Part Estates history, through the ample windows of an early modern house

PHOTO by ROSHEILA ROBLES
“This was the dog on the block when we got it—avocado green and all overgrown,” says homeowner Sandra Allen, as we tour the sprawling circa-1949 ranch house she and husband Tim bought eight years ago. It’s hard to believe; their 2,000-square-foot [...]

Okay, so this is outside Long Beach–but really, if you own an airplane, does that matter? Didn’t you fly to Palm Springs for dinner last night? Didn’t you let Kate Hepburn fly your plane while you opened up a bottle of milk? (Okay, so that happened in “The Aviator”.)
The important thing to keep in mind [...]

You may have read, in Saturday’s Los Angeles Times–or Sunday’s Press-Telegram, via an Associated Press story–how the current owners of the famous Downey house where ’70s soft-rock duo Richard and Karen Carpenter lived want to tear it down?
Well, uh, they do.