This L.A. Home (Set Under a Bridge!) Used to Be So Dark and Cramped
Photo by Lauren Moore
From the outside, it looks like David Brooks got lucky. After six years of renting six different apartments, a process he laughingly refers to as “bouncing around L.A.,” he set out to buy a place in the sprawling city's Eastside. There were a few misses, of course, but then his real-estate agent uncovered a tucked-away midcentury beauty. “When I walked in, there was a big smile on the Realtor’s face and his arms were out wide,” David, who is a creative director and executive producer, remembers. “It was unlike anything I had looked at in Los Angeles.”
The property they found was the last house on a dead-end street in the Los Feliz enclave of Franklin Hills. It’s a quiet, up-and-coming neighborhood, and his home had an added feature that seemed to give it a serendipitous air: It’s set against a hillside under the Gothic arch of the area’s historic Shakespeare Bridge.
