3632 Vinton Av
3816 Prospect Av
3820 Overland Av
10418 Culver Blvd
10418 Culver Blvd (detail)
4014-20 La Salle Av
3644 Watseka Av (detail)
3374 Overland Av (Note the name: "Crapi Apartments")(Photographs by Andrew Wood)
Monday, May 25, 2009
L.A. Dingbats - Part 1
These photos are from my May trip to L.A. in search of Dingbat architecture. This afternoon survey (following a seven hour drive south from Scotts Valley) concentrated on the Palms neighborhood northwest of Culver City. A number of advisers told me about neighborhood streets composed almost solely of Dingbats, and their observations proved to be delightfully correct.
3632 Vinton Av
3816 Prospect Av
3820 Overland Av
10418 Culver Blvd
10418 Culver Blvd (detail)
4014-20 La Salle Av
3644 Watseka Av (detail)
3374 Overland Av (Note the name: "Crapi Apartments")
(Photographs by Andrew Wood)
3632 Vinton Av3816 Prospect Av3820 Overland Av10418 Culver Blvd10418 Culver Blvd (detail)4014-20 La Salle Av3644 Watseka Av (detail)3374 Overland Av (Note the name: "Crapi Apartments")(Photographs by Andrew Wood)
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5 comments:
I HAVE to go see the Crapi apartments now! I've never seen that before.
Yeah, it's worth a drive.
I like to hope that it's a wonderful typo for "Capri." But it's hard to imagine a mistake that awesome...
I like to think that someone artfully changed the spelling as a personal comment or maybe, a warning. Great photos.
I like your interpretation more than mine, Beth! :-)
I never dreamed that something as cool as the detail you showed on a building on 3644 Watseka Avenue even existed. Not the detail - but the street name! My husband grew up about 8 miles from a small Illinois farm town called "Watseka" which comes allegedly from an Indian name from that area - "Watch-e-kee" or something close to that! The original Indian word is subject to some speculation, but I never dreamed I would ever see that name on a street in southern California! I've been to the town uncountable times since my husband and I visit his father and his wife there all the time! I met and married hubby when he was stationed at a local Air Force Base near where I grew up in southeastern Virginia in the mid 70s. I never dreamed I would ever visit such a place, much less have in-laws living there! Very cool! I wonder how that street name came to be so far away from the 1800s original?
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