Last November, the Village Green Committee asked Pacific Palisades residents to send in stories and favorite memories about the town's pocket park, built in 1973 on the triangle formed by Sunset, Swarthmore and Antioch. Here's a sampling of those contributions, as found at www.palisadesvillagegreen.org. Belle Perez: Every Sunday morning after church, our family picks up bagels and coffee...more

In 1981, Palisades resident Earl Fisher and his daughter, Audrey, were out for a bike ride in Santa Monica Canyon when they came across their future home.   They stopped to admire a two-story residence featuring Spanish Colonial Revival style architecture and situated on a bluff overlooking the Pacific Ocean. After talking to the housekeeper (who was washing a car in the driveway), t...more

(Editor's note: Barbara Marinacci is a board member of Palisades Beautiful, an organization founded in 1974 to beautify the community by arranging to plant parkway trees along the town's residential streets (between the sidewalk and the curb). True, parkways belong to whoever owns the property the house sits on, but L.A.'s Bureau of Street Services is entitled to regulate whatever gets planted the...more

Before The Golden Bull, There Was Eddie's Chili Verde

On a warm afternoon in August this year, Don Cranford spotted a married couple standing outside his restaurant, The Golden Bull in Santa Monica Canyon. The husband was taking photos of the Bull's sign and exterior, so Cranford went out to say hello. Having owned the Bull since 1984, he has seen all kinds of people enter the establishment, best known for its steak and cocktails. But he quickly real...more

Sixty-one Palisades residents, including Jack Allen and Gary Boyle, received notices in March that their front-yard fence, wall or hedge was in violation of a 1946 city ordinance specifying that front-yard fences, walls and hedges can be no taller than 42 inches. 'We had 61 complaints in writing,' said Frank Bush, the assistant chief of the code enforcement bureau, who said the addresses were f...more

By JOAN SATHER, Special to the Palisadian-Post Scrambling up the last part of the steep, rocky trail, we sighed in relief as we passed through the last Torii gate into Station 9 on August 25. We had made it 12,399 feet to the summit of the crater of Mt. Fuji just before sunrise. The vast sky was already showing a sliver of red just above the blanket of fluffy clouds. We headed for the highest ...more