This is Central Orange County. At least most of it. If you head inland more than a couple of miles and can’t smell the sea air any more, here’s what you get. This, interrupted by strip malls:
Here, have a whole set of those. More to come, I’m sure.
Tag: suburbandespair
I SEE ASPHALT: Stanton, CA
This is the least despairing of my latest suburban despair photo expedition. This time I was in Stanton, which is a small, boring, violent chunk of North Orange County. Stanton evokes for me, because it looks the way Costa Mesa did when I was a child in the 1970s: strip malls, asphalt, and piles of improbable small businesses.
South Soto St., East Los Angeles
Night in Santa Ana
I’m a little bit country and a little bit grindcore
Today’s Suburban Joy Photo is Westworld Paintball, from the beautiful and talented flickr user mannydiller. The rest of this entry is entirely stolen and in the style of the Exploding Aardvark (please note new varklink).
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This town is our town, this town is so glamorous.
Bet you’d live here if you could and be one of us.
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