Los Angeles, California 29 – 31 July 2021
I took off to Los Angeles for a few days. I didn’t have anything in particular that I wanted to do; I just wanted to get out of San José for a while. Click any picture to see it at a larger size.
First, a few pictures from a walk from Koreatown to Los Feliz.
There are homeless encampments all over Los Angeles.
The Panda Express in Los Feliz was one of the places in Los Angeles and New York that were test marketing “Beyond the Original Orange Chicken,” a vegan meat replacement from Beyond Meat. The “chicken“ nugget itself tasted great, but the coating was lacking the crunch that the original has.
The Broad Museum
The next day, I went to the Broad Museum, and passed several interesting sights, including the Angel’s Flight funicular:
The museum is definitely worth a visit. It’s very well laid-out; every time I thought I had seen everything on the second floor, I turned a corner and found myself seeing something new.
“Guernimex” by Ray Smith; a Mexican culture-oriented appropriation of Picasso’s “Guernica.”
These are by Cy Twombly.
There were quite a few works by Jeff Koons:
Roy Lichtenstein:
Andy Warhol (I never knew he had done pencil works):
Not sure who did these, but I found them intriguing:
Here are some pictures from the area around the museum:
The United Artists Theater
The carvings on the outside of the theater are amazing.
Los Angeles Arboretum
The next day I went to the Arboretum. Along the way, I walked through a residential neighborhood with lots of peacocks wandering about:
The Arboretum is really large, and the signage is not tremendously good; I spent about 20 minutes trapped in a loop with no exit marked. Other than that, it was quite a nice experience, especially as they had a sculpture exhibit throughout the grounds.
Here, in no particular order or theme, are pictures from the arboretum.
Signage
This first one is from a Korean restaurant. The last two syllables at the upper left are read as “shik sa,” which amused me immensely (and would be equally amusing/shocking to anyone who speaks Yiddish). It means “meal,“ by the way.
Other signs:
Fedora happens to be the name of the Linux distribution that I use.
Written on the back of a seat in a Metro car
Are there actually people who approach bobcats and coyotes?!
I went to the Summer Fair at Santa Anita Racetrack; it was a total waste of money, but I did see this sign for what I presume is a true culinary delight:
This was a sign in the Metro station, and my first reaction was that the tall guy on the left was Sacha Baron Cohen.
Abandoned Foster’s Freeze
I saw this abandoned restaurant that had been graffiti’ed on my way home; it was near one of the places I stopped to charge my car.
