Los Angeles For Dummies
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8 min readApr 12, 2024
When friends visit from out of town, they’ll often ask me to show them the real Los Angeles. I’ll start by taking them north on the 5 Freeway out of the city towards Santa Clarita. I exit at Roxford Street then turn left on Foothill Boulevard and park beside an innocuous hillside covered with chaparral shrubs. I point to the myriad pipes zigzagging down the mountain and tell them this is where Los Angeles begins.