(click it for the heavily stylized bigger picture) I made the mistake of believing the worst of the storm had past this afternoon, and set out to take care of a truck errand on my lunch hour. Since the work on my Nissan was going to take about that amount of time I went for …
As seen previously, it’s one thing to put on a santa suit, augmented with several strings of battery powered lights, and go bike-riding with several hundred fellow All-City Toy Ridazz — a fair percentage of whom are also wearing similarly festive outfits. It’s another thing entirely to return home from Boyle Heights through skid row …
So with the addition of a negative scanner, I’ve of course been going through sheets of negatives from back in the prehistoric days shooting black and white film — most of which were related to class assignments from the early ’90s. Pulling a sheet out of the batch on my desk I found what looks …
These images are from 1992 — ’93 at the latest — of my darling daughter Katie enjoying an orange at her grandma’s house in Sherman Oaks on a rainy day. A brief and marvelous moment in time, newly rediscovered thanks to the negative scanner I’ve long wanted and just got. This was the first random …
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 …
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 …
It was hastily shot and even more hastily cobbled together, but as you might tell in this 180-degree four-frame panorama there wasn’t a much better vista during yesterday’s CicLAvia than atop the 4th Street Bridge (click to panoramify):