[TheForge] [OT] bobcat

[Bruce Freeman]

Not really.  Topsoil is scarce enough -- and unstable enough -- that
before the bulldozers push it aside before construction begins.  For
lawn areas, they push it back.  I wouldn't be surprised if they sell
of the excess.

I remember some of those orange groves too, but the ones I saw were
mostly in Orange Co.  Most of that is gone now.

On Thu, Feb 24, 2011 at 3:08 PM, peter fels <artgawk at thegrid.net> wrote:
> I remember looking down on the valley when i was a kid,( including Van Nuys) from Mullhulland and seeing a carpet of orchards all across the valley. Now it's paved and roofed over.
> Fabulous depth of topsoil..i like to imagine it's down under the asphalt, waiting for folks to go away.
>
> On Feb 24, 2011, at 11:24 AM, Mike Spencer wrote:
>
>>
>>
>> Andy Vida wrote:
>>
>>> CA was so different in those days.
>>
>> Yeah.  That's what my mama always said about Van Nuys.
>>
>> She started saying it around 1940 or '42, though.  Just wasn't the
>> same as when she moved there around 1918.
>>
>> For my part, I only lived there the year I turned 6, used to play on
>> lovely rolling, watered lawns that are now (according to the net)
>> leveled and converted to a parking lot for a giant mall.
>>
>> Ho hum.
>>
>> - Mike
>>
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