But because I had come to feel that that authority should always be treated as suspect and self-serving. Like many others, I learned a great lesson in Vietnam: Never trust authority. He has had a problem with alcoholism and a history with Twelve-Step programs, as well as a distrust of authority. After a traumatic stint in Vietnam, he joins the New Orleans Police Department. Having just finished the first novel in the Dave Robicheaux series- Neon Rain (1987)-I now know why I like him so much.ĭave Robicheaux is the hero of most of Burke’s novels. Past posts on the Bimini Baths (along with El Patio Gardens/Rainbow Gardens/Palomar Ballroom.I have been reading occasional mystery novels by James Lee Burke over the years. We all recognize Bimini Slough because of the oft-posted Bimini Baths, located downstream from the Shakespeare Bridge (the large building circled in red is John Marshall High School)Ī further look at Arroyo de la Sacatela (feeding into Bimini Slough). (Sacatela Creek has long been covered over) The ravine over which the bridge was built was once a perennial stream called Arroyo de la Sacatela.īelow: Early views of the Shakespeare Bridge.Ī view from below. The Shakespeare Bridge was built in 1926 by J.C. John WayneĪnd Andy Devine, also working as extras on the film, obviously escaped.Īnd here's a small version of the big photo in case anyone doesn't want to scroll around:ĭetail of the photograph originally posted by Tovanger2 Three extras actually drowned here during the filming of Noah's Ark (1928).
Sorry it's so huge, but the detail is fascinating: The two little bungalows, connected by the entrance arch, at Prospect and Talmadge (right of center, at bottom) are still there of course. Shakespeare Bridge crosses the little canyon where the headwaters of Sacatela Creek rose. The worthy-of-exploration neighborhood is a bare, brown hillside. Here's an undated (circa 1926) shot taken from the opposite direction with the Shakespeare Bridge (1926) on the upper left and the site of the Prospect Stairs upper right. Of course this studio was built in 1915 as the Vitagraph Studio you can see it there in the 1938 photo. This is just east of what is now called the Prospect Studios on Talmadge Street, where ABC's former west coast studios/headquarters was (they moved to Glendale in 1999). Oh my, this looks like a good neighborhood for me to explore-maybe today? I wanna walk up and down those stairs. I wish I could reply sooner, my computer always seems to be in the shop getting fixed. The alexandria is limited to people with a certain income, I think the max is something like 30 some grand a year, so if you make more than that, you cant live there.
I am worried though about the proposed 35 or 40 story building they want to put at 6th and main in front of the pacific electric building, I do not know much about it, I have not seen any renderings yet, but I am 109.2% sure it will be awful. The parking lot sucks big time, there is a feeling of dead space when you walk by. Personally I would rather there be a 2-3 story building go in, that way the alexandria doesnt get screwed over, and an alleyway can always be included as well. Well yes, it sucks, but I meant that compared to most new buildings being built nowadays, its better than most of them, in that its not a pile of random shaped colorful things stacked on top of eachother (again, see new genesis apartments on 5th and main, or the new thing they are building on the corner of 2nd and los angeles street). Dunno if I'm too noir or not noir enough. The developers wrecked Bunker Hill and now they think it's the Historic Core's turn.
#Suck me shakespeer lapl windows#
And the Alexandria will lose five floors of their south-facade windows if the Hellen monster is built.
#Suck me shakespeer lapl plus#
Plus closing off the rear access to the Academy, Cameo & Roxie theaters (which he also owns, along with the Arcade Building) is a crime against their future use. I don't know why developer Joseph Heller's so keen to fill the "void" (as he calls it in the LA DownTown News article you linked). I can't agree Horthos, I think the proposed building is appalling.
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