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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 
Um… what I think you mean is “What they lack is a city WITH a civic bone in its body.” The way you wrote it kind of says the OPPOSITE of what I think you mean.
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Dude, it is a bunch of mexicans who are happy to have indoor plumbing and electricity that can power a ghetto blaster
You want illegals, fine. be prepared to live in a friggin hovel.
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I don’t agree with you at all. The people who live and shop on Van Nuys Blvd could care less about whether or not their street lights look nice or whether there are trees in the street or if their kids are throwing candy wrappers and soda cans on the ground.
Let’s face it, there are plenty of part of the city of Los Angeles that are poised to improve and Van Nuys is certainly not one of them.
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I work and live in Van nuys and have been reading your blog for awhile. I finally had to say “Hi” when I saw the pictures of the block that I work on. My co-worker frequently attempts to garden in front of our office which is on the block of your picture but it seems to make little difference. There are those of us who care.
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