Take a look at photos from the long history of the Los Angeles Zoo—and a few others that predated it. The Griffith Park attraction opened in 1966 and was quite state-of-the-art at the time.
A writer teams up with the creators of 5 Every Day to turn a freeway overpass into an office space to change up "the coffee shop thing." But there was still limited seating and wifi, so other than the roar of traffic, it wasn't all that different.
Called the Bow Tie Yard, it would replace a warehouse and cap a stretch of green space along the river. "With the river being such a hot bed of activity ... having heavy heavy industrial seems antithetical," the architect says.
Local real estate mogul Morton La Kretz, owner of Crossroads of the World, offered to kick in much of the costs, but that was when the project was estimated to cost $5 million. Now the figure is at $13 million.
Since February, the bike path has been closed from Fletcher Drive to the 134 freeway. But the path might not be a smooth ride just yet, cyclists should watch out for "concrete and jagged rock."