Transportation courtesy of Los Angeles public transportation.
My favorite L.A. hood is Hancock Park/Windsor Square. Take a look.
Los Altos apartments on Wilshire
The next 2 pics are the former home of the late Nat King Cole, his wife and 2 children including singer Natalie Cole at 400 Muirfield Road in Hancock Park. They were the first black family to move into Hancock Park back in 1949
under opposition from the established white residents.
Rossmore Avenue is one of my favorite streets in all of Los Angeles. It runs thru Hancock Park.
As we head north on Rossmore more apts/condos line the street.
I love this next Art Deco apartment bldg.
Actress Mae West lived in the penthouse at the Ravenswood from 1930
until her death in 1980.
Westlake/MacArthur Park
The Getty
Los Feliz
Went to see Red Tails at the Grauman's Chinese Theater in Hollywood(footprints in the cement)
Hollywood Blvd. after the movie
Stopped in the Catalina Jazz Club on Sunset. George Duke and his fusion band performed to a packed house.
Went to another concert recently. This one was featuring 5 time grammy winning soprano, Miss Kathleen Battle joined with jazz pianist Cyrus Chestnut and LA's Albert McNeil Jubilee Singers on her Underground Railroad tour, singing negro spirituals at UCLA's Royce Hall. No picture taking of the concert but the hall was quite beautiful.
no car for me, either! and i covered more of la than any other forumer to date. btw, if you like hancock park and windsor square, country club park and lafayette square will be of much interest to you. similarly large, rambling 1920's mansions in various colonial and revival styles, though a bit more rough around the edges.
You know, I used to hate LA because I didnt know much about it. I always thought it was just one big suburb basically with a downtown like Houstons. But, after seeing all these threads on LA, theyve really changed my mind. Its very urban in large parts of it with so much beautiful 1920s-30s architecture. I also love all those gigantic palms.
Excellent pictures! The area between MacArthur Park and LACMA may well be the most photogenic in L.A. Great residential neighborhoods in Hancock Park and Windsor Square and some interesting residential streets south of Wilshire as well. The former Bullocks-Wilshire building is a reminder of when stores were grand and wonderful places to shop; ditto, the former I. Magnin store a few blocks west of BW on Wilshire. You got my church (St. James') in one of the pictures; it's just a block west of Western Ave. on Wilshire. The stained glass windows are spectacular and the interior of the church is very well-maintained.
I enjoyed these pictures as much as I have enjoyed any in quite a while.
Yup, that's the old neighborhood; Korea Town. Used to take Rossmore into H'wood on the way to Paramount whenever I had a job as "background" there. Used to gawk at the lovely buildings and wished I could live there and not at 5th and Catalina!
Have to agree with PhotoLith: I never really thought highly of LA until seeing on these forums that there is an actual city beneath the entertainment industry facade it gives to the rest of the world.
Some of the best photos I've seen of LA on this forum, and I have been a visitor, if not contributor to this forum for a while.
no car for me, either! and i covered more of la than any other forumer to date. btw, if you like hancock park and windsor square, country club park and lafayette square will be of much interest to you. similarly large, rambling 1920's mansions in various colonial and revival styles, though a bit more rough around the edges.
I'd also recommend Chevoit Hills.
But anyway, truly awesome thread. Really really amazing pictures.
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Yup, that's the old neighborhood; Korea Town. Used to take Rossmore into H'wood on the way to Paramount whenever I had a job as "background" there. Used to gawk at the lovely buildings and wished I could live there and not at 5th and Catalina!
Me too!
Awesome thread Pwright, you do LA justice like no one else.
Rossmore btw is one of my favorite streets in Los Angeles as well. I have always said I rather live in the Handcock Park neighborhood than Beverly Hills any day.
You know, I used to hate LA because I didnt know much about it. I always thought it was just one big suburb basically with a downtown like Houstons. But, after seeing all these threads on LA, theyve really changed my mind. Its very urban in large parts of it with so much beautiful 1920s-30s architecture. I also love all those gigantic palms.
I've never been to Houston, but I still would imagine that Houston is nothing like LA, and that LA is nothing like Houston; different histories, different kinds of people migrating into them...
Great thread, pwright!
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I agree. Handcock Park has such an amazing collection of homes that quite honestly, puts a lot of what's in Beverly Hills to shame.
Well, that's because, and not to sound racist, but the Persians all moved to Beverly Hills at built the ugliest mansions in the city. Handcock Park is much more old money, and has been old money for quite some time. The nice thing is old money likes old houses, and old houses like good architecture.
And Rossmore is one of my favorite streets in L.A. Maybe it's just the trees (which are of a certain variety that I love), but I can't get enough of that street. L.A., as I like to say, is a great big ugly city with patches of amazing beauty. Rossmore is one of these patches.
Well, that's because, and not to sound racist, but the Persians all moved to Beverly Hills at built the ugliest mansions in the city. Handcock Park is much more old money, and has been old money for quite some time. The nice thing is old money likes old houses, and old houses like good architecture.
And Rossmore is one of my favorite streets in L.A. Maybe it's just the trees (which are of a certain variety that I love), but I can't get enough of that street. L.A., as I like to say, is a great big ugly city with patches of amazing beauty. Rossmore is one of these patches.
Agreed! I had just come from tree lined places like Denver or Des Moines and was in shock at the constant blocks of cement, cars and ill kept old buildings. Rossmore was a haven.
Also, yeah, the Persians...they love that stucco and big blob wedding cake houses, don't they!
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