Did you catch the superiority complex there? What I learned once I’d been living in Los Angeles for a while is that Los Angeles is huge and San Francisco is small Los Angeles basically thinks of San Francisco as a hilly bed-and-breakfast.
We would always explain the “rivalry” like this: Northern Californians think that Southern Californians are materialistic and vapid and dumb, and Southern Californians are too materialistic and vapid and dumb to think about Northern California. When you’re raised in the Bay Area, it’s practically your birthright to hate Southern California. A compilation of essays about slices of the greater Los Angeles metropolitan area, its timing was perfect I was just starting to realize, with the help of another book I was overseeing, Hollywood Handbook, created with the Chateau Marmont hotel, that Los Angeles had some guts and depth under its smoggy, Botoxed skin. Right before I landed in LA, in 1998, I freelance-edited a book called Everyday Urbanism (reissued, in 2008), one of my favorite books I’ve worked on. I’d never experienced alleys before I moved to Los Angeles, and to Venice in particular. If you have no desire to read the introductory essay-and believe me, I wouldn’t blame you- just skip down to the pictures. Note: After approximately 678 words of exposition, there are many cool pictures with descriptive captions below.
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