Wow, the Arts District looks so cool. Is it just the way you photographed it that it appears walkable and cohesive, or is it more of a hodgepodge of cool stuff intermixed with a lot of sketchyness?
Wow, the Arts District looks so cool. Is it just the way you photographed it that it appears walkable and cohesive, or is it more of a hodgepodge of cool stuff intermixed with a lot of sketchyness?
LA is just so diverse and amazing. Love it.
It looked "unwalkable" during my first visit to Arts District. Now that I come here every week, I find this place even more and more walkable (if you know where everything is). The Arts District has an extremely strong community that cleans up the neighbor to ensure everything is safe and clean. There are lot of old, empty warehouses (why it looks sketchy), but this area is undergoing huge changes with top quality retail filling up the spaces.
When I look at LA in a thread like this one, my eyes linger most on those pics where the people and buildings create a recognizable city. Far from thinking old downtown is dreary, I immerse myself in its details and historicism. Particularly in the summer, DTLA is hot and the shadows are a welcome relief. I hate/love LA for this quandary of balancing all the various textures and moods, of having to drive everywhere, hating the traffic and despairing of finding a place to park, of trekking on foot through a dinosaur's boneyard of stand-alone buildings only to get to something so lovely I want to bow my head in gratitude. LA is a tough city in most respects but it's always worth the effort to know it at a granular level. God is in the details.
That is very well stated. It is exactly how I feel about LA. When I lived there, it was a love/hate relationship. Now that I live elsewhere, I can't get the place out of my mind. I try to encourage folks I know who are first time or infrequent visitors to LA to look beyond the sprawl and the traffic and give LA time to reveal itself. It is truly such an amazing place. These pictures are beautiful and really do capture a lot of what is exciting about LA.
Hope you guys enjoyed your Halloween! I'll be celebrating the holiday a bit late by sharing photos of Angelino Heights. This neighborhood is notable for its' concentration of revived Victorian homes, and was also the first suburb of Los Angeles. Enjoy the photos!
If you want to see these photos on Flickr, go to: https://www.flickr.com/photos/kelifornia
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It amazes me that some of the grand Victorian homes in Angelino Heights still remain in such poor condition. I would have thought at this point they would have all been restored given the scarcity of this type of architecture in LA and the great location.
It amazes me that some of the grand Victorian homes in Angelino Heights still remain in such poor condition. I would have thought at this point they would have all been restored given the scarcity of this type of architecture in LA and the great location.
While some are fully restored exterior/interior wise, there is a few that is still abandoned and falling to pieces. I'll be sharing more photos in my next posts that will show a few homes in horrible conditions.
I love all those victorian houses in Angelino Heights, even more by Halloween. I´m sorry about the horrible conservation condition of many of them. It´s a pity!
I wonder how much they go for. They could be really cool fixer-uppers.
Depending on the condition, these victorians usually sell for over a million. Carroll street has had many of the victorians rehabbed and the surrounding streets have had plenty as well, but there is still opportunity. Now that the surrounding neighborhoods are getting investments (Sunset is getting a few major projects and Echo Park is gentrifying, i can see even more improvement coming.
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