Nice prose paeon to LA. It is a fascinating city of distinct neighborhoods, sprawling over miles. Unlike compact SF, and its unique neighborhoods. Thanks for the history. I did not know there was a "French quarter". Union Station is an architectural treasure. Coming out of it and being right in front of a Chinatown is perfect cosmopolitan juxtaposition. Thank you for this.
Interesting take. You got ya some writerly chops for sure. But some of it reads like a treatment you’re pitching. And ‘Displaced’? You mean like brown Vikings displaced the good people of merry old Chatsworth? C’mon dude. You know as well as I do that after Joe and Mary went to that assisted living facility the kids sold the $25k tract home they grew up in for a bundle and moved to Arizona. Saw ‘em there yesterday.
Pure poetry, pal.
We’re still here, bitterly clinging to what we remember this great city was.
Saying it without saying it, undercurrent of new beliefs
Nice prose paeon to LA. It is a fascinating city of distinct neighborhoods, sprawling over miles. Unlike compact SF, and its unique neighborhoods. Thanks for the history. I did not know there was a "French quarter". Union Station is an architectural treasure. Coming out of it and being right in front of a Chinatown is perfect cosmopolitan juxtaposition. Thank you for this.
Interesting take. You got ya some writerly chops for sure. But some of it reads like a treatment you’re pitching. And ‘Displaced’? You mean like brown Vikings displaced the good people of merry old Chatsworth? C’mon dude. You know as well as I do that after Joe and Mary went to that assisted living facility the kids sold the $25k tract home they grew up in for a bundle and moved to Arizona. Saw ‘em there yesterday.
Come to Riverside county. Close enough to visit LA, with no need to live there. I'll buy you a taco.
Yum
I haven’t lived there since 1973 but my parents grew up there and I’ve never been able to shake the hope that the place could somehow be saved.
Amazing timing with this piece.
How so?
I assumed you wrote it before this weekend?
No I wrote it this morning.
I wish I was that prescient🤣