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Old Posted Jan 28, 2013, 3:06 AM
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Originally Posted by tovangar2 View Post
I was in Crenshaw last week and noticed how, in the 25 or 30 years I've known the neighborhood, the palm trees have jumped the shark a bit in the area bounded roughly by Vernon & Slauson and Van Ness & Western. The trees have gotten so tall that they have all but lost their relationship with the homes below. They are starting to look like barrage balloons hovering over the neighborhood. It's kind of a weird effect:

gsv

It's quite obvious what the dominant life form is in this urban habitat! People come and people go, but the palms endure...

-Scott
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