stradaas:

tumblangeles:

saraliz:

RIP Thai Town Express Hot Dog. :’(

lieslieslies:

Pour one.

The giant hot dog must never leave. Time to start a historical preservation campaign…

But it already left… They took down everything, including the restaurant. I never got to take a picture with the hot dog. Unfortunate.

NNNOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!

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robgreenleaf:

Circle X in the sky. X-men movie promo? #LA (Taken with instagram)

saw one of these (or this one maybe) from my balcony yesterday. rolled video starting after first / before the X was completed thinking there’d be more. X-Men makes sense.

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Some guidelines on how to be a true Angeleno

mlee525:

Click-through for Hector Tobar’s list, but here are two which I liked:

5. Know your shortcuts. We avoid turning on the GPS because we know more about our traffic patterns than any computer. We know that the usual rules of geography and geometry don’t always apply in L.A., and the quickest route between two points is not necessarily a straight line. We know that at certain times of the day, a sinewy canyon road moves faster than the freeway next to it.

6. Appreciate Vin Scully. I’m sorry, but if you don’t know who Vin Scully is, you can’t pass your L.A. citizenship test. The legendary L.A. Dodgers announcer, still going at age 83, was born in the Bronx, but he’s as Angeleno as they come. Drop Scully’s name into a conversation, and it will instantly identify you as a real Angeleno.

I don’t think you can consider yourself a real Angeleno until you’ve seen a game at Chavez Ravine.

Screw the Dodgers. I am a “real Angeleno” in that I live here and have for years but I haven’t betrayed by Bay Area birth and upbringing. I hate all LA sports teams save for the Trojans because I went to USC and Galaxy because no one cares about the MLS enough to care if I support LA or San Jose.