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I have only a single experience walking in the LA area, but I recall all the traffic-light intersections with long waits to be very tiresome. A 2.5 km walk to a
by OfSanguineFire 3y ago
I have only a single experience walking in the LA area, but I recall all the traffic-light intersections with long waits to be very tiresome. A 2.5 km walk to a supermarket and back to my hotel seemed to take ages longer than in other countries. There were no other pedestrians in sight, and maybe it was all in my head, but I felt like the drivers at stoplights were scrutinizing the weirdo who was walking with his shopping.
- mistrial9 3y agoMissing Persons - Nobody Walks in L.A. (!) https://youtu.be/80WyBxo0Hto?si=IeAAD7BLk7wF7I_S https://youtu.be/80WyBxo0Hto?si=IeAAD7BLk7wF7I_S true now and thirty years ago ?
- OfSanguineFire 3y agoThanks for that hilarious song. I think the stereotype was well established by the late 1960s: in Antonioni’s film Zabriskie Point, a character’s walking through the LA sprawl instead of driving is part of the overall depiction of the bad situation he’s in.