Palisades Library, Will Rogers State Historic Park, Topanga State Park
Burned in LA Fires
Topanga State Park
Parts of the Topanga State Park — a national park located within the city of Los Angeles that is known for its scenic hiking and mountain bike trails — were also devastated by the Palisades fire. The historic Topanga Ranch Motel, which was once owned by newspaper publisher and politician William Randolph Hearst, was destroyed.
Will Rogers State Historic Park
The former home of actor, radio personality and humorist Will Rogers, a 186-acre ranch that was on the U.S. National Register of Historic Places, was gutted by the Palisades fire.
People on social media posted photos and videos of the site, which showed only chimneys poking up through rubble.
The estate and historic park were home to many Western artifacts, as well as objects from Will Rogers’ daily life. In the 1930s, he was Hollywood’s highest-paid film star. His widow, Betty Rogers, had donated the house and stables to Californian in 1944.
Sickening.
So many things work against the preservation of the human record.
Some books predicting and discussing LA disaster.
: *Davis, Mike. 2020. 𝑬𝒄𝒐𝒍𝒐𝒈𝒚 𝒐𝒇 𝑭𝒆𝒂𝒓 : 𝑳𝒐𝒔 𝑨𝒏𝒈𝒆𝒍𝒆𝒔 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝑰𝒎𝒂𝒈𝒊𝒏𝒂𝒕𝒊𝒐𝒏 𝒐𝒇 𝑫𝒊𝒔𝒂𝒔𝒕𝒆𝒓. New York: Verso Books.
*Davis, Mike. 1990. 𝑪𝒊𝒕𝒚 𝒐𝒇 𝑸𝒖𝒂𝒓𝒕𝒛 : 𝑬𝒙𝒄𝒂𝒗𝒂𝒕𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝑭𝒖𝒕𝒖𝒓𝒆 𝒊𝒏 𝑳𝒐𝒔 𝑨𝒏𝒈𝒆𝒍𝒆𝒔. London: Verso.
*Davis, Mike. 2021. 𝑩𝒆𝒕𝒘𝒆𝒆𝒏 𝑪𝒂𝒕𝒂𝒔𝒕𝒓𝒐𝒑𝒉𝒆 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝑹𝒆𝒗𝒐𝒍𝒖𝒕𝒊𝒐𝒏 : 𝑬𝒔𝒔𝒂𝒚𝒔 𝒊𝒏 𝑯𝒐𝒏𝒐𝒓 𝒐𝒇 𝑴𝒊𝒌𝒆 𝑫𝒂𝒗𝒊𝒔. Edited by Daniel Bertrand Monk and Michael Sorkin. New York: OR Books.