(click for the bigger picture) With the world’s shortest railway’s 33% grade and its twin cars Olivet and Sinai shaped accordingly, I’ve always thought of it more as an Angle’s Flight than an Angel’s, but that’s irrelevant. What’s relevant is that starting this past Monday the funicular returned to service after a 9-year absence, and …
The buzz on the blogs is that the Hollywood Sign is soon scheduled to undergo an authorized transformation of some sort. I’m fuzzy on the details of the metamorphosis but I believe it has something to do with raising money to publically procur the parcel of land near to it that’s been for sale some …
On the morning of November 28, Susan and I drove through a pretty steady drizzle from Mesquite Springs campground to Ubehebe Crater, which is next to the road to Racetrack Playa, with long-wanted plans for me to bike its 26-plus miles of washboarded badness while Susan drove it. Arriving at the crater we were confronted …
Eastsider L.A. has a post up considering the present loss and future restoration of the Echo Park Lake lotus. Showcased in the entry is an absolutely amazing picture of a lotus pad floating atop the reflecting waters while holding what looks to be someone’s spilled fruit punch. The unlikely combination of elements somehow combines to …
Well, I’m back home in L.A. and that rhymes with yay! I’m still getting re-settled while avoiding a laundry list of things to do — one of which is laundry. So in the meantime, allow me to share with you this outrageous flyer found upon a return visit to Dealey Plaza on my last day …
Why is it such a really good idea as breakfast on Christmas Day at one of my favorite never-closed places in LA is an idea that never occurred to me until now. Oversights like that frustrate me to no end, but I guess it’s better late than never to start an annual Breakfast At The …
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I am thrilled by the news that the restored twins, Sinai and Olivet have been unmothballed and re-installed on their Angels Flight tracks (clickably thumbnailed below in a photo I took in the summer of 2007) to once more (at a date as yet to be determined) go up and down Bunker Hill. I paid …