The Sunken City

Last month a friend and I took a hop over a wall and a crawl under a fence to reach San Pedro's "sunken city". The story is that in 1929 a huge landslide caused the neighborhood atop the cliffs overlooking the Pacific Ocean to collapse, over time leaving foundations, streetcar tracks, pipes, trees, and pavement as remains of what once existed. The sunken city has become a popular location for street artists, with many huge rocks and slabs of concrete perfect for graffiti. Here are some photographs I took that day, I look forward to visiting again in the future.

Oh, and as it is 9:30PM here on the west coast, I hope that everyone has a very happy new year. May 2015 be the best year yet!

All photographs © Monika Seitz Vega, 2014.

my hometown.

All photographs © Monika Seitz Vega, May 2014.

more half-frame miscellany

All photographs © Monika Seitz Vega, 2011-2012.

USS Iowa -- San Pedro, CA

Last November a group of us took a trip to the recently docked battleship USS Iowa in San Pedro, CA. Built in 1940, the Iowa was active during World War II, the Korean War, and the post-war eras. The battleship was decommissioned in 1990 and moved to its permanent home in southern California in the summer of 2012.

If you're interested in visiting the USS Iowa, now a museum, take a look at the website for hours and information.

(Don't forget, you can "click" each photo to make it larger)

   

All photographs © Monika Seitz Vega, 2012.

half-frame hoarding

Recently, with the amount of attention downtown's Cecil Hotel has been getting, I went back into my archives to try and find the one picture I had taken of the Cecil a year or two ago. I looked through several rolls and came up empty handed. What I realized while looking is that I had hoarded a surprising number of photographs. Filed them away and didn't think twice about them. I just couldn't believe it! The following photographs are, as my memory serves, only now getting their due. Each taken with my Olympus half-frame camera, all during the fall of 2011. Enjoy.

© Monika Seitz Vega, 2011

© Monika Seitz Vega, 2011

© Monika Seitz Vega, 2011

 © Monika Seitz Vega, 2011

© Monika Seitz Vega, 2011

© Monika Seitz Vega, 2011

© Monika Seitz Vega, 2011

© Monika Seitz Vega, 2011

© Monika Seitz Vega, 2011

Four photographs of arrow signs

Less talk and more rock on this warm July evening.

Los Angeles, CA © Monika Seitz Vega, 2012

Downtown Los Angeles/Monterey Park, CA © Monika Seitz Vega, 2011

Los Angeles, CA © Monika Seitz Vega, 2011

Culver City, CA © Monika Seitz Vega, 2011