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Mayor Garbageciti’s Los Angeles
It is probable and likely and arguable that Los Angeles is perhaps the dirtiest large city in the United States. New York, Chicago, Houston, Atlanta, Denver, Dallas, Miami: they do not have the amount of illegal dumping, trash, shopping carts of garbage, furniture, mountains of debris and litter in every park, street, and parking lot.…
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A Fish and Bear Story
Some months back, a very creative couple, Lynn and Mark, and their two boys, moved into a house on my street that had been empty for five years. The new family set about renovting the circa 1950 ranch until it is now a creamy white with a writing studio carved out of a two-car garage.…
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1960: Cigarette Caused Fatal Fire.
4/29/1960: Harry Brandt, 53 (with cigar) stands in the ruins of his gutted Living Room in Van Nuys where his wife Charline, 46, died after a cigarette ignited a house fire. (Photo courtesy of Valley Times Collection at LAPL)
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Neighborhood Safety Meeting.
Last night, I attended a small neighborhood safety meeting with a group of perhaps seven neighbors and our LAPD Senior Lead Officer. It was held at a home of the new liason between the cops and the community, a woman who speaks up and speaks often on issues affecting her street such as lighting, crime…
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A Clean, Well-Cared For City.
I recently spent a few days in Cleveland, OH on an exploratory trip, visiting a city I’ve never been to before to see how I liked it. Cleveland has had a long, slow, drain of population, and it is now about 270,000. Less than the size of Glendale (200,000) and Pasadena (142,000) put together. I…
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Riots of Color
Urbanize LA is a website showing new development around our city. I get updates from them and see what architecture is going up and what it looks like. In residential multi-family buildings, modernism is triumphant. Today, every building is uniquely ahistorical, without any reference to past classical styles, which, in a way is good. Los…
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