tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8392098995578110896.post1154854093682640495..comments2024-01-27T14:53:49.272-08:00Comments on Los Angeles Past: Old panoramic "birds-eye" mapsJ Scott Shannonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07526017264458431798noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8392098995578110896.post-39636952179983309712011-02-27T13:48:54.195-08:002011-02-27T13:48:54.195-08:00Amazing history piece, we will add some of these h...Amazing history piece, we will add some of these historical pieces to our mural on our food truckFood trucks map lahttp://www.nachotruckla.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8392098995578110896.post-52483927084535666172009-12-01T05:22:19.241-08:002009-12-01T05:22:19.241-08:00If only I could make a living studying these maps ...If only I could make a living studying these maps and immersing myself in vanished L.A... a couple of these maps are in the new Taschen book, Los Angeles: Portrait of a City, which was recently given to me as partial payment for some work I did. I definitely like having the book, even though I had decided earlier not to buy it for myself, despite the Strand here in NY discounting it heavily. When I glanced at it briefly there, I found several mistakes--swapped captions (p 126-7), and, most egregiously, a picture of your iconic County Court House identified in one picture (p 93) as the 1889 city hall, even though "COUNTY COURT HOUSE" is spelled out clearly on the lawn. Makes a Los Anglophile crazy! Anyway, it's a big cumbersome book, and looking at Los Angeles Past etc is really more satisfying. As for reading the big book's text, again, it's too big and cumbersome, and I've proably already read in their other books what Starr and Heimann have written... oh well, I shouldn't complain. The more on old L.A., the merrier.Duncannoreply@blogger.com