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Northeast Santa Monica

Northeast Santa Monica is a charming neighborhood of parks and beautiful homes, a world away from the touristy districts along the beach.

Posted byJohn PerrySeptember 24, 2020October 28, 2020Posted inExpo Line, Neighborhoods, Walks, West SideTags:cookie good, douglas park, Expo Line, farnam house, la metro, la transit, santa monicaLeave a comment on Northeast Santa Monica

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Along Fair Oaks Avenue in South Pasadena, just about every period of American roadside architecture is represented. From early 20th century storefronts with colorful awnings to classic movie theaters to mid-century Googie diners to postmodern strip malls to kitschy fast food places. Layers of history all jumbled together; the beloved next to the ignored, the sublime next to the tacky.

Under the supports of an abandoned bridge on the LA River, we managed to find the guerrilla art gallery created by @s.c.mero and #wild_life_street_art and a bunch of other great artists last week! It's a surreal and spectacular collection of work, in a very evocative setting. Check out Mero's instagram and reach out to her if you want to see it for yourself! (But hurry, street art never lasts long!)

In Chinatown, a new park is taking shape on the hill slope behind the Chinatown Branch Library, where Ord Street turns sharply into Yale. It looks very close to opening; when we checked it out earlier this week, the fountain in the entrance plaza was running! When it opens, there will be terraced gardens and a staircase linking to the street above. Most of LA's public stairways are quite old, so it's very exciting to see a new one being built!

2020 saw the completion of the Park to Playa Trail, a extensive hiking corridor linking the Baldwin Hills to the Pacific Ocean. Last week, on a day when spectacular storm clouds were dumping snow on the mountains, we hiked across the Baldwin Hills, enjoying the best views the Westside has to offer.

A fun piece of LA transit history sits on Fair Oaks Avenue just north of the 110 in South Pasadena. In the 1900s, a pedestrian bridge designed by the Greene brothers (architects of the beloved Gamble House in Pasadena) was built over the railroad tracks to link the hilltop neighborhood of Oaklawn with a streetcar stop on Fair Oaks. Today, the Gold Line passes under the bridge. The shelter for streetcar passengers, made of rustic timber and boulders, remains and is used as a bus stop today.

We're very excited to announce something we've been working on! Since we started, we've wanted to eventually make pocket-sized guides for our walking tours, and now the first of these is finally ready! Presenting the Caltech Walking Tour brochure!

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