Succumb to the Beat surrender
I'm just going to start over here and pretend yesterday never happened. Monday too, that didn't happen. Okay? Okay.
Sunday was a trip around Alvarado Terrace, Bonnie Brae & 12th and Lincoln Heights, homes from 1910-1938 or so, mostly unrestored and continually occupied since they were built, a marvelous thing. Basically, aside from Alvarado Terrace, these homes were in areas that no one had any interest in developing or building a highway or a baseball stadium through and have been owned by years of neglectful landlords or owners with no interest in sinking any money into updating so they've survived mostly intact. Marvelous, marvelous.
Unlike the paranoid bedroom community of Monrovia, the people in these areas mostly left us alone. A lot of eyes peered through upstairs window curtain/bedroom sheets hung over windows, but aside from one Korean man who came out of his house and looked like he was going to join us, no one asked us why we were there or what were we doing and no police were called. Go, go Southwest Central Los Angeles!
I brought Ransack, because he looks like a crabby old man, like the kind who wears oversized chinos he hikes to his underarms and wheezes "Whah? Hunh?" while he speaks. He was of the era, although all of his photos are in robot mode because that the only way to see his crabby old man face.
First stop was Alvarado Terrace, a very, very small island of pre-War mansions in a sea of vagrants and government-subsidized housing. It was overcast most of the day, gray and hazy.
Boyle-Barmore House
Cohn House
Gilbert House
Powers House
I'd thought all the medallions and plasterwork were later additions but nope.
Raphael House
Kinney-Everhardy House
First Church of Christ, Scientist and one of Jim Jones' old stomping grounds before he moved the circus to Guyana. I think it's a Seventh Day Adventist church now but still in operation.
Between the manses and the church were other homes, like the Victorian corn cottage!
I loved this! Old home, corn crop in the front yard, glorious.
Homes along Bonnie Brae & 12th and environs. I didn't write the addresses down but I had 236 pictures and I'm not willing to parse which went on what street right now.
(I'll upload the other homes and uh, correct typos and insert names later.)
Requisite Newsom, the 3537 Griffin Avenue Residence in Montecito Heights.
Sunday was a trip around Alvarado Terrace, Bonnie Brae & 12th and Lincoln Heights, homes from 1910-1938 or so, mostly unrestored and continually occupied since they were built, a marvelous thing. Basically, aside from Alvarado Terrace, these homes were in areas that no one had any interest in developing or building a highway or a baseball stadium through and have been owned by years of neglectful landlords or owners with no interest in sinking any money into updating so they've survived mostly intact. Marvelous, marvelous.
Unlike the paranoid bedroom community of Monrovia, the people in these areas mostly left us alone. A lot of eyes peered through upstairs window curtain/bedroom sheets hung over windows, but aside from one Korean man who came out of his house and looked like he was going to join us, no one asked us why we were there or what were we doing and no police were called. Go, go Southwest Central Los Angeles!
I brought Ransack, because he looks like a crabby old man, like the kind who wears oversized chinos he hikes to his underarms and wheezes "Whah? Hunh?" while he speaks. He was of the era, although all of his photos are in robot mode because that the only way to see his crabby old man face.
First stop was Alvarado Terrace, a very, very small island of pre-War mansions in a sea of vagrants and government-subsidized housing. It was overcast most of the day, gray and hazy.
Boyle-Barmore House
Cohn House
Gilbert House
Powers House
I'd thought all the medallions and plasterwork were later additions but nope.
Raphael House
Kinney-Everhardy House
First Church of Christ, Scientist and one of Jim Jones' old stomping grounds before he moved the circus to Guyana. I think it's a Seventh Day Adventist church now but still in operation.
Between the manses and the church were other homes, like the Victorian corn cottage!
I loved this! Old home, corn crop in the front yard, glorious.
Homes along Bonnie Brae & 12th and environs. I didn't write the addresses down but I had 236 pictures and I'm not willing to parse which went on what street right now.
(I'll upload the other homes and uh, correct typos and insert names later.)
Requisite Newsom, the 3537 Griffin Avenue Residence in Montecito Heights.
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