Cooper Building, Los Angeles

Since I moved just over a week ago, the forgotten drek has bubbled to the top—and what treasures I’ve been finding! There are countless disks of music and images, of course, not all labeled. So I treated myself to a few hours of leisurely browsing of old data, old files, hard drive backups, long lost albums. The image above was taken from the showroom I worked at in the Cooper Building on Ninth and Los Angeles Streets in downtown Los Angeles. Being in that part of LA for a few years was an education about my hometown. It’s the oldest part of the city and a wacky convergence of all sorts of people and industries and architecture. It’s the closest LA could ever come to New York, because the haves and the have-nots all sort of coexist there.

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