Heading into downtown (by Anika Malone)
oh, per usual i couldn’t take pictures of the sides or the back, as they’re hidden by trees, and as much as i like taking pictures of people’s houses i don’t really want to become a creepy house stalker and end up in jail for taking pictures of the sides of people’s houses.
i can imagine the prison conversation:
‘hey what are you guys in for?’
guy 1 - ‘i was smuggling ar-15’s from turkmenistan to newark’.
guy 2 - ‘i blew up a bank in arkansas.’
guy 3 - ‘i ran 10 crystal meth labs in dominica’.
me - ‘i was taking pictures of mid century architecture in l.a’.so, i’ll stick to the street and not go to jail for being a creepy architecture stalker.
thanksmoby
I can so relate, but thankfully, many LA homeowners are proud to show you around and some even invite you in, which can be a little scary.
Depot (by Anika Malone)
I really, really want to get into model trains.
I think.
I may be more interested in just building model towns. I don’t know. Either way, I don’t have the room nor the funds to pursue this dream so I’ll just visit the Miniature Train Garden in Pomona or hobby stores.
Corruption and Greed (by Anika Malone)
You know how I feel about the lazy “Both sides do it” thing, but this is an excellent graphic.
Immigrant Justice Voter (by Anika Malone)
American flag, corporate style. (by Anika Malone)
Image and flags (by Anika Malone)
Chess board (by Anika Malone)
For sale (by Anika Malone)
The Barber House (by Anika Malone)
Lion head (by Anika Malone)
The best part about Lunar New Year is the Lion Dance. It kicks off with one and ends with one in the Lantern Festival.
Musicians (by Anika Malone)
Seagull fast food (by Anika Malone)
February 23-26, 1948: Over 75,000 Angelenos lined up to tour the Freedom Train parked alongside Exposition Blvd. The train exhibited 120 historical documents from a Christopher Columbus letter to the Iwo Jima flag, and including the manuscript of the “Star Spangled Banner” and the pension application from the first woman to serve in the U.S. armed forces (Deborah Sampson, Continental Army, 1781). The traveling museum visited 300 American cities during its year-long run.
Conceptualized after the Depression and after World War II, the train and its rare contents hoped to ignite the enthusiasm of the American people (and advertisers, which lead to the creation of lots of ephemera including this cutout on the Kellogg’s Pep cereal box).For more about the train: http://www.freedomtrain.org/main.htm. Photo from the Los Angeles Public Library photo archive.
Earth light (by Anika Malone)
Everything about this light in the rotunda of Central Library is perfect.
“The chandelier was designed by Goodhue Associates, modeled by Lee Lawrie and manufactured by the Thomas Day Company of Los Angeles. In the 1980s, Historical Arts and Casting of Salt Lake City restored the Globe Chandelier. Composed of cast bronze, it weights one ton and is 9 feet in diameter. Its’ original cost was $40,000.
The Chandelier is part of a model of the solar system. A translucent blue-glass globe with hand-painted continents hangs in the middle. Planets and a crescent moon can be found in the chains that suspend the globe and the sunburst on the ceiling directly above the globe mirrors the sunburst on the pyramid top of the Library outside. Signs of the zodiac ring the globe along with 48 lights around the rim, which represent the 48 United States in 1926 when the building opened.”
From LAPL on The Globe Chandelier.
