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Progress Report.
On a brief walk, after dropping off a package at the UPS on Van Nuys Bl. I walked west on Sylvan, south on Vesper, ending this set of photos at the new fire station on Oxnard. There is a small but significant amount of new apartments going up. They are pleasant additions to the neighborhood…
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In Singapore.
In Singapore, which I just visited for four days, I do not remember seeing any decorative streetlights, but I might have been looking, instead, at spotless plazas, copiously planted parks with enormous trees and bright flowers; or perhaps I was riding the air-conditioned MRT, easily navigating between scrupulously clean stations, labeled in easy-to-read signs, navigable by…
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The Fire Last Time
______________________________________________________________________________ On March 30, 2007 there was a fire burning in Griffith Park. And I was walking in Studio City when a red-haired woman drove up and parked on Ventura Bl. in an odd little purple car, a Nash Rambler. Her license plate read “Kissmet.” I’m sure she is someone, or was someone, quite beloved,…
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Single Family Home Protest.
Recently, our neighborhood found out that the owner of a vacant parcel of land wants to construct a single-family home in our area of single-family homes. Frightened, angered, upset, scared were many longtime residents who saw the picture of the house with four bedrooms, three bathrooms and a two-car garage. And rightfully so, for they…
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Glorious California: Some Photographs from UCLA’s Bartlett Collection.
UCLA’s Adelbert Bartlett Collection has superb, hi-resolution images from the work of a commercial photographer who lived from 1887-1966 and worked in Southern California in the 1920s through the 1960s. It was a time when this state was considered the pinnacle of glory, a place where aviators, sportsmen, golfers, movie stars, and athletes played and…
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A Cleared Lot
They have almost completely cleared the 27, 762 SF lot that is 6505 Columbus. The property once held a single family house, constructed in 1937. One of the owners was a production manager and second unit director, Cliff Broughton, Sr. On November 14, 1949, Mr. Broughton’s son, Cliff Jr. was piloting the 136- foot-long schooner…
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