Yes, for the La Brea Tar Pits (I first visited in 1957), the Downey
McDonald's (visited recently with annual meeting of the
Society for Commercial Archaeology) and best of all, the Watts Towers. The
neighborhood of the Towers is also quite
interesting. Do not miss the LA County Museum ........

Actually Roberta Greenwood should have some advice on an LA tour.

At 11:55 AM 9/10/2004 -0400, you wrote:
>Two sites which should be interesting to the twentieth
>century archaeologist and popular culture devotee are:
>1. The "early" McDonalds Restaurant at Downey with its
>great "Speedee" signpost is a great stop and a very
>fortuitous survival of the "candy stripers" golden arch
>hamburger stands which once defined American streetscapes. In
>Downey, an LA suburb.
>
>2. The Watts Towers. Another fortuitous survival showing what
>one visionary artist can achieve. A Must!
>
>dgo

Robert L. Schuyler
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