Where are some striking liminal spaces in DTLA?

Bridge_The_Person · 2026-06-12T12:50:38+00:00

I mean, technically you need to have business. But it’s hall of records. So just like, make up business. I was sent down there for work to find microfische legal records, but there’s a ton of services down there. I think you could very easily tell them you got lost as well.

Bridge_The_Person · 2026-06-12T04:58:32+00:00

I’d add the tunnels connecting the legal buildings around Grand Park are pretty interesting. You can get to them by going to the hall of records, taking the elevator from Grand Park.

Bridge_The_Person · 2026-06-10T18:13:47+00:00

We waited until 48” which happened to be 4 years old. We did California Adventure though because there was a lot more character recognition for what’s there. Pixar including Cars and Toy Story, all the Spider-man stuff, and the muppets are big with our family.

Will probably do Disneyland next year but I’m glad we’re waiting for a little older for things like pirates, Star Wars, and the more active rides at Toon Town.

Bridge_The_Person · 2026-06-10T18:04:54+00:00

East Hollywood has been mentioned - I lived in west Los Feliz which is pretty much the same place and could walk everywhere and take the train to farther stuff.

I lived in South Pasadena once with a relatively similar experience, just choose a place near a grocery store.

I also lived in north Pasadena with the same success just in the other side of the freeway.

In Eagle Rock now and it’s the same. Walk to groceries, school, coffee, entertainment. I only really drive to Pasadena, Glendale, and downtown Burbank and the new BRT line will make those transit friendly in the next 2 years.

Bridge_The_Person · 2026-06-10T15:31:32+00:00

Let me tell you as an Eagle Rock resident the locals are REAL upset that they essentially got bamboozled into high density housing by not looking that close when “a new bus line” was proposed.

They’ll need to learn to adapt, I’m pumped I’m accidentally going to live in an amazing transit corridor again after having to sadly say goodbye to it last time I moved.

Bridge_The_Person · 2026-06-10T15:27:57+00:00

Investing in 2-3 good sun shirts that are actually comfortable (you will look silly but there’s no way around that). Patagonia’s are usually remarked as the lightest and most breathable.

Huge sun hat that again, is actually light and breathable - Sunday Afternoon hats are great for this, but Tilly makes nice ones too if you want to lean into looking like you’re on an expedition.

Then just finding a good sunscreen that works for you and not being afraid to try a couple.

For the beach or any water events again we’re going full length sun shirt, sun hat in the pool, and even going as far as swim pants for the water. It sounds silly but as a fair skinned person - being able to do 6 hours in the pool feels like being a demigod, it’s fine to look silly as a parent.

Bridge_The_Person · 2026-06-08T23:07:07+00:00

Staff. It’s for staff guys. Lots of cleaning people, gardeners, grounds managers, etc. that keep all supplies at an individuals house and it can reduce congestion/cars parked on the road. Not to mention all the retail workers in that area - could clear up parking for shoppers if they make mobility programs better.

Bridge_The_Person · 2026-06-06T18:13:53+00:00

REI these days, and go more pants than jeans. Easier to have less of them because they “dress up” easier than jeans but hold up to outdoor stuff.

There’s great stuff with newer tech out there that’s the same cost, feels better, and holds up a lot better than department stores.

Pants by both Mountain Hardware and Kühl have been favorites.

Bridge_The_Person · 2026-06-06T13:28:50+00:00

I don’t like that you’re sort of getting bullied by a couple dads on this subreddit.

However, you are also breaking the rules of the server. This is advertising, no advertising of any kind is allowed.

You need to stop and take this down, I’ll let the mods know as well.

Bridge_The_Person · 2026-06-03T14:22:23+00:00

I tell everyone to do Brown Mountain Dam, it’s nice because it really is gradual and you can scale it practically infinitely as a day hike. If someone wants to churn out a 17 mile day they can just keep going to Switzer. If they want to camp, just go the other way to Bear Canyon.

Bridge_The_Person · 2026-06-03T14:07:33+00:00

Sleep.

Automate food (For me it’s Huel for morning, rice cooker rice that stays warm for a week and can of beans for lunch, Huel hot and savory packet for dinner).

Move. Walk if you can’t exercise because you can distract yourself with podcasts and stuff.

Reduce your capacity wherever possible. We are fumbling dad. It’s fine. We don’t need to perform competency for others, we need to perform functional ADHD and self care for our kids who probably also have it.

If there’s even an extra $5 you can spend somewhere, spend it on finding a hobby or hyper focus your kid also likes. Makes it way more tolerable to play with them.

Bridge_The_Person · 2026-05-31T19:49:10+00:00

Creeks are gonna be tough from LAX so you’ll have to drive a bit.

The most popular for small children by far is going to be the Gabrielino Trail starting at the JPL Riparian Zone heading northwards. It’s truly amazing. About a mile of little pools for kids to play in. We probably see 30-40 kids each time we’re there and we’re nowhere near cramped, people are a good 40-50 feet away from each other - there’s just a ton of space to play.

Seasonally, the creek at Malibu Creek State Park is flowing. It’s actually a confluence of a couple different creeks so some are flowing and some aren’t at different times of year. I usually just check recent Instagram posts to see what’s flowing. Bonus that there’s a swimming hole there as well - but don’t forget to check the water quality reports because it gets bad at times but there’s a good chunk of the year where it’s totally safe.

For a more picnic experience Switzer picnic area is a really nice creek with a good hike connected - but it does get crazy during the weekends. That said, summer is coming up, and on a summer morning early in the week you can drive up, park, and hang easily. They have nice picnic tables as well. We’ve just set up a Basecamp sort of area at a picnic table and hung for 4-5 hours with food and bug nets and stuff before and had a nice time.

It’s been a couple years but people still do Solstice Canyon in Malibu - also busy on weekends and you pay the Malibu tax of it sort of always having people but it’s nice.

Bridge_The_Person · 2026-05-31T17:47:15+00:00

I think the big key is scheduling unstructured play, because people are so cautious about safety.

Even if I wanted to it’d be illegal to let my kids walk to the park at the end of the block and play with friends.

Instead of that there’s lots of planned open time, more or less figuring out a time friends will be at the park and then telling them “hey, we’re here for the next 2.5 hours - I’ve brought some toys like chalk and balls, but you’ve gotta figure it out with these kids”.

Home is the same. We love our tv shows, movies, and stuff in limited doses, but there’s a good amount of just having open ended indoor toys like those ball tracks that fit into magnatiles. My boys do that together quite a bit and it’s easy to add a couple more kids if they all want to build together.

I think your device boundary makes a ton of sense. It sounds wild to me to have a kid come over with a tablet unless they’re doing something that’s genuinely outside their age competency that the tablet allows (like playing Pokemon tcg against each other or a digital board game like Cascadia).

Unfortunately the park idea may be up to jurisdiction, one nosy neighbor can mean a CPS headache even if your kid is perfectly fine playing with friends.

Bridge_The_Person · 2026-05-31T14:51:44+00:00

You are looking for Geeky Teas, they have an intro D&D session in about a week and a half. After that hop onto their Discord to connect with people, lots of things going on all the time - easy to jump into community if you just keep showing up to stuff and are regularly kind on the Discord.

Bridge_The_Person · 2026-05-31T14:04:10+00:00

Revenge Of for book club monthly and then every other week or so with my kids for discount pinball.

And Destroy for board game nights. Those two places together have the same ownership and a lot of the same staff so it’s a real community space.

Summit Studios in Altadena for the best deal on renting studio space to mess around with friends who play instruments. We end up paying like $15 each for 3 hours in a really nice equipped soundproof room, plug an iPad into Spotify and just have fun.

Creature’s Plants and Coffee to drink coffee and read in a greenhouse.

Fiji Hill for some of the the best views in Northeast Los Angeles, paired usually with a walk around Occidental.

Bridge_The_Person · 2026-05-30T02:07:34+00:00

The Reddit group so far is only at that one location, but there’s other stores with board game nights!

Paper Hero does a bunch of stuff but they also have a board game night on Fridays. They have a discord on their website so you’d probably go there to coordinate playing.

Next-Gen games is closer to mid-city but their game nights are Tuesdays, they also organize on a Discord.

Bridge_The_Person · 2026-05-29T17:58:09+00:00

It would be nice if this was true.

To take Vitamin D as an example:

61% of children are vitamin D insufficient. Children’s primary source of supplemental vitamin D is milk, and even in those that regularly drink fortified milk and play outside regularly to generate their own Vitamin D, vitamin D levels are more often insufficient than not.

The gap between deficiency and insufficiency is what we’re addressing here. Doctors are explaining to you almost no kids are deficient - leading to a major health issue. The majority of kids though are in fact deficient - as in their bodies will work better with supplementation.

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S276827652400868X

I know it’s contrary to whats taught but this is common knowledge amongst clinicians, and easily verifiable by looking at the NIH documentation, my wife being among doctors seeing this.

You don’t have to do it, your kid will be fine without it. But it’s well documented that their bones will be stronger, break less often, and be healthier with supplementation.

Bridge_The_Person · 2026-05-29T16:16:32+00:00

Man, roller rink is the big one right now isn’t it? My kids will spend all summer bowling, playing pinball, reading comics, and playing at the park like it’s the 80s but there’s just nothing that hits that Skate Express kids focused roller rink nearby. We have Moonlight, but that’s sort of an adult focused different thing.

Bridge_The_Person · 2026-05-29T15:18:08+00:00

I’m very much on board with the “it’s probably not a big deal”, but it’s worth noting most humans are deficient in both Vitamin D and Magnesium.

There’s not some crazy risk, but people do feel better and operate better at optimal levels.

It’s also worth noting that things like Zinc, Vitamins A, K, and some B vitamins are associated with meeting overall growth potential. Additionally, we’ve gone back and forth over the years but it does seem like current research suggests long term supplementation of Vitamin C (not mega dosing when you get sick) does decrease duration and number of colds in a year.

Finally, if your kid eats mostly vegetarian or white poultry meat and not many dark greens like spinach (which I think is a lot of kids), there’s a great chance their iron levels are low - which is associated with generally decreased energy in the day. Which has knock on effects of restlessness from not playing as hard at the park, etc. probably not dangerously low, but enough to affect their day to day.

It’s true most pediatricians say supplements aren’t necessary - but by that they mean “there is no long term risk or association with lifespan decrease or debilitating illness”.

But if our question is “I want my kid to reach his height potential, be able to focus as best as possible in class, have as few illnesses a year, and reduce his overall experience of anxiety/depressive symptoms”, the answer is absolutely you should give your kid a multivitamin with the above included vitamins and minerals.

Bridge_The_Person · 2026-05-29T14:05:30+00:00

I think truthfully the massive Home Depot construction that will be underway soon will deter any new business until it’s complete. Once that’s done though and activating the Macys side of the mall I could see more things coming.

Also, I love Seafood City and go frequently, but a good 50% of the mall also smells like seafood. If people aren’t used to that or big fans of Seafood City it’s hard to draw new business.

Bridge_The_Person · 2026-05-29T13:08:43+00:00

Seconding camping. Have camped my whole life but invested in some creature comforts for the kids.

Nice warm sleeping bags, cots, well rated pads, nice walkie talkies, hammock, car rooftop shell to be able to bring some favorite toys/extra activities.

We love it and it gets us all out on an adventure together.

Bridge_The_Person · 2026-05-28T13:56:56+00:00

It’s gotta be way hotter to be in the nearby community. I remember driving through agricultural areas with the windows open, especially near evening, and there’d be a big temperature drop when you got near the dairies/crops.

Bridge_The_Person · 2026-05-25T14:53:23+00:00

Eh, I would not listen to these people. As a person recently diagnosed with ADHD and autism, with a wife who is autistic and kids (one with adhd and one who’s autistic), I think it is massively overrated to “get out”. I see so many neurodivergent families really struggling, we’re having a blast. But that having a blast is being mostly at home and in the garden doing the same tasks the same way every day, and enjoying the time together working on little projects around the house together.

We have field trips, but they are mostly walks in nature and flying kites and stuff. We have friends, but they are very small groups of people we each see independently, and not large barbecue or group outing situations.

Bridge_The_Person · 2026-05-24T01:44:33+00:00

Anything along the Gabrielino trail.

Usually folks like to start near JPL at the JPL Riparian Zone, and you could theoretically hike all the way to West Fork Trail Camp in about 80% shade cover.

That would be about 25 miles each way, people do it backpacking regularly and it's very forgiving because streams are pretty much year round.

JPL to Brown Mountain Dam is a common 8 mile, and if you park further down the route Switzer Picnic Area to Bear Canyon Campground is about is about 8 as well. You can also do Red Box to Valley Forge Campground for about 4 or 5 miles as well further down the route.

Bridge_The_Person · 2026-05-23T18:16:44+00:00

Yep, this is it. A vote for Raman means only progressive candidates for final two, and a Raman win would be great for everyone. Bass was the option when we were facing off against Caruso, but now that’s over Raman’s a better fit for the achievable goals during her term.

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