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I worked on the house when Pitt/Aniston owned it. It’s very nice but not 56 million nice. First off, like many other homes in the flats, the entry is really close to the street and the garage is just left of the main entry.

And you can see the home from the side walk. I always though this house was a weird choice for an A-list Hollywood couple, because it doesn’t have much in privacy. When Pitt/Aniston lived there, they hired off duty LAPD officers to keep the tourist/paparazzi away. The officers sat in their patrol cars and shooed people away.

"I moved to the valley to escape the crowds and traffic of Hollywood."

Shoulda kept going. I hear Bakersfield is nice.

Yesterday I biked starting from Hollywood to the valley following the orange line pathway to Ventura into Calabasas to las Virgenes onto Malibu Canyon then PCH to Santa Monica following Santa Monica to La Brea. I do that ride at least once a week often two.

I recently completed a bike ride to San Diego from Hollywood taking the pac surf back as I was too exhausted to ride back. It took an entire day.

Yes I ride 100 miles a week and that is a conservative estimate as I don’t keep track exactly. You don’t want to believe that because it doesn’t suit your narrative that bike riders like myself support car based infrastructure. Continue to live in your bubble. It makes no difference to me. You and the people that share your mentality are outnumbered by a large margin.

Over 70 percent of people live in the suburbs and the suburbs are still showing the strongest growth with no signs of stopping. The entire world especially the BRIC countries are moving to car oriented suburbs.

Sorry to break it to you and I know you were desperately hoping I was a suburbanite with nothing but "windshield perspective" so you could find any reason to discredit me since facts are not on your side, but I am willing to bet I cycle way more than you. Open your mind up a little bit. It doesn’t have to be a my way or the highway approach. I’m not against you nor are many car driving suburbanites. They just want to get to work and get home to their families. Much like the cyclists that die, car drivers die to in wrecks. No one wants that.

A bicycle is personal transportation but not one that makes sense for most people to commute with. No air conditioning, less comfortable, too slow, exposure to elements, etc. are all reasons that cause many people realize a car is superior in nearly every way.

Cars don’t have to be inefficient in urban areas and elevated freeways solve this issue. A network of 4-6 lane tolled elevated freeways where subterranean ones are not viable can assist in moving cars through places like the Westside and DTLA with a series of parking garages 4-9 stories high that aid in parking. Soon the issue of where to store inactive cars with be completely revolutionized with the upcoming of autonomous vehicles.

We need to really rethink bike lanes to include the rise of the smaller personal vehicles like e scooters as well as other miscellaneous transportation. I don’t support cyclists riding on roads like sunset, Hollywood, vine, etc. There are smaller roads in between these that should be targeted for slower vehicles.

The problem is that urbanists war on cars insisting that dedicated off street parking spaces are limited won’t help with removing space on a street which cars have no business parking on. Streets should be to move people and goods. Parking should always be off street with residential exceptions in the case of a visiting guest or the like.

There are solutions that we can come up with and costs shouldn’t be an issue when it comes to building infrastructure that will serve us for the next 100 years. With subways coming in at over 1 billion a mile, it might also be time to look at cost reducing measures like red tape and union laws that are unnecessary.

Happens to me all the time on the Hollywood lines.

Hollywood or NoHo. I saw more of Hollywood, but not NoHo; no link.

The North Hollywood small lot house is in an improving, vibrant NoHo area and very walk-able to restaurants and entertainment on Lankershim Blvd. It’s actually a pretty good, south-of-Magnolia Blvd location.

Pasadena, because they just have the cutest darn houses anywhere

If you want to freak out check out the street view of the North Hollywood house, Yikes!

the late 1980s, a decade that was all about deemphasizing the real and packaging myopic Reagan-era optimism as entertainment.

Lordy, you Curbed writers are as predictable with the gratuitous political cheap shots as Fonzie is with his Aayyyyyyyys.

One of my favorite TV shows as a kid was Emergency! Set in LA. During the same decade my parents were watching Columbo. Also set in LA. Both shows were highly realistic in their treatment of the LA backdrop — shooting streets, parks, and buildings largely as they found them. (Columbo gets a hot dog at Tail o’ the Pup, visits Ciro’s, etc.)

But here’s the thing. Both shows were optimistic (good guys prevail) and neither one was selling "gritty, violent LA."

Emergency’s rescues and firefights were pulled from actual LAFD files. Realistic enough? Or do you prefer to go the "man cut in half by train" route of "Homicide" and insist that unless there are grotesque and gruesome deaths involved, it’s not real enough?

This is the problem with conflating "grit" and "realism" as joined-at-the -hip hallmarks of entertainment. They don’t necessarily go together. Believe it or not, normal people leading ungritty and nonviolent lives do exist. Even in LA.

As for Hollywood selling optimism, that is neither (a) unique to the 80s, nor (b) a trait of inferior quality. Take it up with Frank Capra, Fred & Ginger, and the 1950s MGM musical department.

It turns out that the actual myopic POV isn’t Reagan-era optimism, but that of the author of this article, who starts the clock of Hollywood depicting LA in the 1980s, and uses this false timeline to grind a political axe.

The depictions of Hollywood as dystopia or fun / dreamscape or a weird mixture of both, have, as it turns out, popped up next to each other in the same decade. Decade after decade.

Sunset Blvd and Singin’ in the Rain – both about Hollywood, both made in the 50s

Chinatown, The Rockford Files, The Bad News Bears, The Onion Field – all made in the 1970s, all set in LA

Repo Man, Beverly Hills Cop, Karate Kid, Some Kind of Wonderful, Echo Park and Barfly — all set in the same city in the same decade (1980s).

LA is a city with many faces. That’s pretty much how it plays in movies & TV.

the late 1980s, a decade that was all about deemphasizing the real and packaging myopic Reagan-era optimism as entertainment.

Netflix seems happy spending/burning tremendous amounts of money in its expansion goals, but the Pacific has major structural issues that would take years and millions upon millions of dollars to fix. This move makes more sense for an immediate entry into the Hollywood theater market.