But he really was one of the first LA-based artists to make it big during that time in the 60s, and he showed with a gallery called the Ferus Gallery, which was on La Cienega Boulevard, along with other artists like Joe Goode, Billy Al Bengston, and they formed an avant-garde community in LA, really for the first time. There hadn't been sort of a set group in LA before then, and Ruscha was really the most successful of this group.
in the late 60s; the first painting was 1968. But this is an early example of how he was starting to think about the Hollywood sign and for him, it represents this kind of almost Boulevard of Broken Dreams type of idea, that it's so iconic that you can see it from so many different places in the city, but especially during this period, it was in terrible shape. It was crumbling, there had been some suicides from people jumping off some letters, so it was really this sort of dark side of the Hollywood dream that he was interested in. And this
Well, hi. I thought I'd concentrate on West LA a little bit since some of you are from here. And speaking of stores, we were just talking about J & T on Wilshire Boulevard. J & T Gourmet at, it's about 10th Street on the north side. I'm sorry to tell you I didn't bring, that's in the book, so you can look that one up.
men's room. The Hasid who stared back from the mirror was as interchangeable as all the others I'd seen strolling Beverly Boulevard in satin overcoats on 90° Saturdays. I was suddenly invisible. Perfect. Presenting another man's ID and ticket to security, I was struck by the barely muted hatred aimed in my
On peut faire une union civile améliorée. Les bouleversements que nous connaissons aujourd'hui encore sur ces continents-là, sont liés à cette histoire.
I'll tell you why, also, is that there's so much, pardon me, there's just so much around. I know there's a lot of Arabic restaurants around there. Rosita Boulevard which I guess starts the area and then it goes West on and there's heaps of Indian, especially in Northridge, and you have the giant Korean market out there in Northridge called, do you know the name? Galleria. And then they have a little food court and we know it's there, but there, it's just when you're doing the book it's so overwhelming
40 years ago demographically but it is true that we be trying to keep an eye on somebody that we only see two or three Beverly Boulevard in Los Angeles I love your aunt going to swingers in Los
the idea to start netapp and I was out here on business and came and saw NetApp's first office over on mission college boulevard they had a lot of office space and it was pretty empty and a few pcs kicking around and Dave and I spent the rest of the day hiking through Yosemite and talking about filers so with that that's sort of my capsule
What's the one thing you need to do to beat all your friends and family at Monopoly? Park and Boulevard? So Park and Broadway, you're saying, Park Place and Broadway?
Not the musty, shadowed, ivy-draped buildings in which I had spent the previous four years. This world of wide boulevards and centuries-old buildings and six-table sawdust restaurants and glasses of vin ordinaire and fire eaters on street corners and poetry readings and cramped second-floor bookshops and mysterious women who smiled at me so that my heart leaped.
He used to say, he's turned out nice again, he-he-he. It's on Culver Boulevard in Playa Del Rey, a nice part of the world, Cantalini's, Salerno Beach, Cantalni's.
He used to say, he's turned out nice again, he-he-he. It's called Boulevard Music.
filled with her possessions which to the rest of us would look like junk and garbage and trash and so forth. And her face was smeared with makeup. Do any of you recall seeing her at all on Wilshire Boulevard? I see a hand. Good. Well I'm happy to report that she's off the streets now. But she was on those streets for 25 years, 20 years. The two men are still out there and I see them periodically. I've watched their hair turn gray and watched them, one in particular, deteriorate. They're both to me, to my novice's
streetcars and see, there's the reservoir. And you can see the names again. There's Beaudry's name, there's Child's and so those. And they could rely on gravity to get it all; it went down Glendale Boulevard and what we know as Glendale Boulevard now. And when it got down there, there's a 78 foot drop, so they built a mill. They built like a big waterwheel and they built a mill. That was the very first industrial, first factory in the city of Los Angeles, was this Woolen mill that they created in making Echo Park Reservoir. This is also
chapters. One of my favorites is the chapter at the beginning of the book, "Good Food Neighborhoods." It really gives you an idea of what a particular, almost like a micro scene, has to offer; a particular swath of Ventura Boulevard in Studio City that for some reason seems to have an awful lot of Japanese restaurants; all the way to neighborhoods in your own backyard. Abbot Kinney, Sawtelle, to field trips. Gee, I'm finding myself in Artesia, where can I go?
in that they do more global tidbits. They're, they're still fairly Japanese but they're a little more influenced from other cultures. So that's a good place to know. Also Wakasan on Westwood Boulevard, they do a little prix fixe. It used to be $25 plus whatever liquor you bought, but now it went up to 35 I understand. And that, that's very, very purist Japanese I would say.
bit about that and how easy it is to uh train in uh skills that you've acquired and working in some of the finest restaurants in the world including briefly at Boule I believe. Right. Yes. Well, I I always thought um that I mean the chef in a small kitchen I understand
And in the middle-- it's so hokey, it's ridiculous. In the middle of Sunset Boulevard on the meridian waiting for all the traffic to let me through, a car coming in the opposite direction pulled up beside me also waiting.
And, in fact, Boulez even admitted that decades later. There's this interview with Boulez where he says, yeah, maybe back in those days, we didn't think enough-- --about how music sounded. And so I like to contrast that approach, where
This wasn't about an ego trip. She had a small bakery on Pico Boulevard.
And so we were racing down the Boulevard with Pak-- overhead Pakistan.
In the middle of Sunset Boulevard on the meridian, waiting for all the traffic to let me through, a car coming in the opposite direction pulled up beside me
Et ça m'a mais vraiment bouleversé.
And once chased him down Sunset Boulevard trying to kiss his head.
I pulled off the freeway at Roscoe Boulevard.
you're taking uh Sunset Boulevard and you're remounting it and put you know maybe with a different concept but it's it's a show that already exists our
And I went on Wilshire Boulevard.
So we had last month was Boulevard was the guest restaurant, Joe Montana was to guest athlete.
There was a place on Wilshire Boulevard that was called the Black Forest Inn.
time if you're a hungry guy you'll, you won't starve. But it's very refined kind of food and it's interesting that you get this progression of courses. And then Sasaya on Santa Monica Boulevard right near, kinda near Sawtelle, is, they, it's more of a raucous down-home, salary man-type place with crab cakes and little dishes of pork belly and all kinds of vege-vegetable dishes in small plates.
thinking. This sounds like another, you know, primetime special, but uh I'll just start jumping in the middle of the action. This is a scene it all takes place basically on Ventura Boulevard in this one. And and the the guy's uh ex-ex-wife is named Tina who's in here and travels with him because she's works for a pimp
speed past us along sunset boulevard
And so what I wanted to do was-- David Boulet sadly passed away last year, famous American chef.
do is you would march down the center boulevard- ... And, you know, you'd have your people just call the
There's a twin building on the main boulevard for shopping for luxury.
We built one in a parking lot off of East Grand Boulevard and made brazed beds in it and filled it with compost
Well, I think "Sunset Boulevard." I'd see that over and over again.
stood in front of a line of tanks on the boulevard, the Avenue of Everlasting Peace, that leads to Tiananmen Square.
Now this is Lydie. Ian and I met Lydie one lovely bright day when she was sitting on the grass outside Sears Department Store on Colorado Boulevard writing furiously, furiously in legal pads. And when I approached her and asked her what she was doing and I talked to her she told me she was writing to her various lawyers to try and bring the various lawsuits that she felt she had coming to her.
The next photo was also taken on the Promenade. I think it's a great shot of a woman reading a book in the middle of the night by the light of one of the store windows. The next shot was taken on Santa Monica Boulevard. You don't have a bed so you make yourselves into a bed. This enterprising couple, they had I think a flat sheet and a fitted sheet just like you have on your normal bed. And each one of those sheets each is wrapped around
top of Hollywood of of star Sunset I mean Sunset Boulevard there and uh we
proceed down the Mese, the boulevard, and people would just gradually just disappear, and then he'd be left alone- ... and go up to Hagia Sophia as seeking asylum. Right? So that's a bid.
You know, he's on this boulevard near the Square with this long line of tanks.
When we opened the fan festival on Broadway-- it was called Super Bowl Boulevard.
So I met Tony at this bar on-- I think it was on Hollywood Boulevard, some sleazy bar.
And we said, go out onto Hollywood Boulevard where the Walk of Fame is, and just start-- say whatever we tell you.
I definitely steered him down the wrong road a few times with "Medellin" and "Queens Boulevard," to name a few.
I don't know if you guys have seen it on Sunset Boulevard.
So I'll walk from my house in the hills five miles down to Wilshire Boulevard and back up again with my headphones
And I think driving this car 100 miles an hour down Wilshire Boulevard is going to be really cool.