More random Google Maps fun.
Wait a minute, wasn't I just complaining about Google Maps in a recent post? Well that was its iteration on a phone, especially its AI-voiced GPS directions. On a computer, especially when using it with Street View, it's a breeze to operate, doesn't speak a word and is an exhilarating virtual vacation! Well, I don't know about exhilarating, but it's free and it passes the time, so...
So total stream of feeble-brained, getting to be an old man mind now spaced out thought, I somehow got the idea that, just for shits and giggles, I'd check out what today's Pico and Sepulveda looks like.
Pico and Sepulveda is a, now, rather non-descript random-ish, intersection in West Los Angeles. I kinda get the idea that it always was rather ho-hum as I don't think anything very noteworthy, famous or iconic ever stood there unlike some other more well-known LA-area intersections like, say, Hollywood and Vine which I show in a pic I took while visiting it, that do have some landmarks nearby. But Pico and Sepulveda was chosen, perhaps simply by virtue of the way it sounds when spoken, as the name of a somewhat quirky bossa-nova novelty song from the 1940s. I came to know it by its frequent replay on my favorite radio show of my teen years: Dr. Demento. He no-doubt liked it not only for its funky and odd beat, bonkers lyrics and old-tyme feel, but likely for the fact that the titular intersection is but a stone's throw from the Culver City location of the Dr. Demento recording studios at the time in the late 1970s.
Not sure exactly what Pico and Sepulveda looked like either in the '40s or the '70s, but here's a glimpse of how it looks in 2025. Certainly "where nobody's dreams come true" for sure.
