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Is this the house from the movie Laurel Canyon with Christian Bale?

Something tells me, maybe it’s the weed that you’re from here and get it.

If so check out this great piece about The Californians. Ironically the original title of the skit was going to be "Drama off the 405".

"Sure, the geography in the sketches is way off, but the ad nauseum references to San Vicente and the 10 as well as shout-outs to Zankou Chicken and Umami Burger feel so spot-on."

"What makes it work is that it sounds right. Just like real Angelenos, the scripts mostly avoid Hollywood and Sunset and instead reference uniquely LA-sounding streets like Carmelita, Alvarado and Pico; somehow our ordinary surface streets begin to sound like communal in-jokes."

"But the recurring sketch tapped into something about our crazy automobile-centric world, where people have a preference over canyon roads and taking the 91 to the 605 to the 105 to the 110 to the 10 is a viable alternative to the 5. As a guest starring Steve Martin asked: Does anyone know how to get from Wilshire to the PCH?"

https://www.timeout.com/los-angeles/blog/why-the-californians-is-saturday-night-lives-greatest-gift-to-los-angeles

https://www.timeout.com/los-angeles/thing-to-do/girl-are-you-an-la-freeway-because-we-want-to-be-on-you

I wrote this early today and since Curbed has come up with two nicer houses @ $300K+ less, Eagle Rock and Beachwood Canyon

The same syndicate that developed Beachwood Canyon, Sherman/Chandler/Woodruff, also developed Dana Point in Orange County, where there are a handful of 1920’s homes in the great English Tudor Revival style.

James H. VanDyke
Born 8 May 1916 in Arizona
Died August 1981 in Burbank
Graduated from USC School of Architecture in 1939
Brother Chester C VanDyke was an accountant
Wife’s name was Joanna. Mother’s name was Laura.
JHVD’s office was at 2234 Beverly Blvd.

Buildings:
1953: expansion to Garden Grove Union High School
1955: Ranch Alamitos High School, Garden Grove
1955: Alondra Park Community Methodist Church campus (church, school, social hall etc), 3153 W Compton Blvd.
1955: New 80,000 sqft office and warehouse for Owens-Corning Fiberglass Corp on Anaheim-Telegraph Rd east of Gasper Ave.
1956: expansion to Axelson Mfg Co plant (aircraft mfg), Slauson and Anaheim-Telegraph Rd in Montebello
1956: 15,000 sqft plant for Bak-Kraft Corp, Olympic Blvd, West LA
1957: Addition to David X Marks Men’s Residence Hall at USC
1957: his own architecture firm’s new studio and offices at 3912 Oakwood Ave near Beverly & Vermont (building still there, is now some kind of social services Children’s Bureau with street number 3910)
1958: Bolsa Grande High School, Garden Grove
1959: USPS Sanford Station, 6th St & Harvard (still there & still a post office, renamed Dosan Ahn Chang Ho Station)
1962: Fabrication Services Building, JPL, Caltech
1965: Lankershim Elementary School, 9th and Lankershim in San Berdoo
1965: David X Marks Residence Hall, Claremont College
1968: Hathaway Home for Children, "Children’s Village," 840 North Ave 66 ("The 310-acre property was formerly director-producer Cecil B DeMille’s Paradise Ranch in Little Tujunga Canyon. It was given to Hathaway Home by officers of the Cecil B DeMille Trust in 1963," per 1968 LAT article.)

And that’s all I have time for.

Suffice it to say that Mr Van Dyke was one very busy architect. Explains all the help wanted ads he ran in the papers.

To the nimby’s:
You’re meddling with the primal forces of nature…..
AND YOU WILL ATONE!!
This City is very confused about its zoning—especially in the context of long term planning where ancient neighborhoods abut its somewhat congested core. This lot is 400’ from Dewey Square’s 600’ tower. America’s cities’ downtown’s will tend to expand after a given number of years. It’s just the order of things. This Downtown hasn’t expanded an inch in 100 years. 370’ is a compromise step up that respects (well) the scale of Chinatown and the Leather District where it meets Downtown.
The splendor of having a green patch here in the middle of the dense core is that it rests at the base of a deep steel and glass canyon. That’s as much the point. It’s situated perfectly to be a Downtown canyon park like Post Office Square. There is nothing negative or extreme or drastic or punitive about a canyon park. Cities are going to inevitably have them. Downtown was here first.
i know there’s people in this Town who want to keep re-setting ‘stupid’ and say, ‘This is the Leather District. This is the Greenway….’ Yes that’s true to a point. But it’s also the southern edge of Downtown Boston. Making the rule of law state that the Greenway precludes building height for hundreds of feet in all directions—takes the cake. It’s idiotic groups such as this—and i am calling you what you are—that caused no takers for the DOT parcels.
They don’t want to deal with maniacs holding up the future generations from having their share of prosperity in the City.
AM I GETTING THROUGH TO YOU MR. BEALE?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yuBe93FMiJc
signed,
Tosh

Toe-Pangs is already under contract. Figured that one was gonna sell fast. Fire danger is real. That Canyon is the worst in terms of getting in/out during an emergency event. Oh well, just make sure you’ve got good fire insurance…

The Hollywood hills place IS tempting… the constant flow of super clean ocean air into Topanga Canyon is also pretty special…

"her unpretentious residence"

"4,013 square feet"

"It’s also got two kitchens"

".87-acre lot with dramatic canyon and city views"

Let’s play which one of these is not like the other…

Personally, I think Metro should just shift all the county transit funds into extending the gold line as far east as possible.

One seat ride to the grand canyon, FTW!