View Point of the Rose Bowl - Pasadena, CA

Overlooking Rose Bowl Aquatic Center, Bookside Park, and a bit of the Rose Bowl, from near the intersection of N. Grand Ave. and Arroyo Terrace, by one of the trailheads to Arroyo Terrace Trails. (Photographed on 1-18-2009.)

Mosaic - Pasadena, CA

Above the underground parking at 1 South Grand Ave., Pasadena. I have not been able to find any info on this mosaic depicting the best of Southern California living, perhaps from the 1940's?
Photos taken on 18 Jan 2009.

Union Station - Los Angeles, CA

Union Passenger Terminal, 1934-1939

John & Donald B. Parkinson; J.H. Christie, H.L. Gilman, R.J. Wirth; Herman Sachs, color consultant; Tommy Tomson, landscape architect

East side of North Alameda Street, between Aliso and Macy Streets

"The last of the large metropolitan passenger depots to be built in the U.S. The terminal provided for sixteen tracks and for extensive parking (120 cars underground and 400 in front of the building). Landscaped grounds and courtyards convey an indoor-outdoor sense of space seldom encountered in large-scale public buildings. The design successfully merged the Streamline Moderne and the Spanish. The 135-foot-high observation and clock tower, the principal interion sapces, and the patios manage to convey both modernity and tradition."

(Ref. An Architectural Guidebook to Los Angeles by David Gebhard and David Winter, Entry 11. in Downtown, Plaza and Northeast)

St. Vincent de Paul Catholic Church - Los Angeles, CA

"From Wikipedia: St. Vincent de Paul Church is a Roman Catholic parish and Los Angeles Historic-Cultural Monument (HCM #90) in the West Adams section of Los Angeles, California. The church was built in the 1920s and designed by architect Albert C. Martin, Sr. Dedicated in 1925, it was located in what was then one of the wealthiest sections of the city, on land adjacent to the Edward Doheny Mansion and Stimson House. It was only the second Roman Catholic church in Los Angeles to be consecrated."

Cheering on the Walkers at St. Vincents - Los Angeles, CA

Taken on 7 Nov. 2009.

The United Way sponsored 2009 HomeWalk to end homelessness passed by the church at the corner of W. Adams Blvd. and Figueroa St.

FELIX Chevrolet, Los Angeles, CA

The sign, erected in 1957 at Felix Chevrolet (3300 S. Figueroa St. - on the corner of Figueroa and Jefferson Boulevard), was declared a historic-cultural monument in 2007.

Art Wall - Culver City, CA

Building at the corner of Hughes Ave and Washington Blvd. (Artist who painted the facade of the building is unknown to me - for now.)

LAX Theme Building

Renovation of the LAX theme building is almost complete.

Old poster replica on the wall of a coffee shop in the International Terminal. See more vintage views at Pasadena Adjacent- Theme Building at LAX.
"The building (the central theatrical flying saucer restaurant) was designed by Pereira, Williams, and Becket in the mid '50s and established the space-age theme of the passenger terminal area." - Ref. An Architectural Guidebook to Los Angeles by David gebhard and Robert Winter.

Palms at Belmont Pier - Long Beach, CA

Thursday evening's sunset (Nov. 5, 2009).

All Saints' Day at Mary Star of the Sea - San Pedro, CA

At Mary Star, the Mass is celebrated in English, Spanish, Croatian and Italian.