Archive for March, 2013
Real Estate Sales March 2013
Real Estate Sales* Single family homes 950 S. Longwood Ave. 928 S. Victoria Ave. 513 N. Mansfield Ave. 816 S. Citrus Ave. 901 S. Tremaine Ave. 603 N. Mansfield Ave. 133 N. Gramercy Pl. 919 S. Hudson Ave. $1,775,000 1,289,000 979,000 979,000 898,250 897,900 850,000 696,900 Condominiums 681 S. Norton Ave., #104 350 S. Norton […]
Larchmont Chronicle tribute marks 50 years, benefits Ebell
A tribute to community trailblazer Jane Gilman, publisher and editor of the Larchmont Chronicle, will be held on Fri., May 17 to benefit The Ebell of Los Angeles’ Preservation & Restoration Fund. Gilman co-founded the Chronicle 50 years ago. The Golden Jubilee celebration will be held at the historic Ebell, 743 S. Lucerne Blvd., a […]
Hancock Park, Windsor Square home prices rise due to lack of inventory
The escalating prices of homes in Hancock Park and Windsor Square far outweigh what is happening in other city neighborhoods. A recent article in the Los Angeles Times said the Southern California median price for single-family resale homes has risen 34.5 percent since bottoming out at the beginning of 2009. In Hancock Park and Koreatown, […]
Ace Hearst reporter, Patte Barham keeps on writing
In the classic 1940s comedy “His Girl Friday,” Rosalind Russell plays Hildy Johnson, an ace female crime reporter who can out-scoop any male ink slinger within miles. There have been many real-life Hildys populating the annals of post WWII journalism, but odds are none have lived as colorful a life as Patte Barham, a diminutive […]
Summer camp themes range from art to sports to science for area kids
“Summer afternoon, summer afternoon: to me those have always been the two most beautiful words in the English language.” Those are the sentiments of author Henry James. Have you come up with any ideas yet about what you and, more importantly, your kids will do with the approximately 70 summer afternoons that are around the […]