This sense of possibilities still ahead is part of the basic life-style of Los Angeles. It is, I suspect, what still brings so many creative talents to this palm-girt littoral — and keeps most of them there. For every pedestrian litterateur who finds the place ‘a stinking sewer’ and stays only long enough to collect the material for a hate-novel, for every visiting academic who never stirs out of his bolt-hole in Westwood and comes back to tell us how the freeways divide communities because he has never experienced how they unite individuals of common interest … for these two there will be half a dozen architects, artists or designers, photographers or musicians who decided to stay because it is still possible for them to do their thing with the support of like-minded characters and the resources of a highly diversified body of skills and technologies.
— Reyner Banham, Los Angeles: The Architecture of Four Ecologies
Just dug up this baby picture… Roscoe will be one soon!
