Barbara and I are chummy with Palisades village—after hiking local trails like Will Rogers and Los Leones, we always stop at the pink Starbucks on Sunset at Swarthmore, take our drinks to the little triangle park across the street, and then browse our favorite shops on Antioch. But experience taught us that to know an area is to explore it on foot, and when we saw Paul Haddad's urban hike through the Palisades we were in. Haddad's version is 5-miles and includes Temescal Canyon trail but we broke it in half. Village this week, trail next week. We parked at the intersection of Frontera and Pampas Ricas Blvd. and walked NE through part of the residential area south of Sunset. Beautiful hou$es with gardens that earned our "Best Neighborhood Landscaping" award, topping hard-to-beat Hancock Park for variety and organization. We picked up Sunset at Carey Street, walking west through the quaint "old" business district past the former location of the Bay Theater designed by S. Charles Lee in 1949. The theater is gone (but the iconic sign has not been forgotten), and the building now houses a failing hardware store. Moving on, we came to our favorite little triangular park. The tiny Palisades Village Green dates back to the founding of PP in the 1920s, progress put a gas station there, and in 1973 sentimentality brought the Village Green back. Across the street, our Starbucks, but today we learned that its pink home (and don't you dare try and change the color)—the Business Block Building—is an L.A. Cultural-Historic Landmark built in 1924, a year before Sunset Boulevard was paved. We crossed Sunset north on Swarthmore Avenue, and BOOM, the old Palisades became the new Palisades as soon as we entered the revamped Palisades Village. Shopping center mogul Rick Caruso (Grove/Americana) rehabilitated three acres of tired shops into an "expensive Pleasantville," quaint, classy, swell, that includes a brand new Bay Theater fronted by a replica of the old Bay Theater sign. Sunday is Farmer's Market Day and we strolled through the crowd doing a little produce checking in the stalls, window shopping in the new shops, and our first celebrity spotting (what's in your wallet?) near the patriotic, 9-foot, 800-lb. "Steadfast" sculpture by Jim Rennert. Palisades Village, opened in 2018, has all the right shops and cafes, and you can feel the shine and new life it adds to the old business area. Leaving the Village, we continued west on Sunset to Temescal Canyon Road. Instead of going into the park to hike (doing that next week), we walked south to Haverford Avenue and Founders' Oaks Island, the 1922 birthplace of Pacific Palisades. This small pocket park marks where Rev. Charles H. Scott and a Methodist Organization founded their secluded, close-knit community targeted to the religious and intellectual. By 1925, there were 100 homes. Today Pacific Palisades population tops 28,000. Continuing on Haverford we passed another L.A. Cultural-Historic Landmark—the Aldersgate Lodge, a stunning Mission-Revival Craftsman built in 1892 in L.A.'s Wilshire district and moved by the Methodists to PP in 1928 for a retreat center. A quick jump over to Via De La Paz to see the Spanish-Colonial-designed Pacific Palisades Elementary (1930), PP's first elementary school. A walk through Palisades Recreation Park took us back to the car, and then, as usual, we drove to our pink Starbucks for mochas. This hike may not be for everyone, but it was really fun for us to learn about an area we thought we already knew so well.