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While on the subject, we’ve been inspired by Sara Susanka’s book, The Not So Big House.
Palos Verdes, once a.k.a. “San Pedro Hill”, taken from a bluff on the southeast. PV’s the hill in Los Angeles with the golf ball on top. It’s a peninsula; the elbow you see jutting out on the L.A. map. It’s about 50% surrounded by water, extending from Redondo Beach on the north to San Pedro in the southeast.
The golf ball (there are actually two of them) is the the LAX radar station that monitors all flights in the Los Angeles airspace.
Directly on the other side of that hill would be Redondo and the rest of the South Bay.
The “Hey Rookie” Pool as it looks today, originally named after the ’40s show with the same name. As the show eventually drifted out of social memory, it became known as the “Gaffey Street Pool”.
Much is being done to restore this classic relic of mid-20th century modernism, which is an example of the Art Moderne style of the 1930s. The Fort MacArthur Museum is recommending that it be listed on the National Register of Historic Places.
It’s actually called a Dogobie.
The little man did it. About a week ago we picked up a Dogobie at the supermarket, which is a cool bendy/chewy thing made by Aerobie. Distance is no problem with this one. You can huck this thing a mile.
We’ve been taking the Dogobie for a spin regularly for about a week. There have been two or three times where Vive comes close, snapping out at it in mid-air, but never quite prevailing. Part of this is my fault, since no less than 99% of the gig is throwing it perfectly.
At about 6:41 P.M. PST today at our favorite hangout at Angels Gate, I flicked the Dogobie south southwest at just the right angle. It caught a little wind coming in from the ocean, got just enough air, and hung for just the right amount of time. Vive, chasing the thing as he always does, caught up to it in time to jump and catch it with all four off the ground. YOU GO MAN!!!
Kona looked on proudly.
Here’s what the Dogobie looked like a week ago:
How cool is this?
Stopped by my childhood buddy’s place the other night, who’s got boys that are the same age we were when we met back in the early days. Circle of life indeed.
