Design Center

So the reason I was in West Hollywood, other than gawking at the parking regulation signs, was to just walk around the Pacific Design Center and check it out. This is a large blue-glass covered building popularly known as the "The Blue Whale."

I was intrigued by the courtyard to the side, empty at this early (for L.A.) hour, and by the flopped-over umbrella at Wolfgang Puck’s Red Seven restaurant (mixed reviews at Yelp.)

Since I still had, by my calculation, some time left on my West Hollywood parking spot, I walked on up to Santa Monica in order to view the 1950’s site of the Pacific Electric rail yards. Alas, no more Tower Cars. Now a big parking lot for buses.

Photos: Courtyard, Pacific Design Center—Los Angeles, 2009; Red Seven—Los Angeles, 2009; Bus Parking—Los Angeles, 2009