Southern California gave us shopping malls.  The biggest in the world used to be Del Amo Mall down in Torrance, south of the airport.  Times have changed.  The idea spread all over the country.  The biggest mall is now The Mall of American in northern Minnesota.

Well, we traded size for surrealism.

This is Westside Pavilion at the corner of Westwood Boulevard and Pico – south of UCLA and Beverly Hills, east of the Santa Monica beaches.

On the walkway overlooking Westwood Boulevard you can grab some coffee from a kiosk and sit and watch the traffic below in an appropriate chair – the walkway connects the two parts of the mall spanning the boulevard.