Santa Monica by Madeline
Los Angeles, USA
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These photos of LA street vendor culture up at GOOD are quite beautiful. And they’re not about the places you’re following on Twitter: we’re talking old school. Worth checking out to see a less-publicized, but very vibrant, aspect of LA life.
Thai Town Sunset by Alaska Miller
“If you’re good I’ll write about how I lived in my car and self destructed like Bukowski to learn the truths.”
Los Angeles, USA
Ocean Blvd Fogography by n+s
Images like this remind us why sunny Los Angeles is the birthplace of noir.
Weller Residence by Martin Schall
Angeleno Heights in Los Angeles is an architecture fan’s heaven. This house was built from a construction kit, a fairly popular product out West about a hundred years ago. Read more about the “catalog architect” who designed it here.
Shadow Hill Way by Nick Springett
“…An 80-foot infinity pool defines the back of the house.”
Beverly Hills, California, USA
Bryson by Kevin McCollister
MacArthur Park in Los Angeles is generally considered a bad part of town. Look toward the sky for a reminder of its wealthy, Roaring 20s past.
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“Teenage Summer Days” by David Arthur Brown
Brazzaville are my favourite band of all time, but I just got around to getting David’s solo album. This song is the best thing I’ve heard in months… Buy this album you guys…
Down on Pico and Fedora
Back in 1983
All the cholos on the corner
Hid their pistols in the trees
El Funny Clown lived off of Sunset
On a street called Benton Way
There were blood stains on the sidewalk
But the rain washed them away
On the mean streets of L.A.
All those teenage summer days
We took the bus way down to Venice
Went bodysurfing in the waves
Staring out at the horizon
On those teenage summer days
On the mean streets of L.A.
All those teenage summer days
My daddy was a trucker
Hauling freight 12 hours a day
Sometimes he’d take me down to Vernon
Or the shipyards in South Bay
On those teenage summer days
On the mean streets of L.A.
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Cambodia Town by Christina House
Los Angeles County is home to the only official Cambodia Town in the U.S. It’s an interesting glimpse into a culture that doesn’t get a lot of attention in this country.
-Katherine
Welcome to Playland by Andrew (cubagallery)
Santa Monica Pier, Los Angeles, USA
Via absolutehipps:fack
Culver Hotel - Culver City, California
Los Angeles is full of amazing, luxurious hotels, but this brick building from 1924 may be my favorite. It was a crowd-drawing skyscraper when it was built (a full six stories!), and it quickly became a movie star favorite. John Wayne and Joan Crawford lived there.
There are rumors of a secret tunnel from the hotel to nearby Sony Studios (then Culver Studio). And of course, the Munchkins from the “Wizard of Oz” partied so hard, so legendarily, here during filming that the restaurant was named in their honor.
It’s like a Hollywood museum in there, with all the posters and plaques and, often, a film crew making a new classic: parts of “Austen Powers” were shot here. Probably in a room with a circular bed.
-Katherine
