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.
Driven through exactly that spot many times. Every time I tell myself I'm never going to California again I find myself in California. Last time I was out there I got stuck in traffic right next to a very beautiful but very young lady driving a Mercedes Benz SLR McLaren. I was driving a rented Malibu and we were going the same speed. Zero.
1D is Soto St, coming up between 1C and 1E. 1B takes you through the interchange and dumps you off at Mateo and Enterprise St., in the grottiest warehouse district in downtown L.A., just a few blocks south of Skid Row, and southeast of Little Tokyo. The picture in on the 60 Fwy, westbound, In East L.A., just before crossing the L.A. River from the E.L.A. barrio into the hellhole that is downtown L.A. proper.
The only idiots who pay attention to exit numbers are the morons who program Garmin directions, and CALTRANS. Everyone else just calls them by the street name or freeway name/number.
E.g., no one takes "Exit 1-C". They take the 101 North transition. Thye brighter ones (all three of them, most days) are even in the correct lane for that move a mile before they get to it.
And that pic had to have been taken at 5AM on a Sunday or holiday in July. Even odds it was the 4th of July. Most other times, that spot has ten times as many cars there, from 6AM-midnight. The best time to travel through there is never.
According to the TV show '24' it only takes 20 minutes to get from wherever you are to any other place in LA. Therefore, some of the prior comments are WAY off the mark! (LOL)
At 7AM any weekday, 20 minutes from that spot would be just about under the overhead pedestrian bridge in the near foreground. At 3AM, 20 minutes would be the Santa Monica Pier at the Pacific Ocean.
I think the same thing when watching “Dragnet” episodes. In the 60s it may have been possible to have destinations 20 minutes away. By the time I first drove down there in 1974, it was sort of possible on some days. When I lived in Rancho Cucamonga in the 90s it was definitely impossible.
It is easy for me to remember taking a casual drive to LA from Orange County In the late 50s to watch the Dodgers play baseball at the Coliseum or watch John Wooden's Bruins full court press work its magic at the LA Sports Arena. It all began in 1908 when my great grandfather moved from Kansas and purchased an acre on the Cudahy Ranch (now Compton, one of the most densely populated areas in America). My grandfather swam with Buster Crabbe and Johnny Weissmuller at the Long Beach Swim Club. Pleasant memories but I no longer consider those areas a safe place to visit, let alone live,
I was born in SoCal in the late 50s and from Alhambra, which is just outside downtown LA by 8 miles. I was last by 6 years and we were lower middle class as my parents were originally from AZ. The freeway system that now exists did not then. I10 San Bernardino Frwy connected to I10 Santa Monica Frwy at the mess at downtown. When I learned to drive in HS we did it in class and on the street and also the frwy. The difference was that you had short time to get up to speed to enter the frwy traffic speed, no matter the speed get in the lane, travel, then a short time to exit from high speed to very low speed. The on/off ramps were very short and the speed on the frwys were usually much higher than what was posted. I met my wife at UCLA and she was from NorCal and she hated SoCal so after I taught her to drive SoCal traffic and we finished UCLA we moved to the Bay Area. Later my company moved me to the east coast.
HAIL no.
ReplyDeleteBeen their, done that, never again!
ReplyDeleteRoger that!
DeleteTraffic is moving. This must be fake.
ReplyDeleteIt's a craphole.
ReplyDeleteCali-fornication is not my cuppa tea. No thank you.
ReplyDeleteDriven through exactly that spot many times. Every time I tell myself I'm never going to California again I find myself in California. Last time I was out there I got stuck in traffic right next to a very beautiful but very young lady driving a Mercedes Benz SLR McLaren. I was driving a rented Malibu and we were going the same speed. Zero.
ReplyDeleteWhere are Exits 1B and 1D?
ReplyDelete1D is Soto St, coming up between 1C and 1E.
Delete1B takes you through the interchange and dumps you off at Mateo and Enterprise St., in the grottiest warehouse district in downtown L.A., just a few blocks south of Skid Row, and southeast of Little Tokyo.
The picture in on the 60 Fwy, westbound, In East L.A., just before crossing the L.A. River from the E.L.A. barrio into the hellhole that is downtown L.A. proper.
The only idiots who pay attention to exit numbers are the morons who program Garmin directions, and CALTRANS.
Everyone else just calls them by the street name or freeway name/number.
E.g., no one takes "Exit 1-C". They take the 101 North transition.
Thye brighter ones (all three of them, most days) are even in the correct lane for that move a mile before they get to it.
And that pic had to have been taken at 5AM on a Sunday or holiday in July.
Even odds it was the 4th of July.
Most other times, that spot has ten times as many cars there, from 6AM-midnight. The best time to travel through there is never.
According to the TV show '24' it only takes 20 minutes to get from wherever you are to any other place in LA. Therefore, some of the prior comments are WAY off the mark! (LOL)
ReplyDeleteAt 7AM any weekday, 20 minutes from that spot would be just about under the overhead pedestrian bridge in the near foreground.
DeleteAt 3AM, 20 minutes would be the Santa Monica Pier at the Pacific Ocean.
This is Einstein's Theory of Relativity at work.
I think the same thing when watching “Dragnet” episodes. In the 60s it may have been possible to have destinations 20 minutes away. By the time I first drove down there in 1974, it was sort of possible on some days. When I lived in Rancho Cucamonga in the 90s it was definitely impossible.
DeleteIt is easy for me to remember taking a casual drive to LA from Orange County In the late 50s to watch the Dodgers play baseball at the Coliseum or watch John Wooden's Bruins full court press work its magic at the LA Sports Arena. It all began in 1908 when my great grandfather moved from Kansas and purchased an acre on the Cudahy Ranch (now Compton, one of the most densely populated areas in
ReplyDeleteAmerica). My grandfather swam with Buster Crabbe and Johnny Weissmuller at the Long Beach Swim Club. Pleasant memories but I no longer consider those areas a safe place to visit, let alone live,
I was born in SoCal in the late 50s and from Alhambra, which is just outside downtown LA by 8 miles. I was last by 6 years and we were lower middle class as my parents were originally from AZ. The freeway system that now exists did not then. I10 San Bernardino Frwy connected to I10 Santa Monica Frwy at the mess at downtown.
ReplyDeleteWhen I learned to drive in HS we did it in class and on the street and also the frwy. The difference was that you had short time to get up to speed to enter the frwy traffic speed, no matter the speed get in the lane, travel, then a short time to exit from high speed to very low speed. The on/off ramps were very short and the speed on the frwys were usually much higher than what was posted.
I met my wife at UCLA and she was from NorCal and she hated SoCal so after I taught her to drive SoCal traffic and we finished UCLA we moved to the Bay Area. Later my company moved me to the east coast.