Global Wahrman

How could I have lived in Los Angeles so long and not know that Harlan Ellison's old house is a landmark.  Not open to the public, it is...

In researching places within striking distance where I can walk at high speed and get good aerobic activity and yet minimize toxic waste inp...

Tom McMahon found this interesting traffic planning report / discussion for the City of Los Angeles from 1915.   Find the full report here: ...

draft I loved this place as a kid. Someone has made a web page dedicated to it. http://www.whmsicl.cnc.net/CMSI.html ...

At various times when I write about topics far outside my recognized areas of expertise, such as the decline of the American Republic, I ...

For the first time ever I attended the Los Angeles Car Show, a show I will discuss in a later post in more detail. The car show pro...

[Apparently there may be 80 million Methodists worldwide, but about 10 million in the USA.  See other thoughts at the end of the post]. ...

Watching a city build a transit system is like watching the grass grow. Not much seems to be happening on any given day but things are ...

The Palm is a famous “steak and lobster” place on Santa Monica Blvd which is known for many things, including the illustrations and caric...

How should Americans celebrate the Fourth of July? Should it be in comfortable, respectable, middle-class suburbs with tepid, but saf...

El Pueblo de Nuestra Senora la Reina de Los Angeles, the Pueblo of our Lady, the Queen of the Angels, born in lies and raised in crime, in...

I have recently been shown evidence that we are on the verge of a vast change in the way we do mass transit in this country. Well maybe t...

[being written 7/16/2013] This will be part of the Los Angeles in the 60s, 70s, and 80s topic, when that gets organzied] It seems to ...

[I have had two comments from friends.  Tom Barron saw some version in 1973 as a student at CalArts thus proving that whatever I saw in 19...