UCLA History: Sept. 11
A widely reproduced news photo of UCLA students watching TV report of the terrorist attacks on September 11, 2001.
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Late Night Carmageddon?
For those who keep late nights at UCLA: 405 And 10 Freeway Interchange To Close At Night For Next Three Weeks The contractor began pouring the new roadway for the westbound 10 to northbound 405 connector on Thursday night. Some day time work will take place behind k-rail and will not require the connector to be closed. What to Expect: • Westbound 10 traffic will be detoured to northbound Bundy to eastbound Pico to northbound Cotner and to the northbound 405 on-ramp at Cotner • This work is anticipated to last three weeks and will require nightly closures of the…
UCLA History: The Old Normal
There has been much talk about the “New Normal” as a description of the current depressed economy. As earlier posts have noted, UCLA evolved out of the state normal school that once stood where the LA main library is located. This blog recently posted a lithograph of the school. This is an actual photograph from the late 1800s. The school was moved to Vermont Avenue where it became UCLA’s first campus. The location became the home of LA Community College after UCLA moved to Westwood in the late 1920s.
UCLA History: Behind Royce
An early view of Royce Hall from the rear (late 1920s or early 30s) taken from where the Anderson School now stands.
UCLA History: Normal
Lithograph of the State Normal School in downtown LA in the late 1800s. The School moved from this location – where the LA main library now stands – to Vermont Avenue (where LA City College is now located). It became the first campus of UCLA before the move to Westwood in the late 1920s. Note: Yours will be in transit for about a week. Blogging may be slow.
UCLA-area ban on “apron” parking spreads to other neighborhoods
As previous entries on this blog have noted, the practice of “apron” parking around UCLA is now banned. Prof. Donald Shoup of Urban Planning – a national expert in parking issues – long campaigned for enforcement of the ban. Apron parking – parking in the driveway of a building so as to block the sidewalk – has always been illegal but cars so-parked were not ticketed in the past. A lawsuit noting that access for disabled persons to the sidewalks was obstructed was part of the reason for the new enforcement policy. It appears that the Westwood-area ban on apron…
What’s in a name?
We earlier posted the elaborate video from the Housing Empire on dorm-related construction said to be needed to turn UCLA from a commuter school to a residence school. See http://uclafacultyassociation.blogspot.com/2011/08/construction-and-demolition.html Some folks, after seeing the video, wondered where that goal came from and why it exists. But the answer is obvious. We wouldn’t want students to live in off-campus apartment buildings such as the one in Palms shown above – would we? For more on all of this, check out http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-luxury-student-housing-20110904,0,737126.story
UCLA History: Looking North
The view from Wilshire and Westwood Boulevards looking north toward the campus in 1932.
What I Did on My Summer Vacation: UCLA Abroad Department
A UCLA student who went to fight with rebel soldiers in Libya was apparently sent back to the U.S. … An Al Jazeera producer said his correspondents in Libya learned that rebels told Chris Jeon to leave the area… Jeon’s parents did not know their son had gone to Libya until journalists told them. Full story at http://abclocal.go.com/kabc/story?section=news/local/los_angeles&id=8341013 And from http://www.gadailynews.com/world/72656-ucla-math-major-chris-jeon-thought-it-would-be-cool-to-join-the-rebels-and-fight-khadafy-in-libya.html we learn: “I thought it would be cool to join the rebels,” he said. “I just thought I’d come check it out.” Jeon, 21, doesn’t speak any Arabic. He couldn’t work the AK-47 he was handed. ====== Video at:
UCLA History: Observation
The Westwood Observation Tower stood at Beverly Glen and Wilshire at a time – before the current UCLA campus opened – when there was little to observe.