Maybe Encino Should Be Gated

* Someone should remind Gerald and Myrna Silver (Valley Commentary, Nov. 7) that at the turn of the century thousands of Jewish immigrants, including some of my family, got their start selling their wares from pushcarts on the East Side of New York. Hopefully, the merchants whose businesses had to compete with the pushcarts were a little more charitable than the Silvers seem to be of the immigrants of today.

I have been in Encino on numerous occasions, and I don’t recall “crowded thoroughfares that look like swap meets or bazaars.” In fact, I can’t remember a single time when I have seen a street vendor in Encino.

If Mr. and Mrs. Silver feel so strongly about protecting Encino, then they should put up a fence to close it off and require passports so that only the “right people” would be able to enter their area.

DARIA CASE

Van Nuys