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I love this whole history research thing. One of the buildings converted to create Premiere Towers was the former California Bank building (the astute will note that the California bank then moved to 600 S. Spring in 1960). August 12th, 1953, a bank robber was shot and killed in what is now my building. That’s kind of crazy. From the LA Times write-up the...

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A Little History on 600 S. Spring

By Eric Richardson — January 19, 2005

I went to the B. Dalton in the LA Mall today (the one I mentioned the other day). I didn’t find either of the books I was looking for, but I spent a little time hanging out looking through a photo book focused on the Historic Core. Particularly of interest was a photo of the building at 600 S. Spring, since that’s where I’ve been parking for...

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Flexcar Downtown

By Eric Richardson — January 19, 2005

Over on my personal blog I’m talking about transit options now that I’m carless. In a post today I mentioned going to check out the Flexcar at the Bonaventure. I had walked over to the library this afternoon, so I dropped by the Bonaventure to check out the car. It was there, and as advertised was a Honda Civic hybrid. They’re small cars,...

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Arts and a Park

By Eric Richardson — January 19, 2005
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We had an Arts Committee meeting last night. I got my meeting times confused, so I ended up there at 6:30 when the meeting really wasn’t until 7. My meetings need to all have a standard time so that I don’t get confused. Agenda items were fairly uneventful; a lot was updates on progress. Several members of the public came to address us, presenting...

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A Weekend Walk Through the Civic Center

By Eric Richardson — January 17, 2005

Yesterday after getting back from church I decided it was just too nice to stay inside, so I figured a bit of a walk was in order. The one area of Downtown that I’ve probably most neglected is the Civic Center, so I set my course for there and took a little walk through that big part of Downtown that is government property.

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A Trip to the Convention Center, the Scenic Way

By Eric Richardson — January 15, 2005

D4 and I went down to the Auto Show today. I had been last weekend, but hadn’t seen everything, so it was fun to get back and see things in a bit more depth. We got there from the apartment via the Downtown DASH Weekend Service, ate lunch at the St. Vincent Jewelry Center, and then walked back by way of the LA Times.

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Another View of DLANC: There's a Lot of Good

By Eric Richardson — January 14, 2005

Now available in the January 17th issue of the Downtown News is an opinion piece I wrote. They titled it ”Another View of Downtown’s Neighborhood Council: Board Member Says a Lot Is Going Right With DLANC” This is a response to last week’s article, ”Success and Growing Pains.” I was excited when I picked up a copy of the...

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Imaginary Buildings

By Eric Richardson — January 14, 2005

During the course of my normal news reading I came across this press release a few days ago. It advertises “Olive Street Tower,” which it claims will, undoubtedly become a landmark within the Los Angeles area, projecting into the ever evolving Pacific basin. Well, maybe, if anyone ever intended to build it…

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Art Walk: Part Two

By Eric Richardson — January 14, 2005
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So after resting my legs a little at my apartment I headed back out. On this leg I hit Bert Green Fine Art, Los Angeles Center for Digital Art, 626 Gallery, Gallery 727, and Milla Angelina Gallery. That made seven galleries for the day, and yet I didn’t hit anywhere near all of them. There are too many these days; I can’t keep up.

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Art Walk: Part One

By Eric Richardson — January 13, 2005

Once classes got out today I figured I would catch some of the more southern Downtown Art Walk destinations on my way back home. I’ll be walking around to more places around here in just a bit, but I wanted to take a second to give my impressions from sixspace and Downtown Art Gallery.