Time Is Not On My Side

[rejectomorph]

I only got about five hours of sleep yesterday, so the thing I want to do today is turn off the computer early and get to bed before morning light comes into the sky.

Oops!

Curse you, Internets!

I used to go the actual Los Angeles Theatre a lot. Before noon, I could get in for a buck. First run double features.

Now that they've finally got a web site for it, I've spent time in the virtual place, too. It's still pretty impressive, even in pictures. The Palace (featured on the same web site) was nice, too, if less palatial.

Oh, nostalgia.

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I'm in Los Angeles for a few days--drove down Fairfax yesterday--"the miracle mile". Going back on tuesday to take pics. Lots of stuff that looks like it has been there for years and years.

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Lots of art deco and streamline moderne in that neighborhood, especially along Wilshire Boulevard. The old May Company at Wilshire and Fairfax is now part of the L.A. County Art Museum, the large retail establishments of the mile having decamped, mostly to the bizarre Beverly Center.

Farther east, from Crenshaw to the Westlake district, the whole area around Wilshire retains many 1920s vintage buildings in various romantic Spanish styles, such as Morgan, Walls & Clements' splendid McKinley Building (N.W. corner of Wilshire and Oxford) with its leafy interior courtyard, once the locale of the most fetching greasy spoon cafe in the city. Its twin edifice, across Oxford Avenue, was knocked down as far back as the 1950s, as have many other area landmarks.

There is indeed a lot of stuff that has been there for ages (Los Angeles ages, at least), but I remember a lot more that is gone-- especially the theatres, like the Warner Beverly Hills, the Carthay Circle and the Fox Ritz. Well, at least they are still selling hamburgers at Cassell's (no architecture, but unlimited potato salad dense with horseradish-- open only weekdays and only till early afternoon) on 6th and Berendo, only a few blocks east of the Chapman Park Market and Studio Buildings (also Morgan Walls & Clements.) Lots of stuff to get nostalgic about in Los Angeles.