I bought one off of Ebay about ten years ago and converted it to use 120 film. It was a fun thing to use that way, especially with Polaroid film. Now it just sits with the rest of my old cameras, gathering dust.

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You're right that Sennett came to Los Angeles before DeMille, arriving in 1912. And as a matter of fact other motion picture outfits arrived even earlier. But I love how the Lasky-DeMille barn illustrates the early film industry's deep ties with the region's landscape. Here's the lemon grove where DeMille set up shop…

Which one is the embarrassing racist uncle?

Gojira! Gojira!

Ohhh. Cool. Got it. It still doesn't look like hair to me, but she looks damn good.

Okay, if you insist:

I tried to be super cool through high school and like the first two years of college and then just gave the fuck up.

Unlike your regular paper currency or bank accounts..?

So now your bitcoins and be stolen by hackers, burned in a fire or accidentally washed and turned into globs of paper pulp along with all those baseball cards.

This is cool. There's a ton of these in Los Angeles, would be a neat photoshoot just for fun one day.

I love the purveyors of high class meat sign. Just everything about it. Meat.

Harry Cooke points out, via Twitter, that the Bile Beans sign in York has been repainted:

We liked it so much we named it twice.

Why say "The La Brea Tar Pits"? La Brea is "The Tar" in Spanish. So you are saying, "The The Tar Tar Pits".