This monument — or is it art, a distraction, a ritual site? — is beside the Pomona Freeway at the Paramount exit in Montebello. See the whole scene at LA Eastside, where the blogger alienation calls it Temple Pomona.

In the neighborhood: Troubles within the Monrovia Police Department were examined in a long piece by Nathan McIntire in the San Gabriel Valley Tribune (and Pasadena Star-News.) Monrovia resident (and PD watcher) Robert C.J. Parry approves of the effort at The Foothill Cities Blog.