{"id":1142,"date":"2009-02-26T10:56:00","date_gmt":"2009-02-26T18:56:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/2009\/02\/eagle-rock-and-bourgeois-bohemia-imperiled.html"},"modified":"2009-02-26T10:56:00","modified_gmt":"2009-02-26T18:56:00","slug":"eagle-rock-and-bourgeois-bohemia-imperiled","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/2009\/02\/eagle-rock-and-bourgeois-bohemia-imperiled.html","title":{"rendered":"Eagle Rock and Bourgeois Bohemia Imperiled"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/_yrL6yfubw8g\/Sabqc_4Ml4I\/AAAAAAAAAH4\/Zt_sRvu6sqs\/s1600-h\/cwc.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/_yrL6yfubw8g\/Sabqc_4Ml4I\/AAAAAAAAAH4\/Zt_sRvu6sqs\/s320\/cwc.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\"><\/a><br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/_yrL6yfubw8g\/SabqctHHyVI\/AAAAAAAAAHw\/RZV4xlg72hk\/s1600-h\/ER.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/_yrL6yfubw8g\/SabqctHHyVI\/AAAAAAAAAHw\/RZV4xlg72hk\/s320\/ER.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\"><\/a><\/p>\n<div>ON a crisp winter day, with snow glinting on the san gabriel mountains, air cleansed by a recent rain, and mighty oak trees looming over the quiet streets above colorado blvd, eagle rock can seem like the kind of place &#8217;60s bands used to write songs about. but these days, people aren&#8217;t singing &#8212; or if they are, it&#8217;s in a bittersweet key.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>over the last few years northeast LA has become a kind of socal brooklyn, with craftsmans and palm trees instead of \u00a0brownstones and maples. but things are slowing here as they are everywhere else.\u00a0H<a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2009\/02\/26\/fashion\/26eaglerock.html\">ERE is <\/a>my new york times story on this neighborhood and how it may or may not survive the recession. (and <a href=\"http:\/\/articles.latimes.com\/2007\/mar\/25\/entertainment\/ca-2streetlevel25\">here<\/a> is a brief piece from the LAT written for the 2007 opening of larkin&#8217;s, a new-wave soul food joint.)<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>i only regret that the tight pages of a newspaper means i didnt have room to mention by name some of the places that give ER its identity &#8212; whether old (casa bianca pizza) or new (colorado wine company, auntie em&#8217;s bakery\/cafe, vegeterian restaurant fatty&#8217;s,\u00a0cool bar the chalet.)<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>my story suggests that this and other neighborhoods will suffer with the economic downturn &#8212; this is a case where i am entirely happy to be wrong.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>tonight, by coincidence, is what i hope is not the last-stand of hipster culture in eagle rock: the elusive kogi korean\/taco truck is parking outside colorado wine co. to accompany a massively sold out tasting.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>it looks like ABC news may be following the story as part of a larger package about the awful california economy.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>what do my distinguished readers expect will happen to this and other on-the-verge eastside LA neighborhoods?<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Photo credit: Flickr user <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/cheryljns\/2123693940\/\">30<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cowineco.com\/about\/\">Colorado Wine Company<\/a><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ON a crisp winter day, with snow glinting on the san gabriel mountains, air cleansed by a recent rain, and mighty oak trees looming over the quiet streets above colorado blvd, eagle rock can seem like the kind of place &#8217;60s bands used to write songs about. but these days, people aren&#8217;t singing &#8212; or [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[138,31,189,30,540,94,351],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-1142","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-bohemia","7":"category-downturn","8":"category-eagle-rock","9":"category-los-angeles","10":"category-taco-trucks","11":"category-urbanism","12":"category-wine","13":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1142","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1142"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1142\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1142"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1142"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1142"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}