West Hollywood Preservation

We talked about the dichotomy I blogged about yesterday in my lecture today. When Katz started talking about making laws to enforce "economic equality," and about whether discrimination was good or bad, I was thinking--Sounds familiar...

Anyways, I'm about to read something about Tower Records on Sunset Deja vu. R mentioned Sunset and all the preservation attempts--all practically failures--in West Hollywood. I feel in the know, that he told me these things even before this story came out.

The article is here. From the LA Times.

So as R discussed the different sides of the story to me, the conflict between the developers/City Council and the people for the preservation of these culturally significant sites lies in development for multi-story residential, mixed-use complexes. Geez. That sucks. And it's just as we've learned in the LA Cluster--it's such a dominant and recurring theme. LA does not care about its history. Just like Ed Ruscha said, you you can visit a gas station once, but you just don't know if its gonna be there the next time you come around. Things are built quick, torn down even faster. LA is very impermanent. It lives only in pictures. How significant it is that the Hollywood industry is stationed here. I guess it archives LA history for the people of LA, who want history, but don't want to preserve it. They want the idea of history, but they don't much care for tangible substance. No sustenance of substance. Tragic.