Traffic signal control boxes in Bixby Knolls get all dressed up
Next time you’re driving south on Atlantic Avenue—or east on San Antonio Drive—keep your eyes open for Welch’s. The popular Bixby Knolls family restaurant, which occupied the northwest corner of the intersection when men still wore hats, is back: as artwork on a traffic signal [...]

You may blame the currently wretched economy for diminishing our ability to pay for the finer things in life–and, most recently, for claiming Thor Antiques, 4122 Atlantic Ave. in Bixby Knolls.
The store will close its doors March 28, less than two weeks after marking its fifth anniversary on St. Patrick’s Day.

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.