Liquor Store (Chinatown)

"East of West LA" - Now On Sale!

I'm very happy to say that orders for "East of West LA" are now being taken.

Included among the 55 photographs are Santa Monica Pier, Man At Union Station, Woman Ordering Food, Olvera Street, Boat House at Echo Park, News Vendor, Fourth Street Bridge and Mercedes. (On a sad note, Mercedes passed away earlier this month at, I believe, County General Hospital.)

$20 (10% discount for all pre-orders), plus $2.00 S&H.
The book will be released in mid-December.

This just in: Please send your order to:

Brooks Roddan
1020 Palos Verdes Drive West
Palos Verdes Estates, CA 90274

Cafe

Graveyard Jesus

Empty Store (Third Street)

Love Will Tear Us Apart, Again

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L.A. Skyline

Dark Stairwell

Botanica Cuauhtemoc

Vestibule

Rousted

Empty Store (Sundown)

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Slow Night At The Fair (MacArthur Park)

Hollywood

Empty Store (La Cienega Blvd.)

Open Late

'Round Midnight

Abandoned Love Bear

East L.A.

They Took Her Tent. The Police.

The tent was of course, Mercedes' home and in the middle of an especially bad heat wave, the Los Angeles Police Department decided to take it from her. As her companion explained it to me they said it was an eyesore and was on either public or private property (anything else would have been fine I guess). Consequently, it and all her possessions (except for her rosary beads) were confiscated.

There may be more to the story than this. If so, I'd like to hear about it.

Nonetheless, as of 9:45 this evening Mercedes is living and sleeping in an aluminum chair on the streets of LA.

[Some of you might remember Mercedes. I first put up this photo about six weeks ago.]