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December 14 – 20, 2018 Volume XXI, Issue 22
Gleam Davis Selected as SM Mayor Councilmember Davis replaces Ted Winterer as Mayor of Santa Monica. By Sam Catanzaro The City of Santa Monica has a new mayor: Gleam Davis, who was voted by councilmembers to replace former Mayor Ted Winterer at a special City Council meeting Tuesday evening. “Serving the community is an honor and wonderful opportunity to elevate Santa
Monicans priorities during an exciting time in the City’s history. We have a lot of work ahead of us,” Mayor Gleam Davis said. “Our beachside city is an inclusive and progressive place. We need to celebrate our successes and tackle the challenges that we face with equitable vigor. Santa Monica is a community that I care for deeply and as mayor, I will listen, learn and provide thoughtful consideration to community questions and ideas that arise during my term.” Davis, who has served on Santa Monica City Council since 2009 when she was chosen to fill the seat left vacant by the passing of Herb Katz before getting elected by voters in 2010, is also corporate counsel for AT&T and supervises all of its litigation in the Los
Angeles area. Growing up in Los Angeles, Davis graduated from Harvard Law School in 1981 and began her public service career in 1986 as a member of the Board of Directors of WISE Senior Services. At the time of her appointment, Davis was a member of the Santa Monica Planning Commission and was the Co-Chair of Santa Monicans for Renters’ Rights. Also at the Council meeting Tuesday, Terry O’Day was chosen to replace Mayor Davis as Mayor Pro Tempore. O’Day has served on City Council since getting elected in 2010, and has previously served as Mayor Pro Tempore for two years. In addition to his
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Santa Monica’s new mayor, Gleam Davis.
11th St. Bungalows Approved as Historic Landmark
The Santa Monica Landmarks Commission gives designation recommendation. By Keldine Hull
For Susan Suntree, Co-Chair of Friends of 11th Street, and the other dedicated people involved in the historic preservation of Santa Monica’s 11th Street Bungalows, their years of hard work finally paid off. Following the December 10 hearing at City Hall to the Santa Monica Landmarks Commission meeting, in which they presented their case supporting that the 11th Street Bungalows be designated as a historic landmark, the commissioners voted unanimously in favor 5-0. “It was a beautifully presented argument; clear, logical, accounted for the arguments on the other side, and responded to them. It made us feel vindicated and appreciated that they recognized the work that the community members
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A bungalow at 1107 Arizona Ave. in the early 1900s, 1989 and 2017 (left to right).
had done,” Suntree explains. “The new commissioners took the time to really look into it. They did their homework, and they thought about it. And one commissioner changed her mind after looking at the research her colleagues did. She acknowledged them for that. It was something that I really admired about the civic process.” Suntree was equally impressed that the commissioners discovered information outside of the information provided. Kenneth Strickfaden, who lived at 1223 11th Street in the early 1900s, was attending Santa Monica High School when
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he was dubbed “Edison No. 2” due to his many clever electrical inventions. “He had his workshop in the back and his biographer said that this was where it all started,” Suntree said. “He was at the 1915 Panama Pacific Exposition, a major international fair. An article was found in the Santa Monica Bay Outlet from June 13, 1918, calling him a boy genius, an electrical genius, and a sensation at the fair. As a teenager, while he was living here, he also developed prowess as a photographer. He was quite something. He said to his biographer that
his time living here was the absolute foundation of his career.” All the evidence provided during the hearing further proved that the community of people who moved to the 11th Street Bungalows in the early 1900s laid down the foundation for what Santa Monica is today. They were the builders, the carpenters, the teachers-in essence, the very blueprint for today’s society. After the success at the meeting, there’s still
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