Chris Nichols
Senior Editor at Los Angeles Magazine
Hey everybody, it's Ask Chris from Los Angeles magazine! I write books, try to save old buildings and love Los Angeles 24 hours a day. (Comments are my own)
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1 day ago |
lamag.com | Chris Nichols
Poor Marilyn Monroe. Born into poverty in Boyle Heights, mom sent to the asylum, divorced three times and dead at 36. But in those few short decades, she became an immortal part of the Hollywood legend and her blonde bombshell images still defines a sex symbol to millions.
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2 weeks ago |
lamag.com | Chris Nichols
What becomes of the strong and stoic who try to preserve the old ways while the winds of change swirl all around them? Pio Pico was California’s last Mexican governor before the territory was ceded to the United States in 1848. Pico lived large in his day, partying and gambling and building lavish monuments around Los Angeles, but died nearly broke. After he died, his tomb was vandalized and his wife's body stripped of her jewels.
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4 weeks ago |
lamag.com | Chris Nichols
It has been nearly 85 years since the first resort opened on the Las Vegas Strip but absolutely no trace of it remains. El Rancho Vegas burned down in 1960 and its scorched earth remains barren to this day, hidden under a slab of concrete. The city is so good at destroying history that chasing remnants of vintage Vegas is like ghost hunting, but with better lodging and delicious food. No EMF Meter is needed to feel the spirits at the Neon Museum after dark.
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1 month ago |
lamag.com | Chris Nichols
Once the paint dries, you don’t usually get a second chance to go back and change the artwork. When the owners of Scottsdale’s classic midcentury Hotel Valley Ho inherited a too-small lodge with higgledy-piggledy renovations, they stumbled upon the original plans by architect Edward L. Varney and simply completed his ideas from 1956 when restoring the historic hotel. Every summer, legions of revelers descend on the hotel to celebrate Polynesian pop culture at Tiki Oasis.
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1 month ago |
lamag.com | Chris Nichols
During the Great Depression, the federal government funded a massive, 240-foot-long terrazzo mural called “History of Transportation” in Inglewood’s Grevillea Art Park. Until recently, that monumental artwork was probably the closest thing to immersive entertainment this town of just over 100,000 residents enjoyed. Today, the revitalized city is home to some of the most innovative and lavish new pleasure palaces in Southern California.
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