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Homeowner irritated by increase in ‘pushy’ Realtors “It is never done with ill By Billy Taylor A long-time Windsor Square resident contacted the Chronicle in June concerned by an increase in “pushy” Realtors in his neighborhood. “It starts with postcards and introduction letters sent in the mail, then business cards
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dropped in the mailbox and now more recently a constant barrage of agents ringing the doorbell to solicit sales — four in the last month to be exact,” he said, on the condition of anonymity. Having owned his home for 45 years, this resident thinks
the situation is getting worse. “The most recent [Realtor] had paperwork ready to be signed from an interested buyer who has flipped many other properties on our block in the last few years. “The presumptuousness of this scenario is appalling,” he
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complained. Another tactic he’s recently witnessed is attempts to persuade elderly residents — including his own parents — to “downsize.” One agent, he says, has returned three times to push the idea. Appropriate or pushy? To get an idea of what constitutes good business practice for the industry, the Chronicle contacted a couple of wellknown local Realtors to get their thoughts on such tactics. “Phone calling, mailers, door knocking, sponsorship and advertising are methods some Realtors use to market themselves,” says Mary Woodward, a Hancock Park real estate agent for Keller Williams.
intent,” she adds. Mary and her team, Woodward Real Estate, were ranked in the top 1,000 agents in the U.S. by the Wall Street Journal in 2015. Woodward explains that many Realtors find door knocking to be a great way to introduce themselves to new people and new business, adding: “It takes fortitude and courage to knock on doors.” Such encounters often lead to connections that can benefit both parties, according to Woodward, who notes, “homeowners are usually happy to be updated.” Woodward says you would be hard-pressed to find a successful agent who doesn’t use “one of those” tactics to market their business. (Please turn to page 19)
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$925,000
New Brookside listing! First time on the market in over fifty years. Two bedrooms, one den/ office, and one bath. Living room, dining room, kitchen, laundry room, grassy backyard with a mature persimmon tree. This home is ready for the new owner to update to his or her own taste. Property to be sold in its “as is” present condition: no credits, no repairs.
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316 N. Rossmore Ave., #502 646 Wilcox Ave., #1 681 S. Norton Ave., #110 421 S. Van Ness Ave., #12 4477 Wilshire Blvd., #104 3810 Wilshire Blvd., #1807 4845 Elmwood Ave., #C 326 Westminster Ave., #302 326 Westminster Ave., #206 *List prices for May 2016.
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Top 100 in Southern California Just Listed - 434 North Mansfield Avenue
LARCHMONT CHRONICLE founders and publishers Dawne Goodwin and Jane Gilman at a reception with Muhammad Ali and Mayor Bradley in the early 1980s.
Muhammad Ali once called Fremont Place home
Over the years, many of Fremont Place’s 73 homes have housed celebrities, civic leaders and even one internationally celebrated boxer. The late Muhammad Ali, who died last month, lived for seven years in one of the oldest homes in Fremont Place — Number 55. Oilman Martin Henry Mosier built the home, in 1916. Aside from his interests in oil, Mosier was also involved in the Sunshine Company, which owned the 4,200-acre Sunshine Ranch (now Granada Hills).
To construct his family home, which would be considered “one of the beautiful residences in the fashionable Wilshire district,” Mr. Mosier enlisted the help of John C. Austin, an architect and civic leader known for his involvement in several landmark buildings such as the Griffith Park Observatory, Los Angeles City Hall and the Hollywood Masonic Temple. The Italian Renaissance mansion would sit on 1.5 acres, and the 10,000 square-foot home would include nine bedrooms, (Please turn to page 8)
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Premiere tour showed off natives, drip systems, birds and bees Some 20 neighborhood gardens showed off their native plants and colorful butterflies at the premiere Greater Wilshire Neighborhood Council Sustainable Garden Tour on June 26. While some of the landscapes were professionally designed, many of the residents put on their own gloves, sought help from their gardeners and spent funds from the city’s rebate program. The homeowners “really did educate themselves,” said Julie Stromberg, chair of the GWNC Sustainability Committee. The city’s turf-removal rebate guidelines allowed for a portion of the ground surface to be “hardscaped with a permeable surface” for a bocce ball court in Julie Grist’s S. Windsor front yard. She worked with landscape designer Sloan Foxe Ashley
A BOCCE COURT was framed in timber and rolled with decomposed granite to Julie Grist’s design.
of Wormwood Designs. “Our aim was to attract birds, bees and butterflies, with a special focus on providing nectar and pollen-rich plants for butterflies,” Grist said. California natives included were: ceanothus (wild lilac),
echinacea (coneflower), pelargonium (geranium), catmint, rock purslane and coyote mint. A low-water-use decorative fountain further attracts both birds and butterflies. A North Plymouth resident also received lawn removal
FLOWERS are in bloom since a mid-December planting at a garden on N. Plymouth Blvd.
rebate funds, and she took free classes through the Dept. of Water and Power Water-Wise program and at the Theodore Payne Foundation, where she attended Four Seasons of Color and California Native Plant Garden Design courses.
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In just five months, the resident described her “green journey” as already visibly rewarding, an “aromatic garden with primary colors of red and yellow...” She replaced a sloping lawn with native plants, mulch and rock, retaining other plants that had proven drought tolerant, and she changed an old spray sprinkler system to a drip irrigation and weatherbased one. She opted to keep grass on the parkway “for the many dog walkers — and so passengers can get out of their cars.” Drip irrigation and a plant palette drawing from South Africa, Australia, the Mediterranean and California natives were popular among many gardens, said tour co-chair Cathy Roberts. The event drew a good response and is already planned to return next year. “We wanted to offer inspiration to people for their gardens in light of the fact that the drought is probably the new normal,” Roberts said. The tour began at Harold A. Henry Park in Windsor Village, which was recently renovated with cactus and native flora. During the tour, the Theodore Payne Foundation for Wild Flowers & Native Plants, of Sun Valley, had representatives at the park as part of its increased outreach efforts. Tour participants were from throughout the Greater Wilshire area, including: from Fremont Place: Sue Ellen Waters; from La Brea-Hancock: Suzan Fellman, Citrus Ave., and Diana Eisele, Citrus Ave.; from Windsor Village: Julie Grist and Paul Holahan, Windsor Blvd., Jill and John Bauman, Windsor Blvd., Carla & Tony Palermo, Windsor Blvd., Holly Holyk, Victoria Ave., and Julie Burleigh and Catherine Opie, Victoria Ave.; and, from Larchmont Village: Rebecca & Charlie Hutchinson, Bronson Ave., the Johnson-Bedikian Residence, Bronson Ave., and a residence in the 600 north block of Plymouth Blvd.
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617 N. Cherokee Avenue, Hancock Park
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3 bedrooms, plus an office • 3 bathroom • Living Area: 2,623 square feet • Lot Size: 6,348 square feet Located on a tree-lined street in Hancock Park, this sun drenched home has been exquisitely renovated while maintaining the charm and character of the 1920’s. The kitchen offers custom cabinets, Quartzite countertops, a Marble tile backsplash, Viking range and hood and connects to the family room. Glass sliders in the family room open to a deck with an awning and a beautifully landscaped backyard. This thoughtful floor plan also includes three upstairs bedrooms, including master suite with spacious walk-in closet, plus an office and hall bath. The downstairs bathroom has been updated with Ann Sacks tiles and custom cabinets. Other upgrades include a tankless water heater, newer electrical panel, sprinklers, privacy bushes, security cameras and an alarm system and a driveway gate. Listed at $2,345,000 www.617Cherokee.com
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Entrepreneur named ‘Treasure of Los Angeles’ Windsor Square resident Wayne Ratkovich, of the Ratkovich Company, was among honorees at the Central City Association’s recent 22nd annual “Treasures of Los Angeles” luncheon. The developer and entrepreneur — he renovated the 5900 Wilshire building, which he also owns — has reclaimed noted historic properties and is transform-
ing 7th St. downtown with a complete renovation of The Bloc, a mixed-used development, according to the Association. In all, the Ratkovich Company has renovated over 17 historic landmark buildings in Los Angeles, starting in 1979 with the Oviatt building, followed by the Fine Arts Building, the Wiltern Theater and Pellissier Building, Chapman
Market and Terminal Annex. Other projects have included the Alex Theater in Glendale, the Hercules Campus in Playa Vista and The Alhambra. Also honored at the luncheon was Monsignor Kevin Kostelnik, retiring (on July 1) pastor of the Cathedral of Our Lady of the Angels; he helped shepherd construction of the cathedral, provided support and solace for CITY COUNCIL PRESIDENT Herb Wesson and downtown Councilmember José Huizar salute awardee, Wayne Ratkovich (center) of Windsor Square.
Happy Fourth of July!
thousands of parishioners, and as a community leader supported the revitalization of downtown Los Angeles. Matt Toledo of the “Los
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Downtown to hold its largest July 4 celebration in Grand Park
Day — A trusted name in Los Angeles since the 1880s Bob Day’s tradition of service began with his great grandfather’s music store at First & Spring Streets.
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Angeles Business Journal,” and the Los Angeles organization Rams were also honored. The luncheon was held at the Westin Bonaventure Hotel.
This Fourth of July, the Music Center will be hosting its fourth annual Block Party in Grand Park. This year is promised to be the largest celebration yet with two grand stages featuring many L.A. CITY HALL will celebrate Independence Day music acts and with live music, fireworks and family events. ending the night with Downtown’s largest fireworks display. The event is family-friendly with special kids activities for children ages 4-14. Guests will also have the opportunity to taste food from over 25 different food trucks. The event will take place on Mon. July 4 from 2 – 9:30 p.m. at Grand Park and the Music Center in Downtown. For more information visit, grandparkla.org/4thofjuly.
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Retail richness in a nearby historic buildling We’re luckier than ever to live where we do — much of the historical richness of our city is at hand, as well as its rocketing pockets of rebirth. McManus & Morgan, Inc., on W. Seventh St., near MacArthur Park, is a distributor of fine artists papers, but if you stop at its storefront and then step inside its hushed interior, you might think it a used bookshop and stationery store. But look up at the beautifully pieced, carved, and stenciled ceiling. You’re in a different world here. This 1923 building is the work of Morgan, Walls & Clements, architects of many of the Art Deco masterpieces of Los Angeles. Buy something, and Gary Wolin will write up your purchase with a sharp pencil on flawlessly torn, fine-quality printing paper. An ornately engraved, 1917 cash register just behind and to the left of the counter doesn’t disappoint. Ka-ching. Wolin’s nod to the electronic age is a small adding machine. Gary Wolin is likely the most knowledgeable person about fine art paper in the city. He has an exquisite understanding of the processes of the artists he serves, including Ed Ruscha. Wolin has been in this shop since high school, in the 1960s, after his father bought it from a relative. He is careful to say he isn’t an artist himself — he studied accounting — but it’s difficult to believe. He’s one of our city’s living treasures. McManus & Morgan was started in
1923 by two UCLA students (when the University of California’s “Southern Branch” was still at Vermont and Normal Aves.), and the store was sold out of the founders’ orbit only once before it came to the Wolin family.
Home Ground by
Paula Panich
The original arts district McManus & Morgan has been on W. Seventh St., in the Westlake neighborhood, since the 1940s. This is the original established “arts district” of our city. “Otis was a block north, on Wilshire, Chouinard one and a half blocks away on Eighth St., and Art Center was a quarter of a block away,” Wolin says, referring, in shorthand, to Southern California’s most significant art schools. (Chouinard was the predecessor of CalArts.) McManus & Morgan experienced a leap forward in the 1970s, with a great awakening in printmaking thanks to June Wayne, who, along with others, established the Tamarind Lithography Workshop (TLW). Louise Nevelson, Josef Albers, and David Hockney were among the artists who produced work at the TLW, which was founded in an effort to
revive an art form many feared was near extinction. (TLW moved to the University of New Mexico after a decade in Los Angeles.) “June Wayne drove the whole movement of people doing multiples,” Wolin says. “It was the time of the giant paintings. But for local artists to be collectible by a wider audience, they needed to produce lessexpensive work.” McManus & Morgan carried all supplies necessary for screen and block printing, etching, monotype, and lithography as well as the domestic and imported papers needed for a city singing with the rolling gears of the presses. The peak of this movement came in the 1980s, but Wolin has nothing if not patience. Though much of his business is now with graphic artists, he’s watching a new swell of interest in printmaking. His firm carries papers from 20 countries. He’s pleased by the young artists attracted to his ENTER a different world at McManus & Morgan, neighborhood, who walk by where an adding machine is as high tech as it gets. and might wonder: What goes a symbiotic relationship, beautifulon in here? Twenty-five years ago, Aardvark Let- ly explained in a nine-minute vidterpress moved into the storefront eo, “Ink and Paper,” produced and next door to McManus & Morgan, on directed by the filmmaker Ben Proudthe corner of W. Seventh and Caron- foot, of Breakwater Studios, at: vimeo. delet streets. The two companies have com/33359230.
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Behind the gates, step back in time Long before Muhammad Ali was counted as among its illustrious residents, Fremont Place was conceived in 1911 as an exclusive, park-like district of sedate mansions. The gated community of Fremont Place was developed by Charles Ingram, David Barry and George Briggs. The entrance gates, one of the defining features of the subdivision, were designed by J. Martyn Haenke, one of the architects of the Chandler House, and were built at a cost of $12,000 each. The impressive gates mark the entrance, but they were also most likely intended to distinguish Fremont Place from competing developments across Wilshire (namely Windsor Square and Hancock Park). The original plan for Fremont Place included 48 lots on 50 acres, and specified that no home would cost less than $7,500. However, due to economic turmoil in the Great Depression, many of the original lots were subdivided. The neighborhood suffered further decline and at one point the entire tract was nearly sold for commercial development, but a few homeowners were holdouts, thwarting a sale. Subsequently, the residents of the historic neighborhood have protected and restored it to its former glory.
WE THE PEOPLE. The Rotunda of the National Archives in Wash., D.C., displays the Constitution, the Bill of Rights and the Declaration of Independence. It's on many residents' summer and yearround travels. See more vacation destinations page 9.
(Continued from page 3) four baths and four fireplaces. Portions of the interior of the house originally were decorated by Louis Comfort Tiffany. The estate was later home to longtime local residents Don and Alice Willfong, who lovingly restored it in the 1970s. Its next big claim to fame, however, would come around 1979, when the home was sold to prize-fighting legend Muhammad Ali and his wife. They called the neighborhood home from 1979 to 1986. In 1980, this Fremont Place home was designated as Historic Landmark #9 by the Windsor Square–Hancock Park Historical Society, under the name The “Mosier / Fifield / Willfong / Ali Home.” The home has been further updated and renewed by its current owners, who purchased the property in 2001.
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Vacations around the globe …. Larchmontians visited near and far on recent travels. Compiled by Sondi Sepenuk
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Anthony, 90, retires LEFT TO (sort of) after decades RIGHT: Quinn Lanza, Sadie and Sabine Weil and Kellyn Lanza cheer on the U.S. Women’s Soccer team at the Women’s World Cup in Vancouver, Canada
LEFT TO RIGHT: Sydney and Hudson Brown brave a helicopter ride in the Fiji Islands.
LEFT TO RIGHT: Tommy, Joe and Gus Drynan enjoy a hot day in Mammoth Lakes. LEFT TO RIGHT: Colin Kneafsey, Luke Terrill and Henry Boylston get their game on at Dodger baseball camp at Dodger Stadium.
LILY ROSEME enjoys the fresh air at Lake Lenwood, West Bend, Wisconsin.
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STELLA AND GRACIE KAZANJIAN living the Sound of Music dream in the Austrian Alps.
By Suzan Filipek Back in 1956, on a recommendation, Orvis Anthony got a job working for a doctor in Hancock Park. Pretty soon, the spritely young gardener got another job, and then another. Before long, he mowed half the lawns in the neighborhood, at least that’s how the legend goes. “Everybody knows Orvis around the neighborhood,” said one of his longtime customers. “It was hard for him to let go, and it was hard for me,” said Kay Gates, S. McCadden Pl. Anthony, 90, has retired. He figured it was time, he said last week sitting on a spacious porch in Gates' backyard. Born in Texas, he moved to Los Angeles in his youth and soon started landscaping the park-like yards of Hancock Park, Windsor Square and Larchmont Village. It was different back then, noted Gates, who moved to the area in 1962 with her late husband, Peter, and raised two children. “We knew everybody all the way up and down the street. Children played in the yards; there were no fences or walls like today.”
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ORVIS ANTHONY with his longtime customer Kay Gates.
A longtime gardener herself, Gates kept raised vegetable beds. “She’d leave the heavy stuff for me,” laughed Anthony, who is a father of two. He said his jobs have become fewer and fewer the past few years. The still-spry nonagenarian noted that the state’s drought has changed the landscape, but Gates’ front and back yards are still well tended. After all, Anthony recommended her new gardener, smiled Gates. While Anthony is officially retired, his wife Maria Christina still drives him from their Gardena home once a week to tend four gardens. “It feels like retirement,” compared to the 30 homes he and his crew once visited weekly, he says.
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Pocket Listing in siLver Lake | $2,500,000 A sanctuary and private oasis in the city. This house located at the end of the cul-de-sac has an amazing garden and is surrounded by complete privacy. It is a one of a kind home in L.A. 24hr security guarded and gated community in Silver Lake. Built in 1985, 2,897 s.f., lot size 21,961 s.f. (per tax records). 5 bedrooms and 3 baths One story house from the backyard and two story from the front of the house. This is a spacious entertainer’s home with raised ceilings and open concept. It is a gardener’s delight, surrounded by hillside with numerous fruit trees and vegetation that can be farmed to bring directly to your table. Very well maintained home with many upgrades and renovations were completed approximately 5 years ago as follows: roof, exterior paint, garage door, marble fireplaces in living room and brick in family room, hardwood floors, installed Milgard dual pane windows throughout house including sliders, high end bathrooms with marble counter top, kitchen with marble floors and granite counters, custom cabinets and high end kitchen appliances, high pitch point ceiling in kitchen . Easy access to freeways and 5 minutes to downtown L.A.
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Local architect on front lines of VA land planning in Westwood By Sondi Toll Sepenuk The long-neglected United States Department of Veteran’s Affairs (VA) campus in Westwood is finally getting a makeover, and Windsor Square resident and architect William Fain, FAIA, of Johnson Fain is helping to lead the charge. Fain, his wife, Jennifer, and their two grown daughters — Elizabeth Fain LaBombard and Margaret Fain Jenkins — have lived in Windsor Square since 1986. Fain has practiced architecture and urban planning for more than 35 years and is currently the managing partner for Johnson Fain, a firm of 70-plus architects, planners and interior designers, headquartered in downtown Los Angeles. Focus on urban design Fain’s long and awardwinning career has focused on advancing the practice of urban design as a bridge between the public good and private benefit. He studied for his undergraduate architecture degree at UC Berkeley, attended the University of Manchester in England and then earned his graduate architecture degree from Harvard’s Graduate School of Design in 1975. Fain then went to work as an urban designer in the Office of Midtown Planning and Development of New York
ARCHITECTS Scott Johnson and Bill Fain at the Los Angeles Conservancy Preservation Awards Luncheon in May.
City and later served as senior architect and urban designer for the Boston Redevelopment Authority. Before co-founding their firm in 1987 with Scott Johnson, FAIA, Fain worked for Pereira Associates as Director of Urban Design. With a resume like that, its no wonder that Fain and his firm were approached by lawyers Ronald Olson and O’Malley Miller of Munger, Tolles & Olson LLP, as well as Bobby Shriver of Veteran’s Advocacy, to help develop a master plan for the West Los Angeles VA campus. Bandini – Jones land The 387-acre property for-
merly owned by Arcadia Bandini de Baker and Senator John P. Jones, located just west of UCLA and the 405 freeway, was donated by them to the federal government in 1888 They stipulated that the property was to be used as the Pacific Branch of the National Home for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers. If not used for veteran purposes, the property would revert back to the original family ownership. Over the years, the VA campus has served thousands of veterans as one of the largest medical centers in the VA system. Services include stateof-the-art hospital and outpa-
tient care, rehabilitation, residential care, long-term care, and medical research and education facilities. Private leases Beginning in the 1970s, however, the federal government began leasing some of the campus buildings to private entities, and there was increasing neglect and disrepair of many of the other structures and spaces. “The VA campus went through three periods of growth,” explains Fain. “From the 1800s–1920s, the campus was made up of a ravine filled with sycamores and wide open spaces with sea breezes, homelike architecture, porches and views of the ocean… In addition to the veterans who stayed on the campus, people from West Adams, Bunker Hill and Exposition Park would hop on the streetcar, which terminated at the VA, and come out to picnic on the property.” The 1920s–1950s saw much more institutionalized growth. “The buildings weren’t as ‘friendly,’” reports Fain. “They had long corridors and they were more Empire style — plus the VA added different road plans to the campus — which made it hard to figure out where to go.”
Dona Arcadia Bandini Stearns de Baker, 1827-1912, was the great-grandaunt of Carolina Winston Barrie, who long has fought to protect the gift, from Dona Arcadia and Senator Jones, of 387 Westwood acres to provide a permanent home for disabled American war veterans.
In the period from the 1970s–1990s, the campus went through a period of neglect. More than twenty leases were made on the property, including leases to the Brentwood School, UCLA, a solar panel company and many more. “This was a very opportunistic period and the campus was broken up into parcels,” explains Fain. “It was a time when the federal government (Please turn to page 13)
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New kitchen adds light and space (Continued from page D-1) the four-months-plus project was underway; the holidays and the birth were imminent. “There was some time pressure to finish this job,” said Windsor Square based-architect Mary Pickhardt. The couple had bought the Mediterranean-style 1922 home the year before, and with their growing family, needed more room. The galley kitchen was long and narrow, cramped next to a long hallway and a tiny bedroom. “There was only room for
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one or two people” in the kitchen, said Allison. The challenge was to open the space without adding square feet, said Pickhardt, who had several tricks up her sleeve. The home’s fourth and uninviting bedroom was knocked down and a wall was opened and framed with an arch that ties into the home’s Spanish theme and also reveals the family room and views of the backyard. “If you can see outside, it makes it feel bigger,” said Pickhardt. The kitchen’s new white recessed panel cabinets reach the ceiling — drawing the eye up and giving the illusion of more space. The Caesarstone countertops “are indestructible,” a must with a toddler prone to eating raspberries, says her mom. The backsplash, a blue Moroccan-influenced, handmade clay tile, adds color. Pickhardt designed a banquette for where the couple’s extensive family and friends can congregate in the kitchen, while the cook has room to move near the Sub-Zero and six-burner stove behind an island. Interior decorator Bebe Johnson added a custom table next to the banquette, as well as the built-in media cabinets, curtains, a sectional sofa and his and her’s (Scarlett’s) matching elephant-patterned chairs in the family room. A long “bowling alley” of a hallway was narrowed, which allowed for expanded laundry and broom closets and an office area, where Mike displays some of his penguin collection on an upper shelf. “This is my favorite feature,” says Allison of a light that goes on when opening the broom closet. Pickhardt’s ties to the family
MIKE and Scarlett on matching elephant-patterned chairs.
go back at least 23 years when she designed Allison’s mom’s kitchen on Lorraine Blvd. It still holds up today, says Allison. “What we try to do is make the kitchen go with the house, so it’s classic and everything ages together. We don’t do trendy stuff,” explains Pickhardt. When the couple bought the home, many of its original features had been stripped or modernized. Addition of crown moulding and other touches brought back the home’s former glory, while large-pane windows add light and tie the old with the new. The contractor, Doug Dalton, who grew up in Fremont Place, was the “unsung hero” of the project, said Pickhardt. An arched entry way — matching the one in the family room — softens that space. Painted a warm shade of coral, the entryway’s chandelier matches one in the hallway. A larger chandelier that hangs in the dining room was from an old French hotel and among purchases from La Brea antique stores. “We’re pretty traditional and wanted to stay true to the home’s style,” says Allison. By Suzan Filipek
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(Continued from page D-1) past 38 years on the first floor of what is now the Historic Hollywood Hotel, located on Melrose at Wilton. “We specialize in custommade, hand-carved mantels,” says co-owner Mercedes Simonian. “But what makes us different is that we use all of our own original designs that have been patented to us. Everything we sell is completely unique and hand-made." Mercedes’ father, Edmon, opened the store in 1978 using a small amount of savings. He was an Armenian immigrant who arrived in Los Angeles two years prior with only $90 in his pockets. Before leaving Armenia, however, Edmon had trained under both his father and grandfather to become a master craftsman, a family tradition dating back to 1890. Using stone and woodcarving tools, Edmon set up shop determined to sell only high quality, hand-carved products — a business he continued to operate for the next 32 years. In fact, the business was so successful that it grew from a single rented storefront to the
entire ground floor of the Hollywood Historic Hotel building. In 1997, Edmon bought the entire building. According to Mercedes, Edmon passed away six years ago, leaving his wife Vicky and son Edward to join with her in picking up their father’s mantle (pun intended): “It is truly family owned and operated,” says Mercedes, who has worked in the shop since she was 18. Consumers have come to expect custom products to be complicated and time-consuming to order. But according to Mercedes, this is not the case at Edmon’s. “We are the manufacturers of our products,” she says, noting how they eliminate the middleman. “We always tell people to come to our showroom first. It helps if they bring a picture of what they have, then we can talk about available options.” Customers can preview and select from a wide variety. “A cast stone mantel takes a week, and a wood-carved mantel takes four weeks,” says Mercedes. By Billy Taylor
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Karras refines music mogul’s bachelor pad By Brooke Stewart Neighborhood interior designer Christina Karras’ recent project is a sophisticated bachelor pad. Designed for a music industry executive, Karras wanted the home to have a sense of Hollywood glamour while reflecting the tastes and lifestyle of a successful bachelor. The entry is inviting with the late English decorator David Hicks-inspired, 1960s wallpaper lining the walls and ceiling. The bold use of pattern makes a statement but also draws focus to the centerpiece of the
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(Continued from page D-6) the back patio. The warm colors are “incredibly masculine” Karras adds – “perfect for a bachelor bedroom.” The guest bedroom diverges from the warm cognac and whiskey colors of the master bedroom with a navy-patterned wallpaper. The pattern of dark blue palm fronds is repeated on the curtains as well as the duvet. Karris remarks that she “wanted to create a retreat for guests, add[ing] layer upon layer of the same sensual pattern.” The dark pattern of the wallpaper is offset by a light wood floor, white closet doors and gold accents. The plants in the room reflect the floral pattern of the walls in
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Former Gehry architect brings modern design to Officine Brera in DTLA By Billy Taylor Los Angeles has always had a remarkable approach toward architecture, with examples of Beaux-Arts, Art Deco, MidCentury Modern and Modern architecture found within its sprawling neighborhoods. And in recent years, well-known architects like Frank Gehry (Walt Disney Concert Hall) and Renzo Piano (Broad Contemporary Art Museum) have continued this tradition with large-scale projects that have transformed the city’s skyline. Now, building on this legacy, one design firm wants to bring that kind of cuttingedge architecture to a restaurant and bar near you. (fer) studio The firm, “(fer) studio,” takes its name from the principles who describe its design philosophy: form, environment and research. Its founder, Chris Mercier, says he started the studio in 2002 to be a place rooted in modern design. Mercier was working for Gehry Design Group when he got the idea to start his own firm: “I was at Gehry’s for 10 years and I kind of wanted to do my own thing. I was feeling comfortable to make the jump financially, so it all just played out at the right time.”
RECLAIMED wood, concrete and exposed steel preserve the industrial character for Officine Brera in the DTLA Arts District.
It’s never easy to start a new business, but Mercier says he learned “you always have to start from the ground up.” When he left Gehry’s, Mercier had four initial projects lined up. “But within the first month all four projects, for various reasons, fell through,” laughs Mercier. This left him forced to pick up small residential garage and kitchen repurposing projects. “It was a challenge for the first few years,” he says. It was this work, however, that allowed (fer) studio to grow and begin specializing in restaurant and hotel projects. In 2005, Mercier was joined by another former Gehry associate, Douglas Pierson, and the
firm hasn’t looked back since. Based in Inglewood, (fer) studio now employees 14 people and is a leader in a wave of urban renewal across the city. Design approach Always a fan of Modernism, Mercier says he is also passionate about how contemporary work interacts with its environment. Through intensive research and the study of site and/or environmental conditions, (fer) studio aims to create a project that emerges as both appropriate and unique. “In regards to contributing to a culture as an architect, I think it’s better to look forward as opposed to being nostalgic and looking back,” says Mercier.
Notable projects In recent years, the firm has completed restaurant projects that include Father’s Office in Culver City, Connie & Ted’s in West Hollywood and the newly opened Officine Brera, located downtown in the Arts District. For Officine Brera, Mercier says the biggest challenge was to re-imagine the existing space—an early 20th century industrial warehouse building of masonry and steel that once housed the Los Angeles Gas Company. He wanted to preserve the industrial character of the 8,000 square foot building by using reclaimed wood, concrete and exposed steel, while creating a restaurant with a northern Italian vibe. “What was crucial was how to celebrate the scale of the room while at the same time creating a sense of intimacy,”
says Mercier. He worked closely with the restaurant’s owners, Matteo Ferdinandi and his wife Francine Diamond-Ferdinandi, and chef Angelo Auriana, who wanted a kitchen they could “go to town in.” “They had a vision of it being a fire-oriented kitchen,” says Mercier, “so the portion with the wood-burning appliances started to drive the scale of the space.” In the Chronicle’s March issue, Helene Seifer reviewed the restaurant and called it “stunningly beautiful in that hip, vibey way that only a renovated industrial space can achieve.” Currently, the firm is working with the Hollywood Roosevelt Hotel to help redesign a rooftop event space for private events. For more information, visit ferstudio.com/studio.
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Initiate love of gardening in children The Friends of Robinson Gardens are seeking those with a love of gardening, and who enjoy interacting with children in grades two
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172 S. McCADDEN PLACE, HANCOCK PARK Baby Jane Slept Here
In 1928, Hancock Park was just a newborn baby. G. Allan Hancock sold bare lot #165 to Victor Marks and his wife Ruth S. Marks “in consideration of the sum of Ten Dollars ($10.00) in hand paid to him, the receipt of which is hereby acknowledged.” The deed, as they did in the day, was filled with specific instructions for the construction of this soon-to-be-important house prominently displayed among like houses. The structure was to be”fairly worth not less than (a) $7,500.00 if said lot faces on Highland Avenue, $10,000.00 if the lot faces McCadden Place or Las Palmas Avenue, $16,000.00 if it faces June Street, $17,000.00 if it faces Hudson Place ...” The house has five bedrooms and a living area of 4,346 square feet. A center hall beauty built in the Mediterranean style, when finished, it was quickly sold. The purchaser was a single woman, Frances B. Milbank (widow of Nichols Milbank) who lived there until she became a widow again by the name of Frances B. Shayler. In 1947, the home was sold to Edwin W. Ross and Violet Ross, his wife. It was during the ownership of the Rosses that the house became wedged in film history forever. In 1962, Hancock Park resident and film director Robert Aldrich chose Henry Farrell’s novel What Ever Happened To Baby Jane as a vehicle for veteran film stars Bette Davis and Joan Crawford. Aldrich, who lived at 501 N. Cahuenga Boulevard (across from Wilshire Country Club), was an accomplished director for many classics such as “Apache” and “The Dirty Dozen.” He soon followed “Baby Jane’s” success with “Hush Hush Sweet Charlotte.” “Baby Jane” is a story about an aging actress who holds her crippled sister captive in an old Hollywood mansion. With a screenplay by Lukas Heller, Aldrich chose 172 S. McCadden Place for the home’s setting. Although all of the interiors for “Baby Jane” were filmed at Producers Studio (now called Raleigh Studios on Melrose Avenue), the real house on McCadden Place was utilized for exterior shots. A façade of the exterior was partially built on a sound stage at Producers Studios. During the course of the film, Bette Davis goes on a wild joy ride around Hancock Park, and great shots of Larchmont Boulevard circa 1962 appear.
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In 1964, the widow, Violet Ross, sold the house to Basil and Esther Lustig for their family. Their son Bill Lustig, just a teenager at the time, enrolled at Los Angeles High School, and is now a fellow realtor with the John Aaroe Group. He is prominent in the Spaulding Square area. Bill remembers that his room was the one where sister Blanche was kept captive. He also remembers the time female impersonator Charles Pierce, famous for his Bette Davis impersonations, knocked on their door unexpectedly, wanting to see the house. The dutiful Esther Lustig showed Mr. Pierce around the place.
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After the Lustigs, in 1972, the home was sold to Art and Sara Lumer. Art passed away in 1998 and Mrs. Lumer is still on title.
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Docents are trained by the Robinson Gardens team of volunteers to lead children through planned “hands-on” activities that help them learn about home vegetable gardens, flowering plants, fruit trees and gain respect and curiosity for their natural environment. The Virginia Robinson Gardens is an historic estate on a plot of land that was first owned by the founder of Beverly Hills, Mr. Burton Green. Virginia Dryden married J.W. Robinson’s heir, Harry Winchester Robinson, in 1903; after which, they embarked on a three-year honeymoon. When they returned, the newlyweds commissioned Virginia’s father to design their historic mansion on the plot of sloped land. Upon Virginia Robinson’s death in 1977, it was bequeathed to Los Angeles County. If interested in becoming a docent in the children’s program, call 310-550-2087. To become involved in the Friends of Robinson Gardens and participate in other ways, go to robinsongardens.org.
The Friends of Bullocks Wilshire conservancy group is hosting an open house at the iconic building for the general public. Visitors will be provided tour pamphlets, helping them explore the historic landmark. The event will take place Sun., July 31 throughout the day. Tickets are $25 each. Constructed in 1929, the Bullocks Wilshire building was originally a department store but became home to Southwestern Law School in the 1990s. The building, which is a Los Angeles Historic-Cultural Monument, is prized for its art deco design, Lalique light fixtures, and artwork from more than a dozen artists. Money raised from the open house will go to continuing restoration projects for the treasured landmark. For more information, visit swlaw.edu/campus/building
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Building 209 on the VA campus was rehabilitated and adapted into apartment-style units and support facilities for residents. The project recently won a Los Angeles Conservancy Award.
(Continued from page 10) was trying to bring in revenue from federally-owned properties.” Vets and Bandini heir lawsuit In 2011, the ACLU Foundation of Southern California filed a lawsuit, Valentini v. Shinseki, on behalf of several veterans, the Vietnam Veterans of America and Carolina Winston Barrie (a descendent of Arcadia Bandini de Baker who deeded her land to the United States). Valentini was one of the veterans; Shinseki was the then-Secretary of the VA. The plaintiffs alleged that the VA violated the 1888 deed by misusing part of the campus for commercial purposes. In 2015, settlement was reached that incorporated a “Principles Agreement,” executed between current VA Secretary Robert McDonald and attorney Ronald Olson. The agreement memorialized the VA’s intent to prepare a new master plan for the campus to make it more Veteran focused. And that’s where William Fain and his firm, Johnson Fain, came in. After months of input from veterans and the community during a “Preliminary Draft Master Plan Comment Period” (including more than 100 meetings and over 1,000 responses in the Federal Register), Fain and his firm helped draft a master plan that is, at long last, moving forward. Draft Master Plan The West Los Angeles VA Campus Draft Master Plan recites goals of: providing supportive housing and other services on campus; giving veterans access to a more welcoming and healing environment in which to live and receive care, services and benefits; and working collaboratively among government, veterans, stakeholders and charitable entities to end veteran homelessness in Los Angeles. The Draft Master Plan brochure lays out the framework for the campus. According to the plan, key features will include Veteran Hous-
ing Neighborhoods that have their own supportive housing and neighborhood services, a Town Center located in the geographical center of the campus, and five Neighborhood Centers located throughout the campus that connect to each residential neighborhood. In May, the Los Angeles Conservancy recognized a beginning part of the plan, architecture firm Leo A. Daly's award-winning design for the rehabilitation of Building 209 that is located in the supportive housing neighborhood in the northern portion of the Draft Master Plan. A Reintegration Zone will be located in the current “industrial district,” providing opportunities for education and employment training, plus workshop and gallery space for the arts and an incubator space for nurturing veteran-initiated start-ups. A Medical District, south of Wilshire Blvd., will provide an array of in-patient and ambulatory care facilities, along with a variety of hospitality facilities for visitors and their families. Open Space and Recreation areas will be offered throughout the campus, including a ballpark and several parks. Veteran-centric The Draft Master Plan brochure also states that “the framework for development of the West LA Campus envisions a long-term build-out that focuses use of the site on housing and services for veterans, restores and enhances the site’s historic legacy, conserves and repairs its natural setting, and facilitates, encourages and promotes reintegration of veterans into civilian life.” Though the Draft Master Plan will take years to complete, Fain is confident that things are finally moving in the right direction. “This master plan is veterancentric,” says Fain. “Because of the efforts of many vets and their representatives and the descendants of Arcadia Bandini de Baker, this master plan is going to reflect the wishes of the original donors of the property.”
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park, labs and fossil excavation. Daily. • Ice Age Encounters with a (lifesize puppet) sabertoothed cat are featured Fridays through Sundays; check the website for times. Free first Tuesday of each month except July, August. 5801 Wilshire Blvd., 323-934PAGE; tarpits.org. REMEMBERING AMELIA EARHART by JAPAN FOUN- making paper airplanes. D AT I O N — J a p a nema: films screen the sec- Fri., July 22, 6 to 9 p.m., $7 ond and fourth Wednesday of general admission. every month at 7 p.m. Free. • "People of Earth This is Your 5700 Wilshire Blvd., 323- Last Warning" performance 761-7510; jflalc.org. and reading adapted from the LOS ANGELES MUSEUM (Please turn to page 19) OF THE HOLOCAUST— Holocaust survivor speakers Sundays at 2 p.m.; tours are Sleepover, camp Sundays at 3 p.m. Pan Pacific Park, 100 at La Brea Tar Pits S. Grove Dr., 323-651The La Brea Tar Pits and 3704; lamoth.org. Always Museum is hosting a sleepover free. giving children and their parKOREAN CULTURAL CEN- ents an opportunity to spend TER—Films, classes and cul- a night at the world-famous tural events. Visit website for archeological fossil site. listings. Children will be able to 5505 Wilshire Blvd., 323- explore the exhibits with the 936-7141; kccla.org. museum’s team of educators CRAFT AND FOLK ART as well as take a flashlight MUSEUM—Block print- tour of the tar pits and go on ing workshop, Thurs., July 7 a museum-wide hunt. from 7 to 9 p.m.; $8; free for The sleepover takes place members; includes materials, Sat., July 23 to Sun., July 24. snacks and drinks. Tickets cost $75 for both chil• Branch weaving with Mimi dren and adults. Haddon Sat., July 10 from 1:30 The museum is also offerto 3:30 p.m.: $7 for adults, $5 ing a weeklong “Adventures in for children and free for mem- Nature” summer camp. Campbers. ers grades K-8 will explore the • "Tormenta Omnia," Gronk's Ice Age, look at prehistoric bilingual staged theatric pro- Los Angeles, as well as learn duction showcasing his muse, and experience the different La Tormenta, is Sat., July 16, 5 roles of different museum p.m. in Spanish and 5:30 p.m. staff. in English. Actress Mariana The camp will be held from Montes sings original music. Mon., Aug. 1 to Fri., Aug. 5 • Yarn Bombing Los Angeles from 9 am to 3 pm. Register knit graffiti collective meets online now as spaces are limSat., July 16 from 2 to 5 p.m. ited. • "Theater of Sounds" sumFor more information or mer concert of an experimen- to register, visit Tarpits.org/ tal mix of music and sound is museum/programming.
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Therapy dogs, magic shows, puppy parties, 'tiny book' show Therapy dogs who are with "Beach Animals Reading with Kids," or BARK! are at area libraries this month. Meanwhile, the Fremont branch is having a puppy party as part of their "Read for the Win" summer club. FREMONT LIBRARY 6121 Melrose Ave. 323-962-3521 Children Puppy party: Make puppy craft projects and take turns cuddling puppies Thurs., July 7 at 4 p.m. Magic show: Illusion act with Allen Oshiro Mon., July 11 at 6:30 p.m. For all ages. Songs and stories: Thurs., July 14 at 4 p.m. Wildlife Wendy: See tropical birds perform tricks Mon., July 18 at 6:30 p.m. Olympic stories: Make a craft project and hear stories about the Olympics Thurs., July 21 at 4 p.m. BARK: Read books to trained therapy dogs who know how to listen Sat., July 23 at 2 p.m. Yoga storytime: Hear stories while learning simple stretches Mon., July 25 at 6:30 p.m. Finale party: Hear The Hollow Trees perform and celebrate reading Thurs., July 28 at 4 p.m. STAR: Storytimes for all ages with library volunteers Thursdays, 2 to 4 p.m.; Fridays, 1 to 3 p.m.; and Saturdays, 2 to 4 p.m. Teens Teen and tween book club: Read and discuss J.R.R. Tolkien's "The Hobbit" Sat., July 9 at 2 p.m. Face airbrushing: Get your face painted (nontoxic paint) Tues., July 12 at 3 p.m. Bag decorating: Decorate your summer reading club canvas bag with fabric pens Tues., July 26 at 3 p.m. Adults Book sale: Deals on used books, cds and dvds on Fri., July 1 from noon to 4 p.m. and Sat., July 2, noon to 5 p.m. Book club: Tues., July 19, from 6:30 to 7:30 p.m.
Dodgers ‘pitch in’ at libraries The Los Angeles Dodgers organization is pitching in with the Los Angeles Public Library’s summer reading program, “Read for the Win.” Contests to win Dodgers tickets will be offered weekly on the library’s social media sites. Hats and stickers will also be given away. For more information, go to lapl.org/summer-reading.
SYDNEY listens to kids read aloud Sat., July 23 at Fremont library.
Tiny book show: See a display of tiny handmade books from all over the world and take part in a hands-on bookmaking workshop Sat., July 30 from noon to 4 p.m. WILSHIRE LIBRARY 149 N. St. Andrews Place 323-957-4550 Children Chalk art: Have fun with chalk art on the sidewalk Tues., July 5 at 4 p.m. Bag decorating: Decorate your reading club canvas bag with markers Tues., July 12 at 4 p.m. Receive a lanyard. BARK!: Read to therapy dog Nigel Thurs., July 14 at 3 p.m. and receive a bookmark. Elephants from India: Craft program Tues., July 19 at 4 p.m. Children must be accompanied by adults. Bibimbap: Learn about the Korean rice dish and other healthy foods Tues., July 26 at 4 p.m. Sign up required. Preschool Storytime: For kids ages 3 to 5 on Thursdays from 3 to 4 p.m. Teens Teen reading club: A different fun activity every week Thursdays at 4 p.m. MEMORIAL LIBRARY 4625 W. Olympic Blvd. 323-938-2732 Children Winning stories: Karen Golden tells winning stories Mon., July 11 at 4 p.m. Stop, drop and read: Reading club meets Mon., July 18 and 25 at 4 p.m. Teens Lawn games: Play games outside Thurs., July 7, 4 p.m. Tie-dye: Tie-dye a T-shirt Thurs., July 14 at 4 p.m. Martial arts: See a martial arts demonstration Thurs., July 21 at 4 p.m. Chocolate Olympics: Teen summer reading program, Thurs., July 28 at 4 p.m. Adults First Friday Book Club: Discuss monthly book Fri., July 8 at 1 p.m. Call branch for title. Book sale: Deals on used books, cds and dvds on Tuesdays, 12:30 to 5 p.m. and Saturdays, 4 to 5:30 p.m.
Tuesday @ the Movies: Free film on Tuesdays at 5 p.m. Fun & Games for Adults: Board and card games and other activities Wednesdays from 12:30 p.m. on. Knitting Circle: Come spin a yarn and get knitting tips Saturdays at 10 a.m. FAIRFAX LIBRARY 161 S. Gardner St. 323-936-6191 Children Toddler storytime: Hear stories, sing songs and say rhymes Wednesdays July 6 and 13 at 10:15 a.m. Thor's reptile family: Meet amphibians, reptiles and more Thurs., July 7 at 4 p.m. Spy games: Solve codes and play other spy games Thurs., July 14 at 4 p.m. Mad Science Physics Olympics: Learn the science of how things move Thurs., July 21 at 4 p.m. Celebrate Rio: Finale party for summer reading programcelebrates Carnivale Thurs., July 28 at 4 p.m.
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Teens Teen top chef: Compete with other teen chefs Tuesdays, July 12, 19 and 26 at 3:30 p.m. Adults Fairfax book club: Meets
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Cactus and succulent show, orchid talk and edible art at Huntington Little Explorers Kids ages five to 12 years old can cook, explore, learn about nature, make crafts and do other activities at Explorers Day
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a.m. to noon. Art and edibles Take a grand tour via one of the Huntington’s galleries, and then partake in a cooking discussion and workshop Sat., July 9 from 9 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. Learn about recipes that use edible native plants Sun., July 17 from 2 to 3 p.m. Learn watercolor techniques inspired by Chinese brush painting Wed., July 20 from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. Improve your drawing tech-
nique while focusing on the art, architecture and gardens at the Huntington Sat., July 30 from 9 a.m. to noon. Take a tour of the Japanese Garden’s ceremonial teahouse Mon., July 11 every 20 minutes between noon and 4 p.m. Get exercise in the fresh air with tai chi, taught Saturdays, July 16, 23 and 30, 8:45 to 10:15 a.m. Listen to Chinese music in the Garden of Flowing Fragrance Wednesdays, 1 to 3 p.m.
Botanical drawing, evening music at Arboretum Work on your botanical illustration skills or hear music while enjoying the outdoors at
Native plant course at Payne Help maintain the grounds and take a comprehensive course on native horticulture this month at Theodore Payne Foundation, 10459 Tuxford St., Sun Valley. Clean up and prune the grounds at Volunteer Day, Sat., July 2 from 9 a.m. to noon. Bring a hat, gloves, kneepads and other small tools for personal use. Refreshments and larger tools, such as rakes and shovels, will be provided. Get plant advice and use your Payne discount at Payne’s booth at the Hollywood Farmers Market at Ivar and Selma Sun., July 3, 8 a.m. to 1 p.m. Take a comprehensive threesession course on native horticulture, sustainable gardening practices and landscaping Saturdays July 16 and 30, and Aug. 13, 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. Last day to register is Fri., July 8. Must show proof of taking the pre-requisite to register. For more information, call 818-768-1802 or go to theodorepayne.org.
Camp, Mon., July 11 through Fri., July 29, 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. For more information, call 626-405-2100 or visit huntington.org.
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Spades? Hearts? Which is your longest, strongest suit? Leading fourth best from your longest and strongest suit is a preferred standard opening lead in defending against a no trump contract. But how do you determine what your “longest and strongest” suit is? Look at the following hand, sitting south: ♠ AQ97 ♥ T6432 ♦ T6 ♣ T2 Here’s the auction: West North East South P P 1N P P 2N P 3N All Pass So what is your longest and strongest suit? Your longest is hearts, but it is woefully weak. Your strongest in terms of points is spades, but it is shorter than your heart suit. Which should you lead? The answer is that you should lead the heart three. Why? Because if hearts split 3-3-2 and your partner has an honor or two you have the possibility of taking three heart tricks. Here is the fourhand layout in this hand that was played in a team game.
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North ♠ 532 ♥ QJ5 ♦ K542 ♣ Q95
West ♠ KJ8 ♥ 98 ♦ J873 ♣ KJ63
East ♠ T64 ♥ AK ♦ AQ9 ♣ A874
South ♠ AQ97 ♥ T6432 ♦ T6 ♣ T2
Bidding: As standard as standard can be. East opens 1N with 17 High Card Points (HCP) and 4-3-3-3 distribution. West invites with 9 HCP. East takes a chance and accepts the invitation and bids 3N. That makes the contract if South leads the spade 7, which is what happened at the
other table where this hand was played, because a spade lead gives declarer two spade tricks. Play: The best chance to beat the contract is to lead the heart 3, and hope that the four higher honors get played in the first two leads of hearts, giving you the ten to pull the last heart. In your favor, dummy did not bid Stayman, so you know she has less than four hearts, so the chances of the positive split for which you are searching are enhanced. In response to your opening lead, partner played the heart jack, taken by declarer’s king. She leads the club ace and then takes the finesse. Partner wins the club queen and properly returns the heart queen. N.B.: When returning partner’s opening lead when you started with three cards in the suit, it is proper to lead back the higher card remaining, not the lower card; that tells partner that you only had three to start with and in this case it also unblocks the suit; if you led the low heart, when partner got in you would be forced to overtake his lead of the ten with your queen and his remaining two good hearts
would go wasted. Declarer takes partner’s return with the ace (it doesn’t matter if Declarer ducks; partner will continue with the low heart). She takes two clubs and leads the diamond jack, which partner covers with her king, declarer winning the ace in her hand. She takes the two remaining diamonds in her hand (when south’s ten falls, her 9 is the high diamond out) but now needs to get to the board for her ninth trick to make the contract. Here’s the situation at this point:
North ♠ 53 ♥5 ♦5 ♣
West ♠ KJ8 ♥ ♦ 8 ♣
East ♠ T64 ♥7 ♦ ♣
South ♠A ♥ T64 ♦ ♣
The only way to the board is spades and when she leads the
ten, South takes his ace, leads the ten of hearts, pulling the last two hearts making the last two hearts in his hand good for down one. If your opening lead is a spade, you will never be able to set up your hearts. You must start with your first lead or you can forget about hearts. So the moral here is that when determining your “longest and strongest” suit in defending no trump, 95% of the time your longest suit is your strongest suit regardless of the high cards you might not hold in the suit. But in making this determination, you must hold cards in your hand to get the lead to make your small cards in your long suit good. This means you must be able to take at least one trick with a card in another suit. In this hand, it was the ace of spades (and maybe the queen, depending on the location of the king), which you must preserve until after you’ve set up the long suit. Grand Slam is the nom de plume for an author of a bestselling book on bridge, an ACBL accredited director and a Silver Life Master.
Marciano Art Foundation plans its premiere exhibit in 2016/17 The Maurice and Paul Marciano Art Foundation is expected to premiere its first exhibit later this year, or early 2017, according to a recent report in "Art News." Philipp Kaiser will reportedly curate the museum's inaugural exhibition of works from the Marciano collection. Kaiser is a former senior curator at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles (MOCA) and curator of the 2017 Swiss Pavilion at the Venice Biennale. The "Cindy Sherman: Imitation of Life" exhibit which Kaiser curated is now at The Broad.
The Marciano museum will open in the 100,000 square foot former Scottish Rite Masonic Temple in Windsor Square. The building at 4357 Wilshire Blvd. is undergoing renovation by Los Angeles-based wHY architects. The Marciano brothers purchased the property in 2013 for approximately $8 million. The brothers were among the founders of GUESS in 1981. The new owners of the Scottish Rite building are maintaining the exterior of the four-story building, with its historic murals and statues of Mason and Founding Father George Washington MUSEUM will open in the former Scottish Rite Temple.
among other statues made of Italian marble. A former 1,800-seat theater is now a massive three-story tall gallery space. The building was designed in 1960 by Millard Sheets, artist and designer of the murals and buildings for 50 Home Savings of America bank branches for financier Howard F. Ahmanson, whose Hancock Park home, originally the Albertson house, was described in the April issue of the Larchmont Chronicle. Maurice Marciano, president of the art foundation, also is co-chair of the board of MOCA.
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MUSEUM—Sunday family programs include Super Hero (Continued from page 14) book, "Tomorrow You’ll be Week, which kicks off July 3 One of Us" by authors Chuck from 2 to 4 p.m. Boom! Wham! Rosenthal and Gail Wronsky Kapow! $1 off admission if dressed in superhero costume! Sun., July 24 at 3 p.m. Free • "Clay LA" annual ceramic "Free To Be Me Drum Circle" is sale and fundraiser Sat., July July 10 at 3 p.m. A "Happy 100th Ezra Jack 30 from noon to 6 p.m. • "Gronk's Theater of Paint" Keats" ("The Snowy Day" explores the artist's work in author) party is July 17 from set design from B-movies to recent operas. Ends Sept. 4 • "Windfall by Box Collective" features new furniture and functional objects by designers dedicated to using reclaimed and sustainably sourced wood. Ends Sept. 4. 5814 Wilshire Blvd., 323-937-4230; cafam. org; free on Sundays. PETERSEN AUTOMOTIVE MUSEUM— The DeLorean DMC-12 time machine, from GRONK'S "Tormenta Suite in 12," linoPhoto by Michelle Cho the 1985 film "Back leum cut. to the Future," is on display, courtesy of Universal 2 to 4 p.m. Explore sensory snow, make paper cats in Studios Hollywood. • Precious Metal silver cars, paper bags, and more! Make paper airplanes to flyDisney/Pixar cars, and Microsoft Xbox Forza racing simu- in a wind tunnel on Amelia lators are among 25 exhibits Earhart Day July 24 from 2 to 4 p.m. Hear about the first on display. • Breakfast Club Cruise-In is female pilot to fly solo across the last Sunday of every month. the Atlantic Ocean. 6505 Wilshire Blvd., Suite 6060 Wilshire Blvd., 323100; 323-761-8984; zimmer903-2277; petersen.org. ZIMMER CHILDREN'S museum.org.
Fireworks, Harry Potter, Star Trek at Hollywood Bowl Patriotic music, fireworks, Chicago, Harry Potter and Star Trek are some of the sights and sounds this month at the Hollywood Bowl. Celebrate July 4th viewing fireworks and hearing the U.S. Air Force Band of the Golden West and the Hollywood Bowl Orchestra, conducted by Thomas Wilkins, and the rock 'n roll horn sounds of Chicago. Performances are Sat., July 2, Sun., July 3 and Mon., July 4 at 7:30 p.m. Watch “Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone” (2001) on a
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giant screen Wed., July 6 at 8 p.m. while listeing to the Los Angeles Philharmonic playing the John Williams score, Justin Freer conducting, See the 2009 “Star Trek” reboot in high-definition Fri., July 8 and Sat., July 9 at 8 p.m. The Los Angeles Philharmonic, conducted by David Newman and accompanied by the California State Fullerton Singers, will perform Michael Giacchino’s score to the movie. To get tickets go to hollywoodbowl.com.
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Scotland served quick and easy marriages, pre-1856 My grandmother used to talk about “Gretna Green” marriages. To what was she referring? asks Edna Fransom. I’m afraid Granny might have been gossiping about young couples who had run away to be married. You see, it was common practice before 1856 for English elopers to cross over from Northern England to Gretna Green, Scotland (only eight miles from the city of Carlisle), where young lovers could be legally married without license, banns, or minister. All that was required was a vow before witnesses of the couple’s willingness to marry. This declaration could be made in front of anyone – blacksmith, publican, tollkeeper, farmer, etc. In fact, the locals made a nice living on the side charging for their services. All this came to an end by an Act of 1856, which required one of the marrying parties to have resided in Scotland for 21 days. To this day, however,
Library Calendar
(Continued from page 15) shop Mondays July 11, 18 and 25 at 11 a.m. Friends of the Library: Discuss ways to support the branch Tues., July 12 at 11 a.m. Author talk: Phoebe Conn and archeologist E. Gary Stickel present a talk and slide show on "Helen: the Wine Dark Sea" Thurs., July 14 at 6:30 p.m. Quilters guild: Meets Sat., July 16 from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. Art of Living: Mindfulnees meditation and stress management Thurs. July 28 at 6:30 p.m. Book sale: Deals on used books, cds and dvds Wednesdays from noon to 4 p.m.
Gretna Green is still a popular place for weddings. •••
ProfessorKnowIt-All Bill Bentley
Why is a crabby person a “curmudgeon?” wonders Diane Crawley. A “curmudgeon” is not just crabby but is literally a grasping, miserly fellow. The word is the Anglicized version of the Old French coeur marchand — heart of a merchant. This, of course, implies both the miserly and grasping aspects of opportunistic, credit granting tradesmen to whom money was always owed. ••• How come a spotted horse is called “piebald?” queries Tony Bailey. Any mottled animal or, actually, anything that is of mixed construction or incongruous parts can be “piebald.” This term comes from the Middle English pie, which wasn’t just the name of a baked dish of meat or fruit, but also referred to the black-and-white speckled woodpecker or magpie. (In fact, anything multi-colored was called pied.) Because the white parts on these birds looked bald from a distance,
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the combination of the two terms was assured. ••• What’s the origin of the name of the word game “Scrabble?” ponders Traci Landsdowne. This very descriptive word wasn’t coined by the Depression-era inventor of the game. (He first called it Lexiko, then Criss-Cross words.) “Scrabble” derives from the Dutch schrabbelen and means to scrape or scratch frantically with the hands or feet. Apparently, the gamesman’s subsequent business partner convinced him that “scrabble” was both evocative and provocative. Professor Know-It-All is the nom de plume of Bill Bentley, who invites readers to try and stump him. Send your questions to willbent@prodigy.net.
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(Continued from page 2) “Being a real estate agent requires extreme self-motivation, perseverance, creativity, integrity and a competitive spirit. “Pushy is perhaps, the incorrect word,” she concludes. To get a second opinion, the Chronicle turned to Anne Loveland of Loveland Carr Properties, who largely echoed Woodward’s sentiment. “I don’t do it because I don’t want to be ‘that person,’” says Loveland, “but the reality is real estate agents work on commission and a strong entrepreneurial mindset is often rewarded.”
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