Our lease is up in March and we may be in the hunt for a new San Francisco neighborhood. Maybe.
It was 67 degrees and sunny, which meant perfect conditions for a five mile walk. Beware of photos from yesterday sprinkling the site for the next few hours.
Demographic infographics ahoy!
7.1 million is the minority population in LA County. Holla!
It’s baffled me for eons: Why is downtown Los Angeles laid out at an angle (36 degrees, to be exact), rather than north-south? Local historian and author D.J. Waldie has the answer (it’s a Spanish colonial thing), via a livelyop-ed piece in Sunday’s L.A. Times: Royal ordinances required that the streets and house lots in the cities of New Spain have a 45-degree disorientation from true north and south to provide, it was said, equal light to every side of a small house throughout the day. Given the way Spanish and then Mexican Los Angeles extended along the bank of its uncertain river, only 36 degrees of compliance was possible. (via Franklin Avenue)
I still shake my head in disapproval when I think of the original planners and their idea that a sprawling city would be better than a city organized by a grid.
