Dutton's sendoff *

Dutton's North Hollywood and proprietor Davis Dutton are featured on the cover of the Studio City Sun. The bookstore on Laurel Canyon Boulevard is still in the throes of its final clearance sale before the doors close after 45+ years. Dutton and his wife Judy, who met at North Hollywood High, are moving north to the San Juan Islands with 440 cartons of books (so far.)

Also at The Valley Observed: Crash is the first best picture Oscar winner set on the streets of the San Fernando Valley. Some choice quotes.

* And also: "For most of the last 45 years, there wasn’t a finer bookstore in Southern California than Dutton’s of North Hollywood," Los Angeles Magazine executive editor Mary Melton writes in a tribute in the March issue.

Photo of Davis Dutton: Robert Evans