L.A. is a city of neighborhoods. Like a giant patchwork quilt. You can live your whole life here and never see most of them. It’s just impossible. But each has its own history, personality, and, best of all, surprises. And those are everywhere. Like Hoover Walk and The Prospect Studios, tucked among a set of…
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“Wherefore Art Thou, Shakespeare Bridge?” In L.A., That’s Where
L.A.’s “Shakespeare Bridge” was built in 1926. Located in Los Feliz on Franklin Avenue at the juncture of St. George Street, it was designed to cross a brushy ravine (now Monon Street, a dead end) to allow for the residential development of the Franklin Hills neighborhood. The bridge is short—a concrete confection with fanciful Gothic…