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Larchmont Chronicle
Section 2 OCTOBER 2021
HANCOCK PARK • WINDSOR SQUARE • FREMONT PLACE • GREATER WILSHIRE • MIRACLE MILE • PARK LA BREA • LARCHMONT
Festivities at Larchmont to celebrate 100 years on Oct. 24 On the Farmers Market n Cake-cutting at the clock Boulevard in time for fall By John Welborne Things are n Pumpkins, live music
By Nona Sue Friedman Halloween will be enhanced this season with Mr. Jack O’Lantern’s Pumpkin Patch at the Original Farmers Market, 6333 W. Third St. The pumpkin spirit starts Sat., Oct. 16 and continues throughout the month. Indulge in pumpkin decorating, pumpkin bowling, animal feeding and viewing, a candy cornhole and a bouncy house. Most activities require individual tickets, but some events are free. For more inSee Farmers Market, p 16
Dining Guide
Restaurant and entertainment news will be featured in our Fall Dining Guide in the November issue. Larchmont Chronicle advertising deadline is early: Mon., Oct. 11. For more information contact Pam Rudy, 323-462-2241, ext. 11.
The celebration of the 100th anniversary of establishing the original Larchmont Boulevard shopping block will take place beginning at 11:00 a.m. on Sunday, Oct. 24 (the day originally planned for the traditional Larchmont Family Fair that has, like last year, been postponed, according to Larchmont Boulevard Association [LBA] president John Winther of Coldwell Banker Realty). Winther says there still will be significant celebratory opportunities that same Sunday — just with a smaller crowd and with the street not fully closed. At a stage near the flagpole and Wilshire Rotary clock, in front of the Sunday Farmers Market at 209 N. Larchmont Blvd., LBA and community leaders will gather with neighbors to cut the birthday cake. Also being planned is a tree planting for the empty sidewalk spot near Tailwaggers at 147 N. Larchmont Blvd. Organizers say, “Come celebrate Larchmont on the 24th!”
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FESTIVITY PLANNERS for the “Larchmont 100” celebration include Boy Scouts and the Larchmont Boulevard Association (LBA). At the Rotary Clock are Scouts from Troop 10, including from left: Michael Hanna, Eagle Scout Alex Rice, Jacob Prior, assistant scoutmaster Don Rice, George Nason, LBA president John Winther and assistant scoutmaster Scott Hanna. Photo by Bill Devlin
By John Welborne Things are looking up … on the northwest end of the Boulevard, south of Beverly. What a difference tenants make! Two long-vacant storefront spaces now are bustling with customers. One is the restaurant, Great White, occupying the distinctively remodeled longtime home of Prado Restaurant. Co-owner Sam Trude told the Chronicle last month that he is very proud of how the project, conceived and constructed by him and his business partner, Sam Cooper, turned out. In response to a question, Trude confirmed that the pandemic caused them to change the original design a bit, making the entire wall on the sidewalk one that would pull back to make even the See On the Blvd., p 4
‘Modified,’ but still scary, Haunt in Wilshire Park n Ghoulish time is Oct. 20
ACADEMY MUSEUM main entrance is at the Walt Disney Company Plaza beneath the massive spherical building housing the 1000-seat David Geffen Theater. Escalators and gallery lobbies on all five levels are bathed in natural light behind the tall glass wall.
Academy Museum — open at last!
By John Welborne Following a week of Oscar Ceremony-worthy press previews, a glamorous Donor Gala (Angela Bassett, Halle Berry, Jennifer Hudson, Nicole Kidman, Lady Gaga!), and member preview days, the long-awaited Academy Museum of Motion Pictures opened to the public — at the corner of Fairfax and Wilshire — on September 30. The Sidney Poitier Grand Lob-
by on the museum’s first floor may be entered at no charge, from either the Walt Disney Company Plaza on the north or through the original May Company doors on Wilshire Boulevard on the south. To learn about ticket information and to see a few photos from last month’s press frenzy and the gala, plus images of some of the new Academy Museum facilities, turn to pages 14 and 15 of Section 3.
By Suzan Filipek Halloween returns to Wilshire Park this year, albeit as a modified version of its former scary self. But scary enough, for sure. The popular 11-year-old Halloween Haunt will return as the first annual Halloween Neighborhood Walk on Sat., Oct. 30 from 4:30 to 7:30 pm. A “Twilight Zone”-themed haunted house will join other holiday favorites at the event, including a haunted cemetery, carnival games, bouncer, trickor-treating and a food truck. Meet your neighbors in your front yard and on the autumn walk, all dressed up for the ghoulish event, which will take place in Boulevard Heights, which is on Wilshire See Haunt, p 17
WILSHIRE ROTARIAN volunteers — Elsa Gillham, Pam Rudy, Louis Schneiderman, Wendy Clifford, Janice Prior and Christopher Cox — help out at the group’s pumpkin patch last year.
Rotary Pumpkin patch, Tree Lot open 15th year on Blvd. n Maze and a scavenger hunt for prizes at the Patch
By Rachel Olivier The Wilshire Rotary Pumpkin Patch and Christmas Tree Lot that appear annually at the vacant lot at 568 N. Larchmont Blvd. each October and December celebrate 15 years on Larchmont this year!
The pumpkin patch will be open Sat., Oct. 9 through Sat., Oct. 30 (or until they run out of pumpkins). Hours are Monday to Friday, 2 to 6 p.m. and Saturday and Sunday, 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. See Pumpkin Patch, p 17
