{"id":318,"date":"2010-07-18T03:21:00","date_gmt":"2010-07-18T03:21:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/?p=318"},"modified":"2010-07-18T03:21:00","modified_gmt":"2010-07-18T03:21:00","slug":"downtown-los-angeles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/?p=318","title":{"rendered":"DOWNTOWN LOS ANGELES"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/_jTb_cRUMExg\/TEJq9dyNbtI\/AAAAAAAACdQ\/iLIE6C0svJw\/s1600\/LA++7+15+10++9033.jpg\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"><img decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/_jTb_cRUMExg\/TEJq9dyNbtI\/AAAAAAAACdQ\/iLIE6C0svJw\/s320\/LA++7+15+10++9033.jpg\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/_jTb_cRUMExg\/TEJrCj-U5_I\/AAAAAAAACdY\/zL0UO0UI7Yw\/s1600\/LA++7+15+10++9031.jpg\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"><img decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/_jTb_cRUMExg\/TEJrCj-U5_I\/AAAAAAAACdY\/zL0UO0UI7Yw\/s320\/LA++7+15+10++9031.jpg\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/_jTb_cRUMExg\/TEJriyzs7sI\/AAAAAAAACdo\/AcgL83y52wc\/s1600\/LA++7+15+10++8923.jpg\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"><img decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/_jTb_cRUMExg\/TEJriyzs7sI\/AAAAAAAACdo\/AcgL83y52wc\/s320\/LA++7+15+10++8923.jpg\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/_jTb_cRUMExg\/TEJrK11j2tI\/AAAAAAAACdg\/va5gbNGOqms\/s1600\/LA++7+15+10++9073.jpg\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"><img decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/_jTb_cRUMExg\/TEJrK11j2tI\/AAAAAAAACdg\/va5gbNGOqms\/s320\/LA++7+15+10++9073.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/_jTb_cRUMExg\/TEJwqKGa2iI\/AAAAAAAACdw\/Vsz_yjlYROo\/s1600\/paris+10+09+12.jpg\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"><img decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/_jTb_cRUMExg\/TEJwqKGa2iI\/AAAAAAAACdw\/Vsz_yjlYROo\/s320\/paris+10+09+12.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p>I just cannot emphasize enough the pleasure downtown Los Angeles gives me. An architectural treasure trove. The first photos are of the &#8220;Cicada Club&#8221; in the 1928 Oviatt building. The glass work was done by <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Ren%C3%A9_Lalique\">Lalique<\/a>, as good as I have ever seen. The last photo is that of the door on Rene Lalique&#8217;s house in Paris.<br \/>&nbsp;&nbsp; Broadway is grander than its counterpart in New York with wonderful facades. I walked the street again while in LA to marvel at the buildings.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I just cannot emphasize enough the pleasure downtown Los Angeles gives me. An architectural treasure trove. The first photos are of the &#8220;Cicada Club&#8221; in the 1928 Oviatt building. The glass work was done by Lalique, as good as I have ever seen. The last photo is that of the door on Rene Lalique&#8217;s house &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/?p=318\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">DOWNTOWN LOS ANGELES<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[385,384,233],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-318","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-broadway","category-lalique","category-los-angeles"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/318","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=318"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/318\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=318"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=318"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=318"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}