Please save the date for the next LFIA event at the Autry Museum of the American West. We’re celebrating all things Los Feliz with Viva Los Feliz on July 31 from 6 to 9 pm. Stay tuned for more details.
LFIA NAMES ITS 2024 SCHOLARSHIP RECIPIENTS
Four John Marshall High School graduating seniors are the recipients of LFIA’s Tom LaBonge and Lynne T. Jewell Scholarships. The scholarship winners were announced during the Marshall High Senior Awards Ceremony on June 6th. All the scholarship winners had stellar academics, significant volunteer work within or outside the school, and some held part-time jobs, too. It is always a difficult task for LFIA to choose the winners as all the applicants were exceptional. Read more about these fantastic young people on our website.
ARCHITECTURE & BEYOND AT LOS FELIZ LIBRARY — THURSDAY, JUNE 20
In the beginning, there was the Zanja Madre (Mother Trench) but quickly, Los Angeles realized in order to expand, new sources of water needed to be identified, captured. and transported. This was the moment when William Mulholland’s ambitious plan to bring the water from Owen’s Valley down to Los Angeles was born – a plan not without problems.
Kopp also talks about lost monuments that have been filled in, paved over, or simply turned off. A great example of these lost monuments – Abbot Kinney’s Venice canals, which for the most part, no longer exist.
Architecture & Beyond is a free, in-person event at the Los Feliz Branch Library (1874 Hillhurst Ave).
Doors open at 6:45 and the lecture begins promptly at 7 pm. Call 323.913.4710 for more information.
Architecture & Beyond is supported by Friends of Los Feliz Library and merchants of the Los Feliz BID.
Copies of the book will be available for purchase & signing.
VOICE YOUR THOUGHTS AND CONCERNS OR LEND YOUR SUPPORT
Two notable Los Feliz topics are coming up at their respective commissions on Thursday, June 20. Let the commissioners know how you feel.
The Cultural Heritage Commission discusses and votes on declaring the first Disney brothers studio (1748-1756 N. Vermont Ave. / 4647-4655 W. Kingswell Ave.) a Historic-Cultural Monument.
Recreation and Parks Commission votes on extending the lease of the A Bridge Home shelter for another year in Griffith Park’s southern extension on Riverside Drive.
YOUR NEXT GREAT READ
In Unnatural Habitat: The Native and Exotic Wildlife of Los Angeles, conservationist Craig Stanford offers Angelenos — and anyone interested in the function and dysfunction of (sub)urban ecosystems — a guide to the natural life that teems beneath our freeways, wanders into our backyards and fights for survival in the deserts and mountains that surround our city. The book unravels the intricate interplay between human and animal habits; societal institutions and nature; common sense and our desire to decorate and navigate Los Angeles however we please.