Tag: Santa Monica

Pre-Blog Days In Southern California

California, City Images, Ocean, Pacific Ocean, Photography

I was talking to an old friend of mine from Los Angeles the other day which brought back some photographic memories from living there 9 years ago.  I shot all of these images, most of which were at least 10 years ago.  First of two posts.

 

Classic SoCal Sunset

 

Christmas decorations blend in with the graffiti at the 6th Street Bridge in Los Angeles

 

Members of a Pasadena cycling club are a blur on their evening ride near the Rose Bowl.

 

                       The Daily Planet, Where’s Clark?

 

Frank Gehry’s Disney Hall illuminates in Los Angeles

 

LA’s Bunker Hill

 

Water Court in Los Angeles but every city has one of these.

 

The Huntington Beach Pier plus a flock of seagulls.

 

Helicopter drops water on homes threatened by brush fires in the Los Feliz neighborhood of Los Angeles

 

Dog’s Best Friend

 

Rock Star

 

Downtown LA At Rush Hour

 

BLACK AND WHITE SAILING

 

Classic Lifeguard Shack

 

Los Angeles From The Hollywood Hills  At Day

 

Los Angeles From The Hollywood Hills At Night(Almost the Same Spot)

 

LOS ANGELES WITH FULL MOON

 

No Fun In LaJolla

 

Fun At Santa Monica Pier

 

Fun In San Diego?

 

The bright lights of San Diego

 

Sandcastle at sunset at Zuma Beach in Malibu, California

 

Santa Monica Bay At Night

 

Santa Monica Bay During Day

 

Downtown LA

 

Santa Monica Pier Reflection

 

Zoo Zebras

 

The always jammed-packed LA Subway

 

 

 

 

 

KCRW- My “Go To” Listening Source

California

KCRW is a NPR radio station out of Santa Monica, CA that offers a ton of listening options. Besides the regular lineup of NPR programs (Marketplace at 3:30 pm Mountain Time is my favorite), the station plays an immense amount of music.

Morning Becomes Eclectic is extremely popular in SoCal and is available M-F at 9am, PDT. Jason Bentley, the DJ, has his finger on the pulse of today’s music scene. The program also offers live, in-studio, performances! Where else can you listen to Beck and The War On Drugs play live on the radio.

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If you miss any of their DJ’s broadcasts( Henry Rollins is one), you can find the podcast and listen to it at your leisure as with all of their programs. They make it easy to download a song you may like from iTunes and Amazon. Maybe too easy. The station is commercial-free but you can donate 5 or 10 dollars per month. It is really worth it.

If you’re in LA, you can listen to it at 89.9 FM or on the internet at  KCRW