Wednesday, February 2, 2022
Tuesday, February 1, 2022
Today's funny posts
10-year anniversary of J28 at Occupy Oakland. Many losses, but history won’t forget guy on the skirmish line with his upholstered chair pic.twitter.com/HiWlfk0yV0
— Martha Lincoln (@heavyredaction) January 29, 2022
Neal Stephenson's "Quicksilver: The Baroque Cycle #1" is $1.99 today
at Amazon. (I really liked this when it came out, looking forward to rediscovering it.)
Vintage San Fernando Valley promotional images
Did you know the Valley is the "Hand that feeds Los Angeles"? So said boosters in the 1920s, before Owensmouth became Canoga Park & First Nat'l Studio became Warner Bros. This is one of the oddest maps of the Valley I've seen & frankly a little creepy... Is it cuz it's handsy?🤔 pic.twitter.com/zwISHPlOy8
— L.A. Dork (@la_dorkout) January 25, 2022
Tarzana was famously named after the character Tarzan by Edgar Rice Burroughs, whose ranch encompassed much of the community. The neighborhood was subdivided... along with this bitchen-ass brochure to lure homeowners. I'm in!! pic.twitter.com/XJG0NRzMhP
— L.A. Dork (@la_dorkout) January 19, 2022
In 1912 the Valley advertised a "payroll town" ($$$) called Mulholland. Developers in Pacoima changed the name to the water king to capitalize on his popularity & its proximity to the soon-opened aqueduct. Mulholland disapproved of the scheme; it reverted to Pacoima a year later. pic.twitter.com/zevUWGthH5
— L.A. Dork (@la_dorkout) September 27, 2021
The feed has a lot of images from old Los Angeles:
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