Is there any false advertising quite so beloved as the California state flag? Emblazoned across the banner, a grizzly bear confidently strides across bountiful pastures lit by a single red star. Yet, you’re not likely to find any red stars above the Golden State. And in Southern California, pastoral green expanses are pretty rare, too. […]
Featured image credit: Los Angeles If you’re curious about Sherman Oaks houses for sale, get in line. This is one of the most coveted neighborhoods in the San Fernando Valley. Just don’t remind them that they’re in the Valley. They famously tried to secede from it in 2002. Sherman Oaks is beloved for its serene […]
Featured image credit: CalWild Even if you want to completely ignore TLC’s sage 1994 warning, Los Angeles doesn’t seem like the place to go chasing waterfalls. First of all, we’re pretty much situated in a Mediterranean landscape of arid, chaparral-saturated hills and valleys. And we’re no strangers to severe droughts. Finally, we’re a sprawling metropolis, […]
Featured image credit: Sidetrack Adventures Not too long ago, we shared a blog about the unlikely and unincorporated town of Amboy, California. Stationed near a dormant volcano, Amboy is a town that seems to exist in spite of its surrounding nothingness more than in service to any need. Sure, you can get gas there. And […]
Featured image credit: Photograph by Don Ramey Logan Angel’s Gate Lighthouse Don Ramey Logan.jpg from Wikimedia Commons License: Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International Since 1913, a welcoming beacon has been greeting sea-weary captains as they enter the busiest container port in the country, Los Angeles Harbor. It’s a verdant glow that promises smooth sailing ahead; […]
Featured image: United States Department of Energy In Hollywood, studios compete to put their movies in front of as many eyes as possible. Yet, one studio did the opposite; working to make sure that no one saw their films unless absolutely necessary. In the sun-kissed Hollywood Hills California boasts as a center of creativity, Lookout […]
I’m a firm believer that politics has no place in our role as service providers to our community. But when political changes impact our industry, we as professionals can’t simply ignore them. This isn’t a political opinion, nor an attempt to sway political perspectives. It’s a call to do what’s needed to best serve our […]
Crossroads of the World is one of those LA landmarks that everyone recognizes but very few have visited. There’s not really much to see there these days outside of the beautiful architecture. But that wasn’t always the case. In the late 1930s and into the 1940s, this Los Angeles mall redefined how a shopping center […]
It almost feels like March is an apology to the prospective homebuyers of the Greater Los Angeles area for February’s unanimous surge into the seller’s market. It was mostly a kinder month for the buyers, showing drops closer to the buyer’s market in all except four of these communities. And two of those just treaded […]
Featured image credit: Codera23 Even casual fans of modernism need no introduction to Richard Neutra. The Austrian-American architect was integral to the popularization of mid-century designs with his forward-thinking structures peppering Southern California. It was almost as if he were using human progress itself as a building material. To see some of Neutra’s most iconic […]
