Map Of Los Angeles

[Bled Welder]

Ah yes, Los Feliz, fond memories...   :)

> Date: Mon, 5 Mar 2012 11:47:38 -0500
> From: mackin.paul at verizon.net
> To: pynchon-l at waste.org
> Subject: Re: Map Of Los Angeles
> 
> On 3/4/2012 3:46 PM, Dave Monroe wrote:
> > http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/03/02/map-of-los-angeles_n_1305551.html
> >
> Interesting. Most of the names have come into use over the last half 
> century or so and are unfamiliar to me. Places mentioned as merely 
> SURROUNDING the featured neighborhoods have the names I really do 
> remember. Much of the area and population is in THAT category. For 
> example, Noir LA lies outside such a restriction so that Larry 
> Sportello's Manhattan Beach is missing. Also Philip Marlowe's Malibo (at 
> least in a movie versions). Goes for Lew Basnight's  'old downtown' 
> setting also.
> 
> But despite this deficiencies for P readers still quite a interesting 
> assortment.
> 
> P
> 
> Interesting.  Unfortunately, Noir L.A. isn't well represented.  Larry 
> Sportello's place of work is outside city limits alas. Lew's "old 
> downtown" is missing. And Marlowe's Malibu (as in a movie version) is 
> only L.A. county, not city.
> 
> I spent my first quarter century in L.A. and environs, but that was a 
> very long time ago. These current neighborhood designations are totally 
> unfamiliar. The areas surrounding, which the mapmaker has kindly 
> provided, and completely recognizable however. Ah, the joy of it all . . . .
> 
> P
 		 	   		  
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