Dome Sweet Dome
(click to quadruplify) The dome of St. Vincent de Paul Church at the corner of Adams and Figueroa.
Frozen In Time
This doesn’t come close to being a find of any type of archaeological proportions, but in a city so often faulted for covering up its history, I can’t help but feeling somewhat similar to what I imagine a palentologist might feel discovering preserved footprints of some ancient creature. In this case it’s the pawprints of …
Historicool
While killing some time waiting for Tuesday night’s downtown bike ride, I rolled around taking snaps of some of the local dramatic landmarkery (click to biggify): The First Congregational Church of Los Angeles The rear of the Bullocks Wilshire Building with beacon lit. What I find most interesting about the two buildings is that the …
Sadly Ironic
With some time to kill before meeting up with the iaal•maf near LaFayette Park for a downtown art ride followed by some barbecue and beers at Spring Street Smokehouse I rolled around the way a bit, snapping I’ve long admired the Bullocks Wilshire building and equally appreciated the Southwestern School of Law for taking possession …
A New In Old
If you’ve read this blog for any length you know I get a kick out of digging things up out of the backyard, which is a steady supplier of stuff — most of it as worthless as it is intriguing. Be it marbles, figurines, opossum jawbones, World War II era German army helmets, whiskey bottles …
An Extra Special Place In Hell
In the obituary section of today’s L.A. Times can be found news of the death of one 86-year-old Heinz Barth. An SS Officer in World War II, Barth was tried and convicted in 39 years after his participation in the “Das Reich” armored division’s massacre of 642 men, women and children in the French village …
A Way Back Machine
I don’t know how I failed to see this when I first extracted this lock from the bedroom door some months ago to successfully fix it so the door would actually latch for as long as Susan had owned the house, but when she notified me that the lock began not latching again last night …