Tag: Valentines
The Griffiths: Nearly seven decades of love on McCadden, June
After 67 years of marriage, Stephen and Louise Griffith are still going strong. The two met at Stanford University at a party for the new freshman class. It was on the baseball diamond and, all these years later, the two remember it well. “It was a lot of fun,” said Louise. “I was looking forward […]
Magic is in the air with Katrina Kroetch and Brendan McGuigan
Brendan McGuigan doesn’t believe in soulmates, but he told us that he knew very quickly that he’d found his in Katrina Kroetch. McGuigan, a marketing consultant who grew up in Mendocino, California, met Kroetch, a native of Portland, Oregon, two years ago on Tinder. The dating app was something Kroetch had tried a couple of […]
Lizzie and Steve Blatt: an artful romance that spanned an ocean
Lizzie Pearl Rudoff met Steve Blatt in London in 2007, and they married in Steve’s backyard in Windsor Square two and a half years later. The path that brought together the British mother of two and the divorced Los Angeles business manager was unexpected and marked by tragedy, art and more than a little fairy […]
Tim and Jane Paulson celebrate golden year in Hancock Park
On a beautiful fall afternoon in the backyard of their Hancock Park home of 38 years, Tim and Jane Paulson threw a big family party to celebrate their 50th wedding anniversary. Toddlers ran around, food was catered and the weather was golden. Jane had always wanted a fall wedding. When Tim proposed to her in […]
Commonalities and a devious blind date lead to marriage
Kathi and Mike Genewick grew up two blocks apart in Lockport, New York, a town of 25,000 in the snow belt near Buffalo. There, as Kathi states, “Everybody knows everybody.” They attended the same schools, shared friends, and he, three years her senior, dated one of her older sisters before turning his attention to Kathi. […]
Love bloomed in the Catskills and at Village Pizzeria
Steve and Nancy Cohen, owners of Village Pizzeria on Larchmont Boulevard, met at Queens College in New York. They had mutual interests and friends, and one weekend Nancy asked Steve for a ride upstate to her friend’s bungalow. During the summer and on weekends, Steve worked in hotels in the Catskills. Top stars and comedians […]
