White Boy/White Dog Move To Skid Row

Certified Beach Dude Moves To Downtown Los Angeles

I was going through some of my earlier blog posts, trying to fix images and videos that broke when I moved my blog-site to a new service provider, and I was blown away by some of the 1 year old pics and videos looking out of my window towards City Hall. 
When I moved into the […]

Almost all of the glass has been installed on the facade of the new LAPD Headquarters.  The glass, especially on the south side, is very interesting, with it’s mosaic of etched (?) glass and regular glass.  From various angles, the building takes on very different looks. 
In the morning light, the reflection of the Higgins building […]

Lots of progress- these pics were not all taken the same day, but during the week of 1/27/08 - 2/2/08.  Sorry for the fuzzy look but they were taken through the window of my loft which is very dirty after the rains.

Either Monday or Tuesday they began installing the facade “panels” on the new Los Angeles Police Department Headquarters.  I didn’t even notice until yesterday, even though it’s right in front of my face, I’m usually looking at the computer screen.  I need to pay more attention because this construction process is pretty amazing.  There are […]

Some amazing pictures- I particularly like the last one as it shows the Higgins Building very well….
(thanks to Coleman in my building for providing this link)
UPDATE:  Ha ha ha!!! This e-mail was sent to the building’s mailing list:
“The article in the print edition (California, page 5) has a suggestion for one of our neighbors on […]

Today, 12/29/07, I decided to take pics of the new LAPD HQ building from the ground, as I walked around with White Dog.  Nothing much has changed from the view in my loft (except the big crane moved to my side on Friday- damn!  It looks like they have crane pointing at the ground so […]

Just since yesterday, they started framing-out (or whatever you call it in iron) another story on the building- and now it’s triangular top floor(s) are apparent in the right rear.  I’ll get some pics from other side as I walk Isis in next few days, showing how the building sits on the block.
There went any […]

The construction of the new LA Police Department Headquarters has been moving along at a rapid pace since they started going “up”.  For the first few months, all of the work focused on the 2 stories that are underground, and getting a sound foundation in place, with truck after truck of cement being pumped into […]