesame oil and I’m whisked away to heaven.
Wife’s PS > Starbucks PSL
18 Sep 2026
Happy hundredth birthday to Miles Davis, the coolest of cats.
#milesdavis
26 May 2026
My birthday this year was sandwiched in between two big events that I’m helping to produce at work. It was tough to find time to reflect and focus on myself. So I am especially grateful to my family and coworkers for forcing the issue.
My daughter drew me a lovely card, compelled all of her afterschool classmates and teachers to do the same, and put together a gift basket complete with my favorite gummy candies and a gift certificate to one of my favorite record stores. She also drew an original “flip-o-rama comic” (slides 3-5) that I will cherish forever, especially around tax season.
My wife bought me birthday tickets to hear Gustavo Dudamel conduct Strauss at Disney Concert Hall, one of his last performances before he leaves the LA Phil. Can’t wait.
My parents gave me a Macy’s gift card that I used to buy two pairs of pants, one of which I am wearing right now (see final slide).
And my darling co-workers surprised me and my dear colleague Sandra (her bday was the 28th) with not one, not two, but FOUR birthday cakes after the show on Tuesday. Suffice it to say, I had tiramisu for breakfast yesterday.
Thank you for all the birthday well wishes everyone. I don’t know how I have collected such a supportive group of people in my life, but I’m grateful.
30 Apr 2026
Happy Passover to all of you who celebrate. In biblical Hebrew, the land of Egypt is called “mitzrayim,” literally “the narrow place.” So in keeping with my annual Pesach tradition, here are some narrow places in historic buildings I’ve encountered over the past year.
IN ORDER OF APPEARANCE:
🎥 1: Young’s Market Company Building, now a WSS (Westlake)
🎥 2 & cover: Rudolph Schindler’s Roxy Roth House (Studio City)
🎥 3: John Lautner’s Mauer House (Mt. Washington)
🎥 4: Pacific Electric Lofts (Downtown)
🎥 5: Tillman Water Reclamation Plant / SuihoEn Japanese Garden (Van Nuys)
🎥 6: Neutra’s Jardinette Apartments fire escape (E. Hollywood)
🎥 7: Union Station during Train Festival 2026 (Downtown)
🎥 8: 185-year-old attic at Casa Alvarado (Pomona)
🎥 9: Subway Terminal Building (Downtown)
🎥 10: Malabar Branch Library (Boyle Heights)
🎥 11: Givenchy at Frank Lloyd Wright’s Anderton Court Shops (Beverly Hills)
🎥 12: Million Dollar Theater (Downtown)
🎥 13: Archives of the Wilmington Historical Socety (Wilmington)
🎥 14: Gregory Ain’s Avenel Homes (Silver Lake)
#passover #franklloydwright #architecture #freedom #losangeles
02 Apr 2026
On Saturday, March 14 at 1 PM, I’ll be yakking about National Register landmarks for the Little Landers Historical Society. Here are 5 reasons why you should be there:
✅ ADD STUFF TO YOUR BUCKET LIST. For this talk, I’m focusing on lesser-known LA landmarks that you can actually visit. Attending the talk is a great way to find out which landmarks I will be talking about at the talk.
✅ BEHOLD BOLTON HALL. The venue for this talk is one of LA’s great works of rock architecture, dating back to 1913. Swipe through these pics for some old photos, and then see it in person at my talk. It’s perfectly acceptable to interrupt my lecture to exclaim “Holy moly!” or “Wow!” about Bolton Hall. I would be doing that if I weren’t giving a talk at the time.
✅ LEARN ABOUT THE LITTLE LANDERS. Bolton Hall was the community center for the Little Landers, a utopian agrarian colony that existed in the 1910s and ‘20s in the Tujunga area. At the small museum at Bolton Hall, you can learn all about them and the incredible people working to preserve their legacy today.
✅ IT’S FREE. No admission charge, no RSVP required. Though a $5 donation would be nice to support the noble work of the Little Landers Historical Society.
✅ GET PROOF THAT I HAVE LEGS. Most of my videos are shot from the waist up, which has understandably resulted in the mistaken impression that I don’t exist below my stomach. I do, but don’t take my word for it! See my legs yourself.
DETAILS
🕐Saturday, March 14 at 1 PM
📍Bolton Hall, 10110 Commerce Avenue, Tujunga, CA
PHOTO CREDITS
📷1: BG photo by me; me photo by @salvadorochoa
📷2-3: SFV History Digital Library / CSUN
📷4-7: Courtesy Little Landers Historical Society / Bolton Hall Museum, Tujunga, CA
#losangeles #lahistory #historicplaces #nationalregisterofhistoricplaces #tujunga
04 Mar 2026
Here’s an important reminder about combining pork products, art books and the three-sided hamantaschen cookies traditionally eaten on the Jewish holiday of Purim, which starts tonight.
CREDITS
Books: @taschen
Hamantaschen: @continental_kosher_bakery
Ham: @ralphsgrocery
#purim #jewisholiday #hamantaschen #taschen #coffeetablebooks
02 Mar 2026
If your pantry is not currently awash in Girl Scout cookies, it means that you haven’t yet purchased from my daughter’s shop, or it’s time to restock. ‘Til the end of today (2/22) you can save $6 on shipping. That’s almost enough to buy another box of Girl Scout cookies!
Make it happen at the link in my bio.
22 Feb 2026
Today my daughter HER turns nine. Without even trying, HER has had a huge impact on this project. She’s been a regular companion on my historic adventures since site visit number 2. She often points out things that I hadn’t noticed – like the wobbly brick at the Gamble House that we check on, every time we return. She was the inspiration for one of my LA Times bylines, and that one time I was interviewed by the New York Times? It was because of a pair of socks I got at a holiday gift exchange that had pictures of HER eating a churro on them (I’m wearing them today in HER honor).
A few years ago I took HER on her first trip on Angels Flight, and she spontaneously came up with a theme song for the National Register of Historic Places. So in honor of HER ninth birthday, here she is singing the NRHP theme song nine times.
In chronological order:
1. HER debut performance at Angels Flight (downtown)
2. La Loma Bridge (Pasadena)
3. Portal of the Folded Wings Shrine to Aviation (Burbank)
4. Glendale Southern Pacific Railroad depot (Glendale)
5. Foothill Boulevard Milestone (Pasadena)
6. Pacific Electric Building (downtown)
7. Angels Flight again (downtown)
8. North Hollywood Amelia Earhart Regional Branch Library (North Hollywood)
9. My house
Love you HER. Happy birthday.
#daughter #themesong #losangeles #lahistory #nationalregisterofhistoricplaces
16 Jan 2026
A year after the Eaton Fire wiped out much of my hometown of Altadena, I have trouble articulating what it means to me, and why my soul still aches for this place where I haven’t lived for nearly 20 years.
Most of my memories of Altadena are adolescent memories: playing catch in the front yard, piano lessons on my parents’ Steinway grand, visits to Everest for chili fries, Boy Scout meetings at St. Mark’s. More recently, Altadena meant taking my kid to visit the grandparents, in between visits to historic homes and cemeteries. I’ll have those memories forever, and I plan to make plenty more as Altadena rebuilds. But they’ll always be intermingled with the trauma of the fire.
Here are 19 pics & videos from my own experience of the fires that have helped me process what happened in Altadena, 1 year ago today.
1: Map of the fire damage on my parents’ block. Red marks a total loss. Their rental home (circled) was the only one that survived.
2: List of calls with my mom the evening of Jan. 7
3: My parents’ place on Jan. 8, taken by Randy of @goodneighboraltadena. This was the first proof we had that it survived. Note the toppled plant…next time I returned someone had turned it upright.
4: Remains of the detached garage next to my parents’ place
5: Me and my mom getting ready to enter her home for the first time after the fire
6: Ash on the windowsill
7: My parents’ Steinway & Sons grand, after the fire
8: The Steinway safe at my house
9: U-Haul pod with the stuff my parents saved
10: The house where I grew up on N. Mar Vista
11: Empty lot where my childhood home used to be
12: Farnsworth Park, 2022. This was one of the National Register landmarks lost to the fire.
13: Scripps Hall (Pasadena Waldorf School) after the fire. I never got to visit for my project.
14: CDs I rescued from my dad’s collection in Altadena
15: Serenading Levar Burton at Altadena Library, March 22
16: Massive moreton bay fig at my parents’ new spot
17: Case Study House 20B, still standing on Christmas Tree Lane
18: Altadena poster, socks (thanks @shoffnera) and hat (thanks @libraryatnight)
19: Fox’s, forever on my mind
#altadena #altadenastrong #eatonfire
07 Jan 2026
My girl loves a mushroom, and boy oh boy did we hit a mycological motherlode this afternoon at Fern Dell!
#mushrooms #fungus #ferndell #losangeles
26 Nov 2025
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