I used to go there as a child, and brought our son there a few times so we could visit my Godmother and go to museums and be tourists. The week before he took his driving test I had him drive the LA freeways as sort of a final driving check. He did a wonderful job of handling the traffic.
But this time it was just my husband and me.
Do you know what these painted lines are for? My Mom told me when I was a kid..... >>> |
| Hotel Lobby |
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| Hotel Art |
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| These looked like hand rails with different things wrapped on them for decoration. |
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| We were near Asian Pacific Museum, this painted on street intersections. |
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| Vroman's Independent Bookstore Turns out the museums were closed on Tuesday, but there was a book talk so we attended that while we were there... |
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| Hope plants the seed, love makes it grow. |
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| At Antique mall I found hand sewn hexies for sale. |
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| Tile design at mall. |
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| Typical corner. When the walk sign goes on can walk from all corners in all directions. |
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| Afternoon snack at Irish Pub - it was hot day but this place had nice fans. |
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| City Hall |
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| An entire building just for permits! |
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| Look thru here to see photo of what was in that location 100 years ago! |
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| Trying to make lemonade out of lemons.. |
>>> The lines help the float drivers know where to guide the Rose Parade floats!
When I was a kid we used to come early in the morning to see the parade. After a while we even brought chairs instead of sitting on the curb. Now have to get tickets on grand stands that are set up on the street. Hard to get a hotel room, too far to drive there from San Diego so never went with my DH or DS. I have nice memories from my own childhood though...
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| After our walk we returned to the room to cool down before going to the book talk. |
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| After the book talk we ate at San's Restaurant, had some lovely sushi and Korean food. |
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| Tile in the outside lobby of the hotel. |
We were married in 1985.
Happy anniversary June!!! It looks as if you had the nicest outing =) Interesting pictures of all the design elements too.
ReplyDeleteThank you for your good wishes! It was a nice few days away - and did seem to be surrounded by design ideas!
DeleteHappy belated anniversary. I went to another city (Denver?) that had streets where you could cross diagonally. I hadn't realized until I saw that how much time we had to waste waiting for two lights when there could be a walking diagonally option!
ReplyDeleteThanks! I just saw this note! It was a little scary to cross diagonally at first, but seemed what people were doing - and yes it did save time! there are some intersections here with lots of people walking and waiting - would be good to have them change the lights so we had this too!
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