A timeless view

Nicolai Ouroussoff notes the future Performing and Visual Arts Academy’s obvious visual link to Grand Avenue’s cultural string of pearls. However, there is no mention of the site’s link to L.A.’s earliest history as Ft. Moore, where Mormon soldiers in the Mexican American War looked down upon the Mexican pueblo and were shocked by its gambling, debauchery and bullfights.

The eastern edge of the property, above the Hill Street Mormon Battalion Memorial, remarkably offers the same view of this feisty pueblo as seen in its earliest 1840s sketches and 1860s photographs and remains a fascinating and historical perspective. Hopefully, the new facility will keep this accessible to the public and properly display it.

Roger Christensen

Sherman Oaks