My Favorite Corner of LA: Micheltorena and Sunset

Los Angeles has better hills than San Francisco

Source: Author

I’m a huge fan of The Bold Italic’s San Francisco street corner series. One of the latest — My Favorite Corner of SF: Carl and Cole — resonates hard because I lived just a few blocks away, at Cole and Hayes when I lived in The City. I always envied my Cole Valley neighbors.

Thanks daisy barringer for the fantastic work.

Anyhow, I live in Los Angeles now. And I love it. So I’m going to humbly steal the street corner idea and adapt it to Los Angeles.

I’ll present the Los Angeles series in one of two ways:

• A practical guide using a street corner as a starting point for exploring this great city.
• Using a Los Angeles street corner as the setting to chronicle a meaningful story or formative period from my personal life. I took this approach in installment one of what I guess will become a series:

My Favorite Corner of LA: Melrose and Gardner

Los Angeles impacts me, meaningfully, in both ways.