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Let holiday spending spill over into helping others

City clarifies reasons for relocation of tree wells

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THE HOLIDAY issue. Above, Farmers Market.

GLITTERATI gala at LACMA. 21

CHILI charity at Pink’s.

By Billy Taylor In the November 2019 issue, the Larchmont Chronicle reported on the loss of two healthy and mature ficus trees, as well as the relocation of their tree wells, once located in front of the Rite Aid store’s sign on Larchmont Boulevard. The story resonated with residents and policymakers alike. “Your article about the placement of the southernmost tree well re-sparked a reSee Trees, p 30

Reaction to demolition is vitriolic n See letters on page 2

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n Toy and gift drives

SANTA listened to Christmas wishes at last year’s Open House on Larchmont Blvd. This season he also arrived on a fire truck.

It’s beginning to look a lot like the holidays on Blvd. n Trees on Larchmont! Santa came to town

TUDOR home formerly at 361 N. Citrus Avenue.

By John Welborne The reaction throughout Los Angeles to the sudden Oct. 23 demolition of the historic Tudor home located since 1927 at 361 N. Citrus Ave., at Oakwood Ave. just west of Hancock Park, has been tremendous — and often vitriolic. The Larchmont Chronicle has received letters and online comments, some of which are in this issue, beginning on Page 2. The “lacurbed.com” article that appeared on the day of the demolition generSee Citrus, p 28

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By Rachel Olivier It’s beginning to look a lot like Christmas along Larchmont Boulevard. From the red bows that have popped up along the north end of Larchmont to the trees at the Wilshire Rotary tree lot, to the Holiday Open House last week, it’s clear that the holidays have arrived in full force. Wilshire Rotary tree lot The Wilshire Rotary tree lot at 568 N. Larchmont is open. Noble, silvertip and Douglas firs arrived the weekend after Thanksgiving. However, there will be no Nordmann or Fraser firs this year, says Wendy Clifford. They were unable to source them from any of the tree farms they contacted. But they do have a variety of sizes to choose from. People should be able to find the right

tree (or wreaths or boughs) for their spaces. Clifford noted. Battle of the bells Stop by the tree lot to see the “Battle of the Bells” preSee Holidays on Blvd., p 4

By Rachel Olivier During the holiday season it’s easy to get into the habit of gift buying, whether for family and friends or for yourself. So, it might be a good time to let some of that spending spill over into purchasing holiday cheer for others less fortunate. Read on for some local charities that are conducting toy and gift drives. • • • St. Anne’s Guild, 155 N. Occidental Blvd., is collecting gifts for babies ages newborn to three and teenage girls ages 13 to 18. Gift cards are also welcome. Deadline for the drive is Sat., Dec. 21. See Toy drives, p 14

St. James’ Church shines light on ‘Stories from the Frontline’ n 'I wish there had not been a stigma attached’ By Sondi Toll Sepenuk Angela Sanchez was 16, a junior in high school, when she and her father experienced homelessness. The memories are sharp: it was the beginning of the 2008 recession, one week shy of Thanksgiving. The Sheriff’s officers stood in the doorway of her family’s home, red eviction notice in hand, asking, “What are you

still doing here?” Ten minutes later, the locks were changed and Angela and her father, a middle-class architect, were homeless. Not knowing where to go, where to sleep, or where they would find their next meal, Angela and her father spent the next two years living in a car, in motels, in shelters and on the streets. During this See Stories, p 12

Menorah lighting, snowfall ring in season n Carolers, Kettle Kick Off at Farmers Market, Grove See a 100-foot Christmas tree, a white fir from Mt. Shasta, and a giant Lego menorah, hear carolers and visit Santa, all while strolling around the Original Farmers Market and The Grove this month. The next-door venues, located along Third Street near Fairfax Avenue, have a variety of activities scheduled through the end of the year to keep visitors in the holiday spirit. The trolley that travels between the Farmers Market

and the Grove is one way to see the decorated trees at both ends and enjoy the views while managing the crowds. Santa Claus, a nightly snowfall, and a tree taller than the one at Rockefeller Center with 15,000 sparkling lights and more than 10,000 glittering ornaments will anchor The Grove end, while carolers will perform at Farmers Market. Menorah lighting events will take place on separate evenings at See Farmers Market, p 18 MENORAH will be lit Dec. 22.

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By John Welborne The Holiday Issue Last month’s Editorial focused on “the demolition issue” affecting local neighborhoods. Let’s hope for a reprieve this month — as people of many faiths celebrate their and their families’ blessings. The staff at the Larchmont Chronicle is a blessing to the Publisher, and I join them (below) in wishing our readers the happiest of Holidays. Also, as noted by Jack Newman on the page at right, short conversations or simple nods might do a little to lighten the loads of those without real homes in which to celebrate this December.

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Sun., Dec. 8 – Windsor Village Association annual meeting, 901 S. Lucerne Blvd., 2 p.m. Wed., Dec. 11 – Greater Wilshire Neighborhood Council board meeting, Ebell Club, 743 S. Lucerne Blvd. at 7 p.m. greaterwilshire.org. Wed., Dec. 18 to Tues., Dec. 24 – Farmers Market Christmas activities with Dickensian Carolers and more, 6333 W. Third St., farmersmarketla.com. Sun., Dec. 22 – Hanukkah begins. Farmers Market Menorah lighting, 6333 W. Third St., 2:30 p.m. farmersmarketla.com. Wed., Dec. 25 – Christmas Day. Sun., Dec. 29 – Menorah lighting at The Grove, 189 The Grove Dr., 6 to 7 p.m.

Wed., Jan. 1 – New Year’s Day and Rose Parade. Thurs., Jan. 2 – Delivery of the Larchmont Chronicle.

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Protecting our Historic Neighborhood California has an affordable housing shortage which some legislators are trying to address by fast tracking legislation that would increase density in cities. On the surface these ideas look good, but most of them are a Trojan horse for overdevelopment of unaffordable housing that would destroy residential communities. While Hancock Park is an HPOZ, our neighborhood is not safe from changes promoted by developers to replace affordable housing with unaffordable housing. There are a number of bills in Sacramento that would override many of the density and change limitations that keep Hancock Park an intact, beautiful and historic neighborhood. Our neighbors at Spaulding Square (one of LA’s thirty-five HPOZs) have made a short video that explains what’s going on and what you can do - www.youtube.com/watch?v=KRX_5E1BS3k. o o o Your neighbors are working with the Council Office and City Officials to fight against this legislation but we need your help. In particular, SB50 and SB592 will be presented to lawmakers in January. The Association will send information via the website, newsletter, Larchmont Chronicle column, and email lists about what you can do to help preserve our neighborhood, while still supporting the preservation of existing affordable housing and, simultaneously, the creation of new affordable housing. o o o Don’t forget that the holiday season often sees an increase in crime, particularly property crime. So, if you have a house alarm set it. Don’t keep valuables in view in your car. Lock your car and your house. Lastly, if you’re the victim of a crime, report it! This helps increase the number of police officers assigned to our area. If you’re planning to make any changes to the street visible portion of your house, including hardscaping, and windows, check with our HPOZ Planner Suki Gershenhorn (suki.gershenhorn@lacity.org), before starting. The HPOZ Preservation Plan, which regulates our HPOZ, can be found at http://www.preservation.lacity.org/hpoz/la/hancock-park. There is also an online form you can fill out to help speed up the process (http://preservation.lacity.org/hpoz/initial. screening.checklist). Report graffiti sightings by calling 311 or at the City’s Anti-Graffiti Request System — tinyurl.com/ yyr3unhc — and by calling Hollywood Beautification, 323463-5180. Adv.

‘Historic Citrus Ave. house quickly demolished’

This is so sad and infuriating! Having been in the home many times, I can attest that it had been lovingly and professionally maintained and was NOT a teardown. In fact, there had been recent upgrades to the plumbing, etc. The deceptive way [the buyers] went about it is disgusting and this is a huge loss to the neighborhood. I hope that someone is watering those beautiful sycamore trees while that lot sits vacant. Gabe M. Sherman Oaks That letter to the sellers is as underhanded as it gets. Anything to get their offer accepted! As a realtor, most of the dishonesty I’ve seen is on the part of the public — not the real estate agents

who get a bad rap for being shady. Clint Lohr Glendale The neighbors didn’t stand around watching; I for one stood in front of the bulldozer while the workers went around us with axes to hack out the leaded glass windows and hand carved beams and to deface the facade in a matter of minutes. The neighborhood is distraught, but through lies, deception, manipulation and not following the law regarding posting intent to demol(Please turn to page 27)

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‘What is at the top of your wish list this year?’

“I want all these cats to find homes.” Carolina Bonet-Sanabrais (9) “Find a way to keep my house better organized. They say cleaning the house with the toddler is like trying to brush your teeth while eating Oreos. It feels like that.” Sofia Sanabrais Larchmont Village

“Right now I’m fostering these three kittens right here, and it’s definitely on my wish list for them to find forever homes.” Matt Johnson We-Wil

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2020 Census: most may respond online Last month, the U.S. Census Bureau released its “Mail Contact Strategies Viewer” showing how the country will be asked to respond to the 2020 Census. Nearly every household will be invited to respond online, by phone or by mail to the census starting in mid-March 2020. Most areas — about three of every four households — will receive an invitation to respond online (or by phone), while the other households also will receive a paper questionnaire along with the invitation to respond online. Review the Mail Contact Strategies Viewer map at: tinyurl.com/rvrx5xs.

“At the top of my wish list is that the commuter traffic stop running down residential streets.” Michael Wright Windsor Square

“Health for my family.” Jorge Argueta with Vivienne Warren Hancock Park

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Simple nod or a conversation is a start in lifting toll of homelessness By Jack Newman The homelessness crisis has brought Los Angeles to its knees. From Hollywood to Santa Monica to the Downtown Arts District, it’s hard to ignore 59,000 displaced individuals roaming the county, ranking Los Angeles second for the rate of homelessness. The misery and pain that comes from living under such dilapidated and depressing conditions seems unimaginable. But these problems are very much real, and they’re projected to grow. This past year, Los Angeles saw a 12 percent increase in homelessness, despite new initiatives for housing placement, according to the Los Angeles Homeless Services Authority. The severity becomes more apparent when we look at the unsheltered homeless population. As reported by the online “Los Angeles Almanac,” 75 percent of the homeless live without shelter, which is close to 45,000 people. Proposition HHH In 2016, Mayor Eric Garcetti led Proposition HHH to be passed and implemented, which brought in over 1.2 billion dollars to acquire land for, and to build, supportive housing and shelters for the homeless and to create 10,000 permanent homes by 2026. While the city osten-

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sibly has made strides for meaningful progress, 10,000 homes only cover a fraction of the homeless community and disregard the emotional toll on a homeless individual. Speaking to that, in her book “Stigma and Prejudice,” author Denise De Las Nueces writes, “Homeless individuals struggle every day under the weight of anti-homelessness stigma and oppression that render them seemingly invisible.” So, moving away from state and city level intervention, we must ask ourselves what we are able to do on an individual level. The Bowery Mission, an organization based in New York, encourages people to engage and acknowledge homeless individuals. Self-worth begins to quickly corrode when faced with constant isolation. Whether it’s a short conversation or a simple nod, gesturing alone might help to heal the devastation of unremitting loneliness. It is incumbent on us to rebuild the self-esteem of homeless individuals through engagement and face this crisis head on. VolunteerLA To offer more direct help, Mayor Garcetti created a VolunteerLA portal, which allows anyone to provide service in different areas of homelessness. Serving hot meals, tutoring homeless

students or simply being a person to talk to are among the many ways to be a part of homelessness remediation. We must be active in our Los Angeles community, whether it is for 365 days or merely 1 day out of the year. Moreover, the Los Angeles Mission, a nonprofit, describes the value in donations in its mission statement. While money provides means to keep services afloat, clothing and food give individuals comfort and sustenance. Especially as we edge closer to winter, donations of warm clothing will help the greater homeless population endure a cold season, rather than offering pocket change. Winter is far crueler without shelter. It is in our hands to dismiss the stigma around the growing homeless population and remain informed on how we can continue to fix the problem in Los Angeles. Mayor Garcetti has long-term housing solutions, but our community needs to act summarily. This is not a call for awareness; this is a call for action. It is time to put the onus on ourselves, roll up our sleeves, and fight for a bleeding demographic. Jack Newman is a senior at USC and a frequent visitor to the Larchmont neighborhood.

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State laws threaten historic neighborhoods: first up, Hancock Park By Suzan Filipek Stately Hancock Park was recognized as a Historic Preservation Overlay Zone (HPOZ) in 2007. The city’s ordinance protects the area’s 1,200 1920s Period Revivalstyle homes. With houses set back on leafy tree-lined parkways, the area harkens back to a simpler time. New state laws threaten this genteel setting. Actually, the laws impact many single-family neighborhoods statewide. The good news is Hancock Park’s HPOZ has a Preservation Plan that sets guidelines

on building and design. Unfortunately, the plan has needed some tweaking and, now, time is running out. The Preservation Plan was poised for an update, but then Sacramento got in the way. “Since the governor signed SB 330, Hancock Park will be totally out of luck in adding to or updating our HPOZ… after December 31, 2019,” said Hancock Park Homeowners Association president Cindy ChvatalKeane. “We have repeatedly expressed our concerns about this timeline to Planning for months. To date, Planning has

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not moved to allow us to update, or clarify, language in our Preservation Plan.” SB 330 essentially freezes, until 2025, historic zones and other historic resources as they are now. “Current historic districts are not impacted, but new plans or designations are,” according to Nicholas Greif, chief of staff for Councilman David Ryu. “We were about to launch Hancock Park and other plans in the city, and then SB 330 came along,” said Ken Bernstein, manager and principal planner in the city Office of Historic Resources, part of the City Planning Dept. As far as meeting the Dec. 31

sented by the Salvation Army; a friendly competition between the Los Angeles Host Lions Club and Wilshire Rotary to see how much money can be raised by each organization on Sat., Dec. 14 from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. Holiday open house; red bows Small businesses up and down Larchmont Boulevard participated in the Holiday Open House and Small Business Saturday event on Nov. 30. Besides the visit by Santa Claus, musicians from Rhodes School of Music played along the street. Local dentist Dr. Timothy Gogan and his “elves” already had spruced up Larchmont Boulevard’s trees with large red corsage bows from Third Street to Melrose Avenue.

deadline, “There’s no way to do that. It is a six-to-nine-month process,” Bernstein added. The 188-page Hancock Park Preservation Plan was written before anyone in the area thought much about Accessory Dwelling Units (ADU), other than that they weren’t allowed. Subsequently, state laws have allowed up to two granny flats to be built on single-family properties, intended to help ease a housing shortage. While adding housing makes sense, the area’s Preservation Plan needs to determine how ADUs can be allowed and set other guidelines, ChvatalKeane said. “We were trying really hard to get simple language … not sweeping changes …,” she added. SB 330, which sunsets in 2025, is just one new law to affect single-family neighborhoods, and its design standards clause is a small part

of the law, “but it will have a significant impact on HPOZs everywhere,” Bernstein said. A proposed law, SB 50, by San Francisco’s state Sen. Scott Wiener, which relaxes zoning restrictions near public transit and work sites, was put on hold until January when it will be reviewed anew in the Legislature. Bernstein said he is consulting with the city attorney and municipalities with robust historic zones throughout the state on how they will apply any new laws. The good news, he says, is that every HPOZ in the city has a Preservation Plan, which was not always the case. “Fast-moving Sacramento is impacting us profoundly and they keep bulldozing… in these laws. It can’t be a one size-fits all, yet these bills are sweeping,” Chvatal-Keane said.

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1919, a big year in Los Angeles, and history continued to unfold As readers of the Larchmont Chronicle know, many institutions and places around the neighborhood have celebrated a centenary in 2019. Just last month, John Welborne called attention to several, including Musso & Frank Grill, the Los Angeles Philharmonic, and the Wilshire Country Club. John’s point was that the region’s growing sense of itself, its relief from war worries, and its confidence about the future engendered a civic mindedness that has built much we still enjoy. It’s a thought worth following as we move close to 2020, because 1919 really was a big year in Los Angeles. UCLA Ambition was evident on Vermont Avenue just south of Santa Monica Boulevard. That’s where the Southern Branch of the University of California opened on September 15, 1919. By the time of its first graduating class, a search

STATE NORMAL SCHOOL was on the site of today’s Central Library. View southwest from Bunker Hill, c. 1882.

was on for a new and larger space that would accommodate demand for public higher education. Westwood back then seemed remote and distant, but land there was available and relatively cheap. So deals were struck, building commenced, and UCLA found its lasting home in 1929. The behind-the-scenes story of the real estate transactions involving the corner of Fifth

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Homelessness is a problem that is affecting all of Los Angeles, and neighbors had an opportunity to listen to and question two very knowledgeable people on the subject at last month’s Windsor Square Association 2019 Annual Town Hall Meeting held at The Ebell. Tammy Rosato, president of the La Brea Hancock Homeowners Association and board member of the Greater Wilshire Neighborhood Council and the Midtown Homeless Coalition, and Councilmember David Ryu discussed the complex and frustrating issue in depth and explained what solutions are being offered, and what more needs to be done. Councilmember Ryu mentioned his “Three Prong Solution,” which consists of: 1. Housing the Existing Homeless. There are currently five new facilities for formerly homeless individuals and families opening in Council District Four, and more across the city. 2. Preventing Homelessness. Creating more low-income and affordable housing, plus protecting renters in existing housing, will keep more people from falling into homelessness. 3. Critical Services. Reforming our disability laws and expanding the mental healthcare and conservatorship systems will allow first responders and other healthcare providers to offer real help to those in need. For more in-depth information on Councilmember Ryu’s proposals for addressing the homelessness crisis, what the city is doing about it, and how citizens can help, please go to: http://davidryu.lacity.org/ homeless_plan. o o o The other subject of great interest at the meeting was the status of Larchmont Boulevard’s beloved — or berated? — ficus tree canopy. The Windsor Square Association strongly believes that the boulevard deserves a comprehensive plan for gradually replacing our trees, to maintain the beautiful character of our shady shopping district. A piecemeal approach, whereby a few trees are removed with no overall consideration of the boulevard as a whole, will not serve Larchmont well. (Two mature ficus trees already have been removed in this manner just weeks ago, and they were replaced with African Fern Pines.) The WSA created such a draft plan in late summer of 2018 — called the Orderly Street Tree Replacement (OSTR) Plan. This plan takes into account the timing and spacing of tree replacement, so that the street will continue to looks its best, and the plan addresses planting, watering and maintenance responsibilities that often get ignored. The WSA is also pledging financial support for tree replacement (just as we helped underwrite the beautiful Jacaranda medians on lower Larchmont some years ago). The next step is for the most-involved parties — the Larchmont Boulevard Association (merchants), the Larchmont Village BID (landowners / landlords), the WSA, and the Fourth District Council Office — to sit down and hammer out an agreeable, final OSTR Plan from the draft presented last year. Please take a look at the draft plan, printed on the page at right, to learn more, or go to our website: www. windsorsquare.org.

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Bruce Beiderwell and Grand, Vermont Ave. and Westwood — plus the necessary community financing — can be found in a book by James R. Martin (grand uncle of John Welborne) titled “The University of California in Los Angeles” (1925). UCLA’s grand opening of its new Westwood campus in 1929 means there will be another centenary to celebrate before long, but 1919 was the real start of it all. And it was quite a start. Ralph Bunche (who was to win a Nobel Peace Prize in 1950) was among the earliest enrollees at UCLA. He and his cohorts were the “pioneers” who together constituted an unusual university demographic for

CENTRAL LIBRARY, view east (Bunker Hill at left), c. 1926.

the time. Because the Vermont Ave. campus had morphed from an established teaching school — the State Normal School that had been relocated from the present site of the Los Angeles Central Library, all as recounted in the Martin book — women at the new Southern Branch of the state university outnumbered men by a wide margin: 98 women and 30

UCLA in Westwood, c. 1929.

men graduated in 1925. While that fact didn’t and couldn’t separate the institution from larger social injustices (leadership long remained nearly all male and white), it did influence class profiles and culture in years ahead. Thinking of people in conjunction with place and time provides more to reflect upon. (Please turn to page 8)

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The Larchmont Village Orderly Street Tree Replacement Plan After months of careful research and consultation with experts, the Windsor Square Association was proud to present (in November 2018) our draft plan for the thoughtful and gradual replacement of the mature ficus trees that line the shopping district of Larchmont Village, between First Street and Beverly Boulevard. The plan is called the Orderly Street Tree Replacement (OSTR) Plan. Its goal is to preserve the beauty of Larchmont Boulevard while recognizing that most of the existing ficus trees will be reaching the ends of their useful lives within about another twenty years. (Note that, at present, almost all of the approximately 40 trees are deemed to be in good condition.) Over that upcoming 20-year period, our plan calls for the selective removal of a few trees at a time, and the repair of the surrounding sidewalk when replacement trees are installed. The trees slated for removal will be chosen for several reasons: their condition, the condition of the sidewalks around them, and their distance from other replaced trees. In this manner, the early replacement trees will have a chance to gain in size and canopy before all of the older trees are gone, and the Village will maintain its character to the greatest extent possible. The OSTR Plan also believes strongly that the new trees should be a low-water, low-maintenance variety. Our choice is the ‘Saratoga’ Laurel tree (laurus ‘saratoga’). The trees should be purchased in 36”-box size, and planted in uniform sidewalk cutouts, under the supervision of a certified arborist. The Plan also requires that an attractive metal sidewalk grate be installed around each tree, which will make the Larchmont sidewalks a lot more walkable. One of the most important requirements of the OSTR Plan is that the new trees have a dependable irrigation source. Lack of proper (or any!) irrigation is the main reason the current ficus trees have lifted sidewalks and caused other issues. It would be pointless to install new trees without creating a healthy environment for them to thrive. We have worked hard to come up with a reasonable and comprehensive approach to an issue that affects everyone who shops, works or owns businesses on Larchmont. We feel that it is essential to have an overall vision for our urban landscape before yanking out trees on an ad-hoc basis for no good reason. If you would like to see the OSTR Plan in its entirety, head to our website, www.windsorsquare.org. You can give us your feedback there, too. The Windsor Square Association’s next step is to work with partner groups, the Larchmont Boulevard Association (representing merchants) and the Larchmont Boulevard Business Improvement District (representing building owners), plus Councilman Ryu and his staff, to refine the Draft OSTR plan to reach a community consensus that will allow the first tree replacements to be made in upcoming, cooler months.

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(Continued from page 6) Donald Cram, a highly regarded teacher at UCLA and a Nobel Prize winner in chemistry, was born in 1919. So was Jackie Robinson; he met his future wife at UCLA and starred as a long jumper and a football player for the Bruins. Basketball and baseball were then his minor sports, although he lettered

in all four. Ray Bradbury, who in the early ’50s wrote “Fahrenheit 451” in the UCLA library basement, spoils the time / place / person symmetry, but not by much. He was born in 1920. Racial covenants Of course, arbitrary connections are easy to make and not necessarily meaningful. But aligning some historical markers prompts real thought and feeling. Nat King Cole was born in 1919 and bought a house on Muirfield Road in Hancock Park

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in 1948. M a n y neighbors were actively hostile to a black family — any black family RALPH BUNCHE, — mov- an early graduate ing into of UCLA, in his seHancock nior photo in 1927. Park in violation of the long-standing deed covenants that were ruled unconstitutional that same year by the U.S. Supreme Court in the case of Shelley v. Kraemer. One of the lawyers successfully arguing Shelley v. Kraemer’s companion case (McGhee v. Sipes) at the Supreme Court was Angeleno civil rights lawyer Loren Miller, who later was named a judge of the Los Angeles Municipal Court. His son, Loren Miller, Jr., became a Superior Court judge. His granddaughter, Robin Miller Sloane, has served as a Superior Court judge since 2003, and her undergraduate degree is from... UCLA. History isn’t a nostalgia mill. But taking in all parts of a story allows us to appreciate positive change, along with the grace, dignity, and courage of the Nat King Cole family and others like them. The Robinson family, too, was contending with great pressure in 1948, the year Jackie broke the color line in baseball. The point can be sharpened with yet another alignment: George Wallace, born in 1919, was in 1948 just starting a po-

NAT KING COLE, born in 1919, moved to Hancock Park in 1948, and the 90004 Post Office was named for him in 2002. His U.S. postage stamp was issued in 1994.

litical career that would be built almost entirely on exacerbating the nation’s racial divide. Personal reflections The rich texture woven into the past century has prompted personal reflection as well. My father was born in 1919 in Gage, Oklahoma. He grew up in the dust bowl and the Great Depression. He left both behind to serve overseas in the Second World War. He returned to the States, met and married my mother, a woman from western Kansas, and moved to Central California. That’s where my sister, brothers, and I started life. My wife’s mother was also born in 1919, but into a very different world: Juiz de Fora, Brazil. She would spend her married life in Sao Paulo and Rio de Janeiro. Her only daughter wound up in Los Angeles, where — at UCLA — she met me. Unlikely connections created out of movement have marked the century. And for some of that movement and those connections, I’m deeply grateful.

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Several candidates have thrown their hats in the ring for a place on the Tues., March 3 City of Los Angeles primary election ballot. Among them is incumbent

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Bedazzling: The writing of Susan Orlean on Louboutins, libraries

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(Continued from page 8) ers last month endorsing his re-election. Meanwhile, Los Angeles City Council President Herb Wesson, who has been on the Council since 2005, is seeking Mark Ridley-Thomas’ Los Angeles County Supervisor seat in the Second District. Wesson’s 10th District

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Paula Panich cerned that a gold ring from an ex-boyfriend might be blocking her energy…” The chic young person talking to the consignment expert on the white couch (and to the journalist nearby) was in an apartment in the San Fernando Valley. Read this piece and you head to your own closet: Is there money to be made here? (Alas, no Louboutin in mine.) Silver is to be mined in the clothingresale business. But for me, the real gold in a magazine article or book by Susan Orlean has to do with language and subject, the latter of which is often in plain sight, but masked somehow to the rest of us. Orlean illuminates things we give no mind to. Things we might drive by five days a week. Like the main branch of the Los Angeles Public Library (LAPL). The Central Library had a fire inside on April 29, 1986. Orlean’s “The Library Book,” published in 2018, tells the story of the LAPL fire in a way that is a love story to all libraries. Ah — her language. Pay atCouncil seat is sought by 14 candidates, including Supervisor Ridley-Thomas, who is termed out at the County. The March 3 Super Tuesday election will include primaries for president, all of the state’s 53 congressional seats, 20 of the 40 state Senate seats and all 80 seats in the Assembly. The General Municipal (Presidential) Election is Tues., Nov. 3.

tention to the pleasure of her words, sentences, paragraphs, pages. Specifically, to the brilliance of the adjectives, verbs and images at play in anything she writes. Those “bedazzled” shoes — what can that mean? Studded with fake jewels, with other shining objects, most likely. It’s a wonderful economy. And it is an economy of inventive writing of which she is a master. The compact description near the beginning of “The Library Book” about the Central Library fire left me breathless. Roaring, blistering, boiled. To wit: “Steam from the boiling water percolated through the firefighters’ heavy flameproof coats. Their ears and wrists and knees were scorched. Their lungs became crisp with smoke.” (Page 27, Simon & Schuster 2019 paperback edition.) She has said that since everyone has access to everything in the internet age, what is it that writers can offer? After all, it’s been a long time since writers had access to knowledge and experience unavailable to most people. Writers bring heart and emotion to information and data, she holds. Writers are curators and interpreters. Writers can move past the simple matter of delivering facts. Writers follow the river and find the story behind the story. And you can hear her speak about this, in a talk she gave on June 17, 2011. Look it up. On the internet.

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High Tea, Sheba gala, ‘Gutsy Women,’ history events and BBBS Big Bash “Meow, my little pretties — come have a purr-fectly good time.” And, so, more than 70 ladies descended upon the most ‘terrifying’ and beautiful “fur-midable” Las Palmas home of Margo O’Connell for her haunted High Tea Oct. 19. Her porcelain Buddhas were outfitted in black masks and skullcaps topped with kitty ears. The sculptures surrounding the pool were festooned with harlequin masks and spider webs. The guests obliged with their own regalia. There was Joyce Maddox Morandi as a bird with a collar of enormous feathers, ‘Sherlock’ Jane Gilman ‘Holmes’ as well as kitties Alexa O’Conner and Sarah Zepkowski and even Tinkerbelle. The dining room table was covered with elegant trays of delicate sandwiches and artfully decorated iced cookies. The hardly recognizable hostess greeted the outfitted ladies,

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Patty Hill with her long cigarette holder, as Cruella De Vil. Other guests included Natural History Museum’s Shell Amega and Chris Sion, Evelyn Vodhandel, Nelly Kilroy and her daughter Bea Wallace, and songstress Jan Daley. • • • Ruth and Michel Steinberger, Rimpau Blvd., were honored for their 30-plus years of service to Friends of Sheba and Sheba Medical Center, Tel HaShomer, at a gala Nov. 3 at the Beverly Wilshire Hotel. U.S. Ambassador to France, Jamie D. McCourt, was also honored for her humanitarian efforts at the event.

STUNNED GUEST Jan Daly is greeted by hostess Margo O’Connell at the latter’s spooky High Tea.

Guests in attendance included Israel’s Consul General in Los Angeles Dr. Hillel Newman and Maurice Marciano and Paul Marciano. ••• It was quite an event when Hillary and Chelsea Clinton came to the Wilshire Ebell Theatre on Nov. 5. Their new

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Lack of affordable housing is killing the American dream Los Angeles is an incredible city. With a diverse and vibrant community, we’re known for being welcoming and for ensuring that everyone has an opportunity to succeed. But our city is currently facing a crisis. With a critical affordable housing shortage, we need major reform to save the city we hold dear. When I moved to Los Angeles, my family didn’t have much. My brother, sister, parents, grandmother and I lived in a 700-square-foot apartment off the 101 freeway, and though it wasn’t much, it was our home. I’m forever grateful that we had that home to build our life in America. It’s because of this home that we were able to develop relationships with our neighbors, go to school and save up for a small business. It was in this small apartment that I learned how to skateboard, and where I agonized over college applications. It’s where my parents came home

after long days working multiple jobs, and where I learned I was accepted into UCLA. My story is becoming harder and harder in Los Angeles. A family that is struggling to get by now faces serious threats. Landlords can evict them at a moment’s notice, and as rents get increasingly unaffordable, many families have nowhere else to turn. Many of you know about my three-pronged approach to solving homelessness. We need to build housing for those currently living on the street and we need better mental health laws and more mental health services. But equally important is protecting our neighbors who are living on the edge. For many of our severely rent-burdened Angelenos, a rent hike or eviction could spell disaster. That’s why I’ve made it a top priority to reform the Ellis Act. This state bill makes it

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David E. Ryu possible for landlords to evict tenants to turn their buildings into luxury condos, displacing thousands in the process. The state must repeal or reform the Ellis Act. But I’m not waiting for that — I’m seeking reform of the Ellis Act now, right here in our city. I introduced an Ellis Act reform motion in Council, and on Nov. 15, we ordered the Housing and Community Investment Department to report back on concrete steps that our city can take to reform that Act immediately. My motion seeks to increase the affordable housing requirement in new building con-

struction. And when affordable apartments are demolished for newer buildings, former tenants should have the right of first refusal to return, and at an affordable rate. My motion would increase the relocation assistance that landlords must provide to tenants — making sure that they can afford to find a new home — and also allow the city to acquire at-risk affordable units.

Too many families are being pushed out because of unfair evictions. Too many Angelenos are moving away because they can’t find affordable housing. We are losing our middle class — and our Los Angeles dream. I’m not going to stop fighting until we can ensure that Los Angeles remains the welcoming and diverse city that made my life — and the lives of so many others — possible.

FRONTLINE workers to combat homelessness spoke at St. James’ Church. From left to right: Marilyn Wells, Amy Perkins, Rob Krueger, Angela Sanchez, Tommy Newman.

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(Continued from page 1) time, Angela continued to go to high school, her friends none the wiser that she was homeless. “I wish there had not been a stigma attached to being homeless,” remembers Sanchez, who lived in daily fear that her friends or teachers would find out. It’s people like Sanchez that Stories from the Frontline wants you to know. The organization, started by friends and homeless advocates Marilyn Wells, of Hancock Park, and Allison Schallert, of Larchmont Village, was born out of a motivation to get residents involved in solving the affordable housing crisis after hearing a formerly homeless woman share her own personal journey. “Hearing someone be so open and vulnerable really opened my eyes,” says Wells, founder of Stories from the Frontline and The John and Marilyn Wells Family Foundation. “I realized that if people heard these stories, it might change things. So I decided to start a storytelling program.” One of the main goals of Stories from the Frontline is to use its storytelling events to educate the public about the importance of supportive housing and support services within the community. Three-day event Angela Sanchez, the former homeless teen, is now an author who holds a Master’s Degree in Education from UCLA. Sanchez, along with other formerly unhoused storytellers and homeless advocates, were given the opportunity to share their powerful stories at a November three-day event at St. James’ Episcopal Church, titled “Understanding Home-

lessness in Our Community.” On the first night, Nov. 18, over 200 neighbors from Hancock Park, Hollywood, Koreatown and Mid-Wilshire came together to hear stories, learn statistics, and participate in a Q&A discussion (moderated by Wells) to learn more about the housing and homeless crisis. Day two, Nov. 19, featured a “Civil Society Day” for the children of St. James’ Elementary School, who participated in a workshop on homelessness with Sanchez. The workshop is the first of several planned for students at schools throughout Southern California. Then, on Nov. 24, Sanchez connected with even more locals at Chevalier’s Books on Larchmont while signing her children’s book, “Scruffy & the Egg,” based on her experience of being homeless. The choice of St. James’ to host the event, where both Wells and Schallert’s children attended school, was a targeted one. “In order to solve this crisis, we need to get people focusing on communities and how communities can help,” says Wells. “One of those ways is to get local churches involved so that they can reach out to the people in their own communities who can help spread the word.” Working with the United Way, Wells and Schallert have coordinated storytelling events in Long Beach, Torrance, Venice, Boyle Heights, North Hollywood, Pasadena, Hollywood and Mar Vista. All events focus on the importance of supportive housing. Supportive housing “Supportive housing offers a myriad of different opportunities for people to get help with job training, substance abuse, mental illness, and other things that may have (Please turn to page 21)

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Alexandria Ave., is accepting donations of gifts or gift cards until Christmas. Contact Michele Richards at 213-3812649 or michele@alexandriahouse.org. • • • Covenant House of California, 1325 N. Western Ave., has a wish list on its website. The local shelter also appreciates donations of gift cards and items such as towels, blankets, books, clothes and portable chargers. Call 323-461-3131 or visit covenanthousecalifornia.org. ••• Good Shepherd Center for Homeless Women and Children, 1650 Rockwood St., has wish lists for items needed by adults, children, teens and people moving into their own apartments on their website, but also check Amazon for a list. Gift cards from grocers, retailers and bookstores also are helpful. Call 213-482-1834 or visit gschomeless.org/donate-an-item. • • • Drop off gifts for the “HoHo-Hollygrove Holiday Gift Drive” at 5930 Gregory Ave. Wanted this year are unwrapped gifts for children ages infant to 17 years, wrap-

VOLUNTEERS AT St. Anne’s with donated gifts.

TOY DRIVE gifts beneath tree at St. Anne’s.

ping paper, tissue, gift tags, as well as gift cards to grocery and retail stores. Cash donations designated for the holiday drive are also appreciated. Gifts can be accepted between 9 a.m. and 5 p.m. through Fri., Dec. 6. Local pickups are also available. Contact Camille Guerrero, at 323-769-7135 or camille. guerrero@upliftfs.org. Hollygrove is a division of Uplift Family Services. A final note: Try to match donations to what is needed. It might be tempting to clear out a closet or the toy box for

donating, and sometimes that is helpful. However, it is also important to make sure donations are actually going to good use. Look at the wish lists or ask the organizations what is needed. Sometimes, the best option is a cash donation, which allows the organization flexibility in applying the funds to what is most needed. Never just leave food or clothing just at the door or near encampments. Drop items off at approved locations or the items may not get used and can just end up adding trash to our streets.

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Enjoy a sing-along with seniors for Hanukkah, and get into the spirit of the season at holiday parties and concerts this month at Big Sunday, 6111 Melrose Ave., The sing-along with seniors for Hanukkah is Wed., Dec. 11, 6:30 to 7:30 p.m. Hear holiday music by singers and musicians in the Big Sunday community Sat., Dec. 14 at 7 p.m. Have more fun with caroling and Christmas treats Sun., Dec. 15, 3 to 5 p.m. at the annual holiday party. Big Sunday also has a complete list of other ways to volunteer or be involved over the holidays. Call 323-549-9944 or visit bigsunday.org.

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Marat ‘Nutcracker’ comes to life this holiday season A Sugar Plum Fairy, waltzing snowflakes and toy soldiers are among holiday favorites in Marat Daukayev Ballet Theatre’s magical performance of “The Nutcracker.” More than 150 dancers, many from our neighborhoods, will twirl and leap in seven shows this month at the Luckman Fine Arts Complex, 5151 State University Drive on the Cal State University campus. Performances are Sat., Dec. 7 at 2 and 7 p.m.; Sun., Dec. 8 at 11:30 a.m. and 4:30 p.m.; Sat., Dec. 14 at 2 and 7 p.m.; and Sun., Dec. 15 at 2 p.m. Former Kirov ballet star Marat Daukayev will dance the role of Drosselmeyer alongside his amazing students to Tchaikovsky’s score. Dancers of all ages will be featured, including acclaimed guest artists. The school moved from its longtime Miracle Mile address recently to a 10,000-squarefoot space on the second floor of the Equitable Plaza building at 3435 Wilshire Blvd. For tickets and more information visit maratdaukayev. com.

SCENE from The Nutracker in a previous Marat production.

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both venues. Read below for a schedule of events. Visit farmersmarketla.com and thegrovela.com. Original Farmers Market Fri., Dec. 6 – Salvation Army Kettle Kick Off and tree lighting with live music and singalongs, 5 p.m. Weds., Dec. 18 to Tues., Dec., 24 – Carolers, live music, holiday arts and crafts, Farmers Market hours. Sun., Dec. 22 – Hanukkah Celebration with a lighting

of a giant Lego Menorah, live music and arts and crafts, 2:30 to 5:30 p.m. The Grove Mon., Nov. 18 to Tues., Dec. 24 – Santa’s Workshop is open, 9 a.m. to 9 p.m. Make reservations online. Sun., Dec. 29 – Menorah lighting at the central fountains with live music at 6 p.m. The trolley runs Sunday through Thursday, noon to 7:45 p.m., and Friday and Saturday, 1 to 8:45 p.m. The trolley takes a break to recharge 3:45 to 5 p.m. daily.

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Electric cars debut at L.A. Auto Show and challenge Tesla’s dominance By Steven Rosenthal Technology and innovation highlighted the newest electric cars from the 2019 Auto Show that ended at the Los Angeles Convention Center Dec. 1. Enthusiasts and auto testers will measure these newbies by how the new electric car models will compare to Tesla’s Model S. Going back five years, the car company financiers took a wait-and-see attitude with Tesla’s innovative electric anomaly. Then, they watched as Tesla moved 250,000 cars, and they realized they had done too much waiting and too little seeing. To their dismay, Tesla did so well it outsold Mercedes, Porsche and Audi combined in the U.S. Not to be outdone by Tesla, avowed Tesla predators spent millions, if not longterm billions, of dollars to shape, add tech and build the best performance electrics. Porsche went for the jug-

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ular, challenging Tesla with Porsche’s legendary high-performance pedigree on the inside and Porsche design smoothness on the outside. They gave it the name Taycan, which is a mixture of two Turkic words that loosely translate to “soul of a spirited young horse.” Taycan is pricey, as Porsches go, at $190,000, while the defender, Tesla Model S, weighs in at $90,000. A closer look at the

The future EQ concepts look hot, technological and stylish. Today’s EQ SUVs are for people who want their electrics to remain anonymous at the mall, and who identify with the “I don’t care if you can’t see that I have an electric vehicle” crowd. EQs have a modest 252-mile range. Almost every car brand offered an electric. Cadillac was a no show, despite their website

performance numbers reveals a Tesla win on quickness by tenths of a second, and another win on battery range with a 370-mile range to Porsche’s 220 miles on a single charge. Audi showed a tweaked production version of what was last year’s SUV e-tron concept for $75,000. Mercedes rolled out the first of many models planned for their EQ or Electric Intelligence line.

declaring. “Cadillac is charging ahead with electrification.” An auto show surprise was sired from the Mustang stable. Ford debuted a performance Mustang called the e-Mach ($40,000 – $70,000), depending on your options. All e-Machs arrive with electric power and the pony’s familiar design cues. Targeted EPA estimated range is about 300 miles.

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Angelenos of all ages are invited to the 60th annual Los Angeles County Holiday Celebration at the Music Center, 135 N. Grand Ave., Tues., Dec. 24 from 3 to 6 p.m. The free event will feature dance, and choral and instrumental musical performances.

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FIRST CENTURY FAMILIES luncheon was in the main dining room of The California Club. Photo by Suzan Filipek

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Around the Town (Continued from page 10)

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nual luncheon of First Century Families, descendants of Los Angeles pioneers who arrived here in 1881 or before. This year’s speaker was Diane Hoffman Dixon, who grew up in Windsor Square and spoke about her great-grandfather, Lynden Behymer, and the founding of the Los Angeles Philharmonic. [The Behymer family story and the family’s local houses are set out in Section 2, beginning on Page 4.] At the Nov. 7 luncheon, local attendees included JoAnn Clark, Diane and Hank Hilty, James Inman, Carolyn Layport, Ynez O’Neill, Sarane Van Dyke and Evelyn Vodhanel. Luncheon Chair John Welborne was especially glad to

see his former teacher from Third Street School (in 1958), Carol Thueson, attending as a guest of the Dixon family. • • • Nov. 10 proved to be a busy Sunday for locals. In the morning, Carolyn Ramsay, Windsor Square, kicked off the all-day Griffith Park Festival. In the afternoon, Hancock Park’s Judge Dean Hansell and Eric Kugler opened their 1920s Tudor-style home to the Los Angeles Conservancy’s Cornerstone Members. Among those attending were Toby Horn and Harold Tomin, who have their own historic home, a Paul Williams design in Miracle Mile North. Later in the day, June Street’s former resident, Harry Chandler, and wife Ceci were hosts for a (Please turn to page 21)

Alexander N. (Sandy) Campbell, Jr.: 1942 - 2019 S

andy Campbell grew up on the corner of June Street and Melrose. From there on his bicycle, he could pedal to all the places in Hancock Park that would mold him into the man he would become. On the way home from Third Street School each day, he could stop in at his grandparents’ house on Las Palmas, where his grandmother would often slip him a dollar, which he could use to shop on Larchmont. Once home, he could pedal across to the John C. Fremont Library, where he no doubt began his lifelong love of reading or to the Los Angeles Tennis Club (LATC), where he learned the foundations of the game of tennis that would take him to the CIF Championships with the Harvard School tennis team and years of doubles matches with his father at LATC. Some days he would call his childhood friend, Dick Hillman, to meet him on Larchmont to buy comics with the dollar from his grandmother or maybe records at Stratt’s. It was a short pedal to the vacant lot on a cul de sac off June Street for baseball practice, and an even shorter pedal to his

BATTING practice; sister Suzie as catcher.

other grandparents’ house on June Street. When he wasn’t busy with all these activities, you’d probably find him involved with his Cub Scout pack. In 1965, Sandy’s family moved to that house on Las Palmas. His grandfather had built the house in 1926, when he brought his family to California from Kansas. There was virtually nothing around it. At the time, from the upstairs windows, you could see the oil derricks at Gilmore Field. In 1965, outside that upstairs window, Sandy spied the girl next door, Judy Minor, THIRD STREET SCHOOL Halloween parade in 1948 had Sandy and his who three sister Suzie on the sidelines, as seen in the Los Angeles Herald-Express.

years later would become his wife. From 1966-69, the U.S. Army took Sandy away from Hancock Park, as far away as Vietnam for a year. But when he returned from overseas in 1968 and married Judy, they settled in Hancock Park, where they raised their daughter, Alexandra. He and his father had an office on Larchmont for many years from which they ran the family businesses while Judy was working at Marlborough School. So as the accolades pour in about Sandy Campbell, who passed away in October, it’s good to remember those formative years he spent riding his bike around Hancock Park and how they contributed to the man so many valued as a friend, respected as a true gentleman, and admired as an extraordinary husband and father. His passing leaves a void not easily filled in the lives of so many, but most of all, his wife, Judy, and daughter, Alexandra.

GETTING TIPS from Herb Flam at the Los Angeles Tennis Club in 1954.

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“History Salon” at their penthouse loft near Grand Central Market on Broadway. Fascinating speakers were Dr. William Estrada, who described the history of Exposition Park; Liz Goldwyn, who read from her fictional stories of 1890s Los Angeles ladies of the evening; and David Kipen, who read some of the missives from his recent book, “Dear Los Angeles: The City in Diaries and Letters, 1542 to 2018.” Among locals enjoying the salon were Caroline and Frank Moser and Janna and Jim Harris. • • • Yet another wildly inspiring evening happened on Nov. 15 at the Beverly Hilton Hotel. It was the 2019 Big Bash of Big Brothers Big Sisters of Greater Los Angeles (BBBS), a venerated group in its 40th year. The lively crowd included the “Littles,” passionate supporters and their guests. They were all there to honor and applaud Nina Jacobson, founder and CEO of Color

HISTORY SALON attendees in the DTLA Chandler loft include Caroline and Frank Moser and Janna and Jim Harris.

Force production group, and entrepreneur Michael Green for their devotion and generosity to the youth of our city. BBBS board chairman Brock Moseley spoke of his employees at Miracle Mile Advisors and how, despite loving their work, they felt a need to give back somehow. Being paired with a Little Brother or Little Sister was the perfect choice. Ever the gracious host, Mr. Moseley greeted and shook every hand during dinner. “We are not saviors, we are allies,” he stated, re-enforcing that 82 percent of the young participants go on to college. In attendance was one of the allies, Imax President Megan Colligan, whose “Little,” Brianna, has been successfully guided to university. Also there was one of Ms. Colligan’s and Stephen Galloway’s three sons, Jesse. Brock Moseley’s wife Susan, Joe Giunta, Steve Soboroff, Carlene and John Miller, Sarah Krupta

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BIG BROTHERS Big Sisters Bash welcomed Megan Colligan and son Jesse.

ALSO AT THE BBBS BASH were Susan and Brock Moseley. Photos by Vince Bucci

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Take the elevator to the 71st floor for this culinary treat I recently had a spectacular “Ladies Who Lunch” day with a college friend who was visiting from the Midwest. It takes a special kind of friend to jump at the suggestion that we hang out at the library, but jump she did. We headed for the Central Library downtown and lucked into a parking spot directly in front of the 5th Street entrance. Having downloaded a self-guided tour, we entered that beautiful space and followed the directions to see the wall murals, painted rotundas, sculptures and collections. In honor of its

miraculous recovery from the worst library fire in Los Angeles history, we visited their gift shop and bought signed copies of Susan Orlean’s “The Library Book.” It was a glorious morning. We had planned to finish our adventure with a typical Los Angeles lunch of cheap tacos, but after wandering through the library’s garden and finding our way back to the car, I noticed that we were across the street from the US Bank Tower, also known as the Library Tower because the city sold air rights to the building’s

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not cups of same, for sale. Customers may purchase bags of coffee beans to brew at home. Although you can’t order a cup to drink on the spot, Marius Daniel Popa, CEO of Green Maya, stands ready to serve samples of their organic specialty coffees. Popa shares that this Green Maya location is serving as a prototype for possible future, full-service Green Maya coffee shops. Green Maya — which takes its name from a claim by National Geographic that organic specialty coffee was one of the top Mayan foods — harvests its coffee beans from South and Central America. The company’s website promises that all of the products are “fair-trade, coming from sustainable and traceable sources.” (Please turn to page 23)

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Hear Mozart like it’s 1791 with some fine tuning from the Kasimoffs Just in time for the holidays, Mozart’s uplifting opera “The Magic Flute” is on stage at the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion through Dec. 15. The pianoforte in the Los Angeles Opera production is a replica of the original, Kyril Kasimoff of Kasimoff-Blüthner Piano Co. tells us. The Larchmont Blvd. store delivered the early-music piano to the Pavilion in time for rehearsals, and store staff continues to tune the instrument to critical acclaim. “It’s getting rave reviews for its natural sound,” Helga Kasimoff tells us.

“Serge, my eldest, is at every performance, and he stayed for all the rehearsals,” she explains. The opera first premiered in 1791, while this much newer Komische Oper Berlin production is set in the silent film era. Another instrument from the family-owned Larchmont Blvd. store that is in the spotlight this month is its celesta. The instrument’s soft, ethereal notes can be heard in the score of the new TriStar movie with Tom Hanks, “A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood.” “We have [instruments in] two prominent productions right now,” Helga says.

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(Continued from page 22) Holiday drinks With the holidays right around the corner, many local coffee shops are offering tempting new winter-themed specialties. Two shops with the most anticipated offerings are Starbucks and The Coffee Bean and Tea Leaf, and there are plenty of both of these popular businesses to be found in the Larchmont area. A count by the Larchmont Chronicle found there to be approximately 10 Starbucks and seven The Coffee Bean and Tea Leaf locations between Western Ave. and Fairfax Ave. and between Melrose Ave. and Olympic Blvd. “Red Cup Day,” Nov. 8., marked the beginning of Starbucks’ winter drink season, further signified by the company’s transition to serving coffee in festive red cups. Starbucks aficionados took to social media and uploaded pictures of themselves sipping their favorite seasonal drinks with the tag #red-

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An astonishingly good man is in the Neighborhood; five other good films A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood (8/10): 108 minutes. PG. Tom Hanks gives his finest performance in this biopic that adds strong supporting performances by Matthew Rhys and Chris Cooper, among others. It’s hard to believe that a man is this pure but this film started with a standup by Mr. Rogers’ widow, Joanne, vouching for it. Telling the story of a troubled magazine writer doing an article on him as a vehicle to tell Mr. Rogers’ story is uniquely effective to capture the essence of an astonishingly good man. Ford v Ferrari (8/10): 150 minutes. PG-13. While entertaining with good racing sequences, this plays fast and loose with the truth. As just two examples, it paints Ford executive Leo Beebe (Josh Lucas) as a villain when there is very little evidence of that and makes driver Ken Miles (Christian Bale) look like a malcontent

when the truth is just the opposite. Both actors give awardquality performances. It’s disappointing that Hollywood always seems to take such liberties to “beef up” a story that doesn’t need any beefing. The Good Liar (8/10): 109 minutes. R. Con man Roy Courtnay (Ian McKellen) puts the moves on rich widow Betty McLeish (Helen Mirren) through an online dating service. Roy is a smooth old codger and Betty is bewitched. I feel sorry for the people who have read the novel (not that it’s not a good one) because they know from the outset what’s going on. I didn’t read it and, as a result, enjoyed this immensely. Mirren gives her usual award-quality performance, but so does McKellen. Although it’s mostly talk, Condon directs with a fine sense of pace. This is a good one, despite a huge plot hole

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Tony Medley that most won’t notice. Knives Out (8/10): 130 minutes. PG-13. It was hard to believe that this Agatha Christie-type mystery was 10 minutes over two hours because it keeps moving throughout without one slow minute. Highlighted by a captivating performance by Daniel Craig imagining Hercule Poirot as a Southerner, aided by a fine cast of supporting actors and actresses, including Chris Evans, Toni Collette, Jamie Lee Curtis, Christopher Plummer and Don Johnson, the twists come one after another along with a bewitching lightness.

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ments up well: “The key to his success is an instinctive understanding that his taste spoke for millions and millions of people. It wasn’t trying to figure out what they liked; it was what he liked. He was betting that what he liked, they would like. And he was very, very right.” (HBO.) Midway (3/10): 138 minutes. PG-13. This fits right in with the old hokey B movies that Hollywood churned out by the dozens during World War II, including the platitudinous dialogue. The first hourplus is so uninvolving and clichéd it’s soporific. It is directed by Roland Emmerich, who is responsible for “The Day After Tomorrow” (2004) and “White House Down” (2013), two of the dumbest movies I’ve ever had the misfortune to endure. It should not come as a surprise that this film is so poorly done. The only reason I don’t give this terrible film a zero is because the attack by the dive-bombers on the Japanese aircraft carriers is very well done. It shows the harrowing danger of diving to bomb a ship in the face of immense anti-aircraft bullets that were being thrown at them. It’s amazing that any of them survived, but it certainly emphasizes the courage of the pilots who kept on coming. The rest of the movie is an insult to what is one of the great battles in the history of the world (like virtually ignoring Torpedo Squadron 8 that lost all 16 planes and all the truly heroic pilots but one). Charlie’s Angels (2/10): 120 minutes. R. I guess women want to prove they can do anything a man can do, including making senseless “action” films that have no raison d’être. Director Elizabeth Banks has done it in spades with this movie. It’s got all the stuff men put in their puerile action movies: ridiculous car chases, fights delivering one killing blow after another with the combatants always jumping up for more virtually unscathed, banal dialogue that is intended to be clever, scenes that make no sense whatever, falls that defy physics, papier-mâché characters, etc., etc., etc. This is a film without reason, wit or charm.

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Stories told with country music; Iceland’s frightening Nazi threat Salvage, book by Tim Alderson, music and lyrics by Mark Heard, Pat Terry, Rudy Vanwarmer and Tim Alderson, is billed as a play with music. The play takes place in a rundown, out-of-the-way bar, excellent scenic design by Joel Daavid. Preacher (David Atkinson) a lone guitarist, is strumming and drinking from a bottomless whiskey bottle. Bartender Johnson (Leonard Earl Howze) is deep into a puzzle book. Harley (Christopher Fordinal) arrives looking for the bar where Floyd Whitaker, a somewhat famous musical star, died. He’s found it. Harley is on his way to pawn his guitar; his wife Destiny (Nina Herzog) is pregnant with their first child. So, this is a pilgrimage to visit his hero’s last gig and possibly say goodbye to a lifestyle he loves. What follows is an exploration of weighing dreams and

aspirations against responsibility paced with some very sweet country music. As the story is told, songs like “I’m So Tired of It All,” “House of Broken Dreams” and Destiny’s “Everything is Alright” reveal the characters’ deeper emotions. The singing voices of Mr. Atkinson, Mr. Fordinal and Ms. Herzog are terrific, resonating with just the right amount of emotion and perfect country timbre. Director Damian D. Lewis has melded the music and dialogue seamlessly. The ending ties it all together in a satisfying conclusion, connecting the

seemingly disparate stories. This is a lovely interlude in the theater with some terrific music, talented performers and a satisfying play. Don’t miss it. Through Sun., Dec. 15, Lounge Theatre, 6201 Santa Monica Blvd., Hollywood, 323-960-7712, onstage411. com/salvage. 4 Stars ••• The island of Hrísey off Iceland’s Northern Coast. Spring 1942. Invasion by Nazi Germany is a frightening reality. This is the set-up for The Defenders by Cailin Maureen Harrison. Three American GIs — Sgt. Frank McKinely (Tavis Doucette), Pvt. Fred LeFleur (Spencer Martin) and Lt. Marcus Jansen (Bryan Porter) — find shelter in an abandoned church, (excellent scenic design by David Goldstein). The play centers on their struggle to survive,

isolated and alone with a broken radio, damaged and missing weapons, constant threat of discovery and a series of unnatural and natural, yet unexplainable, phenomena: fluttering lights, earthquakes, lightning strikes, incessant rain and more. Tempering the situation is local Rev. Geir Stirdson (a terrific John P. Connolly) and his daughter Vigdis Geirdottir (Una Egerts). The reverend takes great pride in his country and is fiercely loyal. The residents of Hrísey fear the loss of their culture, their women and their safety with the presence of foreigners on their land. According to playwright Harrison, “the play examines the relationship between political and natural environments.” Director Reena Dutt keeps the intensity of the soldiers at a fevered pitch with only some respite. Mr. Martin’s (Pvt. LeFleur) Cajun

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American Ballet Theatre (ABT) will host its annual Holiday Gala dinner and one-nightonly performance at the Beverly Hilton Hotel Mon., Dec. 16. The performance will feature ABT dancers, with principal dancers Isabella Boylston, Misty Copeland, Christine Shevchenko, Cory Sterns and Devon Teuscher scheduled to appear. Honorary Chair of the ABT Holiday Gala is Jennifer Garner. Cocktail reception is at 7:30 p.m., the performance with dinner, and dessert with the dancers to follow. Tickets start at $1,000. Contact Judy Levy at Judy@lpaevents.com or 310-201-5033 Ext. 2.

Carol-athon to visit local houses Dec. 14; book now

Silverlake Conservatory of Music (SCM) is holding its annual Carol-athon fundraiser on Sat., Dec. 14, from 5 to 7 p.m. For a $100 donation, more than 75 singers will visit your home to sing two holiday (Christmas or Hanukkah) favorites, sung right on your doorstep by enthusiastic carolers from SCM’s children and adult choirs. To request SCM carolers visit your house, contact Karen Gilman at 323-466-1541, gilperson2@gmail.com. Want to join the group to go caroling? Email SCM at receptionSCM@outlook.com.

Art, mingling at Pop-Up Gallery

Keller Williams Larchmont hosts its ninth annual Pop-Up Art Gallery, 118 N. Larchmont Blvd., on Sat., Dec. 7 from 6 to 9 p.m. Fifty percent of art sale proceeds will be donated to local Larchmont Charter School.

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(Continued from page 2) ish signs, Reuven and Shevy Gradon got exactly what they wanted. We look forward to welcoming them to the neighborhood. Johnson Hartig N. Citrus Ave. This was such a beautiful and special home! It is devastating it is gone and extremely disappointing that lies were told that it would remain protected and loved by the new owners. And that letter is so morally corrupt after what he did. What a disgrace! And I wish he would have decided to at least remove parts of the house in a historical preservation way. I would have bought a number of parts of that incredible home. Kat J. N. Las Palmas Ave. I completely agree — so sad that deception was used to tear down a beautiful home. Casey Towle Thanks for a great article that focuses on what truly matters in this case. I’m a property rights kind of guy, and it’s a shame to lose such a lovely house. But the real travesty is that we now have a morally bankrupt, lying [person] living in our neighbor-

HOLIDAYS — DECEMBER 2019 hood that sold his name and soul for a piece of dirt. Thanks for exposing him, and may karma act swiftly. Mansfield Neighbor Isn’t this a violation of the Demolition Notification Ordinance (Scorched Earth), and can’t this Gradon putz be subjected to a 15-year moratorium on building in that nowvacant spot? Gregory Z. Hollywood, CA I live on North Mansfield Avenue, one block west of the recent thoughtless and unnecessary demolition of the home at 361 North Citrus Avenue. I did not have the pleasure of knowing the Cole family who previously lived at this location, but I did know another family who lived there prior to the Coles. Like the Coles, this family sold the property to the Coles with the express desire that the house be preserved. The Cole’s recent letter to the Larchmont Chronicle regarding the sneaky, surprise demolition of this beautiful home moved me to write this letter. I am so sorry that they were deceived by the purchasers of their property. The attitude of disregard for promises made, disregard for neighbors and neighborhood, can be summed up in a popu-

lar saying, “Get over it.” Those of us who love beauty and history will never “Get over it.” Nora Summers N. Mansfield Ave Heartless, selfish criminals, plain and simple. What you wanna bet they plan to build a McMansion… Yoo Mei

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earth” penalties for similar destruction. The penalty that new owners Reuven and Shevy Gradon will endure will be distrust and shunning by their neighbors for however many, if any, years they live there. As my grandmother and mother would say, “What a shanda.” Toby Horn Miracle Mile

Thank you for your accurate and honest report regarding the demolition of the culturally historic home at 361 N. Citrus Ave. Without proper notification, we, the neighbors, stood in horror at seeing hammers blasting out the leaded glass windows alongside a bulldozer hard at work even before a fence was in place to (Please turn to page 28)

Too bad they cannot be sued for misrepresentation and forced to rebuild that home as it was before they got their grubby paws on it. It will be a mitzvah when what they did comes back as karma. Gail Landers How very sad to lose this charming piece of special architectural history, but even more so, to lose another bit of trust in humanity and feel the hurt for the rest of your life. Lesson learned: put it in the contract! Michael Scheidt S. Sycamore Ave. As I write this, I still feel emotional about the needless and selfish demolition of 361 North Citrus Ave. Ancient teachings tell us that it is unethical to deceive someone to achieve one’s selfish gain. Other property owners have been levied with “scorched

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(Continued from page 1) ated 315 comments in four days. Multiple letters appeared in the “Park Labrea News” / “Beverly Press,” on Nov. 7 and Nov. 14, including one from a potential home buyer, Michael Rucker of Larchmont Village, who wrote on Nov. 14: “Not only am I sickened at the thought of one of my favorite houses in Los Angeles now being in

rubble, my wife and I, trying to be first time home owners, are equally disturbed and angered at the thought that we could be outbid by couples like the Gradons who misrepresent their desires to protect historically significant homes.” Protecting a home Learning how to protect a home when it is being sold was a common theme of many letters and articles stimulated by the action of Reuven Gra-

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don and his wife at 361 N. Citrus Ave. The “Larchmont Buzz” responded with a helpful Nov. 11 article about “An Architectural Loss… and Lessons Learned” that includes the recommendations: “Don’t leave preservation up to new buyers;” “Do look into preservation options well before you put your home on the market;” and “Be aware of the many kinds of preservation options” (such as Historic Preservation Overlay Zones

[HPOZs], Historic-Cultural Monument designations, National Register of Historic Places listings, and conservation easements). See: larchmontbuzz.com/featuredstories-larchmont-village/361n-citrus-ave-an-architecturalloss-and-preservation-lessonslearned. Conservation easements The Los Angeles Conservancy’s Nov. / Dec. newsletter has some guidance on using

covenants in a grant deed … that author Adrian Scott Fine describes as “the best way to save a historic resource.” In his “Easements Demystified” article, Fine explains that conservation easements can provide stronger protection than traditional landmark or historic district designation. See: tinyurl.com/uvtuegw. For more information about conservation easements, visit: laconservancy.org/easements.

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since it is not attributed to a specific individual. The locations of the wells we identified under the direct supervision of the head of Urban Forestry Tim Tyson.” I’d sure like to learn the real story, as I know you would also. Dennis Levin Norton Avenue

(Continued from page 27) protect the house next door. What was heartwarming was witnessing so many caring people from various city agencies and neighbors offering a commitment to make this area an HPOZ. It is my hope that the new dwelling will meet the standards of height and setbacks without overbearing the houses that have integrity of size with lovely front gardens. As David and Cassidy Cole so beautifully stated, “Our neighborhoods and our communities deserve better than what happened at 361 North Citrus Avenue.” Thank you for allowing our voices to be heard. Brooke Anderson N. Citrus Ave. There’s a moratorium to build? New homes add value to the neighborhood. Why do you all care so much? It’s America friends — we build and improve... HPOZ is to the south — not

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Shame on Councilman Ryu and Ronald Simms for ignoring the wishes of our neighborhood. You both lose my support over this issue! Finian Shea Johnson Windsor Square

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Your article (Nov. 2019) about the placement of the southernmost tree re-sparked my interaction with Rob Fisher from Councilman Ryu’s office. I had previously written to him indicating that the placement of the trees led credence to the narrative that Mr. Simms and company were the drivers on all action taken. He had indicated that Urban Forestry had been the decider on tree location. His response to my “Something is not kosher” follow-up email, where I pointed out your mention of the eight feet from driveway comment from Urban Forestry. The following is his [Mr. Fisher’s] response. Please ignore his, I assume, typo in the agency name. “Yes. I don’t know where they got that information,

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On the John Oliver show [“Last Week Tonight” / HBO], I have recently seen a segment on the vulnerability of the nation’s voting machines, and I was wondering if there was anything a teenager like myself could do to improve the situation or, at the very least, if I could find out what kind of voting machines my local voting center uses. I am worried that when the time to vote comes, I will not be able to trust that my vote will be counted. I hope that I will be confident in the safety of the nation’s voting infrastructure in the future, but I cannot be confident while these vulnerabilities in the system exist. Again, if there any way for me to make a difference? James D’Atri Larchmont Village Ed. Note: Please read our article this month on the new voting machines, Sec. 2, page 12.

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(Continued from page 1) cent interaction I had with Rob Fisher from Councilman Ryu’s office,” wrote Dennis Levin, Norton Avenue, in a letter to the Chronicle. “I had previously written to Fisher indicating that the placement of the tree well gave credence to the narrative that Mr. Simms [a Beverly Hills developer, and landlord for the drugstore at 226 N. Larchmont Blvd.] was the driver on all action taken to remove the trees and move the tree well,” he explained. According to Levin, Fisher responded that the tree well was moved under the direct supervision of Los Angeles Chief Forester Tim Tyson. “I’d sure like to learn the real story, as I know you would also,” challenged Levin. On the decision to move the tree well location, Paul Gomez, a spokesman for the Los Angeles Department of Public Works (of which the Urban Forestry Division is a part), submitted the following statement to the Chronicle: “With a commitment to ensure that both tree wells were replaced, but taking into consideration the existence of a streetlight and driveway, the tree wells were moved slightly to accommodate the two new trees while meeting the city’s

HOLIDAYS — DECEMBER 2019 tree spacing guidelines.” This statement raises the question of how those city guidelines have changed since the tree wells were first installed years ago. The Chronicle posed this question to Gomez, and requested from him details of the city’s tree spacing guidelines. “We are not certain of specific tree spacing guidelines that were in place when the trees on Larchmont Boulevard were planted 60 years ago,” Gomez said in a written response. “In order to have two trees remain, as was requested by members of the community, one tree was placed closer to the driveway than normal to maintain proper space between the two trees, which is important to the health of the trees and infrastructure,” he concluded.

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Property crime continues, stay diligent WILSHIRE DIVISION BURGLARIES: A suspect jumped over a back gate and entered the garage of a home on the 500 block of S. Lucerne Blvd. on Oct. 27 at 6:15 p.m. before taking several items and fleeing through a side gate. Cash and jewelry were stolen from inside a home on the 600 block of S. Mansfield Ave. on Oct. 29 between 6 and 7:15 p.m. after a front window had been pried open. Unknown property was stolen from inside a home on the 400 block of N. June St. between Oct. 30 at 8 p.m. and Oct. 31 at 1 p.m. after a window had been smashed and the

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a home on the 800 block of S. Bronson Ave. on Nov. 9 at 4:10 a.m. allowing suspects to enter the home and steal a safe containing cash and jewelry. GRAND THEFT AUTO: A 2001 white Ford F250 truck was stolen on the 300 block of S. Norton Ave. on Nov. 8 at 9 a.m.

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Larchmont Chronicle

DECEMBER 2019

SECTION TWO

Tragedy on Citrus tells of loss of ‘memory, continuity and identity’

Brookside Gem!

Few names in the recent memory of our neighborhood have fallen further into ignominy than that of Reuven Gradon, who through mendacious A Rare Opportunity! flattery and lies purchased Sold in Multiple Offers Significantly Over the Asking Price the Tudor gem of a home formerly located at 361 N. Citrus Avenue and then promptly A Rare Opportunity! On carried out its Sold in Multiple Offers Significantly Over the Asking Price d e m o l i t i o n . Preservation He also made by the decision Brian Curran to forego the statutory niceties of posting notices for 30 days, informing his immediate neighbors or going before the Greater Wilshire Neighborhood Council Planning and Land Use Committee to explain. 428 N Las Palmas Ave | $3,750,000 The Such was his stealth that A rare opportunity to purchase a classic English Tudor in 1930 by the distinguished world-renowned architect, Paul Williams! 825designed Muirfield Road timeless elegance and authentic period details include impressive wood detailing in the elegant living room and spacious formal dining room, even Councilman Paul Koretz French doors, hardwood floors, and leaded glass 428 windows. The wood paneled library and the living room offer views of the manicured garden. N Las Palmas Ave | $3,750,000 $1,925,000 was puzzlingly unable to react Powder room is located in the entry hall. Other rooms include the kitchen, pantry, breakfast room, maid’s room and bath. Upstairs in addition A rare opportunity to purchase a classic English Tudor designed in 1930 by the distinguished world-renowned architect, Paul Williams! The to the master bedroom, room anddetails bath,include there impressive are three wood otherdetailing bedrooms twoliving baths. Basement and an attic timeless elegancedressing and authentic period in theand elegant room and spacious formal diningprovide room, additional quickly enough, leaving it to French doors, hardwood floors, and leaded glass windows. wood paneled the living room offer views of the manicured garden. storage. Garage is located at end of long driveway. HancockThe Park HPOZ andlibrary Third and Street School. neighbors to try to physically Powder room is located in the entry hall. Other rooms include the kitchen, pantry, breakfast room, maid’s room and bath. Upstairs in addition to the master bedroom, dressing room and bath, there are three other bedrooms and two baths. Basement and an attic provide additional intervene. Their efforts came to storage. Garage is located at end of long driveway. Hancock Park HPOZ and Third Street School. naught, and they were forced to Sandy Boeck Hancock Park watch helplessly as demolition 251 N. Larchmont Blvd. 323.687.6552 Sandy Boeck Hancock Park Los Angeles, CA 90004 crews, clearly briefed to expect CalDRE: 01005153 251 N. Larchmont Blvd. 323.687.6552 Los Angeles, CA 90004 resistance, carried out their CalDRE: 01005153 Real estate agents affiliated with Coldwell Banker Residential Brokerage are independent contractor sales associates, not employees. ©2019 Coldwell Banker Residential Brokerage. All Rights Reserved. Coldwell Banker Residential Brokerage fully supwith brutal and barports the principles of the Fair Housing Act and the Equal Opportunity Act. Owned by a subsidiary of NRT LLC. Coldwell Banker, the Coldwell Banker logo, Coldwell Banker Global Luxury and the Coldwell Banker Global Luxury logo are registeredmission service marks owned by Coldwell Banker Real Estate LLC. CalDRE #: 01005153 baric efficiency. Architectural and artistic elements, which Real estate agents affiliated with Coldwell Banker Residential Brokerage are independent contractor sales associates, not employees. ©2019 Coldwell Banker Residential Brokerage. All Rights Reserved. Coldwell Banker Residential Brokerage fully supports the principles of the Fair Housing Act and the Equal Opportunity Act. Owned by a subsidiary of NRT LLC. Coldwell Banker, the Coldwell Banker logo, Coldwell Banker Global Luxury and the Coldwell Banker Global Luxury logo are registered service marks owned by Coldwell Banker Real Estate LLC. CalDRE #: 01005153

could have been salvaged, were intentionally destroyed. Several media outlets covered the story, including the “Larchmont Buzz,” which mournfully made the point that the loss was avoidable if preservation tools could have been applied prior to the sale. The house, recognized by SurveyLA, was eligible for local designation, the neighborhood could have created an Historic Preservation Overlay Zone (HPOZ), or conservation easements could have been arranged. But hindsight is no substitute or succor for vanished heritage. So what is it that makes the destruction of 361 N. Citrus so gut-wrenching? Why all the fuss? Thompson M. Mayes, vice president and senior counsel for the National Trust for Historic Preservation, in his book, “Why Old Places Matter,” states that “…old places are important for people to define who they are through memory, (Please turn to page 3)

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(Continued from page 2) continuity, and identity… These fundamental reasons inform all of the other reasons that follow: commemoration, beauty, civic identity, and the reasons that are more pragmatic — preservation as a tool for community revitalization, the stabilization of property values, economic development and sustainability.” Hancock Park and its adjacent neighborhoods are nothing if not defined by their nature and significance as historic neighborhoods, characterized by architecturally significant properties, the vast majority of which are protected through HPOZs. Preservation is a core value shared by the area’s large and diverse population from which it has benefited culturally and economically. The demolition of 361 N. Citrus is so jarring to the community because it threatened and violated this value — robbing the community of a piece of its “memory, continuity and identity.” Reuven Gradon says that he will build something “that will draw on neighborhood character for the design.” This is simply impossible for someone who grew up in the neighborhood, but does not understand nor share its values. If he was

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Larchmont Chronicle

DECEMBER 2019

SECTION TWO

The Behymer Family in Hancock Park, Brookside and Windsor Square

In last month’s Larchmont Chronicle, Larchmont Blvd. resident John Donley suggested that Chronicle readers might enjoy seeing periodic profiles of “someone in the neighborhood in which we’d get to know that person....” In this issue, because 1919 is the centennial of the founding of the Los Angeles Philharmonic Orchestra, we are profiling a local family — from the

in local houses on June Street, Muirfield Road, Arden Boulevard, Poinsettia Place, Gramercy Place and Citrus Avenue. Behymer descendants attended Third Street School, John Burroughs Junior High School, Los Angeles High School and Marlborough School. This is the story of that family and the founding of the Los Angeles Philharmonic Orchestra.

past — that was intimately involved in the founding of the orchestra and other matters musical in early Los Angeles.

By Diane Hoffman Dixon The Windsor Square-Hancock Park neighborhood has played an important role in the lives of the descendants of pioneer Los Angeles music impresario Lynden Behymer, with these descendants having lived

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Dakota Territory origins Lynden Ellsworth Behymer and his wife Menetta Sparkes met in the Dakota Territory in the 1880s, having ventured west from Shelbyville, Illinois, and Chautauqua County, New York, respectively. They married in January 1886, made a visit to see relatives in Shelbyville in May, and arrived in Los Angeles in June of 1886, thanks to the railroad fare wars, which made rail travel practically free. As Menetta was due to give birth to their first child (Glen) in October, she made herself at home in their leased rooms in the heart of downtown Los Angeles. Behymer set off to find some income. Having been in the construction and retail business in the Dakotas, he found a job with a lumber mill. Later on, due to the theatrical influences in his family and his love of books (especially classical literature), he found a day job at a bookstore and would work in any capacity in theaters at night. Two more children entered the family in 1888 (Enid) and 1889 (Elsie). Both Behymer’s father and sister would soon join the family in Los Angeles. Managing artists By 1890, Behymer estab-

IMPRESSARIO L.E. Behymer produced cultural programming in Los Angeles for 50 years.

lished himself as an artists’ manager with his presentation of Adelina Patti (French opera singer) in Mott Hall. The city was still small (about 50,000), and networking within the community was easily done. Both Mr. and Mrs. Behymer were well acquainted with the Chautauqua Assemblies (begun 1874 in New York) that traveled to communities and held summer sessions of learning in the arts (music, art, drama, literature) and athletic exercises. (Please turn to page 6)

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“La Boheme” Music captivated Behymer. Around 1896-97, he and his friend, Harley Hamilton, began planning for both a Los Angeles Symphony Orchestra and a Women’s Symphony Orchestra. Hamilton would conduct both of the music ensembles for their first 18 years. Behymer,

in 1897, brought “La Boheme” to the Los Angeles Theater via an opera company from Turin, Italy — on a world tour just one year after Puccini composed “La Boheme.” (There was a Los Angeles Theater on Spring Street in the late 1800s. The parking structure of the former “Los Angeles Times” building now is at that location.) In 1901, Behymer welcomed the Metropolitan Opera

Company from New York to again perform “La Boheme” — this time at Hazard’s Pavilion, across from Pershing Square, with Mme. Nellie Melba in her debut as Mimi and Miss Fritzi Scheff as Musetta. Los Angeles Philharmonic For 23 years, the Los Angeles Symphony Orchestra had sponsors, but the list sometimes varied from year to year, and the monies were not

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always the same. Mr. Behymer was more than thrilled when Mr. William Andrews Clark, Jr. approached him in 1918 to discuss Mr. Clark’s establishing an endowment for the formation of a philharmonic orchestra in Los Angeles. It was up to Behymer to search for a proper, well-known conductor and to assemble the orchestra, which he did. By early 1919, with the international assistance of Joseph Dupuy (a French-born tenor who moved to Los Angeles in 1888), Behymer contracted Walter Henry Rothwell as the conductor for 90 first-class musicians, many of whom came from the Los Angeles Symphony Orchestra. Mr. Behymer was the Los Angeles Philharmonic’s manager for its first four years. Impresario Thereafter, Behymer became the manager for seasonal grand opera and ballet and many individual artists for their Los Angeles and

Southwestern United States engagements (i.e. Helena Modjeska, Paderewski, Fritz Kreisler, Jascha Heifetz, Ernestine Schumann-Heink, Lawrence Tibbett, Yehudi Menuhin, Nelson Eddy, Arthur Rubenstein, Marian Anderson and Lily Pons). He would present them in his Behymer Tuesday and Thursday Artist Courses (Series) at the Philharmonic Auditorium (Fifth and Olive), at the Trinity Auditorium (Ninth and Grand), at the Shrine Auditorium, as well as at the Hollywood Bowl (the original plans for which were once laid out in his son Glen’s living room). Menetta managed the box office while her husband managed the front and back of the theater. Turn of the century The three Behymer children spent most of their youth in a home near 30th Street near today’s Downtown. They all attended Los Angeles High (Please turn to page 8)

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ELSIE BEYHMER MOODY residence on Arden Boulevard at 1st Street — built of adobe bricks.

Behymer family (Continued from page 6)

School, which was then located on Fort Moore Hill, just north of Bunker Hill. The family’s main source of transportation was the Red Car line, as the senior Behymers did not drive. Just before Enid entered high school, the family moved “west” to Carondelet St., just one block from Westlake (now MacArthur) Park, where they had boating parties. June, Muirfield, Arden After each child completed high school, it was off to college. Glen graduated from George Washington University

and became a lawyer. He eventually moved to the 600 block of South June Street and raised his family. Enid and Elsie attended USC, where they met their husbands. Neither sister completed college. In 1911, Enid married a professor of political science, Roy Malcom (changed to Malcolm in the 1940s), and they lived for some time also on Carondelet. Eventually, their young family moved to Muirfield Road in the Brookside neighborhood. Elsie married her soldier husband Earl Moody, who had just received his medical degree in 1917. After he returned from World War I, they built their adobe-brick home at

First and Arden. Los Angeles High on Olympic Boulevard Of the 11 grandchildren of Lynden and Menetta Behymer, eight attended Los Angeles High School, by then located on Olympic Boulevard at Rimpau. In the ’30s and ’40s, the school was a grand edifice of light-colored brick. Unfortunately, earthquake damage resulted in its demolition. One granddaughter attended Marlborough School. Another granddaughter, Lynn Moody, was the only grandchild to remain in the vicinity. She and her husband Ralph Hoffman first lived on Poinsettia Place (1947 to 1949), then Gramercy Place (1949 to 1954) and finally South Citrus Avenue from 1954 until her death in 2006. Her daughters (including the author) attended Third Street School and John Burroughs, as did their mother. The daughters matriculated from Marlborough School. The home on Carondelet

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DECEMBER 2019

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Larchmont Village neighbors meet with Ryu; voting discussed

COUNCILMAN RYU talks with LVNA residents about his three-pronged approach to the homelessness crisis.

By Billy Taylor Larchmont Village residents gathered Nov. 12 to hear an update from Councilmember David Ryu at the Larchmont Village Neighborhood Association (LVNA) semi-annual meeting held at Van Ness Elementary. Ryu talked to neighbors about local issues such as ongoing concerns with Raleigh Studio parking and the city’s new home-sharing ordinance, which, Ryu said, should address problems with “party houses” that plague many single-family neighborhoods. On the subject of homelessness, Ryu reaffirmed to residents

Councilmember Ryu addresses Brookside at winter meeting In a busy Mid-Wilshire week for Fourth District City Councilmember David Ryu, he was present at homeown-

COUNCILMAN RYU at Memorial Branch Library for Brookside meeting.

ers’ association meetings on Tues., Wed. and Thurs., Nov. 12, 13 and 14. At the Wednesday meeting in Brookside, he participated in animated discussions about homelessness. The remainder of the meeting concerned updates on a Brookside community survey, discussion of board membership, a report on water levels in the Brookside stream, and upcoming neighborhood caroling. LAPD Senior Lead Officer Hebel Rodriguez also was on hand for the meeting of approximately 30 people.

his three-pronged approach to curbing the crisis: (1) housing existing homeless; (2) preventing homelessness by protecting affordable housing; and (3) providing critical mental health and counseling services. A representative from the Los Angeles County Registrar’s office also was on hand

to walk residents through a new voting system that will be rolled out in time for the March 2020 city, county and presidential primaries. Michael Iturralde, commu-

nity and voter outreach officer, explained that the Voting Solutions for All People project, or VSAP, is a county initiative to improve and mod(Please turn to page 10)

Windsor Square hosts panel at annual meeting

The annual “Town Hall” meeting of the Windsor Square Association (WSA) took place Thurs., Nov.14, at The Ebell (Please turn to page 10)

COUNCILMAN RYU at Windsor Square meeting at The Ebell.

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Larchmont Village (Continued from page 9) ernize voting by eliminating a precinct-based model and replacing that with a “Vote Center” model. The change will create an 11-day voting window that will allow any voter to visit any open voting center. Iturralde explained that the

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Vote Centers will be equipped with state-of-the-art Ballot Marking Devices, or BMDs, which incorporate a modern touch-screen interface, but still retains a paper ballot for security. In regard to a question on the “hackability” of such devices, Iturralde reassured residents that the BMDs are “unhackable” because they are in no way connected to the internet. Senior Lead Officers Dave

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Cordova (Wilshire Division) and Joe Pelayo (Olympic Division) were both on hand to talk about local issues, including complaints of a known vagrant defecating on residents’ driveways. Although allegedly known to police, the suspect has not been arrested, to the frustration of homeowners. Officer Pelayo, who noted that he gets more calls from residents on homeless-

ness issues than anything else, turned the discussion over to Neighborhood Prosecutor Andrew Said, who explained that arrests in such cases are unproductive and such inci-

dents should be made with results in mind, which mean that suspects with serious mental-health issues require resources and attention outside of the City’s jail system.

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even for people experiencing both homelessness and mental health or criminality issues. They also agreed that there is literature available for people interested in how to help address the issue. Both Rosato and Ryu referred to handouts they had available in the room, including a “Homeless Service and Resources Guide” from Rosato and the Greater Wilshire Neighborhood Council and the Councilmember’s flyer describing his “three-pronged solution” to comprehensively address homelessness. Most of the panel discussion was devoted to current issues such as the reported $600,000 per unit cost of apartment construction, the arguments by writers Mike Gatto and Howard Husock concerning involuntary treatment of some people now on the streets, and nonhomeless people’s growing dissatisfaction with the situation. As a pleasant contrast to those discussions, the WSA presented its 20th annual Squeaky Wheel award to local resident and architect Mary Pickhardt “for twenty-five years of preservation leadership.”

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of Los Angeles. The assembly, of approximately 50, heard from president Larry Guzin about the status of state-directed local re-zoning, especially SB 50 from San Francisco’s state senator, Scott Wiener, which is expected to be revived for debate in the State Legislature in January. WSA board member Helen Hartung spoke of the challenges of maintaining the canopy of mature sidewalk trees in the Larchmont Blvd. shopping street. The highlight of the meeting was a panel discussion moderated by board member John Welborne and featuring Tammy Rosato, from the La Brea Hancock Homeowners Association, and Councilmember David Ryu, who was present for his third Mid-Wilshire area neighborhood meeting in three days. At the outset, Rosato and Ryu quickly agreed that “housing first” is the right policy for women and children, for single women, and for those simply down on their luck — and

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March 3 Super Tuesday elections: New procedures, new voters By Talia Abrahamson Every four years there is a new batch of teenagers eligible to vote in the local and primary elections. But on March 3, all voters in Los Angeles County will be approaching new ballot boxes for the first time. They will be voting in local and primary elections. The Voting Solutions for All People (VSAP) project, a County initiative passed in 2016 under the California Voter’s Choice Act, has overhauled the voting model, from ballots to polling centers to voting periods, to improve security, integrity, cost effectiveness and public trust. Among

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Kids of all reading levels can choose from a variety of affordable books at the Scholastic Arctic Adventure Book Fair at Third Street Elementary School, 201 S. June St., Thurs., Dec. 5 from 7:45 a.m. to 4 p.m. and Fri., Dec. 6 from 7:45 a.m. to 8 p.m. Friday night will feature a special family night. Shopping can also be done at tinyurl.com/v8you9f. Scholastic will give back two percent in rewards to Third Street.

other sweeping changes, ballot boxes will feature touch screens with the capacity to scan QR-coded ballots from mobile devices, and voters will have 11 days to cast votes. The youth vote These reforms, already piloted in five California counties in the 2018 elections, will seem new to old-time voters, but for newly eligible voters, it will be the only system of voting they will have experienced. James D’Atri, 18, a Larchmont Village resident and a senior at Providence High School, plans to vote on Super Tuesday. “I am looking for someone who has a plan to deal with climate change and its fallout,” D’Atri said. “To get even a small percentage of the youth vote, I think candidates need to address both climate change and mass shootings in a substantial way.” The highest level of young voters in at least the last 25 years, at 31% of eligible young people, participated in the 2018 midterms, according to analysis from the Center for Information and Research on Civic Learning and Engagement (CIRCLE). Experts predict that a surge of young, politically-minded voters will continue to reshape the politi-

MODERNIZED VOTING, to include touch screens, is a countywide project aimed at bringing credibility to the ballot box.

cal landscape in the 2020 election cycle. Priya Karumanchi, 18, a senior at Marlborough School, was pre-registered to vote in Massachusetts at age 16. When she moved to Hancock Park in 2018, she pre-registered again to vote in California. “It’s important to vote because, in a lot of other places, you don’t have the opportunity to vote for what you believe in a democratic society,” Karumanchi said. “It’s important for us to be able to vote. Even in the United States, there are people [who] don’t have the privilege to vote.” The issue of voting security is not new, but fears of for-

eign interference and widespread hacking that interfere with the integrity of votes have been subject to debate and mass media attention on the national level. D’Atri said he worries whether his vote will matter when flaws in the national voting infrastructure still exist. “My worries do shake my faith in the credibility of our voting system, since I do not know if my vote has been tampered with or not,” D’Atri said. “It does change my belief that elections in America are free and fair. With the vulnerabilities that exist in the infrastructure, I just can’t believe in that anymore.” VSAP hopes to mitigate

these fears by modernizing the system while maintaining a paper record. Although Los Angeles County will not automatically send mail-in ballots until the 2024 elections, VSAP is shifting voters to voting by mail or, if voters cast ballots in-person at any vote center in the County, making sure their ballot-marking devices print paper ballots for voters’ physical reviews. Paper ballots can be recounted, if necessary, and preserve the integrity of votes even if computers are compromised. The new voting machines do not use internet connection or connect to WiFi. “I see the benefit of trying to become more advanced,” Karumanchi said. “I don’t know how necessary it is to do it online and then still have paper. Maybe there’s another way that they could do it so it’s more environmentally friendly?” Regardless, D’Atri and Karumanchi are pre-registered and plan to vote March 3. “I am voting in the primaries, because, if I don’t, it’s the same as not having the right to vote at all,” D’Atri said. “People who benefit from me not voting still benefit.” Talia Abrahamson is a senior at Marlborough School.

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D u r i n g November, the girls varsity volleyball team won its first ever CIF Championship! Led by a freshman, Gia Frank helped guide the team to victory as the leading scorer. Congratulations to all their hard work and progress throughout the season. After an exciting November, the winter term starts, along with new classes and experiences for each student at Oakwood. In the second week of December, many high schoolers will perform in the musical “Spring Awakening.” While this musical is known to be controversial — creating a conversation about teenagers coming to terms with their sexuality — it is still important for students to understand its contents. Practice for Medea, our high school play, will begin soon. While it will showcase in February, the cast, including myself as the only freshman, is truly excited to be apart of this Greek play. Lastly, before Winter Break, the trimester has led us to the CalArts for presentations for middle schoolers that will be displayed for all students to see. Middle schoolers will then join new CalArts classes, expanding their artistic experiences and abilities.

And we’re back! Just like that the school year began, so here’s a quick recap of things that have happened at Pilgrim so far. We started off with our annual secondary beach day and elementary water day, then we cruised into the normal schedule welcoming many new additions like a new music teacher Mr. G, a new 8th grade social studies and world history teacher Mr. Woods, a new ass’t. Head of Secondary Ms. Mona, and many more. Our back to school night was a success and the secondary students went on their annual trips week. I went on the trip to Washington, D.C., and loved every second we spent together running around D.C. This year’s Halloween shortly followed that and students had a great time at our annual pumpkin roll with our little buddies and the secondary costume contest was a success that resulted in a ton of candy being given to eager participating students. Recently, we held an open house that was a great opportunity to show perspective families how pilgrim works. This year’s secondary fall play was “An Evening With Edward Gorey,” was performed on Nov. 21 by kids from 6th to 12th grade; rehearsal for “Chitty Chitty Bang Bang” has begun.

November at Third Street Elementary started out with a mindful parenting seminar featuring Laurie Cousins, an expert from UCLA who spoke to parents about the benefits of mindfulness, helping kids to deal with stress, and ways to build stronger parentchild relationships. We also had our first parent-teacher conferences and got our first report cards. I am excited for an event this month called the winter Family Night, which we hold every year. This year we will host our very first Third Street’s Got Talent show with dancing, singing, magic and other performances by students. We will also have our PTA Reflections masterpieces displayed in the auditorium. The evening will also include tile painting, a bake sale, food trucks and many more festivities. The Winter Family Night also marks the last day of our school’s Book Fair. This year’s theme is “An Arctic Wonderland,” and I cannot wait to see the decorations and buy some cool books. Anyone can purchase books online (and support our school) at bookfairs.scholastic. com/bookfairs/fair-resources/fairfiles.html. Lastly, I want to wish you happy, healthy and peaceful holidays!

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STUDENTS stand in front of Loyola Hall before they set off for Washington, D.C. to advocate for the dignity of all people.

Loyola students visit D.C. to lobby for social justice

A student delegation from Loyola High School traveled to Washington, D.C. last month for the 22nd annual Ignatian Family Teach-In for Justice. Initiated in 1997, the TeachIn commences yearly in midNovember to commemorate the lives of six Jesuit priests, their housekeeper and the houskeeper’s daughter, who were all murdered in El Salvador in 1989 for speaking out against the country’s tumultuous civil war. At this year’s event, students heard from advocates in the field of social justice, and they participated in one of the largest Catholic advocacy days of the year, with more than 1,500

people meeting with members of Congress and their staffs to advocate for immigration reform and action on environmental justice issues. “For more than 20 years, the Ignatian Family Teach-In for Justice has brought people together to honor the legacy of the Jesuit martyrs and their companions through learning, prayer and action,” said Christopher Kerr, executive director of the Ignatian Solidarity Network. “As we mark the 30th anniversary of their deaths, we stand together at the margins of today’s world, as they did in El Salvador, as advocates for a world that better upholds the dignity of all people.”

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Girls Academy serves breakfast and much more GALA, Girls Academic Leadership Academy, held its first annual pancake breakfast fund raiser Nov. 16 at the school’s

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Olympic and West boulevards campus. The event marked the first time the Academy has reached out to the surrounding community (of Brookside and Longwood Highlands), and the results were impressive, local resident Caroline Tracy told us. Attendees came out to support the school and, in the process, enjoyed a delicious pancake breakfast and a shopping event. Several vendors displayed their products and services (many of them local artisans), and breakfast-goers were happy to get a jump on holiday shopping. Some 20 percent of the proceeds from all sales went

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By Samantha Hutchinson 12th Grade The school year has been flying by! Our fall sports teams have wrapped up their seasons, and with some amazing results: The Varsity and Junior Varsity Cross Country teams both placed first in the Sunshine League, with Varsity runners moving on to CIF Prelims. Additionally, our Varsity Tennis Team recently placed second in the Sunshine League and then made it to the CIF-Southern Section Division 5 quarterfinals and placed in the division’s top eight teams. This is the best any IH tennis team has accomplished in CIF playoffs! Last month we had our WALK 2019 fundraiser, where students, alums, families, and friends helped to raise over $200,000 that will go directly to the school. In the past, this money has contributed to turf on our field, all new SmartTVs in the classrooms, and air conditioning in our audito-

HOLLYWOOD SCHOOLHOUSE By Nikhil George 6th Grade

Recently, we have begun collecting hygiene kits and wellness packages to send to an organization called Hollywood Partnership. Essentially, these bundles of items are going to people experiencing homelessness. Some of these basic essentials include toothbrushes, floss, shampoo, conditioner, soap, and socks. Personally, I feel as though everyone should have these sorts of necessities, so I am proud that my school is helping to give that to others. Another event coming soon is Grandparents and Special Friends Day. On this day, all students are allowed to bring a grandparent or someone significant in their lives to visit our campus. First, the students will lead their companions to their specific grade’s class-

PANCAKES were served by Jim Sullivan, dad to 6th grade GALA student, Piper.

to GALA. The all-girls LAUSD school was founded in 2016 by educator Dr. Elizabeth Hicks. The science, technology, engineering, math (STEM) school serves grades 6 to 12. For information, visit galacademy.org. rium, so we’re all excited to see what it will go to this year! The holiday season is here! In this season of giving, both middle and high school students have come together for the AdoptA-Family food drive. Both food items and toys will be delivered to families in need in downtown Los Angeles later in December. Contributing to Adopt-A-Family has been a tradition at Immaculate Heart for many years, and we are very excited to keep it going! Upon returning from Thanksgiving break, students are gearing up for our Cumulative Assessment Period (CAP) and we have some exciting end-of-semester activities coming up, including the Winter Formal and the Christmas Program! The Winter Formal, with the theme Aurora Borealis, will be held at the Omni Hotel and will be a great way to kick off the holidays. Meanwhile, prospective students and their families are welcome at our Open House events taking place in December. The middle school’s Open House is Sat., Dec. 7, and the high school’s Open House is Sun., Dec. 8. Both events start at 1 p.m., so be sure to join us! room. There, they will participate in activities and see what the class is currently learning about. This is followed by a special Thanksgiving Community Circle where parents, children, and the distinctive buddies will listen to families sharing their holiday traditions and watch performances from different age levels. Community Circles are a wonderful way for the HSH community to observe what different age groups are learning. Last month at Hollywood Schoolhouse, the 4th graders hosted their annual Pie Night as a grade. For this event, the students read a book called Pie, by Sarah Weeks. Children are then invited to make their very own pies at home to bring in to this social event. This night is a good opportunity for the students to discuss this story, as they would in a book club, and enjoy a classic dessert while doing so. Also, the 3rd grade class took a field trip to the Griffith Observatory, to study about Los Angeles landmarks. This is Nikhil, the Rad Lad, signing off!

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Episcopal School students experience variety of urban areas By Billy Taylor The freshman class of the Episcopal School of Los Angeles (ESLA) last month participated in a five-day “Urban Immersion” field trip. The focus of the experience was a look at gentrification and what it means to love, preserve and transform a neighborhood. Students spent two days in Leimert Park, two days in Boyle Heights, and one day on Skid Row, where they met with local organizers and considered issues like “improvement without displacement.”

Students were asked questions like, “What do the people in the community hope for?” and, “How do people unite across differences here?” “An essential dimension to Episcopal education is the faith that we are transformed by our face-to-face encounters with new people and places,” explained ESLA spokesman Mike Mena. “As this year’s Urban Immersion was finishing up, it became clear from the students’ conversations, questions, and observations that their understanding of our neighbors and the

City of Los Angeles was in the process of transformation and enlightenment,” said Mena. Student reactions on the field trip ranged from delight with taking the Metro for the first time to meeting people in new neighborhoods. “It was really cool attempting to speak

Spanish at El Marcado in Boyle Heights,” said one student. “I especially liked listening to people at the Metaphor Club,” said another, referring to the Crenshaw-based club. Mena said it is his prayer that students will look back years from now and point to

this week-long experience as a milestone in stepping out of their comfort zones to celebrate the diversity of the city. “I hope they realize that a common commitment to justice and the dignity of neighbors is what binds us together,” Mena concluded.

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The theater department put up the musical Legally Blonde featuring many students of different grades. Marlborough Student Marcella Tracey ’22 (title character Elle Woods) has an incredible voice. The theater department is also preparing for the annual dance concert in December. It will showcase solo and group performances by students. Lastly, Marlborough students have a very long winter break. We get off from Mon., Dec. 23 until Wed., Jan. 1. I hope everyone had a happy Thanksgiving, and I hope you have a wonderful winter break and spend quality time with your family and friends.

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The month of November at Yavneh ushered in many new programs and speakers. First, we began collecting food items for the annual Sova drive. Students brought in canned goods and other packaged foods, which were distributed through the Sova food pantry, a part of Jewish Family Service of Los Angeles. Yavneh also began a new drive called Hoodies for the Homeless. With the cold weather approaching, we hope to provide warmth and comfort by distributing jackets and hoodies to those in need. Students also enjoyed hearing from various speakers this month. A representative from Friendship Circle Los Angeles spoke to us about the organization. Friendship Circle pairs volunteers with special needs children and teens to create lasting friendships and bonds. There are year-round activities in which Yavneh students could volunteer. The middle school girls also began a program that brings in speakers to discuss balancing family life and careers. We have already heard from a variety of inspiring women in different fields. We also began the weekly parent-child learning program this week. The Father & Son and Mother & Daughter programs take place most Saturday nights and include studying and games. It is a highlight for many students and a hallmark of the Yavneh experience. We look forward to seeing all of our programs continue and succeed.

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cilmember David Ryu at the park’s ribbon-cutting ceremony last month. The playground is part of on-going renovations and upgrades to the Pan Pacific Park Recreation Center, including a new soccer field, a rebuilt baseball diamond, improved lighting and a renovated irrigation system. Visit laparks.org.

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Larchmont Charter football has bounce-back season By Daniel Frankel The Larchmont Charter School (LCS) middle school football program finished its Foundation for Interscholastic Youth Athletics (FIYA) League schedule 3-4, narrowly missing out on the playoffs. However, under the direction of second-year coach Avery Watts, the team of LCS eighth graders showed marked improvement, competing in the seven-on-seven middle-school league. That improvement starts with actual wins — the Timberwolves had three more than they did in their winless 2018 FIYA campaign, with quarterback Reece Frankel and wide receiver Finn McConnaghy leading a potent offen-

sive attack that, among other results, led to a 33-0 win over Everest Value School back in early October. Other standouts for Timberwolves Football included Faleb Lindo, who was among the FIYA leaders in sacks, and Samual Hahn, who was one of the league’s most effective blockers. Next year’s LCS middle school football program promises to be even better, with LCS Selma campus’ explosive 7th grade team finishing 4-21 and advancing to this year’s FIYA playoffs. Baseball tryouts Dec. 11, 18 Tryouts for LCS middle school team are Dec. 11, 18 in Pan Pacific Park.

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Color-themed clothing changes with seasons at Ashley Rowe By Suzan Filipek Designer Ashley Rowe calls it kismet. Her dog, George Michael, is named after a character in the TV show “Arrested Development.” And, it turns out that her new landlord owns the site of an original frozen banana stand on Balboa Island, which was featured in the TV show. “This is meant to be,” smiles Rowe in her recently opened monochromatic-themed clothing store, Ashley Rowe, at 153 S. Western Ave. The shop’s debut color — orange, and its varying shades,

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PIE-EATING contestants at the Griffith Park Harvest Festival.

OFFICIALS enjoying the festival are, from left, Los Angeles Parks Foundation executive director Carolyn Ramsay, California State Assemblymember Laura Friedman, former Los Angeles City Councilmember Tom LaBonge (mimicking Walt Disney contemplating a new amusement park concept at the Griffith Park Merry-Go-Round) and LaBonge’s City Council successor, David Ryu.

Harvest Festival in Griffith Park To the lively sounds of the Bavarian polka band Hammerstein, a big turnout of Angelenos and visitors enjoyed a day of family-friendly activities, food trucks, local craft beer, games, and more on Sunday, Nov. 10. Then, as darkness settled on the park at the end of the day, there was a free alfresco screening of the Pixar film, “Coco.” A pie-eating contest was a mid-day highlight, and local officials, including some pictured above, were there. This was the third year that the Los Angeles Parks Foundation has sponsored this autumnal

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By Alec Salatin 7th Grade This is Alec Salatin reporting the events that are happening at Page Academy this month! In my opinion, the most exciting event this month is the winter show. Every class chooses a song to perform on stage. Even the preschoolers are going to dance! This year we will be acting as well. Kudos to Coach Hunt for choreographing the scenes. I guarantee there will be many great performances. This month students also get to host and enjoy class parties. I always volunteer to bring drinks, but lately, there has been a bit more competition for that position. Another great event taking place is the Toys for Tots fundraiser. It is a good way for us to donate toys to other children who are less fortunate. I personally love the winter and holiday season. I love the cold weather, the feel of Christmas, and that my birthday is in December. Most importantly, I am always reminded to be thankful for all we have this time of year. Happy Holidays everyone!

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Exhibit honors war heroes at Wilshire Boulevard Temple A new exhibit honors Jewish Americans who served in battles from the Civil War to Vietnam. The Jewish Medal of Honor Recipient Exhibit at Wilshire Boulevard Temple tells the stories of 17 heroes who served in the Civil War, World

Wars I and II and the Korean and Vietnam wars. The exhibit features more than 100 original artifacts and was curated by the California State Guard Military Museum Command. Chief Rabbi Steve Leder led a Sabbath service at the Nov. 8

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their families, Fairfax High School is working with West Hollywood Coalition Food Bank so that families that cannot acquire food for the holidays can receive food through this food drive. The main purpose of this food drive is to provide families in need with food that they may not be able to afford. The food drive lasted from the beginning of the month to Nov. 24. Just like we have the privilege of celebrating Thanksgiving, we should help other families to share this same privilege that we take for granted. Visit fairfaxhs.org.

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When traveling recently in Asia, I saw the Nazi swastika displayed on some very old ruins. Please explain, asks Joe Hinton. Also called gammadion, because it resembles four Greek capital gammas set at right angles, this mystical sign was used throughout the ancient world long before Hitler and his gang copied it. It is found in Byzantine architecture, Etruscan tombs, Celtic monuments, Buddhist inscriptions, Greek coins and even in North American Indian art. It has been thought to have represented many things — the power of the sun, the four winds, lightning — and it was used as a charm to ward off evil and bring good luck. It was adopted by Hitler as the Nazi emblem about 1920, borrowed from the Imperial German Baltic Corps, who

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