Show notes and Barbara’s Five Places:

1. Port of Los Angeles and  Terminal Island (see also: Tuna St. buildings on Terminal Island, which are in danger of demolition pending action to designate them as Los Angeles Historic-Cultural Monuments; and a book on the History of Terminal Island: Terminal Island - Lost Communities on America's Edge

2.Wayfarer’s Chapel by Lloyd Wright, and a June 4, 2025 LA Times article by (Episode 3 guest!) Sam Lubell on the chapel’s rescue from its unstable site: Lloyd Wright’s Wayfarers Chapel: Inside the rescue of a national landmark

3. Mattachine Steps in Silverlake and the Mattachine Society

4.  Musso + Franks (and a sidebar about the Schindler house in the background of a Buster Keaton movie)

5. The Blue Ribbon Garden at Disney Hall, designed by Melinda Taylor, more here, and a story about the secret edible garden.

Who would you choose to ask about their Five Places? Artist Lauren Halsey

Interview Date: 02-28-24

Related Links / Also Mentioned in this episode (PLEASE VISIT fiveplaces.la FOR FULL SHOW NOTES)

Bestor Architecture website, Instagram, and news

LA Cleantech Incubator (LACI) and truck electrification

Frank Gehry obituaries in the New York Times (by Nicolai Ouroussof) and the Guardian (by Charles Jencks and Oliver Wainwright)

History of trolley lines in Silverlake by Eric Brightwell. See also: Secret Stairs A Walking Guide to the Historic Staircases of Los Angeles, by Charles Fleming

Bohemian Modern: Living in Silver Lake, by Barbara Bestor

Bohemian Los Angeles and the Making of Modern Politics, by Daniel Hurewitz

The Black Cat on Sunset: The 1967 Black Cat Demonstration marks one of the earliest moments in US history that the LGBTQ community organized and gathered publicly to peacefully protest the harassment, brutality, and persecution they were suffering for being queer.

Mike Davis, beloved writer, activist, and theorist, profiled here in The New Yorker by Hua Hsu, and remembered here by (Episode 14 guest!) Mike Sonksen, aka Mike The Poet, and other key voices.

Robert Moses and the Power Broker book. Also, a new podcast series on Moses and The Power Broker, by 99% Invisible.

The American Bar in Vienna by Adolf Loos (wiki, American Bar home page)

Los Angeles Plays Itself by Thom Andersen

Theme building at LAX – and Bestor Architecture’s winning proposal to redesign the LAWA train wrap!

Pulitzer Prize-winning L.A. food critic Jonathan Gold, and his article The Year I Ate Pico Boulevard

The Quilts of Gee’s bend

Grand Central Market and California Plaza by Arthus Erickson

Moneo Cathedral in DTLA and Coop Himmelblau High School

Sunshine & smog: Barbara Bestor at TEDxOlympicBlvdWomen

Lauren Halsey’s Summaeverythang community Center website

Summaeverythang Community Center in the Art Newspaper and In the LA Times.

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Produced by: Los Angeles Forum for Architecture and Urban Design

Production team: Emmanuelle Bourlier, Quynh Nguyen

Creator, Executive Producer, and Host: Emmanuelle Bourlier

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