{"id":2113,"date":"2014-03-04T14:24:18","date_gmt":"2014-03-04T22:24:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.colinmarshall.org\/?p=2113"},"modified":"2014-03-04T14:24:18","modified_gmt":"2014-03-04T22:24:18","slug":"a-los-angeles-primer-melrose-avenue","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blog.colinmarshall.org\/?p=2113","title":{"rendered":"A Los Angeles Primer: Melrose Avenue"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" title=\"Melrose\" src=\"http:\/\/www.kcet.org\/socal\/departures\/columns\/assets_c\/2014\/03\/DSCN4631-thumb-630x472-69877.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"504\" height=\"378\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Architecture and design observer Frances Anderton mentioned loving not just\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.kcet.org\/socal\/departures\/columns\/a-los-angeles-primer\/a-los-angeles-primer-lincoln-boulevard.html\">Lincoln Boulevard<\/a>\u00a0but Melrose Avenue, two streets that would, at first, seem to have little in common: Lincoln, the oft-derided, &#8220;unplanned&#8221; linear heap of clashing commercial enterprises; Melrose, the world-renowned destination and longtime bastion of &#8220;alternative&#8221; shopping culture. And Melrose&#8217;s six miles seem almost manageable by comparison to Lincoln&#8217;s ten, though, like most of Los Angeles&#8217; east-west streets, Melrose lays out an even more striking study in textural, cultural, and economic shift per mile traveled, and sometimes even per block. A visitor may expect a particular sensibility, but unless they target that visit quite specifically, they&#8217;ll find nearly all the sensibilities Los Angeles has to offer.<\/p>\n<p>Hence the tendency of so many to entrust their experience to tour companies who, all day long, run various eye-catching vehicles, including London-ish red double-decker buses, through relevant stretches of Melrose. They pass close to institutions of current or former importance to the entertainment industry, stopping at the densest clusters of high-end shops, and slowing down for historic sites of celebrity misbehavior, confirmed or alleged. Their routes on Melrose usually go from west to east; if you travel the other way across the street&#8217;s entire length, an intriguing metamorphosis occurs before your eyes: dogs get smaller; signs advertising marijuana dispensaries and &#8220;gentlemen&#8217;s clubs&#8221; fall away; signs identifying the source of coffee beans rise up; stores offering old furniture, clothing, and objects in general grow ever more curatorial; hair salons decline slightly in number, balanced out by establishments dedicated specifically to eyebrow grooming.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Read the whole thing at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kcet.org\/socal\/departures\/columns\/a-los-angeles-primer\/a-los-angeles-primer-melrose-avenue.html\">KCET Departures<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Architecture and design observer Frances Anderton mentioned loving not just\u00a0Lincoln Boulevard\u00a0but Melrose Avenue, two streets that would, at first, seem to have little in common: Lincoln, the oft-derided, &#8220;unplanned&#8221; linear heap of clashing commercial enterprises; Melrose, the world-renowned destination and longtime bastion of &#8220;alternative&#8221; shopping culture. And Melrose&#8217;s six miles seem almost manageable by comparison [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[45],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2113","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-a-los-angeles-primer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.colinmarshall.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2113","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.colinmarshall.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.colinmarshall.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.colinmarshall.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.colinmarshall.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2113"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/blog.colinmarshall.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2113\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2116,"href":"http:\/\/blog.colinmarshall.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2113\/revisions\/2116"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.colinmarshall.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2113"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.colinmarshall.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2113"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.colinmarshall.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2113"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}