It's not that both houses have yard signs, one family supporting Measure P, The Marymount Plan and the other family opposed to Measure P.
It is also not that the houses in my neighborhood have two signs each.
It certaily is not that these houses were completed by May 1950 in the Western View Homes development or that they are part of the first tract of houses west of Western Avenue and are within the oldest tract of homes in the city of Rancho Palos Verdes.
What is interesting to me is that both of the houses have their original window frames made out of steel and they are among a very low percentage of the 215 homes built in the tract that have not been extensively renovated or had their window frames replaced.
I know one of the homes had an addition built in 1964. I also know that one of the houses is farther up the hill than the other.
Naturally for full disclosure purposes, you should know that I live in one of the two homes.
How many guesses do your think you need to figure out which home I live in? If you have any real doubt, take a look at another post on this blog.
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There is a new petition campaign going on at our Denny's on Western Avenue.
They are seeking signatures on a petition seeking to have Denny's open 24 hours a day, seven days a week.
One of the managers at the restaurant says he already has over 200 signatures and that some neighbors on Highmore Aveune directly behind the restaurant support the plans.
As part of the conditions of approval to build the Denny's where it sits, the city of Rancho Palos Verdes demanded that it not be an "Always Open" Denny's like the vast majority of them are.
I have not signed the petition and I want more input from my neighborhood residents and residents of the East Side of Rancho Palos Verdes, with the primary consideration that approval should go forward only if a great number of us on the East side of R.P.V. support it.
At this point I don't oppose it. I have seen no great parking problem on Trudie since the Denny's opened but I do notice some additional cars parked on Highmore and as it turns to become Jaybrook.
The Denny's that used to be on Western Avenue was in San Pedro so there was no problem with approvals to have it open 24/7 until it closed down.
The owner of the Denny's has a long uphill road to get the conditional use permit changed. It could take a vote by the City Council.
On the one hand, later night traffic and noise may increase. On the other hand there are quite a few longshore persons who would like it open all night so they could get meals in a well lighted and safer area.
On one hand is other negative factors like requiring a higher presence of Sheriff's Deputies patrolling along Western when they could be on patrol in other parts of R.P.V. On the other hand, there would be an increase in tax revenues coming into R.P.V. for slighly more sales taxes coming from the restaurants.
I think there are many pluses and minuses to allowing our Denny's to remain open 24/7 and I hope you share your support for, opposition of, or other comments with your opinion.
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Hillside Cleaners in the Western Plaza shopping area is relegated to history.
The current owner of Master Cleaners' original site on the San Pedro side of Western Avenue bought Hillside Cleaners some time ago.
There have been irregular discussions between the owner of Western Plaza and representatives of Walgreen's about taking out all the existing businesses and putting in a Walgreen's within eyeshot of CVS.
Those discussions haven't done much, but the owner of Master Cleaners and Hillside Cleaners decided to remove the plant on Hillside's premis' and just have a small collection and distribution site that moved from the original Hillside site to a very small storefront next to Hillside Cleaners.
Not yesterday and not more than a month or so ago, the name of Hillside Cleaners was removed and replaced by a Master Cleaners sign.
For me and other long time residents of the area, the departure of the Hillside Cleaners name marks yet another business that fades into memory.
Yes, we still have what we remember as Baskin-Robbins 31 Flavors and the old Western Plaza Barbers. We have Rose Nails and Hillside Liquors along with a long-time eatery in Lucky Star Restaurant.
Since I have so many years living so close to Western Plaza, my memories and histories are quite a bit different than so many others.
On my fifth birthday, May 3, 1960, the Eastview branch of the Bank Of America opened where the auto supply is and where Security Pacific Bank was.
I entered the bank on my birthday with was the first day it opened. I had $5.00 and I had my photograph in the San Pedro News Pilot because I got the first savings account the branch offered.
The money didn't last long because a neighbor and family friend opened Toy Circus where the Maui Chicken eatery is and I spent just about every cent I could get a hole of on Matchbox cars or shakes at Penquin Freeze, about where the Asaka Grill Express now sits.
Farewell Hillside Cleaners. Many Eastview residents worked there and had their clothes cleaned there.
The only constant is change.
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Yesterday, I received and Email from a resident of R.P.V. who lives on San Ramon Drive.
The body of the Email offers more evidence of what can only be described as an illegal act by representatives of Marymount College in their capacity as Security Officers who were at the intersection of San Ramon Drive (SRD) and Palos Verdes Drive East 'directing' traffic and stopping members of the public on a public roadway, without prior authority from the city or the Sheriff's Department:
"I live on SRD (San Ramon Drive) & my Gardner was not allowed to turn down SRD on that first day (I believe Tuesday / 07Sep). He is an older Hispanic Man, driving an old van full of landscape equipment......clearly not a MMC student looking to park on SRD.....which should have been the guards' only concern.....NO ON P !!!!"
So, not only was their an 'incident' between a Security Officer blocking San Ramon Drive and a Rancho Palos Verdes Code Enforcement Officer, there appears to also have been an illegal act by at least one Security Officer contracted by Marymount College against a member of the public in a public intersection of public roads for absolutely no good reason.
It looks like the "high road" Marymount President Dr. Michael Brophy is only willing to take is the one he and his representatives control, perhaps.
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For those looking at the site meter at the bottom of this blog and then looking at the Details area, I may be one of the 'pacbell.net' readers but I have tried to block showing the time of my visits because it distorts the real number of visitors, pages read, and length of time of each visit.
The vast number of visits last no time and people just click in then out. When you see an average daily number of visits, most of them are just grazing for perhaps a second.
What's the closest liquor store to Marymount and how late do they stay open?
ReplyDeleteThanks mellonhead, for your comment.
ReplyDeleteThe closest liquor store is most likely the one in Miraleste Plaza, across the street from L.A. County Fire Station 83.
I don't know the liquor store's operating hours.
It is next door to Francesco's Italian Restaurant.
The next closest would probably be the 7-11 on 25Th, in San Pedro. It is a 24/7 store, but they lock off the liquor at 2:00 AM.
That 7-11 is near Albertson's and Von's and another liquor store at 25th and Western.
Had Marymount not become a four-year College but got its Marymount Plan passed, I doubt any students living on campus would have been over 21. Now there are about 40 of the 750 students who have entered into the upper division.
Your question is a tiny bit moot, though.
In about 2009 a 19-year old Marymount Student, almost having enough credits to graduate with his class in 2009 had a blood alcohol level of at least 1.4 when he involved himself and his passenger in a fatal single vehicle crash on P.V. Drive East, in site of the Marymount campus.
The passenger survived with injuries. The driver did not.
Also, the Sheriff's Department has records of alcohol-related infractions by Marymount Students living in the Palos Verdes North off-campus housing area, during the time Marymount was still a Junior College.
Alcohol, as I am sure you know, can be acquired by many people under the age of 21, even though Marymount has had a Code of Conduct students are required to adhere to.
I had a vision of students living at the new campus dorm with a case of beer looking for a place to have a party. I would pick the top of Friendship Park. Do they still do stuff like that or am I too much over the hill?
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