Tag: Wilshire Country Club
Women’s Golf returns to Wilshire after years away
The Ladies Professional Golf Association (LPGA) returns to Los Angeles this month for the first time in more than a decade when the best players in women’s golf descend on the Wilshire Country Club. The inaugural “HUGEL-JTBC LA Open” takes place April 16 to 22, featuring 144 women golfers competing over 72 holes for a […]
Residents seek answers to dry brook
Brookside is perhaps best known for its namesake, a natural stream that flows through the neighborhood. But in recent months, local residents have raised an alarm about the brook’s health. “Something is up,” says local real estate agent Richard Battaglia. “Within the past year the brook has dried up in places. Someone turned […]
Wilshire Country Club is turning so brown it’s green
Water-saving efforts are moving the ground from the Wilshire Country Club golf course, some 24 acres of turf to be exact. That’s the amount that has been removed from the course since early January, said Todd Keefer, general manager and chief operating officer. A host of drought-tolerant plants will replace the water-thirsty grass on about […]
Bud Rice shares his D-Day experiences as C-47 pilot
It was 69 years ago that Julian “Bud” Rice was piloting a plane to drop paratroopers near the French town of St. Mere Eglise as part of the D-Day invasion of France on June 7, 1944. But the Hancock Park resident remembers it as though it were yesterday. He regaled some 250 members and guests […]
A look back at Hancock Park in the 1960s
This is the first in a series of remembrances during the Larchmont Chronicle’s 50-year celebration. When the Larchmont Chronicle began publication in 1963, Hancock Park was an enclave of 1100 homes in, what was termed, “a low-key area of Los Angeles.” Our newspaper’s first headline covered the possibility of a Beverly Hills freeway dissecting […]
