IT SPEAKS VOLUMES

 The Los Angeles Public Library building in downtown Los Angeles. Built in 1926

Neptune Society

Neptune Fountain in Malaga Cove, Palos Verdes, CA.

Standing in the center of the Malaga Cove Plaza, This white marble fountain is a copy of a bronze original in Bologna, Italy. 

 

Happy Chef

Image of self-satisfied, vaguely smug chef of indeterminate sex adorning a downtown Los Angeles eatery

Majestic

1981  Majestic Car Wash and Joe's Big Burger on Third Street near Crescent Heights in Hollywood, Ca.
Fave: Billboard for the forgotten (and kind of terrible) Bruce Dern film, Tattoo.

Arthur Murray Taught Me Dancin' In A Hurry

An Arthur Murray dance studio in Glendale, Ca. 2012. The first one was opened in 1921, surviving and teaching more dance crazes than I can name.

The novelty song "Arthur Murray Taught Me Dancin' In A Hurry" (by Victor Schertzinger and Johnny Mercer) was performed by Betty Hutton in the 1942 film "The Fleet's In"

Walt Disney Meets Clark Kent

The Walt Disney Concert Hall in Downtown Los Angeles
Deconstructivist architecture bu Frank Gehry

Los Angeles City Hall in Downtown Los Angeles
Exterior used as the Daily Planet on the Superman TV show (in all but the first season)

Angels Flight

Angels Flight Railway in the Bunker Hill District of Downtown Los Angeles

View of the tracks from inside the car as it climbs the hill towards Olive Street