![]() ![]() Elfie A. MosseĮlfie Mosse in the Children's Room of the Santa Monica Public Library, circa 1900. Her commitment to education was evidenced by gifts of land for schools and for a permanent location for the Bay City Women’s Club. She also supported the community by giving land for a Presbyterian Church and St. Around the beginning of the 20th Century, she donated land in Santa Monica Canyon to create the first experimental forestry station managed by Abbott Kinney, the founder of Venice. In 1891 she donated the land of today’s Pacific Palisades Park to the City of Santa Monica. Arcadia designed one of the first maps for the city, creating an original vision of land use in Santa Monica.Īrcadia, along with Colonel Baker, notably deeded the land for a National Home for Disabled Veterans in 1888, which is now the Veterans complex in Westwood. As a widow, she married again, this time to another wealthy landowner and one of the founders of the City of Santa Monica, Colonel Robert S. Born in 1825 in San Diego to a socially elite California family, she married a wealthy landowner at age 15 and moved to Los Angeles. Many considered Arcadia Bandini de Baker the “Godmother” of the City of Santa Monica because she had such an impact on current public use lands. Courtesy of Santa Monica Public Library Image Archives/ C.C. They accomplished a great deal without much fanfare and the impact of their hard work is still being felt today. On Instagram, the owners wrote, “It’s time to focus on the new Baroo and another project or two for 2020.In a year when TIME revealed “The Silence Breakers” as the Person of the Year, we want to celebrate three remarkable women in Santa Monica’s earlier days. Locations in Hollywood and City Terrace remain open.Ĭurry House is closed after 14 years on Sawtelle.īaroo Canteen is closed at Union Swapmeet after seven months in East Hollywood. 31 to make room for a new restaurant, which is slated to open in January.ĭoomie’s will close on Dec. Roy Choi’s A-Frame is closed after nine years in Culver City. Catalina Ave., Redondo Beach, (424) 247-8649, Closings The cafe serves Counter Culture coffee and August Uncommon teas alongside items such as mushroom porridge, omelets and toast with peanut butter, banana jam and blueberries.ġ815 S. Hi-Fi Espresso has a second location open in Redondo Beach. The cafe serves cortados, mochas, teas and pastries from Baker’s Kneaded, such as croissants with guava or Nutella.ħ45 S. The Ox is open at Oxford Palace Hotel in Koreatown. The sports bar’s menu includes avocado toast with lobster, pork belly-topped burgers, tacos and sushi.ģ311 Cahuenga Blvd., Los Angeles, General Admission is open in Hollywood Hills. The menu includes double chile fatty beef mixian, kimchi lamb hot pot, braised pig feet with rice and curry fish balls. ![]() Mr Rice is open in Westwood for Yunnan-style mixian rice noodles and hot pot. The menu includes organic, 12-hour tonkotsu extracted from Kurobuta bones, plus fried goat cheese, white fish carpaccio and vegetable tempura.ġ624 N. ![]() Kota Ramen is open in Hollywood for Hakata-style ramen and Japanese whisky from chef-restaurateur Kevin Fung of Montreal. The menu is currently absent tempura but now includes karaage, udon, tonkatsu and ponzu chicken.ġ816 Sawtelle Blvd., West Los Angeles, (310) 479-5989, /pages/Sawtelle-Tempura-House/ The 70-year-old Tempura House recently reopened as Sawtelle Tempura House under chef Satoru Yokomori, formerly of Del Rey Kitchen and Sawtelle Kitchen. Restaurant critics Bill Addison and Patricia Escárcega pick their favorite dishes from 2019. ![]()
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