Tag: Windsor Square

Health, fitness, beauty and fashion in the ’hood

Health, fitness, beauty and fashion in the ’hood

| December 28, 2023 | 0 Comments

Worldwide attention was given to Windsor Square at the beginning of December. With the Hollywood Sign in the background, between tall rows of Canary Island palm trees, fashion models strutted down the 112-year-old concrete street of Windsor Boulevard, between Fifth and Sixth Streets. Blaring music surrounded an audience of about 200 invited guests sitting in […]

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Ridgewood Place, St. Andrew’s Square were just designated

Ridgewood Place, St. Andrew’s Square were just designated

| November 30, 2023 | 0 Comments

It is my distinct honor to announce that Greater Wilshire has two new official historic districts to add to its collection. The California State Historic Resources Commission on Nov. 3 approved for inclusion on the California Register of Historical Resources the St. Andrew’s Square Historic District and the Ridgewood Place Residential Historic District. This is […]

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Neighborhoods under threat, say homeowners

Neighborhoods under threat, say homeowners

| October 26, 2023 | 0 Comments

Los Angeles’ residential, tree-lined streets have long been a treasured part of our city. But, according to local homeowners groups, those streets are under threat by a state-mandated City of Los Angeles rezoning plan that would allow construction of four- to five-story buildings next to single-family homes. Under its draft plan, the city is proposing […]

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Parties, nonprofit fundraisers, LBA mixer, police memorial

Parties, nonprofit fundraisers, LBA mixer, police memorial

| June 1, 2023 | 0 Comments

Butter, the Labrador retriever, stood guard at the front door, welcoming new and veteran moms from Larchmont Charter School to the return of the annual “Sisters of the Grape” wine tasting event at the home of chef, television personality and local Longwood Highlands mom Daphne Brogdon. The annual event hosted by Daphne, Julie Johnson and […]

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Visit private gardens, raise funds for islands, see local trees

Visit private gardens, raise funds for islands, see local trees

| April 27, 2023 | 0 Comments

Everything is coming up roses, wisteria and a bountiful array of other colorful flowers when A Secret Garden Tour comes to our neighborhoods on Sat., June 3, from 1 to 5 p.m. Five to six private gardens — the number is still being sorted out — will be on the tour and fundraiser in Windsor […]

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The ‘Places’ — Wilton, Gramercy, St. Andrew’s and Manhattan

The ‘Places’ — Wilton, Gramercy, St. Andrew’s and Manhattan

| March 30, 2023 | 0 Comments

As we continue our study of Greater Wilshire’s potential historic districts, let us head east to look at two surviving pockets of our community’s earliest developments that survive along that noble sounding thoroughfare of St. Andrew’s Place. The Gramercy Place-St. Andrew’s Place Residential Historic District (between 2nd and 3rd streets) and the smaller St. Andrew’s […]

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