Cruising the Boulevard

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Cruising the Boulevard

Cruising down today’s Ventura Boulevard at 45 miles per hour, it’s difficult to imagine its dusty beginnings as a st...

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Conservancy Files Appeal

On February 3, the Conservancy filed an appeal on the Los Angeles Superior Court’s January 5 decision by Judge Richard...

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Los Angeles: Growing Up with Character

Los Angeles is entering a new phase of growth and physical transformation, as a postwar landscape defined largely by ope...

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Tischler Family Home

This is my family home, my father, Adolph Tischler, passed away in August 2015.  I lived there my whole life and it is ...

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Fighting Mansionization in Beverly Grove

“If we don’t stand up and take care of our residential neighborhoods, we’re fiddling while Rome burns.” — ...

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We Heart Garden Apartments!

As anyone who has lived in one will tell you, garden apartments are extraordinary places. They are designed around the n...

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Brooklyn Avenue Melting Pot

My father, Bill Phillips, operated Phillips Music Company on Brooklyn Ave. from 1935-1992.  USC historian, George Sanch...

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Working at Bullock's Wilshire

I was 17 years old and entering my senior year at Westlake School for Girls. One day while shopping at Bullock’s Wilsh...

Curating the City

Walking Along Wilshire

In the 80s my friend Jann Atha and I walked the length of Wilshire Blvd. twice—Grand to the ocean, 16.3 miles! The...

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Meeting JFK at the "Western White House"

Meeting John F. Kennedy is one of my most special early memories, and although I was very young, I remember the events o...

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Working at the Sunkist Building

I will never forget the day I started to work at Protravel in the Sunkist Building.  It was July 2004.  My boss told m...

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Sixty Years of Operating Boats at Westlake Park

From Downtown to St. Monica’s statue, [I have] memories all the way, especially Ambassador, Westlake, Bullocks Wil...

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Cruising the Boulevard

Cruising down today’s Ventura Boulevard at 45 miles per hour, it’s difficult to imagine its dusty beginnings as a st...

Feature

Conservancy Files Appeal

On February 3, the Conservancy filed an appeal on the Los Angeles Superior Court’s January 5 decision by Judge Richard...

Feature

Los Angeles: Growing Up with Character

Los Angeles is entering a new phase of growth and physical transformation, as a postwar landscape defined largely by ope...

Feature

Tischler Family Home

This is my family home, my father, Adolph Tischler, passed away in August 2015.  I lived there my whole life and it is ...

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Fighting Mansionization in Beverly Grove

“If we don’t stand up and take care of our residential neighborhoods, we’re fiddling while Rome burns.” — ...

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We Heart Garden Apartments!

As anyone who has lived in one will tell you, garden apartments are extraordinary places. They are designed around the n...

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Brooklyn Avenue Melting Pot

My father, Bill Phillips, operated Phillips Music Company on Brooklyn Ave. from 1935-1992.  USC historian, George Sanch...

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Working at Bullock's Wilshire

I was 17 years old and entering my senior year at Westlake School for Girls. One day while shopping at Bullock’s Wilsh...

Curating the City

Walking Along Wilshire

In the 80s my friend Jann Atha and I walked the length of Wilshire Blvd. twice—Grand to the ocean, 16.3 miles! The...

Feature

Meeting JFK at the "Western White House"

Meeting John F. Kennedy is one of my most special early memories, and although I was very young, I remember the events o...

Feature

Working at the Sunkist Building

I will never forget the day I started to work at Protravel in the Sunkist Building.  It was July 2004.  My boss told m...

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Sixty Years of Operating Boats at Westlake Park

From Downtown to St. Monica’s statue, [I have] memories all the way, especially Ambassador, Westlake, Bullocks Wil...