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Exploring an Old Neighborhood on a Cool Summer Afternoon Near Dusk.
Yesterday Andreas and I drove over to an old neighborhood to walk around and take photos. The location was south of downtown, and the 10; east of the 110, and encompasses streets such as Washington Bl, Central, San Pedro and Maple. Most of the houses were built in the early 1900s. They are wood cottages…
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Mayor Garbageciti’s Los Angeles
Last night we went down to Koreatown and found a cheap, excellent sidewalk café serving fresh dumplings at the corner of 6thand Catalina. Golden Pouch has tables and benches along the sidewalk. You walk up and pay at an Ipad and you sit down and wait for your name to be called. Within 20-25 minutes…
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The Bus Bench
“Despite a growing population and a booming economy, the number of trips taken on Los Angeles County’s bus and rail network last year fell to the lowest level in more than a decade. Passengers on Metropolitan Transportation Authority buses and trains took 397.5 million trips in 2017, a decline of 15% over five years. Metro’s…
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1949: A $72 Million Dollar Flood Control Plan to Waterproof SFV
After March 1938 Flood: Lankershim Bl. looking north near Universal City. Photo: by Herman Schultheis After the disastrous 1938 floods, the City of Los Angeles worked with the State of California and the Federal Government, specifically The Army Corps of Engineers, to encase the rivers of Los Angeles in a waterproof lined concrete sewer to…
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Looking East For Ideas.
On these torrid July days, when the temperature is 105 degrees, and a walk down Van Nuys Boulevard near the Orange Line Metro stop brings you face-to-face with people sprawled out on the sidewalk, living in tents, sleeping on dirt, it is instructive and bracing to think of other civilizations, such as Japan, where…
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Aerial Views: Van Nuys in the 1920s
1930s Map of the San Fernando Valley (DWP) Van Nuys was established in 1911, and soon after people settled here to work and live. The Southern Pacific freight trains ran along tracks which are now the location of the Metro Orange Line. An agricultural economy supported citrus packing plants, animal feed for horses, cows, chickens;…
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