Archive for October, 2013
Hancock Park residents urge attention to streets, median upkeep
Quality of life issues dominated the Hancock Park Homeowners Association meeting on Oct. 21. Close to 80 residents filled John Burroughs Middle School auditorium and peppered Councilman Tom LaBonge with questions about street and sidewalk repaving, pothole repair and median maintenance. LaBonge presented options concerning the more expensive concrete versus asphalt repaving on Hancock Park […]
Chefs tell favorite ingredients from persimmons to squash and share recipes
Autumn days are upon us, and we say goodbye to Heirloom tomatoes and turn to heartier fare. Chefs across the southland are tweaking their menus to reflect the tastes cooler weather brings. We wondered what ingredients they were embracing. Suzanne Goin’s food obsessions for fall are brightly pigmented persimmons and pomegranates. “They are the ultimate […]
Classic menu items, friendly service draw customers to landmark
“Buy the best and cook it simply” is the mantra at Taylor’s Steakhouse, celebrating its 60th year as a landmark restaurant in the Wilshire Center area. Bruce Taylor began helping out at the restaurant while he was a student at USC. Bruce’s dad opened Taylor’s on Western Ave. in 1953. He was a transplanted Texan […]
Hamburgers at 1938 prices as Du-par’s celebrates 75th
Enjoy some legendary flapjacks and pies, and get them both for prices you haven’t seen since 1938. Du-par’s at Farmers Market will be celebrating its 75th anniversary by serving up 20 items from its 1938 menu at 1938 prices on Wed., Oct. 16. Some of those timeless favorites include buttermilk hotcakes for 25 cents, hamburgers […]
Darryl Holter, CEO of Downtown L.A. Motor Group, moonlights as musician
Darryl Holter used to teach history. Now he is making it. He is credited with being the driving force to turn the Figueroa corridor around after the 1992 riots. When Nick Shammas, his wife Carole’s father, despaired about keeping his dealerships in downtown open after they had been vandalized by rioters, Holter left academia to […]
Reindeers, Carnation soda shop and other Miracle Mile memories
Toby Horn, who grew up in the Miracle Mile, shared her early recollections. Carnation had the best chocolate chip ice cream in the whole world. Tiny flecks of chocolate that melted into the vanilla ice cream. The soda shop was the stopover on the way home from school, too. And if the moon was in […]
