"Eagle Rock: Where land use and planning is a contact
sport"
THE EAGLE ROCK ASSOCIATION
May 9, 2002
In this issue:
1. THIRD ANNUAL ECLECTIC EAGLE ROCK HOME TOUR -- MAY 19 --
BUY TICKETS NOW!
2. EAGLE ROCK RENAISSANCE OF PLEIN AIR ART SHOW -- THROUGH MAY 26
3. "SHOULD I STUCCO MY WOOD HOUSE?" -- NO -- PLEASE SPREAD
THE WORD
4. BEAUTIFUL NEW BUSINESSES IN EAGLE ROCK!
5. CATFISH BITE FEATURED THIS MORNING ON CHANNEL 7!
6. GOOD NEWS FROM HIGHLAND PARK AND NORTHEAST LOS ANGELES
7. PRIME EAGLE ROCK LOCATION/COMMERCIAL SPACE FOR LEASE
8. HIGHLAND PARK NEIGHBORHOOD COUNCIL NEWS
9. LETTERS AND E.MAILS
10. QUOTE OF THE WEEK
1.
THIRD ANNUAL ECLECTIC EAGLE ROCK
HOME TOUR -- MAY 19 -- BUY TICKETS NOW!
Mark your calendars for TERA's third annual Eclectic Eagle Rock Home Tour!
It takes place Sunday, May 19, 2002. The event will begin at
10:00 a.m. and continue throughout the day until 4:00 p.m.
This is a fantastic and very fun event. We have a WONDERFUL AND ECLECTIC
array of fines homes this year -- from a lovely Asian-inspired Craftsman to a
Conrad Buff/Richard Neutra-designed home built for plein-air artist Buff in
1927 to a terrific Spanish Colonial to an Irving Gill-influenced home designed
by its architect/owner only five years ago, and more!
Tickets can be purchased by mail at TERA, PO BOX 411675, Eagle Rock, CA 90041
or online at www.tera90041.org. You can purchase tickets in Eagle Rock at
the following locations:
Beaujolais Boulangerie,
1661 Colorado Boulevard, Eagle Rock
Eufloria, 1576 Colorado Boulevard, Eagle Rock
The TERA booth at the annual Dahlia Days Arts Festival, May 18, on Caspar and
Merton Avenues
Tickets are $10.00 in advance for TERA members, $12.00 for the general public
and for all $15.00 at the door.
The Home Tour begins at 5418 Dahlia Drive. Call 626 844-2256 for more
information.
Volunteers welcome! There are openings for docents, ticket/brochure handlers,
table monitors, etc. All volunteers receive a complimentary ticket to our
Home Tour and an invitation to our post-tour party, which is always great fun!
Please call Wanda Kuenzli at (323) 256-7297 or by e.mail at wmkuenzli@earthlink.net.
2. EAGLE ROCK
RENAISSANCE OF PLEIN AIR ART SHOW -- THROUGH MAY 26
The Eagle Rock Valley Historical Society, the Eagle Rock Community Cultural
Center, The Eagle Rock Association (TERA), and the Eagle Rock Chamber of
Commerce present:
Eagle Rock Renaissance of Plein Air
Eagle Rock Community Cultural Center
2225 Colorado Boulevard, Eagle Rock, CA 90041
(323) 226-16171
Plein Air paintings, "Scenes of Eagle Rock" are on display from
May 5 to May 26. Mondays to Fridays from 1 to 6 p.m. and Sundays from 2
to 5 p.m. Many of the same artists who produced these works will be
painting on site during TERA's Eclectic Eagle Rock Home Tour on May 19 --
another great reason to attend the tour!
3.
"SHOULD I STUCCO MY WOOD HOUSE?" -- NO -- PLEASE SPREAD
THE WORD
A note from Nicole Possert, President of the Highland Park Heritage Trust:
Highland Park Heritage
Trust thanks the TERA e.letter and Tracy King for re-publishing information
from our educational brochure, "Should I Stucco my Wood House?"
We are pleased to see the positive responses from readers! The
complete brochure is available on our website, http://www.hpht.org. It's
easy to print (from an Adobe Acrobat format) and hand out as a finished
brochure to anyone who desires it -- for free and for the masses! We
hope to hear about positive results and reactions from readers in the future.
The pdf file can be viewed at
the TERA website: www.tera90041.org.
4. BEAUTIFUL NEW
BUSINESSES IN EAGLE ROCK!
GALLERY OPHELIA held its grand opening and official ribbon-cutting with
Council member Nick Pacheco on April 13, and it was a standing-room-only crowd!
It's great art in a great space imaginatively transformed from a termite
eradication business into a very visually appealing storefront that compels you
to enter and partake of its creative magic.
Colorado Boulevard is finally beginning to reflect Eagle Rock's and Northeast
Los Angeles's largely arty population, and we have Gallery Ophelia, among
others (described below), to thank. We want to acknowledge Linda and
Terry Allen, and daughters Candace and Mindy, for their creativity and energy
in bringing such a wonderful business to our town!
Please visit Gallery Ophelia at 2114 Colorado Boulevard here in Eagle Rock,
or contact the gallery at 323.982.9945 or http://www.galleryophelia.com.
Gallery Hours: Tues-Friday 12-7pm, Saturday 12-5pm or by appointment.
TOROS POTTERY held its grand opening and ribbon-cutting on April 26.
Again, Council member Nick Pacheco was on hand to help celebrate the
opening of this new business. Owner Toros Tngrian creates beautiful
artworks in glazed and fired clay, offering ornamental pieces as well as those
for function, and he conducts on-site classes in ceramics making.
Toros, too, has a beautiful storefront, located in a 1940s building erected by
Juanita Bell, grandmother of Eric Warren, native Eagle Rocker and president of
the Eagle Rock Valley Historical Society. Toros has tastefully upgraded
certain features of the building, and it is a delightful space that helps to
create a more appealing shopping district in our town.
Toros Pottery is located at 4962 Eagle Rock Boulevard. Please call
(323) 344-8330 for more information.
TOWNSEND III GALLERY held its opening party on May 4 to a very
enthusiastic crowd! The artworks displayed were beautiful and the hors
d'oeuvres sumptuous. The gallery occupies a space that was once the site
of Performance Auto, and the building is one that hails from Eagle Rock's
early-twentieth-century days.
Owners Deborah Boudreau, Ian Callendar, and Tim Yalda have transformed the
building into an absolutely stunning interior space, restoring the original
brick walls and revealing the rough wood-trussed ceilings. The lighting
is wonderfully designed and beautifully showcases the artworks by Karima
Muyaes, painter, Jaled Muyaes, sculptor, and a variety of other artists.
Also offered are handmade jewelry, accessories, and a variety of lovely
and unique items for the home. The current show can be seen through June
30, 2002.
The wonderful Townsend III Gallery is located at 1581 West Colorado
Boulevard, at the northeast corner of Townsend Avenue and Colorado, here in
Eagle Rock. Please call (323) 478-9513 for more information.
YOGA ESSENCE held its grand opening and ribbon-cutting ceremony on April
6, and it was truly inspiring! Council member Nick Pacheco presided.
A terrific and well-designed space (another older building creatively
brought back to life), wonderful and needed services offered, and items for
sale that are found nowhere else in Eagle Rock -- a marvelous addition to our
town's business district, and another reason not to travel to surrounding
cities for the goods and services we Eagle Rockers want and need!
Please visit Yoga Essence and owners Krista and Phillip at 1577 Colorado Boulevard,
on the north side of Colorado just east of Townsend Avenue. Call toll
free at (866) 937-9642 or (323) 550-8182 for more information.
5. CATFISH BITE
FEATURED THIS MORNING ON CHANNEL 7!
We hope you caught (or will catch) Channel 7's early morning show today between
5:00 and 7:00 a.m.! It featured Eagle Rock's own Catfish Bite as one of
LA's best bargain outlets. Congratulations to owner Gina Muzingo and her
folks, Roe and Bob.
6. GOOD NEWS FROM
HIGHLAND PARK AND NORTHEAST LOS ANGELES
Highland Park Heritage Trust received a coveted Los Angeles Conservancy
Preservation Award at the May 8th luncheon for producing the educational video,
"Lure and Legacy of the Lower Arroyo Seco." This 15-minute
video examines the vibrant landscape and layered history of the Lower Arroyo
Seco including greater Highland Park and the communities of Garvanza, and Mt.
Washington. The video is available for a contribution to HPHT of $19.95
to anyone interested. It's an excellent overview and fun way for all residents,
new and old, to learn about the wonderful, rich history of the communities we
live in. HPHT also is providing a free copy to local schools and
community organizations as a resource to share with their membership.
Contact Nicole Possert at aguild@pacbell.net for more information.
In addition, Northeast Los Angeles received more LA Conservancy Awards for the
rehabilitation and adaptive re-use of the Ziegler House in Highland Park and
two studies of the Arroyo Seco Parkway (110 Freeway) sponsored by Caltrans.
7. PRIME EAGLE ROCK
LOCATION/COMMERCIAL SPACE FOR LEASE
For lease near Eagle Rock's main intersection of Colorado and Eagle Rock
Boulevards is a 900-sq.-ft. commercial space located at 2152-1/2 Colorado
Boulevard, just a few storefronts east of Swork Coffee. $1550 per
month. Other tenants in this building are Cingular Wireless, Lucky Money,
and PC Bang. For information, please call Jacob Rahmanizad at (213)
225-7108 (office) or (310) 236-3257 (pager).
8. HIGHLAND PARK
NEIGHBORHOOD COUNCIL NEWS
Dear Highland Park Stakeholders:
There will be a SPECIAL MEETING of the Interim Board of the Historic Highland
Park Neighborhood Council to discuss and prepare for our certification hearing
on May 28, 2002 (The hearing will be at Franklin High School at 6:30 pm).
The SPECIAL MEETING will be this week, Thursday, May 9, 2002 @ Police Museum @
7:00pm
Our boundary modifications have been decided internally, our outreach has been
good and we have only minor modifications to our bylaws. The next step is to
formally present our application and give cause to why we wish to be certified.
Everyone is welcomed to participate in this planning meeting to help present
the best face for Highland Park. If you choose not to participate in the
planning for our presentation, please plan on attending the hearing and give
your support to Highland Park.
THANKS, Juliet Arroyo
9. LETTERS AND
E.MAILS
"One of the reasons we were glad to leave Nashville, Tennessee, was the
corporate vandalism being perpetrated by Walgreens against historically
significant buildings, and the inability or unwillingness of the local
government to stop them."
-- Tania and Win Owen, Pasadena residents
" I love your TERA e-letter. It's a great calendar of events and
happenings in the NE LA area. I'm going to run down and get my tomato
plant today and then Saturday night, while we're celebrating Cinco de Mayo (on
the 4th), run over to visit the new gallery. Thanks for all your hard
work."
-- Kathy Gallegos, manager, Avenue 50 Studio, Highland Park
"While it is most certainly his right to dislike 'Hipsters,' French food,
new businesses or even the Ulmers personally, the implicit personality
assassination, obvious untruths and fabricated quotes in Tom Topping's
Boulevard Sentinel article, 'Have Parking? Will Bake,' are an irresponsible
breach of journalistic ethics, and an abuse of community trust.
Seeking a variance for zoning and parking codes is a legal option available to
any successful businessperson who is willing to invest the time and money to do
so. There is nothing sneaky or dishonest about it, as Topping implies. The
claim that Eric Ulmer had cards printed 'instructing' customers to call
Nick Pacheco's office on his behalf is, quite simply, false. Nor is it is true
that Eric would dare say anything resembling 'f--- you Americans' to anyone;
Eric himself is a very proud, voting, American citizen, as well as an
industrious neighborhood entrepreneur.
A responsible reporter is honor bound to corroborate his stories before
printing any indirect quotes, especially inflammatory ones, even if
gleaned from a friendly (if not reliable) source. The sheer number of column
inches devoted to what is ultimately not a major scoop or story suggests
hostility, as if Mr. Topping holds some kind of grudge against the Beaujolais
businesses. Meanwhile, his report that none of the neighbors of the Boulangerie
appeared at the hearing (to oppose the variance) might well indicate that it is
not an issue of great concern to them. In fact, I suspect that these same
neighbors might actually enjoy having a choice of lunch and coffee spots
located conveniently within walking distance."
--D. Hosking, Eagle Rock resident
"Hi -- Thanks for the great e-mail newsletter. I always feel so
informed about my community after reading it. Do you know anything about
what appears to be a new restaurant going in on the north side of York
Boulevard just east of Eagle Rock Boulevard, apparently called 'Eaglerox?'
It looks like it might be nice. Thanks --"
-- Jean Rosenbluth, Eagle Rock resident and TERA member
"I think it was the Highland Park Heritage Trust that created a '10
reasons why you should not stucco your historic home'-type brochure in English
and Spanish. Do you know the folks there? I could make a call if you
like. It would be great if they would reproduce and distribute it
again."
-- Chris Nichols, Eagle Rock resident
"With much appreciation, and great regard -- thank you everybody at TERA
for all of your support at our Grand Opening on April 6th. We feel that a
large part of its success was due to your presence. We feel honored and
blessed to have you as friends. Best always --"
-- Krista and Phillip, owners, Yoga Essence
"I would love to continue receiving the TERA e.letters. They are
great and most informative. You all do a wonderful job and make me feel
as though I live in a lovely community." [We replied: "You
DO live in a lovely community!" Then we received this:]
"I agree 100%. I've been here nearly two years and I just adore
everything about Eagle Rock, as well as what the future may bring. Keep
up the great work."
-- Ken Johnson, Eagle Rock resident
10.
QUOTE OF THE WEEK
"Some see things as
they are and say, 'Why?' I of dream things that never were, and say, 'Why not?'"
--
George Bernard Shaw
We welcome your comments.
Please include your name.
Joanne Turner
<artburn@earthlink.net>
President, The Eagle Rock Association (TERA)