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Squirrel CSI Thursday, July 16 at Los Feliz Branch Library

 

 


Squirrel CSI: Investigating disappearing Western Gray Squirrel populations in Los Angeles, by Chris DeMarco 


Thursday, July 16th
Doors open at 6:30 p.m., Lecture at 6:45 p.m., Q&A will follow lecture

Los Feliz Branch Library
 

1874 Hillhurst Ave (at the corner of Franklin Ave)

Los Angeles, CA 90027


 


 


 

 


  


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Friday, July 24 at 9:00pm
 

 

 


Westshire neighbor, Russ Tolman's band is performing and he's hoping you will attend. The Russ Tolman Band featuring Carl Byron - piano, Kirk Swan- guitar, Robert Lloyd - organ, Dave Provost - bass, Dave Drewry - drums, and Russ Toman himself singing and playing guitar on the songs he writes. Besides highlights of seven albums released over a couple decades, they will be debuting two new songs. 

 

Fais Do-Do is located at 5257 W. Adams Blvd.www.faisdodo.com 

 

 

 

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BCNA Summer Meeting with David Ryu and Staff - Aug 17, 2015 

 

  

This has been a hectic but productive time since our new Councilman David Ryu was sworn in. We are excited to welcome David and his staff to our neighborhood on Monday August 17 at 7 p.m.

 

He will bring several new staff members and we will all get a chance to ask questions and visit with them. 

 

The format of this meeting will be more like a casual meet and greet to give you, the local resident, a chance to shake hands and have good conversations. Light refreshments will be served and you are invited to share your thoughts and concerns in a safe and friendly environment. 

 

Date: Monday, August 17th

Time: 7 - 8:30 p.m.

Location: Beachwood Cafe, 2695 Beachwood 

(Our thanks to owner Patti Peck for sharing this lovely space!)

 

For more information write to [email protected] 
BeachwoodCanyon.org
 

 


Cheremoya's 100th Anniversary

 

 

 



That's right. The school at the bottom of the hill (the landmark that is the gateway to Beachwood Canyon) will turn 100 this year! 

The new principal, Steve Salva is starting to plan for the big event and a large part of this effort will be focused on trying to get in touch with former students and teachers. In order to help him, we are publishing class photos from various years. Do you know anyone from this class (1998 - 1999)? Are you an alumni of the school and interested in sharing a story or two? Have you attended Cheremoya School? 

If so, e-mail Steve at [email protected].  

Maybe you would like to help organize this great event or maybe offer a donation for the celebration.  

Please make your check payable to Cheremoya Avenue Elementary School. Make sure to write the following in the memo on your check:  "100th Celebration"  Please mail your generous donation to: 

Steve Salva
Cheremoya Avenue Elementary School
6017 Franklin Avenue
Los Angeles, CA  90068
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Beachwood Happy Hour

 

Hollywoodland Antiques is having a happy hour Every Friday from 5 - 7 p.m.!

Please come in and have a glass of wine, snacks, and get to know your neighbors. 

We look forward to seeing you this and every Friday! 


 

Your neighbors, 


 

Dr. Karen and Jeff Meyer 
 

P.S. Stop in and ask to see some of Karen's hand painted creations. Some are wearing her shirts in the neighborhood. This is MUST SEE stuff. 

P.S. & P.S. This is a total good vibe event - we have noticed neighbors walking down the street at around 5 pm on Friday, almost all headed for Happy Hour. What a perfect way build community! Sometimes there is a surprise theme! 
- editor 

 

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Beachwood Cafe    

 




Why not wander into into the Cafe and have a meal and conversation with any one of the many neighbors you will run into? This IS family! 

In days gone by, most neighbors would meet spontaneously in the local cafe and visit about all manner of neighborhood issues. We can do it again. 

2695 N. Beachwood Dr. 
(323) 871-1717

Follow them on Twitter @BeachwoodCafe

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Today's Quote:  
 
 

"Too often we underestimate the power of a touch, a smile, a kind word, a listening ear, an honest compliment, or the smallest act of caring, all of which have the potential to turn a life around."

 

-Leo Buscaglia (1924-1998)
Author, Professor

  


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Words And Phrases Remind Us of the Way We Word 
by Richard Lederer


    About a month ago, I wrote about some expressions that have become obsolete because of technology. These included:  "Don't touch that dial," "Carbon copy," "You sound like a broken record," and "Hung out to dry."  Readers have asked me to write about more faded words and expressions.

     Back in the olden days, we had a lot of moxie.  We'd put on our best bib and tucker and straighten up and fly right.  Hubba-hubba!  We'd cut a rug in some juke joint and then go necking and petting and smooching and spooning and billing and cooing and pitching woo in hot rods and jalopies in some passion pit or lovers' lane.  Heavens to Betsy!  Gee whillikers!  Jumpin' Jehoshaphat!  Holy moley!  We were In like Flynn and living the Life of Riley.  Even a regular guy couldn't accuse us of being a knucklehead, a nincompoop, or a pill.  Not for all the tea in China !

     Life used to be swell, but when's the last time that was true?  Swell has gone the way of beehives, pageboys, the D.A., spats, knickers, fedoras, poodle skirts, saddle shoes, and pedal pushers.  Oh, my aching back.  Kilroy was here, but he isn't anymore.  Like Washington Irving's Rip Van Winkle and Kurt Vonnegut's Billy Pilgrim, we have become unstuck in time.  We wake from a short nap, and before we can say, "I'll be a monkey's uncle!" or "This is a fine kettle of fish!" we discover that words that seemed as omnipresent as oxygen have vanished without notice.  Like Mickey Mouse wristwatches, hula hoops, skate keys, candy cigarettes, little wax bottles of colored sugar water, and an organ grinder's monkey.
    
Where have all those phrases gone?  Pshaw, the milkman did it.  Think about the Starving Armenians.  Bigger than a bread box.  Banned in Boston.  The very idea!  It's your nickel.  Don't forget to pull the chain.  Knee high to a grasshopper.  Turn-of-the-century.  Iron curtain.  Domino theory.  Fail safe.  Civil defense.  Fiddlesticks!  You look like the wreck of the Hesperus.  Cooties.  Going like sixty.  I'll see you in the funny papers.  Don't take any wooden nickels.  Heavens to Murgatroyd!  And awa-a-ay we go!

   Oh, my stars and garters, it turns out there are more lost words and expressions than Carter had liver pills.  This can be disturbing, this winking out of the words of our youth that are lodged in our heart's deep core.  But just as one never steps into the same river twice, one cannot step into the same language twice.  Even as one enters, words are swept downstream into the past, forever making a different river.  We have been blessed to live in changing times.  For a child, each new word is like a shiny toy that has no age.  At the other end of the arc, older people have the advantage of remembering there are words that once did not exist and those that are heard no more.  It's one of the advantages of aging.  We can have archaic and eat it, too.  See 'ya later, alligator!
  
 
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Sincerely,
 
Fran Reichenbach
Beachwood Canyon Neighborhood Association
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323-462-BCNA (2262)