Dec 28 2024
At the corner of Wilshire Boulevard and Fairfax Avenue in Los Angeles sits a coffee shop where you can no longer order coffee. The kitchen has been quiet for decades, the booths stopped serving regular customers in 2000, and the enormous sign no longer performs quite the glowing roadside spectacle it once did. Yet Johnie’s …
Dec 18 2024
Few buildings capture the optimism of the Jet Age as perfectly as the Theme Building at Los Angeles International Airport. With enormous white arches sweeping over a circular glass structure, it looks like a flying saucer has landed in the middle of LAX—or perhaps like a spaceport designed for a future that people in 1961 …
