| WHAT IS THE HIGHEST numbered street in the City of Los Angeles, I wondered. My car-ready Thomas Guide came to the rescue: 266th Street, in the Harbor City area of LA. This answer would be much harder to find online, even with the mighty Google Maps. |
February 16, 2007
Fun with Thomas Guide
February 15, 2007
Mesoamerican Atwater Village
| Does anyone know what these circular pictogram thingies are called? Within 24 hours I witnessed the one at Forest Lawn Memorial Park in the Hollywood Hills and the one at La Azteca restaurant in Atwater Village. |
February 14, 2007
Ranking Candidates by Years in Neighborhood
| THIS IS NOT AN ENDORSEMENT. The Newbie doesn't do endorsements. This chart ranks Atwater Village Neighborhood Council (AVNC) candidates based solely on reported length of time living and/or working in our northeast Los Angeles neighborhood. Mary Lou Watkins, for example, "raised my family in Atwater Village, residing here since 1960." Karl F. Schmid, on the other end, moved here "early this year." Neighborhood residents: clip this chart and bring it to the Feb. 24 AVNC election. Vote on your taste for new blood. Oldbies vs. newbies. Tradition vs. inspiration. (Four candidate statements - from David Negrete, Luis Lopez, Tim Warner and Joshua Lewin - did not specify length of time in Atwater Village.)
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LA's 'Neglected Majority'
 FACING STIFF COMPETITION from all the other glossy lifestyle/city Los Angeles magazines and Web sites, Real Talk LA is due in May with this angle:"...New glossy lifestyle/city magazine targeting Los Angeles' 'neglected' majority - the upscale apsirational Multiculturals; Latin, African-Americans, Asian, Middle Eastern, Indian, and European-Americans.With all these targeted ethnicities, I wonder what language the medium will be recreated in.
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February 13, 2007
KCAL 9, Meet Wikipedia
 REPORTING ON A LIST OF most annoying sounds, KCAL 9's Linda Alvarez:"And tenth was mains humming. We don't know what that is."It's power line humming, Linda. I looked it up for you. |
February 12, 2007
New Business Opens in Atwater Village Without Telling Me
| WHO ARE YOU, LUX DECOR? Tell me of your furniture, accessories and antiques. All I know now is how you sit between LA Bread and Soler Dental on Los Feliz Boulevard. Mine may not be the best-written or most-read blog in Los Angeles. But it does attract at least 150 readers every weekday. On good days, when I bait Curbed LA, Franklin Avenue or LAist into linking to me, it's closer to 250. Last month: 5,000 total visitors. Most are looking for information about Atwater Village. (Duh.) Some specifically want to learn about neighborhood restaurants and businesses. (Canele, anyone?) So keep me in the loop: atwatervillagenewbie [at] gmail [dot] comThat's atwatervillagenewbie, all one word, followed by the @ sign (shift-2 on most keyboards), followed by gmail.com (the world's greatest free email service). Send me a flier or a coupon or something. I can't promise coverage. And if I do, I might not say nice things. But I'm spittin' distance from all the business districts along Los Feliz Blvd., Glendale Blvd, and Fletcher Drive. And it's just an email we're talking about. |
Follow That Crime Wave
BURNING RUBBER AS GATEWAY CRIME? Looks like it takes about two months to go from popping wheelies to popping caps in someone's ass. Broken window theory? Maybe they should call it flat tire theory.
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Tea Cups Full of Rain
| "YOU GONNA POST THOSE?" wondered a Disneyland "cast member" assigned to re-starting the Mad Tea Party attraction after this weekend's rain. Yes sir, I think I might. Now, back to your mopping! Explains Wikipedia, the 1955 attraction is "unable to run in the rain, once the turntables are saturated with a moderate amount of water they slip and can no longer spin." Explained another cast member to the disappointed father of two-year-olds: "It'll be about an hour before the tires dry." |
February 8, 2007
Rascals: Better Luck Next Year
IT'S AWARD SEASON IN GANGLAND. And the Rascals of Atwater Village were left off Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa's list of most dangerous gangs. (PDF here.)
Hardly one of LA's largest multi-level outdoor marketing and youth leadership organizations, the Rascals will no doubt continue to terrorize northeast Los Angeles residents with persistent re-painting of the backside of murals and giant purple walls.
And the winners are:
- 204th Street (Harbor Gateway)
- Canoga Park Alabama
- 18th Street (Westside)
- Avenues (Northeast Division)
- Grape Street Crips (Southeast)
- Black P-Stones (Southwest)
- La Mirada Locos (Rampart, Northeast)
- Mara Salvatrucha (Rampart, Hollywood, Wilshire)
- Rollin' 40s (Southwest)
- Rollin' 30s (Southwest)
- Rollin' 60s (77th Street Division)
Sunday Drive Through Lost City of Tropico
| LIKE A LANDLOCKED ATLANTIS, the lost city of Tropico, California (1911-1917), exists only in our imaginations. And on some old maps. This map from 1912 shows a suggested Sunday drive from Los Angeles to points north, winding along the macadamized (paved with crushed stone) Los Feliz Avenue. Drivers would pass Griffith Park and cross into the Los Angeles neighborhood of Atwater Village, bordering the City of Tropico. (Where the symbol indicates "gas and oil" and "garage.") Tropico voted itself out of existence in 1917, and was annexed to the City of Glendale. It remains today as a Glendale neighborhood [PDF], bordered by Chevy Chase Drive on the north, Glendale Avenue on the east and Atwater Village on the west.
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February 7, 2007
Want to Build a Monorail Down the LA River?
| GREAT IDEA, DON SWEENEY. And in Atwater Village we already have transit-oriented development to go with it! Unless you were thinking yuppies in multi-story condos rather than squatters in riverbed camps.
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