1/18/09

The Neighborhood

The 5 mph exits can make things interesting. Looking through the toxic haze there is Dodger stadium sunken in the foreground of downtown. 5 minutes away from home is a plethora of great historical eateries and architecture. pets. I'm starting a series of posts on my favorite part of Los Angeles.... the east side. Here's a micro look at the Highland Park/ Mt. Washington area. Dig the colors of this time of year. It certainly would have made more sense for me to use film and the medium format for these shots but, I'm getting a bit tired of the blanket in lo-fi imaging. As stated in a previous post, I still ponder that old idea that if CA splits into the ocean (with a miraculous 0 loss of life) then the LA river (at the I5/110 fwy's junction) becomes the LA Rivermouth. (an A grade beach/point break I can check while making the am rocket fuel) The Pasadena Freeway was the first freeway built in California. Over the past 60 years it has been signed as US 6, US 66, CA 11, and is now CA 110. The south end of the Pasadena Freeway, from US 101 to what is now I-5 was built in two timeframes, the northbound side was built as Figueroa Street in the early 1930s (it handled northbound and southbound traffic at the time) and the southbound side was completed in 1944 to extend the freeway south to Hill Street from San Fernando Road, where it joined up with the 1940 Arroyo Seco Parkway section.