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	<title>Dan Koeppel&#039;s Blog &#187; Big Parade Stairways</title>
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		<title>Not definitive, but a comprehensive list of stairway walks and maps….</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 08 Oct 2010 00:06:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[KEY UPDATE: All linked maps and routes now have stairways properly marked (the old system, still described below, didn&#8217;t work.) Every stairway on my list is included as an overlay on the maps (so you&#8217;ll see many more stairways than the route includes.) Obviously, the ones along the route are the ones you should search for/take. YOU WILL NEED TO ZOOM IN TO THE ROUTE when you arrive at the map page, or all you&#8217;ll see is a mass of stairway markers. UPDATED OCT 25, 2010 to fix broken Franklin Hills links. UPDATED OCT 12, 2010 with four loop walks in Echo Park. There are now a total of 27 maps/route cards posted. UPDATED OCT 8, 2010 with additional links to stairway advocacy sites. FIRST: Everything below is FREE. I don&#8217;t charge for my walks, my routes, my spreadsheets, my maps &#8211; nothing. Why? Because not much in the world is free, and because I don&#8217;t own the stairways I love &#8211; and that I hope you&#8217;ll come to love. That said, I do own this content. You can reproduce it and distribute it, but you can&#8217;t sell it for the above reasons. I probably won&#8217;t find out if you [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Closed stairway semi-opened (and other stairway maintenance news…)</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 20 Dec 2009 21:46:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Effie-Mohawk Stairway has been reopened, and the illegally-placed gates that were put up there over this past Thanksgiving weekend have been taken down. Sort of. My friends and stair-climbing partners Andrew Lichtman and Ying Chen were the first to report this, and sent these pix (click to enlarge.) In the tradition of not being overly thankful for things that should happen without anyone yelling about them in the first place, this fix &#8211; which I assume the city is responsible for &#8211; is pretty weak. The support struts for the gates are still there; those were the ones that were sunk into concrete, and since they still exist, putting in a new gate wouldn&#8217;t be that hard. Bob Inman &#8211; LA&#8217;s Stairway King &#8211; also noticed, and sent me this account: &#8220;Top and bottom gates removed. The posts they hung from are still there, even with springs hanging uselessly from them. I think there was some sort of city notice posted at the bottom but I was rushing and did not park to go read it. I had kind of a strange call from the City last Monday in response to the report I filed. Essentially the only reason [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Public Stairway &#8220;privatized&#8221; over Thanksgiving weekend.</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Dec 2009 01:38:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[QUICK SUMMARY: a new gate has been put up &#8211; illegally &#8211; on one of Echo Park&#8217;s historic stairways. Read the full report, below, to find out what you can do about it. Friday, November 27. Working on new stairway routes with a bunch of friends; we take a late-afternoon walk that mainly runs north and south of Sunset Boulevard, through Silverlake, Echo Park, and Angelino Heights. When we get to the Effie/Mohawk stairs &#8211; they&#8217;re just wast of Glendale Blvd., where Effie and Mohawk reach dead-ends &#8211; the 111 steps are free and clear. (See the map, below, for more info on the stair location.) Less than 48 hours later, I&#8217;m on a run and approach the same staircase from the bottom, only to find a set of iron gates &#8211; one low, where Effie dead-ends east of Glendale Blvd., and another at the top, where Mohawk Street reaches a cul-de-sac &#8211; have been put up. The cement is so fresh that I can still get it on my fingers (the pictures above were taken that day.) BACKGROUND: There are over 20 closed stairways in Los Angeles; a few may have been legitimately shuttered, but others have clearly been [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Bob Inman is a Stairway God.</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 11 Aug 2009 20:47:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[After the Big Parade was over, I got an email from Bob Inman, author of &#8220;A Guide to the Stairways of Los Angeles,&#8221; which is absolutely the most complete &#8211; and beautifully put together &#8211; listing of this city&#8217;s public stairs, from San Pedro to South Pasadena, beyond and in-between. Bob has spent four years counting, cataloguing, and mapping, and the hard work shows: precise addresses, assessments, counts, and &#8220;local color&#8221; info are included with each stairway, all divided by neighborhood for easy walking. Bob took me on an 18-stairway, 8-mile walk that stretched from Highland Park to South Pasadena, with Gold Line stops (cool use of mass transit!) on either end. I&#8217;ve never been led on a stairwalk before &#8211; and it was really an incredible experience. Bob, I bow down to you. You can preview the book here, but if you buy it,  you&#8217;re better off ordering it directly from Bob; you&#8217;ll save on shipping.]]></description>
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