Culver City

* “Bringing Back the Glory Days” (Jan. 15), about Culver City, the “Heart of Screenland” since 1917, is at once incorrect in its premise and ironic in its solution. The article “puts down” a town whose location and innovation have combined to make it one of the most desirable among Westside towns.

It’s ironic that the “Heart of Screenland,” where so many movies have been made, should have to pin its hopes for its downtown (awkwardly angled because of the old street-car line) on the coming of the movie houses and the high pedestrian count that they generate. Ironic, too, that the municipal Lilliputians, ensconced in their own lovely Culver neighborhoods, would not want a commercial neighborhood that matched their residential neighborhoods.

JOHN CARL BROGDON

Culver City