Until recently, “The Whitmoor” stood at 4422 Whitsett, just north of Moorpark, in Studio City.

These past few days, however, the 1960’s apartment house of decorative concrete blocks and white brick, has been torn down. The property will no doubt sprout an ostentatious Mediterranean/Persian condominium with $900,000 a unit, crown-molded, granite blocked grotesqueness.

While liberal and white Studio City protests the Iraq war every Friday night on Laurel Canyon and Ventura, the irony of their own neighborhood’s destruction from Levantine forces escapes them. Just kidding…sort of.

“The Whitmoor” was rumored to be home to UK born director Andrew Nock, who may have lived here in the mid 1990’s. Women and cats roamed the complex in those days…

The structure represented a more casual and less pretentious Studio City. Hidden behind trees and courtyards, it was a place where actors, writers and non-conformists lived in reasonably priced bright and modest apartments.

The bulldozer and the developers have moved in. The apartment & adjoining house did not occupy every square inch of the property: an intolerable offense in our age of only indoor activities. Before the PC and video games, people often sat outdoors and read books. Now those iced tea and lawn chair memories are just rubble.

So much of this area is being torn down little house by little house.

The sweet and gentle streets of Studio City need historic protection…does anyone care?