And what country can preserve its liberties if their rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take arms. The remedy is to set them right as to facts, pardon and pacify them. What signify a few lives lost in a century or two? The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.
Technically correct, but that's more like Hollywood Hills life. L.A. downtown is that wretched hive of scum and villainy partly blocked from view by the corner post. The avenue at left is Santa Monica Blvd.
Quite the view, but I have no desire to live there.
ReplyDeleteThe ashtray kinda dates the picture…
ReplyDeleteSo does the smog and the fact the picture was taken using film.
DeleteWhat, no homeless encampment nearby?
ReplyDeleteIsn't that the Commander's house from the historical documentary, Galaxy Quest?
ReplyDeleteTechnically correct, but that's more like Hollywood Hills life.
ReplyDeleteL.A. downtown is that wretched hive of scum and villainy partly blocked from view by the corner post. The avenue at left is Santa Monica Blvd.
Is that gray haze smog?
ReplyDeleteBorn and raised here from paradise to trash pile in fifty years.
ReplyDeleteNo idea point on the compass; is that the dreaded Santa Anna winds bending the palm trees?
ReplyDeleteNope. Santa Ana's blow N to S (the other way in this pic.)
DeleteAnd this is looking generally SE.
Perfect front-row vantage point to observe the festivities when Skynet becomes self-aware and starts nuking the carbon-based units.
ReplyDeleteWith a $5700 Eames Chair (in today's money) I doubt it's a working class neighborhood!
ReplyDeletePass. Not just “no”, but “bleep no”.
ReplyDeleteDamn windy day
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