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  view from the CA mart top floor at Unique LA

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6th Street Viaduct

  The 6th street viaduct is so hard to capture.  Been down here several times - never gets old.  It is soon to  be demolished and replaced.  I wonder what will happen to all those people that lives ...

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LA river Ride – from Griffith park to Long Beach

perhaps a little crazy to all of a sudden ride 35 miles - all because I wanted to see the LA river in it's entirety.  I signed up for the 14th annual river ride hosted by the Los Angeles County Bicycle Coalition. I am not a cyclist and I was probably the only one with a heavy mountain bike with a helmet that is not aero ...

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Riverside-Figueroa Bridge

      even though it has a landmark status, this bridge is scheduled to be demolished - the new replacement bridge is already partially open.  There were promising plans of turning this into a High Line type park, but will not happen.   more info ...

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Gerald Desmond bridge

the soon to be demolished Gerald Desmond bridge in Long Beach. I know it's for the better but there's always something sad about such a structure being demolished. Info found ...

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walking the 9 bridges of Los Angeles River

I joined the folks from Big parade LA and did an epic 14 mile walk that covered all 9 bridges that span the Los Angeles River in the down town area. We congregated at the metro chinatown station. Before we headed out, we took a little detour to see a recent archeological find - construction crew of a development site ...