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December 15, 2013
A little over a decade ago I went for a late afternoon photo walk around downtown Van Nuys. The Golden Hour or so it’s called, when the sun casts a kind glow on the city, deepening contrasts and saturating colors. Van Nuys was bad but not as bad as now. Not every store was vacant,…
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1986 LAPD Bomb Squad Killings
On Friday, July 18, 2025, three LA Country Sheriff’s deputies, handling explosive material taken from an apartment garage in Santa Monica, were killed in an explosion at the department’s Biscailuz Center Training Academy in East Los Angeles. The deputies had been called to 800 Bay Street last Thursday after the Santa Monica police requested assistance…
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Traditional Designs for Apartments.
Here are some concepts for rebuilding Pacific Palisades.
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Rebuilding for Sustainable Reasons
The fire ravaged hills of Pacific Palisades and Altadena not only cry out for rebuilding. But cry to rebuild in a better way. Especially in Pacific Palisades, the only way back (as imagined by those in power) is to rebuild the gargantuan single family home. How these can be afforded, let alone insured, is the…
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Neo-Classical Houses
It’s probably fantasy to imagine that wealthy people will read this blog and see the lovely houses below and decide to build in this style in Pacific Palisades. But maybe the ten wealthiest Angelenos can get together and fund the construction of Neo-Classical houses in Altadena. 1,000 of these would cost $100,000,000 and would also…
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The Old Way of Seeing.
It’s not likely that we will live to see Pacific Palisades or Altadena constructed in a way that evokes the traditional styles that were wiped out in January’s fires.
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