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So I'm a 1976 graduate of Santa Monica High School, and in that era, we never played Venice High School or Pele High School in any sports. You know, LA city versus CIF schools. So I was glad to see that once I was well out of high school, that the athletic programs used in Venice high schools as nonleague opponents, just because they were close to develop a rivalry. So I was I was glad to see that happen. Glad to see us go to the Dolphins. The dolphins come to us as that went on. And all the major sports football, basketball, baseball, it was more an issue of geography and where you live. I knew more people who were going to Saint Monica's, for example, than going to Paulie, because if you lived in Santa Monica, you weren't going to Paulie, which now I understand because a neighbor, um, was thinking, you know, my kids are getting high school age. Okay. So they entered a lottery and they won a position, and that gave that person a In a chance to go to Pali and any younger siblings. So I think now the academic rivalry between Santa Monica and Pali has done that. You have the ability to get a lottery to go to Pali High if you want to, for whatever set of reasons, even if you live in Santa Monica. So, you know, there's an academic rivalry between those two schools without without doubt, the sports rivalry is very different because it's an L.A. city school versus a CIF school. Probably being a LA city school, like, like is Venice and Santa Monica being a CIF school, you don't see each other until the state playoff, uh, working. So it was a small bedroom community. Yeah. It had a market that had a movie theater, the little commercial strip along Sunset Boulevard. You knew where the high school was? Um, I did cotillion at the Riviera Country Club. So, yeah, that meant, as a 12 year old male, I could function in Viennese society of over a century ago. But that was that's where it was held. We had practices and then the dances. Um, yeah, it was it was a community to the north. It was like Santa Monica. It was a bedroom community. But everybody who lived there worked someplace else. They came down sunset to the freeway to get to UCLA or into downtown LA, where some of the Santa Monica people worked and lived in Santa Monica. Growing up, that wasn't as true as I thought. In the Palisades. The Palisades was the bedroom community for people who were working east of the San Diego Freeway between Westwood and downtown LA. Well, take the pre and post Rick Caruso and the Palisades Village development with his appearance there and bringing that after the success of The Grove and the brand. Um, I don't think there's an issue. I think Rick has la mer whole, you know, aspirations and, you know, self-funding campaign, which I don't doesn't bother me at all. But I think the Palisades as a community pre and post the Palisades Village with Rick wanting to put his stamp there and making the Palisades a destination place to come, come have lunch, come, go to a movie, come shop here. Whether it's the Starbucks on Sunset Boulevard or the coffee house in the village, it's just, you know, allure to come here because otherwise it was a place people lived. And you drove through Sunset Boulevard to go out to Gladstone's. Oh, I think Rick will restore the Palisades Village, and his mayoral aspirations may sink or rise on how that goes and where he's willing to put his money on that. I have no problem with that going on. Um, Palisades High School being restored to a high school. I mean, it's great. The Sears building was there and available. That gave an easy geography. But I was talking to one of your colleagues, Cole, who? The immediate choice was online. Boom. You go back to the pandemic era. It's online. You don't have a choice. And he transferred to new Roads because he didn't want to continue on. The only choice being an online deal. So I think restoring people a high, just as a community sense of the high school for the community is a great idea to now, LAUSD issues private issues there, but there's no reason there can't be a fabulous private public partnership to help Pali High realize something that it couldn't before the fires, or it wouldn't have been able to if the fire hadn't occurred. It's a chance to rethink and perhaps rebrand and redo certain parts of that camp. You don't have to do everything, but you have an opportunity for a certain part to make it a new and better entity for the community. Keep the 4th of July presence. Keep the parade. Keep the fireworks at Dolphin Stadium. But yeah, addressing the traffic issue on Sunset Boulevard because it's the major thoroughfare between the San Diego Freeway and since and PCH, it just, you know, a thinking traffic flow patterns through the Palisades. Does that mean you have more one way streets or you have, you know, cut, you know, you chop and divide the one way. It becomes confusing for the visitor and even the residents. They're not going to remember. It's just one way. Today, I think traffic issues can be addressed in a in a way that would not have been addressed without the fire issue. Live in Santa Monica. I could avoid it to get to get up to Gladstone since sunset was something you took, you know visitors on to get up to drive by Paul Revere Junior High, to go out to PCH to make a right or left turn to head out to Malibu, for example, to go north. No, it's just but, you know, traffic's bad. A lot of places in Los Angeles County. That's just. Yeah. So you deal with it. But I think they have a chance to really look at traffic patterns and, you know, let's do something. Let's do something bold. Let's do something bold. Well, two things. One, like a photo album, because this is a situation where you have an event and you have the ability to be on one side of the event and the other side of the event and get pictures published, taken at the same time of the event. I've got a picture of myself that I took from the street in Santa Monica on 16th between Margarita and Carlisle, looking north. And then the L.A. times published a picture on January 9th of the Ridge Fire on the seventh. That would have been the glow I was looking at. So I think that kind of perspective, hey, you have a chance to get two sides of the compass on this event. And then the second thing is Memorial Day weekend, PCH reopened. I had the girlfriend up, she was visiting and we went north. We drove out to Malibu Canyon and then over to Mulholland. But driving through the Palisades because of the hills you couldn't see things. But once you get into the Malibu area, I was stunned by the ocean side rubble block after block of homes on the ocean side that had just burned to the ground. Did the fire leap PCH? All it took was one ember type deal those homeowners probably never expected. Homes on the ocean side of PCH would burn to the ground, and you have blocks and blocks of that having happened through Malibu, and that's just an issue of wind change direction.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3578/collection_resources/164602/file/299711#t=3.32,453.31"}]},{"id":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3578/collection_resources/164602/file/299711/index/90469","type":"AnnotationPage","label":{"en":["Auto-generated Index (2025-12-15 18:13:55) [Index]"]},"items":[{"id":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3578/collection_resources/164602/file/299711/index/90469/annotation/2","type":"Annotation","motivation":"supplementing","body":[{"type":"TextualBody","value":"High School Sports Rivalries and Geography","format":"text/plain","label":{"en":["Title"]}}],"target":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3578/collection_resources/164602/file/299711#t=0.0,69.0"},{"id":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3578/collection_resources/164602/file/299711/index/90469/annotation/3","type":"Annotation","motivation":"supplementing","body":[{"type":"TextualBody","value":"The speaker reflects on their time as a Santa Monica High School student in the 1970s, noting the absence of athletic competitions with nearby Venice and Pali High Schools due to the divide between LA city and CIF schools. They express satisfaction that, after their graduation, these schools began to play each other as nonleague opponents, fostering local rivalries based on proximity. The speaker also highlights how, during their youth, school attendance and rivalries were largely determined by where one lived, with most Santa Monica residents not attending Pali High.","format":"text/plain","label":{"en":["Synopsis"]}}],"target":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3578/collection_resources/164602/file/299711#t=0.0,69.0"},{"id":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3578/collection_resources/164602/file/299711/index/90469/annotation/4","type":"Annotation","motivation":"supplementing","body":[{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Academic Rivalry and School Choice Changes","format":"text/plain","label":{"en":["Title"]}}],"target":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3578/collection_resources/164602/file/299711#t=69.0,102.0"},{"id":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3578/collection_resources/164602/file/299711/index/90469/annotation/5","type":"Annotation","motivation":"supplementing","body":[{"type":"TextualBody","value":"The speaker discusses the evolution of the relationship between Santa Monica and Pali High Schools, emphasizing the rise of academic competition alongside traditional sports rivalries. They describe the introduction of a lottery system that allows Santa Monica residents to attend Pali High, which has increased the academic rivalry between the two schools. The speaker notes that, while sports competitions remain limited due to different school districts, academic competition has become more prominent as students can now cross district lines for educational opportunities.","format":"text/plain","label":{"en":["Synopsis"]}}],"target":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3578/collection_resources/164602/file/299711#t=69.0,102.0"},{"id":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3578/collection_resources/164602/file/299711/index/90469/annotation/6","type":"Annotation","motivation":"supplementing","body":[{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Community Character and Daily Life in the Palisades","format":"text/plain","label":{"en":["Title"]}}],"target":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3578/collection_resources/164602/file/299711#t=102.0,154.0"},{"id":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3578/collection_resources/164602/file/299711/index/90469/annotation/7","type":"Annotation","motivation":"supplementing","body":[{"type":"TextualBody","value":"The speaker paints a picture of the Palisades as a quiet, residential area with essential amenities like a market, movie theater, and a commercial strip along Sunset Boulevard. They share personal memories, such as attending cotillion at the Riviera Country Club, and describe the community as one where most residents commuted elsewhere for work. The Palisades is compared to Santa Monica, with both serving as bedroom communities for people working in other parts of Los Angeles, particularly east of the San Diego Freeway.","format":"text/plain","label":{"en":["Synopsis"]}}],"target":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3578/collection_resources/164602/file/299711#t=102.0,154.0"},{"id":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3578/collection_resources/164602/file/299711/index/90469/annotation/8","type":"Annotation","motivation":"supplementing","body":[{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Rick Caruso and the Transformation of Palisades Village","format":"text/plain","label":{"en":["Title"]}}],"target":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3578/collection_resources/164602/file/299711#t=154.0,220.0"},{"id":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3578/collection_resources/164602/file/299711/index/90469/annotation/9","type":"Annotation","motivation":"supplementing","body":[{"type":"TextualBody","value":"The speaker examines the impact of Rick Caruso's development of the Palisades Village, noting how it transformed the area from a primarily residential community into a destination for shopping, dining, and entertainment. They mention Caruso's broader ambitions, including his mayoral aspirations, and suggest that the success of the Palisades Village could influence his political future. The development is credited with attracting visitors and revitalizing the local economy, making the Palisades a place to visit rather than just pass through.","format":"text/plain","label":{"en":["Synopsis"]}}],"target":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3578/collection_resources/164602/file/299711#t=154.0,220.0"},{"id":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3578/collection_resources/164602/file/299711/index/90469/annotation/10","type":"Annotation","motivation":"supplementing","body":[{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Restoration and Future of Palisades High School","format":"text/plain","label":{"en":["Title"]}}],"target":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3578/collection_resources/164602/file/299711#t=220.0,287.0"},{"id":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3578/collection_resources/164602/file/299711/index/90469/annotation/11","type":"Annotation","motivation":"supplementing","body":[{"type":"TextualBody","value":"The speaker discusses the restoration of Palisades High School, highlighting the significance of the school's physical location and the community's connection to it. They recount a conversation about the shift to online learning during the pandemic, which led some students to transfer to other schools. The speaker advocates for a strong public-private partnership to rebuild and improve the school, especially in the aftermath of a fire, and sees this as an opportunity to enhance the campus and its role in the community while preserving traditions like the 4th of July parade and fireworks.","format":"text/plain","label":{"en":["Synopsis"]}}],"target":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3578/collection_resources/164602/file/299711#t=220.0,287.0"},{"id":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3578/collection_resources/164602/file/299711/index/90469/annotation/12","type":"Annotation","motivation":"supplementing","body":[{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Traffic Patterns and Urban Planning in the Palisades","format":"text/plain","label":{"en":["Title"]}}],"target":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3578/collection_resources/164602/file/299711#t=287.0,359.0"},{"id":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3578/collection_resources/164602/file/299711/index/90469/annotation/13","type":"Annotation","motivation":"supplementing","body":[{"type":"TextualBody","value":"The speaker addresses the persistent issue of traffic congestion on Sunset Boulevard, the main thoroughfare through the Palisades. They suggest that recent events, such as the fire, present an opportunity to rethink and improve traffic flow, possibly through bold changes like new one-way streets. 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They describe the shock of witnessing the devastation in Malibu, where entire blocks of oceanfront homes were destroyed by the fire, sometimes due to a single ember carried by the wind. The speaker reflects on the unexpected reach of the fire and the vulnerability of communities along the coast, emphasizing the unpredictable nature of such disasters.","format":"text/plain","label":{"en":["Synopsis"]}}],"target":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3578/collection_resources/164602/file/299711#t=359.0,458.70933"}]}]}]}