L.A. Dork @la_dorkout
Dorking out on forgotten L.A. when I'm not moonlighting as Paul Haddad, author of FREEWAYTOPIA, 10,000 STEPS A DAY IN L.A. and upcoming INVENTING PARADISE. PaulHaddadBooks.com Los Angeles Joined May 2013-
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Iconic shot by Julius Sherman of the old Century City Mall in the mid-'70s -- a good perspective of C.C.'s original, harmonious geometrics. I can still see myself skateboarding thru the plaza, culminating with the long pedestrian incline (off-frame, right) adjacent to Gelson's!
In 1905, LA power brokers sold the idea of the LA Aqueduct by lying that the LA River used to be connected to the Owens River, 240 miles away, but a "mighty earthquake" around 900 AD severed them. Thus by taking Owens Valley water, LA was simply "correcting nature's mistake."
Gigantic Midas Men used to dot the landscape, holding giant mufflers. They're still around, repurposed. Cortes Auto Glass has one, but his empty hands look like he's doing taekwondo. When behind him, he takes on a new level of awesomeness; he could crush that bucket like a grape.
Looking to replace your windshield? Head to LA's unofficial Windshield District, the stretch of Mission Road between the 5 & 10 Fwys. It dates to 1974 and a man named Jose Arellano who started it all. Now there's a couple dozen shops & dudes with flags or whistles waving you in.
For the first Earth Day in 1970, LA went all-out. Students left class to march against pollution, a skywriter enscribed "AIR" in the skies, car engines were set aflame, and USC's Tommy Trojan donned a gas mask.
It's on! Come join this LA Dork at @vromans in Pasadena for the launch of my latest book! vromansbookstore.com/Paul-Haddad-di…
It's been over three decades since the old Southern Pacific trestle separating Little and Big Santa Monica boulevards over Beverly Glen Blvd. was removed. And yet every time I pass this intersection, I still "see" it and mourn its absence on an increasingly homogenous cityscape.
In the run-up to WWII, LA had several prominent folks, including the LA Times' Harry Chandler, who endorsed eugenics, forced sterilization for undesirables, and support of Germany's Aryan purity. Fitness guru Paul Bragg & his club of LA hikers were models of white race fitness.
Decades before the Chicago White Sox briefly wore shorts in 1976, the Hollywood Stars donned shorts in 1950 at old Gilmore Field, enabling players to "run faster" vs. baggy wool trousers. Sliding, though? Kinda sucked. The shorts had a short run.
McDonald's prices and offerings in the late 1940s, when the McDonald bros. revamped the original McDonald's in San Bernardino to make it more "Speedee"...
The LA Buccaneers were a "traveling" National Football League team in 1926. Made up of California players, it operated out of Chicago and played only 2 exhibition games in LA before folding in 1927, transcontinental travel too untentable. Can we please bring back this logo?!
The Yellow Submarine restaurant in WeHo in 1979, northwest corner of Santa Monica Blvd. and Harper. The Beatles-inspired eatery was a favorite hang for Fairfax High kids and had a popular "avocado sandwich."
A reminder that bears roam the Verdugo Mountains, the range separating Burbank from Crescenta Valley. Any homeowners here, in Burbank or other neighboring hoods, that had encounters with them? I feel like bears in the Verdugos is kinda underreported! ktla.com/news/local-new…
Early LA freeways had no barriers in their medians, leading to deadly head-on crashes. The 0.5-mile Colorado Fwy stub (extending east from I-5 before being scrapped) still had no barrier as recently as 2016 (left pic) before Caltrans brought the freeway up to safety standards.
I've always thought this is a pretty bad-ass statue. "The Performer" was erected in 2015 across the street from the Pasadena Playhouse, in the courtyard of the former College of Theatre Arts, which ran from 1928 to 1969 and which this statue honors.
OK, this sh*t just got real. Just received an advanced copy of my latest book. This too can be yours come June 11! Watch this space for future book events in the LA area.
Did you know Disney used to offer haunted tours of the Queen Mary in the 1990s? "Haunted Passages" explored homicides & unexplained deaths on the ship. It included B340, a then-unused room where you encountered Haunted Mansion-style effects. The room remained sealed for decades.
Backdropped by the Hollywoodland sign and an "H" under Cahuenga Peak (for Hollywood High), Pickford-Fairbank Studios in 1924 had a whimsical, sprawling set for "The Thief of Bagdad" at Santa Monica & Formosa. On the right, an old gasometer, holding natural gas.
I can't express my excitement for this book of essays in appreciation of Vin Scully any better than @erskinetimes. Vin was too "ah-shucks-not-me" to write a memoir. Tom Hoffarth's "Perfect Eloquence" is the next best thing. LA Dork even gets a humble entry! Look for it on May 1.
I can't express my excitement for this book of essays in appreciation of Vin Scully any better than @erskinetimes. Vin was too "ah-shucks-not-me" to write a memoir. Tom Hoffarth's "Perfect Eloquence" is the next best thing. LA Dork even gets a humble entry! Look for it on May 1.
Encino was one of the last communities to be lumped in with the rest of the San Fernando Valley, owing to its strong identity as a natural spring for native peoples and, later, as Ranch El Encino. The pond at Los Encinos State Historic Park dates to 1874, fed by this same spring.
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This and the Pinata District are so fabulously and completely LA!
Looking to replace your windshield? Head to LA's unofficial Windshield District, the stretch of Mission Road between the 5 & 10 Fwys. It dates to 1974 and a man named Jose Arellano who started it all. Now there's a couple dozen shops & dudes with flags or whistles waving you in.
@la_dorkout There is a store in Joshua Tree that has one and is calling it “Big Josh”
@la_dorkout The one I remember the most was off of 405 in Carson near where the Porsche center is today.
@la_dorkout There was one of Sherman Way in Van Nuys that my then-three year old nephew called Big Bruce after his uncle who was very tall and had foreboding eyebrows and beard like the statue
@la_dorkout tbf those mobile glass replacement places are so convenient, and i got a good price on my old car cuz it was just a base pane without any sensors
@la_dorkout I do remember when the tracks went down Santa Monica Blvd.
@la_dorkout BSM is a bully!
Delighted to meet these distinguished authors @latimesfob. Thanks @TomHoffarth for signing your book, “Perfect Eloquence” indeed. Charmed also to meet a personal literary hero in @erskinetimes ! Kudos to both men for their historical literary contributions to our City of Angels.
@la_dorkout 30 years already? I was driving by there a few weeks ago and mentioned the trestle to my wife, but she was more of a valley person in those days and didn't remember the trestle.
@la_dorkout I always think of it as the Ernie Kovacs intersection. And I still remember the last time I saw a train on those tracks.
@la_dorkout @FreewaysLA Arizona state of the art freeways= steel roller coasters LA 1940s freeways= Coney Island wooden coasters I miss crushing LA freeways! 🛣️
@la_dorkout I always liked (loved) the dark-green background signage.
@la_dorkout there used to be planters as a median in the original version
@la_dorkout Physical culture =/= Nazism. It actually started in the USA, among christian scientists (the movement that gave us breakfast cereal).
@la_dorkout @IMAX Or if you really wanna get deep into the weeds - there’s a metro red line station on Lankershim that you can then take escalators up to citywalk as well - used to be free, guessing it still is. But free after 9 is also great!
@la_dorkout Places in la used to seem to have a sense of humor and a creative flair that is missing now So many of the places we have now seem take themselves too seriously I guess a lot of it too is it’s so expensive now to open a place that it’s more corporate vs mom and pop
@la_dorkout When I saw the name. I confused it with Dive, a restaurant formerly on the north side of the Century City Mall.
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