50: Massacre at the Taliesin Estate
Ghost Town: Strange History, True Crime, & the Paranormal
Ghost Town
3.7 • 938 Ratings
🗓️ 29 May 2019
⏱️ 28 minutes
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Summary
Frank Lloyd Wright's Taliesin estate is an architectural marvel. It's was also home to a massacre.
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| 0:00.0 | An architectural nightmare. I'm Jason Horton. I'm Rebecca Leib. And this is Ghost Town. Well, I went to Breakfast Club again this week, and we talked a little bit about before. |
| 0:25.0 | It's this essentially like old LA tradition that started in the 1920, 20 or 21, |
| 0:32.0 | where a bunch of white guys studio executives will Rogers they were like yeah just a lot of like high |
| 0:39.6 | profile dudes would go have breakfast and then ride up into Griffith Park and it still is |
| 0:45.4 | happening to this day at this place off of Los Feels Boulevard. |
| 0:50.0 | It's like 7 a.m. right? |
| 0:51.0 | Yeah, it's 7 a.m. bright and early. |
| 0:52.1 | We have to be pretty dedicated and it's got to be pretty good for you to get up that early to go |
| 0:56.8 | Yeah, and it is it really delivered what if there was no breakfast. I mean it doesn't matter. It's so okay. It's like you say the Pledge of Allegiance you sing songs people you go and hang out and then there's a lecture at the end of everyone so it's like you go there and it feels like you are in a different place. |
| 1:15.2 | It feels like you're in like middle school again, but like adult middle school with other |
| 1:20.3 | adults of various ages. It's very interesting and yes there is breakfast too. |
| 1:25.4 | A lot of times there's like a French toast thing, a lot of eggs happening. |
| 1:29.5 | There's oatmeal, there's coffee, everything you need. I love it. |
| 1:33.4 | It's $15 if you're not a member, you can become a member too. |
| 1:35.6 | Are you going to become one? |
| 1:36.4 | I think I am, but I think it also feels pressure to become a member |
| 1:41.8 | and like go all the time, and it's it's so early to you know like I'm getting |
| 1:45.6 | up at six six thirty-ish to get there by seven it's very close to my apartment though |
| 1:50.6 | but it's very cool and I want to plug it because it's awesome. But they had a lecturer today, |
| 1:57.2 | today, Wednesday, when we recorded this. He was talking about the Frank Lloyd Wright houses in LA, |
| 2:02.8 | which are all incredibly interesting. |
| 2:03.9 | We covered Frank Lloyd Wright Jr's house |
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