Guess Where LA
One of the features I enjoy on Flickr is that there are groups you can add your photos to including a group called Guess Where LA. (There are Guess Where ::fill in city here:: groups for all over the world, not just Los Angeles.)
This is my latest entry to the Guess Where LA group. I absolutely love this building. It's famous in its neighborhood, but I'm not sure how well-known it is outside of the general vicinity in which it resides.
I'm giving extra brownie points to anyone who can name the building, too.
posted by LA @ 10:26 AM
14 Comments:
the LBC?
It is in the LBC. Do you recognize the building or neighborhood?
Near Bixby Park?
Not there, Dan.
melrose place?
:)
I vote Melrose place too
Someplace not near here?
It can't be Melrose Place... Crazy Kimberly blew up the building in season three! Although... Amanda did rebuild it, just in time for season four.
It's very pretty. Do people live there, LA? Or is it like a super high class library?
Not Melrose Place!
This is an apartment building in Long Beach where the neighborhoods of Belmont Shore and Belmont Heights meet. It kind of sits on a hill above the Shore with a big neon sign above it that reads "The Gaytonia," named for the contractor who built it (George Gayton). Here's a little more info about it.
http://multifamilyexecutive.com/industry-news.asp?sectionID=549&articleID=240590
Isn't that neighborhood also known as the Gay Ghetto, and not because of George? :-)
Diane - As I understand it, the Gay Ghetto is the area west of Alamitos, east of Cherry, north of Ocean, south of 7th (probably where I'll ultimately end up buying a condo - a neighborhood filled with good-looking, unobtainable men). The Gaytonia is far west of there. While Belmont Shore certainly is home to plenty of gay folks, prices preclude it from being a ghetto!
That said, I still love that there's a big neon sign over the Shore that reads THE GAYTONIA. If only it were in closer proximity to Ripples.
la - gotcha! I do know where that sign is . . . hey - that isn't a bad place to buy - the gay community has a great reputation for going into areas that are cool architecturally/historically, but may be a bit rundown and helping the area undergo a reclamation . . .
plus, they might have some straight friend
LA - I wasn't too far off, was I? Isn't the Belmont Shore / Belmont Hights area just a few blocks east of my guess?
Dan - Not too far off, no. There's probably 1-2 miles between Bixby Park and the Gaytonia.... hang on, I'll mapquest it.
1.8 miles. But both are right off Ocean. The Bluff Park neighborhood lies between the two.
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