“I'm very stodgy. I'm always looking at old photos of California and Los Angeles, knowing that what I'm looking at is now full of houses. There used to be vacant lots in Los Angeles, now all taken up by three-storey boxes - it's all getting infilled.” UsedThreeHouseKnowingTakenBoxesUsed To BeCaliforniaLos AngelesVacant Author:Edward Ruscha
“California is a state peculiarly addicted to swift enthusiasms. It is a seed-bed of all manner of cults and theories, taken up, and dropped, with equal speed.” StatesTakenTheoryBedEqualSpeedSeedsEnthusiasmCaliforniaCult Book:Delphi Complete Works of Charlotte Perkins Gilman (Illustrated) Source: Delphi Complete Works of Charlotte Perkins Gilman (Illustrated)
“whatever San Francisco is or is not, it is never dull. Life there is in a perpetual ferment. It is as though the city kettle had been set on the stove to boil half a century ago and had never been taken off. The steam is pouring out of the nose. The cover is dancing up and down. The very kettle is rocking and jumping. But by some miracle the destructive explosion never happens.” HappensCitiesHalfTakenCenturyMiracleDancingNosesCaliforniaDullDestructivePerpetualJumpingSan FranciscoUp And DownExplosionsSteamPouringStovesKettlesHalf A CenturyDull Life Author:Inez Haynes Irwin