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# Los Angeles | 2017
- URL: https://www.maxsidman.com/los-angeles-ca-juy-2017/
- Published: 2017-08-02T05:43:29.000Z
- Updated: 2026-08-02T04:55:39.000Z
- Description: A summer travel diary and street photos from Los Angeles -- Echo Park, Downtown LA, Venice Beach, and museum stops at LACMA, MOCA, and The Petersen.
- Author: Max Sidman
- Tags: Photography, #Migrated-1749789291678, #sqs, #Import 2025-06-12 21:34

I went to LA for a few days in July on a sort of mini vacation, to catch up with friends, eat, drink, wander around... pretty much find the sweet spot between vacation levels of lazy, and still doing cool stuff.

That weekend was really hot, like 100 degrees, in absolutely dead air, where I was staying — with friends in Echo Park for a couple of nights, and then in Downtown LA, where I spent a couple nights at [The Ace](https://www.acehotel.com/losangeles?ref=maxsidman.com).

I jumped on a train and went out to Santa Monica and Venice to spend a day in the coastal breeze (what little of it there was), then spent a few more days eating, drinking, and making photos around DTLA, and soaking up the air conditioning at various museums — [LACMA](http://www.lacma.org/?ref=maxsidman.com), [MOCA](https://www.moca.org/?ref=maxsidman.com) (& [MOCA Geffen](https://www.moca.org/visit/geffen-contemporary?ref=maxsidman.com)), and [The Petersen](https://petersen.org/?ref=maxsidman.com).

It was a good way to spend a long weekend...

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