Glendale Blvd: Tacos Villa Corona and Pampered Birds

The best breakfast burrito in LA is at Tacos Villa Corona, a small little storefront on Glendale Blvd. It's run by a mother and daughter, I believe, and they have one of the best-seasoned burrito grills in the city. I think that one of the things that makes their breakfast burrito (on the menu as the pappas burrito) so good is that their potatoes are very soft and mix well with the other ingredients so it becomes like one mess of flavor.

Here's a blurb on them from ChowHound.

Also after you order, be sure to put your name on the back of a raffle ticket and put it in their fishbowl. They draw three names every week, write them on a paper plate, and these winners get a free lunch. When I went in last weekend I saw my friend Kime Buzzelli won. If you don't know Kime Buzzelli (artist, illustartor, and founder of the now defunct Show Pony in Echo Park), check out her fashion/art/cat blog here and her Etsy page here.



My tradition after going to Tacos Villa Corona is to goto Pampered Birds next door and check on the parrots, the parakeets, and the toucan. They wouldn't let me photograph in the store, but if you're ever in the neighborhood, go in and see what they have in here. The toucan is particularly cool.

Of course, I also like the sun that is slurping up the rainbow, presumably consuming the birds that ride it. The birds, for their part, are oblivious to their fate, apparently too busy strutting. Only the green one on the end suspects anything is wrong.







A few buildings down from Pampered Birds is a tattoo removal place. Now that you're an investment banker rather than a roadie, do you need to get rid of that tattoo of a peace sign with wings on your hand? Yeah, these guys know your dilemma and can help.




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Imperial Highway: Signs of Inglewood

Continuing down Imperial Highway, I came to Inglewood.
Not quite as nice as El Segundo.
Not quite as scary as Watts.

I just liked the place because they had sheet metal tacos at Baja Rosarito.

It's like the Olympic icon for chainsaw sports.

Above mural found at:

A unix sex model for a unix sex hair salon.

For those looking for a salon that can provide them with Caché.

Young Black & Brilliant (& Modest?), it's a movement baby.

Check out their mySpace page.

Not to be confused with a Canadian student's blog that uses that same name.

YB the Maker seems to be the driving force behind this group. Here's a picture of him from his mySpace page performing at his sister's 16th birthday party. Everyone's got to get started somewhere.

Mural from Los Angeles Southwest College (go Cougars!)

Typical LA public art. Stylized figures with beams of radiance and someone is holding the Earth. This imagery appears again and again and again.

Los Angeles Southwest College was established in 1967, two years after the Watts riots, as a response to the complaint that not enough was being done to educate the community (according to Wikipedia).

I saw this flyer for Arron "The Energizer" Robinson's boxing match at LA Southwest College and all up and down Imperial Highway. While I think two guys punching each other in the face is stupid in principle, I have to admit that going to a local boxing match in Inglewood sounds cool.

For all the flyers on the street, the only thing I could find online about this event was on the LASC website's calender.

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