Renting in Highland Park 90042 (Los Angeles, Glendale: for rent, condos, house)

[mrsltd]

Originally Posted by nickdahammer

Repton is NOT the best Highland Park has to offer. It's pretty dumpy IMHO. There are some nice places up Monte Vista, north of Avenue 56 or so, and some behind the library on Figueroa. HP is typical Los Angeles: two blocks of beautiful bungalows, next couple of blocks houses falling apart. And the area around Occidental College has some very nice homes and some apartments (north of York).

Occidental is just inside of 90041, which is the Eagle Rock neighboorhood.
My dad lives there now, and grew up in the area; went to Franklin High, in fact.

Have only seen a little of Highland Park, and that was driving around on York, which is not its best face. It's KNOWN as a rough area, and the scene for the Black Dahlia; also, when LA was less settled, it was a convenient place for robbers and such to hide, due to the lay of the land there....gullies, ravines, etc.

In the Thomas Guide I noticed an area known as Garvanza in the same zip code, next to South Pasadena. Perhaps there?

[nmnita]

Originally Posted by nickdahammer

Repton is NOT the best Highland Park has to offer. It's pretty dumpy IMHO. There are some nice places up Monte Vista, north of Avenue 56 or so, and some behind the library on Figueroa. HP is typical Los Angeles: two blocks of beautiful bungalows, next couple of blocks houses falling apart. And the area around Occidental College has some very nice homes and some apartments (north of York).

i would say, if you can get closer to Eagle Rock (Oxy is actually in ER) you would be ok, but Highland Park has been less than desirable since the 50s and has gradually gone down hill. Yes, it is due for a revamp, but I still don't think I would live there unless you are talking about the area near Eagle Rock Blvd and York. Also the area closer to the Eagle Rock/Pasa/Highland Park border isn't bad.

Nita

[nmnita]

Originally Posted by mrsltd

Occidental is just inside of 90041, which is the Eagle Rock neighboorhood.
My dad lives there now, and grew up in the area; went to Franklin High, in fact.

Have only seen a little of Highland Park, and that was driving around on York, which is not its best face. It's KNOWN as a rough area, and the scene for the Black Dahlia; also, when LA was less settled, it was a convenient place for robbers and such to hide, due to the lay of the land there....gullies, ravines, etc.

In the Thomas Guide I noticed an area known as Garvanza in the same zip code, next to South Pasadena. Perhaps there?

Now, how many will remember Black Dahlia? I do, barely!!! Really remember more hearing about it than really remember it. I though though it was more in the Lincoln Park area than actually Highland Park.

I went to Eagle Rock High (we were better!!! Nita

Well we thought we were....

[mrsltd]

Originally Posted by nmnita

Now, how many will remember Black Dahlia? I do, barely!!! Really remember more hearing about it than really remember it. I though though it was more in the Lincoln Park area than actually Highland Park.

I went to Eagle Rock High (we were better!!! Nita

Well we thought we were....

My dad went to Eagle Rock High as well AFTER having to leave Franklin.

I mention the Black Dahlia but don't know many details....just that the murders took place in the Highland Park area.

Sorry to get off topic.

Matt

[CALGUY]

This is an old thread but, just for information, I live in a small village just east of Figuroa and avenue 60
It is called Hermon, and lies east of the Arroyo Seco, and Pasadena freeway.
Great quiet area with mostly single family homes and right on the border with South Pasadena.
It is not anything like the rest of Highland Park.
We have two beautiful parks one of which extends from Monterey road on the east to Griffin ave on the west, plus there is the Arroyo Seco in our back yard.
How great is that?
Bob.

[nmnita]

Originally Posted by CALGUY

This is an old thread but, just for information, I live in a small village just east of Figuroa and avenue 60
It is called Hermon, and lies east of the Arroyo Seco, and Pasadena freeway.
Great quiet area with mostly single family homes and right on the border with South Pasadena.
It is not anything like the rest of Highland Park.
We have two beautiful parks one of which extends from Monterey road on the east to Griffin ave on the west, plus there is the Arroyo Seco in our back yard.
How great is that?
Bob.

yep, I remember that as being really nice. Of course we won't talk about how many years ago I lived there. Many of you were not even born then.

Matt, don't tell me, he got kicked out of Franklin and ended up at Eagle Rock? That will break my old heart????

[mrsltd]

Originally Posted by nmnita

yep, I remember that as being really nice. Of course we won't talk about how many years ago I lived there. Many of you were not even born then.

Matt, don't tell me, he got kicked out of Franklin and ended up at Eagle Rock? That will break my old heart????

Yeah, one of my bosses I had when I was working p/t jobs in college had a girlfriend in South Pas and I had to run errands up there a number of times. I saw that Mt. Hermon sign a number of times.

Yes, Nita, he did, and ER let him go too. It took the Navy to straighten things out. He eventually graduated, though.

[streetscenes]

Originally Posted by CALGUY

This is an old thread but, just for information, I live in a small village just east of Figuroa and avenue 60
It is called Hermon, and lies east of the Arroyo Seco, and Pasadena freeway.
Great quiet area with mostly single family homes and right on the border with South Pasadena.
It is not anything like the rest of Highland Park.
We have two beautiful parks one of which extends from Monterey road on the east to Griffin ave on the west, plus there is the Arroyo Seco in our back yard.
How great is that?
Bob.

Hey, we are neighbors. The Hermon neighborhood has a very interesting history going back to the Free Methodists over 100 years ago. Arroyo News

I wish they grocery store on Monterey would open again, not a lot of other choices in the immediate area.

[UB50]

Highland Park has some random gang violence. Every so often you read about it in the newspapers but I couldn't tell you who or where it is happening.

I go through Highland Park (on York St.) fairly often and I occasionally stop in Highland Park and do business. It's never seemed particularly dangerous but then I read the newspapers and I have to wonder what it is that I'm not seeing.

I know one young girl was killed by a stray bullet in the afternoon while she was sitting in a car waiting for the traffic light to change. I also read something about a guy getting held up by three women (with a gun) when he was coming out of a church in Highland Park.

[nmnita]

Originally Posted by mrsltd

Yeah, one of my bosses I had when I was working p/t jobs in college had a girlfriend in South Pas and I had to run errands up there a number of times. I saw that Mt. Hermon sign a number of times.

Yes, Nita, he did, and ER let him go too. It took the Navy to straighten things out. He eventually graduated, though.

well that restores my faith in ER if he got his life together before he went back. LOL