Cam-demonium: L.A. Cams

KFI AM640's Links to Digital Cameras around the Los Angeles Area

The Hollywood Sign

Take a look at the Hollywood Sign from a Digital Camera fixed on it 24 hours/day

The Strand Cam

Digital Camera on the Beach in Hermosa Beach, Mrs. Johnson's Home Town

Free Time, Getting Around, and Maps

L.A. Downtown Maps

Metrolink Information

OUR    JOURNAL    PAGES

Summer 1998

Text and photos by the students of Bukkyo LA's summer 1998 session

Summer 2000

Pearls before swine.

The Best of the West

An anthology of Classic writing from the American West, Tony Hillerman, ed.

Ali Baba's Bookshop Complex

Back to Mrs. Johnson's Launch Pad

ESL Links

The Real America

Kitschy fun American Culture put together for you by Mrs. Johnson

Channel 2000

Local events and culture, plus links to L.A. Times Calendar Site

Murals in L.A.

The Los Angeles County Museum of Art

This is just down Wilshire and houses a superb permanent collection of representative art from Egyptian times through the present and, as a public museum, is able to get the finest traveling shows from around the world. It's the best all-around Art Museum on the West Coast--and it's free on the second Tuesday of the month; it's also open until 8PM most evenings.

"Next door" is the Page Museum and the La Brea Tar Pits, where you can watch actual archeological digs in progress: the tar pits are right there as they have been for thousands of years and from which the dinosaur bones of the Los Angeles Museum of Natural History in Exposition park were retrieved.

Also on the site is a fine Asian Museum in a unique spiraling building

MOCA, the Museum of Contemporary Art

is located downtown at 1st and Grand. Admission is free on Thursday evenings from 5-8 P.M., when, in the summer they also have "Summer Nights" free jazz performances on the Sculpture Plaza. Its sister museum, the Geffen Contemporary, is located at 1st and Central, just steps away from the Miyako Inn. This museum (the Geffen Contemporary) is also free on Thursday evenings, but is closed until 20 September 1998.

The Getty Museum

Walker Evans' Photographs: we saw this exhibit in the summer 1998 session

Watts Towers

Watts Towers

from Digital City, Los Angeles. Go on the photo tour after you read the introduction

Watts Towers

USC--Digital Camera of Plaza with informational links

Digital Camera focused on Tommy Trojan (make a date with your friends in Japan and smile for the camera!)

Food

Philippe's French Dip

Menu, photographs, history

We went here by DASH bus in the summer 1997 session

You must try their house mustard

Canter's Delicatessen

for a fine slice of Pastrami and LA both!

hint: a visit here is like being in one of Walker Evans' photos!

Taco Bell

in Art: This is a wonderful portrait of a tostada by an old friend from the CSULB Art Department, Richard Montoya

Bukkyo students love the Chicken Soft Tacos and free refills in the Taco Bell Food Court on San Pedro Street, around the corner from the school.

Subway

We've been treated very kindly at the Subway at First and Main: Thanks Jose!

We were also very well treated at the Subway at 2805 S. Figueroa, near USC

The last time we went to the 1st and Main Subway, it was closed;

next door, at the Olive Tree,

we found fabulous Italian food and a warm welcome from the manager and staff, who are all especially helpful.

Grand Central Market and the Bradbury Building.

The Broadway Movie Palaces.

Digital City, Los Angeles

Links to all the sights

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The Phantom of the Opera home page

It has links to the summary

and to the complete libretto (from Tower Records)

Bukkyo students went to see this in the Summer 1998 session.

More of the United States:

Spring 1999 students did homestay in Petaluma

Summer 1998 the students did homestay in Seattle

Williamsburg, Virginia

Area Map

Grab-A-Byte Restaurant Listings

for Williamsburg

American Visions

PBS' web site on Robert Hughes' American Art Special

America Seen

return to Mrs. Johnson's Launch Pad

go on to Student Journals and Photos, summer 1998