Tag: Rossmore Ave.
Hancock Park condo residents sue over ‘life-threatening’ flooding
When it rains, it really, really pours at The Rossmore. During one heavy storm last winter, 29 cars were flooded in the condominium complex’s underground parking garage at 585 N. Rossmore Ave. “Every car was a total loss,” said Caroline Debbané, president of The Rossmore Owners Association (the condo residents’ HOA). Some cars even floated […]
‘Chateaux in the sky’ part 2: Gramercy, St. Andrews and Manhattan
‘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, […]
Home linked to ‘Jazz Singer’ on WS-HPHS home tour
The Windsor Square-Hancock Park Historical Society will hold its annual home tour this year on Rossmore Avenue Sun., Oct. 6, from 1 to 5 p.m. Five stately homes between Third and Sixth streets will be featured, including one once owned by Harry Warner, who mortgaged it to pay for the financing of the first talking […]
Driver ran a red light and crashed at Beverly, Arden
Reports of two major accidents at the intersection of Arden and Beverly boulevards were made last month. According to a resident on Arden, the most recent accident occurred on Sun., July 22 at 2 a.m. after a driver ran a red light. (See “Accidents at Arden” letter, page 2, August LC.) Often, drivers heading west […]
