Ulm | The Valley Village View

Unlike Ulm, Valley Village now (finally) has Sunday DASH service to Studio City and Van Nuys. [Modified rapture!] Cheer with me; DASH is the only mode of LA transit that gives real time arrival info, instantly, right on your cell phone. Just enter the stop number — unlike Metro, there’s no sprinting for DASH at the last minute and cracking your phone against the lamppost trying to catch a bus that suddenly flips its sign to “Out of Service.” So let’s flee the ghastly house, hop on the DASH, and explore what delightful sights await the Sunday Valley passenger for his/her/their/hem four bits.

The weather is cool; a Pacific breeze is skipping up the River bed. Fog fingers stretch over the passes and stroke the Valley as if it were a warm cat’s belly.

*Valley Village. It looks like a fairy tale, don’t it? A great place to call home, if you’ve got a nickel left and they don’t think you’re dead.*

I know in the 40’s this all was supposed to look whimsical, but the gloom brings out the creepy “The Prisoner” side of Storybook Gothic. Still, it’s Home.

Hmm…they obviously heard the View was on board. Okay, the View shuts up and does it THEIR way….

Greens and reds
…shimmer in the gloom

The old sign behind the Post Office lot.
Earth-loving heart above the Mighty Los Angeles
Eucalyptus and pink oleander, down by the river, Studio City

Behold the brand new — just last week! — re-greened section of the LA River between Whitsett and Coldwater. Mayor Garcetti and Friends of the LA River and the Mountains Conservancy can all be proud. The gates here are breathtaking; thank the Cohn Family. And thank friends of [cinematography god] Haskell Wexler, among others, for all the sculpture contributions. It is glad and wholesome news in the Valley. Let Heron point the way.