Streets On Fire
“There had once been a Nixon Freeway, too, until the days after Watergate when it had quietly reverted to being the Marina Freeway. In general, LA didn’t seem to like naming things after people, the way Eastern cities named so many of their bridges and buildings and roads, perhaps because a lot of folks here were sensitive about the big ego bruise of Hollywood.
The Reagan ran down the center of a valley that was wall-to-wall white flight. Art Castro, who’d lived out here for a year—until the lig...hts came on and he realized he was miles from anyone else who spoke Spanish—called it the land of earth tones and left turn arrows. Now Jack Liffey saw what he meant. Those sandy, lizardy colors were everywhere, on minimalls, freeway sound barriers and endless reaches of two-story homes. He bet the glut of left-turn arrows was out there too, making even tiny alley intersections into eight-ways and slowing traffic to a crawl—something else urban folks didn’t like very much about the suburbs.MoreLess
The Reagan ran down the center of a valley that was wall-to-wall white flight. Art Castro, who’d lived out here for a year—until the lig...hts came on and he realized he was miles from anyone else who spoke Spanish—called it the land of earth tones and left turn arrows. Now Jack Liffey saw what he meant. Those sandy, lizardy colors were everywhere, on minimalls, freeway sound barriers and endless reaches of two-story homes. He bet the glut of left-turn arrows was out there too, making even tiny alley intersections into eight-ways and slowing traffic to a crawl—something else urban folks didn’t like very much about the suburbs.MoreLess
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