Faced with a "use it or lose it" vacation policy and several years of "When are you coming out?", I took off the last two weeks of August and headed for California. The folks I went to visit mostly had jobs, so I had days free to do some sight seeing. A very handy way to do that is to use the Metro System. You can park in a Metro parking lot and take the train into town, eliminating any need to deal with the downtown parking nightmare. Buses have to stop for traffic, but the subway and most of the surface rail lines don't, which makes Metro travel faster than car travel during traffic. The all day pass for geezers is only $1.50, so this is one real bargain los Angeles has to offer. The main problem is that, except for Union Station, the Metro system has no restrooms and no water.
The Blue Line streetcars meet the Red Line Subway under this building at Seventh and Flower.
The 1929 Main Library is overshadowed by towering modern skyscrapers.
A major extension has been added to the east side of the library.
The old Subway Building still stands, but the subway of the thirties and forties is long gone.
Traffic stops on Broadway as a fire truck races by.
The KRKD radio tower, a relic from the days of Aimee Semple MacPherson, looks down on the Broadway traffic.
