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.