{"id":126,"date":"2010-03-02T18:10:23","date_gmt":"2015-09-16T04:06:53","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2015-09-22T18:09:16","modified_gmt":"2015-09-22T18:09:16","slug":"civichistory","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lavatransforms.local\/2010\/03\/02\/civichistory\/","title":{"rendered":"Civic History as Loop"},"content":{"rendered":"

To borrow a phrase from Michael Jackson, L.A. tends to always \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Wanna Be Startin\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 Somethin.\u00e2\u20ac\u2122\u00e2\u20ac\u009d Not as in fights & feuds, but as in flashpoints & geneses. Was reminded of this with all the Olympics coverage of snow-boarding, a sport clearly spun from So-Cal skateboarding, itself an adaptation of California-popularized surfing\u00e2\u20ac\u201deach one an under-the-radar activity that later wowed the world. This week I also watched the just-out DVD of The T.A.M.I Show<\/em>, the 1964 Santa Monica Civic concert (Chuck Berry, Rolling Stones, James Brown, Supremes, etc.), whose frontispiece has Jan & Dean skateboarding from Hollywood to the Civic. Stop-frame and squint and you\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve got vanished history at hand. Last night it was The Real Beach Boy<\/em>, a sad and touching BBC documentary on Dennis Wilson. In Hawthorne, bandmate David Marks walks the camera past a plaque commemorating the group (another auspicious startup), then gestures to the two-story berm and onramp behind it: \u00e2\u20ac\u0153This wall of dirt here was where the Wilsons\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 house was\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6 and mine was right over there, where that dirt is.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d Now I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m wondering if the dozen under-construction, city-block-size apartment complexes changing the face of H\u00e2\u20ac\u2122wood and the Wilshire Corridor will turn into the tenements of 2040, warrens for poor, newly arrived Angelenos, thence to be \u00e2\u20ac\u2122dozed and carted off in time for another cycle to start. If you love the town, catch it while you can.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Gene Sculatti\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s occasional column about Cali-bashing, \u00e2\u20ac\u02dcThey Hate L.A.,\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 appears at <\/span>www.sofein.com<\/span><\/span><\/a> .<\/span><\/span><\/em><\/p>\n

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To borrow a phrase from Michael Jackson, L.A. tends to always \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Wanna Be Startin\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 Somethin.\u00e2\u20ac\u2122\u00e2\u20ac\u009d Not as in fights & feuds, but as in flashpoints & geneses. Was reminded of this with all the Olympics coverage of snow-boarding, a sport clearly spun from So-Cal skateboarding, itself an adaptation of California-popularized surfing\u00e2\u20ac\u201deach one an under-the-radar activity […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":55,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[55],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lavatransforms.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lavatransforms.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lavatransforms.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lavatransforms.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/55"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lavatransforms.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=126"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lavatransforms.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lavatransforms.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=126"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lavatransforms.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=126"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lavatransforms.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=126"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}