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The Western Sky is Closing Down.
A wall of apartment houses is going up along Sepulveda west of here. My western sky is closing down. That, at least, is how it seems at dusk, walking along forlorn and roughly paved Columbus Av. where the large lots are clearing out, those junkyard properties of dubious reputation and unkempt presentation. There is still…
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Sepulveda Fantasy
It’s a futile fantasy exercise to go the website Architizer and see what they are building in other wealthy cities around the world where 100,000 homeless people do not sleep on the street and it is isn’t considered normal to have shopping baskets full of trash polluting parks alongside $2.5 million dollar homes. Here is…
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Days of Light Traffic.
Days of Light Traffic Normally, in the morning, the cars start traveling bumper-to-bumper in Van Nuys, and indeed, all over the city. Since the school strike began, the number of vehicles on the roads seems to have dropped significantly. Parents take their children to school by car and drive them miles to attend magnet schools,…
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Glamorous Granny Flat.
All photos: Eric Staudenmaier The Accessory Dwelling Unit (ADU) is a second house built in the backyard of a first house to provide additional income for a “single family” homeowner. Los Angeles has now legally liberalized the lawto allow these types of dwellings to go up all over the city. The moral reasoning: this will increase…
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“Should”
Sometimes the strangest offhand remark stays in my head, forever. In the early 1990s, I worked with a woman at Ralph Lauren named Carmel. She later became a friend. Then I lost touch and I don’t know where she is today. But she told me, back then, that I used the word “should” too much.…
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Van Nuys: Vigorous Valley Hub 12/13/1959
It was “230 square miles encircled by mountains and roofed by a blue sky.” Its 800,000 residents were more populous than Boston or San Francisco and its land size equaled the city of Chicago. It was famous for “its distinctive way of life” a “perpetual exhibit of Modern Suburbia at its brightest and biggest. Valley…
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