Downtown Glendale

I went to return a book last week to the Glendale Public Library.  I was surprised to see that the Americana is up and running.  Read about it in this L.A. Times article.  It is a shopping, dining, entertaiment and residential center.  You can live where you eat, watch movies and shop.  Leases range from the $2000 to $5000 a mos.  I think Los Angeles is finally making vertical moves as opposed to horizantal ones.  Given the price of fuel, a wise choice (fragment). 

I remember this is where once stood a Pep Boys, Capitol Movie Theatre, Arcade, family owned Chinese Restaurant and in the back was a Thrifty and Big Five sporting goods.  My parents' home is two miles from Glendale and we moved there in 1977.  So we've seen thirty one years of change.  These pics are taken on Brand Blvd and the center stretchest to Central.  On Central, back in the eighties, I spent a lot of time in a shop called Music Exchange (which later moved to Brand).  I wish I would have taken a lot more pictures of the things that aren't there anymore.  The library has a book on sale with pictures of how Glendale once looked.  I think that I might make that investment cause nostalgia has so much value to me at this stage of the game.   I love seeing the new things spring up, but, in the words of George Micheal, "my memory serves me far too well".  The new things have replaced things that I never said good-bye to.