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How to get to our meetings:

Using an on-line mapping program to get to 3200 Motor Avenue (Los Angeles, 90064) is not very effective, since it gets you to the HQ of Vista del Mar. It’s likely that a GPS will produce the same results. It’s best to supplement these with the directions below.

Our meetings are in the (Taper?) building across the grass from the Baron School for Exceptional Children (which is the new name for the Julia Ann Singer center, our old meeting place) within the Vista del Mar campus between National and Pico, 1/2 block North of the Santa Monica (10) Freeway underpass. (JAS is an outpatient division of the Vista del Mar Child and Family Services organization, serving learning disabled, emotionally disturbed, developmentally delayed and abused children and their families.)

The Baron School is at 3321 Edith Ave, Los Angeles, CA 90064. Even though this address is helpful when using Mapquest and other mapping programs, you cannot enter from Edith. Instead, you must enter via the Vista del Mar campus’ main gate on Motor Boulevard, at 3200 Motor Blvd. Then you have to wind through the Vista campus, going in a generally Easterly direction without turning at any of the intersections until you get to the East side of the campus, where you park. See the maps below.

1. getting to Vista del Mar, the home of the Julia Ann Singer center:

From the Santa Monica Freeway, going East (almost immediately east of the 405): get off at National. Turn left onto National, then turn left at the most confusing intersection in the world (the one with the overhead sign; there's no need to stop), onto National again. At the light, turn left on Motor. Go under the freeway overpass, turn right into the Vista del Mar campus. This is the blue path in the map below.

From the Santa Monica freeway, going West (almost immediately east of the 405): get off at National. Go straight onto Manning. Turn left onto Motor. Turn Left into the Vista del Mar campus before freeway overpass. This is the bright red path in the map below.

 From Pico Boulevard, going either direction: turn South on Motor Boulevard and wind along until after you pass Manning. Turn Left into the Vista del Mar campus before freeway overpass.

From Venice Boulevard, going either direction: turn North on Motor Boulevard and drive until you pass under the Santa Monica Freeway. Then, turn right into the Vista del Mar campus.

Figure 1: The Big Picture (Details Below)

2. Now you're at Vista del Mar:

 Please enter through Vista del Mar and go as straight as possible (on a mildly wiggling road) on a mild uphill grade, following any signs you see eastward to the Julia Ann Singer Center (JAS). Don’t turn left or right at the intersection. This is the purple (red plus blue) path in the maps above and below. The JAS is an extremely drab-looking cinder-block building that’s covered with ivy. The sign above the front door of the JAS building is now much more readable than it used to be, while they added a new glass door that stands out in the dark when the lights are on.

However, we’re no longer at the old building where were last year and previous years! Once you get to the new and bright front door of where the JAS center used to be, turn around completely and look for a large bright door in the building where we now have our meetings (called the Taper building, I believe). It’s by a basketball hoop and not far away. See the second Google photo below. More information will be available as soon as I can get it. (Thanks to Google for not complaining about my use of their Google Earth program. Thanks also to MapQuest for the map above.)

Figure 2: Drive on the Solid Lines, Walk on the Dotted Lines.

Figure 3: A Close-Up.

The new building with our meeting room is immediately to the right à It is immediately to the west of our old building, the old Julia Ann Singer center (now the Baron School, but still labeled as JAS above the door).

3. Leaving to go home:

 to go back to the 405 or points east along the Santa Monica freeway, exit Vista del Mar and turn left on Motor Ave. Then, turn right on National Blvd at the stop-light. Then, after winding around a bit, turn right on Overland Blvd. Then turn right after the bridge, onto the Freeway.

 to go back to the Santa Monica freeway going West: exit Vista del Mar and turn Right on Motor Ave. Turn right on Manning about two blocks, there's an entrance to the Freeway.

 to go back to Venice Blvd., turn left on Motor as you exit from Vista del Mar.

To go back to Pico Blvd., turn right on Motor Blvd.

Please e-mail me at jdevine@lmu.edu if you have any questions or comments -- or if you want to be put on our e-mailing list. If you want information put on our web pages, contact me.

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This page revised by Jim Devine, 20-Apr-10.