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Kitchen Pails available from the Los Angeles Department of Sanitation
SENATE BILL 1383 MANDATES KEEPING ORGANIC WASTE
OUT OF LANDFILLS
A statewide mandate aimed at keeping organic waste out of landfills and reducing greenhouse gas emissions directs all Los Angeles residents serviced by Los Angeles Sanitation to place their food scraps and food-soiled paper, in their green bin, along with yard waste,
The City of Los Angeles will pick up the green bin weekly and the collection day will remain the same. The green waste will be processed to create compost to be used by farmers.
To help residents start recycling their food scraps, LASAN is offering a free kitchen waste pail to City of Los Angeles residents. These pails are available for pre-registered pickup at participating distribution sites, one pail per household while supplies last.
What Can go in my Green Bin? Fruits, vegetables, dairy, eggshells, bread, cereal, grains, rice, pasta, beans, meat, bone, fish, shells, coffee grounds and filters, food soiled paper products, yard waste, flowers, clean untreated wood, natural wood chopsticks, natural corks. No plastic bags.
What Can’t go in my Green Bin? Plastics, plastic bags, products labeled biodegradable or compostable, glass, produce stickers, rubber bands, twisty ties, plastic waxes, coatings, pet waste, pet litter.
How To Reduce Odors in your kitchen pail: Use a paper towel to line your kitchen pail. Sprinkle baking soda in your kitchen pail to reduce odors. Empty your kitchen pail into your green bin regularly and just before collection day. Wash your kitchen pail regularly. It is dishwasher friendly. Wrap smellier items and store in your refrigerator or freezer until pickup day.
How To Reduce Odors In Your Green Bin: Put some yard trimmings in your green bin before and after adding scraps. Place the green bin out for collection every week, even if not full. Rinse your green bin as needed and sprinkle baking soda in the bottom of the bin.
The contents of the green bin will be composted and that compost will be used by farmers to grow organic products. That’s why it is so important to keep trash, pet waste, household hazardous waster, and other contaminants out of the green bin. 24 hour customer care center 1 800 773 2489
Robin Greenberg
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SCRAPBOOK: The history of our
Bel Air-Beverly Crest Neighborhood Council
Communities and those communities around us
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Huntington Hartford on his estate on Paradise Island, Bahamas
HUNTINGTON HARTFORD VS. SAM YORTY
How Both Men Lost And Los Angeles Won A New Park
When Huntington Hartford moved to Los Angeles after the Second World War, it was his intention to conquer Hollywood in a big way. He tried to buy RKO Pictures but Howard Hughes turned him down. He tried to buy Republic Pictures but Herbert Yates turned him down.
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Huntington Hartford had the money to buy a studio. It was estimated that he was worth $95 million, being the heir to the Great Atlantic and Pacific Tea Company grocery stores. There were over 16,000 A&P markets from coast to coast. A&P was the second largest corporation in America, after General Motors. Huntington Hartford had a trust fund and was an heir to a great fortune.
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Since he couldn’t buy a studio, Huntington Hartford bought a theatre. It was the old Vine Street Theatre at 1615 North Vine Street, which had been owned by the Columbia Broadcasting System radio network, renamed the CBS playhouse. It was a 900-seat gem of a theatre converted to a radio studio where the audience could watch the live broadcasts of the Lux Radio Theatre.
Hartford renamed the theatre the Huntington Hartford Theatre, and installed the first legal wet bar in a theatre in Los Angeles. So, if you sip an adult beverage during a theatre intermission, you can thank Huntington Hartford who established the practice in Los Angeles. Today the theatre is known as the Ricardo Montalban Theatre, named after the famous Mexican actor.
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#2 Columbus Circle, New York: The Huntington Hartford Museum
As successful as the theatre was, it wasn’t enough for Hartford who lived large and lost money large. He bought Hog Island in the Bahamas, renamed it Paradise Island and lost money. He bought #2 Columbus Circle in New York City, built an Art Museum and lost even more money. Here in Los Angeles, he located a huge property that was for sale, which fueled a new ambition and eventually lost more money.
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The property consisted of 160 acres in the Santa Monica Mountains, stretching from Franklin Avenue at Fuller and extending up into the hills to Mulholland Drive. The seller was John McCormack, the world renown Irish tenor who had come to Hollywood in 1929 to make an early talking Picture “Song O’ My Heart.” McCormack loved the area so much, he took his entire fee for appearing in the movie and purchased the property for cash. McCormack and his wife built a home, swimming pool, tennis court and lived in the house for 9 years.
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McCormack had purchased the property from Carman Runyon, a retired businessman in the coal industry. Once called “No Man’s Canyon” the first legal claim to the property was given to an American soldier to honor his service. Several owners followed until Runyon bought the property and named his new streets after himself. His name would forever be attached to the property. Runyon had a new bride, an expert horsewoman. Together they would ride the trails throughout the extensive property.
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Frank Loyd Wright designed the plans for Huntington Hartford
Huntington Hartford had a vision for the property: he would create a hotel of cottages at the bottom of the property and some studio apartments for the new Huntington Hartford Foundation colony of artists, writers and composers, to provide residences, and studios for creative people. He would develop a country club on the ridge and art galleries throughout the property.
Hartford commissioned the famous architects Frank Lloyd Wright and his son, Lloyd Wright, to design his vision. McCormack had named the property “San Patrizio” after Saint Patrick. Hartford renamed the property “The Pines” even though the most prominent tree was an old royal palm.
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Huntington Hartford
Unfortunately for him, Hartford had neglected to consider the impact of his plan on the neighbors. He also underestimated the number of Los Angeles City political relationships that would be required to make the plan work. Huntington Hartford had not developed the kind of interpersonal relationships necessary to develop a project in a city like Los Angeles, which is filled with business and political forces hidden to outsiders. The City turned down the project.
Disappointed, Hartford became more involved in his New York Museum project and decided to get rid of the “Pines”. In 1964, he offered the property as a gift to the City of Los Angeles. Shockingly, mayor Sam Yorty refused to accept the gift. It is interesting to speculate why the Mayor would turn down such a wonderful gift.
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Los Angeles Mayor Sam Yorti
Three years earlier, in 1961, Sam Yorty, a long shot candidate, had been elected mayor, defeating the incumbant mayor Norris Poulson, who, it is said, represented the “establishment” interests.
Real estate redevelopment was of priority to defeated mayor Poulson and under his guidance the poorer people of Los Angeles did not fare well. Under Poulson, thousands of poor people lost their homes on Bunker Hill to allow development of the Music Center, expensive apartments, hotels and office towers.
Five thousand poor Latino families were evicted from their homes to develop the Dodger baseball stadium in Chavez Ravine. City-owned streetcar lines were torn up and supplanted by a fledgling new bus system, making it more difficult for poor people to get to work on public transportation.
The poor had been traditionally considered powerless – until 1961 when they were credited with electing Sam Yorty Mayor of Los Angeles, even though not one newspaper had endorsed him.
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Huntington Hartford planned to build a golf country club on the property
Lloyd Wright remembered the Hartford’s situation, “Here was this very wealthy man and he wanted to give something stunning to Hollywood.”
It is likely that mayor Sam Yorty would not want to pose for pictures with wealthy Hartford, accepting an elite property in an upscale neighborhood that would not benefit his constituency of the poor. Emotions in Los Angeles were growing tense. The Watts riots took place only a year after Yorty turned down the property.
Rejected by the City, Huntington Hartford was so angry that he sold the property at a low price to Jules Berman who, according to Lloyd Wright, "destroyed the mansion and let the property run down."
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Berman planned to build 74 large homes in the canyon
Berman’s wealth was derived from importing the Mexican Coffee Flavor Liquor, Kahlua. He intended to crowd the canyon with homes, naming the development the “Huntington Hartford Estates” but faced very strong public resistance. At the end he sold the property to the City and a combination of public agencies for Eight Million Dollars.
Thus, the public spent eight million dollars for something they could have received from Huntington Hartford for free.
The land is now Runyon Canyon Park, a popular hiking and dog walking area with spectacular views of the City of Los Angeles. You can still see the ruins of McCormack’s estate at the bottom of the hill.
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Ruins of the McCormack Estate
Sam Yorty was reelected Mayor for a second term after the Watts riots, but, in those pre term-limit days, was defeated for a third term by Tom Bradley, Los Angeles’ first African-American mayor.
Huntington Hartford did not have success with his New York Museum, having run through 85 million dollars of his 95 million dollar fortune. He finally retired to his Paradise Island estate in the Bahamas with his daughter. He once wrote in his magazine SHOW, “I have tried to use my millions creatively. But the golden bird, coming to life has sometimes wriggled out of my hand and flown away.”
Andre Stojka
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Adopt, Don’t Shop! Visit West Los Angeles Animal Shelter
Consider adopting one of the wonderful animals at our local animal shelter!
The City's shelters are suffering from extreme overcrowding and hundreds of beautiful animals desperately need new homes -- dogs, cats, rabbits, guinea pigs, hamsters, turtles, chickens, and more.
If you can’t adopt, consider volunteering, fostering an animal for a period of time, or providing items from the shelter’s Wish Lists. Every bit helps!
Visit the Shelter
Tuesdays and Thursdays 8 a.m.—5 p.m.
Saturdays and Sundays 11 a.m.—5 p.m.
West Los Angeles Animal Shelter
11361 W Pico Blvd (just west of the 405)
Los Angeles, CA 90064
Phone (310) 207-3156
https://www.laanimalservices.com/shelters/west-los-angeles/
Volunteer: https://www.laanimalservices.com/volunteer/
Foster: https://www.laanimalservices.com/volunteer/foster-program/
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THE LOS ANGELES NEIGHBORHOOD COUNCIL SYSTEM
Because of the size of Los Angeles, each Los Angeles City Council member represents around 250,000 people. To keep City officials in closer touch with the neighborhoods of the City, in 1999 Los Angeles adopted a Neighborhood Council system to advise the City Council members of local issues.
There are 99 separate Neighborhood Councils in the City of Los Angeles. Members of the Neighborhood Council are considered City employees without compensation of any kind. They are formally elected by the public or communities and must live, work or own property in the area they represent.
The Bel Air-Beverly Crest Neighborhood Council represents approximately 28,000 people in a beautiful mountain and canyon area of the City of Los Angeles bounded on the West by Sepulveda Boulevard, on the North, Mulholland Drive, on the South by Sunset Boulevard and the East by Laurel Canyon. All Board and Committee meetings are open to the public.
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The Glen Centre
part of our Bel Air-Beverly Crest Neighborhood Council communities
The Bel Air-Beverly Crest Neighborhood Council Community News is published by the Bel Air-Beverly Crest Neighborhood Council Outreach Committee:
Robin Greenberg, Mindy Rothstein Mann, Nickie Miner,
Robert Schlesinger, Maureen Smith, Patricia Templeton
Andre Stojka, Newsletter Editor and Outreach Chairperson
BABCNC President: Travis Longcore
Newsletter (c) 2023 Bel Air-Beverly Crest Neighborhood Council
Scrapbook (c) 2023 Andre Stojka
Photo Credits: Shutterstock, Wickapedia, Travis Longcore, Mindy Rothstein Mann, Jaime Hall, Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Department of Sanitation
Your comments are solicited and appreciated.
Please contact us at: outreach@babcnc.org
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