FIFTY BUCKS for a single plate?!
And probably not even dishwasher safe.

That’s the civic center buildings, not the historic core. Oh well, not a bad design.

Cool plate. As to the price, this is a great design and many plates from typical wedding sets are more expensive and considerably more boring. Myself I’d like to buy one of these, mark Clifton’s with a Sharpie and take it with me to Clifton’s so I can plop some mashed potatoes from Clifton’s onto the miniature Clfton’s, time and again. Third floor.

Hey, I see the corner I live on. Cool, I can eat off my roof!

When’s the paper version coming out?

The city, thanks to its youth and love of the automobile, has developed in a singular way unlike the traditional condensed urban cores of east coast cities.

Obligatory history-nerd nitpick: LA’s spread-out development pattern is the result of its early developers’ use of high-speed electric interurban trains to promote the development of outlying parcels of land.

By the time private automobiles became common, LA’s spread-out pattern of horizontal rather than vertical expansion was already well-established. Cars and freeways simply followed patterns already laid out by the Red Cars they eventually supplanted.

Our love affair with cars is the result of our city’s sprawling development, not its cause.

You can take it to a Dodger game, sit in the pavilion, and eat all you can off of it for another 40 bucks

SS Nerd… Thanks for reiterating that little known but basic fact about LA! Sure, the farther, newer suburban monoscapes are car inspired, but much of the city out to Redlands, Santa Ana, Long Beach and into the Valley was railway spurred.

48 bucks is pushing the absurd.

FINALLY, though, someone realizes that Downtown is a critical part of LA, and that the city doesn’t “end” at the 405… or have its’ center at Sunset and San Vicente.

I like the 2006 AIA plate better.