A few items from the many years of archives –
A Darker Nature (45 images): Late March, Griffith Park, up the hill from Hollywood, a late spring storm passed through overnight. That made the day mysterious. Sunny Southern California is a myth. ~ Monday, March 28, 2016
The Friday Morning Club (40 images): Well, it was Friday morning here. It was time to visit the Friday Morning Club - 940 South Figueroa Street in downtown Los Angeles, designed by architects Allison and Allison and built in 1923. The Friday Morning Club was founded by the abolitionist, suffragist, mother and homemaker, Caroline Severance, in 1891. She was a good friend of Susan B. Anthony, and this was the club's headquarters. The idea was self-improvement and study of the arts, literature and culture, and the political and social advancement of women. William Butler Yeats gave a reading here once, and then it turned into the Variety Arts Center – stage shows and such. It's still amazing, and around the corner there's the Fine Arts Building – 811 West 7th Street – built by the architects Albert Raymond Walker and Percy Augustin Eisen in 1927 – and it's just as amazing. There are giant glass skyscrapers all over this part of the city, but there's a glorious past in the shadows. This was Friday morning, November 7, 2014.
A Stir of Echoes (45 images): This is Echo Park. "A Stir of Echoes" is that 1958 novel by Richard Matheson, about a guy suddenly hearing the private thoughts of the people around him and learning what he never wanted to know, and then he gets messages from the dead. He's overwhelmed. He goes mad. Kevin Bacon plays that guy in the 1999 film – and sometimes Echo Park is like that book and that movie. ~ Tuesday, March 26, 2019
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