There's a little nook of Atwater Village that can be found south of Fletcher... And there it was again. Barely. A high-pitched cry. It was a sound I'd never before heard, filled with such defeat and sadness and the next thing I knew I was out of the cab and on the street and turning my ears this way and that trying to divine its location and source... [more]
| Even though 97.75% of Star 98.7FM voters wanted Jamie, Jack & Stench back, they are gone. When I lived in Denver, they took Jamie White off the air there. Now I've moved to Los Angeles, and she's been let go again. You can thank me later. |
 OK, it's not a subway. At all. But it is a train. (With a snack car!) And from Atwater Village it's a painless walk to the Amtrak station in Glendale. At the other end, in Ventura, the tracks are one block from the sand. Travel time: 97 minutes. A train to the beach in Santa Monica could take 10 years longer. And cost $4,799,999,983 more. To get zen about it, don't change how you go to the beach in Santa Monica. Go to the beach in Ventura County. 
PREVIOUSLY: Subway to the Sea: $1.25 |
 OK, it's not a subway. At all. But it is a train. And from Atwater Village it's a painless walk to the Metrolink station in Glendale. At the other end, in San Clemente, the tracks are practically on the sand. Travel time: two hours. A train to the beach in Santa Monica could take 10 years longer. And cost $4,799,999,989 more. To get zen about it, don't change how you go to the beach in Santa Monica. Go to the beach in Orange County. 
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 OK, it's not really a subway. But it is a train. And yes, it's a seven-block walk from the nearest train stop to the beach. And sure, the beach is in Long Beach. But a train to the beach in Santa Monica could cost $4,799,999,998.75 more. And it wouldn't be ready for at least 10 years. To get zen about it, don't change how you go to the beach. Change the beach you go to. |
Happy new year and welcome to Atwater Village Newbie, a nominee for LA City Nerd's 2006 Blogger, a proud member of the blog-LA-sphere and, in the words of our esteemed blogging colleagues at LAist, "quite a good neighborhood blog." What is Atwater Village? A banana-shaped Los Angeles neighborhood, just inside northeast city limits, with about 8,000 residents. In ways a microcosm of LA: average housing prices (for LA), a mix of people and languages, palm trees and graffiti, struggles between tradition and progress. Unlike some LA hoods, though, a distinct village feel: outdoor movies, well-heeled sidewalks, holiday trees, mom-and-pop shops, farmers markets, and bickering about Starbucks.Where is Atwater Village? Between I-5 and the Los Angeles River to the west, highway 134 to the north, railroad tracks and Glendale to the east, and highway 2 and the Elysian Valley neighborhood to the south. Is Atwater Village on the east side of LA? Depends. It's east of the LA River, so yes. And it's 20 miles from the nearest beach. But it's north of downtown LA, and it's not adjacent to Latino-dominated East LA. Plus it's next to Glendale. And Burbank. Which might, to some, make Atwater Village part of the San Fernando Valley. (Definitely not the east side). To keep people from getting itchy, it's best not to say, "Atwater Village is eastside." Try instead, "Atwater Village is on the east side." Get the difference? No? Me neither. Who Is the Newbie? In 2006 Mrs. Newbie and I migrated from Colorado to California. In March, when we reach our one-year anniversary here, we will no longer be newbies and will be, according to the LA Times, LA veterans. (Subject to approval by other members of the blog-LA-sphere.) Looking for more? Perhaps these previous posts will help answer recent requests:
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From Newbie to Nerd in just 10 months? LA City Nerd released his City Nerd Award Nominees early this morning. And the nominees for Blogger are:
They still show music videos on MTV, apparently, especially when they star the subject of an MTV "reality" show.
