Los Angeles, give me some of you! Los Angeles come to me the way I came to you, my feet over your streets, you pretty town I loved you so much, you sad flower in the sand, you pretty town.

John Fante in “Ask the Dust”

 

“…to protect the city’s parks, neighborhoods and quality of life, you must be vigilant and you must organize.”

Grace Simons, quoted in 1985 LA Times article by Sam Mall Kaplan

Find out more about Grace Simons, activist without whose effort Elysian park would have been turned into a convention center. As if LA had too many public green spaces.