The Great Weekend

Today and tomorrow (December 1 & 2) the West Adams Heritage Association is holding its annual holiday tour. The fancy-smancy progressive dinner tour, showcasing six fabulous homes in the West Acres tract (part of the Adams-Normandie neighborhood) is sold out. But Sunday afternoon's self-guided walking tour still has tickets available, at $30. Reservations are necessary, and more information is available at WAHAholiday@aol.com.

I'll be manning the porch at 1656 W. 25th St. on Saturday, and shepherding the final tour on Sunday. My assignment Saturday, at the soup house, is a particularly savory one, an early commission of S. Tilden Norton, whose fingerprints are on some of the most spectacular L.A. buildings of the late 1920's - early 1930's. I'll write more about Mr. Norton later this week.
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Sunday morning (beginning at 10am), we'll hold the Mission-style furniture sale on 31st Street, just West of Arlington. Bob Gangl of Carol Eppel Antiques in Stillwater Minneapolis will open his trailer of merchandise unsold at Pasadena's Craftsman weekend. Bob typically carries high and mid-level antique pieces, some name makers, and truly unusual pieces from the American Arts & Crafts era.

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Sunday afternoon from noon - 4pm, I'll hold 2361 W. 20th St. open. If you're headed to and fro the holiday tour, stop in. If you need a place to watch the game, stop in. (One interested party called during the last showing to ask if I'd have Pats-Colts on.) We've lowered the price to $759K, and won't be open next weekend, and only once more this year (December 16th).

Here's a black & white rendition. Julius Shulman eat your heart out. (I could've used a ND grad on the sky....)