West Adams Tunnel

It can be hard for would-be home buyers to reconcile the dramatic contrasts in the West Adams area, between stately residential streets, and commercial strips most resembling a flood control channel.

If I could just whisk clients into and out of the larger North South Central Lower Mid City--what in the blazes am I going on about--area, by means other than the main surface streets: Washington, Western, Vermont, Jefferson, Hoover, you name it--I'd sell three times the number of houses. I'd sell five to six times as many houses. I'd just stand out on the sidewalk taking orders. I could afford a flat screen plasma.

These two photos were taken a block apart: Craftsman extravaganza in Western Heights, and (insert your own dyspeptic smart-ass adjective here) auto parts business on Washington.

That's where the tunnel comes in. Like the levees around New Orleans, walls would get built up around the neighborhoods (oh that's already happening, anyway....), shielding them from the aesthetic pall, bande a part. The tunnel would emerge, I dunno, in the parking lot of the Clark Library, in some green-ified West Adams terrace alley, in LaFayette Square? Hmmmm, we need multiple portals.

I know, it's unworkable. Instead, I'll intercept clients on Larchmont Boulevard, and blindfold them..........