What is it about vintage images of everyday street scenes, such as this one from the northwest corner of Hollywood & Vine in the early 1950s (hat-tip to LA Observed)? I can’t help but extensively examine and explore them as if they are some archaeological find. Yet should someone venture out this afternoon with a …
Since Susan and I returned (and actually while we were there) I’ve been grousing about how any photos taken of the giant sequoias in Kings Canyon and Sequoia National Parks are preordained to fail. It’s pretty much a fact that taking a picture of an almost unfathomably gigantic tree amidst other almost unfathomably gigantic trees …
Click image for the bigger picture Next in my occasional trippings down memory lane through the Los Angeles Public Library’s digital archives, I share with you this blast from the past. Undated, but if the visible vehicles are any indication probably taken somewhere around the late 1920s to early ’30s, we find Carpenter’s Drive-In that …
Being a native angeleno who cherishes connections to my city’s history (in part because so much of my personal historical landmarks have been destroyed), I take a special geekish pride not just in our 104-year-old house, but also that I live within the original city limits as it was incorporated in 1850. With that love …
Stargazers with even the most basic of knowledge will rightfully scoff at the ignorance within which I’d adamantly maintained that Polaris was positioned at the end of the handle of the Big Dipper. As I finally discovered this weekend: wrong dipper. Polaris isn’t at the tip of Ursa Major (which includes the Big D), but …
So, while I was up on the roof last night getting this shot to the west of the Moon, Saturn, Mars and Venus all gathered together in the western sky, before I came down I also pointed the camera to the northwest and got this shot of that view (click it for the bigger picture):
I don’t ever need an excuse to go to my favorite restaurant, but this time I have one. After attending the party celebrating its grillmaster’s 1941 Tatra T87 win in the New York Times Collectible Car of the Year contest, I did as I said I would and took the photo I snapped of the …