Second in a series.
Re: “City Council Race: An Impressive Small Launching”
For someone as sensitive about design-and-development as the architecture writer Thomas Small, Carson Street in the Hayden Tract was the only setting he would have considered to formally open his City Council campaign.
Carson Street could be a scene from the 1940s, as Mr. Small bubbles with enthusiasm.
“What is so great about this street,” he said with scant prompting, “is that it is a beautiful tree-lined street, with beautiful lamps, and it is a cul-de-sac.
“It is safe,” said the father of a young boy and a young girl, “and it has a small-town feel.
“Most importantly, though, you can walk so many places from Carson Street.”
Mr. Small says that “we can walk Downtown. We can walk to the movies. We can walk to Trader Joe’s. We can walk to the train station. And to the Helms Bakery. This is just what you need.”
When he and his wife Joanna Brody, virtual newlyweds, moved here from Santa Monica a decade ago they knew they were home when they arrived on Carson Street.
As Mr. Small spoke with genuine, almost unrestrained passion, a listener could picture this magazine cover-worthy all-American family matching each other, long stride-for-long-stride, visiting the places Dad just had reeled off.
The all-American family resides just where you would think they do, on a street that might have formed the backdrop for idealistic early television shows such as “Father Knows Best.” (At least his wife and children say so.)
Fittingly for an architecture writer who travels the world narrating and analyzing major building projects, the Small family lives in a two-story showcase home – where they hope a Councilman soon will be residing
(To be continued)
