Can you spot the mistakes in these new plaques that have been installed on Griffin and Broadway? Here’s 3 that I noticed:
1. Next to the DWP building there is an alley, the picture has some tall building instead.
2. The clock is around the corner from the DWP, near the old Monkman’s Drug Store. This perspective has it on the wrong side of the street entirely.
3. The clock no longer exists! Some film crew crashed into it and it was unceremoniously thrown into the garbage. It appears that those in charge of it don’t care, yet they keep using the clock as an LH icon. Sad.
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LH and “Business” are probably never said in the same sentence least of all on a plaque. On a more serious note, LH should consider getting a huge clock “Back To The Future” style.
Made your nopales recipe last weekend, following the photo essay– tasty! Like and unlike any other green vegetable I’ve tried. My grocery store sells them both as whole paddles and de-spined and cut into squares (for a markup).
I understand the clock is supposed to come back in the “near” future. Or at least a replica of our clock. 🙁
Good find!
Is the first building the one next to the mini mall and the second building suppose to be the old theatre? I believe the image on the plaque is just highlighting some of the older landmarks in the neighborhood. I would have picked a different building myself though for the first one, like the old bank which is now Pollo Loco.
well im sure its just to depict whats in Lincoln Heights. the middle building looks to be the one on broadway (a clothing store, next to toya’s hair salon) and the other building is the one next to the mini mall, the one with the multiple failed restaurants.
haha now i rushed to point out the obvious but aleks pointed it out.
Whatever one;s colour, it seems, making mistakes to make money seems to never not be in vogue:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Volcano_ver2.jpg
(That’s the Capitol Records tower a few feet away from the Wilshire Blvd and La Brea Tar Pits, where the movie’s volcano erupted.)
Perhaps someone should see to recycling the brass plaque so as to prompt a properly made one?
I miss that clock. Maybe South Gate, or San Marino could donate theirs?
http://www.flickr.com/photos/waltarrrrr/2149389832/
Hey, isn’t a certain city council member who’s office is next to this lost clock running for re-election?
The tall middle building being referenced as the clothing store is what it is used for today but it was the old Starland Theatre that was noted by an earlier posting. I think the placque makers wanted the symbol to be of the theater and not the clothes store (or they could have put the swap meet building aka Phoenix Furniture) there too.
The only way you can tell it was the theatre now is that the sidewalk in front of that location has the terrazo (?) materials unchanged, with that look like most theaters of the day had to make the sidewalks fancy.
By the way, what’s with the colored brick paterns in the crosswalks at Griffin and N.Broadway and then Daly St. and N.Broadway? Could it be that this is part of the kind of non-necessity spending the city did to get into the budget mess justifying new charges like the $1/hr parking meters now?
Ed Reyes, bad, bad.