1133 7th St, Santa Monica, CA 90403
https://recovery.lacounty.gov/palisades-fire/
Six lighted tennis courts in good shape but NOT FREE. There aren’t many free public tennis court options in Santa Monica, so if you’ve got to keep it local here, plan ahead and expect to pay approximately $12 an hour. The upside of this is you’ll be guaranteed court time. At Reed, you can also rent a ball machine if you want to work on your backhand volley (or anything else, backhand volley is at the top of my improvement list right now).
From my journal
September 30, 2022
While we were rallying, I noticed these balls stuck high up in the fence. I
thought that was weird because usually tennis balls, when they stick in the
fence, are ankle to waist high. These balls were a good ten feet up there, and
they had been there a while because that neon tennis ball green had faded to
drab gray.
They struck a melancholy note and I sat down after playing to jot all this down, but didn't get very far because a guy came up to me and asked if I could make a call for him.
"I want to call my dad to let him know my phone is dead and I'm hungry," he said.
"Sure," I told this guy, who looked 25 years old and also
1,000 years old. He gave me the number and someone who sounded like a dad
answered right away. A quiet, deep voice. I was really touched by how
responsive dad was. Not angry.
He sounded ready to do what needed doing, and
grateful for the opportunity to be useful to his son. He said he would be right
over, at the place they usually meet, the church across the street.
Dad said he would bring a charger, too. He said, "I charged the charger."
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