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Description of Subject Matter: From https://www.aaa.com/travelguides/los%20angeles-ca/aaa-walking-tours
AAA Walking Tours
Downtown Los Angeles
The tour takes 6-8 hours, depending on your pace and the number of listed sites you visit along the way.
Having earned a reputation as a place where nobody walks, famously car-oriented Los Angeles may seem like an unlikely place for a walking tour. Yet, while L.A. may indeed sprawl across 467 square miles of Southern California, the downtown area is relatively compact and chock full of attractions within walking distance of each other. From the financial district's hi-tech skyscrapers to historic El Pueblo de Los Angeles—site of the original settlement from which the mighty megalopolis arose—L.A. has a lot to offer a pedestrian with a comfortable pair of shoes and a desire to get acquainted with the heart of America's second largest city.
The tour is designed to return you to the starting point via the Metro Red Line subway, which runs from 5 a.m. to 11 p.m. You can pay the $1.75 one-way fare at any of the automated ticket vending machines located at each station. The city's subway system has no turnstiles or gates, but hold on to your ticket. If a police officer asks to see proof that you paid the fare and you cannot produce a ticket, you could be issued a citation and fined.
Note: Before you begin your tour, please be aware that even on sidewalks, pedestrians will frequently find themselves crossing paths with cars entering and exiting the area's numerous underground parking garages. Many garages feature alarms that sound when a car is about to emerge. Listen for the alarms and be careful.
Begin at one of the city's most treasured landmarks: the Richard J. Riordan Central Library, 630 W. 5th St., between Grand Avenue and Flower Street. Underground parking for the library can be entered from Flower Street between 5th and 6th streets; reduced rates are offered to library patrons with a validated ticket. Other parking facilities are at th ...More...
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1960 photos: From August, 1958 until July 1963, our family lived Caracas, Venezuela. Dad worked for Standard Oil of New Jersey which had acquired Creole Petroleum Corporation and its oil fields in Lake Maracaibo back in 1928. In 1950, Creole opened its oil fields in Amuay Bay. In 1951, Creole was the world's largest oil producer. We lived in Caracas until July, 1963 at which point we moved back to New York. Creole was nationalized by the Venezuelan government in 1975. Venezuela had forced its military dictator Pérez Jiménez out of office in January, 1958. A democratic government struggled for decades afterward although Cuban-sponsored Communist terrorists were a problem in the 1960s while we were there. Oil prices, which were the main source of income for the country, went through the roof in the 1970s, resulting is massive government spending. This led to massive debts once prices fell in the 1980s, resulting in riots and political chaos, with Hugo Chavez attempting a coup in 1992. He was later pardoned and elected dictator in 1998.
From 1954 to 1975, the bulk of these pictures were taken by my Dad, Glenn Guthrie At the time, he was using a complicated, but normal for the day, manual Kodak with light meters and such. All of Dad's pictures from this time were slides.
Image quality is going to be variable because these are scans of slides and/or prints.
The images shown here were scanned in two phases. In the early years of the website, I rescanned a selection of pre-digital images, all at fairly low quality settings. During the COVID pandemic, I launched the Great Rescanning Effort, rescanning ALL of my pre-digital images from various media (prints, slides, negatives, etc) at higher resolution and quality settings. Mutilple versions of images -- some from the initial scannning phase, some from prints, some from slides/negatives -- were posted so there are frequently duplicate images on the same page. At some point, I hope to have time to do a final review and get rid of the duplicates but that'll have to wait until all of the pre-digital images are finally posted.
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