Hooray for (East) Hollywood!

I have lived just off Hollywood and Western for over 2 years. I love the neighborhood to the point of bragging that it is "the best in L.A." The true essence of the Los Angeles metropolis is beautifully expressed in the diversity of land uses, buildings, and people in East Hollywood.

Recently I decided to thoroughly document my neighborhood through photographs. My methodology is a series of walks. Despite what Missing Persons would have you believe, a lot of people walk in L.A. Check out this guy. I wanna be like him.

My first walk was on June 25. I started at Hollywood Boulevard and Western Avenue and proceeded east on Hollywood, with a detour at Olive Hill, the location of Barnsdall Park. I then turned north on Vermont Avenue and went into Los Feliz Village. At Franklin Avenue I turned around on Vermont, then turned west on Hollywood and returned home. Here's a map (click here for a larger view):

(Props to Google Earth)

A photo album and slideshow of my June 25 walk

My second walk was on July 15. I started at Hollywood Boulevard and Western Avenue and proceeded south on Western. I turned east on Sunset Boulevard and then turned south on Vermont Avenue in the "hospital district." At Fountain Avenue I turned around on Vermont and proceeded north into Los Feliz Village. I turned west on Franklin Avenue, then turned south on Harvard Boulevard and returned home. Here's a map (click here for a larger view):

(Props to Google Earth)

A photo album and slideshow of my July 15 walk

While I didn't set out to document anything in particular, I ending up taking a lot of photos of certain things: restaurants, fast-food joints, retail stores, mini-malls, dingbat apartment buildings, and of course, signs. Here are 12 photos; if you like them, you can see 156 more in my photo albums.

Props to flickr for hosting my photos. I will elaborate on what flickr is (and on how awesome it is) in an upcoming post.