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Volume XXII, Issue 1
<strong>Aug</strong>ust <strong>2017</strong> • <strong>Peninsula</strong> 3
PENINSULA<br />
Volume XXII, Issue 1<br />
<strong>Aug</strong>ust <strong>2017</strong><br />
P A L O S V E R D E S P E N I N S U L A M O N T H L Y<br />
ON THE COVER<br />
Watercolor by Katrina Vanderlip<br />
depicting a sculpture of her grandfather<br />
as a boy with his favorite<br />
dog. The sculpture is by Rudolf<br />
Evans, whose other work includes<br />
the Jefferson Memorial in<br />
Washington D.C.<br />
PROFILES<br />
10<br />
Chester Bennington remembered<br />
by Kevin Cody Chester Bennington enjoyed rockstar status.<br />
But it didn’t calm his personal demons. As he wrote in his last<br />
single release, “Heavy,” I keep draggin’ around/What’s bringin’<br />
me down/Why is everything so heavy?<br />
18 Rising ballerina<br />
by Esther Kang <strong>Peninsula</strong> School of Performing Arts<br />
ballerina Lauren Hunter performs on the international stage,<br />
enroute to London’s Royal Ballet School.<br />
22 America’s banker<br />
by Bondo Wyszpolski <strong>Peninsula</strong> writer Vicki Mack<br />
recounts the story of Frank Vanderlip, whom the New York<br />
Times called “the banker who changed America.”<br />
26 Palos Verdes’ first family<br />
by Bondo Wyszpolski Both figuratively and literally the<br />
Vanderlips have been the first family of Palos Verdes since<br />
financier Frank Vanderlip bought 16,000 acres on the peninsula<br />
over 100 years ago.<br />
52<br />
Truxtons Bistro’s family fare<br />
by Richard Foss The newly opened Truxtons Bistro raises<br />
the bar for family restaurants on the <strong>Peninsula</strong>.<br />
HIGHLIGHTS<br />
14 Whiskey and Wine with PV Performing Arts<br />
34 Encore Group luncheon at Villa Narcissa<br />
50 PV Arts at Catalina View Gardens<br />
54 <strong>Peninsula</strong> Family Businesses<br />
56 Palos Verdes Assembly Ball<br />
58 Affinity Volunteers luncheon<br />
60 Music on the Meadows at Terranea Resort<br />
62 Celebrate Wellness at the Botanic Garden<br />
64 Caring House’s Evening of Appreciation<br />
DEPARTMENTS<br />
40 <strong>Peninsula</strong> calendar<br />
48 Around and About<br />
69 Home services<br />
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Music couldn’t save<br />
Bennington<br />
Chester Bennington wrote music to ‘numb’ his<br />
personal demons. It wasn’t enough.<br />
by Kevin Cody<br />
In March 2016, Chester Bennington told <strong>Peninsula</strong> parents who filled the Norris<br />
Theater, “The schools here are so great because the parents are so involved in<br />
their kids’ lives.”<br />
Bennington’s praise came during a break in the music at the From Classic to Rock<br />
concert, organized by Marten Andersson, of the band Lizzy Borden. The concert<br />
raised over $50,000 for <strong>Peninsula</strong> school music programs. Bennington and his wife<br />
Talinda had several children in <strong>Peninsula</strong> schools.<br />
Bennington’s band Linkin Park had won multiple Grammys. Their 2001, breakthrough<br />
album “Hybrid Theory” sold over 10 million copies. During From Classic<br />
to Rock, Bennington and Andersson performed with fellow South Bay music stars<br />
Stone Temple Pilots, Gary Wright (“Dream Weaver”) , Chas West (Bonham and Foreigner),<br />
Monte Pittman (Madonna), LA Philharmonic violinist Yutong and Long<br />
Beach Symphony cellist Stan Sharp<br />
The evening closed with the musicians singing Bob Dylan’s elegiac “Knockin’ on<br />
Heaven’s Door.” The <strong>Peninsula</strong> High School choir sang backup.<br />
On Thursday, June 20, while his family was vacationing in Arizona, Bennington<br />
was found dead in his Palos Verdes Estates home, of an apparent suicide. He was<br />
41.<br />
Bennington struggled with mental demons throughout his life. He traced them to<br />
having been sexually abused in his youth.<br />
“I have been able to tap into all the negative things that can happen to me by<br />
numbing myself to the pain, so to speak, and kind of being able to vent it through<br />
my music,” he said in a 2009 interview with the website Noisecreep.<br />
That year he declared himself free of drugs. But if his music offers any insight, he<br />
was not free of his demons. His last single “Heavy,” released in February, includes<br />
the lyrics:<br />
You say that I’m paranoid<br />
But I’m pretty sure the world is out to get me<br />
It’s not like I make the choice<br />
To let my mind stay so f….ing messy<br />
Following his death, Palos Verdes <strong>Peninsula</strong> Unified Superintendent Don Austin<br />
told the Daily Breeze, “All day I’ve been receiving calls and texts from people expressing<br />
their sadness for the loss of someone whom, anyone who knows him,<br />
would describe as a great guy, and our interactions together were the same. It was<br />
very clear that being a dad was more important to him than anything else. Our<br />
thoughts are with his family.” PEN<br />
2016 From Classic to Rock performers<br />
and organizers (left to right) Bennington,<br />
Stone Temple Pilots’ Dean DeLeo, musician<br />
and composer Gary Wright,<br />
Schools Superintendent Donald Austin,<br />
Ed Foundation Development Director<br />
Cheryl Ward, Ed Foundation Board<br />
President Roma Mistry, PTSA Council<br />
President Beth Myerhoff, School Board<br />
member Malcolm Sharp, Stone Temple<br />
Pilots’ Robert DeLeo, Lizzy Borden’s<br />
Marten Andersson, PYT singer Lauren<br />
Mayhew and event co-producer Amy<br />
Friedman. Photo by Cynthia Halverson<br />
(CynthiaHalverson.com)<br />
Chester Bennington performing with Stone Temple Pilots at the 2016<br />
From Classic to Rock concert at the Norris Theater. Photo by Cynthia<br />
Halverson (CynthiaHalverson.com)<br />
10 <strong>Peninsula</strong> • <strong>Aug</strong>ust <strong>2017</strong>
S P O T L I G H T O N T H E H I L L<br />
Performing Arts Conservatory<br />
A Night to Celebrate Whiskey and Wine<br />
Peanie and Alex Wang hosted Whiskey, Wine and Dads on June 16 in<br />
the courtyard of their Tuscan style estate. This was the first<br />
fundraiser organized by Backstage, the new leadership team of parents<br />
for the Palos Verdes Performing Arts Conservatory (PVAC). More than<br />
60 guests were in attendance to support dance performances and plays<br />
while immersing themselves in the nuances of whiskey through J.P.<br />
Cordero, the spirits sommelier, who served up rare, high-end whiskeys.<br />
The spread of delectables was prepared by Jean Cordero of Entertaining<br />
Friends Catering and included lobster bisque, beef and seafood sliders,<br />
salads, pasta bar and individual desserts. For more information visit<br />
PalosVerdesPerformingArts.com.<br />
1. Peanie and Alex Wang.<br />
PHOTOS BY STEPHANIE CARTOZIAN<br />
2. Justine Roe Lee, Peanie Wang,<br />
Marta Rhodes, Tanya Mann, Cindy<br />
Boger and Maki Bara.<br />
3. Tanya and Paul Mann and Dave<br />
and Cindy Boger.<br />
4. Alex Wang, Marc Saalberg, Paul<br />
Mann, Michael Warner, David Boger<br />
and Hank Parker.<br />
5. Chris Gilbert, Maki Bara and<br />
J.P. Cordero.<br />
6. Maura Mizuguchi, Amy Firmani,<br />
Allison Holcher and Joanne Saalberg.<br />
7. Marta Rhodes, Cindy Boger, Kimberly<br />
Wood, Deborah North, Justine<br />
Roe Lee Azadeh Khatibi, Lisa Berry<br />
and Lynn Collins.<br />
8. Dessert and drink.<br />
9. Carrie Yamato, Devyn Park and Kathleen Warner.<br />
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<strong>Peninsula</strong> School of Performing Arts dancer Lauren Hunter competing at Prix de Lausanne International Ballet Competition in Switzerland this past February.<br />
Photos by Gregory Bartardon<br />
15-year-old Lauren Hunter earns a place on the international ballet stage<br />
by Esther Kang<br />
Fifteen-year-old ballerina Lauren Hunter walks, talks and dances with<br />
a poise beyond her years. Her journey as a ballerina began at the<br />
<strong>Peninsula</strong> School of Performing Arts only three years ago, but Hunter<br />
has already ascended to some of the most prestigious stages in the world.<br />
This past February, she was one of six Americans selected to compete at<br />
Prix de Lausanne International Ballet Competition in Switzerland. As the<br />
youngest contestant, she placed fifth and took home the coveted prize -- a<br />
full tuition scholarship to Royal Ballet School in London for a three-year<br />
course beginning this fall.<br />
Upon returning home, Hunter has continued her streak. In May, she won<br />
the Spotlight Awards for Classical Dance at the Los Angeles Music Center,<br />
earning a $5,000 scholarship and a performance at the Walt Disney Concert<br />
Hall. She then traveled to New York to compete in the Youth America<br />
Grand Prix finals, placing third and earning a bronze medal in the senior<br />
women’s level.<br />
Hunter was born outside Seoul, South Korea, to an American father and<br />
Korean mother. The family moved to Texas when she was 2. The intuition<br />
of her mother prompted Hunter to begin taking dance classes at age 6, splitting<br />
her time between jazz and ballet. She says the main incentive for dancing<br />
was fun and exercise in these early years.<br />
“Everyone always says, ‘Oh I’ve been in love with ballet since I was 2<br />
years old’ … not me,” she said, laughing. “I didn’t like it that much at all.<br />
The older I got, the more I understood it. When I was younger, I was like,<br />
‘I’m just in pain! Why am I doing this?’"<br />
At age 10, she and her family moved to Palos Verdes.<br />
As she got older, Hunter found herself appreciating ballet over other styles<br />
of dancing. At 13, she began private instruction with Marina and Alex Kalinina<br />
at the <strong>Peninsula</strong> School of Performing Arts, as well as with teachers<br />
Roberto Almaguer and Vera Ninkovic. Under their mentorship, Hunter<br />
began to understand ballet as an art form beyond the visceral technicalities<br />
of dance.<br />
“I’ve always liked to draw and paint,” she said. “And I realized I can draw<br />
and paint while dancing on stage.”<br />
Upon entering Palos Verdes High School, Hunter was faced with a decision<br />
between joining a team or continue dancing ballet. She followed her<br />
intuition and decided to continue dedicating her energy to pursuing dance.<br />
Hunter described this period as a very difficult time; she struggled to balance<br />
school with pursuing a professional career in ballet. She traveled to<br />
New York, Salt Lake City and Orlando, Florida, placing in each of these<br />
competitions.<br />
“What’s cool about ballet is that you’re an actress as well as a dancer,”<br />
Hunter said. “One part of artistry is being able to show different emotions<br />
— sadness, anger, happiness — in one ballet. You have to be able to do that<br />
18 <strong>Peninsula</strong> • <strong>Aug</strong>ust <strong>2017</strong>
and connect with the audience, but<br />
there’s also artistry in how we<br />
move.”<br />
In the spring of that year, just a<br />
year into private training, 14-yearold<br />
Hunter landed her first lead<br />
role in a show when a Royal Ballet<br />
dancer, due to visa issues, was unable<br />
to perform the role of Aurora<br />
in the <strong>Peninsula</strong> School of Performing<br />
Arts production of Sleeping<br />
Beauty.<br />
“It was really new to do that big<br />
of a role,” she said. “It was a big<br />
step for me. After every performance<br />
you grow, and when you<br />
come back in the studio, you’re<br />
like, ‘Wow, I can do this so much<br />
better than I used to,’” she said.<br />
“It’s a big opportunity and experience<br />
every time you’re on stage.”<br />
Homeschooling, which she<br />
began last year, has freed Hunter<br />
to pursue her passion. On a typical<br />
day, she spends at least five hours<br />
practicing her craft. She begins her<br />
morning with homeschool, followed<br />
by an hour and a half of private<br />
instruction with her current<br />
mentor Alla Khaniashvili. That’s<br />
followed by stretch class, pilates or<br />
swimming, then a conservatory<br />
class at Marat Daukayev School of<br />
Ballet in LA, near Marina Del Rey,<br />
where her family now lives. After<br />
that, she attends another class at<br />
the <strong>Peninsula</strong> School of Performing<br />
Arts.<br />
The international recognition<br />
Hunter has garnered has not<br />
slowed her down. Her fierce work<br />
ethic, paired with natural ability,<br />
makes her insatiable as a young<br />
artist pursuing perfection.<br />
“There’s always something for<br />
me to work on,” she said. “Some<br />
people plateau or think they’ve<br />
achieved the best they can. That’s<br />
when it gets boring. But it could<br />
never get boring really if you think<br />
about it. You can always be cleaner<br />
when you’re dancing, or jump<br />
higher. There should be no opportunity<br />
to get bored.”<br />
Earlier this month, Hunter spent<br />
two weeks participating in an intensive<br />
program at the Royal Ballet<br />
School in London, where she will<br />
return as a student this fall. She<br />
hopes to take the stage as the Royal<br />
Ballet’s prima dancer in the near<br />
future.<br />
“There’s so many other schools I<br />
can try to put my mind to,” Hunter<br />
said. “But the Royal Ballet is my<br />
dream company, so this school is<br />
the best way to lead into that.” PEN<br />
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Spirit of the <strong>Peninsula</strong><br />
<strong>Peninsula</strong> founder Frank Vanderlip<br />
lived in Vicki Mack’s downstairs office,<br />
and very likely he’s still there<br />
Photo of Vicki Mack by Bondo Wyszpolski. Inset: Frank and Narcissa Vanderlip. Photo courtesy of Vicki Mack<br />
by Bondo Wyszpolski<br />
Vicki Mack has put so much heart and soul into her book about Frank<br />
Arthur Vanderlip that her husband thought she was going to leave<br />
him for Vanderlip, despite the fact the patriarch of the <strong>Peninsula</strong> died<br />
in 1937.<br />
The couple had lived in The Cottage, which was built in 1916 and was<br />
originally part of the vast Vanderlip Estate.<br />
Vicki is a noted author and photographer (her resume includes photo<br />
shoots with six U.S. presidents, among countless celebrities) who lives in<br />
Palos Verdes Estates. She had never intended to write about the elder Vanderlip<br />
until one day at a luncheon she met Don Christy, the stepson of Vanderlip’s<br />
brother John.<br />
At the luncheon, which took place at The Cottage and had as its agenda<br />
the Palos Verdes Historical Homes Tour, she overheard someone say to Don<br />
that he should write a book since he knew so much local history. He replied,<br />
“I always wanted to, but I don’t know how.” Perhaps emboldened by her<br />
second glass of wine, Vicki interjected, “Well, you know, I could help you<br />
with that.” The result was a book they co-authored called “Up Around the<br />
Bend.”<br />
Later, Don told Vicki, “You need to write a book on Frank Vanderlip.” (In<br />
1913, Frank Vanderlip, a New York banker at the time, purchased the entire<br />
Palos Verdes <strong>Peninsula</strong>, 16,000 acres, and naturally had big plans for it, although<br />
very few of them were ever realized on account of the 1929 financial<br />
crisis.)<br />
Vicki replied that writing a book about Frank Vanderlip was the family’s<br />
job, not hers, but Don told her that no one was doing it. “So that’s when he<br />
gave me his copy of the autobiography,” Vicki says. “As I read his book, I<br />
started getting a sense of who he was.” She hadn’t known he had helped<br />
found the Federal Reserve and had consorted with prominent public figures<br />
in New York and Washington, D.C.<br />
Narcissa Vanderlip, Frank Vanderlip’s granddaughter, asked Vicki how<br />
long she thought the writing would take. “I said, ‘Oh, probably three<br />
months.’ And she goes, ‘Vicki, there’s no way you can write a book on Frank<br />
in three months.’”<br />
Narcissa was right. “Nine months later I finished the first round, and<br />
Kelvin (the elder Vanderlip’s grandson) said, ‘You know, Vicki, this is only<br />
your first edition.’ And I said, Naaaah, this is it. And he said, ‘No, you’re<br />
going to learn so much more after it gets published.’”<br />
Kelvin was right. The book, “Frank A. Vanderlip: The Banker Who<br />
Changed America,” was published in 2013, but Vicki has indeed discovered<br />
new material since, and is seriously thinking of another edition. “What I’d<br />
like to do this time is a little more scholarly because I have so much more<br />
information now, particularly on the founding of the Federal Reserve. I<br />
think I’ve put some things together in ways that other people haven’t because<br />
of the background knowledge I have on Frank.” This would include<br />
financing related to World War I and Japanese immigration in the 1920s.<br />
“He was quite strong on the fact that he didn’t like the way the Japanese<br />
people were being treated.”<br />
Vicki Mack can entertain you for hours about Frank Vanderlip, whom<br />
she began calling “Frank” because Vanderlip had complained that no one<br />
ever used his first name but always addressed him as “Mr. Vanderlip” or<br />
“Mr. Van.” This led to an amusing incident.<br />
Each morning at 9 a.m. Vicki would head downstairs to her office to work<br />
on the manuscript. Her husband David would ask her where she was going.<br />
“I’d reply, ‘Well, we’re off to the Spanish American War,’ or, ‘We’re dealing<br />
with his time in Washington, or whatever.’”<br />
One day, as she’d picked up her coffee cup and was headed to her office,<br />
she told him, “I’m off to bury Frank.”<br />
“And he said, ‘I knew it! I knew it was going to happen!’ And I said, ‘Well,<br />
you know I’ve come to the end; it’s going to happen sometime.’”<br />
“He thought what I’d said was, ‘I’m off to marry Frank.’”<br />
She then adds, “To me he’s just Frank, and I joked that he lives in my office.<br />
He died in 1937 but he’s really alive and well in my office.<br />
“So that’s kind of how it all came to be.”<br />
Now, in the works is a documentary about Frank Vanderlip that was first<br />
shown at the Norris Theatre in Rolling Hills Estates in 2015 but is being reedited.<br />
“We need to do some different things to get it sold for TV,” she adds.<br />
Vicki Mack was adamant in noting that “none of this would have happened<br />
if it weren’t for Don Christy.” Husband David was supportive throughout<br />
the process, but Don pushed her until it was completed.<br />
Frank A. Vanderlip: The Banker Who Changed America, by Vicki<br />
A. Mack, is available from Pinale Press, P.O. Box 293, Palos Verdes Estates, CA<br />
90274. More information is at vickimack.com. PEN<br />
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Narcissa Vanderlip (Frank Vanderlip’s granddaughter) and her<br />
husband Parmer Fuller in the living room of Villa Narcissa. They<br />
are the co-founders of the ETC Theatre Company.<br />
Photo by David Fairchild<br />
26 <strong>Peninsula</strong> • <strong>Aug</strong>ust <strong>2017</strong>
FRANK ARTHUR VANDERLIP<br />
Through the ages with the <strong>Peninsula</strong>’s “First Family”<br />
by Bondo Wyszpolski<br />
Photo by David Fairchild<br />
In the beginning was<br />
Reached only by a narrow and winding tree-lined country road, Villa<br />
Narcissa sits high above the Portuguese Bend Club and Wayfarers<br />
Chapel. If we stand on the home’s quiet terrace and face west, we<br />
can pretty much say this is where it all started, this is the story that became<br />
Palos Verdes.<br />
Just over 100 years ago, Frank Arthur Vanderlip, then president of National<br />
City Bank of New York, brought his family from the East Coast to<br />
see the 16,000 acres he’d purchased. Vanderlip had bought the entire Palos<br />
Verdes peninsula, sight unseen, for about $1.5 million.<br />
The “internationally known financier,” as the New York Times would<br />
write in his obituary, had a grand vision for Palos Verdes. Imagine several<br />
estates the size and grandeur of the Getty Villa or the Huntington Library,<br />
all perched above the cliffs, as spacious and expansive as Italian seaside villas.<br />
That could have happened, and the beginnings of it indeed did. But history,<br />
that mishmash of zig-zags and cul-de-sacs, intervened in the form of<br />
the 1929 stock market crash and the Great Depression that trailed in its<br />
wake. Details about this can be gleaned from Vicki Mack’s exhaustively researched<br />
2013 biography, “Frank A. Vanderlip: The Banker Who Changed<br />
America.”<br />
Bit by bit, parcels of land were peeled away. Today, the Vanderlip estate,<br />
that which remains in the family, is just over 11.5 acres. And although Villa<br />
Narcissa (named in honor of Vanderlip’s wife) is an impressive and solidly<br />
built home, one must keep in mind that it was never conceived as the chief<br />
residence, but rather as a guest house, originally referred to as the Italian<br />
Renaissance Villetta. So where is or was the main domicile?<br />
In 1924, Vanderlip commissioned landscape architect Frederick Law Olmstead,<br />
Jr., whose father designed New York’s Central Park, to draw up plans<br />
for a villa (to be called Villa Palos Verdes), based on the 16th century Villa<br />
Papa Giulia in Rome. “It was to be large enough,” Mack writes, “to rival<br />
San Simeon, the northern California hilltop mansion of William Randolph<br />
Hearst.” The villa, she adds, “was to be a regal Italian estate. There would<br />
be groves of fruit trees and formal gardens, a magnificent arched loggia,<br />
enough rooms for even an explorer to get lost in, and every comfort one<br />
could ask for.”<br />
The market crash put an end to that plan, although years after after Vanderlip<br />
died in 1937 building material, columns, stones, roof tiles, remained<br />
on the property.<br />
Second generation<br />
Frank Vanderlip had six children. Kelvin, one of the sons, took possession<br />
of the estate and improved what remained of the property. However, Frank<br />
Vanderlip’s true descendent wasn’t a blood relative, but rather a person just<br />
as savvy and hardworking as he had been. This person was Elin Brekke, a<br />
Norwegian Kelvin married in 1946.<br />
Again, in a story filled with what-ifs and could-have-beens, Kelvin died<br />
young, in 1956 at the age of 44 (he’d been born the day the Titanic sank,<br />
April 15, 1912). What Vicki Mack wrote about formal gardens and enough<br />
rooms to get lost in, while never to be realized by way of Villa Palos Verdes,<br />
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A hilltop view down the grand cypress allee from the Temple to the front door of Villa Narcissa. Photo by Bondo Wyszpolski.<br />
were carried out as if to the letter by Elin Vanderlip over the half-century<br />
that she ruled the roost, no exaggeration, and elevated Villa Narcissa into<br />
something truly grand.<br />
The marriage had yielded four children, Kelvin, Jr., Narcissa, Katrina and<br />
Henrik, all of them born between 1947 and 1952, and thus still very young<br />
in 1956. Within two years their coming of age in such a pristine environment<br />
was interrupted in yet another way.<br />
“When my husband died, I took my whole family and the help to Switzerland,”<br />
Elin Vanderlip told me in 1997. “Other people would hang around<br />
and moan and put everybody in public school. Not me.” As her eldest<br />
daughter Narcissa wrote in the eulogy she delivered for her mother, who<br />
passed away in 2009 at the age of 90, “For us she became, as she said, our<br />
‘mother and father,’ setting off for Switzerland to find us top schools, learning<br />
French, and making a life for us over there.”<br />
That was the end of one phase in the children’s lives, and of course the<br />
beginning of another. Henrik and Katrina, forever “the twins,” were just six<br />
at the time, with Kelvin and Narcissa not much older.<br />
The hiatus lasted eight years, beginning in 1958, with the family returning<br />
to the Villa for good in 1966. Much had changed. As Kelvin Jr. recalls in a<br />
recent email, “The Villetta had become the Villa Narcissa, the Casetta (“a<br />
three-bay garage with two apartments above to house workers and mechanics,”<br />
Mack writes) had been sold, and the Cottage (a prefab structure, although<br />
nonetheless one with style, where the family was first installed) was<br />
no longer a shared family home. Portuguese Bend had grown from a dozen<br />
houses to about 50, the Palos Verdes landslide was in full descent, Abalone<br />
Cove went from a small private club to a county beach, and the Hill was<br />
growing roads and new homes.”<br />
Frank Vanderlip had built a duck pond below the Cottage, and the<br />
grounds housed an aviary large enough to contain over 100 varieties of birds<br />
(including, ahem, peacocks that later ran wild), but I’m not sure how developed<br />
the acreage was with regard to vegetation. There was the grand cypress<br />
allee that still descends at least 250 steps from a “temple” with Doric<br />
columns, virtually to the front door of Villa Narcissa (at one point, it is said,<br />
continuing down to Narcissa Drive). What I do know is that, whatever landscaping<br />
was there before her, Elin Vanderlip added to it immeasurably, and<br />
would do so up until the very last years of her life.<br />
“My accomplishments are my gardens,” she told me. “I’m very proud of<br />
that because twice it was totally burnt.” When the film producer Lee Katz<br />
was in Italy filming “Man of La Mancha,” Elin Vanderlip “toured every Italian<br />
garden I could get into. When I came back I planted nothing but olives<br />
and cypresses and got Italian terracotta sculptures.”<br />
(Lee Katz, described as her “eternal fiancé,” was sometimes referred to<br />
by Elin Vanderlip as “my companion of 30 years” or simply as “Mr. Katz,”<br />
which always made me think of “The King of Cats,” which is what the<br />
painter Balthus called himself.)<br />
A landscape in bloom<br />
“The Villa Narcissa gardens were my mother’s passion,” Katrina says<br />
today, “and although I remember hating planting annuals for her when I<br />
was a teenager, she took me to every garden we could find in Italy, in<br />
France, and wherever else we went, so her passion for gardens has become<br />
mine as well.”<br />
Elin Vanderlip was an imposing woman, at times “difficult, demanding<br />
and challenging” as Narcissa put it in her eulogy. So I was astonished then,<br />
as I remain today, that one topic that at least momentarily brought us closer<br />
was the godfather of punk rock, Iggy Pop, who’d himself scaled the cypress<br />
allee and also, barechested and seated upon one of the railway ties that<br />
serves as a stair, was filmed strumming a guitar and singing “Candy.” Elin<br />
Vanderlip relished telling me this curious vignette, all the more surprising<br />
in retrospect since this was the same woman who, in the latter 1960s, had<br />
founded Club Bagatelle, a gathering place for well-mannered teens that existed<br />
for maybe two years at the Golden Cove shopping center. If it didn’t<br />
exactly take off, just remember that this was the era of The Byrds, Buffalo<br />
Springfield, and The Doors. Well-mannered teens were on the wane.<br />
Iggy Pop wasn’t the only celebrity to be filmed or photographed against<br />
the backdrop of the grand allee or the gardens. There were shoots for<br />
“Vogue” and Elizabeth Arden and many others. But although most of the<br />
growing up and the living took place indoors, “A garden connected to a<br />
house can be a second home more real to its inhabitants,” in the words of<br />
Robert Harbison, author of “Eccentric Spaces.” “We need these two homes,<br />
a green one and a brown one, a grown one and a built one, two worlds in<br />
tension.”<br />
My mother had a childhood friend who owned a house near a lake in the<br />
woods, a few miles from Paris, where the three of us spent an afternoon.<br />
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The woman, rather stout with a<br />
manly voice, reminded me of<br />
Rodin’s statue of Balzac, a figure<br />
with gravitas, wrapped in a cloak.<br />
But what intrigued me then, and intrigues<br />
me still over 30 years later,<br />
was that I never was sure where her<br />
garden ended and where the inside<br />
of the house began. There was an intertidal<br />
zone, if you will, comprised<br />
of flora, fauna, and furniture. Before<br />
we step inside Villa Narcissa itself,<br />
let’s recall a passage from Henry<br />
Miller’s “The Air-Conditioned Nightmare.”<br />
Miller wrote that “to speak in<br />
architectural language of a house<br />
which is as organically alive, sensuous,<br />
and mellow as a giant tree is to<br />
kill its charm.”<br />
Which is to say that thanks to Elin<br />
Vanderlip’s penchant for growing<br />
more rooms, the way one of her trees<br />
grows another branch, we cannot or should not write about the home in<br />
conventional terms of square feet and number of bedrooms and baths. And<br />
that, let me say, is a woman after my own heart. The house, staid and sturdy<br />
in some parts, survives as a living ancestor. Perhaps Bernard Rudofsky says<br />
it better: “I believe that in the arts and in architecture, the sensual pleasure<br />
should come before the intellectual ones.”<br />
Do I hear any naysayers? I thought not.<br />
Books, and lost love letters<br />
The throughline with all this, in case you’re wondering, is the family’s<br />
abiding passion for the arts (it extends to the youngest or “fourth generation”),<br />
beginning with Frank Vanderlip’s fondness for education (he founded<br />
a school on the East Coast) and his<br />
love for books. Elin Vanderlip, herself,<br />
was a voracious reader and<br />
much of her personal library, and<br />
that of her father-in-law’s, remains<br />
intact.<br />
On the first floor of Villa Narcissa<br />
is a library, the kind with built-in<br />
shelves, all of them neatly lined with<br />
old, elegant books, the likes of which<br />
are hard to come by, except perhaps<br />
at an estate sale where the family has<br />
run out of steam after 37 generations.<br />
I’m reminded of a sentence in Gert<br />
Hofmann’s “Lichtenberg and the Little<br />
Flower Girl” that says “There was<br />
a smell in the library of book dust<br />
and erudition.” Book dust, I don’t<br />
know, but all venerable libraries<br />
The library with rare books from the collection of the patriarch, Frank A. have that scent of learning and erudition.<br />
One of the key volumes, and<br />
Vanderlip. Photo by David Fairchild.<br />
Narcissa takes it from the shelf, is a<br />
well-thumbed, complete works of Shakespeare, which, she says, “I like to<br />
think is the one my grandfather carried in his overalls as a teenager trudging<br />
the six miles to work in the tool shop every day. And that helped him get<br />
into the University of Chicago.” After all, and one can read about this in<br />
Vicki Mack’s biography, Frank Vanderlip really does stand out as an example<br />
of someone who pulled himself up by his bootstraps.<br />
On the other side of the house, and it’s quite a stroll, actually, is a dark<br />
passageway, nearly a tunnel, that is lined with books, at the end of which<br />
one turns left, then right, before entering yet another large room, one wall<br />
of which is overflowing with books on gardening and architecture. There’s<br />
that sense of having entered a treasure vault.<br />
However, it’s the older part of the Villa, before these various wings and<br />
maze-like hallways were added, that retains the charm and character of the<br />
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estate’s glorious past. I’m referring<br />
to the living room and a dining<br />
room that seem to have been in suspended<br />
animation, for decades. This<br />
is the part of the residence where<br />
one is reminded most of Frank Vanderlip’s<br />
legacy. The furnishings are<br />
splendid, tasteful, the colors mostly<br />
somber but soothing, and the walls<br />
graced with portraits of family<br />
members long since or recently deceased.<br />
“I love the living room in the old<br />
part of the house,” says Eric deCarbonnel,<br />
the son of Katrina Vanderlip,<br />
who spent three years there as<br />
a boy, “especially the rug and sofas.”<br />
But also, he adds, casting a vote on<br />
both sides of the equation, “I love<br />
the new kitchen/dining room in the<br />
new part of the house with its bright<br />
colors and unique design.” As mentioned,<br />
the house is a living thing, and perhaps still growing.<br />
The upstairs rooms are also joined by a warren of passageways. Narcissa<br />
leads us into and through each chamber, describing which sibling or relative<br />
had which room. Kelvin’s seems to have been the least appealing, with just<br />
one window, fronting the hill, whereas “My bedroom was the best in the<br />
house,” Katrina claims. “It is the only one with two windows with views of<br />
the ocean and one overlooking the fish pond garden.” It’s hard to disagree.<br />
But it’s not only that. “The walls of the Villa are thick and literally full of<br />
history,” she continues. “There are inside wood shutters, and behind the<br />
shutters are storage closets with three shelves each, and also built-in storage<br />
chests under the windows. The ones in the living room held memories: old<br />
rolled-up plans, Daddy’s collection of records, glass slides of 3-D pictures,<br />
Japanese lacquer tea sets (her grandfather<br />
visited Japan in 1920), games,<br />
and silver wrapped in felt.<br />
“The window closets in my old<br />
room were forgotten by all,” Katrina<br />
adds, “and I could even leave love letters<br />
there undisturbed. I found some<br />
two years ago, nearly 50 years later!”<br />
It was after I’d half-joked to Narcissa<br />
that there could well be undiscovered<br />
rooms in the house that she<br />
led me to the basement, not something<br />
one routinely finds in California<br />
homes, although they are plentiful in<br />
the Northeast, and so the idea of including<br />
one here must not have<br />
struck Frank Vanderlip as being the<br />
least bit odd.<br />
The one at Villa Narcissa is not vast<br />
The elegant dining room of Villa Narcissa. Blue was Elin Vanderlip’s favorite but perhaps in decades long gone,<br />
color. Photo by David Fairchild.<br />
when lavish parties were frequently<br />
given, there were many more bottles<br />
of wine. As with most cellars, it eventually became cluttered with odds and<br />
ends, old children’s skis, for example. Narcissa says she’d spent some time<br />
cleaning out an accumulation of rubble.<br />
After the death of Elin Vanderlip, Kelvin and his wife Michele took up<br />
residence in the home. “My wife and I, mainly my wife,” he says, “did quite<br />
a bit of hands-on work restoring the house and its 10 surrounding rental<br />
cottages.”<br />
That may be an understatement. Narcissa calls it a “herculean task that<br />
Kelvin and Michele accomplished over six years,” and points out that they<br />
not only handled major repairs, including plumbing and electrical work,<br />
but also took upon themselves “rehauling the infrastructure of the main<br />
house, organizing, accounting, painting rooms, and property management.”<br />
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Oh, and let’s not forget the 11.5 acres with their cottages and gardens that<br />
were and are always are in need of care and fire abatement work. The surrounding<br />
hills, dry in summer, now belong to the Palos Verdes Land Conservancy.<br />
There are also security cameras above and below the property.<br />
A climb to the top<br />
The rental cottages were added to the property many years ago by Elin<br />
Vanderlip as a means of securing additional income for maintaining the<br />
house and its gardens. One of these was occupied by the writer and actor<br />
Sterling Hayden, a handsome man who was one of Elin’s many suitors.<br />
“There are 10 rentals now,” Narcissa says as we begin the steep climb to<br />
the top of the estate. “There were 13 at one point.” They were built without<br />
permits because, as Narcissa recalls her mother saying, “We were here before<br />
the City; who are they to tell me what to do on my property?”<br />
But after Elin Vanderlip’s death the City intervened with rules and regulations,<br />
and the upshot is that one cottage was demolished and two others<br />
now have different functions. The best of the remaining cottages are, not<br />
surprisingly, ideal for artists of whatever persuasion.<br />
Instead of walking straight up the grand cypress allee, we make our way<br />
along the north side of the estate, where we pass the remnants of a maze,<br />
concentric circles of oleander, that didn’t fare so well during the drought,<br />
and we come to a level rectangular area that Elin Vanderlip dubbed “My<br />
blue heaven,” blue being her favorite color, and which was planted with<br />
rosemary and jacaranda. The drought wasn’t so kind with this area either,<br />
although Katrina has been helping to restore it to its former grandeur.<br />
In one remote area is a tall, leafy circle of pine trees, which Narcissa<br />
likens to a bohemian grove, This is where Narcissa’s daughter Lili was<br />
married this past May to Joe Sofranko, who, like Lili, is involved in film<br />
and theater. Much of their comedy TV mini-series, “Complete Works,” having<br />
to do with actors wanting to excel at performing Shakespeare’s characters,<br />
was filmed on the estate. And, notably, this connects Lili with her<br />
great-grandfather, who would surely have applauded her interest in the<br />
Bard.<br />
Lili says she grew up spending Christmas holidays at Villa Narcissa, and<br />
so to be wedded here, as her aunt Katrina had been, “felt historic in a way,”<br />
she says. “I really felt the sense of time, the generations, and a gratitude<br />
for what my great-grandfather and great-grandmother did, and my grandfather<br />
and my grandmother. It’s truly a special, magical place, and I feel<br />
so lucky to have gotten married there.”<br />
And then there’s that focal point, like a high-backed throne, that looks<br />
down upon the domain.<br />
“I love the fantastic view from the Temple, after climbing the 276 stairs<br />
to the top,” Eric deCarbonnel says. “Need to check that number; it has<br />
been a long time since I counted.”<br />
“Climbing up to the Temple and sitting down to catch my breath and<br />
look at the Pacific is the best therapy for thinking out any problem,” Katrina<br />
says. “When we were little my older sister Narcissa created fairy<br />
worlds up in the hills, tying candies to trees and making me firmly believe<br />
in fairies. She even made me believe they moved to Switzerland with us.”<br />
Like his twin Katrina, Henrik looks back fondly on his youthful days at<br />
the Villa.<br />
“It is so rare in these days of constant mobility to have a childhood home<br />
to return to,” he says. “We are fortunate to still be able to share a family<br />
home with such a rich history. It is wonderful to see the next generation<br />
taking an interest in the house as well.”<br />
Also at the top of the estate is a small amphitheater where plays and<br />
other events have taken place. It’s not large by any stretch of the imagination<br />
despite being outlined by freestanding Roman-style columns, but it<br />
does have an unsurpassed view and serves as a reminder that over the past<br />
60 years the Villa has hosted performances and soirees, and continues to<br />
support the community by being available for various activities. In April,<br />
the Villa hosted a luncheon for Friends of the Palos Verdes Library donors,<br />
and in June for Palos Verdes Performing Arts Center donors. Among others<br />
scheduled is a fundraiser for the small non-profit ETC Theatre Company,<br />
which was co-founded in 2000 by Narcissa and her husband Parmer Fuller.<br />
Narcissa hopes that ETC will present musical and theatrical performances<br />
at the house or in the gardens. Over the years, the company has created<br />
37 shows, garnered five Ovation Award nominations, and received<br />
the Ovation Award for Best Score of a New Musical. That’s not bad, considering<br />
the depth and range of professional theater across Los Angeles.<br />
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As pointed out earlier, the<br />
throughline for the Vanderlips has<br />
been their love for the arts. The<br />
pinnacle of this passion must be<br />
Elin Vanderlip and the Friends of<br />
French Art foundation that she<br />
kept going for over 20 years, resulting<br />
in nearly two dozen group excursions.<br />
Participants donated<br />
$6,000 before embarking on the<br />
adventure, which I’m sure it always<br />
was with Elin Vanderlip at<br />
the helm. The foundation raised<br />
hundreds of thousands of dollars<br />
that went towards restoring objects<br />
of cultural significance in France,<br />
ranging from tapestries and ceiling<br />
paintings to the outer staircase of<br />
the Château de Blois along the<br />
River Loire (which didn’t go unnoticed<br />
in France itself. Vanderlip<br />
was presented with the Commander<br />
of the Order of Arts and<br />
Letters, among other honors).<br />
“I went on five of those Friends<br />
of French Art trips,” Narcissa says,<br />
“and you’d be in these châteaus<br />
that had been in the family for six<br />
generations, or a thousand years.”<br />
Palettes in paradise<br />
“It is pure bliss to paint in the<br />
garden, always finding a different<br />
vista and time of day,” Katrina<br />
says. “We have the very best sunsets<br />
in California, especially when<br />
the Santa Ana blows the dust particles<br />
out to sea.”<br />
All of which brings us to the upcoming<br />
Villa Narcissa Painting<br />
Week, a plein air master workshop,<br />
with oil painter Daniel<br />
Pinkham and watercolorist Katrina<br />
Vanderlip, to be held from <strong>Aug</strong>ust<br />
21 to 26.<br />
Pinkham and his wife, Vicki,<br />
have resided for a good 20 years in<br />
what is known as the Gate House,<br />
situated at the based of Narcissa<br />
Drive, and which was built in<br />
1925. Not only does the Gate<br />
House serve as the home of the<br />
Portuguese Bend Artist Colony and<br />
the non-profit Pinkham Foundation<br />
for the Arts, it remains,<br />
Pinkham says, “a reflection of the<br />
spark in the eye of Frank Vanderlip’s<br />
original vision. All about the<br />
home and studio one can see artifacts,<br />
antiques, and pieces of the<br />
Italian furniture from the Vanderlip<br />
family.”<br />
Regarding the plein air workshop,<br />
he points out, “The surroundings<br />
and spirit of Villa<br />
Narcissa offer artists a rare opportunity<br />
to address their artistic and<br />
aesthetic ideals and principles<br />
while working in an almost retreatlike<br />
Italian atmosphere.”<br />
Katrina trained as an art conservator<br />
at Harvard and in Italy. She’s<br />
also worked retouching paintings at<br />
the Getty, the Louvre, and the<br />
Boston Museum of Fine Arts.<br />
“Plein air watercolor painting has<br />
a huge advantage in that you can<br />
complete the painting in a short period<br />
of time and catch the feeling<br />
and moment,” she says. “Each day<br />
I will teach different techniques of<br />
bleeding or layering colors that you<br />
can use to create effects, such as in<br />
clouds, shrubbery, or the velvety<br />
feel of flower petals. We will set<br />
ourselves up in different areas of<br />
the garden and paint, paint, paint!”<br />
“I can think of no finer location,”<br />
Pinkham adds. “Plein air painting,<br />
like all the arts, helps elevate and<br />
edify life itself. That is why a workshop<br />
like this is so important.”<br />
Little more evidence is needed<br />
that the Vanderlip family, which<br />
was here from the very beginning,<br />
continues to be a presence on the<br />
<strong>Peninsula</strong>. Their story, with its<br />
twists and turns, is still unfolding.<br />
For information on Villa Narcissa<br />
Painting Week email katrinavanderlip@yahoo.com.<br />
PEN<br />
VILLA NARCISSA PAINTING WEEK<br />
Monday, <strong>Aug</strong>ust 21 to Saturday, <strong>Aug</strong>ust 26<br />
Plein air master workshop with Daniel Pinkham (oil painting) and<br />
Katrina Vanderlip (watercolors). Vanderlip will give a tour of the<br />
house and share some of the history throughout the week. To<br />
participate, email three pictures of your paintings. Selected participants<br />
are asked to make a non refundable deposit of $600. The total cost of<br />
the week is $1,200. The fee includes instruction, coffee and tea on arrival,<br />
a gourmet buffet lunch on the terrace and wine with critique at<br />
the end of the day.<br />
For more information email katrinavanderlip@yahoo.com or visit<br />
facebook.com/Painting-at-Villa-Narcissa-1511447065612521/.<br />
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S P O T L I G H T O N T H E H I L L<br />
PHOTOS BY STEPHANIE CARTOZIAN<br />
Villa Narcissa luncheon<br />
Arts Salon<br />
The Villa Narcissa in Portuguese Bend, originally belonging to Frank<br />
Vanderlip, was the venue for the Encore Group’s Benefactor Appreciation<br />
Luncheon. Narcissa Vanderlip, granddaughter of the famed New<br />
York financier who is often referred to as the Father of Palos Verdes, gave<br />
tours of the 100-year-old, Norwegian styled villa and its expansive<br />
grounds. Following the luncheon prepared by Lisa’s Bon-Appetit, the Lunada<br />
Bay author Vicki Mack talked about her biography of Frank Vanderlip<br />
and shared interesting facts about the history of Palos Verdes and its<br />
first family.<br />
1. Narcissa Vanderlip leading the<br />
tour of the Villa’s park-like grounds.<br />
2. The venue at Villa Narcissa.<br />
3. The grand stairs leading up to the<br />
“temple.”<br />
4. Terracotta garden.<br />
5. Ann and David Buxton.<br />
6. Narcissa Vanderlip and Parmer<br />
Fuller.<br />
7. Aaron and Maude Landon.<br />
8. Allen and Dottie Lay.<br />
9. Jim and Nancy Welsh.<br />
10. Parmer Fuller, Abby Douglass<br />
and Bria Biesman-Simons.<br />
11. Maude Landon, Narcissa<br />
Vanderlip and Abby Douglass.<br />
12. Vicki Mack, Art Friedman and<br />
Don Christie.<br />
13. (Standing) Jim Hill and Sue<br />
Andrews.(Seated) Melody and Sal<br />
Intagliata and Larry Andrews.<br />
14. Thea Bower, Dick Moe, Pam<br />
Barrett Hill, Marilyn Klaus and<br />
Alberta Samuelson.<br />
14. Vicki Mack, Art Friedman and<br />
Don Christy.<br />
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CALENDAR OF COMMUNITY EVENTS<br />
Compiled by Teri Marin<br />
You can email your event to our address: penpeople@easyreadernews.com<br />
All submissions must be sent by the 10th of each month prior to event taking place.<br />
Ongoing<br />
Native Plant Nursery Volunteer Days<br />
Monday – Friday, 9am. Enjoy nurturing seedlings and help shrubs grow for<br />
habitat restoration projects. Must RSVP 48 hours in advance. Sign up at<br />
www.pvplc.volunteerhub.com<br />
Rapid Response Team<br />
Fridays and Saturdays, 9 a.m. - 12 p.m. Work alongside Conservancy staff<br />
protecting important wildlife habitat by closing unauthorized trails! Task include<br />
trail maintenance, building fence, installing signage and more! We<br />
work at various locations around the Preserve where work is most needed.<br />
Directions to sites emailed upon sign up. No experience needed. 15 and up.<br />
http://pvplc.volunteerhub.com<br />
Saturday, July 29<br />
Bestselling Author<br />
The Palos Verdes Library District is proud to host New York Times Bestselling<br />
Author Mary Alice Monroe at Malaga Cove Library Garden. Mary will be<br />
promoting the latest in her Beach House series: Beach House for Rent, which<br />
explores the interconnection between two strangers and the natural world<br />
along with the South Carolina seashore on the Isle of Palms. Monroe is an<br />
active conservationist and lives in the Lowcountry of South Carolina. 2-4 p.m.<br />
2400 Via Campesina, Palos Verdes Estates. www.pvld.org.<br />
Friday, <strong>Aug</strong>ust 4<br />
The Seaside Beaders<br />
A special interest group of the Embroiderers' Guild of America meets at 9:30<br />
a.m. This meeting continues teaching a peyote stitched miniature teapot. Visitors<br />
are welcome. You can always bring your own project to work on. St.<br />
Francis Episcopal Church, 2200 Via Rosa, Palos Verdes Estates. For more information,<br />
please call Idele (310)540-6104 or visit the web page:<br />
www.azureverdeega.com/bead_ projects.com.<br />
Saturday and Sunday, <strong>Aug</strong>ust 5 and 6<br />
Bromeliad Show and Sale<br />
South Bay Bromeliad Associates show and sale. Free admission and parking.<br />
This is a judged show and all Bromeliad growers are welcome to enter. The<br />
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Saturday, <strong>Aug</strong>ust 5<br />
First Saturday Family Hike<br />
Palos Verdes <strong>Peninsula</strong> Land Conservancy First Saturday Family Hike at<br />
George F Canyon, 9 a.m. Bring your family and join a naturalist guide to discover<br />
habitat, wildlife and more on an easy hike up the canyon with amazing<br />
views of the city. Free. All ages welcome. 27305 Palos Verdes Dr. East, Rolling<br />
Hills Estates. For more information, contact (310) 547-0862 or RSVP<br />
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Outdoor Volunteer Day<br />
At Portuguese Bend Reserve, 9 a.m. – noon. Help restore important wildlife<br />
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Sunday, <strong>Aug</strong>ust 6<br />
Full Moon Hike<br />
At George F Canyon, 27305 Palos Verdes Dr. East, Rolling Hills Estates,with<br />
the Palos Verdes <strong>Peninsula</strong> Land Conservancy. Explore nocturnal sights with<br />
an expert naturalist under a full moon at the George F Canyon Nature Preserve.<br />
Must be age 9 and up. $12 per person. Reservations required at<br />
www.pvplc.org, Events & Activities.<br />
Thursday, <strong>Aug</strong>ust 10<br />
Needle Artists by the Sea<br />
Chapter of the American Needlepoint Guild will hold its monthly meeting at<br />
10 a.m. Create small, round animal/pet ornaments. Ports O’Call Restaurant,<br />
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Saturday, <strong>Aug</strong>ust 12<br />
Los Serenos tour<br />
Enjoy a guided hike lead by the Los Serenos docents along the Vicente Bluff<br />
Reserve and the Point Vicente Lighthouse, at 10 a.m. Tour the Point Vicente Interpretive<br />
Center museum, the native plant garden, and walk along the spectacular<br />
bluff top at the Vicente Bluff Reserve. There will also be a guided tour<br />
of the Point Vicente Lighthouse hosted by the Coast Guard Auxiliary. The hike<br />
is free and the public is welcome! The hiking difficulty is easy. Parking and<br />
meet up will be at the Point Vicente Interpretive Center. Hike will be canceled<br />
if there is rain. 31501 Palos Verdes Dr. W, Rancho Palos Verdes. For more information,<br />
please call (310) 377-5370 or visit our website at<br />
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Trail Crew Training<br />
Palos Verdes <strong>Peninsula</strong> Land Conservancy, 9 a.m. – noon. Join this indoor<br />
intro class to learn more about how to help improve <strong>Peninsula</strong> trails while enjoying<br />
nature and getting a healthy workout! Must be 18 years or older. Training,<br />
tools and work shirt provided.PVP Land Conservancy Office, 916 Silver<br />
Spur Road, Rolling Hills Estates. RSVP: www.pvplc.volunteerhub.com.<br />
Guided Nature Walk<br />
By Palos Verdes <strong>Peninsula</strong> Land Conservancy at George F Canyon, 9 a.m.<br />
Wander along a willow-filled canyon stream with coastal sage scrub restored<br />
habitat. Look down on the <strong>Peninsula</strong>’s rare Catalina Schist from one of the few<br />
places you can see the rock exposed. An easy to moderate walk. Free and<br />
open to the public. For more information, contact (310) 541-7613 ext. 201<br />
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Outdoor Volunteer Day<br />
At White Point Nature Preserve, 1600 Paseo Del Mar, San Pedro, 9 a.m. –<br />
noon. Help beautify the native demonstration garden and surrounding habitat.<br />
Sign up at www.pvplc.volunteerhub.com.<br />
Stories, Songs and More for All<br />
At the White Point Nature Education Center, 10 a.m. Share the joy of storytelling<br />
with your children and introduce them to the beauty of the natural surroundings.<br />
Your family will enjoy spending time with retired Children’s<br />
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Sunday, <strong>Aug</strong>ust 16<br />
Seaside Concert with<br />
Webster’s Big Band<br />
Free family-friendly concert hosted<br />
by the Neighborhood Church featuring<br />
local favorite swing and jazz<br />
specialists, Webster’s Big Band!<br />
They bring nostalgic sounds from big<br />
band music, to swing, rock and roll<br />
and more! Led by Bill Webster, longtime<br />
Palos Verdes resident, they have<br />
been performing in the South Bay<br />
and beyond for over 30 years! BYO<br />
picnic begins at 6 p.m., concert at 7<br />
p.m. No tickets or reservations required,<br />
seating is provided. 415<br />
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Birding with Wild Birds<br />
Unlimited<br />
At White Point Nature Preserve,<br />
8:30 a.m. Explore the birds making<br />
a home in the restored habitat at this<br />
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eautiful preserve. Binoculars supplied for beginners. The program is free. All<br />
ages welcome. White Point Nature Preserve is located at 1600 W. Paseo del<br />
Mar in San Pedro. RSVP at: www.pvplc.org, Events & Activities.<br />
Saturday, <strong>Aug</strong>ust 19<br />
Banning Birthday Concert<br />
Friends of Banning Museum will celebrate the birthday of the “Father of the<br />
Los Angeles Port” Phineas Banning with a special evening of music and dancing<br />
with JB and the Big Circle Riders. 5 - 8 p.m. General admission guests<br />
bring their own dinner and beverage, blanket/low chair and enjoy the concert,<br />
line dance instruction and dancing on the front lawn of the mansion: $10<br />
general admission, free for Friends of Banning Museum members and children<br />
11 and under. In the spirit of the Rancho-period of the Banning property, in<br />
addition to the Western-themed evening of music and dancing VIP guests will<br />
be treated to a good old fashioned barbecue buffet by The Outdoor Grill complete<br />
with birthday cupcake, reserved seating and gated parking: VIP -$45.<br />
Country Western attire is admired but not required. Guests are welcome to<br />
bring their own wine or beverage. Reservations required for all guests. 401<br />
East “M” Street, Wilmington. For more information or to reserve your ticket,<br />
call 310-548-2005.<br />
Outdoor Volunteer Day<br />
At Alta Vicente Reserve, 30940 Hawthorne Blvd., Rancho Palos Verdes, 9<br />
a.m. – noon. Help restore this unique canyon habitat home to many threatened<br />
and endangered wildlife species. Sign up at www.pvplc.volunteerhub.com.<br />
Wednesday, <strong>Aug</strong>ust 23<br />
Birding with Wild Birds Unlimited<br />
At George F Canyon presented by the Palos Verdes <strong>Peninsula</strong> Land Conservancy.<br />
8:30 a.m. Explore the birds in nesting season making a home in the<br />
canyon. The program is free and all ages welcome. 27305 Palos Verdes Drive<br />
East, Rolling Hills Estates. RSVP at: www.pvplc.org, Events & Activities.<br />
Thursday, <strong>Aug</strong>ust 24<br />
Azure Verde embroiderers<br />
Meeting at 9:30 a.m. No program this month, just bring your unfinished projects<br />
to work on. Visitors are welcome.<br />
St. Francis Episcopal Church,<br />
2200 Via Rosa, Palos Verdes Estates.<br />
For more information, please<br />
call (310) 540-6104 or visit our web<br />
page at www.azureverdeega.com/<br />
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Saturday, <strong>Aug</strong>ust 26<br />
Guided Nature Walk<br />
Attend a naturalist-guided hike beginning<br />
at 9 a.m. Enjoy coastal<br />
views and learn more about the<br />
plants, animals, restoration area and<br />
more! Meet at the information kiosk<br />
between parking lot and Nature<br />
Center. White Point Nature Preserve,<br />
1600 W. Paseo del Mar, San Pedro.<br />
For more information call (310) 541-<br />
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Outdoor Volunteer Day<br />
At Native Plant Nursery, 9 a.m. –<br />
noon. Nurture seedlings and grow<br />
shrubs for habitat restoration projects<br />
all around the <strong>Peninsula</strong>. Reservations<br />
required by Wednesday, <strong>Aug</strong>ust 23.<br />
Sign up at www.pvplc.volunteerhub.<br />
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Blooming Begonia Show<br />
The Palos Verdes Begonia Society’s<br />
26th annual Begonia show at the<br />
South Coast Botanic Garden (SCBG)<br />
from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. Come see beautiful<br />
and unusual Begonias exhibited<br />
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Amazing Honeybees<br />
A begonia arrangement<br />
'Campfire' by Jackie Johnson.<br />
The South Coast Begonia<br />
Society will hold its annual<br />
show Saturday, <strong>Aug</strong>ust 26,<br />
9 a.m. to 4 p.m. at the South<br />
Coast Botanic Garden.<br />
Photo by Ted Johnson<br />
Palos Verdes <strong>Peninsula</strong> Land Conservancy Presentation, 11 a.m. at White<br />
Point Nature Education Center & Preserve, 1600 Paseo Del Mar, San Pedro.<br />
Join Nicole Palladino, Founder, Beequilibrium to celebrate National Honey<br />
Bee Day who will explain the importance of bees to the food chain. Free.<br />
RSVP to: www.pvplc.org: Events & Activities/Whitepoint Presentations or call<br />
(310) 541-7613.<br />
Native Plant Sale<br />
At White Point Nature Preserve, noon – 2 p.m. Plants sold on first-come, firstserve<br />
basis. 1600 W. Paseo del Mar, San Pedro. For more information call<br />
(310) 541-7613.<br />
Gourmet evening<br />
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Headquarters in Torrance, 700 Van Ness Ave. It features a performance by<br />
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Sunday, <strong>Aug</strong>ust 27<br />
Garden Concert Series<br />
St. Luke's third free Garden Concert<br />
for <strong>2017</strong> features The Firebird Quintet<br />
performing on traditional Russian<br />
instruments: the domra, a string instrument<br />
with a thin, fretted neck and<br />
round body first appearing in written<br />
records at the end of the 15th century;<br />
the balalaika, a triangular-bodied<br />
Russian instrument well known to<br />
Western audiences from the film<br />
Doctor Zhivago; and the bayan, a<br />
member of the accordion family popular<br />
in Russia and Ukraine. Their<br />
repertoire ranges from traditional<br />
Russian, Ukrainian, and Eastern European<br />
songs to well-known classics<br />
and original compositions. The Firebird<br />
Quintet is a winner of the<br />
2016/17 Beverly Hills National Auditions.<br />
Everyone is invited to come<br />
early to picnic in the lovely garden.<br />
5-7 p.m. During intermission, dessert<br />
and coffee are hosted by St. Luke's,<br />
located at 26825 Rolling Hills Road,<br />
Rolling Hills Estates. For more information<br />
call (310) 377-2825 M-F, 9<br />
am - 1 pm. www.stlukespres.com<br />
Monday, <strong>Aug</strong>ust 28<br />
Calling all Singers!<br />
Los Cancioneros Master Chorale auditions<br />
for the <strong>2017</strong>-18 season.<br />
LCMC, under director Allan Robert<br />
Petker, is a mixed chorus that performs<br />
in the South Bay region of Los<br />
Angeles County. Its repertoire ranges<br />
from classical to modern. The<br />
Chorale gives four performances a<br />
year, Just Desserts, Holiday, Classical<br />
(usually at the end of March),<br />
and Spring (usually in June) at the<br />
Armstrong Theater in Torrance California.<br />
To make an appointment,<br />
contact Lorraine Pickus at (310) 377-<br />
4978. lcmasterchorale.com.<br />
Wed., <strong>Aug</strong>ust 30<br />
Mac Users Meeting<br />
AllMac/iPad/iPhone users and potential<br />
users are welcome. Admission<br />
is free. 6:30 p.m., Beginners Q & A,<br />
followed at 8 p.m. with a presentation<br />
on a subject of interest to Mac<br />
users. See the website sbamug.com<br />
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S P O T L I G H T O N T H E H I L L<br />
Afternoon in the Vineyard<br />
Chefs and Cellars<br />
On July 16, The Associates to Benefit the Palos Verdes<br />
Art Center and the Beverly G. Alpay Center for Arts<br />
Education, held a fun-filled event at the hilltop property<br />
of Catalina View Gardens, generously hosted by Jim and<br />
Kathy York. Guests savored and sipped curated wines<br />
from Boisset, spirits such as Tito's Handmade Vodka and<br />
craft beers from Stone Brewing Co. Guests dined on chef<br />
selected hors d’oeuvres from restaurants including Bettolino<br />
Kitchen, P.V. Grill and Rebel Republic Social House.<br />
The soiree was set amongst vineyards where establishments<br />
like Terranea Resort are purchasing their wines,<br />
and included a frontage panoramic view of the Pacific and<br />
Catalina Island, which gives the venue its name.<br />
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1. Ron and Billie Johnson and Kathy York.<br />
2. June Treherne, Sharon Ryan and Derek Treherne.<br />
3. Lynn Doran, Madan Syal and Rori Roje.<br />
4. Alex Quintana and Diane Barber.<br />
5. Susan and Mike Grimshaw and Mohini Syal.<br />
6. Danae Lester, C.J. Chiappinelli, Jimmy Banayot and<br />
Teresa Gordon.<br />
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7. Jacqueline Glass and Maureen Takahashi.<br />
8. Roni Kershaw, Candi Gershuni, Sandra Olsson and<br />
Marvin Harris.<br />
9. David and Ann Buxton, Maude and Aaron Landon.<br />
10. Marlene Smyth, Michelle Wake and Chuck Smyth.<br />
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Oz Valle serves up Truxton’s Coca-Cola braised ribs. Photo by Brad Jacobson (CivicCouch.org)<br />
Better than fair family fare<br />
Truxton’s American Bistro raises the bar for family fare on the <strong>Peninsula</strong><br />
by Richard Foss<br />
The primary characteristics of a French<br />
bistro are casual, small, and cheap. The<br />
word is Russian for “quickly.” After<br />
Napoleon surrendered and Paris was occupied,<br />
impatient Cossack soldiers reportedly shouted<br />
“Bistro!” at restaurant workers so often that small,<br />
cheap places that could make a fast meal put out<br />
signs with that word. This was probably welcomed<br />
by restaurants because impatient shouting<br />
foreigners now all went somewhere else.<br />
The staples of French bistros are country classics<br />
such as steak frites, onion soup, and coq au<br />
vin. What, though, might an American bistro be?<br />
Our sense of flavor is much wider than the traditional<br />
bistro favorites.<br />
At Truxton’s American Bistro, the space in Hillside<br />
Village that was Restaurant Christine for almost<br />
two decades, the category has a quite<br />
different meaning. This offshoot of a popular<br />
Westchester restaurant is medium size, has an<br />
unusually large and wide ranging menu, and<br />
though it’s inexpensive for the neighborhood, it’s<br />
not a bargain basement. The place has a casual,<br />
bustling energy that attracts a range of people,<br />
and it’s the highest profile family restaurant in<br />
the area to open in years.<br />
I have visited three times and each time had<br />
trouble deciding because there are so many options.<br />
The starters I’ve tried were the ancho<br />
honey shrimp, a Caesar salad, brisket taquitos,<br />
and the charred broccoli. The shrimp are the<br />
kind of thing that everyone has put on menus<br />
since our inexhaustible appetite for things that<br />
are crispy, sweet, and spicy was discovered. The<br />
element that raised this a few notches was the<br />
gently spicy pepita cole slaw they were served<br />
with. Truxton’s has many different sides, some of<br />
which outshine the items in the spotlight.<br />
The Caesar dressing had just a hint of anchovy<br />
and garlic, and I might ask for a little extra next<br />
time because it was a bit tame. I liked the taquitos<br />
more, though I would like to have the chipotle<br />
crema on the side rather than pre-drizzled. The<br />
slow-cooked brisket in these has enough flavor to<br />
be enjoyed on its own, or with just the good guacamole<br />
that is also provided. I get that the presentation<br />
is prettier, but sometimes it’s good to<br />
give the diners the choice to adulterate their food,<br />
at will.<br />
The only starter that disappointed was the<br />
charred broccoli. Lightly cooking vegetables and<br />
then char-finishing them to get extra smokiness<br />
and texture is a sound idea, but the kitchen did<br />
this with pieces that had huge stems, and the<br />
base of these was very fibrous. If the broccoli<br />
stem had been trimmed, this would have been a<br />
winner. As it was, we ate the best parts with a<br />
dab of Dijon mayo and left the rest.<br />
The four mains we tried were wild mushroom<br />
linguine, Turkish spiced chicken, fish and chips,<br />
and a monthly special of Coca-Cola braised ribs.<br />
Odd as that last item might sound, braising meat<br />
in cola is actually a common practice. It’s usually<br />
done with cheap and tough cuts of meat because<br />
the acidity of the soft drink tenderizes the meat,<br />
while also infusing sugars that caramelize nicely<br />
when the meat hits the grill. The sweetness has<br />
to be balanced with pepper, ginger, chili, or other<br />
sharp spices not to be cloying. Truxton’s version<br />
falters here. The sweet barbecue sauce that was<br />
slathered on before serving didn’t have that bal-<br />
52 <strong>Peninsula</strong> • <strong>Aug</strong>ust <strong>2017</strong>
ance, and there was a lot of it. It would be better with a spicier sauce, or<br />
no sauce at all to cover up the interesting effect of the marinade. The ribs<br />
came with grilled corn and tangy cilantro coleslaw that was a good companion<br />
to barbecue.<br />
The Turkish spiced chicken was a more successful experiment, and a<br />
somewhat daring thing to put on the menu because most Americans have<br />
no idea what Turkish food is like. The chicken had been rubbed with savory<br />
but not hot spices before being grilled, and then topped with an intense<br />
herbal sauce. It was accompanied by an Israeli-style, large grain<br />
couscous with crisp garbanzo beans and barberries, a tart, tangy dried fruit.<br />
The flavors were spot on. It was easily the best item I had here.<br />
The fish and chips and mushroom linguine were traditional items competently<br />
made, and if that sounds like faint praise it isn’t. Getting the fish<br />
moist and the batter crisp takes talent, and they nailed it. As for the pasta,<br />
the parmesan garlic cream sauce complemented the peas, mushrooms, and<br />
other vegetables in the sauce and completed the fresh and natural flavors.<br />
It tasted like good home cooking, and that’s a compliment.<br />
The wine and beer program here is decent though wines are slightly<br />
overpriced, and the bar is curiously lacking in high-end spirits. This is definitely<br />
a food destination that serves drinks rather than a wine or craft bar,<br />
but they cover the basics. They should perhaps reconsider their dessert offerings,<br />
which are all sweet and heavy. The meals here are substantial, and<br />
some people like something light and fresh to finish. I had asked our server<br />
about the apple tart, but she said that it was very sweet and topped with<br />
caramel sauce, and that killed that.<br />
Truxton’s is open for brunch on weekends, and we were lucky enough<br />
to get in just before the rush. The place was half full when we arrived but<br />
had a line out the door as we left. Conventional eggy things were offered<br />
but we decided on a Vietnamese-style pork breakfast burrito and an order<br />
of salmon hash. The pork burrito had a mix of spicy harissa and fruity Chinese<br />
hoisin sauces, an idea I hadn’t seen before. It worked nicely with the<br />
eggs, pork, green onions, and avocado. My wife had ordered the hash in<br />
spite of it including kale, an item she doesn’t always like, but the combination<br />
of greens with onion, potato, and roasted salmon won her over.<br />
Truxton’s owners made a smart move when they decided to open here,<br />
because there is a shortage of family-friendly American restaurants on the<br />
hill. They deserve to succeed because they’re doing something that needed<br />
to be done, and generally doing it well.<br />
Truxton’s is at 24530 Hawthorne Boulevard in Torrance. Open Mon-Fri 11<br />
a.m. – 10 p.m., Sat - Sun 9 a.m. – 10 p.m. Parking lot. Wheelchair access good.<br />
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Quality Seafood<br />
100 S. International Boardwalk Redondo Beach • (310) 372-6408 • www.qualityseafood.net<br />
uality Seafood was founded in it remains one of the largest and<br />
Q1953 by Nick Dragich and his finest seafood markets on the West<br />
son Peter Dragich Sr. After years of<br />
fishing from Alaska to South America,<br />
they decided to open a market<br />
Coast. The market continues to be<br />
family run, with Pete Dragich Jr. and<br />
Ann Belson at the helms. And recently<br />
and bring the freshest possible<br />
the 4th generation of<br />
seafood from the boats directly<br />
into Redondo Beach. Prior to the<br />
redevelopment of the pier, the<br />
Dragich family owned four separate<br />
seafood markets in Redondo.<br />
In 1968 the family combined those<br />
Dragich family members came<br />
aboard to help keep things running<br />
smoothly for years to come. As<br />
Cassie (Dragich) and her husband<br />
Jeff Jones recently relocated back<br />
to the South Bay, together, they<br />
markets into Quality Seafood Inc., foresee continuing the family<br />
and opened its current location on<br />
the International Boardwalk, where<br />
legacy of providing a truly unique<br />
experience and fresh seafood to all.<br />
M<br />
ary Lou Schatan began<br />
her professional career at<br />
Ballard Optical in the Riviera<br />
Village. The family owned<br />
and operated business gave her<br />
the opportunity to learn all aspects<br />
of the business from janitor<br />
to manager. It took 21<br />
wonderful years of "hands on"<br />
working experience in dispensing<br />
to become a Professional<br />
Dispensing Optician and an<br />
Award Winning Eyewear Consult-<br />
ant.<br />
Mary Lou began building<br />
Schatan Optical Gallery in March<br />
of 1988. It took 9 months to<br />
build and became an instant destination<br />
for "Exceptional Eyewear”!<br />
Schatan's "family" consists of<br />
two other women. Winky<br />
Stavropoulos, who has worked<br />
26 years at Schatan and loved as<br />
a "daughter" and Brittany Mine,<br />
an 11 year veteran, who assists<br />
both Mary Lou and Winky and regarded<br />
as the "most important<br />
sister".<br />
Family-owned and operated is<br />
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The Neighborhood Meeting Place” is not just a slogan, but states the truth about<br />
Hennessey’s Tavern - all 10 of them! Now it their 41st year serving Irish Hospitality,<br />
owner and founder Paul Hennessey says he’s looking forward to the next<br />
40 years!<br />
It all started on Pier Avenue, Hermosa Beach, September of 1976 when the first<br />
Hennessey’s Tavern opened for business. At half the size then, this flagship location<br />
has grown westward and up to offer diners spectacular views of the Pacific Ocean<br />
while enjoying great food and drinks. Each Hennessey’s offers a full bar & menu,<br />
serving breakfast, lunch and dinner daily.<br />
Paul Hennessey couldn’t stop with just the one concept. Apart from 10 Hennessey’s<br />
Tavern locations throughout Southern California and Las Vegas, Paul also<br />
proudly owns H.T. Grill, The Lighthouse Café, The Wine Bistro & Whiskey Bar in Dana<br />
Point, and an additional concept in Las Vegas, Mickie Finnz Fish House & Bar. Most<br />
recently Paul has partnered with 3 of his senior management team, to create Rebel<br />
Republic Social House in the Riviera Village which he’s hoping to take to other City’s<br />
in the near future.<br />
Paul Hennessey, married with 3 daughters and 5 grandchildren actively participates<br />
in the daily operations of all 15 of his locations. No matter what, the respected business<br />
& family man promises, when referring to his locations “You always run into<br />
someone you know there”. And that’s what has kept the Irish Hospitality going for<br />
over 40 years!<br />
Hennessey’s Tavern<br />
8 Pier Ave. Hermosa Beach (310) 372-5759 • 1712 S. Catalina Ave. Redondo Beach (310) 540-8443 • 313 Manhattan Beach Blvd. Manhattan Beach (310) 546-4813<br />
H.T. Grill 1701 S. Catalina Ave. Redondo Beach (310) 791-4849 • The Lighthouse Café 30 Pier Ave. Hermosa Beach (310) 376-9833<br />
Rebel Republic Social House 1710 S. Catalina Ave. Redondo Beach (424) 352-2600<br />
www.Hennesseystavern.com<br />
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For the three Chong brothers, Fernando, Roberto and Marcelino,<br />
the journey to success in the restaurant business began in their<br />
mother’s very own kitchen.<br />
“She had a passion for cooking, not only Chinese, but also Cuban<br />
and Peruvian cuisine. I picked up a lot of things from her,” recalled<br />
Roberto, who would grow up to become the executive chef of the<br />
family’s restaurants.It may be noted from Roberto’s quote above,<br />
that the three brothers were born in Cuba and raised in Peru before<br />
settling in California. Once here, Roberto furthered his culinary education<br />
while working for California Cuisine pioneers Robert Bell and<br />
Michael Frank at Courtney’s, in downtown Manhattan Beach.<br />
In the early 1990s the three brothers opened the family’s second<br />
Chong’s at the corner of PCH and Artesia. Subsequently, other<br />
Chong’s would open in Long Beach and Costa Mesa. Roberto, however,<br />
wanted to stretch his culinary legs. When the opportunity presented<br />
itself to open a formal, 80-seat restaurant in Manhattan<br />
Beach, they seized it.<br />
Ws China Bistro<br />
China Grill, like the family’s other restaurants, enjoyed immediate<br />
success. With its western influenced menu and upscale décor, the<br />
restaurant is often compared to PF Chang’s. But Fernando noted a<br />
critical difference. Unlike corporately owned restaurants, “because<br />
we are family owned, we are quality driven, instead of bottom line<br />
driven”. The western influences, Robert noted, allow him to use<br />
flavors that are bolder than traditionally mild Cantonese food. Ginger,<br />
garlic, peppers and other exotic spices are used to enhance the<br />
natural flavors. Over time, influences from the countries of their<br />
upbringing have worked their way into the menu, such is the case<br />
of the Asian Paella and the Peruvian Saltado.<br />
Continuing in this tradition of entrepreneurship, the family<br />
opened Rabano in Hermosa Beach this past February.<br />
No doubt, a new dynasty in Asian/Fusion cooking was started<br />
right here in the South Bay.<br />
Rabano<br />
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Rabano 2516 Pacific Coast Highway, Hermosa Beach CA, 90254 (310) 318-1998 • www.rabano.com<br />
<strong>Aug</strong>ust <strong>2017</strong> • <strong>Peninsula</strong> 55
S P O T L I G H T O N T H E H I L L<br />
PV Assembly<br />
Presentation Ball<br />
S<br />
ince 1964, <strong>Peninsula</strong> youth<br />
have participated in the Presentation<br />
Ball at the legendary<br />
Crystal Ballroom of the Millennium<br />
Biltmore Hotel. This year’s<br />
ball was May 8. The evening recognizes<br />
the students for their philanthropic,<br />
academic and athletic<br />
achievements. Over the past four<br />
years they have provided more<br />
than 8,000 hours of service, supporting<br />
a wide range of causes,<br />
from the environment to homelessness.<br />
Under the tutelage of<br />
Dance Masters Bobby Burgess<br />
and Carol Thomas they have<br />
learned ballroom dancing as well<br />
as manners and etiquette. After<br />
the medallion presentation members<br />
danced the mother/son and<br />
father/daughter Viennese Waltz.<br />
To learn more about the presentation<br />
ball, visit PVAsembly.com.<br />
PHOTO BY BRIAN MCCONVILLE<br />
Palos Verdes Assembly Class of <strong>2017</strong>: Front row (left to right) Nicole Suppelsa, Lauren Alimento, Kathryn Dodge, Siobhan<br />
Ortolano, Lindsey Yoshiyama, Sophie Jacobs, Saeko Kubo, Erin Kawakami, Emma Manis, Sabrina Lee. (Second row) Kastur<br />
Koul, McKenna Howard, Andrew Arrieta, Leslie Salcedo, Blake Pickman, Julianna Yonis, Conrad Boothe, Kathryn Kelliny,<br />
Bryce Kitagawa, Brittany Whang, Krislyn Jobes. (Third row) Cameron Hosmer, Sarah Aoyagi, John Matson, Allison King,<br />
Joshua Magid, Grace Addleman, David Willigrod, Sarah Taghavi, Kyle Beachboard, Kaitlyn DeRudder, Remo Ventura. (Top<br />
row) Mark McHugh, Frederic Doub, Ryan Chase, John Addleman, Randy Shaw, Gregory Osborne, Harrison Mitsanas, Mike<br />
Koyama and Joseph Polack.<br />
ony’s On The Pier today is known for its fresh seafood, ocean<br />
Tview sunsets and best customer service. Back in 1952, when<br />
Tony Trutanich opened its doors, it had that same positive reputation.<br />
Growing up in San Pedro, Tony was a successful tuna fisherman,<br />
and as the boat Captain, would be out to sea for months<br />
at a time. Just plain “tired of the long hours and extra hard work,”<br />
Tony decided to bring that tuna to the tables of his own restaurant<br />
- Tony’s On The Pier.<br />
With only 20 tables at first, Tony’s On The Pier grew quickly and<br />
was soon frequented by movie stars, as hundreds of photos on<br />
the walls depict. In 1964, Tony added the famous “Top of Tony’s”<br />
where guests, still today, walk up stairs to enjoy the most beautiful<br />
sunsets, full bar, food and live entertainment. His son,<br />
Michael, started working there when he was just 15, as a busboy<br />
and dishwasher, doing anything he could to help his father’s business.<br />
Moving up the ladder to become General Manager, Michael<br />
continued working with his father until he passed away in 2006.<br />
“Dad stayed active all the way to the end,” Michael recalls. “He<br />
taught me everything. I worked for him all my life.”<br />
Retiring three years ago, Michael still works for Tony’s, ordering<br />
all of the seafood, even living in Idaho. He communicates daily<br />
with now GM Regina Fong, who’s been at Tony’s for 40 years. And<br />
that’s not uncommon. In fact, the average employee has worked<br />
there for over 20 years. Downstairs bartender Billy Morgan has<br />
been there for 47 years while upstairs bartender Manny Jimenez<br />
just hit his 38 year anniversary. Tony’s son Michael says his father<br />
was such a “role model” and treated everyone at his restaurant<br />
like family. Today, Tony would be proud as everyone at Tony’s On<br />
The Pier is still his family.<br />
Tony’s On The Pier<br />
210 Fishermans Wharf Redondo Beach • (310) 374-1442 • www.oldtonys.com<br />
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Affinity Volunteer Luncheon<br />
Honors service<br />
The Hill was alive with the sound of music on June 21 when Jeralyn<br />
Glass kept the luncheon crowd at the Palos Verdes Golf Club mesmerized<br />
with her performance of Broadway show tunes. It was the annual event<br />
of the Affinity Group of the Volunteer Center honoring three noteworthy<br />
women, Jean Adelsman, Joyce Kochanowski and Ann Buxton for their volunteering.<br />
Proceeds from the event went to support the Center’s Operation<br />
Teddy Bear, which annually provides 5,700 backpacks filled with educational<br />
materials to underserved first graders. Ann Buxton has been a key<br />
supporter of the Palos Verdes Art Center and its support group, The Circle.<br />
Joyce Kochanowski is the president of Las Vecinas, support group of the Assistance<br />
League.<br />
PHOTOS PROVIDED BY<br />
AFFINITY COMMUNITY VOLUNTEERS<br />
1. Honoree Ann Buxton, David Buxton,<br />
daughter Christie Vogt and<br />
grandson Brook Vogt.<br />
2. De De Hicks and Honoree Jean<br />
Adelsman.<br />
3. Honoree Joyce Kochanowski<br />
(center) and sons Doug and Paul.<br />
4. Honorees Jean Adelsman, Ann<br />
Buxton and Joyce Kochanowski.<br />
5. Honoree Jean Adelsman and<br />
friends Ellen Kircher, Katherine<br />
Joiner and Pam Popovich.<br />
6. Jen Ryan, Sharon Ryan, and<br />
Cherri Olson.<br />
7. Jeralyn Glass and mother<br />
Jacqueline Glass.<br />
8. Laura Lamping, Ann Buxton<br />
Honoree, Betty Wing and Nancy<br />
Howell.<br />
9. Lynne Neuman, Steve Kovary<br />
and Kelly Curtis Intagliata.<br />
10. Steve Kovary, Shirley Starke-<br />
Wallace, Roberto Reid and Silia<br />
Sofko.<br />
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58 <strong>Peninsula</strong> • <strong>Aug</strong>ust <strong>2017</strong>
30 Year Anniversary<br />
The Palos Verdes Flower Talking Clock donated by<br />
Michel Medawar and his family, celebrated its 30th<br />
Year on the Palos Verdes <strong>Peninsula</strong>.<br />
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S P O T L I G H T O N T H E H I L L<br />
Music on the Meadows<br />
The Summer Soundtrack<br />
On Father's Day, Terranea Resort invited guests to celebrate<br />
summer’s start with their fourth annual program<br />
of live music on their sprawling, oceanfront grass<br />
lawn. The meadows of Terranea were bursting at the<br />
seams with hundreds of concert goers, foodies and<br />
oenophiles enjoying the beginnings of a blissful season in<br />
a quintessential California setting. Visitors enjoyed Farmto-Terranea<br />
BBQ inspired dishes, local breweries and signature<br />
cocktails. Big Bad Voodoo Daddy, The Blasters and<br />
the eclectic group, Venice performed. Music on the Meadows<br />
is a celebration of life...a hope that each special event<br />
held at Terranea brings a deeper connection between the<br />
resort and the greater Palos Verdes Community,” said marketing<br />
vice president Agnelo Fernandes.<br />
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1. The band Venice.<br />
2. Scott Ramsay and Dan Scala.<br />
3. Ted Lanes and Alysha Del Valle.<br />
4. Bill and Karen Savino, Gage, Kitti and Wally Hammons and<br />
(foreground) Kira Savino and Kira Hammons.<br />
5. Jessica, Louie and Jacob Alvidrez.<br />
6. Kerry and Kelly O’Brien.<br />
7. Kat Bloom, Gavin Steiner and Briana Thomas.<br />
8. Brian and Ali Whitaker.<br />
9. Dana, Paige and Ethan Ireland.<br />
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S P O T L I G H T O N T H E H I L L<br />
Cancer Support Community<br />
Sizzles hot at Celebrate Wellness<br />
The Cancer Support Community commemorated 30 years<br />
of service on June 25 at the South Coast Botanic Garden.<br />
Over 500 guests attended the 21st Annual Celebrate Wellness<br />
fundraiser. Attendees enjoyed sunshine and music as they<br />
sampled fare from over 30 restaurants, wineries and breweries.<br />
The day generated net proceeds of nearly $170,000,<br />
which will help fund over 200 free, monthly support programs<br />
for cancer patients and their loved ones. Adrienne<br />
Nakashima, CEO of South Coast Botanic Garden Foundation<br />
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resource for individuals and families affected by cancer.”<br />
1. Hanne Ekberg, Alicia Henderson and<br />
Sandra Frasso.<br />
2. Trump National Golf Club wine.<br />
3. Viviana De La Borda, Chris Garasic and<br />
Harvey Kano.<br />
4. Elise Asch, Adrienne Nakashima, Judith<br />
Opdahl, Thomas Simko MD, Anne Clary and<br />
Dan Hovenstine MD.<br />
5. Natalie and Dave Muckley.<br />
6. Brent Anderson, Andrea Sala, Randy<br />
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Bowers, Jim Sala, Mark and Erika Smith.<br />
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7. Meredith Grenier and De De Hicks.<br />
8. Bryan Chang MD, Phung Huynh MD and<br />
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9. Brian and Pauline Harris, Paula and Brad<br />
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10. John Bucher, Craig Ekberg, Theresa<br />
Plakos, Guido Rietdyk and Kyle Kazan.<br />
11. Sasha Ohara, Randy Bowers and<br />
Judith Opdahl.<br />
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Caring House recently hosted "An Evening of Appreciation"<br />
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Caring House residents. The Torrance facility opened<br />
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Honorary committee members in attendance included<br />
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County Supervisor Janice Hahn, Dr. Lisa Humphreys,<br />
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Richard Lundquist, Judy Gassner and Sherry Kramer.<br />
2. Sister Terrence Landini, Jean Cordero, Barbara McAuley<br />
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3. Pat Baldivia, Robin Camrin, Dr. Thyra Endicott and Rev.<br />
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PV Juniors distribute compassion<br />
n The Palos Verdes Junior Women’s Club's annual disbursement ceremony was<br />
held recently at the Palos Verdes Golf Club. Through financial assistance and<br />
hands-on care, the organization has<br />
been supporting women and children in<br />
crisis since 1958. Proceeds were raised<br />
from major donors, the annual holiday<br />
luncheon and annual spring fundraiser<br />
were distributed to 12 philanthropies, including<br />
Rainbow Services, Toberman<br />
Neighborhood Center and the Boys &<br />
Girls Clubs of the LA Harbor. Four deserving<br />
students , Ross Kalter, Caroline<br />
Kim, Mariya Naberezhna and Andres<br />
Seawright received scholarship awards.<br />
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66 <strong>Peninsula</strong> • <strong>Aug</strong>ust <strong>2017</strong>
Special Children’s League celebrates 59th year<br />
n The Special Children’s League’s annual luncheon raised almost $90,000 to<br />
support efforts to aid individuals with developmental disabilities, including cerebral<br />
palsy and autism. The executive board is led by president Joyce Komatsu, along<br />
with Lori Delgado, Michele Dahlerbruch, Paula Boothe, Maria Ballinger, Monique<br />
Caine, Merin Dahlerbruch, Jacqueline Dunton and Mary Lynn Webster.<br />
New PCCH Board Members<br />
n The <strong>Peninsula</strong> Committee Children’s<br />
Hospital was founded in 1957 to raise<br />
funds for a new recovery unit at Children’s<br />
Hospital Los Angeles. The committee has<br />
grown to more than 170 families who<br />
volunteer throughout the year.. Since its inception,<br />
the committee has raised more<br />
than $14 million for the hospital through<br />
an annual horse show, golf tournament,<br />
and individual contributions.<br />
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New PCCH members Holly<br />
Gardner, Jenny Litchfield,<br />
Marnie Gruen.<br />
Incoming board from left to right: Joyce Komatsu, Michele Dahlerbruch,<br />
Kristina Mermelstein, Maria Ballinger, Paula Boothe, Amy Ball, Jacqueline<br />
Dunton and Maria Kroha. Photo courtesy SCL<br />
Alexey Steele unveils “El Rey Trabajador”<br />
n Artist Alexey Steele unveiled the newest addition to his “Love My Neighbor”<br />
series on June 27 at the new Artward Gallery in the Scottsdale neighborhood of<br />
Carson. The 72-inch by 48-inch oil on canvas was made possible by a grant<br />
from the City of Carson Cultural<br />
Arts Commission and<br />
from Wells Fargo Bank.<br />
Steele says the visitors to unveilings<br />
such as this are not<br />
your usual ‘art crowd’. They<br />
were neighbors, civic leaders<br />
of different communities,<br />
gang prevention activists,<br />
local government, sheriffs<br />
and and supporters. Steele<br />
selected one of Carson’s<br />
most beloved residents to be<br />
his subject, a 75-year-old<br />
gardener. “I hope that My<br />
Neighbor series will encourage<br />
visitors to see their own<br />
neighbors from a new perspective<br />
and take the message<br />
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neighbor back to their own<br />
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Alexey Steele with 75-year-old Carson<br />
gardener Cirillo Campos, the model for<br />
Steele’s painting. Photo by Richard Rand<br />
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n The Palos Verdes Woman's Club was established in 1926 as a Sunday school<br />
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social programs. Proceeds from the group’s fundraising events are distributed<br />
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Los Angeles Maritime Museum receives federal grant<br />
n The National Park Service has<br />
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