By Jim Miller
For my last Golden Hill piece, I turned to the wisdom of my 9 year-old son Walter, who, in answer to my query about what he liked best about his neighborhood said, “It’s old and grungy, not fake like the suburbs.” And of all his favorite places in the neighborhood, he chose the Golden Hill Fountain Grotto because, “It’s a ruin. You can tell it used to be all fancy and now it’s falling apart with graffiti and stuff. It’s like something they’d find if we became an extinct species.”
Walt also likes the surrounding Golden Hill Gateway Park because, “it’s where the wilderness meets the city. There are animals that live there and secret paths and canyons that make you forget where you are.” So off we went to investigate. [Read more…]