LABC Presents: Payphones of Los Angeles
Wed, Mar 20
|The Los Angeles Breakfast Club
Enjoy a catered breakfast, silly songs, club traditions, and special presentation each week at the historic Los Angeles Breakfast Club.
Time & Location
Mar 20, 2024, 7:00 AM – 9:00 AM
The Los Angeles Breakfast Club, 3201 Riverside Dr, Los Angeles, CA 90027, USA
Guests
About the event
HONORING PRESIDENT NORA VETTER: In addition to our presentation, join us to honor President Nora Vetter on her last meeting, which will conclude her two years as the President of The Los Angeles Breakfast Club.
ABOUT THE PRESENTATION: In early 2018, documentary filmmaker Ryan Steven Green was waking up to the fact that the payphones of Los Angeles were disappearing from the landscape at an alarming rate. The realization coincided with the discovery that phones he himself had used as a youth coming up in Altadena had been reduced to smears of rusty bolts in the sidewalk.
In another part of the city, a street artist going by the handle screwyblooms (aka Juan McKenzie Camacho) had awoken to the same fact and was calling attention to this realtime mass extinction event one booth at a time with his inimitable upcycled art installations - one of which he affixed to a…