Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

When your entire life is steeped in white supremacy, equality feels like discrimination.

Republican obstruction dressed up as bipartisanship. Again.

Consistently wrong since 2002

Insiders who complain to politico: please report to the white house office of shut the fuck up.

My years-long effort to drive family and friends away has really paid off this year.

Accountability, motherfuckers.

They traffic in fear. it is their only currency. if we are fearful, they are winning.

Battle won, war still ongoing.

Some judge needs to shut this circus down soon.

When do we start airlifting the women and children out of Texas?

I like you, you’re my kind of trouble.

Their freedom requires your slavery.

It’s always darkest before the other shoe drops.

This really is a full service blog.

A Senator Walker would be an insult to the state and the nation.

Our job is not to persuade republicans but to defeat them.

That’s my take and I am available for criticism at this time.

Speaking of republicans, is there a way for a political party to declare intellectual bankruptcy?

Let there be snark.

In my day, never was longer.

“Everybody’s entitled to be an idiot.”

Sitting here in limbo waiting for the dice to roll

Anyone who bans teaching American history has no right to shape America’s future.

The republican caucus is already covering themselves with something, and it’s not glory.

You are here: Home / Photo Blogging / On The Road / On the Road and In Your Backyard

On the Road and In Your Backyard

by | 35 Comments

This post is in: , ,

On the Road is a weekday feature spotlighting reader photo submissions.

From the exotic to the familiar, whether you’re traveling or in your own backyard, we would love to see the world through your eyes.

Submit Your Photos

Good Morning All,

This weekday feature is for Juicers who are are on the road, traveling, or just want to share a little bit of their world via stories and pictures. So many of us rise each morning, eager for something beautiful, inspiring, amazing, subtle, of note, and our community delivers – a view into their world, whether they’re far away or close to home – pictures with a story, with context, with meaning, sometimes just beauty. By concentrating travel updates and tips here, it’s easier for all of us to keep up or find them later.

So please, speak up and share some of your adventures and travel news here, and submit your pictures using our speedy, secure form. You can submit up to 7 pictures at a time, with an overall description and one for each picture.

You can, of course, send an email with pictures if the form gives you trouble, or if you are trying to submit something special, like a zipped archive or a movie. If your pictures are already hosted online, then please email the links with your descriptions.

For each picture, it’s best to provide your commenter screenname, description, where it was taken, and date. It’s tough to keep everyone’s email address and screenname straight, so don’t assume that I remember it “from last time”. More and more, the first photo before the fold will be from a commenter, so making it easy to locate the screenname when I’ve found a compelling photo is crucial.

Have a wonderful day, and enjoy the pictures!

 

Today, pictures from valued commenter ?BillinGlendaleCA.

The Bradbury Building

The Bradbury Building is at Third Street and Broadway in Downtown Los Angeles. It’s a block for the original location of Angels Flight at 3rd and Hill Streets. It was built by Lewis Bradbury, who made his fortune initially in the gold mining business and later as a real estate developer, as a monument to his memory. Planing and construction of the building began in 1892 and was completed in 1894(over a year after Bradbuy’s death) at a cost of $500,000.

The building is open to the public during regular business hours, but access is limited to the first floor and the first landing on the stairs since the building’s current primary tenant is LAPD’s Internal Affairs Division.

Some pictures were taken with my fisheye lens which is probably the best way to capture the entire building, but does lead to some distortion such as walls that bend.

Exterior from the opposite corner of 3rd and Broadway

Taken on 2017-09-07

Downtown Los Angeles, CA

The exterior of the Bradbury is rather nondescript example of a turn of the century office building.

Main Entrance

Taken on 2016-11-03

Downtown Los Angeles, CA

Here’s the main entrance to the Bradbury on Broadway, let’s walk on in and see what’s inside…

First view of the Bradbury Atrium.

Taken on 2016-11-03

Downtown Los Angeles, CA

Once though the doors you begin to see what’s special about this building, it’s central atrium with it’s glass ceiling. I last visited the Bradbury in March with Madame and the kid and their reaction upon getting to this point in the the building was “Wow!”

Look Up!

Taken on 2016-11-03

Downtown Los Angeles, CA

Looking straight up from the center of the atrium you can get a good view of the glass ceiling and the delicate iron work and polished wood railings. The cage elevators hang to the side of the atrium courtyard.

The staircase.

Taken on 2018-03-12

Downtown Los Angeles, CA

The east and west ends of the atrium have iron work staircases with polished wood railings. The staircases(and cage elevators) serve all 5 floors.

View from the landing.

Taken on 2018-03-12

Downtown Los Angeles, CA

This is the view from the first landing on the east staircase. You can see the two cage elevators as well as the staircase on the west side of the atrium.

 

Thank you so much ?BillinGlendaleCA, do send us more when you can.

 

Travel safely everybody, and do share some stories in the comments, even if you’re joining the conversation late. Many folks confide that they go back and read old threads, one reason these are available on the Quick Links menu.

 

One again, to submit pictures: Use the Form or Send an Email

Reader Interactions

35Comments

  4. 4.

    Amir Khalid

    When I see a building with an atrium like that I can’t help but be reminded of the building where Harrison Ford confronts Rutger Hauer in Blade Runner.

  11. 11.

    David Evans

    Lovely pictures. Now you’ve got me thinking I need a fisheye lens, damn it.

  20. 20.

    ?BillinGlendaleCA

    @Mr. Prosser: Hollywood often uses local buildings for their product, LA streets sometimes stand-in for turn of the century NYC because we’ve got blocks of buildings that date from the early 20th century in the Historic Core area.

    @MomSense: Thanks.

  21. 21.

    MagdaInBlack

    @Steeplejack:
    Thank You
    I’m still learning.

    ETA: The Rookery: in one of the years shortly after 9/11, I dragged a friend in to The Rookery to show him the beauty…..security politely asked us to leave .

  22. 22.

    Elizabelle

    Michael Connelly uses the Bradbury Building a lot in his police procedural novels. Cuz Internal Affairs is there. But mostly cuz it’s beautiful, I suspect, and he wants readers to know about it.

    There was a kinda nondescript building in DC that had a good lobby, with goldfish swimming in channels on each side.

    That atrium is gorgeous, though. They should use it for a laser show some nights!

  23. 23.

    Anonymous At Work

    Am I the only one who’s gonna comment on the LAPD inhabiting a building made famous, among others, for a movie with some really corrupt and violent police (and their hired mercenaries)?

  25. 25.

    bluefoot

    @MagdaInBlack: An architect friend of mine used to say that one could build a wall around Chicago and charge admission as the world’s best architecture installation. :)

  26. 26.

    ?BillinGlendaleCA

    @Anonymous At Work: Well, it is LAPD Internal Affairs and they’re not exactly popular with the ‘Blue Line’, Wikipedia says the police officers call it “The Oven” cause they get burnt there. I’m not sure if they will be long term tenants, they’re redeveloping the Civic Center to move city operations out of the various locations in downtown and consolidating everything by City Hall.

    @Elizabelle: It’s also across the street from Grand Central Market, so there’s good eats close by.

  27. 27.

    eclare

    Gorgeous building, I’m glad it’s still around (and I’m glad you shared photos!)

  30. 30.

    J R in WV

    Hey, Bill, nice job and the pics came out great. Architectural photography is less obvious than it looks, more difficult to get it right.

    Cool old building, I bet the elevators are brass works of art!

  35. 35.

    Comrade Colette Collaboratrice

    @Elizabelle:

    There was a kinda nondescript building in DC that had a good lobby, with goldfish swimming in channels on each side.

    I wonder if you’re thinking of the old aquarium in the Commerce Department building? I vaguely remember visiting it back in the 80s, when I was poor in DC and always looking for free stuff to do. The fish moved to the National Aquarium in Baltimore in 2013.

    An article linked within that WaPo article discusses the vanished fisheries of DC:

    Bizarrely, they could also get free goldfish, which the Fish Commission bred. In the 1890s, Congress was sending out 20,000 goldfish a year, and it was estimated that nearly a third of the houses in the District had a free federal fish.

    As Charlie Pierce says, history is so cool.

Comments are closed.