Welcome Home Vietnam Vets Picnic in NoHo Park

Congratulations to community leader David Hernandez who put on a great picnic in NoHo Park to honor our Vietnam Veterans, marking the first annual LA County Welcome Home Vietnam Veterans Day on March 30.  The picnic was an opportunity for vets, family, friends and supporters to get together and have a great time.  Monday, March 30th David Hernandez will lead a rally in support of the veterans on the steps of City Hall with the hope next year of a parade.

 

Vets sign-in along with my sign I made for my cousins who served.

  

Official poster, thanks to the Candy Man Frank Sheftel for sponsoring!

  

Some of the vets chatting

 David Hernandez being interviewed.

Follow the Meter -parking meter that is.

• MY METERED DAYS IN L.A.
( NoHo too! )

While there are no 'parking meters'
in Sunland Tujunga where I now live,
my hometown North Hollywood
and most of the City of Los Angeles,
not only have these metered parking
areas, but the fees to use them have
increased substantially.

There are new 'pay stations' near where you park with the
convenience of paying the vastly
increased rates with your credit/
debit cards; do not forget which
'number' your vehicle is parked at.
In North Hollywood the City just
raised the rates using the old meters.
Maybe because the 'pay stations'
DownTown L.A. are at $ 3.00/Hr and the
fees in NoHo are just $ 1.00/Hr.







I work in DownTown L.A. and see the parking
'stations' on a street that goes over the freeway,
where people walk to go to the courts or the Cathedral
(which charges $ 5.00 in their building lot).
The fee to park on the street is now $ 3.00/Hr.

You might as well let 'G-d' watch over your car.

Oh, I forgot to say that the times at these meters have
also increased such as from 8 a.m. to 6 p.m. now to 8 p.m.
There goes dining, art openings and stage plays,
DownTown L.A., Hollywood or NoHo.




NoHo


In Chicago the people have, well, revolted somewhat on
this issue when their meters went to $ 4.00/Hr and to 9 p.m.

They started breaking meters.
This is not a cry for this type
of behavior here, yet we can
protest using words to our
elected officials and our votes.



I paid my $ 1.00/Hr the other day when I went to my eye
doctor on Lankershim, parking on the side street Weddington.
I used to throw in a dime.

In NoHo DO NOT park
at the Metro Station BAD, BAD.
This is illegal and your vehicle
could be towed and fined.
-UNLESS you first ride the
escalator down to the Subway
pay machines,
BUY A TICKET ($ 1.25)
and go back up to your dining, art etc.

-at least you paid the fee as if you were on the train.
Kosher, maybe NOT, but at $ 1.00/ Hr metered parking,
you might sneak a savings depending on your stay at NoHo venues.

Finally PLEASE NOTE:
smashing parking meters and using
the Metro Lot ARE VIOLATIONS
so one may be WARNED !



Also, if time allots you could take a ride on the
Metro Redline
to Hollywood or DownTown L.A.,
which is always fun,
and this would fullfill all the legalities,
who says you can't eat, watch a play and work out at your gym BEFORE your Metro trip.
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Art Exhibit at CRA Office

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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. .• OK, I'm Just Asking
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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