John Ward and his wife, Dawn Holder, were already packed and ready to go on Tuesday afternoon. The fire was then a 30-minute drive away, in the Pacific Palisades, and there were no evacuation orders. But the winds were fierce, and their mobile home park in the suburb of Sylmar had burned to the ground … Read more
Up on Amalfi Drive in the Pacific Palisades neighborhood of Los Angeles, luxury homes owned by celebrities are still standing. But down at the Pacific Palisades Bowl Mobile Estates, a mobile home community on Pacific Coast Highway just across from the beach, all of the nearly 200 homes are destroyed. “Nothing but ruins,” said Maria … Read more
Overlooking Will Rogers State Beach, Palisades Bowl Mobile Estates was likely one of the most scenic mobile home parks in the United States. And many of the 500-square-foot homes were bought for a fraction of the cost of the large houses studding the surrounding hills, where the median home price topped $3 million. Perhaps most … Read more