IVIV (1) The Long, Sad History of L.A. Land Use

[Dave Monroe]

   "'Revenge for ...?'"
   "'Watts.'"

http://g-ecx.images-amazon.com/images/G/01/PENGN-EMS/InherentVice._V218759443_.pdf


"... it ain't just them gone, but the turf itself"

Cf. ...

"What was the use of my having come from Oakland it was not natural to
have come from there yes write about it if I like or anything if I
like but not there, there is no there there."

--Gertrude Stein, Everybody’s Autobiography (1937)

http://www.bartleby.com/73/148.html
http://www.tenderbuttons.com/gsonline/alice.html


"Grindit up into little pieces"

Analysis is the process of breaking a complex topic or substance into
smaller parts to gain a better understanding of it. The technique has
been applied in the study of mathematics and logic since before
Aristotle, though analysis as a formal concept is a relatively recent
development.

The word is a transcription of the ancient Greek Ανάλυσις (analusis),
"a breaking up" (from ana- "up, throughout" + lysis "a loosening").

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Analysis
http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/analysis/
http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/analysis
http://waste.org/mail/?list=pynchon-l&month=0308&msg=84627
http://waste.org/mail/?list=pynchon-l&month=0010&msg=50144


"Not hallucinating"

It's funny because it's true?  Or ...?  Again ...


"Coming Soon on This Site"

Note "on" vs. "to."  Site, tube, surf, Sportello, channel, ARPANet ...


"closer to Gardena than Compton"

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gardena,_California
http://www.ci.gardena.ca.us/government/default.asp

Digital Manga is a company that licenses and releases, in English,
Japanese anime, manga, and related merchandise. The company has
several subdivisions: Digital Manga Publishing, which publishes
Japanese manga, novels and instructional and illustration books in
North America with multiple imprints, and 801 Media, a sister company
that focuses on more explicit yaoi manga works. The company's
headquarters are in Suite 300 at 1487 West 178th Street in Gardena,
California, United States

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_Manga
http://www.digitalmanga.com/
http://www.dmpbooks.com/
http://www.801media.com/

Compton is still seen as a primarily African-American city, although
in the 2000s Latinos became a plural-majority as a result of
immigration and shifts in ethnic populations. In recent years, there's
been an influx of white and Asian families moving into some areas of
Compton due to the process of gentrification and revitalization.[...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compton,_California
http://www.comptoncity.org/

And see e,g, ,,,,

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Straight_Outta_Compton


"South Central"

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/South_Los_Angeles


"still a Japanese neighborhood"

Was it?  Help!


"more white man's revenge"

As in most urban areas, 1950s freeway construction radically altered
the geography of southern Los Angeles. Freeway routes tended to
reinforce traditional segregation lines....

However well the freeways worked in moving cars around, they were
decidedly unsuccessful as instruments of segregation. The explosive
growth of suburbs, most of which barred blacks by a variety of
methods, provided the opportunity for whites in neighborhoods
bordering black districts to leave en masse. The spread of blacks
throughout the area was achieved in large part through "blockbusting,"
a technique whereby real estate speculators would buy a home on an
all-white street, sell or rent it to a black family, and then buy up
the remaining homes from whites at cut-rate prices and sell them at a
hefty profit to housing-hungry blacks.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/South_Los_Angeles#1948-1960s


Watts

http://www.usc.edu/libraries/archives/la/watts.html

The term Watts Riots of 1965 refers to a large-scale race riot which
lasted 6 days in the Watts neighborhood of Los Angeles, California, in
August 1965....

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Watts_Riots

Thomas Pynchon, "A Journey into the Mind of Watts" (1966)

http://www.nytimes.com/books/97/05/18/reviews/pynchon-watts.html
http://www.themodernword.com/pynchon/pynchon_essays_watts.html
http://acompulsivereader.wordpress.com/2009/08/21/a-journey-into-the-mind-of-pynchon/


"Long, sad history of L.A. land use"

Chávez Ravine

Los Angeles-based author Mike Davis, in his seminal work on the city,
City of Quartz, describes the process of gradually convincing Chávez
Ravine homeowners to sell. With nearly all of the original
Spanish-speaking homeowners initially unwilling to sell, developers
resorted to offering immediate cash payments, distributed through
their Spanish-speaking agents. Once the first sales had been
completed, remaining homeowners were offered increasingly lesser
amounts of money, to create a community panic of not receiving fair
compensation, or of being left as one of the few holdouts. Many
residents continued to hold out despite the pressure being placed upon
them by developers, resulting in the Battle of Chavez Ravine, an
unsuccessful ten-year struggle by residents of Chavez Ravine, to
maintain control of their property. The controversy surrounding the
construction of the Dodger stadium provided the inspiration for singer
Ry Cooder's 2005 concept album, Chávez Ravine.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dodger_Stadium#Construction

Davis, Mike.  City of Quartz: Excavating the Future in Los Angeles.
   London and New York: Verso, 1990.

http://www.versobooks.com/books/cdef/d-titles/davis_m_city_of_quartz.shtml
http://www.randomhouse.com/acmart/catalog/display.pperl?isbn=9780679738060

Bunker Hill

http://wapedia.mobi/en/Bunker_Hill,_Los_Angeles,_California
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bunker_Hill,_Los_Angeles,_California

Help! again, in re: Native Americans "swept out" ....


And last but hardly least ..,

  "'You are one crazy white motherfucker.'
  "'How can you tell?'
  "'I counted.'

Funnest .... moment ... in the book ...