Local to Los angeles and Southern California, news, thoughts and other tidbits
The air was full of news helicopters hovering over a building on Overland Avenue in Culver City today. It apparently started with a traffic stop last night at which some suspect materials was found in the car, this led the police to the apartment building on Overland Avenue between Venice and Washington where “explosive devices” were found. Overland was closed between Venice and Washington and the nearby buildings and the strip mall across the street were being evacuated.
George Barris Cruisin’ Back to the 50’s Culver City Car Show was on this past Saturday May 11 2013 in downtown Culver City. The crowds came out as the weather was near perfect California weather with sunshine and though it was warm for the season it was quite nice and not too hot. On display were many great cars and restorations, but as shown below, sometimes it might be best to just leave things alone and let age and wear show – the result can still be extremely eye-pleasing!
To me the below ferrari seemed slightly out of place, it’s not a ‘cruising’ car or a 50’s car, but they are classics so…
Another odd one out was definitely the USSR Military Vehicle on display. It was a Gaz 69, more or less what we would call a Jeep copy.
We just had a quick jolt, a smaller size earthquake here in L.A. It didn’t last very long and I would think there probably is little or no damage, but we will know more once we find out where it was centered.
Here is an update, according to Caltech the quake had a preliminary magnitude of 3.2 occurred at a hypocentral depth of 13km (8 miles) and was centered 1 mile NE of Los Angeles International Airport, LAX.
I was watching NBR (Nightly Business Report) on PBS today and the above was what John Harwood told Tyler Mathisen one Republican member of Congress had told him when talking about the sequestration’s effect on airtravel and what, if anything they were going to do about avoiding that and other cuts that affect the public and the economy in unacceptable and adverse ways.
Is this really who you want to represent you in the U.S. Congress? Myself, I would certainly not vote for this person again, “Just drifting along…”, no thanks just go back home for good and do your drifting along right there, the traveling public can’t really take any “Just drifting along” delays in addition to the already trying delays when traveling.
Members of Congress: Please stop “Just drifting along…” and fix these things, come to an agreement on the whole sequestration once and for all and stop this madness before more damage is done!
