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Origami Vinyl today said it will be able to offer a full refund – including service fees – on the tickets the Echo Park store sold it in advance for the cancelled Sunset Junction festival in Silver Lake. Those refunds will apply only to the 106 tickets purchased through Origami – not other sources.
“Sunset Junction just brought all the money we paid out for tickets back about an hour ago,” said Neil Schield of Origami Vinyl in an email. “We are now honoring refunds to those who purchased tickets via Origami.” Click here for more details.
The skeletons of 36 unfinished Echo Park townhouses – framed in blue-tinted wood – will soon be reduced to a pile of blue firewood. Workers this morning who were cleaning up the site of the failed Durbin project at Echo Park and Delta avenues said the wood framing that has been left exposed for about two years will soon be demolished as the new property owner prepares to start construction. “The blue wood is going to come down, said Jonathan R. Smith, a regional vice president with D.R. Horton, the Texas home builder that bought the project earlier this year. Construction of the new framing is scheduled to begin in mid-November but Smith could not say when the homes will be completed.
D.R. Horton plans to purse the same plans and architectural style of the previous owner, he said. Sales will begin early next year but information about prices was not available.
There are countless wood-sided and shingled bungalows across the Eastside that have been slathered in stucco to present a vaguely Spanish style or gutted to create loft-like interiors. It turns out this kind of radical makeover – which often draws the ire of historic preservationists – is nothing new. Take for example two Silver Lake homes from 1936 designed by R.M. Schindler, one of Los Angeles’ most highly regarded Modernists architects.
When he was hired by Victoria McAlmon, an educator and political activist, Schindler proposed a contemporary, International-style house for the top of a lot on the 2700 block of Waverly Drive where an old bungalow had been built sometime between 1911 and 1923. Instead of demolishing the old house, however, Schindler proposed moving it to another part of the lot and giving it an International-style makeover. McAlmon, who hosted such high-profile guests as Eleanor Roosevelt and Anais Nin, followed Shindler’s advice on remodeling the old house (pictured above). On Thursday, an application to declare the two Waverly houses a Los Angeles cultural historic landmark will be reviewed by the city’s Cultural Heritage Commission.
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Elysian Valley
Signs on Elysian Valley's "Main Street" remind cyclists to slow down & share
Wednesday, August 31, 2011
Courtesy Elysian Valley River Neighborhood Council
The extension of the Los Angeles River bike path into Elysian Valley last year has proven popular with cyclists. The once bumpy and uneven strip along the Los Angeles River was replaced with smooth asphalt, lane stripes, landscaping and lighting. But the not everyone has welcomed the new path and the bike riders. Many longtime residents of Elysian Valley, also known as Frogtown, who once leisurely strolled along the riverside now complain about aggressive cyclists who race down the asphalt without regards to pedestrians. There have been some near misses and a few collisions between cyclists and walkers, including one involving the elderly father of a member of the neighborhood council. As a result, bright blue “Share the Path” signs commissioned by the Elysian Valley River Neighborhood Council will soon be installed along the river to remind cyclists as well as pedestrians that both groups have to be aware of each other.
“There were a lot of close calls and a couple of injuries,” said neighborhood council President Steve Appleton. “To be fair, some walkers were less than aware of the need to share. That’s because no one was used to cyclists speeding down the new smooth path. The river path in its prior bumpy form was the ‘Main Street’ of Elysian Valley before anyone else cared.”
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Wednesday, August 31, 2011
View From Victor Heights | Photo by Shawn Park/Flickr
- Less service, higher rates await DWP customers. Daily News
- What it takes to get a Sunset Junction refund. Patch
- Boyle Heights bookshop opens a temporary Westside outpost. L.A. Weekly
- Judge to consider retrial of Eagle Rock murder case involving former L.A. firefighter. Patch
- Chinese Flame trees burst into bloom on Echo Park Avenue. Echo Elysian Forum
- Happening Today: Electronic waste recycling, Atwater; Johnny Moezzi show, Silver Lake. Save the Date
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