Maybe everybody in Los Angeles knows this already …
Getting on the subway at Pershing Square station yesterday afternoon,
the board told me I had 14 minutes to wait till the next train. Even when I’m not being a walker I’m quite an
obsessive pacer so I tramped back and forth, up and down the platform, trying
to find things to look at.
It’s got some neon sculptures overhead which are kind of OK, but I
settled on looking at the fire hoses and fire extinguishers, which are stored
behind glass and frankly look as though they’d be quite a bit of trouble to
access should you have need of them. But then,
imagine the joy of discovering that the extinguishers are supplied and serviced by
a company named Marx Brothers.
What could go wrong? It made the wait, and the pacing, totally worthwhile.
