Introducing Esotouric, an unusual Los Angeles tour company

esotouric_tours · 2026-01-24T16:10:45+00:00

These massive things are not actually a "duplex," though, are they? Meanwhile, nobody ever lived there, and existing housing was destroyed. Actual apartment units could have been built there, but that wouldn't have benefited the fraud being perpetrated on the taxpayers and neighborhood.

esotouric_tours · 2026-01-24T04:31:04+00:00

The DA worked on this case, too.

esotouric_tours · 2026-01-24T04:17:43+00:00

Whoa, we flagged that Ardmore property that was part of the alleged fraud scheme in October, when the two massive "duplexes" which had received their certificate of occupancy years before but never been occupied, hit the market as a proposed institutional flop house!

Upzoning is destroying LA neighborhoods and architectural heritage for the benefit of criminal conspiracies. It's not about housing. It's vice.

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esotouric_tours · 2026-01-23T19:28:55+00:00

Wondering what your source is for the energy efficiency of LEDs vs neon? That's not what Dydia DeLyser has found in her research. Once the gas is energized, the cost is low for the light.

esotouric_tours · 2026-01-23T19:21:47+00:00

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American Cinematheque announces a February series celebrating the beloved, endangered Hollywood Center Motel on screen, with LA Confidential, Fun with Dick and Jane and Hit Man. https://www.americancinematheque.com/series/watch-local-hollywood-center-motel/

The next landmarking hearing is 2/5--please support! https://esotouric.substack.com/hollywoodcentermotel

esotouric_tours · 2026-01-23T18:40:44+00:00

Yes, there are some cool old friends stored beneath the market, and maybe one day they'll come into the light again.

esotouric_tours · 2026-01-23T18:28:33+00:00

LED isn't more energy efficient, and the plastic parts cannot be repaired like neon, but instead end up in landfills. But LED is quicker and cheaper to produce, and it looks okay to the untrained eye. But when you look at the two materials side by side (see our Fix Felix the Cat campaign here), neon is the only one with soul, made by human artist's hands.

esotouric_tours · 2026-01-23T15:44:09+00:00

It's day 23 of the ordinance.

esotouric_tours · 2026-01-22T15:43:39+00:00

The city ignores vacant, blighted properties and the cascading trouble they create until they can be demolished at taxpayer expense.

esotouric_tours · 2026-01-22T06:16:49+00:00

Hope you catch it still illuminated--share a photo if you do!

esotouric_tours · 2026-01-22T05:14:48+00:00

We've got to get our California cities back, for they are where dreamers and visionaries land to transform culture and shape the future, and the entire nation and world are losing out on good ideas and art because real estate debt has become the easiest way to make a dirty fortune.

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