Thousands of Trick or Treaters

[Hometechdoc]

We moved into our new house in mid May and have been slowly working on it. We knew about the Christmas decorations typical in the neighborhood and the two weeks of trolley car tours. No one told us about Halloween. Big time decorations, often from professional Hollywood set decorators and any where between two and four thousand trick or treators

 

[Hometechdoc]

Another pic of the crowd

This went on from six to eight thirty when we ran out of our stash of $300 worth of candy

 

[Hometechdoc]

It took three people

rotating to get the parade through. The handsome man in the leather jacket is my administrative assistant. He says his invite did not say anything about a costume

 

[Hometechdoc]

more crowds

We finally had to put up a sign to indicate no more candy. Everything is orderly. The police close the streets and at 9:30 they go through with a bull horn and clear the streets.

 

[jeffg]

Allen, nice shots. What part of L.A. is this?

 

[Hometechdoc]

Northridge

We live in Sherwood Forest, an early fifties neighborhood that was marketed as storeybook homes. The neighborhood is across the street from Cal State Northridge in the San Fernando Valley. Most of the homes are large 3,000 sqft on large half acre lots. Most are very well kept with manicured lots with early American themes - white picket fences, wishing wells, tractors, wagons, and hay bails everywhere.

 

[jeffg]

Allen, I thought I recognized it. I grew up in Granada Hills, near Hayvenhurst & Chatsworth.

 

[Hometechdoc]

zelzah and nordhoff

Actually one block south of nordhoff on suburst

 

[jeffg]

If you haven't already, try the cheese ravioli's with meat sauce at Chi-Chi's. 20+ years later and I still get cravings for it.

 

[Hometechdoc]

chi-chi's ravioli

I have tried them and they are amazing

 

[jeffg]

Hey if someone has a spare $3M burning a hole in their pocket, please email me.

We'll share the house.

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www.northridgehome.com

 

[Hometechdoc]

Just down the street

Actually two blocks away. Yes it is a nice place. We went to a Christmas party there last year. There are several homes like that in the Forest! We are in the poor sub-million $ section Houses aournd us are going for about $900,000 or so about now.

 

[jeffg]

According to Redfin it was built in 1992, two years before the Northridge earthquake. I wonder how much repair it required?

 

[mysteryclock]

If it was built well & to code, it might not have suffered ~as much~ as older structures did. Still, the 1994 Northridge earthquake was a real roller -- I was in Torrance at the time and it chucked me completely out of bed.

 

[jeffg]

I was in Palm Springs at the time, and it rolled us right out of bed. My other half started to panic, but I could tell from the motion (wide but side-to-side) the epicenter was pretty far away. The time to start panicking is when you feel vertical motion, which means 1) it's a big quake and 2) you're close to the epicenter.

My old neighborhood, however, was a wreck. Never saw anything like it before or since, and that includes being 12 miles from the Loma Prieta epicenter in 1989. Here's one example, this is (or was) a reinforced concrete parking structure at Cal State Northridge, bent over like rubber: