The Entire Los Angeles Experience Captured In One Photo

Entrance To Olvera Street

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Spanish speaking, Fascist Police State, surviving entirley by extracting small sums of money from ignorant tourists, who traveled from around the world to see a cheap plywood taco stand erected on an Historic parcel of land.

No Matter What Angle You Shoot It...

....Ken Ormiston's giant erect "Prayer Tower" is always hovering right above Sister Aimee's simple, rarely visited little hole.

As Aimee Sang, "Come Come Come" and "Down On My Knees!"

Details...

The Big Little Jesus

You know...the one that Mexican shit kid stole in 1947 on the radio, 1951 on tv, 1953 on TV, and again in 1967 in color? Well, don't worry. Friday figured out who it was every time. That cute kid.

Timing Gets You The Best Parking...Just After The Star Studded Valet Jam at 1:30...Just Before It Becomes A School Bus Zone at 6:15

My Merry Oldsmobile parked in front of the cheap Ambassador Hotel replica and the Cocoanut Grove 1/4 Wall.

DOES IT SAY Sepulveda Basin-Golf Course And Soccer Fields...NO IT DOES NOT!

I Call This One...Wait For It..."Trail Head Warning Sign", Balboa Lake

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Even BETTER in Anaglyph (Link)

Hollywood Crime Scene: Spahn's Movie Ranch And Vicinity

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Helter_Skelter_(Manson_scenario)

Chatsworth: Not Just Rattlesnakes And Charles Manson Anymore!

For Those Who Wouldn't DREAM Of Stagecoaching Into Los Angeles

Things Johnny Weismuller Was On Top Of, Apart From Lupe Velez

Camera Ports For Shooting Underwater

Hollywood Or Bust: The Stagecoach Trail Into Los Angeles

You will note that the peak, dead center, is Mt. Lee. Even the Stagecoaches wanted to come straight to Hollywood.
Steep and Windy

Thank GOD no rattlesnakes ass in this wagon rut.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Old_Santa_Susana_Stage_Road

The Very Soil Is Scandalous (And Probably A Little Dykish Too): Site Of The Garden Of Allah

http://laist.com/2009/04/18/laistory_the_garden_of_allah.php

Illumined: More Occult Architecture (Killyou Was Here)

Owl Festooned Magic Castle (Molech to BoHos)

Baphomet Over The Front Door Of The El Capitan

Sphinxs Installed By West Hollywood At Plummer Park

Pyramid and All Seeing Eye

Pyramid And All Seeing Eye

But They Don't Say A Thing About Heroin!

Real Estate Spin: "Brookside" Apartments

Hollywood Crime Scene: Notorious B.I.G. Whack

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Notorious_B.I.G.

OLD Hollywood: "Jualita," The Wattles Mansion, 1907

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wattles_Mansion

Neato Public Buildings: Firestation With A Slide Pole As The Sign

He May Be On His Knees But He's Not Begging: Billy Haines' Studio and House

The Haines Showroom

"Haines Castle"

(after Billy and Jimmy moved to the West Side, Tallulah Bankhead lived here for years)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Haines

http://www.williamhaines.com/index.php

Problematic Architecture: The Darkroom

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R1RvAibZNmg

One of the few remaining famous Programatic buildings from the Good Old Days, the camera is now a Mexican Restaurant (with free Wi-Fi!)

Take A Picture Before Sarah Palin Shoots Him From A Helicopter: Jay Ward Productions

There is a bit of an in-joke, or actually a forgotten joke that goes along with the Bullwinkle statue on the Sunset Strip...When it was put up in the 1960's it was spoofing a giant billboard accross the street for the Sahara Casino, featuring a cowgirl on a motor who twirled and twirld day and night (See Bellow)

The Grauman's Of Porn: Santa Monica Blvd. Pussycat Theatre

FOLLOW THIS LINK...GOOD STUFF

http://www.sandiegoreader.com/weblogs/bands/2008/dec/26/pussycat-theater-history-when-cathouses-ruled-ca-5/

Hollywood Crime SceneL Steps Of The Trocadero RIPPED Out

Hollywood Mob Site: LA Boss Jack Dragna Found Dead At Saharan

Hollywood Crime Scene: Shitfaced Clark Gable Kills Pregnant Woman In Crosswalk

Mr. Tambo Upon Learning We're Moving To Tennessee