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The first time you go to the Grove, the immensely successful and completely fabricated commercial center in Los Angeles, you will try to hate it. But then you will watch the old-fashioned trolley passing by, or the dancing fountain as it splurts jovially to the cadence of a Sinatra song, and you will drop your snobby urban integrity and walk around consuming things in a mouth-breathing stupor just like everyone else.
“You want to hate the Grove, but you just can’t,” one Angeleno friend said.
“The first rule of L.A. is to stop hating the Grove,” another said.
–Mike Albo, “Only your money is not pretend”, New York Times, April 24, 2008
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Posted in Random on Thu Apr 24, 2008 at 12:11 am by alex
Isn’t this basically Disneyland’s “Main Street, USA” remixed for the Seinfeld and Friends generation? [insert snarky pomo comment about how LA will soon be creating simulacra of itself.]
doh. Mike Albo beat me to the (admittedly obvious) observation.