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Team Futurism's avatar

This is fascinating. Among other tidbits, "Wine gave way to real estate" is such an interesting twist to the development of LA that I hadn't ever realized.

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Mark's avatar

Follow the army of independent media 😊👍

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Mark's avatar

That's legacy media!

It's not journalism, it hasn't been for a couple decades!

Legacy media is a spectacle, it is drama, fraud, ideology, propaganda!

When the political tide turns, they will suck up to the money!

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Well That Ended Badly's avatar

Absolutely loved this, everything about it. This is exactly the kind of thing I love about our beautifully decaying city. Thank you! I think i just missed your reading at PRS, is that so?

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Barret Baumgart's avatar

Thanks so much! I love finding weird history around SoCal. There's a surprising lot of it. The PRS event was about a month ago. I should have a few more popping up though in the coming months!

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Well That Ended Badly's avatar

Is your book Yuck about LA and if so is at Storiee on Sunset? Im heading over there soon.

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Barret Baumgart's avatar

There's a ton of crazy LA history in YUCK, yes. Stories should have it. If they don't... tell them they're fucking up! Skylight was carrying it, other shops as well.

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