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You can sometimes look at a street the way a biologist might look at a tree and carbon date its birth and decline. It seems that Victory Blvd. was last built up around 1965. There are almost no new structures from Kester to Hazeltine that have been erected since Lyndon Johnson was in office.
Victory Blvd. has enormous cobra style street lights, the kind that were au courant in the late 1950s. There are hardly any trees, and the wide sidewalks and black asphalt bake in the 100 degree heat.
Enterprising small business owners seem to be doing a brisk business despite the homely surroundings. What Victory needs here is the center landscaped median and decorative lampposts. Like they have down in Studio City and Sherman Oaks along Ventura.
You cannot tell me that people in this part of town lack motivation. They work a lot harder than the poseurs who frequent the coffee bars along Ventura Blvd. What they lack is a city without a civic bone in its body.
Here in Van Nuys 