nickcarr
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Venice in Los Angeles
I’ll admit, I’m a big fan of the former Saint Viviana‘s church in downtown LA in part because its rare-for-LA Italianate architecture brings me right back to when I lived in Italy… And in part because it’s so similar to the church/library with the catacombs in Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade.
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Skid Row Hotels
I’m scouting in and around Skid Row again today, a neighborhood that has been the epicenter for Los Angeles’ homeless population since the 1930s. What’s particularly fascinating to me are the number of hotels (now SROs) that have been in continuous operation since before the dawn of Skid Row. Cities always loudly and proudly proclaim…
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Where All The Houses Look The Same
The man shows me around his living room with pride, and I smile and take pictures and try my best to act as though I’m seeing it for the first time, when in fact I’ve already been in this living room three times this afternoon. Because I’m scouting a neighborhood where all the houses look…
