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The Rivers and Streams of LA One of my favorite movies as a kid (as seen at a Saturday Matinee and not on TV) was Them, the giant ant movie. I loved the final part of the movie that took part in the giant concrete drainage ditches called rivers in LA. I lived in the LA area in the mid 80s. I commuted from Huntington Beach to Pico Rivera by bicycle on a bicycle path running along one of these drainage ditches. I think it was the San Gabriel River. One of the unrealized ambitions of my stay in Lower California was to do a photographic series titled The Rivers and Streams Of LA. FOVICKS -- Friends Of Vast Industrial Concrete Kafkaesque Structures
 This is my photo journal of industrial photographs I've taken of the Los Angeles River flood control channel.
As an amateur 'Industrial Archaeologist', I love the LA River as a bizarre curiosity. Many groups have formed in attempt to beautify or revert the "river" to a previous state. But I like it the way it is; a weird, massive flood control channel.
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