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The aesthetics of spiritual decay in upper class Los Angeles with Greg Ruben

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We live in a city dreamt up by 19th century hucksters. via Greg Ruben Sources: “Historical and Biographical Record of Los Angeles and Vicinity” by JM Guinn, “The Boom of the ‘80s Revisited” by Gloria Ricci Lothrop, “The Real Estate Boom of 1887” by Glenn Dumke, “Victorian Sprawl” by Eric Stewart, “Real Estate Promotion and the Shaping of Los Angeles” by Christopher G. Boone, Cecilia Rasmussen/LA Times, Nathan Masters/PBS SoCal

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The wonderful Leo Politi, who documented LA in children’s books via - Greg Ruben

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The most commonplace and everyday objects have the greatest capacity to surprise us - Tables of Content by Allan & Ellen Wexler is a must visit if you’re in Santa Monica. from Greg Ruben

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Investigating the remnants of Chavez Ravine’s La Loma neighborhood. Thanks to Daveed Kapoor for showing me around.

Sources: “Shameful Victory” by John H.M. Laslett, Nathan Marsak, Lawrence Bouett, “Chavez Ravine: A Los Angeles Story,” Divided Development/UCLA, Nathan Masters/PBS SoCal, Gladwin Hill/New York Times

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a rescued parrot, is the most famous and also the cutest thing about Hermon.

Pepe of Hermon from Greg Ruben

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Longest video I’ve ever made and still barely scratched the surface. The Tongva (also called the Kizh) occupied an area the size of Rhode Island for thousands of years and still are not federally recognized. Sources: The First Angelinos by William McCawley, Ancient LA by Michael Jacob Rochlin, Rancho Los Cerritos, Mapping Indigenous LA, State of California Native American Heritage Commission, Jonah Valdez/LA Times, Sara Lin/LA Times, Melissa Gomez/LA Times, Wikipedia

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Hollywood: LA’s most diagonal neighborhood 🎬 via Greg Ruben