How odd that this would have caught my attention
Well, look at what I found: rectangles.
In case you wondered – Charles von der Ahe was the founder of the Southern California grocery store chain, Vons, which was among the first stores to offer pre-packaged, self-service meat and deli items. (Vons was also the Official Grocery Store for the 1984 Summer Olympics, for whatever that’s worth.)
This building is on the campus of Loyola Marymount University; when you walk over to it from the visitor parking, a crossing guard will stop traffic for you. Which is sort of entertaining, since compared to the rest of Los Angeles, the campus has practically no traffic. But, still, we made it there and back without any car-pedestrian accidents to mess up the trip.
Los Angeles, California
photographed 6.27.2013
Posted on August 16, 2013, in Photography and tagged architecture, black and white photography, los angeles, los angeles california, loyola marymount, melinda green harvey, one day one image, photo a day, photography. Bookmark the permalink. 3 Comments.
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This makes me think of the quest for immortality by the rich and famous. When I worked in London archaeology we occasionally found a piece of Roman building stone with someone’s name inscribed in it. Knowledge of the person and their achievements never survived the millennia, though our discoveries brought their names into the present. I doubt they would have been fully satisfied to know that.
Do you think they used to have crossing guards on all the busier streets, but that they got run over, wiped out, so to speak? Maybe this one is a historical reminder, persisting in a backwater of destruction and change. Rather like one of those Roman engravings hinting at a forgotten past.
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Now it’s called “naming rights” which just doesn’t sound as classy as “quest for immortality”, does it?
My thought on the crossing guards was that students at Loyola Marymount were not capable – for various reasons – of crossing streets without assistance. Your assessment is much kinder, so let’s go with what you said.
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Not as classy, but perhaps more honest.
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