L.A. from the sky 3/20

I would have thought California's idea of social distancing was a Saran Wrap blow job.

It's like a poorly designed sandbox video game where they cheapened out on anything but buildings.

Thanks for this. Most entertaining. 

Spotting a place I once lived (Hollywood), another in which I once worked (Century City) and various areas in which I shopped, dined and socialized got me to thinking about the nature of Southern California living. I was born and spent the first 54 years of my life in L.A. and could navigate my way around pretty much the entire greater Los Angeles area by road, but there's a difference between "knowing" districts through the windshield from behind the wheel, and the familiarity you gain with others from being out of the car and on foot. I've always been a great walker, but the sections where I did it comprised, from the air, only scattered pockets here and there, separated by long stretches of streets which, for me, were merely routes between them. 

I imagine that's pretty common for area residents if they give it any thought. You can "know" the streets you drive year after year, decade after decade, but if you see them only from inside a vehicle, you really don't know them at all. It's like "flyover" states: for most L.A. residents, I'm betting the areas that are only "drive-thru" ones far outnumber the rest.         

I was a Valley boy myself until my late 20s. By then, my work and social life had migrated over the hill, so I did too. Nice to hear "openness" is a word still applying to the Antelope Valley.