Jesus fuck, I had never seen this street in summer daytime broad sunlight
In the light you see the similarity to the parts of LA built in the transition from streetcars to automobiles
This is, in fact, why the city has so feverishly been planting street trees
Which is one more way my instincts led me to buy in a location that was due to get significantly better over the subsequent 30 years
Like it’s not just that everything in the world looked like the walls were closing in over the last decade so I just dug in and held position and it built to an apocalyptic climax where my senses of reality and self and the fundamental social order all collapsed and then that all just cleared up and everything was unbelievably perfect instead, it’s that I had had a suspicion it would work that way years before and deliberately put myself in the right position to make out when it did, that’s unbelievably validating