“The most tenacious of all clichés about Los Angeles is that it is a place with no past,” writes Alex Ross in his essay on the architectural losses of the Eaton and Pacific Palisades fires. I wrote about my grandparents’ Mediterranean Revival home in my latest newsletter and appreciated Ross's reporting on the historic buildings in Pacific Palisades, and in Altadena, where my family lived for almost fifty years—a span not uncommon there. Read “The Hidden Histories Lost in the Los Angeles Fires,” here.
Pictured, From the NYer: “The Freedman House, built in 1949, has been largely destroyed. Photographs by Julius Shulman / Courtesy The Getty Research Institute Digital Collections”
