New Shoebox for HaFo SaFo

HaFoSaFo has a new home!!!
Passed by the T-Shirt printer in Los Feliz Y-Que yesterday and saw the sign permanently honored inside the store:

 

Takedown happened Sept. 5th for this amazing HaFo SaFo landmark, but thanks to Bill Wyatt, owner of Y-Que, it has been saved! there are petitions one can sign to install it somewhere as a landmark, and if it is still active, I would encourage everyone to add your name to the petition at Change.org:

https://www.change.org/p/save-the-happy-foot-sad-foot-sign/u/25078971

Among the finer works of t-shirts, Bill has also made sew on patches:

As well as toss-able coins for helping one made decisions:

Become a Friend of the Foot!!!

Other links from the EastSider:

https://www.theeastsiderla.com/neighborhoods/silver_lake/a-sign-of-silver-lake-is-gone-the-happy-foot/article_5d6ebef6-d02c-11e9-a56c-bfd3eceab0d4.html

https://www.theeastsiderla.com/neighborhoods/los_feliz/happy-foot-sad-foot-sign-moves-to-a-new-home/article_10b76924-e26e-11e9-bc2d-9be15623a78f.html

And the LA Times:
https://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-happy-foot-sad-foot-moving-20190712-story.html

No ha Fo Sa Fo

https://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-happy-foot-sad-foot-moving-20190712-story.html
It’s going away...
:-(

Rewiring the Bicycle economy

There's a new business in town: Pacific Electric, a worker owned, fully licensed  outfit that will come to your house on their cargo bikes!!! Based out of the Ecovillage, owner Somerset Waters will be hosting a kick-off party there this Friday from 6-11PM.
127 Bimini Pl.
LA, CA 90004

Hafo Safo Moon

I got a call to go see the heavens from a neighbor with a telescope in his garage. We checked out Mars and Jupiter with a couple of it's moons, but the most amazing thing was how close our own Moon seemed!

Ferrel garden

a thriving garden secreted between two buildings

 We who spend a lot of time, energy and money gardening are obviously doing it all wrong. This garden by all accounts shouldn't work. the "soil" is rock hard clay, there is zero direct sunlight and it's in the grand central concourse for ferrel cat commuters. And yet. And yet the plants are healthy and thriving.  If you have spotted a feral garden in the hood let us know!

A Safo Day in the hood

The city's anti-grafitti paint crew destroyed our lovely new mural and locals are not happy. But do not despair! there is hope it may magically re-appear in coming days.
Silver Lake arts council will meet this Monday July 8th from 6:45-7:45PM at the Silver Lake Library to discuss what can be done.  Please come!
Breaking news alert! Locals have discovered that the lady who owns the pet shop on sunset down by The Tropical is the owner of the building. So stop in and buy a can of cat food (you can donate it to the Coronado st. Kitten Society if you are cat free) and tell the sweet elderly lady how much you miss the mural and hope she might allow it to be re-instated. 

Deeply Safo.

new mural magically appears on corner of Coronado and Sunset

A new mural has magically appeared on the corner of Coronado and Sunset in the very heart of HafoSafo and we couldn't be more amazed!  

the sunstroke inducing 603 bus stop on the corner of Coronado and Sunset

The mural stage 1

bunnies  magically appear

bunnies magically appear for blocks around!

the magician's assistant

more bunnies!

pure bliss

coyote and raven join the mix

Check out Root Simple's take on the mural as well:
http://www.rootsimple.com/2013/06/picture-sundays-do-you-believe-in-magic/