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Looking back at the Van Nuys Civic Center in 2016.
On Monday, October 3, 2016 I went for a midday walk around the Van Nuys Civic Center. I carried my Fujifilm XE-2 with a wide angle 16mm lens. I was just documenting the surroundings, a habit of mine. The photographs are in black and white, the buildings are stark, the plazas empty, the sun and…
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Suicide by Hanging, 1951
From USC Archives is this sad photograph, dated October 30, 1951, showing Van Nuys firemen over the dead body of T.E. Commings, who had earlier hung himself from garage rafters. American newspapers back then showed flash lit photographs of crime and tragedy, usually with names and addresses of victims. “Mrs. Robert Crane, 34, of 114…
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A Drive Through Hell.
Yesterday, after eating lunch at Myung Dong Noodle House on Wilshire, we got into our car and drove south on Irolo St. and went east, along West 8th Street, for about two and a half miles. Words cannot produce images that could equal the utter filthiness, horror, inhumanity and decay of the street. There were…
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The Oldest Blighted Property In Van Nuys Getting Attention Again.
7101 Sepulveda Bl. has been a blighted property for at least a decade. I wrote about it in previous posts. Tragically, or amusingly, this once pristine office tower and adjoining asphalt parking lot was the subject of Ed Ruscha’s art. He made aerial photographs in 1967 that today sell for tens of thousands of dollars.…
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Photography: Gun Lee, Northridge, CA.
April 5, 2024 These are some photographs I took of actor/model Gun Lee along Reseda Bl. in Northridge, CA. He is an introspective and thoughtful person with a passion for art, photography and design. Gun is also a photographer and videographer and has some excellent work up on YouTube.
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Purse Snatchers and Parking Lots. (Chinatown Part 2)
On the day we walked here, a few hours after we left, a 68-year-old woman, fighting a purse snatcher, was stabbed 8 times but survived. Her attacker was tackled by others and kept down until police arrived and arrested him. One can sense the presence of danger here even though it may not be knifing…
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