The neighborhood, block by block, since 1925.
Checks fished from a corner collection box, chemically altered and cashed for the wrong amounts, have residents below the hills driving to the post office rather than trusting the blue box on their own street.
A neighborhood group says the corner where children reach a Hollywood elementary has gone years without a marked crossing. With classes back in session, they want it fixed before a close call becomes something worse.
The branch's main reading room has been dark since winter for a seismic retrofit. A pared-down curbside service is holding the regulars together until the doors reopen.
The panel-by-panel replacement of the cracked Walk of Fame has finished one stretch near Highland and shifted toward La Brea. Merchants on the next block are counting the weeks until the plywood reaches their doors.
The city launched a long-promised repaving of the cracked terrazzo on Tuesday, pledging to finish within the year. Merchants who have watched the sidewalk crumble for a decade will believe it when they see it.
Months of rain have left the slopes above Hollywood the greenest they have looked in years. The people who live at the bottom of the trails are readying for the weekend cars.
The old fig had shaded the street for the better part of a century before its roots heaved the sidewalk into ridges and cracked the curb. The city says a sapling will replace it, in a season, someday.
A year into the library's seismic retrofit, volunteers have set up a small pop-up lending shelf in a borrowed shopfront, an improvised stand-in for the tables the neighborhood lost.
After a winter of near-misses at an unmarked corner, families near a neighborhood elementary school have gathered signatures for a painted crossing and a guard the city has not funded.
The high-windowed reading room on Ivar Avenue went dark this week for a seismic retrofit expected to run into 2026. Regulars who treat it as a second home are being sent to fold-out tables down the hall.
