Note: This is an encore post from 2006.
Sept. 24, 1907
Los Angeles
A First Day in Los Angeles
Roving, roving, ever restless, drifting
On from strand to strand.
Have I seen the years slip by me,
Seeking for the promised land.
From the palm trees of Jamaica and
The Golden Spanish main.
To the gray and sullen northland when
The snow was on the plain.
But today I cease from roaming and
My soul is well content—
For the gypsy came among you and
He pitches his world-worn tent.
But the old desire was silenced for he
Found his long-sought rest.
In the City of Angels, in the
Sunset of the West.
Walter Adolf Roberts
557 Crocker St., Los Angeles.
Note: This is an encore post from 2005 and 
Note: This is an encore post from 2006.
Adopted across the country and lampooned by Woody Allen, Los Angeles’ right turn on a red light was born in obscurity. Although the city used traffic semaphores (mechanical devices with metal arms reading “STOP” and “GO” that swung out of the signal—just like in the old cartoons and the opening of “Double Indemnity”) instead of lights, the right turn on red was in effect as early as 1939, when the City Council sought to ban them.
Low flying charges have been filed by the Civil Aeronautics Administration against Stanley Beltz, Lockheed test pilot, who reportedly took a four-engined Constellation down to 200 feet or less over a Playa Del Rey residential district last Friday.
Note: This is an encore post from 2005 and 
The ram’s horn, once a trumpet of war but now a symbol of faith, sounded at sundown yesterday in Los Angeles synagogues to mark the dawn of the Jewish New Year, Rosh Hashana.
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