Posted on 05/27/2013 12:25:17 PM PDT by BenLurkin
LOS ANGELES (CBSLA.com) — The Los Angeles River Recreation Zone officially opened up to the public Monday.
City officials launched the new summer boat and recreational program at 10 a.m. at Marsh Park in Elysian Valley.
“For the first time since the Los Angeles River was channelized in the 1930′s, the public will be welcomed to access and enjoy a 2.5-mile stretch of the Los Angeles River near downtown to boat to kayak, walk, and fish,” officials said in a statement.
The recreation zone starts at LA River crossover at Fletcher Boulevard and Oso Park, Chief Ranger Fernando Gomez with the Mountains Recreation and Conservation Authority told KNX1070′s Margaret Carrero.
Has anyone actually ever seen the LA river? I’m from the San Fernando valley and what is classified as the LA river is nominally dry as a bone. Fishing/Kayaking - really?
Does that mean they are going to allow it during the height of winter when there IS water in it an it’s moving at 20 miles an hour?
Idiots.
Haven’t you heard, kayaking is the future of America. That’s why we have to remove all the dams and destroy the value of all the lake front homes.
I’ve seen portions of it from the Metrolink which have been allowed to grow in with plants and trees. And water. The stretch I’m thinking of is near Griffith Park. I think the area in particular is known as Atwater aka “Frog Town” and once had some potent gangbangers.
Is that where Terminator 2 chased John Connor in the truck?
I live 2 blocks from the river in Atwater Village. The river is going through a long-term multi-decade transformation.
Good or bad? I wan’t be alive to see it but I love the LA River.
The El Ninos back in the late 70’s filled the LA river just about to the top where it goes past Compton. Saw it with my own eyes. That was a lot of water....
They’ve been doing this for a few years actually:
http://www.cnn.com/2011/US/08/20/california.la.river/index.html?_s=PM:US
http://www.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,2092587,00.html
http://lariverexpeditions.com/
That was my first thought as well. Just saw that movie the other day. One of those flicks that you can’t turn off once you start watching.
Yeah, ya just follow the “stinky Felix” storm drain covers that empty into the concrete river bed!
Maybe the river flows into Tule Lake.
The part you can see from the roads looks like - cement + mud + water plants + tires + water now and then. + yes the potent gangbangers. The Urban Wilderness. No thanks for this Angelino.
Possibly, but I think that was over by the First Street or the Sixth Street bridge. They do a lot of filming there.
My favorite is the key scene from “To Live and Die in L.A.” which was shot there.
If I recall correctly, the Thunder Road car race scene in “Grease” was filmed in a river channel in LA, perhaps it was also the LA River.
Couldn’t find Terminator in here, but came across this website -
Hollywood on Location:
Where Your Favorite Movies
& TV shows Were Filmed
http://www.seeing-stars.com/locations/
It’s pretty cool.
The reason they cemented the LA River (and others that come down from the mountains) is that, when it does rain here in So Cal, it dumps.
There are photos from the 1920s of terrible flash floods and walls of mud that took out whole sections of town, homes, cars, people. It is semi-arid, flash flood country, and the mountains have huge granite boulders and lots of exposed soil. Add forest fire damange and the soil cannot hold when it rains torrents. There are intersections that fill with water even now, that you cannot cross in an automobile.
The original San Gabriel Mission was 9 miles SE from its current site. It, too, was flooded one winter for miles on either side, through Whittier Narrows area. The folks who lived there lost livestock, crops, houses, and the mission and stockade too. Pictures show a huge lake. They moved to higher ground.
There will be water in the LA River, now and then, mostly in the winter. An “intermittent river’ they call it. When it is full, I guarantee you there will be no kayakers in it. They have River Rescue people for those times, because kids fall in and get swept to sea.
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