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Lawrence Clark Powell (1906-2001) http://tinyurl.com/LCPowell

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On the Malibu

From The Little Package, 1964.

Reader: Daniel Maloney

Thanks partly to movies and television, Malibu Beach is believed to be one of southern California's most glamourous locales. But for those who know it well, it's real charm is as a gateway to peacful pursuits

At one time, UCLA's chief librarian—Lawrence Clark Powell—lived in Malibu. For him, its fundamental charm had nothing to do with glamour and glitz.

Living on the Malibu one can choose between many peaceful things to do—stay at home and read or write or garden and other chores, or just sit; or drive in the hills; or walk on the beach. There is no choice too among the hill drives—whether it be up the Decker Road along Mulholland, and down the Arroyo Sequit to the sea again, or up Little Sycamore Canyon on the Yerba Buena Road, over Triunfo Pass with view to Lake Sherwood, then down past the lake, through Hidden Valley, over the hills and down Long Grade Canyon to Camarillo and the coast highway; or west from Little Sycamore along narrow roads leading into cul-de-sacs, where one sees foxes and hawks, and water flowing out of rock face—all within fifty miles of Los Angeles, unknown to millions.

Lawrence Clark Powell was one of California's most distiguished literary scholars. The Little Package was published in 1964.