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Hot Wheels display at the Petersen. Yes, they're mounted on that awesome orange plastic track!

Of course, Los Angeles is a car-guy’s paradise.  The weather’s friendly to old vehicles, and there are twisty mountain roads and speedy freeways and slow-n-low cruising spots within an hour of one another.  The streets are filled with equal numbers of everyday exotics and awesomely-preserved daily drivers, and if I tried to shoot them all we never would’ve gotten anywhere.  This is one of the few places where you’ll see a Maserati Quattroporte or Lamborghini Gallardo in the wild, however.  It’s definitely one of the few places where you’ll see those cars sharing space at the traffic light with original Austin Minis and Volkswagen Microbuses.  Mercedes is a common nameplate in the area, both old and new. Continue reading

Another unexpected oasis was found in Boise, Idaho.  If asked, we’d have said the closest noise-fixes available were in Las Vegas or Seattle, but no!  Boise’s got a place to go as well.  The Terrapin Station hosts Nocturnum on Sunday nights. Continue reading

In Salt Lake City, we found our way to the aptly-named Sanctuary at Area 51, which is definitely one of the most active clubs we’ve been to in a while.  Area 51 is open five nights a week, with a slightly different–but always alternative–format every night.   Looking for goth, industrial and similar noise?  Show up on Tuesday, “Sanctuary” Thursday, “Dungeon” Friday or “Subculture” Saturday.   Did someone tell you that the folks in Utah are too conservative to have a goth scene?  They were wrong:  Sanctuary has been open for about eight years.

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