Links for Los Angeles
Five links to help Los Angeles.
The Last Repair Shop
From the Los Angeles Times, a short documentary, The Last Repair Shop, directed by Kris Bowers and Ben Proudfoot. The instrument repair shop for the Los Angeles Unified School District is the last shop in the United States taking care of student instruments.
In search of lost LA
From Lou Grant: “When did they get rid of the orange groves in the Valley? Whatever happened to the eucalyptus trees along Melrose? Why do I sound like a ninety–year–old man?”
Intersectional
Watching Murder, She Wrote (for the old stars), we spotted the intersection of Laurel Canyon Boulevard and Ventura Boulevard. There’s a building with a distinctive rounded front on one corner. It’s a drugstore in the show, and a drugstore still (now a CVS).
“Sepulveda”
Today’s Zippy is all about Los Angeles.
The Watts Towers at 100
The Los Angeles Times reviews their history.
Domestic comedy
“Our knowledge of Los Angeles is vast and shallow!”
Red Cars
From the movie Hell Bound: the Red Cars of the Pacific Electric Railway, junked.
The Unfaithful : Bradbury
The Unfaithful (dir. Vincent Sherman, 1947) has something for everyone, including a scene in the Bradbury Building.
The Unfaithful : Angels Flight
The Unfaithful (dir. Vincent Sherman, 1947) has something for everyone, including a ride on the Angels Flight Railway.
Foot falls
“Oh no! The Silver Lake Foot has fallen down the steps at the #MetGala.”
Los Beach Boys
Los Lobos cover “Sail On, Sailor” — and other songs from Los Angeles.
The Los Feliz Murder Mansion
A seven-episode podcast from Cloudy Day Pictures.
Give ’em an inch . . .
. . . and they’ll take a foot. It’s a Los Angeles thing.
An EXchange name sighting
A Los Angeles motor livery, in a building still standing.
LAFDF
The Los Angeles Fire Department Foundation is accepting donations.
Patience, Fortitude, and feet
Patience and Fortitude are back. And the happy foot/sad foot sign has a home.
Feet on the move
The Sunset Foot Clinic is leaving Silver Lake. And with it will go a famous happy foot/sad foot sign with a connection to David Foster Wallace’s The Pale King.
“Like, for sure!”
The New Yorker (February 4) has a short piece about Valley Girl Redefined, an art exhibition then at the Brand Library & Art Center in Glendale, California.
On the run in Los Angeles
From Act of Violence (dir. Fred Zinnemann, 1949), Angels Flight and the 2nd or 3rd Street Tunnel.
Jonathan Gold (1960–2018)
Jonathan Gold, Los Angeles food writer, has died at the age of fifty-seven.
Hollywood and Argyle
The intersection of Hollywood Boulevard and Argyle Avenue, as seen in the opening moments of Nightfall.
Eating at Corky’s
A Valley restaurant.
Things to do in Los Angeles
Things to do in Los Angeles
The Foot Clinic sign
Los Angeles’s Foot Clinic sign (happy foot/sad foot) comes to life in a music video by YACHT.
Things to do in the Valley
The San Fernando Valley, that is. Two bookstores, five restaurants.
Zippy’s Darkroom
At 5370 Wilshire Boulevard, Los Angeles.
New York v. Los Angeles
Susanna Wolff: “‘Welcome to Los Angeles’? Thanks, but no, thanks — I’m from New York. I don’t need to engage in cordial small talk with strangers. In New York, we greet newcomers by giving them incorrect directions to Times Square and criticizing the way they spread their cream cheese.”
Los Angeles palimpsest
This unassuming sign was the occasion for posts in 2012 and 2014.