The historic Villa de Leon, a landmark estate perched on the bluffs of Castellammare (left), is often misidentified by newspapers and magazines outside of Pacific Palisades as the Getty Villa, which is actually the museum complex tucked away in the adjacent canyon. The Villa de Leon was designed in 1926 by renowned architect Kenneth MacDonald and took entrepreneur and wool magnet Leon Kauffman m...more
Mercers Win Home Decorating Contest
The Mercer residence on Toyopa Drive (between Drummond and Carey) nabbed first place in the Fourth of July home decorating contest, organized by the Palisades Americanism Parade Association.
Second place went to Joe Almaraz (owner of the venerable Palisades Barber Shop on Antioch) and his wife, Nina, who live on Sunset.
The contest was sponsored this year by Anthon...more
Architecture Meets Design in New Museum
NEWS: 'Has anyone here been to the L.A. Mission?' Los Angeles City Council President Eric Garcetti asked the 400 people attending an opening-night reception for the new Architecture and Design Museum on April 27. A smattering of people raised their hands.
'Well, there is no mission in Los Angeles!' Garcetti said, teasing a crowd that represented a who's who from L.A.'s architecture, art and design w...more
Why I Love Living in the Highlands
By JOYCE SIMMONS
Special to the Palisadian-Post
It's late afternoon on a spring day. I'm heading home with my teenage son on PCH and the traffic is slow, almost a crawl. It seems every day the roads are more crowded than they were the day before. The fog has rolled in, covering the sun and sky, and has made everything, including me, a sad color of gray. As I make a right onto Sunset, I not...more
A Historical Treasure on Via de la Paz
In these daysof million-dollar homes, imagine drawing up plans for your new house at the kitchen table. This was exactly what happened when Rev. Charles Scott, a Methodist minister and the founder of Pacific Palisades, hastily drew up a floor plan for his family home over breakfast one morning as his wife looked on apprehensively.
??Conceived for both a growing family (the Scotts had six childre...more
John Fante Square Unveiled
NEWS: Novels such as 'Ask the Dust' and 'Dreams of Bunker Hill' romanticized downtown Los Angeles. What they did not do is bring much money or acclaim to their author, John Fante. At least not until after his 1983 death, when his work began to receive acclaim posthumously and built on the gushing superlatives of Charles Bukowski, who idolized the Italian-American writer, to grow a steady cult of fans of...more
