Friday, December 9
Oct. 11, 1965: Dodgers, from left, Maury Wills, Sandy Koufax and Willie Davis celebrate after winning Game 5 of the 1965 World Series against the Minnesota Twins. In that game, Koufax pitched a four-hit shutout, striking out 10.
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Photo credit: Lou Mack / Los Angeles Times
(Source: Los Angeles Times)
“The league office declined to make the trade for basketball reasons.”
NBA spokesman Tim Frank on the nixed trade deal that would have sent Lamar Odom to the New Orleans Hornets, Pau Gasol to the Houston Rockets and Chris Paul to the Lakers.
The league office declined to make the trade for basketball reasons. For basketball reasons. For basketball reasons. If you say it long enough, it sounds like a Zen koan.
(via latimes)
(Source: Los Angeles Times, via latimes)
Thursday, December 8
Together At Last of the Day: I have no idea what you’re talking about… so here’s former architectural drafting major Ice Cube conducting a video tour of the Eames House for the SoCal art initiative Pacific Standard Time.
[pst.]
Architecture, Los Angeles, and Ice Cube. What more could you want?
(Source: thedailywhat)
Wednesday, December 7
June 14, 1987: The Lakers’ Magic Johnson sprays Champagne on teammates and photographers during a locker room celebration after beating the Celtics 106-93 and winning the NBA championship.
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Photo credit: Michael Edwards / Los Angeles Times
THE BEST.
(Source: Los Angeles Times)
Monday, October 24
“Ogden Nash. LAT’s Christopher Hawthorne quoted a line from Nash for his presentation at the Los Angeles Archives Bazaar. You can read the quote in Carey McWilliams’ book “Southern California: An Island on the Land” (via lahistory)Is it true what they say about Los Angeles, that Los Angeles is erratic,
That in the sweet national symphony of common sense Los Angeles is static?Yes it is true. Los Angeles is not only erratic, not only erotic; Los Angeles is crotchety, centrifugal, vertiginous, esoteric and exotic.
Many people blame the movies and the movie-makers for Los Angeles’
emotional rumpus, but they are mistaken; it is the compass.Certainly Los Angeles is a cloudburst of non-sequiturs, and of logic a drought,
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But what can you expect of a city that is laid out east to west, instead of north and south?
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Monday, October 10
The best L.A. books? Let’s make a list.
Photo credit: Christopher Reynolds / Los Angeles Times
Eeek. I feel bad that I haven’t read any of these books in their entirety. Also, this just reminds me how much I need to get a library card so I can read on my current “recently moved/Brooklyn living/freelance dancer/freelance photographer/perpetual intern/restaurant server/paying back college loans/chasing dreams” income. Woof.
(Source: Los Angeles Times)
Tuesday, August 30
Aerial view of a jam-packed Dodger Stadium (record crowd of 55,934) at Game 5 of 1965 World Series. The Dodgers won 7-0.
Photographer: Ben White
Chavez Ravine by Shawn Park
Dodger Stadium: Home of the L.A. Dodgers
Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum, home to the L.A. Dodgers from 1958 to 1961.
photographer unknown.
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LA by DjSalvaggio
Taken at Dodger Stadium, home of the Los Angeles Dodgers.
