No Disney fan
Like L.A. photographer Anthony Hernandez, I grew up in the Aliso Village housing project in East Los Angeles [“The Hidden Cost of Culture,” April 17]. And like Mr. Hernandez, I spent several weeks documenting the demolition of that old concrete barrio, including the apartment where I spent the first decade of my life.
What I did not do was waste one frame of film on the construction or completion of the “cultural” eyesore named Disney Hall.
The mile and a half of 1st Street that runs from Mission Road in Boyle Heights to Grand Avenue contains a handful of architectural gems. Sadly, Frank Gehry’s folly is not one of them.
My Don Quixote-like “impossible dream” is that one day the wrecking ball that leveled Aliso Village will make its way west to do the same to Walt Disney’s “disconcerting” Concert Hall. Then I’ll take my pictures of that crass calamity that squats atop Bunker Hill.
Robert Leslie Dean
Los Angeles
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