Sunday in L.A.
Random bits from the local papers:
:: Before you take a ride on Pasadena's new Gold Line, opening July 26, print and take with you L.A. Times scribe Cecilia Rasmussen's "L.A. Then and Now" take on the history of the route. Sites you'll see as you cruise to Pasadena from Union Station include the city's birthplace (and site of Mike & Maria's Wedding) to the historic abandoned Lincoln Heights Jail, closed since 1965. Rasmussen notes, "the 'Gray Bar Motel' that once housed some of Los Angeles' most unscrupulous characters. It was also the scene of the unprovoked beating of seven prisoners on what came to be called "Bloody Christmas" in 1951." Films like "L.A. Confidential" have used the empty jail as a movie lot in the years since.
:: So where did the idea for this whole wacky Davis recall election come from, anyway? The L.A. Times' Matea Gold takes us back to L.A. in 1898, when a local physician named John Randolph Haynes proposed a "recall measure as part of a trio of city reforms designed to rid the political process of corruption and restore power to the citizens."
:: Get ready for a new round of shopping malls, this time based on The Grove and Paseo Colorado. First up: "Victoria Gardens" in Rancho Cucamongo.
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