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Equality Not Hate Rally In Lincoln Park
East Los Angeles Rally Sunday!!! 1pm Lincoln Park
PROTEST in the PARK: EQUALITY not H8TE Sponsored by the Latino/a LGBT Coalition latino.lgbt. coalition@ gmail.com
This Sun Nov 9th - 1 pm East LA : Lincoln Park
3501 Valley Blvd.
Los Angeles, CA 90031
A peaceful rally of the people. We rally then we march. In peace and with dignity… Everyone’s voice is needed. Everyone’s help is needed to spread the word… REPOST - SEND TO YOUR EMAIL LISTS & CONTACTS - SEND TEXT MESSAGES
BE THERE! Bring signs, banners, whistles and some friends…
This image was taken at the marriage ceremony of two dear friends. I have applied an “artistic filter” to the image to protect their identities.
I must comment that this joyous celebration was attended by elderly family members, and young children. I didn’t count noses, but my impression was that heterosexual couples outnumbered gay couples. Believe me, no one felt threatened.
Measure J Affects the Southwest Museum
Measure J on tomorrow’s ballot is a $3.5 billion bond for the Los Angeles Community College District.
But did you realize that a YES vote on this measure possibly endangers the Southwest Museum by turning the Museum into a campus?
Zuma Dogg: Why Measure J (Nov 4) Means ADIOS To The Southwest Museum And It’s Billion Dollar Artifcats
Boulevard Sentinel (Scroll down to the 14th article)
On the other hand Los Angeles Times takes the YES position and, curiously, although the article was posted in October, there are no comments. Could it be that some comments have been deleted? Did any Southwest Museum supporters try to comment there?
Some background information here: Understanding the Southwest Museum Controversy
Dia de los Muertos
In contrast to the more commercialized Halloween ghouls, goblins and celebrity costumes (although I just can’t wait to see all the crossdressers as Sarah Palin :-) ), Dia de los Muertos honors beloved ancestors, family and friends who have passed on.
Here is a collection of links to celebrations of Dia de Los Muertos in Los Angeles
UPDATE: I’m adding a link to the article in Occidental Weekly suggested by Mayabeth:
The Community of Hermon
Hermon is situated in a half square-mile valley with chaparral-covered hillsides, bordered by the Arroyo Seco and the historic 110 freeway to the west, Monterey Hills to the south, and South Pasadena to the north and east.
At the beginning of the 20th century, Hermon was cut off from nearby Los Angeles and Pasadena for much of the year. A wintertime trip from Hermon to downtown Los Angeles required fording the Arroyo Seco on foot.
In 1903 landowner, Ralph Rogers, donated the land of the Hermon tract to a group of Free Methodists, conservative Christians who cared little about the area’s isolation. They established a school on the land and named it after the biblical Mt. Hermon at the headwaters of the River Jordan.
The school evolved into Los Angeles Pacific College, and modest homes sprang up around it to house professors, students and other Free Methodists. Hermon merged with Los Angeles in 1912 and for decades remained a quiet, pious place.
Better links were established between Hermon and the rest of Los Angeles with the construction of a bridge across Arroyo Seco at Avenue 60 in 1926, the Monterey Road pass through Walnut Hill to the south in 1930, and the Hermon Avenue (renamed Via Marisol, over the objections of many community members, by Los Angeles City Council member Art Snyder in 1978 to honor his young daughter, Erin Marisol Snyder) bridge to the west in 1939.
With the beginning of the 21st century, Hermon is undergoing a renaissance. New businesses have moved in, and older homes are being restored.
Hermon has retained its own unique identity, and the things Hermon residents love about their community remain unchanged. Open space in the form of parks and undeveloped hillsides still surrounds the neighborhood of Hermon.
Re-Discovery Art Tour November 23
The Arroyo Arts Collective thanks Councilmember Ed Reyes and the Historic Highland Park Neighborhood Council for their generous support of the up-coming Re-Discovery Tour, our 16th annual showcase of artists’ homes and studios in Highland Park, Mount Washington and Eagle Rock. Suzanne Jimenez,
Field Deputy for Councilmember Reyes, graciously arranged for two shuttle buses for this years’ Re-Discovery Tour on Sunday, November 23, 2008 (Lummis Home gates open at 9:30 a.m.).
Sixteen years ago 50 artists opened their studios - this year the roster tops 140 - old favorites side by side with fresh finds, featuring painting, sculpture, ceramics, collage, computer graphics, photography, letterpress, printmaking, fiber arts and spray can art. Something for everyone (in a good way). This is an opportunity to engage with the artists, and view their studios firsthand!
WHO: The Arroyo Arts Collective
WHAT: The Re-Discovery Tour
WHEN: Sunday, November 23, 2008, Lummis Home gates open at 9:30 a.m.
WHERE: Lummis Home, 200 East Avenue 43, Los Angeles, CA 90031
From: Laurie Arroyo, Arroyo Arts Collective
Gothic Revival House To Come To Garvanza
There is a plan to move an altered house, that has had its historic wood siding covered with stucco and the historic windows and frames replaced by aluminum sliders, into the Garvanza area — an then restore it back to its 1870s appearance.
As Garvanza works to establish a Historic Preservation Overlay Zone, events come together to add new dimensions to the area. One of these is the moving of historic buildings to the area to help ensure their preservation.
Highland Park Heritage Trust member Brad Chambers already has a strong preservation track record in Garvanza. Several years ago he purchased several properties on Avenue 64, across the street from the Church of the Angeles. The first thing he did was to restore the historic buildings, including his own which was one of the first houses in the area from which stucco was removed in order to restore an early Craftsman house, resulting in a HPHT award.
In 2004, Chambers moved a 2-story house that was constructed in 1884 from Chinatown to his large lot in Garvanza. That house has been restored and now stands as a shining asset to the community.
An earlier attempt to move another historic home to the property was thwarted when the developer at Sunset and Figueroa illegally demolished the Victorian house before it could be move. That action resulted in the developer setting up a substantial historic trust fund to aid in future preservation efforts, as a settlement, in order to avoid a five-year moratorium on building that would have been imposed by the City’s “Scorched Earth” ordinance.
The Donnelly House is located just a block from where that ill-fated Victorian stood. It first appeared on the site in 1886 when Jophn A. Donnelly and his family lived in it. At the time, the land was owned by former Los Angeles Mayor, Prudent Beaudry, who had subdivided the land in 1882. Donnelly bought the property from Beaudry in 1889 and lived in the house until the 1920s. Only two other owners have lived there since.
The Donnelly house is of an extremely rare Gothic Revival style that indicates it most probably dates from the 1870s, making it one of a handful of surviving houses tha predate the great land boom of 1885-1888. Both Garvanza and Highland Park were established during this period.
The house was probably moved on to its current location in 1886, possibly from land that Prudent Beaudry has acquired for subdivision purposes. The move to Garvanza will still allow it to remain on former Beaudry land, as Prudent Beaudry owned that portion of the Rancho San Rafael until he sold it to Augustine Campbell-Johnston.
The house was documented in a 1982 survey by Roger Hathaway but covered with stucco two years later. Originally viewed as a tear-down, a historic resources report was required by the Community Redevelopment Agency because of the earlier documentation.
The report revealed the true rarity and hidden significance of the house, which then made it more problematic to tear down. This issue could have forced the land owner to have an environmental impact report before undertaking a new small apartment project. Moving the house will produce enough mitigation to avoid the EIR and will ensure that the house will be restored and protected as a part of the Garvanza HPOZ.
Republished from Highland Park Heritage Trust, by Charles J. Fisher
Above the Rainbow Jewelry
I finally got a few of my friend Lilian’s jewelry pieces set up in an Etsy shop. You can check it out at http://abovetherainbow.etsy.com
Over the last few days (my unplugged days) I got a few other pieces photographed. Now I just need to get those photos edited and uploaded. 
A Brief Summary of Southwest Museum/Autry National Center Issues
**Some readers of this blog live outside the Los Angeles city limits, and are probably not familiar with the issues surrounding the merger of the Southwest Museum and the Autry National Center. This post is intended to serve only as a very brief summary. **
Ground was broken for the Southwest Museum on November 16, 1912. The museum was the dream of Charles Lummis.
“Lummis had constructed a home for himself in Arroyo Seco, which he named El Alisal. It became a personal museum where Lummis began to accumulate his own collection of artifacts and research materials. When site selection [for the Southwest Museum] began in 1905, various locations were considered, some with great financial inducements, but Lummis was adamant that the only choice could be the hillside property visible from El Alisal, with a commanding view of Arroyo Seco and far beyond. The 38-acre site was located on a transportation line between Pasadena and Los Angeles; accessible by the yellow car line and also by auto along Pasadena Avenue (later renamed Figueroa Street).” (Text from Autry’s Southwest Museum Rehabilitation Study)
However, as the 20th century drew to a close, the Southwest Museum, the oldest museum in Los Angeles, had fallen on hard times. Damage from the 1994 Northridge eathquake had not yet been repaired. Roof leaks needed attention.
In 2003, The Autry National Center merged with the Southwest Museum. The Autry’s stated intent was to preserve the Southwest Museum buildings, and protect the collection. (The Autry National Center was originally founded as The Musuem of the American West, by Gene Autry, a legendary recording and movie star.)
Both sides in the controversy agree that the Southwest Musuem buildings are in need of repair and renovation. Reports estimate the repair and renovation costs at $40 million.
Both sides in the controversy agree that the Southwestern American artifacts originally collected by Charles Lummis are unique and priceless, and must be preserved for future generations.
But here is where the trails diverge:
The Autry Center wants to erect a new musuem building in Griffith Park, and move the priceless collection there. Reports estimate the cost of the new building at $100 million.
Northeast Los Angeles locals want the collection to remain in its original home, atop Mount Washington, and visible from the grounds of El Alisal, as Lummis envisioned it.
Further questions arose when it became evident that Autry’s funding for the Southwest Museum was coming, not from liquid assets, but from an inheritance pledge.
And then, this week, the Los Angeles Community College District quietly agreed to use money from its $3.5 billion bond issue on the Nov. 4 ballot to renovate the Southwest Museum and use it as a satellite campus. Note a “campus“. Not a “museum“.
More reading:
Los Angeles Times from 2006: http://articles.latimes.com/2006/jun/26/entertainment/et-southwesta26
Los Angeles Times from 2001: http://articles.latimes.com/2001/jun/02/entertainment/ca-5351
The Autry’s side: http://www.swmfuture.org/
From Ron Kaye, L.A., journalist and activist: http://ronkayela.com/2008/08/la-story-part-one-the-stench-o.html
From Mark Kenyon, community activist: http://blackhatblog.wordpress.com/
Arroyo Seco Journal breaks story on Community College funding: http://www.asjournal.net/localnews.html
Reminder: Peace in the Northeast March Aug 16
The Churches of NorthEast LA present:
PEACE in the NorthEast Community March and Resource Fair
Saturday, August 16 10a-5p
Gather: 10:00am Highland Park Senior Center,
6152 N Figueroa StMarch: 11:00am
York Blvdjust below
Figueroa StResource Fair: 12:00noon - 5:00pm Victory Outreach
4160 Eagle Rock Blvdhttp://www.myspace.com/peaceinthene
Lead by the Churches of NorthEast LA the community will meet to march against violence in the streets. The march is down
York Blvd to
Eagle Rock Blvdand then down
Eagle Rock Blvdto the Resource Fair. Snacks and bottled water will be served at the staging area. Bottled water will be available along the march route. Along with the Resource Fair there will be free food and Jarritos, live and DJ music and a Mini Car Show.
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395 East Columbia Avenue, Pomona
A rare heirloom treasure. This Classic Craftsman home is located in the historic Lincoln Park District of Pomona, built in 1908, with over 3,000 square feet. It features hardwood floors, high-ceilings, a large fireplace, period light fixtures, and all original woodwork. There are 4 bedrooms, 2.5 baths, plus sunroom, enclosed sleeping porch, sewing room, a wrap-around river rock front porch, plus workshop and basement.
