SPRING in the SFV

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• The Vernal Equinox Has Arrived

time for renewal ... .

Late Night Foot Race in NoHo

NoHo MYSTERY Solved !

• THEN, NOW on
LANKERSHIM
the Answer is Here ...

previously questioned (cli∆c above)
NoHo Monolith at Chandler
now fullfilled by a very large
video billboard,
I feel so good now.

• HAPPY GREEN

• Los Angeles Premiere (1984)
St PATRICK's DAY Parade

I Filmed The Premiere St Patrick's Day Parade in DownTown L.A. March 17, 1984

The NoHo Art Wave is Still on

Read about at it at Curbed LA.

Parking Meter workers Scamming locals

I personal fitness train at a gym on Lankershim Blvd near Weddington Blvd in NoHo. It recently came to my attention of a long term client of the gym who was parked in a meter outside the gym on Lankershim. She went in on Tuesday, Feb 17, 2009 at 10a for her usual 10am appointment with her personal fitness trainer which always lasts one hour. As usual she put her $1.00 for one hour into the parking meter at 10a, and went in the gym where she checked in at the front desk, and started her workout with her trainer

At 10:52a she was horrified to see a parking meter worker putting a ticket on her windshield. When she quickly went out to confront the meter worker, she was told that she was getting a ticket, even with 8 minutes still left on her meter. "Why...How?" she asked, and was told by the unconcerned meter worker that "your only legal to park for one hour... so you or somebody else must have put an extra dime in the meter after your hour expired". The victim explained that she was still within her initial hour with 8 minutes still to go and she was just finishing up on her one hour workout that began at 10:00am sharp. (In fact, there is proof from the gym's computer that she checked in at the front desk at 10:00am promptly as usual.) The parking meter worker at 10:52am that morning seemed to care less, and simply left to apparently go about finding more victims of this scam along Lankershim Blvd in NoHo.

Watch the Great Debate!

Today's the day! Mayor Sam's Great Debate will be held this afternoon featuring candidates David Hernandez, Phil Jennerjahn, Walter Moore, Craig X. Rubin and David "Zuma Dogg" Saltsburg. Panelists include Moderator Ron Kaye, LA Weekly Deputy Editor Jill Stewart and blogger Debbie Lopez. Tune in hear to watch live streaming video of the event.

Online TV Shows by Ustream

Meter Person in Search of $$$ in NoHo

Campo de Cahuenga (film of 2008 Celebration)

• Re-enactment of the Signing
of the Articles of Capitulation
at Campo de Cahuenga













Tom LaBonge and Guy Weddington McCreary
-see some of 2008's event with MyFilm-

Purse Snatcher stopped by Fitness Trainer

He's big...he's fast...and he was pumping up his adrenaline on an eliptical machine at BodyImage Gym in the Noho Arts District when he saw the purse snatcher taunting the BID Street Teams who couldn't catch up to him on Lankershim Blvd. "In an instant, I flew off the Eliptical, out the gym door, and onto the sidewalk where I caught up and passed the pursuing BID Street Team guys and tackled the purse snatcher and pinned him down", says Matt Burch, local Fitness Trainer and Television personality of the hit show "Operation REPO".

Matt, who many co-workers (including me) know as a really "Teddy Bear" kind of a guy underneath his rough, tough exterior, says what he did was community focused and not a show of bravado or testosterone. "I want to tell people not to engage in this kind of thing if they don't have to, I have a martial arts background and have been pumpin' iron for years, and it was really an instinctual thing that happened really quickly...I just saw those BID guys not being able to catch up to the purse snatcher and reacted."

More info on this local NoHo hero at www.bigmattburch.com

Relive History at Campo de Cahuenga

 

Howitzer cannon - Campo de Cahugenga

Photo by Louis Elovitz

Campo de Cahuenga
3919 Lankershim Blvd., North Hollywood, Ca 91601

Presents
LAYERS OF HISTORY

Please Join Us for the Re-enactment of the Signing of the Articles of Capitulation at Campo de Cahuenga on Sunday, January 11, 1:00 p.m. to 2:15 p.m.

• Fiesta Dancers
• Living History and Authentic Uniform Dress
• Firing of the Howitzer Cannon
• Tour of the Archeological Dig
• Memorial Wreath Presentation
• 12 Flags Over California
• Complimentary Refreshments
• $2.00 Taco Bar

Event Sponsored by:



Campo de Cahuenga Historical Memorial Association


Visit our Website: www.campodecahuenga.com or contact us by e-mail at: campodecahuenga1847@hotmail.com

NoHo Parking Meter Outrage

In a business busting move to suck a few more dollars out of City residents, Los Angeles has imposed massive increases on parking meters Citywide - some as much as $4 an hour - and increased the hours in the day the meters run. 

While merchants from Highland Park to Chatsworth are up in arms, nowhere is anger greater than in the fledging NoHo Arts District.  Theatre owners are aghast that formerly free nighttime parking is no longer available and are finding impratical for patrons to step out of a production to feed the meter.  An aide to Councilman Tom LaBonge has told NoHo theatre owners their office is "looking into it" but local business owners hold out little hope for relief.

HAPPY NEW YEAR 2009

THE FESTIVE L.A. GRIFFITH PARK WAYS...

• See the entire drive thru
holiday spectacular
right here



HAPPY NEW YEAR TO ALL IN NOHO

AGAIN I ASK... What is The Monolith in NoHo ?

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as I Did Last Year...

















We have this "Monolith" at the corner of
Chandler & Lankershim across from the
Redline Station, and before you say
anything I know it is the HOWE'S MKT
plus other commerce. But haven't you
wondered "Just Once" what that large
flat tall structure on the corner is
supposted to be used for ?


Is it going to say Welcome to NoHo?
Let's get some suggestions for this.
Anyway here I am in MyVid filmed
2007 raising the ?
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NoHo Tower A Lonely Place

The San Fernando Valley Business Journal reports that three years behind schedule and following flip-flops between going condo and then back to rentals, the NoHo 14 Tower across from the Metro Station now has four residents.

According to the Journal an 850 square foot one bedroom unit goes for $2300 a month. Most of the neighboring new properties go for less than that. As the paper notes a similar unit at the much tonier Americana at Brand in Glendale is about the same rate.

In the meantime JSM, the developers of the Tower, have sold three other developments in NoHo and is reportedly "on-hold" with their most recent development at Vineland and McCormick.

NoHo Gallery L.A.

Art Bazaar
November December 2008

Exhibit Runs: November 22 - December 19
NoHo Gallery L.A.

NOVEMBER 22, 1963

45 ANOS DEPOIS
45 years ago













Excellent Historical info from a
Brazilian blog ... clicJfkPic ...
Many pics & Vid, if you need
translation clic here google
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VIVA L'ITALIA NoHo Gallery L.A. October 2008

• Viva L'Italia ART EXHIBIT
NoHo Gallery L.A.





Featuring Italian and Italian/American Artists
as well as a few non-Italian artists
displaying artworks of Italian images

Exhibit Runs: October 18 - November 9, 2008

NoHo Gallery L.A. Art Directors Guild Art Sept 2008

NoHo Gallery L.A.
" ART UNITES "
September 2008
select, private works of the Art Directors Guild
members with more than 60 Guild artists
Music By The MAN UP TRIO


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Campo de Cahuenga Treaty 1878-2008 • Street Cars Bring Back Old Times, How about here in NoHo !

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US-Mexico Treaty 1878
CAMPO de CAHUENGA 2008

In January of this year we re-enacted the Treaty of Cahuenga
which was was signed between Lieutenant Colonel John C. Frémont
and General Andrés Pico in 1847, ending hostilities in California
between Mexico and the United States. The subsequent
Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo of 1848, ceding California
and Texas to the United States. Here is this year's celebration.





• RED CARS San Pedro RAILS
not HISTORY...
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TODAY San Pedro has the Re-Creation of the Pacific Electric
Railway that blanketed Southern California from the early 1900's
until the Freeway Age of the 1950's.

The San Pedro Waterfront Red Car runs from Port's of Call to
to the Cruise Center Fridays thru Mondays serving the tourist
community enjoying this area.

NoHo has talked about a NoHo Street Car,
WHY NOT US !
THE vintage street cars available
are up to date are handmade,
and as the one's above, and
are made here in Los Angeles.

Of course, I 'photo-enhanced' the pic to make it look like olden days,
I even took out the bridge, doing it just to show you it is not history.

The California Car seen below is historically correct
with original coloring, wood paneling and seating
just like a hundred years ago, and even better.
With this knowledge you know
that a NoHo Street Car is a viable,
and I say a necessary addition to our NoHo Arts Distict
and it is a project we should invest in for North Hollywood.

Neither of these photos is mine, that I 'fixed',
The Original Photo is by
John Smatlak,
one of the great people who made the San Pedro system.
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