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# No. 3698752 Santa Monica City be the sea needs more lofty ideals
- URL: https://www.smdp.com/no-3698752-santa-monica-city-be-the-sea-needs-more-lofty-ideals-editor/
- Published: 2006-04-01T16:00:00.000Z
- Updated: 2026-10-23T17:26:44.000Z
- Author: Guest Author
- Tags: Opinion, Santa Monica, #archive-import

*By Annie Warhole*

I think people in Santa Monica should wake up to the treasure they have in Bergamot Station, albeit an underutilized treasure. A recent stop at the former train station/present day artist colony proved what I was thinking: What a perfect place for condominiums. Developers could boot out the artists and make some really neat loft-style luxury apartments, in which pseudo artists could live and pretend they are artists as well.

Sign me up for one. I have this huge blank canvas I bought at Glick on Santa Monica going on three years ago and could hang that on an exposed brick wall or something. I still have paint and stuff like that still in their wrappers. Scatter ‘em about and voila!.

*Originally published in the Santa Monica Daily Press print edition on April 1, 2006.* [Read the original PDF.](https://s3.us-east-1.amazonaws.com/smdp%5Fbackissues/040106.pdf?ref=smdp.com)