I’ve been spending a lot of time strolling the vacant and seemingly ghost town-esque streets that create Downtown Los Angeles. With silence usually looming over the moonlit alleyways, I consistently find myself enthralled by the lack of pedestrians, midnight revelers, and urban enthusiasts. Most of the time during my nocturnal excursions, my only company are city rats, late night metro riders, and the most frequent of residents: the homeless. In this barbarians nest, I find solace in the fact that isolation is still mainstream here.
There is a myriad of nightlife options for those willing to partake in Downtown revelry. Hospitable is hardly the term, but once visited, the midnight streets extract a vitality witnessed only in life’s most volatile of births. There is a growing murmur of uncertainty as to the direction that Downtown Los Angeles forges towards, but history tells us that that yuppie’s will undoubtedly take over.
With that assumption, I advise to allocate some nocturnal hours to the sensation that is currently Downtown Los Angeles. Whether saturating yourself with Puro Pop en Espanol at Mucho Wednesdays at La Cita, or catching Galavision’s futbol game of the week at Bar 107, or the seemingly unlimited happy hour possibilities Los Angeles offers, take the time to stroll the seedy-sanctuary that is Downtown LA.
Bars Worth Mention:
La Cita
Citizen 192
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Man, I gotta do this tour with you one of these days. I wish we had more time to do downtown Oakland properly while you were up here. If we had gone to the right spots I have a feeling that you’d be drawing a lot of parallels between downtown LA and downtown Oakland.