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Beachfront NIMBYs
JOEL BRAND is chairman of Friends of 415 PCH.ALTHOUGH thousands of $400-a-night hotel rooms have sprung up along our coastline in the past decades, few if any new campgrounds, parks or other public facilities have been built to accommodate the other 98% of Californians who can't afford to pay five-...Tags: California, Lifestyle and Leisure, Hollywood (Los Angeles, California), Death, Northridge
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Memories of the castle by a former Hearst chauffeur
Special to The Los Angeles TimesSan Simeon, Calif. It had been nearly three decades since I stood in this spot, looking out across the Neptune Pool of Hearst Castle to the Santa Lucia Mountains. But this time, the feeling was different. Thirty years ago, I had almost free run of...Tags: Vehicles, Billiards, Snooker and Pool, Family, Jeep, Los Angeles Times
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'Roughing it' at Ft. Hunter Liggett
![<i>"This is a unique destination where you are allowed on a military post, visit [one] of the 21 missions and stay overnight at Hearst's private lodge," says reader Lloyd van Horsen of Santa Barbara, in recommending Ft. Hunter Liggett.</i>](http://www.latimes.com/media/thumbnails/story/2008-08/41585960-13171126.jpg "<i>"This is a unique destination where you are allowed on a military post, visit [one] of the 21 missions and stay overnight at Hearst's private lodge,\" says reader Lloyd van Horsen of Santa Barbara, in recommending Ft. Hunter Liggett.</i>")
Los Angeles Times Staff Writer"This is a unique destination where you are allowed on a military post, visit [one] of the 21 missions and stay overnight at Hearst's private lodge," says reader Lloyd van Horsen of Santa Barbara, in recommending Ft. Hunter Liggett. THE SETTING Ft....Tags: Lifestyle and Leisure, Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles, Santa Barbara (Santa Barbara, California), Errol Flynn
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Garage Sales Booming; Up 80% From A Year Ago
Q13 Fox Consumer SpecialistLike a lot of folks these days, Leslie Sundberg is downsizing. With the kids grown, she's selling the house, and a lot of the stuff in it. She has spent three weeks getting ready for this garage sale. "We are organizing as we're pricing, as you can see",...Tags: Craigslist, Inc., Lifestyle and Leisure, Michael Jackson, Fishing, Real Estate Sales
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Feather art will move delicately into the spotlight at 2009 Mexico City exhibit
![ONE of the most dazzling tidbits in the Los Angeles County Museum of Art's big show "The Arts in Latin America 1492-1820" is enshrined in a gallery devoted to silver. A richly ornamented chalice made in Mexico City around 1575 and given to the museum by newspaper magnate William Randolph Hearst in 1948, it stands a mere 13 inches tall. But in terms of 16th century Mexican silver, the chalice has everything: silver gilt, rock crystal, boxwood and hummingbird feathers.](http://www.latimes.com/media/alternatethumbnails/story/2007-10/33138111.jpg "ONE of the most dazzling tidbits in the Los Angeles County Museum of Art's big show "The Arts in Latin America 1492-1820\" is enshrined in a gallery devoted to silver. A richly ornamented chalice made in Mexico City around 1575 and given to the museum by newspaper magnate William Randolph Hearst in 1948, it stands a mere 13 inches tall. But in terms of 16th century Mexican silver, the chalice has everything: silver gilt, rock crystal, boxwood and hummingbird feathers.")
Los Angeles Times Staff WriterONE of the most dazzling tidbits in the Los Angeles County Museum of Art's big show "The Arts in Latin America 1492-1820" is enshrined in a gallery devoted to silver. A richly ornamented chalice made in Mexico City around 1575 and given to the museum by...Tags: Weather, Italy, Hampton Roads Weather, Mexico, Native Americans
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Grand makeover for Hearst Castle visitor center
Los Angeles Times Staff WriterWilliam Randolph Hearst never did anything small. Witness the late publisher's sprawling estate in San Simeon, Calif., which draws nearly 2,000 admirers on an average day. But until recently, the gateway to Hearst Castle, where visitors board shuttles...Tags: Bell (Los Angeles, California), Hollywood (Los Angeles, California), Los Angeles Times
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Old-World classics: Palm Springs, San Diego & Sierra Nevada boutique hotels
The Château du Sureau and Erna's Elderberry House restaurant nestle near the town of Oakhurst, a 30-minute drive from the south entrance of Yosemite National Park. It's God's country, all hay-colored Sierra foothills and thickets of stately pines in a...Tags: Barbra Streisand, California, Nevada, Europe, Hotel and Accommodation Industry
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Virginia Warren Daly dies at 80; popular socialite in New York and Washington
In the 1950s and '60s, if Virginia Warren Daly came to your party, you had it made. Effervescent, beautiful and popular with the opposite sex, the daughter of Supreme Court Chief Justice Earl Warren was a staple of the society columns in Washington and...Tags: Local Government, Colleges and Universities, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Washington (U.S. state)
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Barclay Butera pillow
![L.A. designer <a href="http://www.barclaybutera.com">Barclay Butera</a> has refashioned drawings by Julia Morgan, the architect of <a href="http://www.hearstcastle.org">Hearst Castle</a>, for a line of luxury pillows. The four patterns in the Casa del Monte series are based on pencil sketches that Morgan prepared for gilded plaster relief panels for the bedroom ceilings of Casa del Mar, one of the guest houses at William Randolph Hearst’s estate at San Simeon. The sea horse shown here is 22 inches square and printed on Belgian linen with a blue silk backing. It is $435 at Barclay Butera Home, 169 N. La Brea Ave., Los Angeles; (323) 634-0200; <a href="http://www.barclaybutera.com">www.barclaybutera.com.</a>](http://www.latimes.com/media/thumbnails/story/2008-12/43868222-14000916-140105.jpg "L.A. designer <a href="http://www.barclaybutera.com\">Barclay Butera</a> has refashioned drawings by Julia Morgan, the architect of <a href=\"http://www.hearstcastle.org\">Hearst Castle</a>, for a line of luxury pillows. The four patterns in the Casa del Monte series are based on pencil sketches that Morgan prepared for gilded plaster relief panels for the bedroom ceilings of Casa del Mar, one of the guest houses at William Randolph Hearst’s estate at San Simeon. The sea horse shown here is 22 inches square and printed on Belgian linen with a blue silk backing. It is $435 at Barclay Butera Home, 169 N. La Brea Ave., Los Angeles; (323) 634-0200; <a href=\"http://www.barclaybutera.com\">www.barclaybutera.com.</a>")
Los Angeles Times Staff WriterL.A. designer Barclay Butera has refashioned drawings by Julia Morgan, the architect of Hearst Castle, for a line of luxury pillows. The four patterns in the Casa del Monte series are based on pencil sketches that Morgan prepared for gilded plaster relief...Tags: Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles
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'Hearst the Collector' at Los Angeles County Museum of Art
Snobbery and wealth, like love and marriage, don't always go together. The same holds for knowledge and money, as in "He's got more dollars than sense." At the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, the complex relationships among taste, affluence and...
Tags: Italy, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Sculpture, Tourism and Leisure, Arts
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The Spanish-American War
Tribune staff reporterThe Spanish-American War, which officially began on this date, was a short and thoroughly lopsided affair, but it was long on enthusiasm and colorful characters. Future president Teddy Roosevelt led a charge of cowboys and college students up a hill in...Tags: Cuba, Death, Carl Sandburg, Spain, William McKinley
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Before Las Vegas, Tijuana was Southern Californias glitzy escape
Los Angeles Times Staff WriterIt's dusk in Tijuana's red-light district, and two bouncers are slouching outside a strip joint called the Chicago Club. A car rolls up, a window rolls down, and the American guy on the passenger side starts asking questions in awkward Spanish. Looks like...Tags: Business, Los Angeles Times, Douglas Fairbanks Jr., Trips and Vacations, Fronton
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