No Sense of Place

We read today, with a mixture of nostalgia, disgust and outrage, Amy Louise Kazmin’s article regarding the proposed demolition of the Munch Box in Chatsworth in order to build yet another sterile, ugly and unnecessary mini-mall.

Nostalgia for the many years that we have spent perched on a stool in front of the Munch Box, enjoying a meal and watching the world roll by; disgust and outrage at the shortsighted individuals in Los Angeles city government and private enterprise, working together to rob Chatsworth of one of its few remaining local landmarks.

Industrializing the West Valley may increase the tax base for Los Angeles, but it has brought nothing but congestion, crime and blight to this once pretty and peaceful corner of L.A.

Have the people in City Hall no sense of place? Have they no regard for their working class constituents? This is yet another example of the continued erosion of the quality of life in Los Angeles, and in Chatsworth in particular, for the benefit of a greedy few.

CHARLES R. PAVLIK

Chatsworth

BRUCE PAVLIK and LYNN SUER

Oakland, Calif.

ROBERT PAVLIK

Paso Robles, Calif.