It’s time to let it go. Photo: Kent Kanouse/Flickr As Sunset Boulevard curves towards downtown Los Angeles, Taix French Restaurant sticks out like an anomaly amid the strip malls, a single-story green-and-cream French chateau festooned with gabled roofs, half-timbering, and clinker bricks. At a meeting of L.A.
By nominating Taix as a cultural historic monument, the neighborhood heritage group aimed to save the building, and therefore the business. But according to the restaurant’s owner, Mike Taix, it was already too late. Many of the “significant” architectural details cited by the historians, like pressed-tin ceilings, were not original, Taix revealed, but had been added by Taix himself over the last 25 years.
This weaponization of preservationist tactics reminded me of a similar battle faced by the owners of Amoeba Records when they sold their Hollywood building to developers at quite a profit in order to stay financially viable. The two-story, 18-year-old stucco box had been appended with just enough retro-looking neon to make it feel like it’d been there forever.
awalkerinLA it ain't the LA way
awalkerinLA Great piece. The preservation fight that got me a couple of years ago was when a Los Feliz laundry owner was prevented from tearing down a house next door in part because Forest Ackerman once rented it.
awalkerinLA My main issue is the proposed design of the new building is so ugly. Lots of affordable housing and attractive architecture are not mutually exclusive. See: Mexico City
awalkerinLA Unremarkable to whom?
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