My Favorite Shots for 2014

I am firmly convinced that Los Angeles has always been one of the most interesting cities in the world, and it's even more so now with all the activity in the newly revitalized Downtown, also known as the Historic Core. Basically abandoned from about 1980 to just a couple of years ago, the population has boomed from an estimated 10,000 five years ago to over 45,000 today. There are new businesses, new construction, once-abandoned skyscrapers converted into live/work spaces, the Bringing Back Broadway initiative.and many new faces.

In no particular order, here are a few of my favorite images from this last year.

                                    

Angels Flight

The historic and ancient Angels Flight funicular on Bunker Hill closed down a year ago due to some "technical" issues, which have since been repaired, and it is promised that it will reopen soon. I sure hope so. it had been in mothballs for decades, but a group of concerned citizens formed a committee, and the little train (one of the shortest funicular lines in the world) was back in business, until it broke.

But when it reopened a couple of years ago, I jumped on board. I gave the guy in the little ticket building at the top a handful of quarters and spent about two hours just riding up and down. Both the ticket guy and I lost count of my rides. I took a ton of pictures of people riding the cars, but most of them were crap (so it goes).

Still, I had a good time in the Disneyland of my mind. Thanks, funicular people.

DTLA Instagram skylines

Rosslyn Hotel and annex

Rowan Lofts, 5th & Spring

Security Building, 5th & Spring

SB Lofts, 6th & Spring

Spring Street parking garage facade

Rosslyn Hotel annex, 5th & Main

View of the Santa Fe Building on Main at 6th

Elevator shed, rooftop on Wall Street

Arcade Building on Broadway

SB Lofts, 6th & Spring

SB Tower, 6th & Spring

Broadway people

In their infinite mystery, thousands of people walk the streets of downtown Los Angeles. Where do they come from? Where are they going? Who are they, really? I don't know the answers to these questions, but I do know that to them, I too am just another stranger passing by.