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Wednesday, May 27, 2009 Bay City Blues
For a man raised in England, and who was classically educated at Dulwich College, London (as was P. G. Wodehouse), Raymond Chandler was the guy who defined Los Angeles. His existentially challenged Phillip Marlow knew the place is dark and nasty, and kind of empty, in spite of all the sunshine. You remember The Big Sleep. The place is difficult to navigate.
And in the novels and short stories the settings were real, like the building where Marlow had his office. And there was corrupt and dangerous Bay City Santa Monica in the thirties. In fact there is one story from 1938 named "Bay City Blues" (full text here) which obviously needs some visuals. Bay City is still here. Just look.
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From the old days
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Chandler would probably appreciate the new topiary dinosaurs all over the place. They capture the place well enough
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Goodness prevails, of course
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Technical Note:
These photographs were taken with a Nikon D200 the lenses used were AF-S Nikkor 18-70 mm 1:35-4.5G ED, or AF Nikkor 70-300 mm telephoto. The high-resolution photography here was modified for web posting using Adobe Photoshop 7.0 software.
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All text and photos unless otherwise noted, Copyright © 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009 - Alan M. Pavlik
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