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It's a mango. Someone wants you to buy mango-flavored vodka. And it's just a mango, floating over the hole in the ground where the old Ambassador Hotel stood, where Bobby Kennedy was assassinated, down on Wilshire, Wilshire Center.
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This is also nice, on the wall of the nearby Talmadge, at the corner of Wilshire and Kenmore, the apartments that bear the name of silent film star Norma Talmadge, who received the building as a gift from her husband, Joseph Schenk, a founding chairman of 20th Century Fox. He must have liked her.
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Around the corner, the Davis Garage on Catalina – 1927 an all that –
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Ah, above the garage, just another stairway to heaven –
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Nearby, this may not be heaven. The Big Guy is not gay, at least not in that way.
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This is an odd corner of Los Angeles –
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If you wish to use any of these photos for commercial purposes I assume you'll discuss that with me. And should you choose to download any of these images and use them invoking the "fair use" provisions of the Copyright Act of 1976, please provide credit, and, on the web, a link back to this site.
Technical Note:
These photographs were taken with a Nikon D200 – the lenses used were AF-S Nikkor 18-70 mm 1:35-4.5G ED, or AF Nikkor 70-300 mm telephoto. The high-resolution photography here was modified for web posting using Adobe Photoshop 7.0 software.
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All text and photos, unless otherwise noted, Copyright © 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009 - Alan M. Pavlik
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