Guest · August 31, 2023
And what did celebrity chef Nancy Silverton and Playboy Magazine have to do with it? On a Saturday night in the spring of 1996, through thick synthetic fog, Playboy Playmate Shauna Sand was struggling to walk in her 4-inch heels on uneven cobblestones in the courtyard at the historic Los Altos Apartments at Wilshire Boulevard […]
Columnist · June 29, 2023
‘The Places’ take center stage It must have been quite a shocking sight in the late 1920s as a swell of development erupted in “The Places” along Gramercy, St. Andrews and Manhattan between Third Street and Olympic Boulevard. Like a giant monopoly board, multistory apartment buildings sprouted up amidst a flat landscape of vacant lots, […]
Columnist · June 1, 2023
I always have to laugh a little when I hear pro-development YIMBYs refer to the neighborhoods of Greater Wilshire as “segregationist,” a term that in their parlance refers to anti-density or anti-apartment buildings, as if Hancock Park, Windsor Square, etc. were strictly single-family zones. Any resident who travels the paths of our bucolic communities knows, […]
Guest · November 2, 2012
Learn about California’s first female architect during the statewide Julia Morgan 2012 Festival, organized by the Landmarks California Committee, which continues through Fri., Nov. 16. Morgan’s special connection to the YWCA, for whom she designed more than 30 buildings, will be discussed on Sun., Nov. 11 at the Harbor Area YWCA, a 1918 Craftsman building […]
