Another great print scanned by the USC Digital Library. This one shows the intersection of Westminster Avenue at Abbot Kinney. The perspective is looking to the southeast, in the southerly direction of traffic.
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The Sunset Cutoff of the Red Car Trolley
So, there’s this little park in Santa Monica. It’s right near the Volkswagen dealership on Santa Monica Boulevard near 26th Street. Anyway, the park is on a street named Park Drive. So the park is named, “Park Drive Park.” There’s this riddle I liked as a kid: “Why do people drive on a parkway and parkContinue reading “The Sunset Cutoff of the Red Car Trolley”
Venice Beach, 1940
As I’ve mentioned before, one can spend quite a bit of time lost in the digitized photography archives hosted by the digital library at the University of Southern California. It’s the single best resource I’ve found for large- and medium- format Los Angeles photography. Wherever possible, I try to look for ways to group photographs together. IContinue reading “Venice Beach, 1940”
LOL – BlackBerry Named “Venice”
They should have named it “Orson” or “Touch of Evil” maybe. RIM really phoned it in on this one. Source: BlackBerry’s Android-powered Venice phone surfaces in the wild
The jaw-dropping police/prosecutor scandal in Orange County, Calif. – The Washington Post
Don’t call it that. This is systematic corruption involving dozens of police officers and prosecutors that went on for well over two decades. At a minimum, there should be mass firings of cops and disbarments of prosecutors, past and present. A system that still retained some integrity would also have the worst offenders in handcuffs. viaContinue reading “The jaw-dropping police/prosecutor scandal in Orange County, Calif. – The Washington Post”
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