Muffler Monsters

Auto related industries dominate commercial uses along many of L.A.'s service corridors. Examples include salvage yards, auto parts stores, sales lots, mechanics garages, tire and rim joints, and muffler shops.

The muffler shops, at least, spare a little public art now and again.


Some of these businesses, objectionably, occupy a grey area between typical commercial use and light manufacturing, owing to their characteristics: site design, outdoor storage (and subsequent fortification), environmental impacts, and noise.

Where there's a welder, there's a way.

I learned to weld once (maybe just solder?), as a high school student in a metal shop class. When the instructor was called to the office, we the welded the metal door shut.