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Originally Posted by tovangar2
Because disaster porn isn't news coverage. Plus the hyperbole causes actual, but unfounded, worry. Grandpa, 93 and in London, rang with real trepidation fearing his grandchildren had been incinerated as he slept (this in response to the NYT specifically).
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I can also vouch for the NYT "Fires Enter the Heart of Los Angeles" headline's deleterious effects on the nerves of non-Angelenos. I dealt with a flurry of emails from folk all over the states, along with overseas family & coworkers, who imagined my house rained upon by flaming embers. I pointed out that LA City is, for example, ten times the size of Boston, and I'm in a dense urban area, so wildfires are not a problem. (That said, we've had an uptick in seismic activity, and my neighborhood of shingle homes, including mine, will likely disappear in a conflagration when there's a large temblor and gas lines erupt, power lines go down, and water mains bust.)
But let me shift back to LA architecture. Here's something else I wanted to say about Angeles Abbey. Now, I'm not a Shiite, or Kurdish, or Kuwaiti, but let's say I were, and had family interred at Angeles Abbey. And they're putting Saddam Hussein's picture up all over the place.
iamnotatalker
What if you went to visit Uncle Shlomo at Mount Sinai Memorial and were turned away because they were filming it as a Nazi HQ and paintings of Hitler were everywhere?
Now, I get it, the Abbey needs the filming money to keep the roof from collapsing. Still, one would think the dead could rest in peace.
Forgive my soapboxing. Here then are some more vintage images of Angeles Abbey—
Plus one of me, years ago, saying Merry Christmas!
