Archive: Streetscape

Los Angeles TV news crews await the speeches at press event inside the construction site for the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences Museum.

CicLAvia returned on Sunday to the always popular Culver City to Venice Beach route.

The view from Grand Avenue on DTLA's Bunker Hill.

Railroad siding beside the river in Boyle Heights, looking downstream toward the 4th Street bridge.

The Sunday afternoon line outside the Broad Contemporary Art Museum went down the block

Colyton Street.

Streetscape: Spotted on Tuesday.

Helpful road signs on PCH now help locate you.

A popular spot with Valley motor officers is one door over from a notorious crime location.

I tell you, it's hard to take a photo in this town without a palm tree showing up.

Sunday afternoon on East Olympic Boulevard.

Roger Vargo spotted this undressed Rolls-Royce today beside the railroad tracks near City Terrace.

During one stretch on Saturday, it rained steadily for two hours and lightning flashed across downtown. So why not some pics.

Looks as if the Hyperloop engineers have made themselves at home in the Arts District.

These lucky few slutsters got seats at the counter.of Egg Slut in Grand Central Market.

I don't know how long the La Salsa on Pacific Coast Highway has been closed. But the man looks lonely.

Sunday afternoon in Mid-City. Photo: LA Observed...

Sunday on Pico Boulevard in West Los Angeles. Also: the sidewalk outside downtown's venerable California Club.

Gary Leonard observed a billboard for Sony's "The Interview" at 3rd Street and Gardner. Oops, that was yesterday.

By Santa Monica, they mean Santa Monica Boulevard in East Hollywood.

A homeless encampment on Saturday on Virgil Avenue, beside the Hollywood Freeway in what the blue signs call Wilshire Center.

I like this red light. There's a palm tree in the background. Where in Los Angeles was the picture taken?

Homeless' belongings parked in the shade under the freeway on Parthenia Street in North Hills, in the heart of the San Fernando Valley.

Front door of Iglesia Nuestra Señora Reina de los Angeles on Saturday morning.

Man, it's hard to take a picture in Los Angeles without a palm tree sneaking in there.

Old-timey Los Angeles lawyer Joseph Scott appears to be holding a presser for phantom cameras outside the Stanley Mosk courthouse in downtown Los Angeles. It's actually the sticks set...

February was Madonna month at East of West LA, the blog of photographer Kevin McCollister. "Because both the devotion to and the prevalence of the Virgin of Guadalupe seems to be under-appreciated in this town," he writes.

Photographer Gary Leonard took pictures this weekend of anyone who wanted to stand in front of angel wings painted by Colette Miller on the security shutters of the Regent Theatre downtown. John Rabe of KPCC went to observe — and pose — and reports back. Inside: Eric Garcetti gets wings.

Behind a construction fence on Pico Boulevard, what used to be the parking lot for Billingsley's Steak House and a medical marijuana dispensary is now taken up with bridge structures for the second, Westside phase of Metro's Expo Line light rail. More scenes inside.

Vose Street in North Hollywood is a workaday LA industrial street under the final approach path for jets landing at Bob Hope Airport. Valleywood shops and services, the Doc Johnson factory for rubber sex toys, and a mysterious driveway marked Faux Library.

Signs are posted on Sunset Boulevard and elsewhere in Hollywood reminding Halloween revelers that even the possession of silly string is illegal in Los Angeles — but only on Halloween and only in Hollywood.

Mary Jane's Place, North Main Street, Lincoln Heights.

Car covered with bonsai plants on Westwood Boulevard. The disabled parking placard is a nice touch.

Judy Graeme noticed an especially bad sidewalk rupture on Prosser Avenue, just below Pico in Rancho Park.

As the centerpiece of an end-of-year ritual it really works, says a writer.

Highland Park's rooftop pollo gets cited as a prime example of a Muffler Man derivative on the "50th anniversary of the creation of these strong and silent giants, who, with their behemoth height, are some of the largest examples of American roadside kitsch."

Halloween house.

For 16 years, Whittier artist George Sportelli has been cleaning and maintaining his mural of actor Tony Curtis on the southbound Hollywood Freeway. But no more.

In court documents filed Friday, City Attorney Carmen Trutanich asked for $2,500 for each day that the Beverly Hills company allegedly violated Los Angeles rules.

An architecture critic says don't build that wall, while an artist envisions a revenue opportunity.

The streetscape landmark on 3rd Street "exists outside the normal boundaries of space, time, and interior decorating," says Curbed LA.

We have Eldon Davis to thank for many of those Googie-style coffee shops that sprouted along Southern California boulevards in the 1950s, then spread across the country.

Tonight's Which Way, L.A.? on KCRW delved more deeply into today's City Council approval of the special lighting rules for the Korean-backed project planned for the Wilshire Grand hotel site at 7th and Figueroa.

Today's radio column mashes up the Militant Angeleno's post on the evolution of Los Angeles street signs with the controversy over ad signs to be beamed on the skin of the new skyscrapers proposed for Wilshire and Figueroa.

Excellent run through the variety and history of Los Angeles street signs at the blog Militant Angeleno.

Markos Geneti of Ethiopia, running his first marathon, set a course record 2 hours, 6 minutes and 35 seconds. It's the fastest marathon ever run in California and the second fastest in the world this year.

"Yes, Los Angeles has always been a town for lovers," reads the caption for this 1871 map posted on Facebook.

he team that saved Chicken Boy from destruction and had it mounted on a Highland Park art studio will receive a 2010 Governor’s Historic Preservation award on Friday.

Eric Spiegelman noticed that a lot of dentists east of La Brea advertise with a happy, smiling tooth. So he made a slide show.

CicLAvia on Sunday, Zocalo on Saturday, Liz Phair on Friday.

Blogger El Chavo at LA Eastside has started a series of short videos just showing an ordinary two minutes at an ordinary corner in Los Angeles. And it works.

I couldn't believe recently how bad the empty lot at 1st and Broadway looks — a deep pit filling with rancid- looking water and overgrown with weeds a block from City Hall.

The city attorney's office says 20 new cease-and-desist letters have gone out and that at least eight supergraphics have come down or will shortly.

There's a catch: the firm wants City Hall approval for 20 of its disputed supergraphics.

A judge went along with City Attorney Carmen Trutanich's request for $1 million bail for a man charged with three misdemeanors for posting an illegal sign near the Oscars theater in Hollywood.

Tibby Rothman of the LA Weekly interviews one of the activists she says is behind last week's guerrilla action.

Fuel's billboards around town may be illegal, but the city of Los Angeles isn't the one posting violation notices on them.

It's nice to see the blogger-photographer getting some mainstream media acclaim for his new collection of L.A. images,