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Location: 5637 Park Oak Place, Los Angeles, 90068
Asking Price: $4,987,000
Year Built: 1953 Living Area: 3,992 square feet, 5 bedrooms, 4.5 bathrooms
Features: Single-level; gated; paneled formal entry; vaulted & beamed ceiling; formal living room; custom-designed Calcutta marble fireplace; grassy backyard; brand new pool and spa; herringbone walnut floors; European cabinets; Caesarstone counters; Thermador appliances; Duravit trapezoidal tub.
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The 15 best bakeries to get your daily bread (and a lot more) around Boston
.bofbpic img { width: 100%; height: auto; } Bricco Panetteria Photo by Adam DeTour for The Boston Globe; Food styling by Shiela Jarnes You can judge a North End restaurant by the contents of its bread baskets, and, in this realm, Bricco excels. But if you can't get a reservation, you can still get the goods. Follow the smell of fresh bread down a narrow alleyway to its modest panetteria. A fragrant (often still warm) Italian or French baguette costs $3 — or spend more for a gorgeous olive-studded loaf. With some prosciutto or fig jam and cheese from Bricco's salumeria next door, that's a picnic. Address: 11 Board Alley (behind 241 Hanover Street), North End Phone: Find online: .bofbpic img { width: 100%; height: auto; } Clear Flour Bread Nathan Klima for The Boston Globe Clear Flour Bread has been open since 1982, and may it stay that way forever. We salute this Brookline mainstay for its longtime excellence, but we love it for its roster of European-style loaves and pastries: olive rolls, sourdough variants, the cheese-ready New England Night (wheat, rye, pecans, and cranberries), and German pretzels; morning buns, chocolate pretzel croissants, fruit tarts, and perfect chocolate chunk cookies. Check the schedule to see what's available, or just stop by often and try it all. Address: 178 Thorndike Street, Brookline Phone: Find online: .bofbpic img { width: 100%; height: auto; } Colette Bakery Expanded from Medford to Melrose and now the South End, this French bakery practices culinary diplomacy wherever it goes. This is thanks to eggy, burnt sugar-y canelés, perfectly buttery croissants, and baguettes to carry home like a real French person, plus an assortment of other appealing goodies. It's particularly welcome in the South End, which missed French bakery Cafe Madeline, previously open in this location. Address: 517 Columbus Avenue, South End Phone: Find online: .bofbpic img { width: 100%; height: auto; } Flour Bakery + Cafe Kristin Teig This Boston-area institution could also fairly be called 'Butter,' serving up flaky, rich breakfast pastries such as a corn chili cheddar bialy, homemade Pop-Tart, or, best of all, the supremely gooey 'sticky sticky bun.' With 10 locations across Boston and Cambridge, it's easy to find an excuse to try the breakfast sandwich: custardy slabs of egg with tomato and cheese all piled on a brioche bun and slathered with dijonnaise — a creamy, punchy mixture of mustard and mayonnaise that founder Joanne Chang calls her 'secret sauce.' A new location was added downtown this year. Address: 131 Clarendon Street, Back Bay, and other locations Phone: Find online: .bofbpic img { width: 100%; height: auto; } Ho Yuen Bakery Craig F. Walker/Globe Staff Grace Young, a James Beard-winning advocate for all Chinatowns, practically swooned over this unassuming spot during a visit in 2024, telling the Globe it's 'the type of Cantonese bakery you don't see much of anymore!' Find labor-intensive delicacies such as savory taro rolls flecked with scallions and dried shrimp, glistening egg custard tarts with flaky crusts, moon cakes in different flavors, and soft buns filled with slow-roasted barbecued pork. A bit of the past still in the present. Cash only. Address: 54 Beach Street #1, Chinatown Phone: Find online: Not available .bofbpic img { width: 100%; height: auto; } La Saison Bakery In both of their shops, Iranian-born pastry chef Soheil Fathi and his wife, Sarah Moridpour, bake eclairs, croissants, pain au chocolat, kouign amann (a delectable, multilayered, buttery pastry), and other French classics; American favorites such as sourdough bread and chocolate chip cookies; and barbari, a Persian flatbread. Perfection everywhere you look. Address: 407 Concord Avenue, Cambridge, and another location Phone: Find online: .bofbpic img { width: 100%; height: auto; } La Sultana Linda Rose Campos for The Boston Globe From the time it opens its doors, this Colombian bakery never stops moving. Locals fill the Maverick Square cornerstone in search of freshly baked goods and quick lunch plates. Of the dozens of options this cafeteria-style spot offers, the oven-hot pandebono — cheese bread — is a standout: sweet, moist, and subtly cheesy. It's the best $2.50 you will spend anywhere. Address: 40 Maverick Square, East Boston Phone: Find online: Not available .bofbpic img { width: 100%; height: auto; } Lyndell's Bakery From Lyndell's A Somerville classic: In a world of fast-casual breakfast grain bowls, toasts, and free Wi-Fi, Lyndell's, which opened in 1887, remains refreshingly rooted in the past. At this simple spot — inhale deeply for yeast and sugar overload — stand in line and gaze at the case until it's your turn to point: at saucer-sized M&M's cookies; glistening hot cross buns; red velvet cupcakes … all oversized and gloriously fresh. Pro tip: The intricately decorated custom cakes with lifelike designs are true works of art. Address: 720 Broadway, Somerville Phone: Find online: .bofbpic img { width: 100%; height: auto; } Mahalab Bakery Skip the line outside Bagelsaurus in Porter Square and stop by Ayham Haddad's Middle Eastern bake shop instead for a calmer — but no less tasty — experience right next door. Country sourdough pitas are the mainstay here, but spinach and feta fatayer (essentially a stuffed bread boat) and ajvar sfiha (flatbreads with roasted bell pepper and eggplant) steal the show. Grab a dip — muhammara, baba ghanouj, or hummus — to go with your delicacies. 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Address: 1 Belmont Street, Cambridge, and another location Phone: Find online: .bofbpic img { width: 100%; height: auto; } Violette Bakers Mona Miri for The Boston Globe Its tagline is, 'If it tastes gluten-free, we don't sell it.' To the uninitiated, the bakery cases piled high with fluffy, frosted cupcakes; crispy, chocolatey cookies; and indulgent breads such as the challah or English muffins look, well . . . glutenous. But for the gluten-free crowd, the Cambridge shop is a gem. The tiny bakery also offers pizza by the slice, sandwiches made to order, and bagel sandwiches every Saturday. Address: 1782 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge Phone: Find online: .bofbpic img { width: 100%; height: auto; } Yafa Bakery & Café Nathan Klima for The Boston Globe This Palestinian bakery and cafe is a labor of love and culture, presided over by hospitable owner Abdulla Awad. 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Real WW2 Stories: Families Share Hidden Histories
My Grandpa Russ was an Air Force pilot during World War II, but like many men of that generation, he rarely talked about what he saw. Recently, my dad and I went through his journal from that time period, and what really struck me were the personal anecdotes, like hanging out with his buddies and his efforts to learn French to flirt with European ladies (Nana wasn't in the picture yet). There were also horrifying details, like an account of watching his buddy die as their plane crash-landed in Switzerland. That's Gramps looking studious in a photo we found tucked into his journal. So when I came across this thread of people sharing their family stories from WWII, I was instantly hooked on these incredibly human stories that show the day-to-day reality of living through this turbulent historical period. Here are some of the most fascinating stories that made history come to life before my eyes: "My grandpa on my dad's side was in the Navy. Served in the Atlantic and Mediterranean as a steamfitter. Got himself a war bride from England, returned to Canada, and became a boilermaker at a paper mill. He died when I was a young teen, so I never heard any stories. His wife, the British war bride, was a WREN [Women's Royal Naval Service] and worked in Army intelligence. She actually worked on the world's first computer, part of Alan Turing's Enigma-cracking group, although she didn't realize it until well after the war, when the information was finally declassified." "All she knew was that she had to watch cylinders turn and then, when they stopped, take a reading, pass it on up, and reset a new cylinder. She had no idea what any of it meant."—KnoWanUKnow2 "My father quit high school and enlisted in the Navy before his 18th birthday late in the war. To quote him, he was afraid the war would end without him. He really wanted to fight Nazis (we are Jewish), but he ended up in the Philippines. I knew he drove a landing craft, but the worst story I ever heard was when the washing machine on his ship tore skin off his hand, and he needed a skin graft. When Saving Private Ryan came out, I mentioned the opening scene and asked how realistic it was." "My grandfather (born 1906) participated in WWII, as a German soldier, and yes, he was a Nazi. At to the early stages of war. He had some real 'are we the baddies' moments that made him change. And he did not talk to my father about what stuff he had done out of shame, but shortly before killing himself in his high 90s, he talked to me about what he did. And explained to me why he lived his whole life long in fear that either Americans, 'the Jews,' or the Russians would get him in revenge." "After the war, he went full SPD (left-social Democratic Party), supported my father being a full-blown antifascist, and the same for me. He was ashamed until his self-chosen death because of his stupidity. He explained to me what led to that, but also told me that this could never be an excuse to switch off one's brain and actively vote for a guy who told the world before in a book what he would do if he rose to power."—Llewellian "My dad was in the North Pacific in WWII. He never talked about it. We finally asked him why when we were old enough to realize how horrible it must have been. He answered direct questions but volunteered little. One story we all loved was him standing in line as weapons were being assigned when they got off the boat. The guy handing them out had a huge bazooka and was eying my 6'2" dad down the line. He did NOT want to lug that thing all over Asia. Another officer went by asking if anyone could type. Dad had been in business college, yay! He spent most of his time in a tent with a typewriter after that." "My mom (96 now) fled from bombs dropped in Tokyo in 1942. So yes, she 'participated' as a Japanese citizen." —CanAny1DoItRight "Both of my grandads pushed the Germans out of France. They didn't talk about it, but they did tell me about how important it was that they did the job for the sake of humanity. And they had very compelling arguments about how the armed conflicts the US took part in after WWII were not worthy in most ways (up to around 1998). Knowing their views and learning their thoughts, I'm sure both Grandpa and Popo are furious that the world isn't fighting harder for Ukraine, financially and militarily." "My dad was in WWII. He was a dancer and comedian and was in a group with Melvyn Douglas, Peter Gennaro, and other entertainers. They traveled around entertaining the troops. When he wasn't doing that, he worked as a cook." —Bitter_Face8790 "My dad was in the Army. He fought the Japanese. He remembers every morning, the Japanese pilots would bomb their camp at 5 a.m. They'd get into a foxhole with trees covering them. They could hear the shrapnel hitting over their heads. One guy in his company completely lost it. He killed himself in his bed. They were all given a cyanide pill in case they got captured by the enemy." "My nonno (grandfather) fought on the Italian side. Before he met my nonna and had my dad and aunt, he had a wife and two young children — a boy and a girl — who were killed in an American carpet bombing raid. He came home and found his village leveled and his family dead. He just started over again." —baitbus666 "One grandfather was too old by a few months to be drafted. The other one went. The only time he ever spoke about it was when he was in the hospital, dying. His dementia made him think it was many years earlier. So occasionally, some military things slipped out." "Both of my grandfathers served in the military: My maternal grandfather was in the Infantry and fought in, among other things, the Battle of the Bulge. My paternal grandfather served in the Army as a photographer for the Department of War; he carried a gun but never fired it." "My maternal grandfather loved telling war stories. I think he processed his trauma by framing his experiences as an adventure. He had grown up in rural Maine and was an outdoorsman who loved hunting and fishing, and he thought his early experiences in the woods helped him survive the war. He absolutely had PTSD and had nightmares his whole life.""My paternal grandfather did not like talking about the war, and so far as I know, told stories about it only once, when my brother asked to interview him for a school project. He also absolutely had PTSD and had nightmares his whole life.""Both my grandmothers also participated in the war effort as civilians. My maternal grandmother went to work for the FBI as a file clerk in Washington, DC.""My paternal grandmother had grown up in the deep south with parents who'd very much scripted out her life for her (and it was going to involve some genteel women's college followed by marriage to someone respectable); when the war broke out, this meant suddenly her life opened up in ways she had not expected. She patriotically went north to work at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, where she met and fell in love with my grandfather (a Yankee son of an immigrant, pretty much the son-in-law of my great-grandparents' nightmares). They settled back down in Dayton, Ohio, after the war. Sadly, she died in her early 60s and I didn't get to know her very well."—SignedUpJustFrThis "Both my folks were in the war. My Dutch mother went through the Nazi occupation and carried messages for the underground on her bicycle. After the war, she was a Red Cross interpreter in the refugee camp where I was born in '47. My American dad was an Army soldier who was in Europe from '43 'til '53. He went through D-Day all the way through to the camps." "My father's father wanted to fight, but he worked at a munitions factory, and they wouldn't let him go sign up. He was considered an essential home front worker. He was always a little bitter about it, but my grandmother once told me that she was so thankful that he was needed and that he couldn't go. My mother's father served, but he never saw active combat. He did ship repair in the Navy and was stationed out of the Port of San Francisco." —MaggieMae68 "My dad was stationed in Australia during WWII, where he got married and divorced within two months to an Australian woman. Meanwhile, my mom was doing her part from home by writing letters to several GIs in Europe. We found their letters to her after she passed away in November. They were quite flirty. She also went to dances and things here in the US with military guys before they shipped out. My parents met and married in the 1950s." "My mother, who was 13 at the time, and her parents were interned in Weihsien, a Japanese prisoner of war camp in north China. While it was fairly miserable, they were not treated as harshly as captured Allied soldiers. My mother would talk about life in camp occasionally." "My father was also a teenager, and he refused to be evacuated from London during the Blitz. He would also talk about surviving the bombing and rationing sometimes."—jlzania "My father served in the Coast Guard in WWII. When we asked him what he did, he said 'nothing.' About a year before he died, he started to tell us about driving landing craft to islands under attack, dodging bullets, and bringing back dead and wounded to the Navy ship he served on. He and his friend, who served under Patton, never talked about the war except with each other. 'No one else would understand.' They kept their trauma to themselves." "My maternal grandfather was killed in a live grenade training camp accident at Fort Benning just weeks after getting drafted into the US Army in July 1945. My mom was 4 years old. My paternal grandfather was a private in the US Army and was awarded a Purple Heart for injuries suffered during the Battle of Aachen in December 1944." —revo2022 "My grandpa was at Pearl Harbor when it was attacked. I had the luxury of returning with him many years ago. He was a bomber pilot and managed to escape in his plane despite still being slightly drunk from the party the night before." "My stepdad was in the British Army. He had polio as a kid, so he had short legs, so he got to be a tank driver. On his first day out, there was a huge bang, and the tank stopped. He got out of his seat and looked back, and there was no turret. He was the only survivor." "The next day, he was in another tank. That night, everyone slept under the tank for protection. There was no room for him as he was the new guy, so he had to sleep beside the tank. It rained that night. The next morning, the tank had sunk into the mud. Everyone was asphyxiated except Dad, since he wasn't under the tank. He was the only survivor.""No one wanted him after that. They joked about giving him a German uniform and sending him to the other side."—astcell "My Oma lived in Germany, my Opa was in the Army, and brought her home with him. I interviewed my Oma for a WWII report once in high school, and she didn't say much. Her parents died in the war. I don't know how her father passed, but I know her mother died in the attempted assassination of Hitler. A bombing in a restaurant, if I remember correctly. My Oma was 11 at the time. Hitler attended the funeral (it was a group funeral with all of the victims). I got a really great grade on my paper, my Oma's interview, and the photos of her with Hitler at my great-grandmother's funeral earned me extra credit." "My grandfather fought in the Pacific theater. He didn't talk about it often, but I know he was proud of his service. When he died (a bit over 20 years ago), there was a display with several medals. I can't recall exactly what was said, but it was something along the lines of, 'If I go to my grave without anyone knowing how I won these medals, I'll have done my duty.'" —SlightlyTwistedGames "My uncle was in the Air Force and flew on bombing raids over Europe. From what I have seen in movies, that must have been terrifying, but the only stories he told me were funny. He told me one story about a gunner on his plane and how he got a Purple Heart." And finally, "My late father served in the Pacific. Very proud Marine. He talked more about the people he met in China as part of the peacekeeping force after the war was over. But then, when Windtalkers came out, he said, 'I guess I can talk about it now.' He was sworn to secrecy. He guarded one of the Navajo code talkers!" —1rarebird55 Do you have a story to share about your family from World War II? Tell us about it in the comments or via the anonymous form below:
Newsweek
03-07-2025
- Newsweek
How US Population Compares To First Independence Day
Based on facts, either observed and verified firsthand by the reporter, or reported and verified from knowledgeable sources. Newsweek AI is in beta. Translations may contain inaccuracies—please refer to the original content. The population of the United States has grown almost 123 times since the first federal census was conducted after the Founding Fathers signed the Declaration of Independence in 1776. In 1780, the nearest available Census Bureau population estimate to the signing, nearly 2.8 million people lived in the first 13 states of the U.S. There are now around 342 million people living across the U.S., according to estimates for July this year. Spectators watch Fourth of July fireworks in New York in July. Spectators watch Fourth of July fireworks in New York in July. AP Why It Matters The annual Fourth of July population snapshot from the Census Bureau highlights the scale of demographic growth in the U.S. The U.S. population now far exceeds the population of any European nation, including Germany's at around 84 million, and the United Kingdom's at nearly 70 million. The U.S. population is nearly half that of all European nations combined, at roughly 745 million. What To Know The 13 British colonies that declared independence from the Kingdom of Great Britain in 1776 and became the first U.S. states were Connecticut, Delaware, Georgia, Maryland, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York, North Carolina, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, South Carolina, and Virginia. The first federal census was not conducted until 1790, but the Census Bureau estimates that Pennsylvania's population was 302,000 in 1775 based on counts conducted during the Colonial and Continental periods. As of 2024, the state's population had grown to around 13.1 million, more than 43 times larger, according to the Census Bureau. While the U.S. population has continued to grow, there have been longstanding concerns about the country's birth rate as people live longer and have fewer children. Newsweek has broken down how births in the U.S. have declined over the last 50 years here. Fertility rates are projected to average 1.6 births per woman over the next three decades, according to the Congressional Budget Office's latest forecast released this year. This number is well below the replacement level of 2.1 births per woman required to maintain a stable population without immigration. What People Are Saying President Donald Trump said during a speech in December: "We want more babies, to put it nicely." Vice President JD Vance said in January: "We failed a generation not only by permitting a culture of abortion on demand, but also by neglecting to help young parents achieve the ingredients they need to lead a happy and meaningful life. "Our society has failed to recognize the obligation that one generation has to another as a core part of living in a society. So let me say very simply, I want more babies in the United States of America." What Happens Next As the nation prepares to celebrate its 250th anniversary in 2026, population growth trends are expected to remain a key focus for lawmakers and researchers. Slowing birth rates, aging populations, and debates over immigration will influence how the U.S. continues to grow.
