Wholesaler Signs of the Fashion District

Excerpt: "While the Los Angeles landscape is famous for its cacophany of signage -- in hundreds of languages and styles and within thousands of cultural contexts -- the textual environment of the apparel wholesale district is uniquely bewildering." 

Los Angeles is Exceptional

Excerpt: "LA may not always be impressive, is hardly ideal, and never flawless -- but it is endlessly fascinating. And though it can sometimes seem needlessly challenging and hopelessly obscure, it rewards those who take the time and make the effort to explore and understand it." 

Photo: Astronaut Chris Hadfield. Source

Los Angeles is Old

Excerpt: "As the share of people calling LA 'new' or 'young' has declined, so has the share of people who write off Los Angeles as fake, false, phony, culture-less, vapid, hopeless, worthless, etc." 

Postcard, Circa early 1940s. Source