LOVING THE HIGHLIFE
Cooperative housing pioneer to landmark honors —
Crestwood Hills savors its affection for modernism
From the pages of CA-Modern magazine
By Dave Weinstein
Few neighborhoods have gotten underway with grander plans than Crestwood Hills. Imagine a place where hardworking musicians, teachers, and writers can live together, close to the city yet surrounded by nature, with cooperatively owned schools, stores, medical services — and even a bus to take them to their jobs in Los Angeles.
Such was the dream. And some of it came true.
“It was very exciting, I have to say,” says Nora Weckler, who joined the Mutual Housing Association, which in the late 1940s developed the site in the then-remote Santa Monica Mountains high above Sunset Boulevard.
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