History of the Brewery Artist Colony and Los Angeles
Brewery folk are often asked about the history of this place. We've heard some tales of things that have supposedly happened here over the years which definitely never happened, and many, many misconceptions about the evolution of The Brewery. That said...
With no intenion of dispelling any myth or mystique threaded through our unique community, we offer these stories of interest relating to downtown and East Los Angeles, the Brewery itself, and a few of the people who've passed through here.
GEORGE ZOBELEINIn 1832, Conrad Michaelzobelein, brewer, innkeeper and butcher, married Magdalena Dorn.
They had five children. Only one, George Friedrich (1835), survived childhood.
Los Angeles Steam Plant No. 3
Originally posted on August 19, 2019
It is three times the largest steam turbine unit on the Pacific Coast and so vast in its proportions that the machinery must be first installed and the massive steel and concrete buildings constructed around and over it. A Times photographer was fortunate in securing a picture of the turbine, showing its interior magnesium-coated revolving element before the steel jacket had been put in place, and also of the Sterling super-heating boilers, the only ones of the kind ever built, before the steel-coated brick enclosure had been constructed around them.