OPINION
April 6, 2003
Tom Wilson, 5th District supervisor and chairman of the Orange County Board of Supervisors, returns to Laguna Beach for a talk at the Laguna Canyon Conservancy meeting Monday. He returns with no explanation of why the county-owned stairways -- left under county ownership when South Laguna was annexed to Laguna Beach, close to the new $200-million Montage Resort & Spa -- have no handrails, need paving and are dangerous and unsafe, especially for older walkers. Come on, Supervisor Wilson, either represent Laguna Beach on the Board of Supervisors or explain what's happening.
CALIFORNIA | LOCAL
September 21, 1997 | ROBERT A. JONES
The writer Gay Talese once remarked that the pull of a great city arises, in part, from its power to pose mysteries. You can spend your entire life in such a city, walking its streets, only to turn a corner one day and encounter something you had never noticed before, something new and enigmatic. Why did that church become a nightclub? What's the story with the old mansion tucked between the office towers? Stuff like that. Talese, of course, was talking about his native New York.
REAL ESTATE
April 5, 1987
A five-story stairway will connect the new law offices of McKenna, Conner & Cuneo, designed by the Los Angeles office of Gensler Associates/Architects. The stairway rising from the elevator lobby is a new design approach for modern buildings, the architect said, and serves an important function in unifying the offices. The law firm will occupy five floors of the fully renovated building at 444 S. Flower St. that once housed the Wells Fargo Bank.
NEWS
December 29, 1987 | From Reuters
Twenty-eight children were crushed to death Monday in a narrow stairway while running to answer a school assembly bell, the China Youth News said today. The children, most under 10, became jammed into the unlit stairway because school authorities had not unlocked the door at the other end. Some fell, and those behind piled on top of them.
NEWS
August 2, 1987
Leo Carrillo State Beach: 36000 block, PCH. Nicholas Canyon County Beach: PCH, 1 mile south of Leo Carrillo beach. El Pescador State Beach: 32900 PCH. La Piedra State Beach: 32700 PCH. El Matador State Beach: 32350 PCH. Stairway: 31300 block, Broad Beach Road. Walkway and steps: 31200 block, Broad Beach Road. Zuma Beach County Park: 30000 block, PCH. Westward Beach and Point Dume State Beach: south end, Westward Beach Road. Paradise Cove: 28128 PCH. Escondido Beach: 27200 block, PCH.
ENTERTAINMENT
March 22, 2009
I read with interest Robert Lloyd's article about the "Tim and Eric Awesome Show" tour ["Foolish Pleasure," March 15]. I would like to make a suggestion regarding Mr. Lloyd's choice of words in one section. In describing the "Oooh, mama!" segment, he says "the pair wreck a basement rec room, chanting 'Oooh, mama!' while a large woman looks on from the stairway." May I suggest this simple change: "The pair wreck a basement rec room, chanting 'Oooh, mama!' while 'Mama,' portrayed by the voluptuous character actress, Judith Goldstein, looks on from the stairway."