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2023 Christmas Walk in Zurich, Switzerland.
I just can’t get over how much this reminds me of downtown Los Angeles.
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Van Nuys High School Sex Education Hearing: 1959
I came across these photographs of a public hearing with parents, students, teachers and community leaders who were gathered to talk about the introduction of sex education at Van Nuys High School in the summer of 1959. The photos were taken by a photographer for the Los Angeles Herald Examiner and featured in stories about…
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Save MacLeod Ale!
A well-placed source who knows their finances told me that MacLeod Ale, which has been in business at 14741 Calvert St. in Van Nuys since 2014, will soon shut down for good. I was an early supporter of the brewery, having found out about its impending opening when I worked at the Hollywood Farmers Market…
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Fortune Way.
Returning from Pasadena last Sunday, we crossed into Highland Park and randomly drove up N Avenue 66, a street along the Arroyo. There were old houses, once gracious houses, that a century or more ago were single family residences with wide gardens and porches and plantings. Most had been disfigured and broken up into rooming…




