Posts tagged with los angeles
(via LAPD Historic Photo Archive) “Motorcycle officers lined up for donuts”
This is a treasure trove.
(via LAPD Historic Photo Archive) “Mob Hit”
Holy crap, LA in the 30s. It’s like Chinatown up in here.
(via Paris Review – Ghost River, Will Hunt)
I love the idea of cities being built over cities. During my short time in grad school, we had a project where we had to make a city tour of our choosing. I ended up enjoying the project I chose but I wish I had pursued another project on the layers upon layers that make up a city. It’s not quite as pronounced in LA as it is in NYC but something could be done (the public transportation rails that fell into disuse all over the city maybe?)
(via Franklin Avenue: Despite What You’ve Read, Zooey Deschanel Loves Los Angeles)
I hate when people diss on LA, especially those who haven’t spent any time here or a very short amount of time. It also irks me when people like Pat Morrison defend LA then take a weird stab at the Westside, like we are less than because we don’t live downtown or on the east side… I know I’m very late on this whole thing but people need to stop hating on this city.
It is so cool seeing some of the UCLA LA Times collection negatives on tumblr. I have personally scanned some of them. Not this one. That’s not my handwriting and I would’ve remembered Joan Didion.
Since this is also property of UCLA, the link can be found here: http://unitproj.library.ucla.edu/dlib/lat/display.cfm?ms=uclalat_1429_b660_264720&searchType=keyword&k=didion&w=none&x=title&y=none&z=none&s=1
Oh, yes.
P.S. Carolyn Kellogg is the lead blogger on our books blog Jacket Copy. Give her a follow.
Joan Didion in Los Angeles, 1970.
All hail.
Photo: A photo of Joan Didion published in The Times on Aug. 2, 1970. Credit: Los Angeles Times
(Source: Los Angeles Times)
For Doug: Angel outside of the Ennis House.
Here he is outside of his old home on Crawford street. He went from a mansion in Sunnydale to being kept in the corner of a second story apartment in Hollywood. I guess even vampires aren’t immune to economic downturns, eh?
Doug bought me my weird copy of Strindberg’s Madman’s Manifesto there.
Alias Books, Los Angeles, CA, USA
(Photo by marctonysmith)
(via keremmermutlu)
In celebration of L.A. NOIRE, the LA Times has put out an interactive 1947 crime map.
Most of the furniture in Moby’s house is really nice. Where can I find $4 mill to buy a house in LA?
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