LA Observed: He doesn't love PCH

He doesn't love PCH

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Writing in The Aesthetic, Garrison Frost acknowledges the glorious image of Pacific Coast Highway but also disses it as "the most disappointing street in the South Bay."

Views of the Pacific Ocean. Sandy beaches. Charming coastal towns. Nature at its finest. The highway has achieved a sort of mythical status only achieved by the likes of Route 66 and the Brooklyn Bridge...

In Manhattan Beach, unspectacular homes are selling for more than $1 million apiece, but the poster highway for the state of California looks like the main drag of some Midwestern trucking hub."

In the online magazine's latest post, he also carps about last Sunday's L.A. Times story on mansionization, saying it didn't deal with the bad side in Manhattan Beach.

2:38 PM Tuesday, July 22 2003 • Link
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I couldn't agree more with Frost here. From my apt. on the PCH, I can walk to groceries, great dive bars (Pitcher House), bike shops, great Mexican grub (Rosas), newstands, and a good ole reliable True Value hardware store with scrappy guys that know everything. Can't get more "Community" than that, in a city with too few communities- and you wouldn't sense a smidget of this drving thru.

Posted by: scott at July 22, 2003 03:52 PM

G. Frost rants about everything but the ugly ol power lines that still muck up many portions of PCH, in hotsy totsy Malibu, no less. There's not too much that is as low class as a street that has more power poles than trees, or no trees at all.

Posted by: Visitor at July 22, 2003 04:10 PM

Great find, especially for South Bay expats who grew up there. Thanks much, Kevin.

Posted by: joseph at July 22, 2003 07:38 PM

You are welcome. The Aesthetic link is over there on the right, any time you feel like browsing. So are the links to the Beach Reporter, Easy Reader, Daily Breeze and the smart literate bloggers at The Juxtaposition.

Posted by: Kevin Roderick at July 22, 2003 09:09 PM

High-speed PCH (Sepulveda) has little to do with Manhattan Beach. Any local recognizes Highland as the view and shopping strip in that community.

Posted by: tim ferguson at July 25, 2003 02:04 PM

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