‘Dam’ Surprise It’s surprising that there’s a proposal to build a national memorial to the St. Francis Dam. The Los Angeles Dept. of Water and Power has spent a lot of time and a bunch of money to erase every vestige of the dam. You can’t see any remnant of the dam now. Why? Because they were embarrassed […]
Let’s run through each of our schools briefly in the chronological order they were built. (Multiple sources list different dates, so forgive any errors.) La Crescenta Elementary (1886) – La Crescenta’s founder, Dr. Benjamin Briggs, was trying to establish a town but he needed a school to attract settlers. He donated a lot on the […]
CV Housewives Beat Up Old Lady in 1956 In a twist on the reality show “The Real Housewives of (insert city here)” a group of “real housewives of La Crescenta” beat and robbed an old lady in Glendale then created a gossipy media frenzy. It was 1956 (i.e. “the good old days”) and three over-the-hill […]
Election Fraud Could Be Real In response to Jackie Gish’s letter in the CV Weekly on Jan. 21: here is my experience with mail-in ballots. In 2007, after we retired, my wife and I registered for permanent absentee ballots because we expected to travel a lot. Because the 2020 election was so important my wife […]
Unity In The Community I would be lying if I said the upheaval that took place in our country over the last year did not affect me. It did – in a big way. What a tumultuous year. I want so badly to stand on top of Mt. Lukens and scream about all the injustices, […]
More Local Movie Filming Locations I’ve written several columns about the many films that have been shot in our community over the years, most of which were in Montrose or at the La Crescenta Motel. But recently I was introduced to a short video by Sunland-Tujunga based filmmaker Craig Durst. He presents scenes from famous […]
Opposes Censoring of Letters The letters in [the Jan. 21] paper were interesting to say the least. What did disturb me was the request for [the CV Weekly] to censor what letters it prints. That writer seems to think that you should not print what offends or disturbs that reader. I see, hear and read […]
America’s Renewal and Restoration Has Begun At Long Last Jan. 20 marked a new beginning. For a nation that never got to celebrate the new year, the historic inauguration of President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris was New Year’s Day. Listening to President Biden’s inaugural address, I couldn’t help but feel optimistic about […]
Grayson’s Tune Town – Part 2 Last week former CV resident Mike McClish wrote a beautiful history of the beginnings of Montrose’s iconic Grayson’s Tune Town. Here is what he wrote about their later years: “The years 1960-1985 were the years that Grayson’s Tune Town evolved the most from selling only records, then moving into […]
Letter Raises Concerns I am very concerned about the publishing of the letter to the editor by Yatindra Bhatnagar (Jan. 14, CVW). While everyone is entitled to their own opinion, they are not entitled to their own facts. This letter is full of already debunked conspiracy theories. I would urge the author to read articles […]