Speaker 1: Jo J Kattan SiZ is here this morning, one of
Speaker 1: two point seven Kiss FM. Yeah, Ryan's Roses is the
Speaker 1: next thing we're gonna do after a Ton Rosenbloom of
Speaker 1: Valley Village. This is if you're from southern California, Los Angeles,
Speaker 1: this area something interesting. You probably know there's a lot
Speaker 1: of rich history here in Los Angeles. But I don't
Speaker 1: know that people think of La quite like that. Aton
Speaker 1: Rosenblue mom with this now. I saw him on TikTok.
Speaker 1: The guy born and raised here. He's living out the
Speaker 1: denas Silver Lake. He's to Hollywood all over the place,
Speaker 1: and he's on a mission Sisanitania. He's on a mission
Speaker 1: of visit every single La landmark on the National Register
Speaker 1: of Historic Places. Aton, how many of them are there?
Speaker 2: There is just about six hundred of them right now,
Speaker 2: and it's growing every few weeks.
Speaker 1: Yep, Okay, people don't Some people that aren't around here
Speaker 1: or from here may not give LA the kind of
Speaker 1: credit for history right now.
Speaker 2: You're absolutely right. You know. Someone just commented on one
Speaker 2: of my posts this morning. Actually it was a quote
Speaker 2: from La La land that says they worship everything and
Speaker 2: value nothing. I think a lot of people have that
Speaker 2: attitude about la history, that we don't have a history
Speaker 2: or that we don't protect it, but it's just not true.
Speaker 2: You know, we're a young city comparatively, and it's true
Speaker 2: that we've lost a lot as always developed. But look,
Speaker 2: no matter what you care about, entertainment, social justice, architecture, whatever,
Speaker 2: there's historic sites here that you can visit to learn
Speaker 2: about this stuff.
Speaker 1: We're going to hone in on like three Mussies three
Speaker 1: that you can recommend to people listening. But first, how
Speaker 1: is it that you can go do all of this
Speaker 1: as your primary focus? Always confused, I'm always wondering.
Speaker 2: I mean, I'll tell you, I have a day job,
Speaker 2: I have a wife and kid. It is tough, but
Speaker 2: I don't sleep. I spend all of my nights and
Speaker 2: weekends just visiting and researching and connecting with people and
Speaker 2: places just for hobby. Yeah, it's just for a hobby.
Speaker 2: I make nothing out of this. It's it just, you know,
Speaker 2: pure masochism. I guess you could say it, but look,
Speaker 2: I mean, it's fascinating what you can learn through the
Speaker 2: historic places that you pass by every day. So I
Speaker 2: feel like I'm getting so much out of it.
Speaker 1: All right, one hundred and seventy. He's been to six
Speaker 1: hundred total. Give us three at the top of the
Speaker 1: list that we could jot down to try and check out.
Speaker 2: Sure. So, I mean, something I understand about the National
Speaker 2: Register first is that it's not really intended as a
Speaker 2: tourism guide. A lot of the most significant buildings in
Speaker 2: LA are privately owned, So I spend a lot of
Speaker 2: time just taking videos outside the gate of some beautiful house.
Speaker 2: But I wanted to talk about three of them that
Speaker 2: you know, Kiss listeners actually can go inside. So first
Speaker 2: up is the Lumbus House in the Highland Park area,
Speaker 2: and you pass right by it if you're going south
Speaker 2: on the one tent. It is a wild looking house
Speaker 2: made of river rocks and concrete and wood and telephone poles.
Speaker 2: Actually they're built right into the sea, and it was
Speaker 2: handbuilt in the early nineteen hundreds by this guy named
Speaker 2: Charles Lummis along with a bunch of indigenous kids from
Speaker 2: New Mexico. And Lummis was one of the all time
Speaker 2: most interesting Angelina's I think he walked from Cincinnati to
Speaker 2: LA on foot to take a job as an editor
Speaker 2: at the La Times. He championed Native American rights, early
Speaker 2: advocate for preserving historic buildings. He founded the Southwest Museum,
Speaker 2: and he threw epic ragers at his house. He actually
Speaker 2: he built the inside walls and floors at a concrete
Speaker 2: just so he could hose them down after parties.
Speaker 1: Wow.
Speaker 2: So yeah, that's a really important, unique guy, and I
Speaker 2: think the house reflects his uniqueness.
Speaker 1: What a great backstrough. Right, what's the second LA landmark
Speaker 1: we should check out?
Speaker 2: Sure? So number two is the mission Son Gabriel Arcan Hell.
Speaker 2: LA landmarks just don't get any more important than this mission.
Speaker 2: So he was established in seventeen seventy one, ten years
Speaker 2: before La existed. In fact, it's said that the forty
Speaker 2: four founding citizens of Los Angeles set out from this
Speaker 2: mission on the day that they founded the Pueblo of
Speaker 2: La So you know, it's a rare connection to this
Speaker 2: time when this land was occupied by the Spanish. They
Speaker 2: even have a grapevine there that was planted in the
Speaker 2: seventeen seventies and continues to bear fruit today. I've heard
Speaker 2: that there are people trying to make wine from that
Speaker 2: right now.
Speaker 1: Seventy one I mean amazing, Yeah.
Speaker 2: I know, I think it has had a long time
Speaker 2: to age like a fine wine.
Speaker 1: So one more LA landmark here. This is Aighton Rosenblom
Speaker 1: who's been to one hundred and seventy incredible history in LA.
Speaker 1: What's one more real quick?
Speaker 2: So number three is a fun one. Is the Vasquez Rocks.
Speaker 2: Have you guys ever been there?
Speaker 1: No?
Speaker 2: Now, so not everything on the National Register is man made.
Speaker 2: Vasquez Rocks are these crazy rock formations that jut out
Speaker 2: of the ground at forty five degree ankles and it
Speaker 2: looks like Mars, which kind of explains why so many
Speaker 2: sci fi movies in Westerns have been shot there, like
Speaker 2: most famously, there's an episode of the original Star Trek
Speaker 2: series where William Shatner is battling the Gorn. And I mean,
Speaker 2: since since this is Kiss, BTS, Rihanna, One Direction, Radiohead,
Speaker 2: they've all shot music videos. Wow, so you have definitely
Speaker 2: seen these rocks in the background. And I put together
Speaker 2: a YouTube playlist on my website of all the videos
Speaker 2: shot there.
Speaker 1: I mean, I wonder if those rocks ever knew they
Speaker 1: were going to see BTS. I mean that's the thing. Yeah,
Speaker 1: you think about that history and BTS just seals it
Speaker 1: from me. Ay Don Rosenbloom. You can check them out
Speaker 1: et An does La on TikTok and Instagram. Thanks brother
Speaker 1: for coming on. You really helped us understand it very nicely.
Speaker 1: Thanks for doing this.
Speaker 2: Hey, thanks for having me Ryan see it.
Speaker 1: Bye bye. You know when you're talking to somebody and
Speaker 1: you realize that you are so not nearly as smart
Speaker 1: as they are. I had that feeling. Oh interesting, it's
Speaker 1: very interesting. But you know when you're the dumbest person
Speaker 1: in the room, Well, at least I felt that you
Speaker 1: don't feel that way. Okay, No, Michael and I got
Speaker 1: married at a landmark here in La historic building in
Speaker 1: downtown for that reason. Top three. Well I did not
Speaker 1: make a top three, but we did it for that
Speaker 1: reason so that it can never be torn down. Oh
Speaker 1: look at you and Rihanna?
Speaker 2: Is that as smart?
Speaker 1: All? Right? Now? It's Sharon. He's going to be the
Speaker 1: landmark performing Sofi Stadium got tickets for that. Next and
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