Hello Kitty by wysiwig
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One of the benefits of having a friend who is the wife of a successful business man is that, occasionally, that business man must travel out of town. When that happens it is possible that a ticket for an event becomes available. And so it happened that, right after New Year’s Day, my friend Li called and asked if I would like to attend a performance of the Strauss Symphony of America at the Walt Disney Concert Hall in downtown Los Angeles.
For twenty-two years my mother and I had season tickets to the Ahmanson Theatre. Four times a year we would brave the freeway traffic to attend a play. After she passed away I could find no reason to make that trip. I had not been to the downtown area for thirteen years so I arrived early to do some exploring.
The image below is of the Far East Chop Suey Chinese restaurant. It has been located in the same building for over seventy years. I believe the sign may be original as well as some of the waiters. But even this venerable institution cannot resist the juggernaut that is Hello Kitty.
Comments (8)
Cyve
Fantastic capture my friend !!!
bebopdlx
A cool capture and association, :-)
Faemike55
Very cool and cute capture I hope the symphony was great!
giulband
Very very fine capture !!
bodo_56
I like your narrations and i like this image
jayfar
Nice that your friend could 'take you out of yourself' and treat you Mark ! I like your pic.
durleybeachbum
We , well I, have not noticed too much of her here. Maybe I don't go shopping enough. Lucky you with the concert: I went to a Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra concert last Saturday of ballet music and my companion and I were amused and distracted by the fact that the conductor was a dead ringer for our postman! I do like the photo, even though it worries me that the fire escape ends rather distressingly short of the ground.
Chipka
I won't admit to owning a Hello Kitty notebook, and actually viewing it as a prized possession. Nope. I'm not admitting that at all, though I've photographed it on numerous occasions. I won't admit to liking Hello Kitty when I first discovered that dangerously cute critter; it was at the time when I was studying Japanese and learning of the Japanese interest in the sound of English, regardless of any sense or nonsense those sounds may possess. Ah...the wonders of a kitchen cleaner called "Delicious Time" or a current pop-group called "Crispy Park." I'm not going to admit that Crispy Park is rather good, in that Japanese sort of way that both completely derails and cunningly re-contextualizes modern pop music. I will say that I love this image, and it sounds like you had an enjoyable time. I've not been to a symphony performance in quite a while, and that needs to change. I love these sorts of sights. So much of that sign screams authenticity, right down to the authentically-not-so-Chinese invention of Chop Suey; it fits the architecture, the mentality of the architecture, and everything else associated with that building and the history of its neighborhood. I love such places, and as for Andrea's distress: there's a ladder that provides a really fun ride down if you get on it before lowering it: just be careful as it'll remove your fingers rather efficiently if you hold on to the wrong place.
Chipka
Oh, and I love the multicultural felines. There's the Japanese Hello Kitty, and one of those Chinese cats that waves at you! I love it!