Plans for Childrens Museum

LAKE VIEW TERRACE: The lights are still on, but nobody's home at what was to be the San Fernando Valley's children's museum. Dana Bartholomew in the Daily News.

Eight months after the Children's Museum of Los Angeles filed for bankruptcy and abandoned its $52 million playland project, city officials hope to create a new museum especially for kids.

And residents hope the cavernous shell at Hansen Dam Recreation Area can be devoted to little boys and girls.

"It's everybody's tax dollars," said Steve Negrete, 60, of Lake View Terrace, watching his grandchildren play on a city parks playground next to the hulking museum site. "I see them filming movies there all the tim