Posted in Uncategorized on Apr 20th, 2008 1 Comment »
I had to go see my dentist (just a checkup!) in Beverly Hills last week. (Sometimes I wish there was something ELSE I could do while I’m there, because it’s a trek to get there, but what??)
Anyway, when I turned onto Beverly Blvd, there was one of those green electronic traffic warning signs, with a […]
Posted in Silver Lake, Compliment Corner, Everyone's a Photographer on Apr 18th, 2008 1 Comment »
Well, who can define a present, really? Different things to different folks.
Someone forwarded an email to me from a water engineer in Ventura County who read my blog:
This made me laugh! She is an entertaining, if uninformed, writer.
Bromate is a known carcinogen at the concentrations found in Silverlake Reservoir. LADWP […]
Posted in Silver Lake on Apr 16th, 2008 No Comments »
I sent this letter off yesterday in an email form on the DWP website, as they don’t have any phone or emails listed.
Comments/Questions:
The subject line is too short. I also think it’s unacceptable to have a board that is accountable to the city WITH NO EMAIL OR PHONE.
Please read my blog www.donnabarstow.com/park_blog/ about what […]
Posted in The Land the Times Forgot on Apr 14th, 2008 No Comments »
I can’t decide if it’s the awesome tats or the baggy duds…still stylish a decade later, apparently!
It’s always First Class to get an article written about you on the front page of the Times, and this time it’s the Avenues gang that hit the jackpot. I imagine gangs all over the city are envious, […]
Posted in LADWP, Silver Lake on Apr 14th, 2008 14 Comments »
I knew they had threatened to do this, but I didn’t realize they had started until I read this in the Los Feliz Ledger:
Ivanhoe Reservoir is beginning to resemble a Chuck E Cheese ball pit as Los Angeles Dept. of Water and Power officials have begun placing plastic “bird balls” in 100,000 ball increments […]
Posted in Silver Lake on Apr 13th, 2008 3 Comments »
As you know, I had to use finesse and every Google trick in the book to get any response from the DWP about Silver Lake and why they were doing nothing about the vanished water. Finally I guessed at Joseph Ramallo’s email by using “first.last name@laDWP.com”, and Bob’s your uncle! He replied that he was […]
Griffith Park, Interrupted
An urban forest was on fire; an urban lake put it out. Griffith Park and Silver Lake in Los Angeles.
