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A short video of the view from my loft at The El Dorado Lofts.
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It’s like an episode of South Park. When did this small backwards skid-row adjacent neighborhood start attracting Hollywood Celebrities and what can we do to get rid of them?? Now granted, some of them are super cool, like Benetio Del Toro. Some of them don’t really live here, like Johnny Depp. Some of them like Giovani Rabissi would be here even if they weren’t celebrities… and then we get to the really dangerous ones. The reality stars (not the competition stars, the famous-for-being-famous stars).
Yes, a cast member from The Hills is coming to our tiny little town. I’m frightened. I know you are too. Why you ask? It’s what follows them that scares me. Their sheep. God forbid the day there’s a line at Broadway Bar with paps outside and cameras following around the psudo-stars inside. Now mark my words, this will happen to DTLA. It’s our destiny.
As we grow into our rightful place among the worlds most metropolitan cities we will have to learn how to tolerate people of all types, even douchbags. I just thought I had time. I thought we all had time.
It hurts me to write headlines line that. I’m the consummate Downtowner. I want every business down here to succeed, and The Falls is no exception. However, I can’t help feel, every time I’m having a beer at Spring St., that it’s a piece of Hollywood transplanted to our happy little small town. A Hollywood club in the middle of our picket fence community just doesn’t seem to make sense. In fact, it’s a bit odd. Dress codes and lists confuse my little DTLA mind. Not to mention that the bar staff is rude. Just uniformly typical Hollywood rude. No one’s in the bar, but you’ll-still-have-to-wait-till-I’m-done-chatting-with-the-one-other-person-in-here kinda rude.
But wait you say, “Isn’t Exchange LA just a bigger douchier version of The Falls, like right next door?” No, I would respond to you. Exchange is dark most nights, focusing on only private events until they launch more local centric and huge name DJ events open later in the year. Smart. I digress…
How can we support our local bar The Falls? I mean it is just the right size for DTLA. It’s got some really awesome design elements, and from local artists even. And after all, we are all over at Spring St. way too much (feels a mental slap across the face from Spring St. GM Michael). I think the only logic thing we can do is hope management puts in some really great new staffers, and then take the place over. Anything is fun with all your friends, and with the size of this place I think you and 7 friends could set this Hollywood bar straight, and back on the path of being one of us. The successful small town lounge I’m sure it really wants to be.