So all the early explorers, because they were essentially hacking their way through forests, they were in birch bark and wooden canoes, they were building palisades of wood to protect themselves, they were burning log fires to keep away the wolves, and so forth, you could say early American explorers could be put under a rubric of "wood." And similarly, once the country, as the extent
I thought she would have housing by now, but she doesn't. We met Nell in Palisades Park. The day that we met her was a sunny, warm day and she was eating an ice cream cone in her wheelchair and motating forward by pushing her feet along the ground. And after she finished the ice cream cone, or what she was going to eat of it, she moved forward in her wheelchair and put the rest of the cone in the trash. And
uh so that was the most noticeable to me was the difference between the communities uh that you know Venice is not the Palisades and that's not Brentwood and this part of Santa Monica is not the same as South Santa Monica and it's not the same as north of Montana and all that would you guys say you live here oh absolutely yeah I agree well and you get caught in your little
And so if it wasn't asteroids, what was it? And this is a picture of the Palisades , right across from New York City. This is a giant wall of basically magma.
The next person I'd like to introduce you to is Carol Ann Murphy. We met Carol Ann in Palisades Park. You may have seen her there. I think she's still there and we've seen her numerous times and spoken to her more than one time. Let me show you Carol Ann's picture. Carol Ann is at page 30.
book how did you all the different collaborators and how was it uh who lives in the Palisades and uh the other two of the others Nancy and margerie Schwarz we'd all work together
This is chronological data about a landscape. This thing here where the hand this is a Palisade slot.
He's hibernating until he's 17. Just recently at Ralph's Market in the Palisades , a woman turned to her son and said, what's your problem?
She loved having her picture taken. She asked if Ian would take one of her kissing the tree, which of course he did. It's a gorgeous photo. She's so exuberant. We started talking because she was sitting on a bench in Palisades Park and there was a little pair of pink moccasins next to her and she asked me if I wanted them. She hated to see things going to waste; she didn't like them. They weren't very comfortable.
probably fair to say, and so we had a lengthy interview but no photograph. Ian wasn't there that day, I just happened to run into her. And then a few weeks later we were walking in Palisades Park and there is Star again, a totally different person, practically flying through the park, flying with joy with her new bicycle and so happy and so expressive and so emotive. I mean the shift in moods was so noticeable that you wonder what kinds of mood burdens that she has to bear.
so good that they landed up casting him and he became an international star I guess he's huge in Germany so um and he's now back to being uh being a firefighter and lives in Palisades and they you know he's back to being new all right so this is a food question um how many Italian restaurants are there in the one square mile area in
more um each community in Santa in Santa Monica has its own identity and is and is itself in a way that is unique to Santa Monica so the Palisades people and the Ocean Park people are not the same people and they don't necessarily Jive which is not really true saying pas of
And actually, the mountain that he talked about, even though it's 14,000 feet, North Palisade is one of the more challenging and beautiful mountains I've ever climbed, so being 14,000 feet can still be quite an accomplishment, so I recommend North Palisade right, good mountain. So as we said today, I'm going to talk about mountains and molecules, and you might end up--
And by dint of how it falls on one retina relative to the other, it assigns it a place in space that's either in front or behind the other image. So they have found that and there are receptors in the tendons of the eye, called palisade
Soundtrack for the apocalypse is silent. We felt the weight of that total absence of sound when we arrived in the devastated neighborhoods of Altadena and the Palisades after the January 2025 firestorm.
Right, Betsy? Yeah. My wife and I first met Betsy almost two years ago after reading her books. We found out that she's actually local, lives in the Pacific Palisades , and she leads groups. She leads parenting group sessions, seminars, and also individual parenting sessions.
the person. You become invisible you hope -- at least you feel protected. And then we have Erma and the other woman and then down the way she was sleeping in Palisades Park. She appears to be wearing a blanket made into a jacket and the arms are made out of tying parts of the blanket with string. We saw numbers of those blankets throughout the city during the time that we were writing the book, and I believe that
times in my life where I've approached the city from other directions you know one of my hobbies is biking and cycling and getting outside the city and biking in one of places I like to go is in the Palisades which is across from the George Washington Bridge and there's been times where I've been biking back into the city Viking a call to George Washington Bridge where you
fig yeah and you he uh of course he's best known because for living here because there's still will Roger State Park which um hopefully you if you have not been to on the edge of the Pacific Palisades you should go to and do the the one of the easiest and most rewarding hikes around here is Rogers all right
And if you ever need a job as my marketing manager. And actually, the mountain that he talked about, even though it's 14,000 feet, North Palisade is one of the more challenging and beautiful mountains I've ever climbed, so being 14,000 feet can still be quite an accomplishment, so I recommend North Palisade right, good mountain.
A lot of this is grace. I took a bus ride an hour each way to and from school from Inglewood, California to Pacific Palisades . I don't know if you guys know Southern California, but each way, to Brentwood Elementary, then to Paul Revere Middle School, then to Pacific Palisades High School, sometimes going
I took a bus ride an hour each way to and from school from Inglewood, California to Pacific Palisades . I don't know if you guys know Southern California, but each way, to Brentwood Elementary, then to Paul Revere Middle School, then to Pacific Palisades High School, sometimes going to schools closer to Inglewood, but always at some point returning back to those schools that were the promise of potential.
Another thing, sometimes we encountered women who seemed so severely mentally ill that they couldn't know where they were. I direct your attention to the two large photos on my left. You can see those women there. The one on the far left believe it or not, the one who was crying out, we saw in Palisades Park. She wasn't making any noise. Can you imagine? She was a beautiful woman. She still had the hospital bracelet on her wrist. She was in such tragic condition and she should be in a hospital.
to get some others of her. And the last time we saw her, she was sitting on the cannon, you know the old Civil War cannon in Palisades Park, with a cordless microphone in her hand. Not cordless fancy like the ones in here that actually work, but a microphone without a wire and singing her heart out because she knows that she can be like J.Lo or Mariah Carey if she only gets
In, on January 27th of 1983, a storm was reported heading towards, headed towards the Pier with ten-foot seas. The lower fishing deck at the west end of the Pier was eight feet above the water. So, everybody knew something had to give, and a lot of people, a lot of locals braved the weather that day, braved rain and sleet to stand on the palisades and watch as these high seas rolled in. And sure enough, they rolled in and they destroyed the, the lower fishing deck at the west end of the Pier.