Touring My Town
On the occasion of my cousin Margaret’s last day in Los Angeles before flying home to Nashville, I picked her up from my mom’s to show her some sites, and we ended up doing more than I expected: Watts Towers Central Avenue Jazz District Central Library Disney Concert Hall Angels Flight Grand Central Market Million …
Walk: On!
Just a companion post to redunduntally augmentalize what I tossed up on Blogging.la this morning. My 2nd-Annual March March is set for March 5 (if raining, postponed to March 12). I’ll be heading east to explore the historic and amazing Whittier Boulevard. But instead of an out-and-back entirely on foot, we’ll be gathering at Union …
Follow-up: LA Plays Someplace Else
Back in November on Blogging.la, I posted about a fancy new fully cinematic and futuristic Air Force “It’s Not Science Fiction” commercial I saw on TV that utilized a decidedly disaster-struck 6th Street Viaduct (over a CGI’d full LA River below) upon which a dramatic rescue operation takes place. I paused the TV to get …
Clouds & Light
Cruised to Broguiere’s Dairy in Montebello on my lunch hour today so that we’ll have The Best Eggnog for Thanksgiving. Took surface streets back and in passing Calvary Cemetery I dove in for an amazed first-ever drive around the huge and fantastic place. The cloud action was off the hook. It’s a funny thing about …
Circa 1890s: Sunset & Castelar
I’ve had this image for several weeks, found in one of my swims through the LA Public Library’s digital archives, but I’ve refrained from posting it because the information packaged with the image is sparse. It lists this is street scene as Sunset and Castelar in 1890, but I’d never heard and could find on …
The Serendipitous Roundabout Way In Which You Learn Things Like That John Steinbeck Lived For A Time In Los Angeles
I’m not much on absolute favorites. I’m much more a “Top 5” or “Top 10” kind of guy — the sort who always qualifies his appreciation of things, inserting “one of” into anything I’m glowing and crowing about. “That is one of my favorite Frank Lloyd Wright residences.” “My 19th birthday? One of the best …