[Segun]

Yeah Damn has an "N". Sleepshotshit.

You know I don't care about technicalities, if I see some interesting shit, I'll shoot. Fuck if dirts on the lens, blurry, wtf. Hate it or love it.

You know LA: Tacky- wacky - hood. Almost sounds like a bootleg TLC album. In a good way. Anyways, it was 85, and I came from 25 degrees so I can't complain, shit. Met up with ChrisLA who took me around town. Props.

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The LA icon.
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Captain Morgan lives.
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I won't take yo coconut.
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Downtown Pasadena
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Back in the city.
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Country, just country.
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Streetcar suburbs gone wild.
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So much love for Donuts in LA.
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ChrisLA has the stories about this place in the 80's and how it had more murders than the entire state of NY in 1985, or something like that.
http://www.streetsandsoul.com/08/los044.jpg
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A rotating room with a camera on a tripod can be tricky.
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On to a nighttime megabus for $15......where I meet WesternGulf in the Bay.........


Oaktown kind of looks like LA, or a California version of the bungalow belt/streetcar/inner ring suburbs of the Chi or Detroit or Cleveland, but with hills, whatever the hell I'm trying to say. There's other Bay Area locales in here too.

In the Town.
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Its Berkeley, which reminds me of Evanston.
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Me and the Dog think alike.
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Palo Alto
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late!

[holladay]

GREAT photos! Can't say I'd live there but I love the mix of urban conditions.

[oak-sea]

Love this:
http://www.streetsandsoul.com/08/bay046.jpg

Can't tell you how many I've walked out of Oakland and Berkeley, up into the east bay hills, and sat in the grass and listened to the low rumble of a million people stretched out below me. Awesome!

[Top Of The Park]

You captured the feel of the area..Nice!

[ColDayMan]

No Blondie's Pizza? tsk tsk.

[mSeattle]

Yep, that's LA area there in the beginning. Never been to SF/OK. The other side looks worth paying a visit.

[Sekkle]

Excelente!

[dktshb]

Those are some great photos of LA and the East Bay cities.

Good God, that Sunset Plaza strip mall with its subterranean parking located on Sunset and Highland is always captured by tourists on this forum.
I think its the building that Hollywood & Highland got its inspiration from. :rolleyes:


It is fortunate that Hollywood Blvd (and many other streets) did not get massacred like parts of sunset did:
http://www.streetsandsoul.com/08/los042.jpg

[ChrisLA]

Nice job my friend, but I think you already know that. Thanks for sharing.

BTW our weather didn't stay that warm for long, as soon as you left it got cold again. Well not Chicago type of cold, but the highs drop back down to the low 60's, and the nights somewhere in the high 40's. Its been a strange spring, as again later today it will be hot hot hot, and by Tuesday its expected to get cool again. :shrug:

[marinog]

Cruisin on my Scraper Bike :banaride:

[northbay]

great pix of both oaktown/la

[M II A II R II K]

Just beautiful.

[WesternGulf]

Man you definitely have an eye for things I didn't even see.

[Boris]

Kick ass thread Segun,

And I must say ....



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NIIIIIIIIIIIICCCCE!!!!!!!!!



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[POLA]

Nice photos. Good eye for the urban grit, and man LA is the king of the stucco-covered, trash filled, minimall exploding urban grit! I love it.

[Echo Park]

yep thats the L.A. that I know and love. messy stucco density up against the hillsides. <3 eastside.

Oaktown DOES look like LA in certain respects but it has that slight bay area victorian influence. i love it. berk looks great too.

[westak]

Good Shots. Lol @ my wife singing TQ word for word.

[Grimm]

There's always the one disgustingly fat broad.

[Xing]

Nice work Segun!

[TinChelseaNYC]

I just got back from LA myself. Despite it's trying very hard to be unloveable, I adore the place. Your pics are terrific.

[boden]

hmmmm.....heavy leg.
:tup:

[flar]

Nice set. I'd like to go to California.

[MSPtoMKE]

Hells bells, that was interesting!

[ChrisLA]

I just got back from LA myself. Despite it's trying very hard to be unloveable, I adore the place. Your pics are terrific.

Yep, its ugly, beautiful, messy, well manicured, gritty, clean, urban, suburban, dangerous, safe, glamorous, tacky all mixed together. The city in many ways is bi-polar, and has lots of things that can cause a person to hate it.

Yet its like a magnet, very alluring, and it appeals to many. Plus there is a lot of excitement, and endless things to do. Its very unique and only a few cities in this country have that appeal and LA is one of them. It can be the best of cities to live in, and also one of the worse. Kind of like NYC IMO, as I love this city and is my favorite after my hometown (Los Angeles). NYC without agrument has that attraction, and yet many parts of this city is quite ugly.

[pwright1]

Your pics are absolutely fantastic. This is why I love L.A. So big, so unique with so many interesting neighborhoods to see.

[Kroney]

I love it when music accompanies a photo thread. Great songs... but I'm shocked 2pac's "To Live & Die in LA" wasn't included.

Oh yeah, great photos too. I haven't been to LA in years, but I want to go back now.

[mongoXZ]

Love that TQ flashback.

[Kingofthehill]

Well done!

Showed some parts of LA that aren't really shown on here (Olympic and La Brea, Mexican hoods)

[giallo]

You need to move to LA.

[edluva]

awesome pics. new angles we haven't seen.

the heat wave makes me wanna get up to oakland. damn was it scorching hot today.

[WesternGulf]

awesome pics. new angles we haven't seen.

the heat wave makes me wanna get up to oakland. damn was it scorching hot today.
The Bay Area got some of that weather too. I was out of town this weekend but it was hot when I got back on Sunday. Supposedly it was hotter on Saturday.

[Buckeye Native 001]

Glad to see you made it back to Pasadena at a time when it wasn't freaking freezing outside ;)

I'm surprised the Bonaventure let you guys up to the revolving restaurant to take pictures at night, assuming that's where you got those last shots of L.A.?

Fuck it. I still love L.A., and the Bay Area. :tup:

[Segun]

^ I had to buy a drink.

You need to move to LA.

Man after the worst winter EVER, that extended into Mid-April, thats not to far off base, combine it with never-ending construction on the CTA, shiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiieeeeeeeeeeet. I'm sick of all these tall buildings too, and bricks, and grit, and especially all these goddamn people. Matter of fact, screw that LA plan too, I'll probably move to some one-horse town in the Souteast, Goshee Mississippi or something. Fuck the city. Quote that.

[MayDay]

"Oaktown kind of looks like LA, or a California version of the bungalow belt/streetcar/inner ring suburbs of the Chi or Detroit or Cleveland"

Yep, that's pretty much it! ;)
http://www.streetsandsoul.com/08/bay012.jpg

[denveraztec]

Excellent job, and that chick did look like you were about to steal her coconut!

[TXLove]

great pics Segun!!!

[KevinFromTexas]

I likes it.

What building is this?
http://www.streetsandsoul.com/08/bay001.jpg

[peanut gallery]

That's the Bellevue-Staten Building (http://www.emporis.com/en/wm/bu/?id=bellevuestatenapartments-oakland-ca-usa) along Lake Merritt.

Architectural historian Mark Wilson wrote about the Bellevue-Staten:

Designed by H.C. Bauman, this well-planned blend of Spanish Colonial and Art Deco is by far the most elegant apartment house ever built in Oakland. Its fifteen floors are clothed in rich, warm-red brick; the abstracted Spanish Baroque decorative details are in poured concrete. Along the roof, chess-piece-like finials rise eight feet above the ramparts. The two-story-high lobby has a richly painted, plaster, coffered ceiling, and panels of squirrels eating acorns (symbolic of Oakland) decorate the bronze elevator doors. The original sales brochure described the Bellevue-Staten as the “the last word in ultra-modern Home-Apartment Construction.”

[ltsmotorsport]

So is it Bee's or Lee's?
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Great east bay reps too.

[BnaBreaker]

I'm dramatically ripping my glasses off....

MY GOD.....

[Chelsea Spy]

outstanding pictures and lots of fun - but goodness, you make LA look real ugly (in a cool way though...)

[Grimm]

outstanding pictures and lots of fun - but goodness, you make LA look real ugly (in a cool way though...)
I bet he could make London look uglier.

[Chelsea Spy]

I bet he could make London look uglier.

I'd love to see him try!! :D

[fangorangutang]

Ghostride the whip! (Just had to say something Bay)

Great thread.

[Grimm]

I'd love to see him try!! :D
Ditto.

[Segun]

Don't test me, I'll fuck around and spend my entire time in industrial wastelands and old collapsing ports.