Los Angeles Land Of Yesterday
There was a girl who grew up in Los Angeles during a time when her parents were separating from each other. She didn’t live too far from Chinatown a close Asian community but, she also wasn’t far from the LACMA museum. New York is the city that never sleeps, Paris is the city of love, Los Angeles is the city of dreams. That’s what it used to be to me at least. Like all childhood places it starts out different the community, the society of people making five decisions to buy one cup of coffee at a chain. Los Angeles is my home it has been for a while. My parents lived in different counties in California for as long as I can remember. My father used to live in San Pedro the busiest transportation port with the best place to buy seafood. We lived there until I was eight after someone broke into our house and, it was nice when it was just us everything at the time was still young. Such as the neighbors and, their two kids who are probably taller than me currently.
Her mother lived in Downtown Los Angles not too far from Downtown but, a fifteen minute drive away. Los Angeles is also not far from Hollywood or as many tourist think of it as movies being filmed in every corner on school campus’s a view of the Observatory with the Hollywood sign. Disney studios the Warner Bro studio not far from the set, Universal City walk, the Ahmanson theater, the Pantages where some of Broadways hit shows are performed. Los Angeles is more than just a place for people who have never seen Hollywood it’s a place where dreams used to come true and, they did for animators, play writes,dancers, visual artists, musicians and, actors as talented as Emma Stone. Over time Los Angeles and all the things that made LA what it used to be faded. The magic that made the city lights at night one of the best romantic views. Real Estate got expensive and, her father moved to the valley which is everything Los Angeles isn’t. Cookie cutter houses the usual chains of grocery stores.
The open minded society she once new it to be lost it’s touch. Over time it grew into being very unsafe with higher tax rates than New York. The art district lost their local artist that made the art district what it was. Chinatown almost lost the restaurants that gave it the authenticity without going to another county’s Chinatown.
There is also a lot of apartment complex development in small neighborhoods. The places in downtown that honor the early time periods such as the 20s or the 50s that remind us of that nostalgia of how downtown was during the party era.
Clifftons is one of the last places standing along with The Last Bookstore. When La La Land released in 2016 it was a love letter to Los Angles of what it is and, what it used to be. A city of dreams.
The young girl her parents don’t live in Los Angeles anymore cause like all places in a political crisis society became to wrapped up in everything people stopped being open minded. Businesses are criticized based on where they stand politically. Seeing La La Land reminds her of what her home used to be like all cities with their social climbers there’s still something about those lights at night. The lights are losing the magic and, what made the view romantic. Los Angeles went from The City Of Dreams to The City Of Yesterday. Maybe it will be lively and, magical again like it was when she was five. It won’t be like how it was back then until society gets back on track to having open minds and, the many small things that made the art district what it was. But I know my wishes are wasted and, that LA might never be the same. Because our society has fallen far and, we had a hard fall.
My wishes are wasted. Los Angeles was a magical place where the city of dreams was an advertisement to come to Hollywood. It’s just that an advertisement and, it’s heartbreaking that not even a love letter to LA can remind it of what it was before. What it was will be missed while I still have wishes I’m aware they are a waste and, I have to move on at a some point.
The City Of Dreams will always be with me like it was during my childhood.
