2012 - 08 Real Estate Larchmont Chronicle

hancock park • windsor square • fremont place • larchmont village • wilshire center • park labrea • miracle mile

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GARDEN Plant col-orful plants birds find hard to resist. Page 13

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HISTORY Movie prices roll back to 25 cents to cele-brate Grauman's. Page 6

MUSEUMS Korean folk paintings fea-tured in new exhibit. Page 9

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FRENCH-INSPIRED building graces Wilton Pl. Photo by Rose Corpin-Roque

Chateau Laurier evokes L.A. of earlier era By Peter Bruckback

Guest columnist Driving down S. Wilton Pl., the French-inspired Chateau Laurier sits on the northwest corner of Wilton Pl. and Fifth St. The four-story building was erected in 1929 and designed

by Leland Bryant, an archi-tect known for implementing arches and turrets in his de-signs all over Los Angeles. The Chateau became the pride of the “Ritz” management com-pany, appearing on many of their brochures before they sold it and the neighboring

cottage to Seymour, LLC in 2008 for $4.3 million. On our tour of the build-ing, we were struck by its high ceilings and glamorous atmo-sphere. More than anything, however, it was its rich history of illustrious and eccentric tenants that impressed me.

Hip Hop at LACMA X Through the Mic: LACMA X Hip Hop, a new program at the Miracle Mile museum, continues Thurs., Aug. 16 at 7 p.m. at the BP Grand En-trance, 5905 Wilshire Blvd. The concerts take place on the third Thursday of the month through October. They focus on the diversity of L.A.-based, contemporary hip hop scene. Contemporary galleries will be open late for concert-goers only. Tickets are $15, $10 LACMA members.

During our interview with the 30+-year-resident man-ager, Wendel Peterson and his wife Marilyn (author of “Veg-an, Bite-by-Bite”), I learned a great deal about the building’s rich history as I sipped on the cantaloupe smoothie prepared by Marilyn. There was Ingrid Cassares (girlfriend to Madonna) and Deanna Durban (child star who sang and danced in the 30s and 40s), as well as a man who had a hobby of marching the halls with a vintage rifle over one shoulder, guarding against foreign incursion. We took a tour of the 19-unit Chateau starting in the original wood-paneled eleva-tor with a manual sliding door, and then descended to Peter-son’s carpentry workshop. Pe-terson has repaired much of the historical building’s wood-work himself. Peterson made a startling addition to his own apartment: He installed arch-es into a blank wall and had a painter fill the space between.He had created the impression of looking out over a forested mountaintop vista. Garage turntable Next, we visited the Cha-teau’s nine-car garage featur-ing a unique method of park-ing designed to accommodate older (and much lengthier) cars. To park in the Chateau garage, one has to enter a very narrow alleyway alongside the building. At the end of this al-ley is a mechanical turntable that once assisted the drivers in making a sharp turn, oth-erwise impossible, thanks to their long rectangular vehi-cles. Peterson explained, by means of anecdote, that secu-rity for the building was very

good. One time, a singularly inept car thief had his eye on a Mercedes roadster he had seen in the garage. After shimmy-ing the front door, the garage access door, and that of the car, he was driving it out of the lot—only to have the front gate slam down on the hood. Panicking, he then proceed-ed to wake the entire build-ing with a series of crashes as he attempted to ram the front gate. This was the only remotely successful attempt at thievery in the 31 years of Peterson’s time as building manager. Most of his tenants have lived there longer than 15 years, (the longest having stayed for 43 years) indicating a high degree of satisfaction, both with the building itself and its management. Chateau Laurier is a well-maintained treasure, and with its customized woodwork, crown molding on its ceil-ings, and original chandeliers, it has lost none of the charm that once caught the eye of LA’s elite.

Nautical Deco design enhances Crossroads of the World Crossroads of the World was Los Angeles’ first pedestrian outdoor shopping mall, with retail on the ground floor and offices above. The complex, at 6671 Sun-set Blvd., received the Windsor Square-Hancock Park Histori-cal Society Landmark Award at the group’s annual meeting in June. The 60-foot tower with a revolving globe on top marks the building’s iconic look. Robert V. Derrah, the ar-chitect who designed the Coca-Cola building at 1334 S. Central Ave., chose “Nauti-cal Deco” style for both Coca-Cola’s headquarters and for the “ship” that anchors Cross-roads of the World. An off-shoot of Streamline Moderne,

Nautical Deco was especially popular during the 1930s as this decade was considered the Golden Age of Travel. Facing onto Sunset Blvd., the “ocean liner” is one of nine buildings Derrah included in the original plans. The build-ings were designed as a global tribute to architecture and meant to create an experience like taking a trip around the world. Morton La Kretz purchased the property in 1977, rescuing Crossroads from the wrecking ball. In a Los Angeles Times article, La Kretz’s daugh-ter Margaret described how down-at-the-heels the prop-erty had gotten. After the restoration, Cross-roads hosted musical artists

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MURDER IN THE 1930s at the site may have been responsible for unique design.

A TOUR of downtown’s Union Station will offer an in-depth look at the iconic landmark.

All aboard ‘last great railway’ at Sunset Explore new offerings of the historic core of Los Angeles during the annual summer se-ries of “Downtown at Sunset” walking tours. City Hall and Union Station are featured in this Los Ange-les Conservancy series. Tours will take place on Wednesday evenings from 5:30 p.m. and last approxi-mately 1-3/4 hours. The City Hall tour explores the history and architecture of

Los Angeles’ great 1928 civic building on August 8 and 22. The Union Station tour on August 15 offers an in-depth look at the iconic landmark, the last great railway station build in America. Tours are $5 for Conser-vancy members and children under 12; $10 for the general public; reservations are re-quired. Tickets are available at laconservancy.org or call 213-623-2489.

(Jackson Browne; Crosby, Stills and Nash), as well as Geffen Films, Dolby Sound, American Film Magazine and many other entertainment in-dustry tenants.

Motivated by a murder? The building of Crossroads of the World may have been motivated by a murder. Ella

Crawford was the widow of Charles Crawford, known as a prominent West Coast brothel and casino operator, a local politician and orga-nized crime figure. In 1931, Crawford and newspaperman Herbert Spencer were gunned down in Crawford’s real estate office at 6665 Sunset Blvd.

Some speculate that Mrs. Crawford wanted to erase the horrific memory by replacing the murder scene with an at-tractive international shop-ping center. Carol Henning supplied the research and text for the Windsor Square-Hancock Park Historical Society.


CHIMNEY ON A home on Rimpau Blvd. retains the “S.”

plant of its kind in the world, averaging a daily output of 600,000 bricks.

Family problems 1n 1915, a rift developed between the Simons brothers. Joseph Simons severed ties to the family business and start-ed rival City Brick in South

Central Los Angeles, which he ran until his death in 1936. The company prospered during the Great Depression by increasing workers hourly wage to $3.50, cutting the workday to nine hours, and using political power to retain employees during a period of widespread deportations. Shortly after the end of World War II, lath and plaster construction became popular, and the brick boom came to an end. When Walter Simons closed brickyard number three, he showed appreciation to 45 longtime employees for their loyal service by reward-ing them between $3,000 and $6,000 each as severance pay. Walter Simons ran Simons Town until he died in 1954.

Summer Nights— dancing, music in Chinatown Part food event, part sum-mer party, Chinatown Sum-mer Nights takes place Sat-urdays Aug. 11 and Aug. 25, from 5 p.m. to midnight. The Chinatown Business Improvement District event features DJs from public radio station KCRW who will spin music for dancing combined with large-scale outdoor video projections. Culinary offerings include Iron Chef-style cooking com-petitions, Chinese and Asian cuisine, microbrews at an outdoor craft beer garden and gourmet food trucks. Hands-on cultural work-shops and shopping at the LA Craft Experience market, fea-turing local designers and art-ists, and at nearby Chinatown merchants are featured. The event is free and open to all ages. Bike racks and street and lot parking are available. Metro patrons take the Gold Line and exit at Chi-natown Station. Map it: 943 – 951 N. Broadway, Los Ange-les, 90012 in Central and West Plazas. For more information visit www.chinatownsummer-nights.com

As you stroll down some of the area’s streets, you may notice an “S” stamped on the brick chimney of one of the homes or on a brick walkway. The “S” stands for the Si-mons Brick Co., at one time the world’s largest brick man-ufacturer. In the 1910s, 20s and 30s, brick was a commonplace material used in many Hancock Park and adjacent area homes. In the late 1880s, Walter and Joseph Si-mons arrived in Cali-fornia to buy land to expand their family’s 100-year-old brick-making business. Their first brickyard was in Pasadena, where workers manufactured not only the bricks that built streets, walls and chimneys, but tiles for the roofs of most homes and businesses.

Within a few years, the de-mand for bricks was so great that Simons brickyards num-bered eight facilities which furnished most of the building materials for dozens of Los Angeles landmarks, including UCLA’s Royce Hall, Los Ange-les City Hall and Disney Stu-

dios. Simons Brick also helped rebuild San Francisco after the devastating 1906 earth-quake.

A town for the employees Adjacent to the third Si-mons brickyard, the brothers built Simons Town, an experi-

ment complete with company store, doctor, post office, rail-road depot, school and homes for the company’s mostly im-migrant Mexican workers. Simons brought thousands of Mexican workers and their families to Los Angeles in order to work and live at their 300-

acre facility. Simons was almost literally a Mexican town, where generations of Span-ish-speaking workers and their families were housed, worked, went to school, worshipped and shopped. Employees worked 12

hours a day, seven days a week, and their rent, water and com-pany store purchases were deducted from their $2.25 hourly salaries. Healthcare was free. The Simons Town brickyard quickly became the largest

Trademark ‘S’ is reminder of brick manufacturer

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414 N. Kilkea Drive, Miracle Mile$1,699,000Stunning Ibizian 2 bed/3 bath home plus den/media room. Chef’s kitchen with Viking stove and carrera marble counter tops. Sound system throughout for entertaining and relaxing. Lushly landscaped backyard with a pool/spa and recreation room/cabana, bonus!

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111 N. Plymouth Blvd. $1,595,000Hancock ParkLovely 2 story 4 bd/2 ba Mediterranean home in the heart of Windsor Square w/Provençal gardens. Large living rm. w/ French doors overlooking the garden and fountain.

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HISTORIC GRAUMAN’S Chinese Theatre is on Hollywood Walk of Fame. Films will screen in the adjacent Chinese 6 Complex.

Celebrate like its 1927 when the Grauman’s Chinese Theatre screens movies for 25 cents on Saturday mornings in honor of its 85th birthday. Classic family films will be shown at 10 a.m. in the adja-cent Chinese 6 Theatres in the Hollywood/Highland Complex. “How to Train Your Dragon” screens Aug. 4. “Megamind” is

Aug. 11, “Monsters Vs. Aliens” is Aug. 18 and “The Spongebob Square Pants Movie” is Aug. 25. The lights in the theatre will be left on throughout the film to better see your child if he or she gets up to wander, and Booster seats for kids will be on hand. Parking for up to four hours is $2 at the Hollywood & High-

land Complex with validation. Visit the celebrity hand and foot prints in the forecourt, the Stars on the Walk of Fame, and Grauman’s Gallery, all free. Movie exhibitor Sid Grau-man launched the handprint and footprint ceremony to honor stars at his red carpet premieres.

Family movies roll back to 1927 prices

LADWP re-launched its water conservation rebate program for homes and busi-nesses on July 1. The SoCal Water$mart Rebate and Save-A-Buck programs include items ranging from high-efficiency clothes washers (residential) to ice making machines (commercial) to ro-tating sprinkler nozzles (resi-dential and commercial). Residential customers who replace water-thirsty lawns with California Friendly Land-scape will receive a $1.50 per square foot rebate, for a maxi-mum of $3,000 and 2,000 square feet per project. A list of climate appropriate plants and

examples of drought tolerant landscape projects and other tips are available at www.be-waterwise.com. “Angelenos are embracing water-savings like no other major city in the country,” said James McDaniel, Senior Assistant General Manager, Water System. “In this era of limited, and more expensive imported water supplies, every drop saved puts money back in our customers' pockets and helps the environment.” For the nine U.S. cities with over one million residents, Los Angeles has the lowest per capita use at 123 gallons per day.

LADWP relaunches Water Rebate Program for homes and businesses

Hop aboard for Art Deco Festival

French artist to debut sculptures at Neutra House

Cruise through the Art Deco Festival aboard the Queen Mary for a long week-end getaway from Fri., Aug. 31 to Sun., Sept. 2. The weekend will feature tours of the former ocean liner, lectures, the Art Deco Bazaar, a grand ball and a tea dance. The eighth annual event is sponsored by the Art Deco So-ciety of Los Angeles (ADSLA).

Other activities include a vintage car display, a “Ghosts and Legends” show and Bon Voyage Pajama Party. The Long Beach Art Deco Walking Tour, led by John Thomas, co-author of “Long Beach Deco” and president of ADSLA, is on Fri., Aug. 31 at noon, and includes a signed copy of the book. Visit www.queenmary.com or call 562-499-1771.


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121 S. hudson ave. $3,400,000.Grand Mediterranean on the Best Street in

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HISTORIC Queen Mary in her heyday.

RICHARD NEUTRA, (1963) is on the rooftop of the house that bears his name. Photo by Julius Shulman

The first in a series of world-wide installations by French artist Xavier Veilhan will de-but at modernist architect’s Richard Neutra VDL Research House. Veilhan’s sculptural instal-lation “Architectones” will be on view from Thurs., Aug 9 through Sun., Sept. 16 at 2300 Silver Lake Blvd. Veilhan is creating site-spe-cific sculptures for every part of the property—including the rooftop. The VDL House was built in 1932, with the Garden House added in 1939. Following a fire in the main house in 1963, Neutra rebuilt the structure in collaboration with his son, Dion, and lived there until his death in 1970. A pilgrimage site for fans of architecture, the compound is owned by the Cal Poly Pomona Foundation and is under the stewardship of the College of Environmen-tal Design. Future Architectones ex-hibits will include the Mel-nikov House (1929) in Mos-cow; Le Corbusier’s Cité Radieuse (1952), Marseille; Pierre Koenig’s Case Study House #21 (1958), Los An-geles; and the St. Bernadette du Banlay Church (1966) by Claude Parent and Paul Virilio in Nevers, France. Veilhan Versailles exhibit utilized interiors and es-pecially the gardens of the famed palace in a multipartite exhibition that included 11 large-scaled statues of vision-ary architects. Currently, Veilhan has an exhibition on the grounds of Hatfield

House outside of London, one of the most celebrated English country estates.

MOBILE (Neutra), 2012, is among sculptures for the show.

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New Neighbors New to Brookside are Car-rie Davis and her husband Michael Lebovich. The former owners were the late Carolyn and Pete McCarthy who raised their eight children there. Carrie is a vice president of communications at the Walt Disney Company, and Michael is principal counsel at Walt Disney. They lived at Country Club Manor, 316 N. Rossmore Ave., for the past few years pri-or to moving to Brookside. A set of twins will be joining the

family in August. Arline Densmore has moved to Northern California to be close to her family. The buy-ers of her home on Wilcox Ave. are Marlon and Michelle Nowe. Marlon works at Disney in the animation department, and Michelle is a stay-at-home mom with son Miles. They moved from Park La Brea. The Woodward Team repre-sented the seller and Corina Galen of Redfin represented the buyers.


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Classes Mary McBride, owner of Mary’s Garden nursery, will discuss some of the best bulb choices for the area and how to layer them into the landscape for four seasons of bloom on Thurs., Aug. 9 at 2:30 p.m. A plant sale follows. Lora Hall of Full Circle Gardening will lead a work-shop on managing a home or-chard using summer pruning, which helps control the size of the tree for easier harvesting.

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Music at twilight, a cactus and succulent show, yoga and more are featured this month at the L.A. County Arboretum & Botanic Gardens at 301 N. Baldwin Ave., Arcadia. Improve flexibility, balance and strength in the open air surrounded by the beauty of nature at hatha yoga classes on Thursdays from 9:30 to 10:45 a.m. Instructor Can-dyce Columbus will take stu-dents on a 15-minute warm up stroll through the garden prior to the hour-long class. Wear comfortable clothing and bring a mat or towel. Pre-registration at 626-821-4623 is preferred. Evening sessions take place on Tuesdays from 6 to 7:15 p.m. The Steven Rushingwind Project performs native world flute music on Thur., Aug. 9 from 4:30 to 7:30 p.m. Bring a picnic, lawn chairs and blan-

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SECTION ONE

See BLVD., p. 19

Explore, learn,

have fun at area

and nearby camps.

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CHAN DARA bows

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We are being “April Fooled” by the

unseasonable weather, which has

Larchmontians thinking about plans

for spring and summer vacations. Our

peripatetic residents have been globe-

trotting off season as well.

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Tom and Toni Hodgkiss found the

weather in Maui just right for swim-

ming and tennis, we learned from

Toni at Confetti.* * *

Ask Suzanne Chase “what’s cook-

ing?” and she will tell you about her

cooking school adventures in Italy

with her offspring Ashton, Steven and

Cynthia. Husband Lee and Jack Den-

nis are leading a Model A Ford trans-

continent tour in Australia from Syd-

ney to Perth, she told us as Consign-

ment Cottage.* * *

We met Daniella Wellisz at Noah’s

Bagels where we learned she will be

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Entertainment,Page 30

Differing views

aired at hearing

on preservation

A Staff Report

The future of preservation in Wind-

sor Square moved one step closer as

residents gave testimony at the City

Planning Dept. public hearing at

Marlborough School on March 24.

Hearing officer Jim Tokunaga lis-

tened as more than 100 people spoke

for and against the creation of an His-

toric Preservation Overlay Zone

(HPOZ) for Windsor Square. More

than 250 people attended the two-

hour-long hearing.

The testimony will be forwarded to

the Area Planning Commission for

review. Then the zone request goes to

the City Planning Commission, the

Planning Land Use Management

Committee and, finally, to City Coun-

cil for the final vote.

Proponents for preservation initiat-

ed the request for an HPOZ based on

the architecture and historic charac-

ter of the area’s homes. Eighty-nine

percent of the 1,239 homes in the

neighborhood are architecturally sig-

nificant, said Mary Klaus-Martin,

president of the Cultural Heritage

Commission at a recent hearing.

See PUBLIC HEARING, p. 19

� 250 at HPOZ meeting

PARENTS HAD THEIR hands full at the first-ever gathering of the

Twins of Larchmont Club.

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photo by Belinda Waymouth

$21.5 police station to relieve

high-crime areas, split divisions

� Area residents seek to stay in Wilshire Division

The LAPD’s preliminary plans call

for Wilshire Park, Windsor Square

and Larchmont Village to be split

between Wilshire and the new $21.5

million station planned at 1130 S.

Vermont Ave.

If approved “we would be the low-

crime portion of a high-crime area.

We’ll get less policing, and we’ll be

forced to split up our involvement

with the police force...which is going

to be a nightmare for each neighbor-

hood,” said John Gresham, interim

co-chair of the Greater Wilshire

Neighborhood Council.

“We would have two senior lead

officers to work with, two police sta-

tions to work with, two police adviso-

ry boards,” said Wilshire Park Associ-

ation president Kathy Stark.

“It simplifies matters to have a sin-

gle police division for the neighbor-

hood,” echoed Larchmont Village

Neighborhood Association president

Vincent Cox.

Capt. Brad Merritt of the LAPD

planning and research division said

“they’re overreacting. The boundaries

haven’t been set...they’re open for dis-

cussion up until after the station

opens.”Designed by architectural firm Gru-

en & Associates, the new police divi-

sion would be small geographically,

but includes the highest density in

the city with an estimated 188,000

residents. When it opens in 2008 it

will help relieve the overly impacted

See POLICE DIVISION, p. 8

Summer

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HOMES, like this one

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BIGSUNDAY keeps

getting bigger. Page 38

Plans have been announced for a 54-

unit condominium project at 5920-52

Melrose Ave. between Cahuenga Blvd.

and Wilcox Ave. Ground-breaking for

the $30 million project is expected to

begin by year’s end. The Dell Apart-

ments are currently located on the site.

Steve Torkian, principal of Torkian

Construction Co., said plans also call

for retail stores on the first of the four-

story building. Underground parking is

expected to accommodate more than

200 cars.

This will be Torkian’s first mixed-use

project. “Los Angeles is one of the few

major cities without mixed-use resi-

dential and commercial. We feel our

project will be an asset to the commu-

nity,” he said.

The firm has constructed schools,

hotels and housing projects since

1988, including the 101-unit Graciela

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ums, 132 S. Maple Dr., Beverly Hills

and Chabad School for Girls, 9051 W.

Pico Blvd.

Condominiums

planned for

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TOMATOES, large and small, and in a variety of colors, are at their peak now at the Farmers' Market.

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This is the time of year when a visit to the Larchmont Farmers' Market requires two or even three trips back to the car to unload purchases. Peaches and plums to water-melons and cantaloupes are all juicy and sweet as candy. Ditto for the berries. And tomatoes and corn are at their peak. Grab a rotisserie chicken from the vendor at the back of the market, throw together this easy and delicious salad, slice some chilled watermel-on, and dinner is served!

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