Erwinson
Lives and works in Los Angeles CA
"People of Gardena, Inglewood, andWatts no less than Azusa and Altadena pay for the defense of the mountain front, the rationale being thaat debris trapped near its sourcce will not move down and choke the channels of the inner city, causing urban floods. THe political City of Los Angles-in its vague and tentacula configuration-actually abuts the San Gabriels for twenty miles or so, in muchthe way that extends to touch the ocean in widely separated places like Venice, San Pedro, and Pacific Palisades. Los Angeles County reaches across the mountains and far into the Mojave Desert. The words Los Angeles as generally used here refe neither to the political nor to the county but to the multinamed urban integrity that has a street in it seventy miles long (Sepulveda Boulevard) and from the Pacific Ocean at least to Pomona, moves north against the mountains as a comprehensive town."
Against the mountains