back yard

This was a demonstration of how far the “yes in my back yard” cause has come since Sonja Trauss started the San Francisco Bay Area Renters Federation, or BARF, a decade ago.

Realities that have settled onto L.A. are drifting to Orange County, where the myths have not been altogether uprooted, myths of open space, of suburbs, of “being able to get in your car and drive alone to work at 60 miles an hour, being able to buy a single-family home with a big back yard,” says UCI’s Baldassare.

Back yard to brilliant - the making of Duplantis, and how high can he go?

“One memory is just jumping in the back yard after school and Mondo would coach me,” says Johanna.

It helped having a pole-vault pit in the back yard of their home in Louisiana, where Duplantis grew up alongside his two brothers and younger sister Johanna, who is also a professional pole vaulter.