Shot of downtown L.A.

Downtown L.A. from a skyscraper

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[IVSolar]

@lukebccb The first skyscraper (Union Bank) was built in 1959. did you know that?

I'm assuming you know very little about LA or its freeway history except for what the internet tells you. I've been on all the freeways in LA 1000s of times over and over and over. I know every street & alley. I know where lanes end & begin before even getting there. I know Southern California inside fuckin' out...better than you will ever know it.

[IVSolar]

@lukebccb I'm not going to play this pussy game of "Who has the best town" with you. I'm sure you love Seattle, good for you. Personally I don't like rain so LA is the place for me and I don't give a fuck how dirty the streets are in downtown because trash is something to be expected on the streets of America's 2nd. largest city.

[IVSolar]

@lukebccb I've been to Downtown Santa Barbara, I didn't like it. Too many fuckin' trees.

[lukebccb]

@IVSolar: Downtown Seattle has the usual Old Navy, Nordstroms, J Crew, Abercrombie, etc. that attracts "anglo" "white" and outside tourists. The Downtown L.A. clientele - the Bunker Hill "gilded ghetto" doesn't count - is entirely hispanic. When you see Old Navy or Abercrombie&Fitch and American Eagle show up on Broadway then Downtown L.A. might count.

Oh, at least the rain in Seattle keeps the streets pretty clean as opposed to the disgusting filth of the streets of Downtown L.A.

[lukebccb]

@IVSolar (again why am responding to a 3 year-old posting?): 85 degrees doesn't make Downtown Los Angeles a "great urban center", if anything it magnifies how shoddy Downtown L.A. is....... but hey if YOU think the sterile Westfield Mall at Century City is "a great urban experience" then hey that's your insular view.

Perhaps if YOU actually ever got out of L.A. and checked out say, Downtown Santa Barbara, it might just break you out of your insular cocoon.



[lukebccb]

@peymang: I go downtown just to eat at Clifton's Cafeterria and the various taqueria "stands" along Spring and Main streets.

[lukebccb]

@moxieman2 (why am I responding to a 3 year-old post?): Wow "moxieman2" you must be pretty insular that YOU think that OTHER persons would consider LA. on par with Paris or Prague or London or New York City or Miami Beach or Hong Kong or Singapore or Tokyo or Sydney or Rio De Janeiro....

Perhaps you may want to actually leave L.A. and look at other towns before you lump L.A. as "one of the most gorgeous cities in the world".

[lukebccb]

@IVSolar: Wrong "IVSolar" the freeways were NOT there before buildings and you're also off on other facts.

The *Arroyo Seco Parkway" was opened in 1941 and it ended NORTH of Downtown L.A. and the "freeway" section known as the "Harbor Freeway" WITHOUT TREES extended the Arroyo Seco Parkway thru Downtown L.A. in the early 50s and in the process tore up the area of Bunker Hill in Downtown and only later were the skyscrapers built in the 70s where homes had been torn up for the freeway.

[link13j]

@83uoykcuf

that's cool! now of course Greece. So Cal, and Adelaide aren't the only cities with the same weather type, there are many other cities lined up almost perfectly with us, I just named the two most...famous ones. And ya, I learned this from a geography class. ;]

[IVSolar]

The freeway passage was there before all those buildings.

The 110 Freeway was a Highway in the 1930s with lush ivy & trees on both its sides. They eventually took it all out and made it a freeway in the early 1950s.

Buildings soon popped up along its route.