Tag: Larchmont Buzz
Upgrades at Buzz publisher’s Fremont Place home make it more accessible for all
When Larchmont Buzz co-publisher Patty Lombard’s parents, Anne and Rocci Lombard, came to live with her at her Fremont Place home a few years ago, her family began an extensive renovation to make their space more accessible and easier to navigate for elderly adults. The results were so successful, they’re featured in a June 15 story […]
Merchants and neighbors generate support for small playground in Village
Larchmont Village merchants and shoppers always welcome more parking for the street. It has been this way since the Los Angeles Railway Company’s Yellow Car trolley “3 Line” stopped running up the Boulevard from Third Street to Melrose Avenue in the late 1940s or early 1950s. The contemporary desire for additional parking notwithstanding, there usually […]
Surprise donation at Wilshire Park Elementary
There is nothing in the world like the sight, smell and feel of a brand new book. Now the children and educators at Wilshire Park Elementary, 4063 Ingraham St., can have the pleasure of enjoying 4,000 new books donated by City National Bank’s “Reading is the Way Up” program, plus $10,000 for additional books from […]
Lombard’s new book grew from her love of Larchmont
Patty Lombard first fell in love with Larchmont Village in 1988 when the family lived on Wilton Drive and she could walk her baby daughter in a stroller to the boulevard. She has compiled a history of her favorite village in a book titled “Larchmont,” a 128-page photographic history of the shopping area. Lombard will […]
