A palm tree column and film-reel ceiling from the Hollywood and Vine Metro station.

Today's image is "Urban Light", the art installation at the new entrance to the Los Angeles County Museum of Art. The 202 solar-powered vintage street lights that make up the installation were taken from different neighborhoods in the Los Angeles area.

Lupines in Los Angeles Historic State Park, near the Chinatown stop on the Metro Gold Line.

The Vista Theatre in Los Feliz opened in 1923 and still operates as a movie theater today... one of the few single-screen theaters still in use.

Due to restrictions on what can be done to the historic buildings in the Miracle Mile (Wilshire Blvd. from Fairfax Ave. east to La Brea Ave.), Staples had to get creative with their signage on this classic Streamline Moderne building at the corner of Wilshire Blvd. and Cochran Ave.

(I couldn't log on yesterday, so you get two posts today :))

An animal-print electric car in Santa Monica.

To launch this blog, I thought I'd start with one of the most iconic buildings in Los Angeles. City Hall was built in 1928, and until 1964 was the tallest building in the city. Its tower was built with concrete that used sand from each of California's counties and water from each of its missions. It was featured prominently in the 1960s series Dragnet, and was used as the Daily Planet building in the 1950s TV version of Superman.