It honors Korean War veterans as well as serving as a symbol of friendship between our two countries. The Korean Bell weighs 17 tons and stands 12 feet tall. The bell is inside a pagoda-like structure which was constructed in San Pedro by 30 craftsmen who were flown in from Korea.
In addition, the Korean Bell of Friendship is located in a picturesque setting which also tends to get fairly breezy — perfect kite-flying conditions!
This site might be most appropriate for families with older kids. The sloping hillsides at this 3-acre park are perfect spots for flying kites. Get ready to spend quite a bit of time at Silver Lake Meadow.
At this 2. The acre Burton W. Chace Park is a popular picnic and special event spot in Marina del Rey. The sea breezes will help keep that kite flying higher and higher. Enjoy beautiful views of the harbor as you spend an enjoyable day out with your family. Families can make a day of it. Not to mention large, open green areas — perfect for kite flying. Ascot Hills Park offers views of downtown L.
Hike up to the top for the view and those very kite-friendly breezes! The large, open spaces of Recreation Park are perfect for a kite-flying family outing. Fairview Park is the largest park in Costa Mesa. Wendy Kennar is a mother, writer, and former teacher who has lived her entire life in the same Los Angeles zip code.
You can read more from Wendy at her website WendyKennar. Disclaimer: MomsLA has made every effort to confirm the information in this article; however, things can often change. Of course, the family passes chimney sweep Bert Dick Van Dyke conveniently selling kites in the nearby park that guy really knows how to hustle for a buck! George is thrilled, ostensibly blissfully unaware that this new job almost certainly will keep him away from his family more than his previous one was Disney trying to pave the way for a sequel?
She just flies out of town in a moment of bittersweet umbrella levitation. After convincing my friend Suzy to join me last week, we jumped into my car and headed to the Sunshine Kite Company on the pier in Redondo Beach, California. I apologetically confessed my total lack of kite knowledge to the woman running the store, and she explained that we could buy an easy kite, requiring almost no assembly or skill, or a hard kite, requiring assembly time and steering expertise.
In the park, on top of a steep hill overlooking the Pacific Ocean, sits an enormous bronze bell called the Korean Bell of Friendship. More importantly, the hill is rumored to be the windiest spot in Los Angeles and well-suited for kite flying.
Suzy and I laid out a blanket on the grass behind the Bell, and after a tasty picnic under the spring sun, we tried our new kite. As advertised by the kite store owner, we assembled it in under a minute and as soon as we picked it up, it soared into the sky above the pavilion covering the Korean Bell of Friendship.
We took turns maneuvering it and quickly discovered that our kite, combined with the strong wind, required absolutely no skill from us. No matter what we did, the kite hovered above us without incident, as if we had simply tied a string to a tree.
Wishing we had purchased a more interactive kite, I searched eagerly around the park, hoping that I could befriend the flier of a cooler kite. Suzy refused to help me fulfill my secret desire to steal a fancy kite from an unsuspecting child, so in honor of Mary Poppins and the Bell — which South Korea bequeathed to the US in appreciation of the American veterans of the Korean War — I befriended a father and son who were enjoying a day of kite flying.
But I found their kite no harder to fly than mine, and as I looked around the park more, I discovered disappointedly that all the kites in the park were pretty much the same. Apparently, the kite store owner had used the same sales pitch on everyone in the park.
But then the wind changed, and our kite took a fast nose dive into the ground.
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