Category Archives: businesses/stores

Long-Time Storeowner Foster Plans to Sell Business

Posted on May 13, 2024 by Sue

Vivian Foster, who has a dress shop, Vivian’s Boutique, on 875 Via de la Paz, is looking for someone to buy her business. “After 38 years of loving and working in fashion in the Palisades it’s time to retire,” Foster … Continue reading →

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Editor Threatened: Few Days Later Called a Racist

Posted on April 25, 2024 by Sue

THREATENING MESSAGE: This editor received the following text message from a 310-765-7413 number on April 21: “Hey Sue . . .Active & sesh ready!!! “Sleep with one eye open (and then my address was listed). “Revenge is a dish best … Continue reading →

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Juvenile Crime Includes Graffiti, Car Break-ins: Street Vendor Letters

Posted on April 24, 2024 by Sue

REGARDING GRAFFITI: I hope we can catch the kids who did this [graffiti in George Wolfberg Park at Potrero]. It’s a shame such a beautiful place/sanctuary can be vandalized. I brought friends from out of town for a walk and … Continue reading →

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Pickleball Social Planned for Sunday

Posted on April 24, 2024 by Sue

There is a pickleball social planned from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. on April 28, 15305 Sunset Boulevard, in the U.S. Bank parking lot. The event is hosted by Rally Club. If you’re always wanted to try the sport, there … Continue reading →

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Making Your Floors Look the Best

Posted on April 23, 2024 by Sue

When you want your hardwood floors to look spectacular, it is worth one’s time to find a consummate professional. Fortunately for Pacific Palisades residents, one of the best companies in Los Angeles, Greg Garber Floors, is based here. Owner Greg … Continue reading →

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Sales, Leases, Taxes and Inventory, Marguleas Discusses the Palisades Market

Posted on April 18, 2024 by Sue

Anthony Marguleas, the founder and owner of Amalfi Estates, spoke to the Optimist Club on April 2 about the current real estate market.  He said, “You never regret buying real estate; you only regret selling. “More people stay in their homes … Continue reading →

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Food Vendor Sets up by Library, Blocks Sidewalk

Posted on April 17, 2024 by Sue

A new street vendor selling tacos set up on the sidewalk in front of the Palisades Library. That sidewalk is highly utilized and as one resident wrote: “My wife and I had to form a single line to get through. … Continue reading →

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MĀVVEN Mercantile, Combines Curation and Community

Posted on April 7, 2024 by Sue

By ALISON BURMEISTER In the ever-changing world of retail, where more people are abandoning brick and mortar storefronts to shop on-line, it takes a unique space like MĀVVEN Mercantile at 15326 Antioch, to welcome customers through the door, again and … Continue reading →

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Blanck Celebrates 42 Years in Pacific Palisades

Posted on March 28, 2024 by Sue

By CHAZ PLAGER More than 100 residents gathered on Marquez Avenue on March 26 to wish Gerry Blanck’s business a “Happy 42nd Birthday.” Blanck, or as his students call him, Sensei (teacher in Japanese), moved to the Palisades in 1982. After initially teaching … Continue reading →

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Registry at Elizabeth Lamont Provides Special Gifts

Posted on March 21, 2024 by Sue

About 20 brides-to-be were treated to a special wedding registry event at Elizabeth Lamont on March 16. LA-based stylist Jessica Cortez, Expert-organizer Tori Springer and flowers by Becca’s In Bloom were all on hand to answer questions. There were refreshments … Continue reading →

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