Originally Posted by ethereal_reality (Post 7209610)

:previous: Excellent Hoss.

Like you, I am totally surprised the white building with the boarded up windows is still standing. It was an eyesore then and it's an eyesore now.

And yet that beautiful Eaton's on Ventura Blvd. is gone. :(
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Originally Posted by ethereal_reality (Post 7209610)

:previous: Excellent Hoss.

Like you, I am totally surprised the white building with the boarded up windows is still standing. It was an eyesore then and it's an eyesore now.

And yet that beautiful Eaton's on Ventura Blvd. is gone. :(
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Originally Posted by ethereal_reality (Post 7981725)

Here's one of the damaged houses in the Portuguese Bend landslide.

http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/102...922/RvNjHB.jpg
https://books.google.com/books?id=5V...college&f=true

Originally Posted by Martin Pal (Post 7977806)

The Dodger Stadium parking lots have 16,000 spaces. Are you suggesting two 8,000 capacity parking garages? No one would like that.

Also, greenery and foliage would be lovely, and there are many such islands around the stadium, but because of our recent long period of drought, with everyone in Los Angeles letting their greenery and foliage lay waste because there's no water to feed it, I doubt that kind of thing would be feasible now.

http://payload105.cargocollective.co...20Dusk_905.jpgCargo Collective

I don't know why a lot of people think a place needs to always be developed, either. Aerials of a hot stadium parking lot might look as appetizing as those bountiful postcards of the Los Angeles freeways, but you know what? Driving (or walking...yes walking) around the parking lots of Dodger stadium provide some of the most beautiful open air vistas of the city you can find.

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Also, money always comes into the picture. General parking costs at Dodger Stadium are $20 a car at the gate or $10 prepaid. Reserved parking close to the stadium is a lot more. (For the World Series the close lots were $70 to park (!) and the general parking was $40!) The parking lots make a ton of money for the place, which is one reason Frank McCourt, who made his money in the parking lot business, bought the team a few years ago and almost ran the organization into the ground before he was gotten rid of.

Of course, Dodger Stadium has Uber lots for drop-off and pickup or one can always walk to Dodger Stadium, too, from some locations, and save the parking fees!

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-k6CA90Vpx8

I agree the area around the stadium could benefit from some things that would draw people there throughout the year. There was a plan a few years ago to almost make it a mall of sorts around there. Most people who go there for baseball, though, don't want the place obstructed by all these distractions. They like the openness and the, to quote the Andrews Sisters song, "Don't fence me in" quality you feel up there.

Also, the same complaint about the land around Dodger Stadium can be made about many other places, too: Angel Stadium for example.

http://www.ocregister.com/wp-content....10.jpg?w=1020O.C. Register



I tried to find information about that postcard, but only found the info written on the backside:

Dodger Stadium is surrounded by terraced parking for 16,000 cars and has 56,000 unobstructed-view seats with seven front rows, no posts and multi-colored levels which make it baseball's most beautiful park.

It may not have been a game of any significance. Dodger Stadium regularly sells out many times during any given year.

Originally Posted by oldstuff (Post 7981382)

Just below all of this in the surf is the wreck of the Greek freighter "Dominator" which ran aground in 1961. Parts of it can still be seen at low tide and some dive on the wreck

Originally Posted by Bristolian (Post 7982673)

Here's what it looked like in 1965, about half of the ship still above water
https://i.imgur.com/fYyd71p.jpg?1
Wikipedia
And what's left today
https://i.imgur.com/bXIxRLh.jpg?1
https://www.urbanghostsmedia.com/201...-palos-verdes/

What may be nothing more than urban legend is the thinking that the massive wheat cargo the ship was carrying fell into the ocean and helped the local lobster population thrive for decades.

Originally Posted by jumbo0 (Post 7982565)

I've been reading this topic for years but still didn't succeed in picking up on the large amount of posts passing here.
I'm somewhere halfway I guess . I've posted some then/now's before but now -about a year later-
I have a few more I'd like to share with you, especially some aerials.

Originally Posted by Handsome Stranger (Post 7982901)

Here's the Dominator just a day or three after it ran aground. That's my mom on the left, expecting a little Handsome Stranger to emerge about eleven weeks later.

Originally Posted by Martin Pal (Post 7982357)

Los Angeles is Painting Their Roads White to Cool the City Down and Improve Air Quality
In a first step towards tackling overheating, the city of Los Angeles is painting black asphalt roads with a white reflecting coating. It has been proven to reduce temperatures significantly.

Link HERE.
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This article HERE, from May, talks about testing this out in Canoga Park.

Some of the articles call the sealant white and others refer to it as gray.


Another article HERE mentions a downside:

Of course, Jet Propulsion Laboratory climatologist Bill Patzert tells the Daily News that, while the “cool pavement” could help reverse the Heat Island Effect, it won’t be enough to offset the loss of urban forestland, should drought conditions cause vegetation to continue drying up in coming years.

Trial roads in all 15 council districts were coated with the reflective surfacing this past June.

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Dodger Stadium should do this in their parking lot.
Anyone else heard of this or seen it?

Originally Posted by Flyingwedge (Post 7983224)

In Westchester, the short block of 77th Street between Cowan and Beland, next to Cowan Avenue School,
was covered with the heat-reducing coating: