The Memories of Norma Quinn Potter – Part 3 A few weeks ago I began a series on the memories of Norma Quinn Potter, who moved to the valley as a kid in 1931. Norma today is a bright, charming woman and she was a bright, charming kid. She wrote about her childhood in an […]
Mom-isms I recently had the opportunity to sit down and have a chat with Mom who will be 86 years old this month. This doesn’t happen very often as Mom lives in Idaho and I am here in the Crescenta Valley. We had some beautiful moments together that I won’t soon forget. We laughed; we […]
Last week I began a series on the memories of Norma Quinn Potter who moved to the valley as a kid in 1931. She is a charming woman and she was a charming kid. She wrote about her childhood in an essay she titled “It’s All About Me!” and I’m quoting directly from that. We […]
Now that I’m retired, I have more time to devote to my second favorite passion, local history. (My first favorite passion is, of course, my wife.) Something that I have wanted to do for many years is to record oral histories with our longtime residents. I have over the years done a few, but it […]
Armenian Genocide Remembrance Day: Recognition is Just the Beginning Last year, newly-elected President Joe Biden commemorated Armenian Genocide Remembrance Day by laying down a historic marker. After decades of shameful silence and broken promises, he offered a simple but solemn truth: 107 years ago, the Ottoman Empire undertook a systematic effort to destroy the Armenian […]
The House of Artists, Musicians, Poets and Rock Stars The United States has been host to many of the finest architects ever known. Frank Lloyd Wright would naturally be at the top of that list, but a close second would be Austrian-born Richard Neutra. Neutra studied under Wright and Rudolph Schindler, and is considered one […]
Cheers to CVWD Here’s a shout-out to the Crescenta Valley Water District. At 6 p.m. on Friday, April 15 I noticed a small amount of water coming up through the pavement in the middle of Glenwood Avenue just below Stevens Street. I could hear water bubbling under the asphalt and called the emergency telephone number for the […]
When I was tapped by Speaker Anthony Rendon to lead the Assembly Transportation Committee in 2020, I decided to take a very different approach than my predecessor. As an environmental advocate, my approach has been to focus transportation policy on improving safety, public health and sustainability across the board. As a state, we’ve been a […]
In Glendale, Street Racing Duesenbergs Dominate Today, the street racers of Glendale are seen in hot BMWs, Bentleys and Corvettes. But in 1915, Duesenberg was the fastest car on the streets of Glendale. We’re talking about the big 1915 Glendale road race, the first and only official professional road race ever held in downtown Glendale. […]
The Many Sides of April April is already upon us and the super bloom is resplendent (as are allergies). April is Genocide Awareness and Prevention Month. Why April? Many of the past centuries genocides began in April – Armenia, Germany (the Holocaust), Cambodia, Bosnia, Rwanda, Sudan. As many of you know, April 24 is […]