tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-91233220631207759562024-03-21T19:43:47.002-07:00Evanescent CityA photographic record of nostalgia, hope and change in the City of Angels. Musings and opinions of a long-time resident. evansescent-cityhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13684560078689688745noreply@blogger.comBlogger23125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9123322063120775956.post-29767268942714126572018-05-29T20:38:00.000-07:002018-05-29T20:38:26.076-07:00The Travels of Buddy<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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My old Buddy walked with me from 2008 through 2015.</div>
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Here he is, Mar. 5, 2008, the day I brought him home from the Pasadena Humane Society Shelter. He was my travel companion and photographic assistant until his death Oct. 19, 2015. He looks young in this picture, but he was already about 5 years old, with a bit of grey on his chin.<br />
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His first walk with me was at the Sepulveda Basin Recreation Area. He was a little thin then. He had been treated for worms at the shelter. The first thing I did was teach him not to chase bicycles.</div>
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I probably adopted him too soon after my last dog died, but I was on an epic journey along the L.A. River, and I didn't think I could continue without a dog at my side. Here he is, watching the ducks at the dam.</div>
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He practiced his sit-stay on the Wilbur Ave. Bridge. Cars whizzing over bridges made him a bit nervous, but it was a quiet afternoon.</div>
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Crossing on the Corbin Ave. Bridge May 5, 2008. We reached the theoretical headwaters later that day.</div>
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I felt rather lost after that, without a goal. For some reason, I decided to visit Bellflower. Painted utility boxes have reached my own neighborhood this year, but I saw them first in Paramount, Long Beach and Bellflower. </div>
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I wanted to take him down the Ballona Creek Bike path too, but near the mouth, the access points were too far apart for me to walk. He could have done it, I'm sure, but he wasn't going anywhere without me. We did explore surrounding areas in Culver City, however. </div>
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Los Angeles State Historic Park was a favorite place we visited many times. He was<a href="https://lashp.wordpress.com/2009/10/01/dog-of-the-week-12/"> Dog of the Week in Oct. 2009.</a></div>
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He visited the most photographed building in Los Angeles</div>
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He watched passersby while I look into the office of the Daily Planet.</div>
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he spent some time learning to be an urban dog. He didn't see the no pets sign until he got there.</div>
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We visited the old police station, Parker Center, as well as the new one. </div>
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visited site of first L.A. Jewish Temple</div>
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In sprig we began another epic walk, all the length of the combination of all the streets called Broadway in Los Angeles. We started at the northeast end, in Lincoln Heights. We found several of these stairways to nowhere, but didn't take them. </div>
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2010 was a great year for Buddy. We got his little kitten friend Lila!</div>
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Once, he had been afraid of trains, but he waited by my side while this one went by. He waited patiently while i photographed the <a href="http://evanescent-city.blogspot.com/2015/08/north-main-st-bridge.html">North Main St. Bridge</a>. If he was afraid, I didn't snow it. </div>
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It was an unexpectedly happy day when I took him to see a doomed house in Echo Park and we met a man with two little poodles and a 12 year old Golden Retriever. He usually liked the little dogs best, but he was happy to find a pal his own age.</div>
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Vernon is a strange city near the L.A. River, long known for corruption.</div>
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I first wandered into Vernon in 2007, when I was following the course of the L.A. River.</div>
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It's best known landmark is a mural on a slaughterhouse, and it's usually described as having unpleasant odors. The area had been known as a place to raise hogs in its earliest days. However, I don't believe the hog farms were as pleasant as these pictures. The hogs were fed on garbage from the nearby dump. </div>
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<span style="text-align: start;">I knew it was time to revisit Vernon when I read about this new development. When the 45 units are occupied, the population of Vernon is expected to double. </span></div>
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Population estimates have stayed at around 90 -100 for years. Can you call it a city if only 90 people live there? You can if you declare yourself as Exclusively Industrial from the beginning.<br />
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Vernon was incorporated as a city of the 6th class in 1905, under the leadership of John Baptiste Leonis and the <a href="http://www.westadamsheritage.org/read/401">Furlong brothers, James and Thomas</a>. Sixty eight people turned up to vote at the election. Sixty four were in favor of incorporation, and four were opposed. <span style="text-align: center;"> Three days later, the election was challenged by Burbank and Baker, who sold real estate in Huntington Park and Hermosa Beach.. They claimed that the population of Vernon was only 375, not the 500 required of a city of the 6th class. Nevertheless, the Federal Census listed a population of 700+ in 1910. That was how the City of Vernon began.</span><br />
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Southern California was full of farmers and sick people seeking sunshine and a year round growing season. No one would have guessed L.A. would become an industrial city, except for the founders of Vernon. John B. Leonis offered free land to anyone who wanted to build a factory, and by 1905 there were two factories and two lumberyards there. The Los Angeles and Salt Lake Railroad was completed that year, the third railroad passing through Vernon. Then came battles between the hog farmers and the industrialists regarding the city dump. The hog farmers wanted the dump, but the industrialists did not. I haven't been able to discover just when the dump was closed, but poor folks were squatting there at the time of the Pneumonic Plague outbreak of 1924. </div>
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<span style="text-align: center;">Dump or no dump, people came to Vernon to do things they couldn't do in the City of Los Angeles, a dry town. They came to watch baseball games and prizefights, and to drink. There may have been a few "houses of assignation," too. Jack Doyle had a mile-long bar. Maier beer started a baseball team, the Tigers, which alternated between Vernon and the other wet town of the era, Venice. <a href="http://boryanabooks.com/?p=1526">Baron Long</a> had his Country Club, which became the first of L.A.'s modern night clubs. </span> <a href="http://www.lamag.com/citythinkblog/citydig-vernon-may-be-boring-now-but-in-the-early-1900s-it-was-bumping/">Wonderful free map 1924</a><br />
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The L.A. Times was sternly disapproving In 1912, they said, Vernon was "believed to be the only incorporated city of nearly 1,000 that boasts no church." The founding Furlong brothers built a church the next year. The first event was the wedding of their sister Judith to English Chemist George Poxon. Many people continue to collect the pottery made in the factory the Poxons produced in Vernon. </div>
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The Times gave Vernon and its founders more respect as it became a productive factory town in 1915. That was the year Santa Fe Ave. was paved, and this bridge over the L.A.River at 26th St. One area was reserved for the smellier enterprises of stock yards, slaughterhouses and oil refineries. Other areas were occupied by iron works, wheel works, planing mills and a concrete plant. </div>
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The 1930 census reported the population at 1,269. Vernon had annexed the Central Manufacturing District in 1926, so the area was larger by then. This was the largest recorded population in Vernon's history. Homes like this, built in 1894, were rapidly disappearing to make way for industry. Older homes were condemned, and no building permits for residences were issued. The city fathers gained power by causing the voting population to shrink, until there was no one left except city employees and their families.</div>
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By 1940, the population was down to 842, even while surrounding southeastern county was growing. In 1941, James Furlong, founder and mayor of Vernon, died at his home at 2046 E. 52nd. He was the last of Vernon's mayors willing to live within Vernon's city limits. Furlong was succeeded by John B. Leonis. In 1943, the "real" and "voting" homes of the city fathers were disclosed. Mayor John B. Leonis really lived at 647 S. Hudson. He registered to vote at 2533 38th St. in an apartment above the bank he owned. He and 5 other Vernon officials were indicted on charges of illegal voting in 1943. The case was dismissed for lack of evidence. The residences of city officials and voters would not be questioned again until 1978. </div>
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Smog had become a topic of conversation in the 1940s, and Vernon's factories were a big contributor. Vernon has continued to be a major polluter. Exide battery recycling is the most recent saga, and the clean-up is still a matter of dispute. This is a big topic which I hope to address in a future post. </div>
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The 1950 census listed 417 residents, and by 1960 the population was down to</div>
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229. In 1961, there were 36 dwellings in Vernon. Half were owned by the city and rented to employees. The other half had all been built before 1920. No building permits had been issued since then. The ten room house Miss Lastenia Ybarra offered for sale for $120,000 in 1961 was one of the last of the old houses to go. It had been built by her grandfather in 1906. The address, 2326 E. Vernon Ave, is now occupied by a Flowserve Corporation factory. </div>
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The city got in trouble for other reasons, like not paying sewerage fees and refusing to put up traffic signals, but continued to prosper. In 1953 they went from a city of the 6th class to a charter city.</div>
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In 1954 they made a Proposition 13, a constitutional amendment to change voter qualifications. They wanted to make property ownership a qualification for voting, and allow non-residents to hold office. Vernon's leaders and the state chamber of commerce loved this. The legislature declared it to be unconstitutional.</div>
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In 1974, Leonis C. Malburg was elected mayor of Vernon, after the death of Robert Furlong, who was the son of Vernon co-founder Thomas Furlong. Malburg was the grandson of John B. Leonis and had served 18 years on city council.</div>
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In 1975, warehouses were replacing factories, but the city seemed OK. Architects Marion J. Verner and Associates won an award from the Society of American Registered Architects for the City Hall and Police Headquarters they built. Swift and Company had closed its slaughterhouse, after a longer time operating than anyone could remember. Yet there were still enough slaughterhouses left so the police were still called upon to round up steers run away from other meatpacking plants, as reported in the L.A. Times. Leonis Malburg hired Bruce Malkenhorst Sr. in 1975.</div>
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In 1978, Malkenhorst thought he'd save the city some money by laying off 17 firemen, even though there had been a 10 year hiring freeze and the force was down to 100 from 140. Not only that, he selected the 17 to be laid off by a lottery, rather than by seniority. the firefighters organized a job action. Negotiations went on for a year and a half. Carlton Claunch, a retired firefighter attempted to establish residence and run as a pro-union candidate. During that time, Mayor Malburg was indicted for fraudulent voting and perjury. He was living at the house owned by his grandfather at 647 S. Hudson, while using a Vernon address. Bruce Malkenhorst and city attorney David B. Brearley were indicted for conspiracy to commit extortion and bribery. They had put "unlawful pressure" on firefighters to persuade Carlton Claunch to leave town and drop a lawsuit he had filed against Malburg. The charges were ultimately dropped for lack of evidence, once again. Most of the firefighters eventually went back to work, but the force had been reduced by attrition. </div>
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Next, Malkenhorst turned his attention to the police department. He eliminated many positions, and<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , "times" , serif; font-size: 13.888888359069824px;"> </span><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , "times" , serif; font-size: 13.888888359069824px;">turned others into civilian jobs. </span><a href="http://articles.latimes.com/1989-05-20/news/mn-261_1_city-administrator-malkenhorst-vernon-administrator/3" style="font-family: georgia, 'times new roman', times, serif;">I</a>n 1980<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , "times" , serif; font-size: 13.888888359069824px;">, former Police Chief Spencer E. Hogan, recently retired after 32 years of service, ran for city council. He had been living in city owned housing, and was immediately evicted after declaring his candidacy. </span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , "times" , serif; font-size: 13.888888359069824px;">Another resident, Philip Reavis, then president of the Vernon Chamber of Commerce, also decided to run for office. Reavis, the owner of one of the few private homes in Vernon, allowed Hogan to move in, and together they ran to challenge a pair of incumbents. spencer Hogan got the most votes, but </span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , "times" , serif; font-size: 13.888888359069824px;">Malkenhorst disqualified six ballots, on the grounds they were those of non-residents. This made incumbents Hilario Gonzales, and Keith K. Kaeser, the winners. </span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , "times" , serif; font-size: 14px;">It was the last contested election until 2006. The incumbents continued to run unopposed.</span></span></div>
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In 1981 it was called "the incredible shrinking city" with a population of 91 living in 37 housing units. The median rent was $60 and the median value was $0, because all the houses were owned by the city. The population had dropped so much that </div>
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St. Martha's parish was moved from the old church on Santa Fe Avenue to Huntington Park. Fortunately, the old building was saved. For a while it served as an office for Catholic Social Services. In 1986, it became the <a href="http://www.laweekly.com/news/the-ear-of-the-lord-vernons-holy-angels-church-of-the-deaf-2397878">Holy Angels Church of the Deaf.</a> Bruce Malkenhorst became known as the highest paid city official in California. A dispute over construction of a hazardous waste disposal site went on for several years, until it was defeated in 1991. The rendering plant and fertilizer factory continued in operation is spite of their noxious odors. <span style="font-family: "warnockpro"; font-size: 11pt;">Vernon
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<span style="text-align: center;"><br /></span><span style="text-align: center;">In 2004, Eduardo Olivo, who had been Vernon's city attorney for the previous five years presented the Vernon City Council with documentation of bogus expense-account reimbursements claimed by city manager Bruce Malkenhorst Sr. Rather than investigating Malkenhorst, the city council fired Olivo and sued him for breach of contract. They made haste to declare his report as "privileged document" in order to prevent any outsider from reading it. They replaced Olivo with Eric T. Fresch, a man of dubious reputation. Fresch subsequently became the city manager, after Malkenhorst Sr. resigned in 2005. In 2010, the L.A. Times published <a href="http://articles.latimes.com/2010/dec/17/local/la-me-adv-fresch-profile-20101206">this article about Eric T. Fresch and some of his family members</a>. A later state audit blamed Fresch for city's difficulties. </span><br />
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<span style="text-align: center;">In 2005, the county district attorney began an investigation regarding misappropriation of funds by Bruce Malkenhorst, and the residence of city officials. Malkenhorst's $600,000 salary and his expense account were suspicious. He collected a pension equal to his former salary. Malkenhorst Sr. retired at that time, and began collecting an outrageously high pension. </span><span style="font-family: "\22 georgia\22 " , "\22 times new roman\22 " , serif; font-size: small;"> Malkenhorst Jr. was City Clerk. </span><span style="font-family: "\\22 georgia\\22 " , "\\22 times new roman\\22 " , serif;">In May 2011, Malkenhorst finally pleaded guilty to using public money for golf outings, massages and meals. Instead of jail time, he received 3 years probation, and fines up to </span><span style="font-family: "\22 \\\\22 georgia\\\\22 \22 " , "\22 \\\\22 times new roman\\\\22 \22 " , serif;">$</span><span style="font-family: "\\22 georgia\\22 " , "\\22 times new roman\\22 " , serif;">35,000 and</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "\\22 georgia\\22 " , "\\22 times new roman\\22 " , serif; font-size: small;">In January 2006, 8 people attempted to move to Vernon, and 3 of them tried to run for city council in the upcoming election in April, which would be the first election in 25 years. Don Huff, David Johnson and Alejandro Lopez ran for city council. Vernon's leaders had the power company disconnect the building at 2721 E. 46th St. Then they hired armed private investigators to follow them, and finally had the police break in and remove them by force. They moved into their cars near the property. A court ruling said that did not disqualify them as voters.</span><br />
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<span style="text-align: center;">The election was held, but Vernon officials refused to count the ballots, and kept them secret. In June, Vernon was ordered to hand over both the ballots and the report by Eduardo Olivo, </span><span style="background-color: white; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #555555; font-family: "roboto" , "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14px;"> </span><span style="font-size: 14px;">which included </span></span></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #555555; text-align: center;">1,700 pages of city records in four bound volumes. </span></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; text-align: center;">68 ballots were counted--the same number of ballots in the 1905 election to incorporate. The results were announced in October and the incumbents had won, to no one's surprise. <a href="http://articles.latimes.com/2006/aug/04/local/me-vernon4">Huff was pleased that he'd received 10 votes when he had only expected 8.</a> He said the city would never again go a quarter-century without an election. His prediction came true. </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: "roboto" , "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif; text-align: center;">Olivo's report and the accompanying documents were the beginning of investigations which continued for years.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: "roboto" , "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-align: center;"><br /></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: "roboto" , "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-align: center;">Donal O'Callaghan replaced Frecsh as city manager. Fresch continued to work for Vernon as a legal consultant under a different title. O'Callaghan was not an improvement. He was replaced by Mark Whitworth in July and indicted on Oct. 18 for criminal conflict of interest. He plead guilty in 2011. </span>In 2011, speaker of the California State Assembly John A. Perez sponsored legislation to disincorporate the City of Vernon. (<a href="http://articles.latimes.com/2011/mar/02/local/la-me-0302-vernon-20110302-1">L.A. Times Mar. 2, 2011</a>) Even the New York Times noticed--.<a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2011/03/02/us/02vernon.html" style="font-family: '"georgia"', '"times new roman"', serif;">John A. Pérez is behind the plan to make Vernon a part of Los Angeles</a>. Perez was backed by the L.A. City Council, as well as Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa, Los Angeles County Sheriff Lee Baca and County Supervisor Gloria Molina. <a href="http://www.laweekly.com/news/city-of-vernon-in-fight-to-death-with-assembly-speaker-john-perez-2170832">L.A. Weekly called it a fight to the death between the City of Vernon and Assemblyman Perez.</a> Both the Vernon Chamber of Commerce and labor unions opposed this on the grounds that jobs would be lost. These signs appeared all over Vernon.<br />
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Vernon was working to save itself in 2011. The city hired John van de Kamp in February to do an independent audit. <a href="http://articles.latimes.com/2011/may/26/news/lat-vernon-votes-to-slash-council-pay-set-salary-caps-enact-term-limits-20110526">In May</a> the city of Vernon approved a package of governmental reforms in an effort to thwart a bill in the California Legislature calling for its disincorporation. The package included salary caps for city officials, term limits and pay cuts for council members. Further reforms were passed in <a href="https://www.kcet.org/1st-and-spring/government-reforms-for-the-scandal-plagued-city-of-vernon">November. </a></div>
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In 2012, the newly reformed City of Vernon had two elections. In April, Michael Ybarra ran against Daniel Newmire for City Council. Although Michael Ybarra's father Thomas had served as councilman for four decades, Michael Ybarra was considered to be the "reform" candidate. Newmire had served as an interim appointee, and was considered "old guard." Investigations into who really lived in Vernon <a href="http://articles.latimes.com/2012/apr/06/local/la-me-vernon-elections-20120406/2">preceded</a> the election. Both candidates challenged several ballots. <a href="http://articles.latimes.com/2012/apr/10/local/la-me-0411-vernon-elections-20120411">Ybarra won by five votes.</a> His daughter Melissa was elected in 2015, to replace her father after his death. In June, Luz Martinez ran against Reno Bellamy, a friend of Newmire, for another vacant seat.</div>
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Bellamy's victory was followed by the <a href="http://articles.latimes.com/2012/sep/26/local/la-me-vernon-voters-20120926">Sept. 26, 2012, </a>election fraud probe. In <a href="http://www.laweekly.com/news/vernon-election-overturned-hearing-officer-finds-out-of-towners-illegally-tipped-result-2386075">Oct. 2012</a>, election results overturned. Luz Martinez declared the winner. Eastern Publication Group said <a href="http://egpnews.com/2013/09/from-immigrant-to-city-official-vernon-woman-makes-history/">this about her.</a><br />
Yvette Woodruff-Perez was elected in April 2015, establishing the first female majority in Vernon City Council History. Leticia Lopez was elected to City Council as a write-in candidate in April 2016.<br />
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"<a href="http://egpnews.com/2016/03/women-shaping-vernon-of-the-future/">Women are shaping the future of Vernon.</a>" was the headline in <a href="http://egpnews.com/">Eastern Group Publications</a>, the newspaper franchise for the cities and neighborhoods of Southeastern L.A. County. They reported the victory of <a href="http://egpnews.com/2016/04/write-in-candidate-upends-vernon-election/">Leticia Lopez</a> a month later.<br />
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The other side of the street is the City of Maywood, so the residents of Vernon Village are not completely surrounded by industry. These folks were heading to a <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quincea%C3%B1era">quinceanera</a> in a big tent next door.<br />
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Vernon straddles the L.A. River, and the 710 freeway runs through it. The new city council wants to bring new cultural and recreational resources to the people who live there.Yvette Woodruff-Perez has said <span style="background-color: white; font-size: large;">"<span style="font-family: "arial" , "tahoma" , "verdana";">Vernon should be a place where people choose to go instead of sitting in traffic.” </span></span><br />
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It is the site of an historic battle in the Mexican-American War. I'd love to see re-enactors to take over Vernon on a Sunday. This is commemorated on some rocks in front of city hall.<br />
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The Los Angeles River Bike Path could extend further downstream in Vernon. The bike path was built in the bad old days when the Vernon government didn't want it. Now, when there is renewed interest in the river, would be a good time to extend the bike path downstream through Vernon. If we are lucky, it will go all the way through downtown L.A. too.<br />
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The L.A. downtown arts district is expanding beyond downtown. The Santa Fe Art Colony is already pushing the edge of the Vernon city limits.<br />
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What remains to be done is clean up after the battery recycling factory, Exide! <a href="http://la.streetsblog.org/2016/04/20/gov-brown-directs-176-6-million-to-expedite-cleanup-in-communities-around-exide/">Can they clean up the pollution</a> as well as they seem to have cleaned up their politics?<br />
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Of all the neighborhoods along the L.A. River, Elysian Valley or Frogtown, lives most intimately with the river. It is like an island, between the Golden State Freeway and the river, between tow bridges, Fletcher Avenue and Riverside-Figueroa. This is where the first pocket parks along the river were made, and now is the launch point for kayaking. Even before the bike path was opened, the service road along the river was a popular walking and bicycling place, often accessed through holes cut in chain link fences. <br />
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<span style="text-align: center;">Before the freeway was built, the neighborhood didn't seem to have any particular name. It was part of Rancho Los Feliz. Later, the farmers came, including Jesse Hunter in 1849, fresh from the gold fields. His heirs continued to farm the land, or sell it to the railroads, into the 1920's. Then came the small tracts and the little houses. These humble subdivisions didn't get the heavy promotion that larger ones got. </span><br />
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The City of Los Angeles has held on to some of the land in frog town, on Dorris Place. The Dorris Place Elementary School is there, along with the Department of Building and Safety, and the Sewer Maintanace Facility. Once there was what they called The Parental School which was the place where they sent bad kids who weren't quite bad enough for reform school. Later, the Inebriate Farm was placed there, to be succeeded by the Los Feliz Hospital for Women. It treated women for sexually transmitted diseases. I don't know where their male counterparts went. It was a NIMBY kind of place, and neighbors complained of the disgrace. It was founded in 1918 with great idealism, but by 1924, it was described as dilapidated. It was a place from which women escaped, five of them in1919, nine of them in 1921. In 1921 there was a kidnapping which was actually a rescue. In 1927, Grace Kenney, arrested for "masquerading," that is, wearing men's clothing, escaped. Her name was never in the paper again, so we don't know whether she returned to her husband and baby daughter or not. In 1932 there was a "near riot," and the place was abandoned the next year. Pleas for its re-opening followed. <br />
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Frogtown is one of a few neighborhoods in L.A. where industrial buildings mix with residences. One of the first was the 4S bakery. It was founded in 1922 by four men whose names all started with S. It moved from downtown to Elysian Valley in 1926. At some point they merged with Bimbo bakeries.<br />
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I spoke with the property owner on his way out. He says people still come around looking for the bakery, and he even still gets mail for the 4S employee group. He saved the old awning from its days as Bimbo. He's also a dog lover, like myself. A <a href="https://evnw.wordpress.com/2015/09/18/bimbo-bakery-project-has-been-conditionally-approved/">new development</a> is planned here. </div>
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As far back as 1989, the L.A. Times noticed that artists were moving into frog town. The downtown arts district was becoming too expensive even then. Frogtown began holding an annual ArtWalk in 2005. Unfortunately, the 2015 ArtWalk was canceled. </div>
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Hugo Martinez Tecoatl has participated in the art walk, <a href="https://evnw.wordpress.com/2011/09/25/hugo-martinez-tecoatl-frogtown-artwalk-2011/">in 2011</a> and other years. In 2006 he painted a wonderful mural along the bike path when it was still just a service road.</div>
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I photographed this much of it in 2007. There had been more but it was all tagged up. Since then, the mural has completely disappeared. There is another, at the corner of Riverside and Riverdale. It's still there and looks like there have been attempts at maintenance.<br />
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Hugo Martinez Tecoatl also painted great murals at the <a href="http://evanescent-city.blogspot.com/2015/01/casa-del-mexicano.html">Casa Mexicana. </a><br />
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Even though it's painted a murky, rather frog like, shade of green, it looms ominously over the little houses of the neighborhood.<br />
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The project's website says, "Be a pioneer, become one of the first to own a home on the L.A. River and witness its revitalization first hand." They forget that even before Jesse Hunter bought land here with his gold rush earnings in 1849, it was not an uninhabited wilderness.<br />
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Here are a few links about Frogtown:<br />
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Way back in 2007, when I was ambling down the river in frog town, <a href="http://atwater-village.blogspot.com/">Atwater</a><br />
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<a href="http://atwater-village.blogspot.com/">Village Newbie</a> predicted it was <a href="http://atwater-village.blogspot.com/2007/01/frogtown-hipsterfication.html">on the way to becoming the next hipster place.</a><br />
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In 2010, Will Coley interviewed long-time residents for his video <a href="https://vimeo.com/16296083">mapping Frogtown.</a><br />
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In Aug. 2014, L.A. Weekly described Frogtown as <a href="http://www.laweekly.com/news/las-hottest-new-neighborhood-frogtown-doesnt-want-the-title-5016257">L.A.s hottest new neighborhood,</a> but the residents declined the honor. </div>
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KPPC reported on the <a href="http://www.scpr.org/news/2015/06/10/52326/frogtown-residents-mull-future-at-zoning-hearing/">June 10, 2015 Zoning Hearing</a><br />
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<a href="http://www.kcet.org/socal/departures/lariver/confluence/river-notes/addressing-gentrification-concerns-in-elysian-valley.html">KCET discussed gentrification issues</a> July 2, 2015</div>
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<a href="http://communitybeaconnews.com/community/development-leads-to-nightmares-for-some-residents/">Residents are not embracing change,</a> according to the August 3, 2015 Community Beacon.</div>
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On August 14, 2015 <a href="http://la.curbed.com/archives/2015/08/frogtown_zoning_changes_la_river.php">Curbed reported on zoning changes </a><br />
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A local resident has assured me there are still frogs in Frogtown, though not as many as there had been in an earlier time. I can only hope the things I like about Frogtown will still be there in years to come. </div>
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The North Main St. Bridge doesn't get the attention given to some of the other bridges. It's important though. It's the oldest of the downtown bridges. It survived the Flood of 1914, which wiped out 35 other local bridges, destroyed a famous pigeon farm, and forced the labor activists to leave the river side, where they had been staying.</div>
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This is how the Library of Congress describes its significance:</div>
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<span style="color: #555555; font-family: "verdana" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">"</span><span style="color: #555555; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">Main Street Bridge is significant as the first open-spandrel three-hinge concrete arch bridge to be built in the western United States. It is associated with the pioneer engineers who began the reinforced concrete arch bridge building program in Los Angeles: Homer Hamlin and H.G. Parker. It is also eligible for the National Register as one of a group of twelve City Beautiful bridges over the Los Angeles River important in the settlement and transportation history of Los Angeles."</span></div>
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It was the first triple-hinged reinforced-concrete arched bridge built in the western United State, and inspired the later bridges we know and love.</div>
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The bridge was designed by Henry G. Parker and completed in 1910. It replaced an earlier bridge called the East Main St. Bridge, which itself replaced the old Kuhrts St. Bridge. Contracts were signed in Dec. 1908. The Los angeles Railway, whose trolley crossed the bridge, agreed to pay $20,000 of the $81,889 expected cost. Demolition of the old bridge began in Mar. 1909. By November the Times reported that construction was zipping along, but no opening ceremony was reported.</div>
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Henry G. Parker did not live to see his bridge complete. He died in Aug. 1909. He had been in charge of bridges for the Bureau of Engineering for the 5 years previous, but bridges were not his only responsibility. He was supervising repairs on one of the floodgates at the outfall sewer south of Playa del Rey when he fell into a manhole and drowned in sewage. He was only 40 years old, and left a widow and two children. He is buried at <a href="http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=73351637">Rosedale Cemetery.</a> There is a commemorative plaque on the First Street Viaduct. Thomas Curran of the L.A.Times visited it in 2013 and wrote <a href="http://articles.latimes.com/2013/aug/07/local/la-me-curwenla-bridge-designer-20130808">this</a>.</div>
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The North Main Street Bridge takes you over the L.A. River from <a href="http://www.amoeba.com/blog/2013/03/eric-s-blog/california-fool-s-gold-exploring-the-north-industrial-district-los-angeles-s-dogtown.html">Dogtown or North Industrial District</a> to <a href="http://www.lincolnheightsla.com/">Lincoln Heights</a>. Further up North Main are the much advertised San Antonio Winery and the Brewery Art Colony. </div>
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I took this picture in 2007 before the graffiti were painted out.</div>
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In 1989, it was one of almost 200 bridges that city and county officials wanted to repair. It was scheduled to be done in 1991.</div>
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It took a longer time and more money to bring it up to current standards-3years and 8 million dollars.</div>
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The other downtown bridges go over the railroad tracks. That's why they are not just bridges, but viaducts. Here, automobiles have to wait for trains. Metro Link parallels the river on the southwest side while freight trains run along the northeast side. </div>
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<br />evansescent-cityhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13684560078689688745noreply@blogger.com0Chinatown, Los Angeles, CA, USA34.06766287806915 -118.2248210906982434.06108587806915 -118.23490609069825 34.07423987806915 -118.21473609069824tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9123322063120775956.post-75925882588585644392015-08-08T17:54:00.000-07:002018-05-29T19:59:34.365-07:00Traveling South on Vermont, Through Time<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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They've been waiting a long time in the Vermont Knolls-Manchester neighborhood in South Los Angeles for a nice place to shop. The buildings at Manchester and Vermont burned down in 1992, and the land has been vacant ever since. It is owned by <span style="background-color: white; font-family: 'PT Serif', sans-serif; font-size: 17px;">The Sassony Group</span>. <a href="http://la.streetsblog.org/2015/04/30/vermont-entertainment-village-breaks-ground-residents-ask-that-local-hiring-be-cornerstone/">They officially broke ground for new development on April 29, 2015.</a> The picture above is their architectural rendering, pictured floating about the street. </div>
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If you wonder why the street is so wide, it's because the trains used to go there, and trains made history.</div>
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In 1888, there was little steam train and an imaginary town called Rosecrans. It was the peak of the real estate boom, and speculators d'Artois and Webb were selling town lots on land they bought from General William S. Rosecrans of the Union Army. Rosecrans was one of many old soldiers who came to L.A. after the Civil War. He bought ranch land from an old Spanish family, but spent more time in politics than he did at ranching. D'Artois and Web needed a train to bring buyers to the land, so they built the Rosecrans with a steam dummy, that is, an engine designed to look like a rail car in order to avoid scaring the horses. The horses were scared anyway, because it was the sound not the sight that frightened them. D'Artois and Webb built a hotel, but no houses. In those days, it was left to the buyers to build, or to retain the land for speculation. The real estate boom ended before any houses were built, and the hotel burned down. The land was planted in potatoes and barley which grew in the winter rains without artificial irrigation.<br />
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After so much land had been bought and sold during the boom, the city needed building supplies and was importing a lot of lumber. Two lumbermen from Oregon, <a href="http://www.redondohistorical.org/?page_id=820">Ainsworth</a> and Thompson, had their eyes on Redondo Bay, which was 9 miles beyond the ghost town of Rosecrans. They would build a port there and escape the excessive freight rates the Southern Pacific was charging to bring cargo from the port of San Pedro to Los Angeles. They built a wharf and a fancy hotel in Redondo Beach. They extended and rebuilt the old Rosecrans line, renamed it <a href="http://www.erha.org/la&r.htm">"The Redondo Railway"</a> and went into business. Although successful in 1905, they sold their interests to Henry E. Huntington. Huntington is remembered for his "Big Red Cars" Pacific Electric Railway, but real estate was his main interest. It continued to operate with green cars. until 1911 when it became part of Huntington's Los Angeles Railway, with yellow cars.</div>
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There were three separate lines linking downtown L.A. with Gardena and Redondo Beach. The Moneta line went down what is now Broadway. The Sunnyside line went down Vermont, and the Inglewood line went through Inglewood. I've copied a Google map and overlaid the railway map. The light green line if Vernon Ave, and the yellow line is Broadway, which had been called Moneta then. A lot of the fresh produce eaten in Los Angeles came from Gardena. Japanese immigrants were the most successful farmers. One region was called Strawberry Park after its most abundant crop. <br />
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After the "Free Harbor" in San Pedro was built, Redondo dwindled as a port, but continued as a resort. Much of the land in South L.A. was annexed to the City of Los Angeles in what was called "The Shoestring District," in order to bring San Pedro within the official city limits. <span style="text-align: center;">Redondo gradually lost its importance as a port after the expansion of San Pedro but the rail line continued to thrive, for passengers and for the fresh produce grown in the Gardena area. Real estate developments bloomed near the stations. Florence Heights, Sunnyside Park, Olivito Heights, Woodcrest, and Vermont Heights were all being promoted around 1905. In 1908 Manchester Heights was opened with a barbecue and a band concert. In spite of the word "heights" in their names, these places were basically flat. Athens-on-the-Hill is on a gentle slope. Realtors described the sea breezes and wide boulevards of Athens. It had been called Howard's Summit and was near the old ghost town of Rosecrans. Later writers described it as slow to develop, but a few houses from its early development like this one still stand. </span><br />
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This is Vermont and 116th St.<br />
Two trolley lines went there, and the fare was only 5 cents. <br />
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There was a stop called Connelly, where 78th St. is now. Mary Connolly was an old time land owner. She was said to have been a homesteader, but she probably bought the land from General Rosecrans. She died in 1897, of accidental burns. She had given the deed to the land to her brother Patrick, and their other siblings spent three years suing him. They claimed she was incapacitated by the pain-killers she was taking, and that Patrick had exerted undue influence. Actually, Mary and Patrick had been in the real estate business together for years. Patrick himself died in 1894, and the property went to his widow, Eliza. There were two children, Joseph Patrick and Mary. Eliza Connolly had a lavish mansion built in 1912. By 1915, young Mary had moved to Paris while Joseph went to U.S.C. and Eliza had a ranch manager named Joseph Samuel Farrell, who'd been working there since 1910 or earlier. Mary came home on a visit and decided her mother was spending the fortune she hoped to inherit in a reckless fashion and that it was all Joseph Farrell's fault. She took them to court. The case fell flat after Eliza married Farrell. Joseph and Eliza lived in the house for the rest of their lives. Joseph Farrell died in May1925, and Eliza died Aug. 1925. Her obit in the L.A. Times strangely attributed her death to grief over that same daughter Mary's death in France the year before.<br />
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None of their descendants seems to have lived in the mansion. Joseph Patrick Connelly preferred to live in Beverly Hills. He was a lawyer. <br />
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The latest subdivision was Vermont Avenue Knoll in 1928. The nickel trolley fare was still a selling point. The rendering of an aerial photograph shows that the surrounding area had already been developed.<br />
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There had been theaters in the neighborhood. <a href="http://cinematreasures.org/theaters/2221">The Balboa Theater</a> had opened a few blocks to the South of the development in 1926. The building is still there.<br />
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It served as the Nation of Islam Western Headquarters. NOI moved to Inglewood, but now they list their official address as the gray building next to the theater, while the Theater calls itself Pan Andreas West.<br />
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Vermont Avenue Knoll was developed by Walter H. Leimert of Leimert Park. The was when developers were starting to build houses as well as sell vacant lots. Leimart liked Spanish Colonial Revival Architecture. This house is typical, though the color is not.<br />
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More modest dwellings in the area are also in this style<br />
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Most of the houses in this <a href="http://www.preservation.lacity.org/files/SLAAppendixCFinal3-12%20(2%20of%202).pdf" target="_blank">historic district</a> were built between 1928 and 1939. In 1930 construction of Hattem's Market began.<br />
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It opened in 1931 with fanfare.<br />
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It still is one of the most striking buildings in the area.<br />
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Allen and Huck market operated there in 1940, and in 1961, Pepperdine bought it to use as an administration building. </div>
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Later, the building was purchased by the Church of Scientology. I took this picture through the glass front door. I'm wary of Scientologists, and I'm happy to say no one interfered with my photography or offered to give me a free personality test. </div>
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Later, I found out it serves as Nation of Islam <a href="http://www.muhammadmosque27.com/">Mosque #27</a>. I had no idea that <a href="http://www.newrepublic.com/article/politics/magazine/108205/scientology-joins-forces-with-nation-of-islam">Louis Farrakhan had embraced Scientology. </a> It is beyond my scope to say much about either of these organizations, but I'm sorry to say that <a href="https://mayorofskidrow.wordpress.com/2012/08/30/are-black-folks-crazy-secret-meeting-was-canceled-because-scientology-had-a-problem-with-some-of-the-information/">Scientology shut down a conference on mental health in 2012.</a> </div>
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The <a href="http://cocosouthla.org/our-story/">Community Coalition</a> building was used as Pepperdine's journalism building. It looked like this in 1961, when Pepperdine bought it.</div>
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Another building of 1930 was the South Ebell Club, a branch of the Women's Club with the theater on Wilshire.</div>
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This was not the last of the Connolly land. In 1960, Patrick Josef Connolly was discovered to be the legal owner of a 60 ft. wide strip of land along Vermont by the railroad tracks, from Florence Ave to 83rd. Street. He got $305,600 for it. It had been an unimproved strip alongside the tracks which the city paved and made into a driving lane without knowing Connolly owned it.</div>
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The Connolly mansion, the subject of young Mary Connolly's lawsuit, became part of the campus, and some nice Deco buildings were constructed.</div>
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It was a white neighborhood when George Pepperdine built the school, but that changed after World War 2. The African-American population grew during the war, and was crowded into a small section of town--the old South-Central. The neighborhood started in what is now Little Tokyo, but was Bronzeville during the war. It was bounded by Avalon on the west and Slauson on the south. In 1948, the restrictive covenants, which maintained segregated housing, was declared unconstitutional. It was a hard won victory by <a href="http://www.blackpast.org/aaw/miller-loren-1903-1967">Loren Miller</a> and <a href="http://www.blackpast.org/aah/marshall-thurgood-1908-1993">Thurgood Marshall</a>. </div>
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While the struggle for fair housing continued in many other parts of the city, Vermont Knolls became a nice middle-class African-American neighborhood. Residents participated in a bridge club, and sorority installation luncheon, and the anniversary celebration of a married couple.</div>
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Pepperdine was affiliated with the Church of Christ, a church rooted in the 19th century Restorationist Movement. In 1968, L.A.Times described the church of Christ as possibly the "last large mainstream christian church in which it is admitted that white racism is a problem outside and inside the church." The Church, or Brotherhood, had avoided taking a stand regarding slavery in the 19th century, because they did not want the church to divide as the Baptist Church had done. Dr. Norvell Young, president of Pepperdine, was also editor of the two main church magazines. He promised to "integrate the staff of both magazines and publish more articles on new of the black churches, urge employment of qualified persons of all races and plan train gin programs to qualify them." In the 1950's the student body was 10-15% black, while the neighborhood was 50% black. but blacks were only 10-15 percent of enrollment, but this was a higher percentage than attended similar faith-based colleges in the area. Norvel Young and his successor William Banowski found the wealthy white donors to the college didn't want to finance more building in South Los Angeles. Instead, they donated land in Malibu. </div>
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I was pondering the reasons for Pepperdine's move, when I learned of a horrifying event. On Mar. 12, 1969, campus security guard killed black teenager Larry Kimmons with a shotgun. Kimmons was a student at Washington High School. He and his friends had come to the Pepperdine campus to play basketball in the gym, something they had done in the past, but this time the gym was being used for another event. Somehow, Charles Lane, the 61 year old white campus security guard found it appropriate to use a shotgun when black teenagers were reluctant to leave the campus. The boys said the shooting was completely unexpected and without warning, while a white student said that Larry was "going for the gun." The security guard was eventually convicted of involuntary manslaughter. He was fined $500 and put on probation, without serving any time. It was an example of a black life being held cheaply, the kind of thing we've been learning about recently, which has inspired the Black Lives Matter movement. It makes me wonder how many similar events have been forgotten.<a href="http://www.sgvtribune.com/social-affairs/20140119/civil-rights-activists-recall-the-legacy-of-rev-martin-luther-king-jr"> William Monroe Campbell</a><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , "times" , serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22.652000427246094px;"> of Mount Gilead Missionary Baptist Church in South Los Angeles</span> was the chairman of the Black Student Union at the time. He had transferred to the Virginia Union University by the time the killer was sentenced, and sent this eloquent letter to the Los Angeles Sentinel.</div>
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The Black Student Union boycotted classes and held demonstrations in protest. A scholarship was established in Larry Kimmons name, but they did not name a building after him. Black studies classes were added, and black faculty hired, but a year or two later, students were protesting the firing of black journalism teacher Ron Ellerbe. For some reason, Ellerbe was later fired, over the protests of the Black Student Union.<br />
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Nevertheless, Pepperdine wanted to stay open on Vermont after the Malibu campus opened in 1972. provost Jack Alen Scott did not want the campus on Vermont to close. "Something exciting is going to happen here" he told the L.A. Times, as he promised new programs, new personnel, and more involvement with the community. That same year, Chancellor M. Norvel Young, driving while drunk, crashed into another car on PCH, killing two passengers and injuring another. He blamed his drinking on the depression he felt regarding the University's financial woes.</div>
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In 1976, over the protests of the NAACP, Pepperdine closed the Vermont Campus dorms and cut back the classes offered there. Then, in 1981, Peppedine closed the Vermont campus and sold it to the Crenshaw Christian Center. </div>
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They offered the Connolly mansion to whomever could move it to another place, but it was too difficult a task. As I peered through the gate, I could see at least one of the old college buildings was still there. <a href="http://bschool.pepperdine.edu/about/locations/west-losangeles/default.htm">Randy Juster has taken some terrific pictures of the remaining buildings.</a></div>
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The tree stump and the graffiti-buffed abandoned church were bad enough, and the sign said Coming in the Summer of 2008. I went back. <br />
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It certainly looks more cheerful with the orange paint, but what happened to the development plans? They exist only as an <a href="http://rbangroupla.com/bethany-square.php">internet ghost</a>.<br />
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These condominiums at 8021 S. Vermont, next the the Hattem's building, were built only after years of controversy. First Interstate Bank owned the land and wanted to build an affordable housing project, but residents were more interested in retail development. The plan was changed to market rate condominiums. First Interstate Bank merged with Wells Fargo in a hostile takeover in 1996. It's supposed to be a mixed use development, but the only business on the ground floor is a Wells Fargo Bank.<br />
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This County Office building, including a Department of Social Services office was not greeted with enthusiasm <a href="http://articles.latimes.com/2007/sep/28/business/fi-southla28">when it was built in 2007</a>, either.<br />
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Residents of this and other African-American neighborhoods have long complained of the lack of retail opportunities. There was an attractive Ralphs Market on Vermont in the 1960's, but now there is only an ugly Smart and Final.<br />
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This is a neighborhood of many stories. It should not be defined by the events of 1992. I think developers should look for opportunities here, rather than fighting for the last remnants of downtown.<br />
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I knew the name "Charnock" since I was a small child. Charnock Road ran through the little neighborhood of Mar Vista where I grew up. It was the main street to take you into Palms, before Palms Blvd was paved and the school in the middle of it was split in two.<br />
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Here's Charles Charnock, all dressed up for his picture when he got to L.A. in the 1880's, just in time for the real estate boom. He was born in 1836, the seventh of the ten children of John and Sophia Charnock of England. He came with his parents and seven of his siblings to Canada in 1846 . Of the two siblings who didn't come to America, one went to Australia and the other died by drowning at a young age. Poor Sophia, his mother, "succumbed after three years to the hardships of a pioneer life" and died in Canada. The hardier members of the family moved on to Wisconsin, where they all set about claiming land. With a brief interruption for the Civil War, the Charnocks continued to be involved in real estate. Oldest brother John James Charnock was the most successful of them, buying part of the Rancho La Ballona. Charles came to live there too, and by 1883 L.A.Times shows Charles buying land in Pomona and Hemet as well in as the city of Los Angeles. John James is the one the road is named after. He was a confirmed bachelor, but when he died in 1909, a woman came forward waving a forged document that said she was his wife and therefore entitled to most of his great wealth. After she was exposed as a forger, a bunch of the siblings, nieces and nephews all started suing each other. Charles Charnock, the one who built the Charnock Block, was dead by then, but the other relatives wanted to prevent his adopted daughter from inheriting anything. Charles had been a wealthy man himself when he broke ground for Charnock block Apr. 23, 1889. He didn't realize that the real estate boom that made him rich had come to an end. He and his wife lived there a few short years, where she collected donations for the Ladies Aid Society. </div>
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Charnock had sold the Charnock Block by the time of his death in 1907, but he still had a beautiful house in Boyle Heights. The house where he lived was eventually torn down to build a school. but the church he attended, Euclid Heights Methodist Church still stands as<a href="http://evanescent-city.blogspot.com/2015/01/casa-del-mexicano.html" target="_blank"> La Casa del Mexicano.</a> </div>
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Main street was living up to its name in the 1880's, as the civic and commercial buildings expanded into the residential area. Main St. looked like this in 1885, before Charnock built his place. The building on the right was the Federal Building, constructed in 1883. </div>
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As time went on, Broadway became the main street for shopping and entertainment, while Spring became the "Wall St. of the West." David Belasco left his once fashionable theater on old Main Street to open a new one on Hill. The former Belasco became the Follies, a burlesque house. The Charnock Block became the Pershing Hotel, and its next door neighbor, the Roma, was home to the World Museum of Human Oddities. It became the main street of "sin." </div>
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The World Museum was regarded as a nuisance by the Downtown Business Men's Association, and was raided more than once. Street barkers were arrested for advertising on the street. Mrs. Mary Faser was unable to run her boarding house at the Roma Hotel because the noise drove her boarders away. Her physical health was also affected, according to her testimony in court. </div>
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In the 1920's or earlier, the Charnock Block became known as the Pershing Hotel. The Pershing Hotel and its inhabitants survived a fire in 1952. There was only one injury, a fall down stairs attributed to loss of consciousness due to smoke inhalation. The structure also survived the slum clearance, building code enforcement and modernization of the 1950s, 60's and 70s. </div>
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<span style="font-family: Cambria; font-size: 18.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: "MS 明朝"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-fareast; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"> In 1955, </span> Helga Bender Henry wrote <i>Mission on Main Street,</i> a book about the history of the Union Rescue Mission, a venerable institution. It occupied Main at 2nd Street from 1926 until 1994, when it was moved to make way for the "revitalization" of Spring St. She described Main St. </div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><i>"Some people apologize for their neighbors; Union Rescue Mission picked hers: loan banks, flop houses, taverns, burlesque halls. Here congregate the forgotten men and women, object of the mission’s search and remembrance.</i></span></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">In the “City of the Angels”
Skid Row comprises approximately ten blocks.</span><span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">
</span><span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Beginning at First and Main, it pushes south to Fifth and across to
Towne Avenue.</span><span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> </span><span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">It’s habitués come from
everywhere with a destination of nowhere.</span><span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">
</span><span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Day after day, night after night, thousands upon thousands repeat their
established cycles from bar to bar, doorway to doorway, gutter to gutter,
shuffling the tread of defeated yesterdays and hopeless tomorrows.</span><span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> </span><span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">In this world of the living dead, dragging
feet rasp dully along the pavements in ever-deepening grooves of sin and
vice.</span><span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> </span><span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Shoulders stooped, eyes hollows
and averted, faces drawn and unsmiling, the patrons of Main Street, whatever
the diversity of background and experience, have one common bond: despair."</span></i></div>
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For all that, the corner of 5th and Main didn't look so bad in the 1930s, when the Owl Drug Co. occupied the Charnock Block, Lorry's Men's Shop doesn't look so bad either even though the place next door is a pawn shop, or "Loan Bank" in Helga Bender Henry's parlance. </div>
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It took until the 1980's for officials to realize that the disappearing Single Room Occupancy Hotels might actually fill a need for society in general as well as the individuals who lived in them. After decades of destruction, a moratorium on demolition was declared in 1987. In 1989, All Saints Church of Pasadena and Baeck Temple of Bel Aire, along with corporate philanthropists, formed the Skid Row Housing Trust to fix these old places up, under the direction of Alice Callaghan. They were not thinking in terms of preservation at the time, but just thought it would be cheaper to fix up the old ones than to build new ones. Their first project was the Pennsylvania which later became the Genesis, and the second was the Pershing and the Roma, combined into one place. At that time, the Pershing was described as a battered three story green building. One of the occupants said the owners just went "around collecting rent. That's all they care about." The bathroom was down the hall, and the showers were all in a row with no partitions. By May 1990, the renovations were complete, with no more "gang showers." 80 tenants had moved in, and there was a waiting list.</div>
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Mar Vista, the neighborhood of my childhood, had formed an historical society, and I attended a few meetings. That's where I learned of the lawsuits proceeding from the death of John J. Charnock. Wait a minute, I thought, isn't there a Charnock Block described in <i>Los Angeles, an Architectural Guide</i>, by David Gebhard and Robert Winter. I borrowed that classic book from a friend over ten years ago and have yet to return it. They described the Peshing Hotel as a "<i>rare late nineteenth century commercial building......Five classical decorated oriel bays and a corner bay tower punctuate the facade."</i></div>
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I found the Pershing Hotel at 5th and Main and photographed it in 2009.</div>
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I snapped this from the car window because there was no place to park. By then, its historic value was appreciated, but the interior was considered inadequate. Because the two hotels, the Pershing and the Roma, had been joined cheaply, the second floor was at two different levels. It was described as being like a rabbit warren or an Escher painting. The exterior was carefully preserved while the interior was gutted, with selected parts saved for re-use. <span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 12.152777671813965px; line-height: 15.004501342773438px;">“It’s a holy old building; you can’t approach it lightly,” </span><span style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 15.004501342773438px;">architect</span><span style="font-size: 12.152777671813965px; line-height: 15.004501342773438px;"> Wade Killefer was quoted in the </span></span></span><a href="http://www.ladowntownnews.com/news/at-new-pershing-apartments-the-past-is-part-of-the/article_5f3d9e9c-1cc7-11e3-a733-001a4bcf887a.html" target="_blank">Sept. 18, 2013 Downtown News</a>.</div>
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There had been some <a href="http://blogdowntown.com/2012/07/6886-pershing-hotel-highlights-new-problem-associated" target="_blank">trouble</a> getting the project started when Gov. Brown closed the California Community Redevelopment Agency. Today's C.R.A. is a local organization. It was <a href="http://urbanize.la/post/new-pershing-apartments-begin-take-form" target="_blank">taking shape</a> in May 2014. The formerly homeless started moving in early 2015, according to the <a href="http://www.ladowntownnews.com/news/a-victorian-victory-at-the-new-pershing/article_d32a7c9c-c457-11e4-bbfa-1f5af7f69660.html" target="_blank">Mar. 19, 2015 Downtown News</a>. </div>
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The architecture was done by <a href="http://www.kfalosangeles.com/projects/affordable-housing/new-pershing-apartments/" target="_blank">Killefer Flammang Architects</a>. <a href="http://www.westportconstructioninc.com/our-expertise/historic-rehabilitation/new-pershing/" target="_blank">Westport Constru</a><a href="http://www.westportconstructioninc.com/our-expertise/historic-rehabilitation/new-pershing/" target="_blank">ction Co.</a><span style="color: black;"> built it. Adam's Gallery did the </span><a href="http://adammsgallery.typepad.com/weblog/2015/01/stained-glass-restoration-new-pershing-hotel-los-angeles.html" target="_blank">stained glass restoration</a><span style="color: black;">.</span></div>
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The New Pershing opened officially on July30, 2015</div>
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This path by the L.A. River was a favorite dog-walking place for me since I got the late, great Petey in 2001. There were not so many places to access the river in those days, and I discovered this one while looking at a horse. The presence of horses was one of the reasons it was a favorite place.<br />
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I'd been walking there regularly for 5 years 2006, when I read <a href="http://www.laweekly.com/news/the-lost-streams-of-los-angeles-2146181" target="_blank">"The Lost Streams of Los Angeles"</a> by Judith Lewis in the L.A. Weekly Nov. 8, 2006. It described Jessica Hall making her way through a hole in a fence to see a littered and smelly algae covered pond. This was North Atwater Creek before restoration. I read the article, but couldn't figure out where it was. I'd never seen anything remotely resembling a creek. It was only after the restoration began that I remembered having been in the creek. No water when I was there, just lots of fresh green grasses, the descendants of the cereal crops of L.A.'s agricultural past. I met another lady with a dog, and greeted her while both our dogs nibbled on the grass. That's all I had known of North Atwater Creek--a weedy place behind a fence.<br />
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The <a href="http://www.lacitysan.org/wpd/e-news/natwater.htm" target="_blank">City of Los Angeles Stormwater</a> program described it as the remnant of a seasonal stream that was mostly paved over by development and channeled into pipes. The project's goal was to filter urban run-off before it fed into the L.A. River.<br />
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Official groundbreaking took place October 2010 <a href="https://lacreekfreak.wordpress.com/2010/10/28/ground-broken-for-north-atwater-creek-restoration/" target="_blank">reported in L.A. Creek Freak</a> and <a href="http://www.lastormwater.org/blog/2010/10/a-forgotten-creek-will-lead-the-way/" target="_blank">L.A. Stormwater.</a><br />
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I took my first pictures of it April 2011.<br />
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They cleared out all the invasive non-native plants (weeds) and left this native tree.<br />
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They installed a lot of lovely lavender pipes.<br />
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It officially opened April 12, 2012, according to <a href="http://www.lastormwater.org/blog/2012/04/north-atwater-park-to-be-celebrated-along-la-river-banks/" target="_blank">L.A. Stormwater</a> and <a href="http://www.theeastsiderla.com/2012/04/city-celebrates-atwater-village-creek-restoration/" target="_blank">L.A. Eastsider.</a></div>
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In June 2014, <a href="http://la.curbed.com/archives/2014/06/city_looking_to_parkify_more_la_river_land_in_north_atwater.php" target="_blank">L.A. Curbed discussed</a> the possibility of expanding the park. <span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> The </span><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 22.399999618530273px;"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Recreation and Parks Department Central Service Yard</span></span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Merriweather; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22.399999618530273px;"> is </span>immediately north. When I saw it there was leftover wood</div>
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evansescent-cityhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13684560078689688745noreply@blogger.com4North Atwater Park, 3900 Chevy Chase Drive, Los Angeles, CA 90039, USA34.1335936 -118.27299868.6115590999999974 -159.5815926 59.6556281 -76.9644046tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9123322063120775956.post-41520535425933415462015-02-17T14:38:00.000-08:002016-08-03T10:41:11.479-07:00Reaganomics on Spring St. and Skid Row<div class="" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">The building is named after Ronald Reagan. It was opened with ceremony Oct. 27, 1990. The ex-president himself showed up and was handed an oversized key. "<i>I wish all who enter here good luck,</i>" he said. Then-governor George <span style="background-color: white;"><span style="line-height: 20px;">Deukmejian bragged that the 850,000-square-foot structure--state government's largest office building--was constructed on time and within its $106-million budget. There were protestors too, carrying signs </span><span style="line-height: 20px;">with posters</span><span style="line-height: 20px;"> of Robbie Conal's painting <a href="http://www.netropolitan.org/conal/contradiction.html" target="_blank">"Contra-Diction"</a> for Reagan's role in the Iran-Contra scandal.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="line-height: 20px;">Like many buildings of the era, it was heavily secured against the rising tide of people for whom the economy had not "trickled down."<a href="http://articles.latimes.com/1991-05-12/realestate/re-2297_1_spring-street/2" target="_blank"> </a></span><span style="line-height: 20px;"><a href="http://articles.latimes.com/1991-05-12/realestate/re-2297_1_spring-street/2" target="_blank">Leon Whitson in the May 12, 1991 L.A.T.</a> referred to the building as "Fort Ronnie." His description of the interior was attractive, but I've never been inside. "</span><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 20px;"><i>Security is a prime concern,</i>" he wrote. "<i>Employees who arrive by car will enter the building from underground garages, ensuring their safety and their isolation from the street......</i></span><i><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 20px;"> </span><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 20px;">One new building cannot change the fact that the hub of the downtown business community has moved irrevocably west to Bunker Hill. Even a street-friendly architectural masterpiece would not overcome the drawbacks of a location on the edge of urban desolation, and the Ronald Reagan State Office Building is far from friendly....</span></i><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 20px;"><i>Fort Ronnie may effectively defend itself from its surroundings, but it fails to send out a clear message of official optimism in Spring Street's revival</i>."</span></span><br />
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The old state building at 217 S. 1st. St. had been damaged in the 1971 earthquake, but it was still in use until 1973. It was demolished in 1976, over the protests of preservationists. It served as a temporary public park while the plan was to rebuild on the site. After it was demolished in 1976, it was used as a public park, with plans to rebuild on the location. In 1979, the C.R.A. had chosen a different location for the new building, and by 1982 they chose the current location at Spring St. It was the fourth they had considered. 2600 state employees were to be relocated there from 31 locations around the city, and more space would be leased out to generate income. It was supposed to bring shoppers to Spring St. as well as serve as office space.</div>
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The Union Rescue Mission was not far from the new building site. It is the oldest and largest of the rescue missions in downtown L.A. The Mission's location on Main and 2nd was at least a block away from the skid row "containment zone" that had been established in the late 1970s. The Mission got its start in1891in canvas tents and a gospel wagon under the name Pacific Rescue Mission. It moved to Main St. the location of city hall in It was and is the oldest and largest of the rescue missions. Turkey dinners on Thanksgiving were and still are a long-standing, well known tradition. Thousands who were down on their luck took shelter there over the decades.</div>
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1983 was the year that persons with mental illness began to outnumber alcoholics on skid row, according to the LAT. Reagan has been blamed for closing the mental hospitals. Persons with mental illness were to be cared for in their communities, he said, but made no provision for any such care. 1984 was the year the crack epidemic made the news. In the 1970's, cocaine was "nature's way of telling you you had too much money." That completely changed when crack became widely distributed, with help from Oliver North and the CIA. </div>
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1984 was the year the C.R.A. began to pressure the Union Rescue Mission to find another location, father from the future state building, and deeper into the center of skid row. That "Mission on Main St." which had been there since 1926, was too frightening for the delicate sensibilities of state employees. May 6, 1984 L.A.Times reported that Lee Holthaus, director of the U.R.M. did not want to move, but realized that it might be unavoidable. "<i>As soon as the state building is approved</i>", he said, "<i>we'll just be in the way</i>." </div>
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The plans were to build "Plaza St. Vibiana," a pedestrian space and complex of low rise housing and commercial structures south of the cathedral. Before that could happen, St. Vibiana's was damaged in the 1994 earthquake, and a long debate between the Catholic Church and historic preservationists began. The old cathedral building was preserved as a wedding and performance video, and a new cathedral was built at a different site. Now, February 18, 2015,<a href="http://www.ladowntownnews.com/news/housing-complex-to-break-ground-next-to-vibiana/article_a831cb4e-b6ce-11e4-831a-47e9d78679eb.html" target="_blank"> I read that a housing complex will break ground here.</a></div>
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I was driving in Boyle Heights one day in 2011, when a mysterious dome appeared above the houses, streets, cars and garbage cans. I had to see what it was. I came to it from the side first. </div>
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While I was photographing the murals outside, a nice man invited me to see the inside. He let me bring my dog in with me. The murals inside were just beautiful. I was bedazzled.</div>
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The man told me it was a community center, La Casa del Mexicano, and was used for various classes and performances. "Come back any time," he said, but I never did. </div>
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I was certainly not the first person to admire these murals, or to photograph them. I found <a href="http://blogsbylatinas.com/2010/11/art-noche-bohemia.html" target="_blank">Noche Bohemia</a> posted by Monique on Blogs by Latinas. She was as much in awe of the murals as I was.<br />
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There are <a href="http://www.elevenshadows.com/travels/miscellaneous/losangelesdowntown2010/" target="_blank">more pictures on the Eleven Shadows Blog.</a> <span style="text-align: center;">Daina Beth Solomon wrote about </span><a href="http://dainabethsolomon.com/2011/06/13/lucha-libre-in-boyle-heights/" style="text-align: center;" target="_blank">lucha libre</a><span style="text-align: center;"> taking place there. </span><br />
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The muralist is Hugo Martinez Tecoatl, and the <a href="http://articles.latimes.com/2010/jul/03/local/la-me-muralist-20100703" target="_blank">L.A. Times wrote about him in 2010.</a> He was living in La Casa del Mexicano and being paid $100 a week while working on the murals. He needed better scaffolding before he could paint the inside of the dome.<br />
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In spite of the friendly invitation, I did not go back there until I saw it was on this <a href="https://www.google.com/maps/d/viewer?msa=0&mid=z-XcE_JVjcnM.k0M-WT8Qc5JI" target="_blank">map of endangered buildings.</a> <span style="text-align: center;">I found out why it was considered an endangered building. Just a few months after my visit, the building went into foreclosure. </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px;">Martha and Ruben Soriano had been running The Comite de Beneficencia Mexcana, the organization that owned the building. The man I met was probably Ruben. They had taken out a $175,00 loan and had fallen behind on the payments. </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 13.888888359069824px; line-height: 20px; text-align: center;">They also owed Los Angeles County nearly $50,000 in unpaid property taxes. The mortgage holder, </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 13.888888359069824px; line-height: 20px; text-align: center;">Brownstone Mortgage of Santa Ana planned to auction the building Feb. 18 for $280,000 — the cost of the loan plus the unpaid taxes, which the lender paid in order to rescue the house from being sold at a county auction.</span><span style="text-align: center;"> </span><br />
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After the Comite de Beneficencia filed for bankruptcy, <a href="http://articles.latimes.com/2011/feb/15/local/la-me-casa-del-mexicano-20110215" style="text-align: center;" target="_blank"> </a><a href="http://articles.latimes.com/2011/feb/26/local/la-me-casa-del-mexicano-20110226" style="text-align: center;" target="_blank">the auction was postponed</a>,<span style="text-align: center;"> and the case was turned over to the State Attorney General. </span><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: white; text-align: center;"><span style="line-height: 20px;">In late 2012, the state attorney general's office concluded its investigation and removed the Sorianos from the property. It dissolved the Comite de Beneficencia Mexicana Inc. and handed the Casa over to the East Los Angeles Community Corp., an affordable housing developer. <a href="http://egpnews.com/2012/07/developer-weighs-risks-of-taking-over-%E2%80%98casa-del-mexicano%E2%80%99/" target="_blank">This article</a> in the </span></span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Verdana; font-size: 12px; line-height: 17px; text-align: start;">Eastern Group Publications</span><span style="background-color: white; text-align: center;"><span style="line-height: 20px;"> explains it better than the Times did. E.L.A.C.C. is the organization that restored the Cumings Block or Mariachi Hotel. Some have complained that the units are now too expensive for working mariachis to afford, but the </span><span style="line-height: 20px;">building</span><span style="line-height: 20px;"> itself looks good after years of shabbiness.</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit; line-height: 20px;">In December 2013, Las Posadas was celebrated at La Casa. The<a href="http://articles.latimes.com/2013/dec/28/local/la-me-casa-del-mexicano-20131229" target="_blank"> L.A. Times reported</a>. Hugo Martinez Tecoatl participated. He said he wants to finish his murals. It would be tragic if they were lost.</span></div>
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I learned a little bit about the building's history before I went back to see it again.<br />
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It had been built in 1904 as the Euclid Heights Methodist Church. Young Rev. Fred Ross started the church in a tent in 1903 . Although Boyle Heights was a well established neighborhood, this Euclid Heights area was in the early stages of development for residences. By Mar. 1904 the new congregation has over 30 members, and 100 children attending Sunday School, and the cornerstone of the building was laid. They celebrated their 40th anniversary in 1943, but disappeared, at least from the L.A. Times, after 1950. I had hoped to find pictures of the church in its early days, but haven't found any yet.</div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Meanwhile, La Casa Mexicano got started in the 1940s in </span><span style="background-color: white; text-align: start;"><span style="color: #252525;"><span style="line-height: 15.277776718139648px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">a large building on the corner of Cesar Chavez Avenue (formerly Brooklyn Avenue) and Gage Street.</span><span style="font-family: sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"> </span></span></span></span> This building later housed <a href="http://www.selfhelpgraphics.com/" target="_blank">Self-Help Graphics</a>. La Casa del Mexicano appears to have moved into the church building in 1951.</div>
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Then I looked for more information about Hugo Martinez Tecoatl. He <a href="https://evnw.wordpress.com/2011/09/25/hugo-martinez-tecoatl-frogtown-artwalk-2011/" target="_blank">participated in the Frogtown Art Walk in 2011</a>. I was saddened by the news that a mural he was painting on 1st and Savannah in Boyle Heights had been <a href="http://misneighbors.com/?p=2275" target="_blank">painted over before he even finished it.</a></div>
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Casa del Mexicano. I'd not only seen it, but I'd photographed it on a walk along the L.A.River in "Frogtown," or Elysian Valley.<br />
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La Casa del Mexicano was closed last time I visited. Here's the full frontal view.</div>
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The <a href="http://www.elacc.org/" target="_blank">East Los Angeles Community Corporation</a> describes La Casa del Mexicano as <span style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: inherit; line-height: 16px;">a 12,000 square foot community center, in pre-development stages." They don't update their website very often, though. To find out what's really going on there, I'd probably have to actually call them up on the telephone.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "century"; font-size: 14.0pt;">For the first few years I lived in my current
house, I thought I was living in Eagle Rock. It turns out I really live
in Glassell Park. It was an honest mistake. I'd never heard of
Glassell Park until I moved there.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "century"; font-size: 14.0pt;">Eagle Rock Blvd. runs between Eagle Rock and
Glassell Park, then segues into Cypress Ave. In the years before 1923,
when Eagle Rock was annexed to Los Angeles, it was called Central Avenue.
One of the landmarks of Eagle Rock was "The Bucket" hamburger
stand. I had eaten there even before I lived in the neighborhood.
When <a href="http://www.esotouric.com/"><span style="color: #420178;">Esotouric</span></a>
posted this <a href="https://www.google.com/maps/d/viewer?msa=0&mid=z-XcE_JVjcnM.k0M-WT8Qc5JI"><span style="color: #420178;">map of endangered buildings</span></a> in Los Angeles, I
was surprised to see this building at 4541 Eagle Rock Blvd. was on the list.
It's less than a mile away from me, and I had no idea. It is an
example of programatic architecture in which a building is designed to look
like something else. The original Brown Derby on Wilshire Blvd. is a
well-remembered example.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "century"; font-size: 14.0pt;">The Bucket opened in 1935, shaped like a lunch
bucket of that era. No one seems to have a picture of the place when there was
a handle on top, but <a href="https://flic.kr/p/9jN9m5"><span style="color: #420178;">this one, taken in 1986,</span></a> shows a hinge on the side.
Maybe the handle was lost when <a href="https://flic.kr/p/9j2fWx"><span style="color: #420178;">this sign</span></a> was put up. I don't know
anything about its early history, but sometime in the 1960s it was purchased by
Julio Maeso, who became famous for insulting his customers as well as for his
hamburgers and the brilliantly orange colored mustard and garlic sauce he
served them with. I remember the first time I ate there, before I moved
into the neighborhood. Julio was liberal with his insults to my husband,
but nice to me, for some reason. I wasn't crazy about the famous Julio
Burger, but I loved the potato salad which was the special of the day. When Julio sold The Bucket in 1995,
the City Council </span><span style="color: #3b3b3b; font-family: "century"; font-size: 14.0pt;">Approved a resolution
honoring him, saying "</span><span style="font-family: "century"; font-size: 14.0pt;">Julio Maeso</span><span style="color: #3b3b3b; font-family: "century"; font-size: 14.0pt;">, owner and
founder of the Bucket, a popular hamburger stand in Eagle Rock that is about to
be sold. The good-natured wisecracks that Maeso directs at his customers are
part of the charm of the 25-year-old Bucket. The resolution was presented by
Councilman Mike Hernandez, a longtime customer."</span><span style="font-family: "century"; font-size: 14.0pt;"> </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "century"; font-size: 14.0pt;"><span style="color: #3b3b3b;">Younger people bought The Bucket. They
continued to serve the Julio Burger with its sauce. They added <a href="http://www.laweekly.com/squidink/2011/02/18/30-burgers-in-30-days-ground-and-pound-at-the-bucket-in-eagle-rock-day-14"><span style="color: #420178;">The Cardiac Burger</span></a> to the menu. It had fried
onions and mushrooms, bacon and grilled ham on top of gigantic beef patties,
served open faced with lettuce and tomato on the buns. I think it changed ownership more than once after that, but kept the menu. George Eckley was the owner when it was <a href="http://aht.seriouseats.com/archives/2009/03/the-bucket-burger-eagle-rock-los-angeles-california.html" target="_blank">reviewed in 2009.</a> According to the Eagle Rock Patch, Eckley had owned it 5 or 6 years when it <a href="http://patch.com/california/eaglerock/eagle-rocks-venerable-burger-joint-the-bucket-closes-after-78-years" target="_blank">closed at the beginning of October, 2013</a>.</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #262626; font-family: "century"; font-size: 19px;">John Ho of Rosemead man went around Southern California in 2012 targeting small businesses in Southern California for alleged violations of the Americans With Disabilities Act of 1990. He sued The Bucket for not having an accessible parking place. He filed hundreds of similar lawsuits. He was one of a<a href="http://www.mercurynews.com/business/ci_25168898/disabled-serial-plaintiffs-do-legal-battle-small-businesses?source=infinite" target="_blank"> number of litigants bringing similar lawsuits </a>thoughout the state. Anthony Santillo owned the property where The Bucket did business. He settled the lawsuit for $20,000 and wanted Eckley to cover the expenses. </span>When Eckley refused to pay, Santillo evicted him. Another such plaintiff, Tim Lee Conn, was revealed to have claimed fraudulently. after that, Governor Brown placed limitations on the amount of damages that could be claimed. When Eckley left, he kept the rights to the name, and the former Bucket became <a href="http://www.scpr.org/programs/offramp/2013/12/18/35181/dee-dee-s-dive-replaces-the-bucket-eagle-rock-s-ve/" target="_blank">Dee-Dee's Dive</a>, which didn't last very long. I decided the best way to find out the current status of the former Bucket was just to go there.</div>
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It's now called The Patio. On New Year's Day, I saw plenty of people eating there. I passed up the opportunity myself, because I had more food in my refrigerator than money in my pocket.<br />
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I'm not the first person to call Mission Road between Marengo and Cesar Chavez the auto glass district. Eric Brightwell put it on a <a href="http://www.lamag.com/citythinkblog/citydig-discover-the-eastsides-hidden-delights-on-this-hand-drawn-map/" target="_blank">map of L.A.'s Eastside.</a><br />
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In 2003, the L.A.Times called it the Windshield District <a href="http://articles.latimes.com/2003/jan/02/local/me-surroundings2" target="_blank">in this article.</a><br />
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This sweet little deco building at 995, built in 1932, hidden behind the street trees, iron fence, light poles and signs. Imagine it with a welcoming entrance. It could be pleasant little office. I wonder what it was in earlier days.<br />
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On Mission and Cesar Chavez Ave. is San Luis Auto Glass, built by <span style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 13.888888359069824px; line-height: 20px;">Jose Arellano the street's "Godfather of Glass." Arellano started in 1974 by renting a stall on Mission Rd. In 1985 he bought a gas station and junkyard. Eight years later, he had this </span><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, Times, serif;"><span style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px;">warehouse built there. </span></span></div>
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Here's the closest I got to an aerial view, from a steep hill I managed to climb.<br />
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West of Mission Rd. it t<span style="background-color: #f7f7f2; font-family: ff-meta-serif-web-pro; font-size: 15px; line-height: 21px;">he Union Pacific Los Angeles Trailer and Container Intermodal Facility (LATC) site, popularly known as the Piggyback Yard. Beyond that is the L.A. River. Lewis McAdams of <a href="http://folar.org/" target="_blank">FoLAR</a> has envisioned this yard as an important part of River Revitalization, and it was included in the <a href="http://www.kcet.org/socal/departures/lariver/confluence/arbor-study/feds-okay-1-billion-los-angeles-river-project.html" target="_blank">Army Corps of Engineers Alternative 20</a> for their work with the river. Now there's a <a href="http://www.kcet.org/socal/departures/lariver/confluence/river-notes/increased-price-tag-puts-1-billion-la-river-restoration-plan-in-question.html" target="_blank">snag in the plan</a>. Union Pacific Railroad wants too much money for the property. When I imagine this as parkland, as the renderings show it, I see great opportunity for developers to buy up all the land the auto glass district occupies to build fancy apartments and condominiums, like the ones going up downtown. </span><br />
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<br />evansescent-cityhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13684560078689688745noreply@blogger.com2Auto Glass District, Los Angeles, CA, USA34.057085070028151 -118.2192447847168134.050507570028152 -118.22932978471681 34.06366257002815 -118.2091597847168tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9123322063120775956.post-6876054908616347242014-12-21T17:33:00.000-08:002015-02-11T18:14:28.347-08:00Gateways Apartments<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Skid Row, like every other place, has a history to untangle. The banner on the building says S.R.O. Housing Corporation--30th Anniversary. S.R.O. Housing Corporation was founded in 1984 by the Community Redevelopment Agency. I was surprised to learn this. The C.R.A. is not remembered kindly by me or by a lot of other people. They were the ones who destroyed the Victorian houses on Bunker Hill, simultaneously destroying low rent housing and architectural masterpieces. In some parts of town, old-timers still think C.R.A. stands for Chicano Removal Agency. They went around declaring charming old neighborhoods to be slums and recklessly demolishing old buildings. </div>
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They slowed down a little after the destruction of Bunker Hill in the late 60's, because it was taking longer than they expected to get new projects going, but they didn't give up. In 1972 they came up with an 20 year plan. They said downtown L.A. had a "dowdy" image. They were going to build a 9 acre park with a lake. Central City East was their name for skid row. They planned a university, peripheral parking facilities, housing and new civic buildings. But first, the had to get rid of the people who were already there. They urged "speedy treatment of Skid Row habitués to pave the way for rebuilding the key Central City East area." Did they think they'd send them all to a rehab facility in Malibu, after which they would all lead normal suburban lives? These and other nefarious plans were fought in court, with the Catholic Worker, the Legal Aid Foundation and the <a href="http://abodecommunities.org/site/" target="_blank">Community Design Center</a> leading the fight. </div>
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By 1977, there was a new plan for Skid Row. The officials had come to believe that 60% or 70% of the residents were not alcoholics, but were elderly, disabled or just plain poor. They conintued to use the same statistic until 1983, when they called the mentally ill the largest single group within the Skid Row population. They planned to create a non-profit organization to build housing and a park for the non-alcoholic residents. At that time, they thought the Volunteers of America might be the organization to run the housing. The first plan was for an 135 unit building bounded by 6th, 7th, San Julian and Wall streets. The C.R.A. formed the Skid Row Development Corporation in 1978 with <a href="http://articles.latimes.com/2002/may/15/local/me-hicks15" target="_blank">Martha Brown Hicks</a> at its head. The goals were to do some hotel rehabilitation, establish two parks, and provide street lighting and public rest rooms. This was not undertaken entirely out of kindness. It was the beginning of the policy of containment, to prevent the "derelicts" from wandering through the rest of downtown. The C.R.A. Citizen Report said "the presence of skid row residents, as they stimulate fear, discourages attempts to revitalize daytime ad night time activity on the streets of downtown L.A."</div>
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They could not predict the impact Reaganomics would have on Skid Row. The increasing population of mentally ill homeless people has been attributed to both defunding of mental hospitals and the patients rights movement. I don't think it was only closing the hospitals that caused the problem. There was defunding of every kind of program to help any kind of person who wasn't perfectly able to care for him/herself. Many cities saw a big rise in the number of people living on the streets. The warm climate of Southern California was a magnet for the homeless of the nation, and skid row was where they ended up after they were moved from other parts of town.</div>
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In 1984, <a href="http://laist.com/2008/04/08/remembering_jam.php" target="_blank">James M. Wood</a>, head of the C.R.A. started the Single Room Occupancy Housing Trust with <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/1993/09/28/us/los-angeles-journal-a-reformer-who-tries-to-preserve-skid-rows.html" target="_blank">Andy Raubeson</a> of Portland in charge. They opened their first renovated hotel in 1986. In 1989, a 5 year moratorium on demolition of skid row hotels was declared. It was reported that 2,000 units had been lost to demolition in the years 1969-1986. There had been many more earlier in the 1950's, but no one was keeping count in those days of ruthless destruction. Many of the adobes of Old Sonora Town, where Chinatown is now, were destroyed with no thought for their historic value. Wood frame houses of any era were also considered fair game in those days. </div>
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At present, they operate two hotels for emergency housing, two for transitional housing, and 24 for permanent supportive housing. Each one of these places has its own history. The Harold at 323 E. Fifth Street, was their second project and opened in 1987. <span style="font-family: inherit;"> It has<span style="background-color: white; line-height: 16px;"> 58 units. Forty three of the units are for individuals with special needs and receive rental subsidies.</span></span></div>
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The C.R.A. continued to provide acquisition funding for these projects until 2012 <a href="http://redevelopmentdissolution.lacounty.gov/wps/portal/rdd/home" target="_blank">when the State of California disbanded</a> The C.R.A. because of a state budget deficit. There's now a <a href="http://www.crala.org/internet-site/index.cfm" target="_blank">local city C.R.A.</a> I'll have my eye on them.</div>
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I was driving on Cesar Chavez past Evergreen Cemetery when I saw this wall. I had seen it before.</div>
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It was just before Christmas in 2010. I saw a mural on Fresno, and turned for a closer look. First I was impressed by the contrast between the Nativity Scene painted on the wall, and the Christmas decorations in the window. Two versions of what Christmas means.</div>
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Religious art fills many of the walls of Los Angeles. This <a href="http://opinion.latimes.com/opinionla/2011/04/photo-essay-christ-comes-to-los-angeles-via-mural.html#more" target="_blank"> L.A. Times opinion</a> column includes this mural, and others. I was impressed with the reverence. I was sure the artist knew a lot more about the life of Christ than I do, but it looked like he had never took a figure drawing class. I photographed some of the details that didn't show well in the pictures of the whole wall.</div>
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Manuel Gomez Cruz was a muralist from the early days of Chicano murals in Los Angeles. I only became aware of this movement when I saw the murals of Ramona Gardens and Estrada Courts featured in the L.A. Times. That was when I lived in a neighborhood that has <a href="http://laeastside.com/2014/02/silver-lake-neighborhood-council-votes-to-declare-themselves-not-the-eastside/" target="_blank">officially declared it's not on the Eastside</a>, but is nevertheless included in <a href="http://www.theeastsiderla.com/" target="_blank">The Eastsider</a> blog. The only thing it's on the east side of is Hollywood. I admired the pictures in the paper, but I wouldn't see them until most were faded and gone, with only a few that had been restored. The east side and the west side are divided by not only culture, but that big traffic jam called "downtown."</div>
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Artist <a href="http://artistsonyafe.com/" target="_blank">Sonya Fe</a> remembered Cruz from their days at the <a href="http://www.kcet.org/socal/departures/highland-park/painting-the-walls/mechicano-art-center.html" target="_blank">Mechicano Art Center</a> and wrote an <a href="http://www.kcet.org/socal/departures/columns/portraits/chicano-artist-manuel-cruz-a-diamond-in-the-rough.html" target="_blank">article for KCET</a> in 2012. </div>
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He published two or more books-- <a href="http://sparcinla.org/product/chicano-christmas-story/" target="_blank">A Chicano Christmas</a> is in print again and available from <a href="http://sparc./">SPARC.</a> <u>Cholito and the Artist</u> is out of print, but available at Los Angeles Public Library. </div>
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"To ace out a homeboy from another barrio is to kill La Raza" was painted at Ramona Gardens in 1974. I found this picture of it on Pinterest.</div>
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I looked at the lists of where his murals had been. I've checked many but not all of the locations. I found this mural at the Moctezuma Cafe in Bolye Heights. If they'd been open, I would have eaten there. It's not completely free of tagging, but looks like its being regularly maintained. According to the signature it was originally painted in 1981and restored in 1996.</div>
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There are different versions of what happened when Cortez encountered Moctezuma in 1519. This one shows the Aztecs putting up a good fight against the Spanish invaders.</div>
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Carlos Duran worked on this section in 2005.</div>
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I haven't learned anything about Carlos Duran except that he worked with several artists on a mural called <a href="http://muralconservancy.org/murals/inspired-siqueiros" target="_blank">"Inspired by Siqueros"</a> in Culver City. </div>
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Eric Huerta posted a <a href="http://www.grconnect.com/murals/html/index.html" target="_blank">wonderful link</a> on Facebook with pictures of many L.A. murals taken between 1998 and 2002.</div>
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There's an earlier picture of the <a href="http://www.grconnect.com/murals/html/pc101060.html" target="_blank">religious mural looking fresh, perhaps while it was still in progress.</a> <a href="http://www.grconnect.com/murals/html/pc101060.html" target="_blank">This one was across the street.</a></div>
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Cruz painted these at the <span style="background-color: white;"> </span><span style="background-color: white;">La Princesita Carniceria</span><span style="background-color: white;"> on Cesar Chavez Ave. </span><a href="http://www.grconnect.com/murals/html/r18img1919.html" target="_blank">One</a> and <a href="http://www.grconnect.com/murals/html/r18img2023.html" target="_blank">another.</a></div>
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East of West L.A. took a <a href="http://east-of-west-la.tumblr.com/post/135783449485/christmas-in-boyle-hts-2010">beautiful picture that captured the spirit of the mural on Fresno at Christmas 2010.</a></div>
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AVA Apartments is leasing now as they put the finishing touches on this development at 2nd and Los Angeles Streets in Little Tokyo. I wondered who Ava was and learned that its Avalon Bay Communities, a big developer with a lot of buildings in the states of the East, West and Gulf Coasts, but none in Wisconsin, Nebraska or Missouri. It looks just like a lot of what is being built these days. According to <a href="http://www.avaloncommunities.com/california/los-angeles-apartments/ava-little-tokyo?medium=tsa&gclid=CPqkuszKgsICFZCVfgodJ0gAyQ&gclsrc=aw.ds" target="_blank">AVAs website</a>, currently available 1 bedroom apartments cost from $2,180 to 2,864 per month.</div>
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It's not completely gray, and might even be a nice place to live. It got <a href="http://www.yelp.com/biz/ava-little-tokyo-los-angeles" target="_blank">good reviews on Yelp.</a></div>
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Although the AVA opened in December 2014, the lower floor, where the retail is supposed to be, is still empty, according to this<a href="http://la.curbed.com/archives/2015/02/downtown_las_new_mixedusers_are_full_of_empty_storefronts.php" target="_blank"> Curbed L.A. article</a>.</div>
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Mariachi Plaza in Boyle Heights is where you go if you are a musician, or looking to hire a musician. </div>
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I saw it for the first time in 2006, on a rainy day, while looking for a place to walk my dogs, and hoping the rain would go away. The Metro Gold Line was under construction, and the fences around the construction were painted with murals. </div>
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I took one picture from the kiosk looking down first street, and two more of the murals on the businesses around the plaza.</div>
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I've been catching up on the history of the place. It had been a gathering place for mariachis and people looking to hire mariachis for parties for a long time, beginning in the thirties , forties or fifties. You know, the kind of place that had just always been there. It was the parking lot of Olympic Donuts. </div>
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In around 1983, the Cultural Affairs Department had started thinking about a more official sort of gathering place. Starting in 1990, annual mariachi festivals have been held there in honor of the feast of St. Cecelia, patron saint of musicians. Her day is November 22. On that occasion, in 1993, there was a <span style="background-color: white; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , "times" , serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px;">groundbreaking ceremony for the Mariachi Plaza, </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , "times" , serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px;">with Mayor Richard Riordan, Councilmen Richard Alatorre and Joel Wachs, and Adolfo V. Nodal of the Cultural Affairs Department. </span><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , "times" , serif;"><span style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px;"> It was set to be completed in June, 1994, and do to include a fountain, bandstand and antique street lights. </span></span></span>Unfortunately, it had become a center for illegal drug sales as well as for hiring musicians. One local resident was <a href="http://articles.latimes.com/1993-11-03/local/me-52696_1_boyle-heights-intersection" target="_blank">quoted in the Times</a>, <span style="background-color: white; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , "times" , serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px;">"We don't need a plaza," said Robert Chavez, who has lived at the corner for 11 years and can see the mariachis from his front porch. "We need more police." </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , "times" , serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px;">restaurant in this picture has been here for 19 years. The owner, Armando Salazar, fears </span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , "times" , serif;"><span style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px;">displacement of the development takes place. </span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , "times" , serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px;">The gazebo, or kiosk was built in </span><a href="http://articles.latimes.com/1998/nov/21/local/me-46164" style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px;" target="_blank">1998</a>. It was designed by Mexican sculptor Pablo Salas. The stone was quarried in Jalisco and cut there, then shipped to Los Angeles. </div>
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<a href="http://la.streetsblog.org/2012/03/27/libros-schmibros-lending-library-and-bookshop-moves-to-mariachi-plaza/" target="_blank">Libros Schmibros moved here from its previous location at 1st. and Cummings in 2012.</a><br />
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What is the future for Mariachi Plaza? This rendering shows a slicker and duller place.<br />
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Do architectural renderings make places look more slick and boring than they actually turn out to be? When I saw <a href="http://la.streetsblog.org/2014/11/07/dupont-walker-community-press-metro-on-surprising-changes-slated-for-mariachi-plaza-demand-more-outreach/" target="_blank">this on streetsblog</a>, I was alarmed, because Mariachi Plaza is a lovely place, just as it is.<br />
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These plans include two new commercial buildings and a six story parking structure. The buildings with the restaurants and bookstore will be sacrificed, with their beautiful murals, and there will be less space for the mariachis and other folks. If you have free time on Thursday, November 13 at 9AM, you can put your two cents in at a <a href="http://media.metro.net/board/Agendas/2014/11_november/20141113arbm.pdf" target="_blank">Metro Board of Directors Meeting</a> at One Gateway Plaza.</div>
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I missed the meeting but <a href="http://www.scpr.org/blogs/multiamerican/2014/11/13/17562/mta-postpones-vote-on-mariachi-plaza-development-u/" target="_blank">I'm happy to tell you that the Metro Board has postponed the decision until February 2015. </a></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Update</span> Jan. 22, 2015 Residents of Boyle Heights expressed their unhappiness about the plan at a community meeting. <a href="http://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-ln-mariachi-plaza-20150122-story.html" target="_blank">Read about it in the L.A. Times.</a> and <a href="http://www.latimes.com/local/california/la-me-mariachi-plaza-20150124-story.html" target="_blank">another time here.</a></div>
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The lot on the other side of the intersection is still under debate. Read about it in <a href="http://a.streetsblog.org/2016/02/03/city-and-residents-debate-fate-of-lot-at-1st-and-boyle/">L.A. Streetsblog.</a></div>
evansescent-cityhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13684560078689688745noreply@blogger.com2Mariachi Plaza / Boyle Heights Station, Los Angeles, CA 90033, USA34.047215 -118.2196488.5251805000000012 -159.528242 59.5692495 -76.911054000000007tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9123322063120775956.post-13231083352177270432014-11-06T19:00:00.001-08:002015-06-28T13:23:37.439-07:00Ed Reyes River Greenway<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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There was a place I sometimes walked, at the end of Avenue 18 near railroad tracks and the L.A. River. Three little houses were the remnant of an early 20th century neighborhood. They had been built in 1905. All around were small and tired looking industrial buildings and the sprawling parking lots of the Young-Nak Presbyteran Church. A chain link fence prevented entry to the river and the tracks. <br />
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One evening in May 2013. I noticed construction was going on. The gate to the fence had been left open, so I let my Buddy sniff around there.<br />
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I went home and found this picture, taken 4 years earlier.</div>
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From the historical picture I saw, it looked like there had been nothing but an old road with railroad spurs before the land was cleared.</div>
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From the other side, at Avenue 19, it looked like this</div>
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I don't know when the news caught up with me that this was to be the Ed Reyes River Greenway. L.A. Stormwater had announced the groundbreaking in October 2012, but I knew nothing about it until the middle of 2013, at which time it was supposed to have opened already. </div>
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I read that the was not just a small park. In fact, being a park was to be the secondary function. there would be abiofiltration system to clean the urban runoff water from the storm drains that collects water from 135 acres of mostly industrial land. This would be pumped by the solar power that would also light the park at night.</div>
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I took a few pictures through the chain link fence on Ave. 19 around that time.</div>
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It was working and ready to open in February 2014, but couldn't officially open until a fence was installed. Materials had been stolen during the construction, so it could not be left unfenced. However, the temporary fence was not doing much good, and I managed to slip in for a few pictures. Because it was a project of the Bureau of Sanitation rather than the Department of Recreation and Parks, the usual funding was not available.</div>
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By April, men were at work installing fences on both sides.</div>
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Then in May, it opened at last. The Matalija poppies were in bloom. Buddy likes it here.</div>
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“The Ed P. Reyes River greenway on the north bank of the Los
Angeles River daylights stormwater runoff<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>from an existing storm drain that once delivered untreated runoff with
high levels of pollution to the river.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>The greenway mimics a dry-creek or arroyo ecosystem and supports a
biological community that filters and further cleans runoff.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The non-motorized public access between
Avenues 18 and 19 represents a new and emerging street type for our city called
a “Stormwater Greenway.” As Stormwater Greeways enhance the natural processes
that clean our waters, they also transform our streets by offering new
economic, environmental, and social opportunities.<o:p></o:p></div>
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“Prior to the natural treatment process large quantities of
trash and sediment are removed with a structure called a hydrodynamic
separator.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This allows large sized
pollutants to be easily collected and removed.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Next, dry-weather runoff and a managed volume of the most polluted
stormwater runoff called the “first-flush” enters the basin.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Larger storm volumes either bypass the
hydrodynamic separator, or enter the basin to overflow back to the original
storm drain.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Solar panels drive the
pumps that circulate stormwater to areas where it can be further treated, or
“polished” by bacterial organisms, and used to water plants in the landcape.<o:p></o:p></div>
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“Green infrastructure relies on the power of sunlight, and
the organism in soils and on plant roots to treat pollutants in stormwater
runoff.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Because it is economical and
provides recreational and habitat benefits, it is the City’s preferred approach<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>to maintain healthy waters and to support
sustainable communities. Unlike traditional storm drain systems, which rely on
pipes to move and to dispose of rainwater, green infrastructure directs runoff
to locations where vegetation and natural processes help to control
pollution.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Infiltration and reuse also
helps to reduce flooding downstream.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Replacing concrete with living soils and other permeable surfaces, and
providing more space for natural processes to flourish within our urban environments,
enhances flood management, air quality, habitat, and recreational opportunities.
The Ed P. Reyes River Greenway at the terminus of Humboldt Street is one of the
first among many greenways proposed to extend the natural benefits of green
infrastructure into our urban watersheds.<o:p></o:p></div>
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“While infiltration and evaporation reduce the volumes of
water that flow downstream, specialized fungae called ”mycorrhize” create a
vast network of cells called “hyphae” in the soil.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The huphae seek out water and nutrients
bringing them nearer to root zones where bacteria, working in association with
plant root hairs, naturally degrade or absorb pollutants.”<o:p></o:p></div>
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It was presented by <a href="http://www.pieterpasd.com/about/" target="_blank">Pieter dance studio</a>, as part of <a href="http://playthelariver.com/playthelariver/" target="_blank">Play the L.A. River</a>.</div>
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evansescent-cityhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13684560078689688745noreply@blogger.com2Edd Reyes River Greenway, Los Angeles, CA, USA34.07559017231096 -118.2243704795837434.073946172310961 -118.22689197958374 34.077234172310959 -118.22184897958374tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9123322063120775956.post-70679771987412837462014-10-26T14:22:00.000-07:002016-01-28T12:57:58.678-08:00Star of Skid Row<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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This new apartment building would stand out in any neighborhood, and it stands out even more on Maple and 6th, the heart of Skid Row. Michael Maltzan, its architect, has said,"The community that lives there should have a similar environment to anybody that could afford something more expensive." I like him for this. It is designed to house 100 people identified by the County as being the “most vulnerable,” often requiring emergency medical care and having a history of chronic homelessness. The ground floor is occupied by the Department of Health Services <a href="http://dhs.lacounty.gov/wps/portal/dhs/housingforhealth" target="_blank">Housing for Health</a> division headquarters. It was developed by the <a href="http://skidrow.org/" target="_blank">Skid Row Housing Trust</a>, This organization began by rehabilitating S.R.O (old single room occupancy) buildings, but later ran out of buildings to rehabilitate and has gone on to new development. Rents are subsidized by the L.A. Housing Authority, and each resident pays 30% of their income, whatever it may be.<br />
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There are waiting lists for all the supportive housing units, and some have questioned whether it was worthwhile to spend 40 million dollars on just this one. As a lover of architecture, I say that this building will add beauty to the neighborhood for years to come, while a strictly utilitarian building would not. While I'm at it, I ought to find out how much it would cost to build a plainer structure with equal capacity. There were a couple of cost-saving measures taken here, too. The housing units were pre-fabricated in Idaho. The lower level incorporated the existing structure, a brilliant idea that also saved on demolition and disposal. <br />
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evansescent-cityhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13684560078689688745noreply@blogger.com0Skid Row, Los Angeles, CA, USA34.043894325156828 -118.2478022575378434.04224982515683 -118.25032375753784 34.045538825156825 -118.24528075753784tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9123322063120775956.post-45748108829909283602014-10-22T14:28:00.001-07:002014-10-26T14:01:46.703-07:00Skid Row Supermural<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Two of my favorite things are maps and murals, so I had to go see this one, even though it's in the most depressing place in the city. I had read about this mural in the L.A. Times- <a href="http://www.latimes.com/local/la-me-skid-row-mural-20140824-story.html" target="_blank">"For skid row residents and advocates, mural is a sign of survival."</a> The official name of this neighborhood is "Central City East," not skid row. In 2006, Firefighters at Fire Station 9, the neighborhood station, were ordered by the city to <a href="http://www.firestation9skidrow.org/help.html" target="_blank">remove the words "Skid Row"</a> from their trucks. That same year, the boundaries of skid row were defined in a court case, Jones vs. City of Los Angeles. If you have time, you can read about it <a href="http://caselaw.findlaw.com/us-9th-circuit/1490887.html" target="_blank">here</a>. The details are heartbreaking. A.C.L.U. has a <a href="https://www.aclu.org/racial-justice_prisoners-rights_drug-law-reform_immigrants-rights/aclu-southern-california-wins-hist" target="_blank">synopsis of the decision.</a></div>
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“It is the only place in our community where you will see the name ‘Skid Row’ in public"said organizer General Jeff Page. Everyone who worked on the mural lived within the boundaries depicted, and it was entirely funded by Skid Row residents. Credit goes to the Winston Death Squad, Wild Life, Chris Como, and Tre. "Now, folks will come from all over the world to take a photo in front of this mural just as they do with the iconic Hollywood sign”, says General Jeff. Next time I'm there, I'll make it a selfie.<br />
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evansescent-cityhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13684560078689688745noreply@blogger.com0Skid Row, Downtown, Los Angeles, CA, USA34.044179676621795 -118.2472594497070334.031022176621796 -118.26742944970702 34.057337176621793 -118.22708944970704tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9123322063120775956.post-92212986761476070282014-10-16T20:10:00.000-07:002014-10-16T20:57:21.959-07:00Citizens Warehouse or Pickle Works Building<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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I first noticed the Citizens Warehouse Building as I crossed the First Street Viaduct while it was being widened to accommodate the metro rail Gold Line tracks. That was in 2007. I took a picture of this sign<br />
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I didn't know anything about the building, but I assumed its future was secure, in a truncated form. The end closest to the bridge would be made shorter, but the wall would be replaced where the building had been cut, I thought. Isn't that what they meant by "removing and reconstructing the southern end of the Citizens Warehouse Building?" </div>
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The building had been declared eligible for listing in the National Register of Historic Places in 2005, while plans for the Gold Line were being developed. This made the City of Los Angeles responsible to avoid, minimize or mitigate the adverse effects of the new construction. It had been built in 1888 as a pickle factory, and is also known today as the Pickle Works Building. Later it had served as storage for the possessions of those immigrants to California who were able to hire entire rail cars for transporting their household possessions. After the nearby railroad station was destroyed in the 1933 Long Beach earthquake, it was used for the storage of soy sauce because it is close to both Little Tokyo and Chinatown.</div>
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It was and is an important site in the downtown arts district. In 1980, artists began to move in. The space was divided up and the artists created live-in studios according to their individual desires. Living in places like this was not legal, and they often ran into trouble with building inspectors. <a href="http://artdock.net/there-downtown-la-hell-1980s/" target="_blank">Here's what Carlton Davis wrote about those days</a>.</div>
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From 1981-1986, the building housed "The Art Dock" the world's first drive-through art gallery. Carlton Davis was hanging out on the loading dock one afternoon. A car stopped in front of them, and the occupants stared at them intently. A drive-by art gallery seemed like a good idea. Davis curated 40 installations by 35 different artists there over the years.<br />
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This shows just how close the Pickle Works Building is to the bridge during the reconstruction period at the beginning of 2008. </div>
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The bridge itself looked almost complete, but the pickle works building looked like this:</div>
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I found out later that the Los Angeles Department of Engineering wanted to tear it down. Carlton Davis wrote "<a href="http://artdock.net/the-pickle-has-been-lopped-but-still-stands/" target="_blank">The pickle has been lopped but still stands</a>" in August 2011. In April 2013 there was an exhibit: <span style="background-color: whitesmoke; color: #383838; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.200000762939453px;"> “</span>In Your Face” which opened at the Angel City Brewery<span style="background-color: whitesmoke; color: #383838; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.200000762939453px;"> </span>in conjunction with the <a href="http://www.laraba.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=category&layout=blog&id=125&Itemid=562">District Gallery</a> on April 11th, the majority of the show is the devoted to the Art Dock, the world’s first drive-by art gallery, located in the downtown arts district. <span style="text-align: center;">The community organizations </span><a href="https://www.laconservancy.org/issues/james-k-hill-sons-pickle-works-building" style="text-align: center;" target="_blank"> L.A. Conservanc</a><span style="text-align: center;">y, and</span><a href="http://www.laraba.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=164:save-the-pickle-works-building-ad-community-meeting&catid=129&Itemid=568" style="text-align: center;" target="_blank"> <span style="background-color: white; color: #5b5b5b; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">Los Angeles River Artists and Business Association (LARABA)</span></a><span style="text-align: center;"> worked to save the building. </span></div>
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This is Center Street, a block away from One Santa Fe. It was on the telephone pole in front of the magnificent blooming tree that I first saw the flyer protesting the construction of One Santa Fe. The building with windows boarded is another story. It's the Citizens Warehouse Building. It used to have artists studios, but when the first street bridge was widened, a section had to be cut off. It's an historic building and was intended to be restored. Now the bridge is open, but the Citizen's Warehouse still has plywood boards on the side facing the bridge. </div>
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A few years ago, I was wandering around Santa Fe Avenue checking the progress of the First Street Viaduct widening project. I saw a flyer affixed to a pole about a protest against a big development project. It was just the sort of thing I would object to if it were happening in my own neighborhood. The protesters did not prevail, and One Santa Fe is in the late stages of construction. A few of the units are already leased.<br />
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It's a fancy place in what's called the Arts District, which is filling up with places artists can't afford. It's huge--"the Empire State Building on its side." here's the price list, according to<a href="http://la.curbed.com/places/one-santa-fe"> Curbed.</a><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Merriweather; font-size: 13.888888359069824px; line-height: 21.990739822387695px;">Studios (*343 to 670 square feet): </span><strong style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-family: Merriweather; font-size: 13.888888359069824px; line-height: 21.990739822387695px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px;">$1,480 to $2,035</strong><br />
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Merriweather; font-size: 13.888888359069824px; line-height: 21.990739822387695px;">One-bedroom/one-bathroom (526 to 690 square feet): </span><strong style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-family: Merriweather; font-size: 13.888888359069824px; line-height: 21.990739822387695px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px;">$1,980 to $2,410</strong><br />
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Merriweather; font-size: 13.888888359069824px; line-height: 21.990739822387695px;">One-bedroom/one-bathroom (703 to 913 square feet): </span><strong style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-family: Merriweather; font-size: 13.888888359069824px; line-height: 21.990739822387695px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px;">$2,135 to $3,135</strong><br />
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Merriweather; font-size: 13.888888359069824px; line-height: 21.990739822387695px;">Two-bedroom/two-bathroom (899 to 982 square feet): </span><strong style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-family: Merriweather; font-size: 13.888888359069824px; line-height: 21.990739822387695px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px;">$2,385 to $2,810</strong><br />
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Merriweather; font-size: 13.888888359069824px; line-height: 21.990739822387695px;">Two-bedroom/two-bathroom (1,002 to 1,103 square feet): </span><strong style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-family: Merriweather; font-size: 13.888888359069824px; line-height: 21.990739822387695px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px;">$2,460 to $2,810</strong><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Merriweather; font-size: 13.888888359069824px; line-height: 21.990739822387695px;"> </span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Merriweather; font-size: 13.888888359069824px; line-height: 21.990739822387695px;">Two-bedroom/two-bathroom townhouse (1,241-1,422 square feet):</span><strong style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-family: Merriweather; font-size: 13.888888359069824px; line-height: 21.990739822387695px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px;">$3,585 to $4,530</strong><br />
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I'm all for Tiny House Living, but 343sq. ft. should be a lot cheaper than that.<br />
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But here's the surprise--I like the way it looks. It's like a shiny version of the surrounding architecture. I like the angles and the vermilion color.<br />
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On the other hand, I think it won't be long before everyone forgets this was the arts district.evansescent-cityhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13684560078689688745noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9123322063120775956.post-35502577501254806432014-09-30T19:51:00.000-07:002014-10-01T01:39:49.352-07:00Visions of Hope<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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2007 was the beginning of my practice of walking with camera. I'd walked and bicycled a lot before, and I'd taken photographs before, of course. 2007 was the beginning of doing it in a purposeful way, documenting changes. I was walking around the newly opened Los Angeles State Historic Park. In the corner past the place where the cornfields had been, just the other side of the metro rail service yard fence, under the N. Broadway Viaduct, I saw a painted plywood board behind a dumpster. L.A. has visions of hope, it said. I ignored the symbolism of the dumpster. I have visions of hope, too. The park was a vision. It had been a railroad yard, and big investors wanted to use the land for more ugly warehouses, but the people prevailed, and the land became a park. Before the railroad came, it had been a cornfield, and it became a cornfield once again, when Lauren Bon planted corn, and called it <a href="http://notacornfield.info/index.html">Not a Cornfield</a>. The corn continued to grow in the park, along with millions of wildflowers. <br />
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Joggers, dog walkers, kite flyers and soccer players were among the many who enjoyed the park in its "temporary" phase. Now it is closed for a year of improvement. We will see whether it really takes but a year, and whether we like it anymore than we did before.</div>
evansescent-cityhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13684560078689688745noreply@blogger.com0Los Angeles State Historic Park, Chinatown, Los Angeles, CA, USA34.056773241873124 -118.236359506790934.056362241873124 -118.2369900067909 34.057184241873124 -118.2357290067909tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9123322063120775956.post-42798168233698763962014-09-28T20:46:00.000-07:002014-09-30T19:52:23.924-07:00Three Hearts, Commercial and Alameda, Downtown<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="line-height: 20px;">A few days later, it was cool enough to walk around outdoors during the daylight hours. I had the six dollars it cost to park in the structure behind the hearts. This is what a person can make of discarded things on an ugly chain link fence on desolate roads.</span></span>evansescent-cityhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13684560078689688745noreply@blogger.com0Central LA, Los Angeles, CA, USA34.05342190431076 -118.2377988097141534.05342190431076 -118.23779880971415 34.05342190431076 -118.23779880971415