Onondarka’s Golden Years – Horses and Rodeos Homer Baldridge, now “Colonel” Baldridge, had built himself a fine ranch in the Crescenta Valley. For a couple of decades, the teens and ’20s, the former livery stable owner oversaw his Englehardt Canyon acreage (now the Oakmont Woods neighborhood) as a gentleman farmer, cultivating vast orchards and vineyards. […]
Community commitment and striving for the best make our community a wonderful and unique place to live. Though election week may have us focused on just a few big names, the people who make some of the biggest changes in our neighborhood are you! Our local residents, our volunteer activists, committee chairs, and neighborhood groups […]
‘Problem’ is Full of Hot Air Once again our legislators rush in to solve a “problem” without taking the time to think. The Mylar balloon issue is so huge that they have to ban them from use. Come on folks, the problem is the balloons float up in to the power wires and short circuit […]
Onondarka’s Beginnings The name “Onondarka” harks back to a relatively brief period, less than 40 years in the ’20s, ’30s and ’40s when one of the green canyons of the Verdugo Mountains sheltered a beautiful orchard and equestrian paradise called Onondarka Ranch. That ranch today has been subdivided and built upon and is today named […]
Referendum – The Utility Users Tax The only reason that Measure N is on the ballot is because this [Glendale City Council] and previous councils have approved and given outrageous salaries and outrageous retirement pension benefits year after year after year to CALPERS union city employees. The repeal of the Utility Users Tax is […]
Info on Former Mix Property and Voting The 28-unit condominium project at 2612 Honolulu Ave., the former Mix property, was approved by the Glendale Design Review Board at its May 26 meeting. The developer, Art Simonian, met with the local Montrose/Verdugo City/Sparr Heights Neighborhood Association, CVCA and residents on Sycamore Street over the past year […]
Supporting L.A.’s Bid for the 2024 Olympics The last time the Olympics were in Southern California in 1984 it was a different world. Russians and the Soviet bloc countries were boycotting the Games and after Tehran withdrew from consideration, Los Angeles was the only bid for the Olympics that year. The Soviet countries even […]
Referendum – The Utility Users Tax The only reason that Measure N is on the ballot is because this [Glendale City Council] and previous councils have approved and given outrageous salaries and outrageous retirement pension benefits year after year after year to CALPERS union city employees. The repeal of the Utility Users Tax is a […]
Alligator Lizards Growing up in La Crescenta provided me and the local kids ample opportunities to hunt down swift, scampering lizards on a daily basis. We’d comb through the rock piles that were in the many vacant lots in our neighborhood, and capture lizards in our dirt-stained little hands. We’d always let them go after […]
The Hundred-Year History of Whiting Woods – Part 2 Last week I covered the first portion of the hundred-year history of Whiting Woods. This was the period when Perry Whiting, a successful L.A. building supply seller, cobbled together piece-by-piece the land that we know today as Whiting Woods. I also talked about his third marriage […]