But as always, I've got to give you my one thing to do in Los Angeles this week.

So appropriate because this week you're gonna go to jail. No, no, no, no, no, no.

Don't go get arrested, don't do anything crazy.

But go to the Lincoln Heights Jail.

It's no longer an active jail.

And in fact, this is a beautiful art deco building

that's not necessarily open to the public, but it's right next to the L.A. River in one of the most

underrated communities in Los Angeles, Lincoln Heights. It's the address of 421 North Avenue 19, and it's right in the foothills of

gorgeous and and fun and really high at Lincoln Heights so it's a good excuse get over there

walk around but check out the prison while we're there while you're there because this is some LA history

listen to this first the building it's a it's unassuming it's not assuming as a

former prison can be especially 147,000 square foot prison. But it was built in

1927 and it cost to five million dollars and officially opened in 1931. But here's the thing. The building, it's a five-story art deco jail and it was designed by Jesse Stanton and Gordon Kaufman

architects. If Kaufman sounds familiar, he was an architect behind the Hoover Dam

the LA Times Building, Greystone Mansion, the Hollywood Palladium, kind of speaks to the times, the

Go Go Go 20s. This was really, perhaps the most pivotal decade in Los Angeles history because

that's when L.A. really became a major city and even the prisons think about that art deco prison designed by famous architect is crazy

and the site of the prison was originally the location of what was called the East Side Police Station and its adjoining

jail. And it was one of three smaller police stations in jailhouses that were put up in

LA during that period of substantial growth and that period of growth led to overcrowding jails so there was a ballot

measure to raise these police stations and construct a new jail.

So when Lincoln Heights Jail opened in 1931 it had room for 750 male inmates and 150 women

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