The new sound in Pacific Palisades: Hammers on nails

Opinion The new sound in Pacific Palisades: Hammers on nails By Joel Pollak Published June 20, 2026, 8:49 p.m. ET See more of our coverage in your search results. Add The California Post on Google There’s a new sound in Pacific Palisades lately. The streets were quiet for so long, save for the rumble of excavators and dump trucks, hauling away the debris. But now, if you visit Palisades in the daylight hours, you’ll hear the thumping rhythm of hammers against nails. 7 There’s a new sound in Pacific Palisades lately. David Buchan for CA Post The wooden frames of new homes are finally going up. For weeks after the January 2025 fire, Palisades was a graveyard of chimneys, obelisks mournfully marking the ruins where homes had once stood.

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