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Walking in L.A.
- keville 10y agoBest viewed, of course, with this playing in the background: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R_UpLtGEWoY https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R_UpLtGEWoY
- jsemrau 10y agoThanks I did not know this song. Was expecting Drinking in LA (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OQsQZvsR_QI https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OQsQZvsR_QI)
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- piplgobde 10y agoThis is really a neat site, thank you. Have lived in LA all my life, so recognizing places was really fun. Makes one want to take pictures themselves so they don't forget it.
- hbex5 10y agoSo as somebody who lives in London, explain to me why Los Angeles always looks so featureless, so lacking in any kind of urban identity I'd expect to find in a city? It always looks to me no so much as a city, but rather merely some buildings that are connected by freeways.
- nullren 10y agoBecause unlike London, there is really only 100 years of development in this city. It's much older but if you look at old photos, Santa Monica used to be "far away" and Hollywood used to just be orchards. LA is really more like many small towns growing into a very large city. Each neighborhood has its own identity.
- js2 10y agoBecause it's not as dense. But it still has lots and lots of lovely neighborhoods and places to walk. You just need to drive between them. The view of L.A. from Mulholland Drive at night made me realize how truely immense L.A. is. edit: according to Google. "L.A. area" is 503 sq miles. "London area" is 607 sq miles. Interesting.
- tastythrowaway2 10y agoSo is drunk driving a big issue in LA?
- dickfickling 10y agoIt used to be much worse. Many (most?) drunk drivers have since turned to Uber or Lyft.
- StavrosK 10y agoWhat, they drunk drive professionally now?
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- Inconel 10y agoI'm sure it's a big issue but I don't think it's any worse than most other large American metros. In fact, I imagine it may be less of an issue here. LA does actually have a somewhat functional rail/bus system and some pockets of very walkable neighborhoods that also tend to have an abundance of nightlife.
- JBlue42 10y agoI think it has gotten better since Uber/Lyft came about as well as younger people not being hesitant to take the subway (now open until 2). Terrible driving in general is still the same - no signals, double-parking without hesitation, general craziness. On big holidays, there are a lot of drunk driving checkpoints but, overall, very little to no traffic enforcement. Hit-and-runs are a really big problem. I think the city is going through some growing pains as there as there are more pedestrians and cyclists on the road. If you are in those categories, you have to be very, very aware. As a comparison, I was much more worried about drunk drivers when living in a rural area. Also, a recent visit to Santa Fe I saw at least 2-3 clearly drunk drivers, which my friends said is a huge problem there.
- tastythrowaway2 10y agoMy guess is it has something to do with [1]. I remember growing up hearing that LA was planned by a large automotive manufacturer, hence it requires copious amounts of driving to fully experience the city. I couldn't find a reliable source with any cursory searching. Still, the linked article mentions LA specifically in one of the captions, so maybe there's a grain of truth to that. [1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Automotive_city https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Automotive_city
- tomjakubowski 10y agoLA emphatically was not planned, especially not by an automotive manufacturer. The automotive industry simply colluded to destroy the metropolitis's mass transit system, to be replaced by automobile freeways. See https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/General_Motors_streetcar_conspiracy https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/General_Motors_streetcar_con... Despite this, and contrary to the stereotypes, the LA Metro is actually dead last in the US in freeway lane miles per resident. See http://freakonomics.com/2009/02/24/los-angeles-transportation-facts-and-fiction-freeways/ http://freakonomics.com/2009/02/24/los-angeles-transportatio...
- CalRobert 10y agoMuch of modern LA was inadvertently planned to be auto-dependent through parking minimums, single-use zoning, and before that, redlining. All of those shape neighborhoods and structures. http://news.nationalgeographic.com/2016/10/housing-discrimination-redlining-maps/ http://news.nationalgeographic.com/2016/10/housing-discrimin... [edit: redlining didn't necessarily cause auto-dependence but it is an example of planning] After all, if every structure has to have 2 parking spots per apartment, you'll get far, far fewer apartments in the same space, forcing things to sprawl. https://www.portlandoregon.gov/bps/article/420062 https://www.portlandoregon.gov/bps/article/420062 I think they might finally be learning though. The Expo line goes to the beach now. And they spent $1 billion+ to widen Sepulveda pass and now it's slower than it was before. Perhaps next time they'll put rail in instead.
- nether 10y agoViewing it from a bike at night reveals more character: http://www.thepassageride.com/Photos http://www.thepassageride.com/Photos
- technophiliac 10y agoThanks for sharing this!
- dima55 10y agoWhoa. Who are you?
- CalRobert 10y agoAbout the only time I ever _liked_ looking at LA was when I did Critical Mass. It was amazing.
- Senderman 10y agoInstead of the explanation you've asked the internet for, you might find a visit to L.A., to clear up your puzzlement, more rewarding.
- edko 10y agoExcept downtown LA, and some other isolated spots, there isn't much architectural beauty. Most of the city just feels like roads, box-shaped buildings, and strip-malls with ugly signs. At night, when it lights up, it has a certain charm that you do not find during the day. However, I have seen very few urban landscapes as beautiful as when the sun sets behind a horizon cut by its palm tree silhouettes. It is a city one loves more for its vibe and endless possibilities, and for the nature that surrounds it, than for its architectural beauty.
- ajross 10y ago> Most of the city just feels like roads, box-shaped buildings, and strip-malls with ugly signs. That's an indictment of post-war American residential design, not "LA" per se. Yes, The Suburbs are kind of boring. They were intended to be, really. But the urban cores of LA (and the rest of the world, frankly) remained interesting and innovative throughout.
- Mz 10y agoBecause it was developed in very large tracts due to being in the desert and needing to import water. So, the financing only made sense if you developed large, spawling areas. This was true before cars were popular, when there was a tram and people took the tram and then walked everywhere. Then cars became popular, I think the tram died and now you have to take the freeway to get anywhere.
- DonHopkins 10y agoThe tram in LA didn't die, it was murdered. Who Framed Roger Rabbit: Judge Doom's Plot to Destroy Public Transit [1] My favorite thing about this movie is that the villain's evil plot is to bring about car culture in America. Watch and giggle/shiver. Read about Pacific City Lines, National City Lines, and the Great American Streetcar Scandal if you'd like to know more about its historical parallels. General Motors streetcar conspiracy [2] The 1988 film Who Framed Roger Rabbit, vectors the folktale about the decline of the Pacific Electric. Scriptwriters Jeffrey Price and Peter S. Seaman explained: "the Red Car plot, suburb expansion, urban and political corruption really did happen. In Los Angeles, during the 1940s, car and tire companies teamed up against the Pacific Electric Railway system and bought them out of business. Where the freeway runs in Los Angeles is where the Red Car used to be." The story was told again in 1996 in Taken for a Ride and then in 2004 in the film The End of Suburbia. [1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OquSczOMkO4 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OquSczOMkO4 [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/General_Motors_streetcar_conspiracy https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/General_Motors_streetcar_consp...
- greggman 10y agoAccording to this doco that's not true, or rather they died for other reasons. From 1929 until the last one closed they never made a profit. Partly because they had signed contracts to maintain the roads the tracks went down. As cars got more popular that became too expensive https://www.amazon.com/This-Pacific-Electric-Stephanie-Edwards/dp/B001BO9AK0 https://www.amazon.com/This-Pacific-Electric-Stephanie-Edwar...
- Inconel 10y agoI'll concede that LA might lack a true urban identity since it can be very disjointed, although even this is debatable if you spend some time in the historic core, but I'm not sure I would say it's featureless. The mountains to the north and the ocean to the west make for a pretty dramatic cityscape, along with the Wilshire corridor[1] and downtown. LA also tends to look great at night, particularly from the air[2]. Hopefully the LA River revitalization goes according to plan and it can be better integrated with the neighborhoods it runs through[3]. [1]http://www.lanebarden.com/linear-city-wilshire-boulevard/ http://www.lanebarden.com/linear-city-wilshire-boulevard/ [2]http://www.michaellight.net/new-gallery-1/ http://www.michaellight.net/new-gallery-1/ [3]http://www.changkimphoto.com/where-the-water-once-flowed-la-river/ http://www.changkimphoto.com/where-the-water-once-flowed-la-...
- cylinder 10y agoThe worst part is the freeways and they are the worst way to see the city. I always find myself wishing they'd dismantle most of them and force the city to evolve without them.
- zubat 10y agoAll the distinctive elements of LA have been packaged and sold to you through Hollywood films, to the point where it's actually a bit shocking to see some of the landmarks in person for the first time, because you didn't think of them as actual places. On the ground, most parts of LA don't look like anywhere in particular because they're too low rise and you can't see the horizon either. But there are some tells in certain of the neighborhoods: besides highways and palm trees, many blocks have "courtyard apartment" construction. The landscape favors autos but not in the same way as a city like Atlanta, favoring a regular grid with sidewalks over cul-de-sac deadends. With so much of the development spanning a brief period in the 20th century(by the 70's laments for "old LA" were common) there isn't a great deal of history. San Francisco contrasts as a city that has had fires and reconstruction in its core, but if you go out to the western parts of town or a bit down the peninsula, it's all recognizable as being of the same generation as many of those LA suburbs.
- mdholloway 10y ago"The landscape favors autos but not in the same way as a city like Atlanta, favoring a regular grid with sidewalks over cul-de-sac deadends." Lots of people miss this distinction. (I did, too, before you articulated it.) It's why I find LA quite pleasant despite not being a car owner.
- mos_basik 10y ago>it's actually a bit shocking to see some of the landmarks in person for the first time I vividly remember my first drive from LAX to campus when I started undergrad in the area. First time there in the flesh, but I recognized overpass after hillside mansion after chain link fence after palm tree boulevard... from GTA: San Andreas. Déjà vu is hardly a strong enough term. I would have been more prepared to recognize things if it had been, say, Jerusalem or Rome and the game Assassin's Creed, since one thinks of those cities as exotic, iconic. But LA has made its particular brand of "lack of distinguishing features" the default in a huge swath of media, and that was when I realized it.
- jmulvi 10y agoI'm going to assume you have never been to LA. Just like London it is a collection of "villages". What were originally separate cities: Santa Monica, Hollywood, Pasadena etc have all been absorbed into the whole that is LA. I'm sure you can recognize the same process in london where Hampstead and Stratford have distinct personalities and yet are now both a small part of the whole that is London. Now LA, unlike London is a city much easier to live in and less easy to experience as a tourist. Tourists try to travel from Malibu to Hollywood boulevard to the Broad museum all in the same day. This is a wonderful way to experience LA traffic. Any person who lives here would recommend you choose on area and spend most of your time experiencing it properly. If you want a walkable neighborhood go to Santa Monica, West Hollywood or Downtown. If you want nature, hiking and to feel like you are not in the city go to Malibu or the Hollywood Hills. I would argue that all of the LA neighborhoods I mentioned are very familiar to most of us because we watch movies and television and LA is traditionally where those products are made. Maybe you don't watch tv or go to the movies - in that case go to the David Hockney exhibition in london and you will see that LA is one of the most distinctive cities in the world. It is good weather, easy living, good looking inhabitants and it is surrounded by a natural beauty few other cities possess. I could argue it makes London look like a giant rat hole in comparison but to each their own! I think London has its historic sights and some pretty neighborhoods but the livability of the city is shockingly bad. From crappy housing stock to antiquated tube - I am much happier in LA. But that's just me.
- JBlue42 10y agoI recommend "Los Angeles Plays Itself" to any interested in seeing the juxtaposition of what you see in movies/tv with the reality. There's also a much shorter, funnier one called "Vancouver Never Plays Itself" - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ojm74VGsZBU https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ojm74VGsZBU
- sandworm101 10y agoWant a movie or TV series to die? Set it in Canada. There is something about the American market that just doesn't react well. London or Paris, sure. But other than a few scifi backstories (Wolverine) Canada is never mentioned. I blame the accent. Vancouver sounds like LA and that creates a uncanny valley for the American ear. Audiences are unnerved when characters on TV don't match the stereotypes. It's discomforting, but we cannot all be from Canmore or Torono.
- JBlue42 10y agoI think part of the attraction of LA is that you can have a wide variety of buildings within a small place. It's a lot of nodes, that rise and lessen in density. If you stay off the freeways, you can see a lot (I've only taken them to get out of the city). It's a young city still trying to figure itself out, kind of like the teenager that will dye their hair a different color every month. There's a lot of ugly shit, a lot of beautiful shit, and lot that varies between those two spectrums. Probably one thing no one told you about is the nature - lots of slightly tamed parks and mountains to hike in as well as fun on the water, if that's your thing.
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- super_id 10y agoIt's terrible. Please never come here.
- gdubs 10y agoCity of Quartz, by Mike Davis is a good book on the city's architecture. It's a young city, relatively speaking, and it grew up with the automobile - leading to the infamous sprawl you see today. It's a city that's meant to be experienced by car (historically), meaning that many things are primarily accessible by car, to the extent that without a car you were basically of another class, kept out of the various "fortresses" (shopping malls, etc.) Hence the famous song, "nobody walks in LA."
- outlace 10y agoThe baseline architecture is pretty bland, admittedly. But what makes LA an awesome city is not so much what is captured in photos but the whole experience of beautiful, sunny weather all year, hill-top views of the massive expansiveness of the LA basin, the mix of suburban vibes within a sprawling metropolis (e.g. you can be on a quiet suburban-style street in Beverly Hills, then go down a couple blocks and you'll be in the middle of bustling Rodeo Drive), and its diversity of people and niches. It's also a far more livable city than cities like San Francisco, especially if you're not rich.
- tonyedgecombe 10y agoI last visited LA when I was ten years old, I don't remember much apart from it being a huge expanse of tarmac with a few buildings dotted around. It doesn't look far from the truth now, utterly dominated by the car.
- HillaryBriss 10y ago> It always looks to me no so much as a city, but rather merely some buildings that are connected by freeways. I've lived in LA for a number of years, and that's a pretty accurate statement. Also, there are a lot of people and cars. It's not a livable city. It's basically a big mess.
- dizzystar 10y agoThere are a lot of beautiful places in and around Los Angeles, but you have to search for them. Los Angeles isn't a "wide open" city like other towns, where, as a tourist, you can drop in and just get it. It takes a lot of exploration to figure out. As an example, you can find areas in Silver Lake that have staircases as streets. I'd hate to be the mail man for that area, but it's pretty interesting to see. LA is huge, with a lot of different areas, ranging from terrible ghettos to Bel Air. Some areas are flat, some are steep. Korea Town and Beverly Hills has more and larger buildings than most city's downtowns, yet Griffith Park is the second largest park in California. Other areas are residential, others are rather rural. It's a huge mishmash of areas. With all that said, you are sort of right. Los Angeles is a wide area divided into many smaller sections, each with it's own identity, but I'd hardly call it featureless.
- l33tbro 10y agoWell LA is a county, as well as a city. Therefore the perceived featurelessness stems from the huge geographic spread. The city of LA does have metropolitan aspects, but this doesn't extend to Santa Monica, Compton, East LA, etc.
- Broken_Hippo 10y ago"Well, LA is a county, as well as a city." I'm not convinced this is the reason. Indianapolis is a city confined by the county borders (Indianapolis consumes the whole of marion county in Indiana). Places such as Speedway have been included: Carmel and Fishers to the north are not, because they are in different counties - yet they are definitely part of the greater Indianapolis area. Indianapolis definitely feels different from LA or London - but it feels closer to LA than it would London. I think some of the other replies hit the correct answer: London has history that LA, Indianapolis, New York, and many other American cities do not. Many sections of American cities remind me of the areas here in Trondheim that were built back up after WWII. It makes for little architectural variation, and there isn't even a history of war and strife behind them in the US.
- hball666 10y agoI've never lived in LA, but trust me I would be permanently based there if I could. Luckily i get to visit several times a year out of choice. I have lived in London, and I work there lots also, living about 1 hour outside it on the train. Both have their pros and their cons. To say however that LA is lacking in urban identity comparing one to the other doesn't, for me, do either justice. The Spanish inspired architecture of areas like the Hollywood Hills, juxtaposed with the small but very well formed downtown LA area, which both has amazing modern architecture and some amazing vintage art deco buildings like the Oviatt building and it's amazing penthouse mean LA has some fantastic places to see. But yes, if you drive down certain streets you'll come across endless rows of nondescript bungalows on boring looking streets, and vast industrial estates which offer nothing to see at all - connected by a network of freeways (which everyone knows you should just avoid at certain times of the day if at all possible). Similarly, London, arguably a city many hundreds of years older than LA in the first place - also has some amazing culture and architecture - but wander up to the Wembley area and down some side streets and trust me, it's not exactly a world-class destination! Ever been to Staines? Both have things to offer. And certain people won't like one over the other. I myself don't particularly like San Francisco, and New York, impressive as it is, is a bit too much like London for my own tastes. Each to their own. But to say LA is featureless and lacking in urban identity makes me think you need to spend some serious time in that city, get to know the distinct neighbourhoods for a good week at a time, and really enjoy what the Angelinos take for granted.
- return0 10y agomore like freeways decorated with buildings
- ocschwar 10y agoA whole lot of factors involving LA's history. The first one is earthquakes. We have a lot of good technology now, that lets us build tall and beautiful structures in earthquake zones, But 100 years ago, that was not the case. Los Angeles sprawled out because it had to, and people built featurelessly because you don't invest so much in something when an earthquake will destroy it at any minute. The second factor was tuberculosis. In the early 20th century, people moved to LA for the air (no, really.) In very large numbers. And given they were moving to a place where the air would extend their lives and let them live in a more dignified manner, they weren't too picky about esthetics. A third factor was a very unfortunate thing about American tax policy. Municipalities fund themselves by taxing property value. And that gave people an incentive not to build up too much property value. That got particularly pronounced in the Depressions of 1893 and the Great Depression in the 1930s, when people and businesses would literally shave floors off a building to save on property tax. To this day, American franchise corporations build their stores to be crappy things that fall down as soon as maintenance halts, because building more valuable real estate means paying more in tax. All these factors converged to make Los Angeles look like that.
- galfarragem 10y agoDarwinism seems to apply also on the development of urban identity and there wasn't yet enough time/pressures for these urban fabrics to keep up with the 'old world'. That's why I would never expat outside Europe. It feels like a downgrade.
- js2 10y agoReminds me of http://bahiker.com/ http://bahiker.com/ which was a terrific resource when I lived in CA 2000-04.
- justinzollars 10y agoLA is so ugly compared with SF.
- nether 10y agoThat's what I like about LA. Keeps out the superficial people, and draws those who can see past appearances.
- bitskits 10y agoCalifornia native here. This is the first time I've ever heard anyone say this about LA. Most generalizations usually go the other way; this is new. To be clear, all the generalizations are bad, IMO, but this perspective is new, and I think maybe the least accurate.
- StavrosK 10y agoI think you mean rationalization. It was pretty egregious, though, yes.
- johncolanduoni 10y agoPretty sure it's a joke ;)
- seanmcdirmid 10y agoGeneralizations are usually considered good when we are talking about code. But ya, LA is the definition of superficial.
- cylinder 10y agoThis is the first I've heard about LA not having superficial people.
- Inconel 10y agoAs someone who grew up mostly in SF/Oak and now lives in LA, I'm not sure I'd agree. They both have some truly beautiful areas but large parts of SF aren't particularly aesthetically pleasing, at least to me. I grew up mostly in the sunset and I found it fairly drab.
- B1FF_PSUVM 10y agoPro tip: tell the ICE agent at border control that you've come to check out the snide unhelpful bumpkins in their natural habitat. He'll smile knowingly and wave you through without so much as a cavity search.
- dang 10y agoPlease don't react by making the thread even worse. We detached this comment from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14112083 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14112083 and marked it off-topic.
- meddlepal 10y agoNobody walks in LA
- imperialdrive 10y agoInformation is my vice, I try to obtain it without a price, and without a doubt, the results aren't nice... shoot, trying to remember lyrics to a great song about "nobody walks in LA" but simply can not find it any which way online! I'm going to have to dust off an old hard drive and transcribe it at 3:23am because now it's driving me crazy, thanks a lot meddle!
- meddlepal 10y agoAre you thinking about the Missing Persons song Walking in LA? :)
- thesnowdog 10y agoThanks, now I've been chirping like Dale all day much to the irritation of my holiday companions.
- vondur 10y agoHa. I see he walked down Gage Ave. I grew up on the opposite end of it Next to East LA. The area (s)he walked thru can be pretty sketchy.
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- mrjohnthomas 10y agoI've lived in three areas in LA -- Hollywood, downtown and Marina del Rey. I walked all the time, to most of the places I needed to go. I currently live next to a Ralph's, with another Ralphs, Gelson's and Pavilions within 0.5 miles. Plus tons of restaurants, banks etc. And between Uber/Lyft and the Metro Rail, I can get anywhere.
- seanmcdirmid 10y agoI live next to a Trader Joe's, target, and Ralph's in Westwood. It is also two short blocks away from where I work. I pay money for that, but damn is it convenient. I have to remember to drive my car every so often so the battery doesn't drain completely.
- Baeocystin 10y agoI use one of these plugged in to my car's always-on cigarette lighter. It works. My battery is never flat, even if I don't drive for a month or two. http://www.harborfreight.com/15-watt-solar-battery-charger-68692.html http://www.harborfreight.com/15-watt-solar-battery-charger-6...
- mmjaa 10y agoLived in LA for 15 years, Los Feliz area. For most of that time I didn't have a car - I just walked. The weather was always great, Ralphs close enough, Trader Joes, and so on. When they opened the subway, it was almost perfect - would've been better if it actually made it all the way out to the beaches from down-town. LA truly is a beautiful city if you take the time to check out the non-tourist areas. I'll always remember the delightful, warm purple afternoons in Silverlake and I'll always have a bit of LA with me wherever I go.
- bhauer 10y agoOh heck yes, El Segundo and Hawthorne: http://www.walkinginla.com/2016/Jul24/07_24_16.html http://www.walkinginla.com/2016/Jul24/07_24_16.html My daily walking commute is between these two cities. El Segundo is home to several firms as it's a particularly business-friendly city. Meanwhile Hawthorne is best known as the home of Spacex. The In N Out that several of us go to more often than we should is in one of the photos.
- Inconel 10y agoI've always loved El Segundo for some reason. Most people I tell this to don't understand why but it's just a very charming town to me. Even the old industrial areas west of Sepulveda and north of the refinery have a very cool feel. I love walking around that area and I've noticed over the last 2-3 years that a number of those smaller warehouse/industrial properties are being converted into office space for tech/ad/vfx companies. The refinery usually offers a tour once a year for the public which is very informative and there is a great park at the top of a small hill off of Imperial Ave that affords what is probably the best view of LAX. Sadly El Segundo's aerospace industry is slowly but surely shrinking. Plaza El Segundo, where that huge Whole Foods is, used to be a Honeywell fab if memory serves correctly.
- CalRobert 10y agoBizarrely, about the nicest commute I ever had was to El Segundo. I lived in Santa Monica by the beach, and worked in El Segundo by the beach (crappy job but that's a different story). It was a 13 mile cycle down the beach, with the terrible exception of Marina Del Rey, where you had to go inland. I saw bonfires every Friday after work; an episode of Wilfred being filmed; and once even a pod of Dolphins swimming along and jumping out of the water as I cycled along this unusual formation: https://goo.gl/maps/WXaZm1Kb5Lu https://goo.gl/maps/WXaZm1Kb5Lu (long and narrow with water on either side). I saw numerous beautiful sunsets, drum circles in Venice beach, homeless encampments waking up for the day (I always liked the idea that the homeless at least got to sleep with a ten million dollar view), and the occasional tallbike. Of course, my own recumbent got a fair amount of attention. This all took about 50-55 minutes. The drive down 405 was 40-50 minutes by comparison. All the while I inhaled loads of particulates, no doubt, and my rib still hurts from the crack put there by an inattentive driver for the 1 mile stretch between my apartment and the beach. I got screamed at the few times I tried to cycle down Lincoln, and one guy got out of his car and threatened to punch me. I was buzzed too many times to count by gigantic brodozer SUV's and lifted pickups. Man, I usually say I hate LA but those 8 months of commuting were amazing. I really wish I'd gotten a helmet camera. Paradoxically every commute I've had since has been under 10 minutes and kind of dull. At the risk of being melodramatic I weep to think of the city it could've been.
- IvyMike 10y agoA couple of years ago, I walked the entirety of Wilshire Boulevard, from One Wilshire in Downtown all the way to the beach in Santa Monica. It's about 16 miles, and it takes all day, but you can do it. Breakfast at Eggslut, lunch at the Food Trucks at LACMA, and dinner in downtown Santa Monica. Landmarks along the way include Downtown, Macarthur Park, Koreatown, LACMA, La Brea Tar Pits, Beverly Hills, Westwood, and of course Santa Monica. It's a great way to re-experience the city.
- mixmastamyk 10y agoMy dogs are barkin just thinking about it.
- SandersAK 10y agoNow that is a thing I haven't heard since my grandpa was still alive.
- mixmastamyk 10y agoGot the expression from my mom, she had a lot of them.
- eamonjohnson 10y agoObligatory: Walken in LA. https://gist.github.com/gruber/1063574 https://gist.github.com/gruber/1063574
- jsemrau 10y agoUrban walking is a great thing. Last year I was walking Singapore and had a great time. Please note: blog spam not intended. Only to illustrate my experience : (https://medium.com/@thisTenqyuLife/a-day-out-in-singapore-689183129bf2 https://medium.com/@thisTenqyuLife/a-day-out-in-singapore-68...)
- androtheos 10y agoI like that the html has changed with the times.
- jordigh 10y agoAnyone else disappointed that the random walk link produced an almost everywhere differentiable path?
- kirykl 10y agoGet a metro day pass and try to use it as much as possible. You'd be surprised how much you can do and see without getting in a car once
- blondie9x 10y agoAwesome find. Amazing how much more enjoyable the world can become when you step out of your car, out of traffic and venture on your own two feet. A lot to see that is easily missed when looking at your own speed as you pass by.
- iiii_iivii_iiii 10y agohttps://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psychogeography https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psychogeography Seems vaguely related.