Photo: Ralph Morris, circa 1904. Red Car Trolley crossing the Fletcher Viaduct looking north on Riverside Drive. (Click on photo to enl...
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Historic Fletcher Viaduct: Circa 1904
Photo: Ralph Morris, circa 1904. Red Car Trolley crossing the Fletcher Viaduct looking north on Riverside Drive. (Click on photo to enl...
Allesandro Way: (Proposed) Sound Walls One Week Later
Photo: Artist's rendering, September 2012. Another neighbor took the first sound wall rendering on Allesandro Way to its logical one we...
Allesandro Way: Future Sound Walls, The "East Berlin/Escape From New York Aesthetic"
Photo September 2012. Artist's rendering of a 12-16' tall sound wall on Allesandro Way, looking north from Oak Glen, on the Silver ...
2 Freeway Terminus: Sound Walls
Photo: Diane Edwardson, April 10, 2012. Unless homes are at or below eye level with the 2 Freeway, sound walls will do nothing to reduce ...
2 Freeway Terminus Redesign: Meeting Wednesday
Photo: Futterer, Holyland Exhibition, 1962. Without trees, you can see how narrow the slope is between the 2 Freeway and adjacent street...
2 Freeway Terminus Redesign: Get Ready For More Traffic & Fewer Trees, Meeting Wednesday, August 29, 2012
Photo: Diane Edwardson, April 10, 2012. Homes on Corralitas Drive are less than 50' from the 2 Freeway, yet the EIR for the Terminus...
Lake View Ave: New Silver Lake Library
Saturday, a Little Free Library opened in a vacant lot on Lake View Ave. (Click on photos to enlarge.) The library has a selection o...
Red Car Property: It Should Be A Park
Photo: Diane Edwardson, December 4, 2011. (Click on photos to enlarge.) Red Car Property neighbors are emailing City Councilmember Eri...
Corralitas Drive: Snow Day, 1950
Photo: Smith Family Archives, April 1950. The current heat wave has me thinking cooler thoughts. Shot from the top of Corralitas Drive ...
Red Car Property: All Together Now
Photo: Diane Edwardson, 2010. Red Car Canyon Lake. (Click on photos to enlarge.) Monday, July 30, 2012, two neighbors and I, who ha...
Silver Lake Ave: Public Staircase Tourism
Photo: Diane Edwardson, March 30, 2012. Every weekend you'll see public staircase tourists, guidebooks in hand, hiking the area'...
"The Gentle Art Of Wandering:" Author's Talk At Arcadia REI Store Tonight
Photo: Diane Edwardson, March 28, 2012. Wandering the Red Car Property is challenging at times. (Click on photo to enlarge.) David R...
Monte Sano Red Car Stop: Another Staircase You Won't Be Taking On The Big Parade Today
Photo: Paul Ayers, summer 1987. The Big Parade won't be taking the Monte Sano Red Car Trolley Stop staircase, because it was demolis...
Earl St. Public Staircase: Not Included In The Big Parade, May 19 & 20, 2012
Photo: A.F.Futterer, Holyland Exhibition, 1934. The Earl St. Public Staircase zig-zags up one of the steep hills in the background of the H...
The Big Parade: 100 Public Staircases, 2 Days, May 19 & 20, 2012
Photo: Diane Edwardson, May 14, 2011. The Loma Vista Public Staircase in Silver Lake is featured on Day 2 of the Big Parade 2012. (Clic...
Sunset Junction: 300 Units Coming Soon If You Don't Speak Up Right Away*
Image: LA City Planning, July 15, 2009. General Land Use Map Silver Lake - Echo Park - Elysian Valley. (Clicking image won't impr...
Silver Lake Reservoir: Too Bad Most Of The DWP Property Is Off Limits To The Public
Photo: Shawnda Thomas Faveau, March 2, 2008. Neighbors are looking for new ways to use the Silver Lake Reservoir once it's taken off...
2 Freeway Terminus: Redesign Update
Photo: Diane Edwardson, July 1, 2009. Say good-bye to those trees on the sides of the 2 Freeway if the sound walls ever get put in on Alles...
2 Freeway Terminus Redesign: Community Meeting Tonight
Photo: Diane Edwardson, November 29, 2012, 9:05 AM. Traffic was light on the 2 Freeway, southbound; it was only backed up to the 5 Freeway....
2 Freeway Terminus Project: EPIA Meeting Thursday, April 5, 2012
Photo: Diane Edwardson, February 11, 2012. Get ready for more traffic like this on the southbound 2 Freeway if the redesign ever happens. ...
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