Dateline>City of Angels

In search of lost architecture? Metblog L.A.’s Jason Burns serves up a quick retrospective on the once stately Philharmonic Auditorium that formerly stood at 5th and Hill, a site that’s now… you guessed it… a parking lot.

With so much of the area’s past lost to development over the years, it’s nice to see a few architectural wonders rediscovered every now and then. Over on 6th Street, workers removing a rather non-historic 1960s facade from the Hayward Hotel have revealed a timely reminder of the building’s glory days. Blogdowntown’s Eric Richardson has the scoop.

Meanwhile, just north of downtown, Echo Park residents are concerned about the future of their historic lake, which is about to be drained and refilled to improve water quality. (Silver Lake and the Elysian reservoir had their turns first.) Jenny Burman reports on an upcoming meeting for locals to address the issues of the rehabilitation and its effects on wildlife, not to mention the lake’s famous Lotus plants, which are mysteriously dying.

Finally, a housekeeping note: Reviewing this blog’s RSS feed, I see that YouTube embeds are making it through to feed readers, but LiveVideos aren’t. If you’re a Dateline>City of Angels RSS subscriber, my apologies. Until I figure out a fix, you’ll have to click over to the actual blog posts to see the video clips.