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The example of Los Angeles in the Great Lakes is ridiculous. What about comparison to Detroit? At least that’s a city. I’m pretty sure Lake Huron has a lower population, unless you’re counting fish.

A bit of historic trivia: Local lore says the original "Sportsman’s Lodge" dates back to the 1880s. It was most likely a bunkhouse for the Isaac Lankershim Ranch, first of the five ranches that made up the Los Angeles Farm & Milling Company’s south Valley wheat-growing empire.

LAF&MCo. was an early exercise in corporate agribusiness, organized by a group of San Francisco capitalists including successful Gold Rush merchant Levi Strauss, who’d made his fortune selling riveted denim jeans to the miners.

In 1885, the arrival of the Santa Fe RR brought rail competition to LA and the resulting fare wars with the SP set off the biggest land boom ever seen in Southern California, before or since.

So in 1887, Isaac’s son J.B. Lankershim organized local investors to buy the eastern portion of the ranch, and subdivided it into 10, 20 and 40 acre parcels planted out in deep-rooted deciduous fruit trees that could survive the Valley’s harsh summers by tapping the high water table of the Tujunga Wash. Peaches, Plums, Walnuts, and Apricots flourished here. Some of the Walnut trees remain today.

But J.B.‘s orchard subdivision stopped at today’s Whitsett Avenue, and the Lodge, half a mile further west, remained on LAF&MCo. land. If it was a crew bunkhouse, it would only have been occupied by seasonal workers during the annual wheat harvest. At other times, it would have made an ideal lodge for hunting parties who came to the Valley to hunt jackrabbits, mule deer, and other game.

The area west of Whitsett remained a wheat farm until 1910, when the remainder of the farm, known as Tract 1000, was purchased and subdivided by a group of Los Angeles capitalists and trolley developers anticipating the imminent arrival of the Aqueduct in 1911.

As far as I know, no trace of the original structures remain, and documentation is scarce. The fishing lake was a considerably later addition.

Extension of the Silver Line to the end of the 110 in San Pedro. Completion of the Harbor Subdivision light rail, connecting the Blue, Silver and Green Lines through the South Bay, with a connecting spur south to the World Cruise Center/Catalina Express terminal in San Pedro, thereby linking our Cruise ship port with our airport, LAX, as well as major job centers. More buses everywhere that doesn’t have rail. Small stuff: Bathrooms at major terminals at least, WiFi on the buses and rails, and if the area around the terminal is largely low-density residential, then car parking and secure bike parking is really helpful as well and prevents neighborhood intrusion.

@Mike D2:
Do you mean that blue awning? That’s something Wright designed for the house that was never complete by Dr Storrer. Joel Silver had it made and installed when he restored the house.

@Hugo: Look it up in Architectural Digest and see how Joel Silver had it furnished.

The views of the toxic Chatsworth Lake are to die for.

while people commonly use the term west side – for example "Traffic on the westside is horrible" rarely does anyone use the term east side. At least not in my experience. They usually refer to the neighborhood such as Silver Lake, Echo Park or Boyle Heights or Highland Park. As far as East LA goes I think most people living west of Downtown don’t ever travel to East LA (outside of the hip close to downtown LA neighborhoods) because they really don’t have much reason to. It’s not an area full of hip restaurants or shopping. Not saying there is anything wrong with East LA but it really isn’t on the radar of many people who live in LA. Everyone’s perception is personal and subjective.

14 Terminals?!!! Compared to the 2 it has today. That’s utterly ridiculous. How about the impacted neighborhoods that are ACTUALLY impacted by 7 times the potential flights. That’s going to devastate the neighborhoods of North Hollywood, Valley Village, Toluca Lake and Studio City. At least now, it’s bearable. The City of LA should have a seat at the table or else move the flight path directly over those 3 cities. It’s like Canada voting what happens in the USA.

A lot of you are misunderstanding the map. The map measures gentrification since 2000. A lot of the most notorious gentrification in LA happened well before then. Think Silver Lake and Echo Park in the 1980’s and 1990’s. My house (ExP) was first restored by a young Mex-Am couple (a lawyer and a doctor) in the 1980’s. They bought it as the crack wars were heating up. The prior occupants were Mexican immigrants (probably low income and low education.) This neighborhood was not pretty. If you were looking for a bargain in ExP after 2000, anybody would tell you that you were already 20 years too late. But doesn’t gentrification before 2000 still count as gentrification? I certainly think so. In order to measure the really notorious gentrification in some of No. East LA neighborhoods, you would have to go way, way back.

As for South Central, the shift from Black to Latino happened in the 1980’s. (Although the So.Eastern section of South Central has been Latino since the 70’s). By the time the riots happened (in 1992?) the demographic shift was well under way and was already close to 50%-50% (not quite, but getting there). That has only accelerated since then. BUT, many studies have shown that the first wave of gentrification is usually Black-to Brown (Black leave, Brown moves in). The second wave is Brown to White. Why that is, I don’t know. But you almost never have Whites moving to purely Black neighborhoods. Whites move in to mixed neighborhoods or Brown neighborhoods. With that said, I think that So Central will probably also experience some form of gentrification imminently.

I sold my house in Lake Arrowhead last year at a huge loss because I bought it at the worst possible time and then could no longer afford it. It was a great place in a great area. High ceilings, lots of space, on an acre, beautiful and quiet. If you don’t have to drive down the mountain every day it’s a great place to live. I’m sure many people get used to the drive, even the scary as hell fog that happens, but I just never did in the 7 years we owned it.