THE
EAGLE ROCK
ASSOCIATION
The Best Investment You Can Make in Your Neighborhood
May 6, 2004
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This week:
President’s Message (item #1)
ACTION ALERT: Caltrans tries to hang wire over Eagle
Rock (item #2)
Days like this are rare (item
#4)
Table of Contents:
1. PRESIDENT’S MESSAGE: TERA MEMBERSHIP DRIVE — TIME TO
REINVEST!
2. IS CALTRANS RUNNING OVER EAGLE ROCK?
3. AN OPPORTUNITY TO DEFINE EAGLE ROCK’S FUTURE — ACT BY MAY 10
4. DAHLIA DAYS ARE AT HAND! -- MAY 8
5. SAVING THE GOLDEN STATE — MAY 8, 15, 22
6. A JAZZY NIGHT AT PASADENA’S NEIGHBORHOOD CHURCH — MAY 8
7. A BALANCING ACT AT AVENUE 50 STUDIO — ARTISTS’ RECEPTION: MAY 8
8. BUSINESS IMPROVISATION DISTRICT — MAY 8
9. MORE THAN A PRETTY FACE: PHOTOGRAPHY LECTURE AT THE
CENTER FOR THE ARTS — MAY 15
10. VISIT THE MANY MUSEUMS OF THE ARROYO — FOR FREE! -- MAY 16
11. TOUR PASADENA’S HISTORIC HIGHLANDS HOMES — MAY 30
12. VOLUNTEER A FEW HOURS AND PRESERVE GENERATIONS OF LOS ANGELES
HISTORY
13. JOB OPPORTUNITY -- RESIDENT MANAGER
14. WE'VE GOT MAIL
15. THE LAST WORD -- ALAN JAY LERNER
1. PRESIDENT’S MESSAGE: TERA MEMBERSHIP DRIVE — TIME TO REINVEST!
Membership Drive -- Time to re-invest!
Our membership drive begins this weekend at the TERA booth at Dahlia Days
and throughout the month of May, culminating in a TERA Member Appreciation
event in June.
Please renew your membership, and better yet, consider joining me as a $500
Lifetime member. A complete list of member benefits, including special
discounts for TERA members at participating Eagle Rock businesses, will be
available at our Dahlila Days booth. We will also be sending
a membership request letter to your homes. However, re-investing is easy,
and crucial to supporting our all-volunteer efforts on behalf of Eagle Rock.
We look forward to seeing you on Saturday! Thank you in advance for your
contribution!
Now that I have asked for your bread, let's get back to TERA's bread and
butter: addressing thorny land use issues on behalf of its members.
As soon as I became aware that this past Tuesday’s Eagle Rock Neighborhood
Council (ERNC) board meeting agenda featured a presentation by Walgreens
and a discussion of Philippine Village's shared parking request, I
forwarded alerts by email to ensure that those who the ERNC may not already
have contacted had this information.
Due to a computer error that was only discovered after the ERNC meeting had
occurred, the full TERA membership did not receive the alert. We are
truly sorry for the technological breakdown (another important reason to
upgrade your support!) However, rest assured that the TERA Board
moved our own board meeting to the ERNC meeting room to ensure that the TERA
membership was well-represented at the meeting. Here's a summary of what
happened:
Walgreens
Tab Johnson of Rich Development presented the Walgreens
site plan, and discussed the increase in trees in the parking lot, the use of
stamped asphalt for pathways from the street through the parking lot, and the
use of materials that would look much like the Center for the Arts, Eagle Rock.
Tab Johnson also officially confirmed that the tenant for the
Colorado-facing building (on the plans as "Building C") was indeed Starbucks.
However, the design of Building C still flagrantly violates the spirit (and,
frankly, the letter) of the Colorado Boulevard Specific Plan. I addressed
the meeting to point out the design concerns TERA has with the Starbucks patio
(please see our newsletter and website for the complete list of concerns).
As expected, rather than responding to Councilmember Villaraigosa's focus
group's request for additional screening of the parking lot (a Specific Plan
condition), Tab Johnson said that no additional visual screening was planned.
I also confirmed that there would be fixed furniture in that patio area,
which Tab Johnson said would be Starbucks-branded furniture.
Thanks to Dalila Sotelo and Jeff Samudio of the ERNC Board for
reiterating that this had been a concern presented at the focus group, and
requested that he reconsider. Jessica Wethington McLean also
reiterated the concerns that TERA has raised that the open patio will be
difficult to keep clean and safe without proper management.
Without the reconsideration regarding visual screening, the use of glass
roll-up doors on the walls parallel to Colorado Boulevard mean that we will be
looking through an open breezeway to cars and, of course, Walgreens. Our
biggest hope is that it will be clean and safe at all hours of Starbucks
operation. And speaking of hours of operation....
On May 26th, Rich Development, on behalf of Starbucks, will be
requesting a Specific Plan variance regarding hours of operation from the East
Area Planning Commission. Although the hearing notice states that the
requested hours are from 5 am to 10 pm, Tab Johnson stated at the ERNC
presentation that the requested hours will be 6 am to 11 pm.
IT IS VERY IMPORTANT THAT WE FIGHT FOR CONDITIONS TO ENSURE THAT THE PATIO AREA
IS SAFE AT ALL TIMES DURING THE HOURS OF OPERATION, INCLUDING REQUESTING THAT
THE GLASS ROLL-DOWN DOORS ARE CLOSED AT SUNDOWN!
The patio location is near a very busy corner, next to an important and very
active bus stop in our community, and adjacent to a longstanding parking
location for a very popular taco truck. We will be fighting for appropriate
security measures as needed to ensure this patio area is an asset to Eagle
Rock.
Philippine Village
Philippine Village is requesting to share their currently provided 67 spaces,
rather than create over 100 spaces, in order to legally permit a previously
unpermitted church and operate a banquet/dance hall. Thanks to much
legwork of the ERNC Land Use Committee, considerable conditions are being
placed on the operation of the Philippine Village, which TERA heartly supports.
These conditions are:
TERA will work with the ERNC and Philippine Village to ensure that the
conditions are met, and if not, that the violations are properly addressed at
the 6-month review period for the parking variance.
Congratulations to new ERNC President Anita Hultman, and all of the new
ERNC Board members. We look forward to working with you to make Eagle
Rock great!
Finally, this issue of the e.letter marks one year since TERA member Vince
Waldron assumed the editorship of the e.letter from the publication’s
founder and longtime editor, Joanne Turner. Joanne was a tough act to
follow, but Vince rose to the challenge and has done a smashing job.
Congratulations and happy anniversary, Vince!
See you all Saturday at Dahlia Days!
-- Hillary Norton Orozco, TERA President
2. TERA CALL TO
ACTION: IS CALTRANS RUNNING OVER EAGLE ROCK?
By
now most of you have seen the new wooden poles that have just appeared lying
along the sidewalks of Colorado Boulevard between College View Avenue and the
Glendale freeway.
You might have asked yourself what they were for. We just found out today
that they are for heavy duty aerial power lines to feed the new Caltrans
building that is near completion.
There was no official public notice.
It is obvious that Caltrans, as it constructs it's building on the west side of
town, is continuing to ignore the fact that there is a strong community in
Eagle Rock that is dedicated and committed to beautifying and transforming our
town, especially the Colorado Boulevard business corridor.
These power lines will degrade the historic character of our neighborhood,
reduce its quality and property values, create more visual blight, and give our
main corridor the look of a shantytown. This is a core business area
surrounding the Westfield Shoppingtown. Imposing new poles and lines will
create an ugly looming presence right at the gateway to Eagle Rock from
Glendale.
Only a couple of years ago, as a community, we required that the pending
Colorado Terrace development "underground" all aerial power
lines surrounding it's site on Colorado Boulevard, east of College View Avenue.
We were able to accomplish that with the cooperation of a conscientious
developer who will incur a tremendous expense to make that happen. The
excavation to bury those power lines will begin within the next couple of
months.
It's ridiculous that the state and city are taking it upon themselves, with no
regard for our hard-earned vision, to install new aerial power lines along
Colorado Boulevard, west of College View Avenue. This action will set us back
years in our progress. Our state and city representatives must step in to
prevent this outrage from happening.
The new aerial power lines are to feed a state entity. The state should
pay for the "undergrounding," and because the power feeds are located
on city property, the city can demand that the state pay for it.
1. TERA immediately requests that our
governor, our state representatives, our mayor, and our Councilmember stop
those power lines from going up. We demand that they be
"undergrounded" as they should be.
2. Further, we immediately request that
legislation be passed that prohibits any new development along Colorado
Boulevard in Eagle Rock from getting aerial power feeds and instead require
building permit applicants to "underground" all power lines along
their frontage.
The most important thing we can do is show our strength in numbers.
Please show how universally concerned our community is about this issue and
write an email immediately to:
Governor Schwarzenegger (governor@governor.ca.gov),
State Senator Jack Scott (senator.scott@sen.ca.gov),
Assemblymember Carol Liu (assemblymember.liu@assembly.ca.gov),
Mayor James Hahn (mayorhahn@mayor.lacity.org), and
Councilmember Antonio Villaraigosa
(villaraigosa@council.lacity.org)
Ask that this farce be stopped!
Thank you for your time and consideration.
-- Hilary Norton Orozco, TERA President
3. AN OPPORTUNITY
TO DEFINE EAGLE ROCK’S FUTURE — ACT BY MAY 10
From Eagle Rock Neighborhood Council member Jessica Wethington McLean
comes this important invitation to our community:
The Eagle Rock Neighborhood Council's Land Use & Planning Committee
(LUPC) is seeking stakeholders from ERNC Sub-District 4, Sub-District 6,
and Sub-District 8 as well as stakeholders at-large (any sub-district) to fill
positions on this important committee. (see map for sub-district boundaries:
www.eaglerockcouncil.org/map.htm )
The LUPC meets once a month, on the 4th Thursday of the month at 7pm. The
LUPC considers and makes recommendations about zoning, planning and land use
issues in the City of Los Angeles which affect our community. Some of the
issues the LUPC has dealt with thus far include: applications to install
cellular antennas; applications to build new commercial buildings; options for
urban development; the protection of R1-1 zones; parking variances; and many
other issues important to the community. We strive to maintain a transparent
process that deserves our reputation with the City Councilman, the Mayor and
other city agencies for being fair, inclusive and reliable.
If you are a stakeholder interested in volunteering, we'd love to hear from
you. Please send your NAME, ADDRESS, PHONE NUMBER and EMAIL ADDRESS to
ERNC_landuse@earthlink.net for more
information. Please reply by Monday May 10th.”
-- Jessica Wethington McLean, Co-Chair, Land Use &
Planning Committee, Eagle Rock Neighborhood Council
4. “DAHLIA DAYS” ARE AT HAND! -- MAY 8
(On Caspar Ave., just off Eagle Rock and Colorado Boulevards)
Come take part in Eagle Rock’s gala annual Dahlia Days celebration,
offered through the generosity of State Senator Jack Scott, Assemblymember
Carol Liu, Supervisor Gloria Molina, and Councilmember Antonio
Villaraigosa.
TERA is pleased to be one of the sponsors of Dahlia Days. Be sure to
drop by our booth on Caspar Avenue this Saturday!
For more information, call (626) 577-9944 or (323) 881-4618.
5. SAVING THE GOLDEN STATE — MAY 8, 15, 22
“California
Politics: Can we Save the Golden State?”
Saturday, May 8th, 15th and 22nd
1:00 p.m. – 4:00 p.m.
Occidental College, Johnson Hall, Room 311
Mona Field, TERA member and President of the LA Community College
District Board of Trustees, will teach a Saturday afternoon course at
Occidental College called “California Politics: Can we Save the Golden
State?” The course will be offered in a discussion format that
tackles current issues, including the state budget deficit, upcoming ballot
measures, local government challenges and more.
Mona is a Professor of Political Science at Glendale Community College.
The tenth edition of her book, California Government and Politics
Today, has just been published. For further information, contact
UCLA Extension at http://uclaextension.edu/capolitics or call (310)
825-2272.
6. A JAZZY NIGHT AT PASADENA’S NEIGHBORHOOD CHURCH — MAY 8
The experimental/classical music group The Paul Bailey Ensemble will
present a concert of new instrumental and vocal music featuring music by Paul
Bailey and Sean Ferguson. The evening will include the
premiere of a four-movement extended choral piece, Retrace our Steps,
commissioned by the Cerritos Center for the Performing Arts. Based on a
variety of texts by Gertrude Stein, Guy Debord, and Jenny Bitner,
the work explores the relationships between youthful idealism, consumerism and
job security. Mezzo-soprano Nicole Baker, who serves on the
faculty at Cal State Fullerton, will be featured in the work.
The eclectic nine-member Paul Bailey Ensemble (2 violins, cello, electric
guitar, electric bass, synthesizer, vibraphone, bass clarinet and trombone,)
brings together musicians from the rock and classical worlds. Members
perform with a variety of local professional organizations, ranging from the Los
Angeles Master Chorale and the Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra to the Pacific
Symphony and the Los Angeles Opera.
Tickets for the concert are $15.00 for general admission and $7.00 for seniors
and students.
For more information visit: www.paulbaileyensemble.org.
SPECIAL OFFER FOR TERA MEMBERS: The Paulo Bailey Ensemble will give a free
CD, “The Paul Bailey Ensemble Live at OCCCA,” to any TERA member who presents a
copy of this e.letter at the show.
7. A BALANCING ACT AT
AVENUE 50 STUDIO — ARTISTS’ RECEPTION: MAY 8
The
Avenue 50 Studio is pleased to announce an exhibition featuring nine Los
Angeles artists: Amos, Raul Baltazar, Raoul de la Sota, Dino Corona,
Joe Galarza, Diane Gamboa, Lucy Hagopian, Ofelia Esparza and Linda
Vallejo, whose works visually express ideas about sickness and healing in
the city. These "urban healing visions" tell stories that
remind us of our human connection to nature and the need to restore balance and
harmony with all relations.
For more info, contact Joy Anderson by email at ave50studio@msn.com,
or by phone at (323) 663-0947.
8. BUSINESS IMPROVISATION
DISTRICT — MAY 8
The Arroyo Arts Collective, a grassroots community artists' organization
in Northeast Los Angeles presents “BID: Business Improvisation District,”
a site-specific installation project pairing artists with local merchants
debuting on Saturday, May 8. Viewers will be able to stroll the street
and discover work by 23 local artists situated in stores along two blocks of
York Boulevard from Avenue 50 to Avenue 52 in Highland Park. (For those
of you unfamiliar with Highland Park’s eclectic York Boulevard, it runs east
and west between the 110 Freeway and Eagle Rock Boulevard.)
Art will be located inside and outside the premises of an eclectic mix of small
businesses, including markets, beauty salons, party stores and a weaving
studio. Artists will create thematically related works such as sculptures from
vacuum cleaner parts at the vacuum cleaner store, customized brooms for beauty
salons and, at the insurance broker’s office, a million-dollar dress made from
shredded ten and twenty dollar bills.
The opening reception and art walk are free to the
public, Saturday, May 8 from 1 to 4 p.m. (There’s plenty of street
parking.)
Artist’s installations will be available for viewing during participating
merchants' regular business hours in stores marked with the “BID” logo.
Brochures identifying merchants and artists will be available at each end
of the walk. For more information, visit our web site:
http://www.arroyoartscollective.org, or call (323) 850-8566.
9. MORE THAN A PRETTY FACE: PHOTOGRAPHY LECTURE AT THE CENTER
FOR THE ARTS — MAY 15
From the Center for the Arts comes this word of an upcoming
photography lecture, co-sponsored by Antiouch University, Los Angeles:
Photographic portraits attempt to represent individual character, as well as
some aspect of the human condition. But there is more to a photographic
portrait than meets the eye. The genre encompasses an intriguing range of
approaches: from the most conventional shots of celebrities to innovative and
often subversive images which challenge the idea of truth in representation
itself. In this workshop, we will view and discuss examples of
portraiture by a wide range of photographers, from the most unusual and
celebrated historical practitioners to active contemporary artists. We
will explore some of the aesthetic and conceptual underpinnings and assumptions
behind the images, as well as the social and ethical issues surrounding
representations of ethnicity, class and gender. Students will receive a crash
course in photographic aesthetics.
This workshop is co-sponsored by the Bachelor of Arts in Liberal Studies
Program at Antioch University, Los Angeles (AULA). Antioch's emphasis on
community involvement and experiential learning inspired this collaborative
event with the Center for the Arts, Eagle Rock. For more information
please call 1-800-7ANTIOCH or visit www.antiochla.edu.
The instructor, TERA member Audrey Mandelbaum, is an exhibiting local
artist who lives in Eagle Rock. Her photographic art work is in the collection
of the Art Institute of Chicago and the Museum of Contemporary Photography. In
Southern California, she has shown her work at the Millard Sheets Gallery in
Pomona, The Watts Towers Art Center in Los Angeles, Nicole Dintaman Gallery,
and the Kellogg Art Gallery at Cal State Pomona. She has received grants from
the Friends of Photography, the Ragdale
Foundation, and the Chicago Department of Cultural Affairs. She earned a Master
of fine Arts in Photography from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago,
and has taught photography and photo history courses at Antioch University,
Columbia College, Chicago, The University of Illinois, Chicago, and the College
of DuPage. Visit her website at http://www.amandelbaum.com.
Session 1: 10:00 am to 1:00 pm (slide show and discussion; no reading
required.)
Session 2: 2:00 pm to 5:00 pm (more slides and discussion; prior reading
assignment required.)
There are a limited number of free spaces for Center members/Eagle Rock community
members. Please contact the Center for the Arts to sign-up.
10. VISIT THE MUSEUMS OF THE ARROYO — FOR FREE! -- MAY 16
Lummis Home and Garden
Join thousands of Southern Californians on Sunday, May 16 for the Fifteenth
Annual Museums of the Arroyo (MOTA) Day, where five museums stretching from
Los Angeles to Pasadena will open their doors to visitors free of charge
from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m.
This year's special, one-day only event will celebrate art, architecture, music
and history,with free admission at all five arroyo museums: The Gamble House,
Heritage Square Museum, Lummis Home and Garden, the Pasadena Museum of History and
the Southwest Museum. This year’s theme is "Literary Los
Angeles," so be on the lookout for local authors, historians,
regional storytellers, book-making crafts for the kids and more.
Getting there is easy. Take the Gold Line to MOTA Day and jump off at either
the Southwest Museum or Heritage Square station, where members of the Metro Art
Docent Council will welcome you. From there, free shuttles will escort
you to every museum. Or, if you choose to drive, park your car once and
shuttle to the museums of your choice.
For more information, call the MOTA hotline at (213) 740-TOUR (8687) or visit
http://www.museumsofthearroyo.com.
11. TOUR PASADENA’S HISTORIC HIGHLANDS HOMES — MAY 30
Six character homes in a wide range of architectural styles - many of them
never before open to the public -- will be open for viewing during Pasadena
Historic Highland's Tenth Annual Home Tour on Sunday, May 30, from noon to 4
p.m.
Architectural styles featured on this year's Memorial Day Weekend tour will be
Spanish Colonial Revival, Craftsman, English Revival, Colonial Revival, and a
modern interpretation of the Craftsman style. All of the homes on the tour are
clustered on or near Topeka Avenue, one of Historic Highlands' loveliest
tree-lined streets.
Built on land originally owned by two prominent Pasadena pioneers, Historic
Highlands contains an eclectic mix of almost 120 years of residential building
styles. This unique blend has made it a favorite location for commercials,
television, and movies, including "Multiplicity," "Dr.
Doolittle," "The Wedding Singer" and "Tuesdays with
Morrie."
Advance tickets may be purchased for $12.50 online at www.historichighlands.com
<http://www.historichighlands.com> or by sending a check payable to
"Historic Highlands Neighborhood Association" and a stamped,
self-addressed envelope to HHNA, c/o Rex Barry, 1436 N. Michigan Ave., Pasadena
CA 91104. Tickets also are available at Motif, 1389 East Washington Blvd.,
Pasadena, or may be purchased for $15 on the day of the tour at the corner of
Topeka and North Michigan avenues. For more information, call (626) 797-1910.
Located on the Pasadena-Altadena border just five minutes north of the 210
Foothill Freeway, Historic Highlands is bounded by Washington Boulevard on the
south, New York Drive on the north, Lake Avenue on the west and Hill Avenue on
the east. The neighborhood includes the landholdings of David McPherson,
designer and engineer of the Mt. Lowe railroad, and Ezra Dane, an orchardist
who settled in Pasadena in 1883.
Tour proceeds benefit neighborhood street beautification and improvement funds
for Longfellow Elementary School, the local public school whose original
building (still extant) was designed in 1911 by famed architects Greene and
Greene.
12. VOLUNTEER A FEW HOURS AND PRESERVE GENERATIONS OF LOS ANGELES
HISTORY
We thought it might be a good idea to reprise last week’s dispatch from the
Los Angeles Conservancy about the precarious future of the Ambassador Hotel,
the historic Wilshire Boulevard landmark that may fall under the wrecker’s ball
unless concerned preservationists step forward now. Here are the details,
including the Conservancy’s urgent call for volunteers to help anchor this most
worthy effort.
Thank you for your continued interest in the fight to save Wilshire
Boulevard's historic Ambassador Hotel. The Ambassador is the most
significant Los Angeles building to be threatened with demolition since St.
Vibiana's Cathedral in 1996, and we need you to get actively involved as
this moves toward a final vote in the coming weeks. We need volunteers
to help with the Ambassador issue every Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday
evening, 6:00 p.m. to 9:00 p.m. at the Conservancy's office, 523 W. Sixth St.,
Suite 826. Please contact Ben Golombek at (213) 430-4217 or bgolombek@laconservancy.org
to schedule an evening when you can help.
The A+ Coalition -- "The Ambassador PLUS Option -- A Better School for
Our Kids" -- now has 45 member organizations ranging from
entertainment industry groups such as the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and
Sciences and the Screen Actors Guild (a new coalition member) to the
Latino Urban Forum and California Latina Coalition Political Action
Committee, from business groups such as the Miracle Mile, Silver Lake and
Crenshaw Chambers of Commerce to labor unions such as SEIU Local 347,
AFL-CIO and the Professional Musicians Union, Local 47, AFL-CIO.
See the Conservancy's web site, http://www.laconservancy.org, for a full
list of A+ members and for the coalition's materials, and please let us know if
your organization will join our growing list.
The decision date by the Los Angeles Unified School District's (LAUSD) Board
of Education continues to slip back, and it now appears that the Board's
final vote may not occur until June. Last week, Steve Lopez of the Los Angeles
Times wrote a column expressing some sympathy for preserving the Ambassador,
but arguing against preservation if it cost any more than new construction. But
LAUSD's spin on the cost doesn't tell the whole story. It is important to point
out that:
Finally, you may want to read a lengthy, atmospheric feature article on the
Ambassador that ran in a recent Washington Post Style section:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A20943-2004Apr17.html.
We hope to see you as an Ambassador volunteer in the coming days and weeks:
again, please contact Ben Golombek at (213) 430-4217 to set up a time that you
can help.
13. JOB OPPORTUNITY -- RESIDENT MANAGER
Apartment resident manager needed for 120-unit apartment building.
Minimum five years experience and tax/credit experience needed.
Good computer skills, excellent communication skills, and typing of at
least 35 words per minute. Must be energetic with a stable background.
Excellent compensation. Please fax resume to (323) 256-6262.
14. WE'VE GOT MAIL
“Just a quick note to tell you all how much my husband and I enjoyed seeing
‘Growing with Ghosts’ last weekend at the Eagle Rock Cultural Center.
We went to the 11:00 p.m. show. Everyone put in so much effort, was
it was quite well done. And I'm a librarian -- in neighboring
branch, Cypress Park, just south of Eagle Rock -- so I really got a kick
out of the librarian ghost chorus line.”
-- Jerri Thomson, Children's Librarian, Cypress Park Library
* * *
“In response to the letter from Kitty Davis [about the way local businesses on
nearby Colorado Boulevard loiter in front of her house]: we have had a similar
problem for years with European Imports (a car repair shop) on the corner of
Colorado and College View. Cars are parked on College View, and left
there for days. They even have cars towed in, usually at two or three AM, and
dumped in front of our house. The trucks and cars on the corner, trying to
maneuver into the small garage, cause a constant traffic jam and hazard. I'm
just writing to let you know you're not alone, but don't expect any help from
parking enforcement, City Council, or any one else. We certainly haven't gotten
any, despite many calls and complaints. Good luck!”
-- Anita Britt, Eagle Rock
* * *
“For those who really never go west of Eagle Rock Boulevard, perhaps it should
be mentioned that the statement [in last week’s e.letter]: ‘For those of
you unfamiliar with Highland Park’s eclectic York Boulevard, it runs east and
west between the 110 Freeway and Eagle Rock Boulevard’ is a little off, since
York then proceeds to Verdugo Road and westerly fro there there over York Hill
to the boundary of the City of Glendale. (See, I do read the whole
thing!)”
-- Art Snyder, Eagle Rock
Thanks for setting the record straight on that, Art. Your humble—and,
apparently, geographically challenged-- editor should know better: he’s
actually quite familiar with the York Hill crest, having pedaled up it many,
many times by bike.
* * *
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15. THE LAST WORD --
ALAN JAY LERNER
“Tra la! It's May! The lusty month of
May!
That darling month when ev'ryone throws
Self-control away.
“It's time to do
A wretched thing or two,
And try to make each precious day
One you'll always rue!”
-- “The Lusty Month of May,” from the Broadway show, “Camelot”
Lyrics by Alan Jay Lerner
(1918-1986), Music by Frederick Loewe (1910-1988)
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