THE 'HOOD 2014
This is an aerial view of the Crenshaw area, taken on April 23, 2014 by Google Earth. This is seen as if the camera were at an altitude of 11,838 feet above the neighborhood.
Crenshaw High School's campus can be seen in the lower center. Audubon Middle School is in the upper center. The Baldwin Hills Crenshaw Plaza mall is in the upper left-center.
I live in the hills about 1500 feet southwest of the mall, and about 1.6 miles from Crenshaw High.
Anyone who has flown into L.A. from the north on a clear day has seen this view when looking out the right side of the aircraft. Planes arriving from the north cross the California coast at Saddle Peak near Malibu, then head east at about 7,000 to 10,000 feet (the "downwind" leg) -- right along the top of this image -- until they have passed the "Coliseum Intersection" then turn south (the "base" leg) and then west (the "final approach") to head into LAX.
The route is actually called the "Saddle 6 Arrival" on aeronautical charts!
There is a very cool 2 minute YouTube video (with a loud rock audio track by SugarCult called "Los Angeles"!) showing the view out the cockpit window from a plane following the Saddle 6 Arrival, right up to the taxi-in and park-at-the-gate. You can see it at about 1:11 into the video:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=OXt8qa-m7-M
Watch it with the room lights off and the volume up! (The video was obviously speeded up to fit the music track)
(My previous Google Earth image posted here was dated from 2011. Several interesting changes appear in this updated view. What was then a large plot of vacant land on Western Avenue just north of 48th Street in the earlier view is now Barack Obama Global Preparation Academy -- a middle school.)
THE 'HOOD 2014
This is an aerial view of the Crenshaw area, taken on April 23, 2014 by Google Earth. This is seen as if the camera were at an altitude of 11,838 feet above the neighborhood.
Crenshaw High School's campus can be seen in the lower center. Audubon Middle School is in the upper center. The Baldwin Hills Crenshaw Plaza mall is in the upper left-center.
I live in the hills about 1500 feet southwest of the mall, and about 1.6 miles from Crenshaw High.
Anyone who has flown into L.A. from the north on a clear day has seen this view when looking out the right side of the aircraft. Planes arriving from the north cross the California coast at Saddle Peak near Malibu, then head east at about 7,000 to 10,000 feet (the "downwind" leg) -- right along the top of this image -- until they have passed the "Coliseum Intersection" then turn south (the "base" leg) and then west (the "final approach") to head into LAX.
The route is actually called the "Saddle 6 Arrival" on aeronautical charts!
There is a very cool 2 minute YouTube video (with a loud rock audio track by SugarCult called "Los Angeles"!) showing the view out the cockpit window from a plane following the Saddle 6 Arrival, right up to the taxi-in and park-at-the-gate. You can see it at about 1:11 into the video:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=OXt8qa-m7-M
Watch it with the room lights off and the volume up! (The video was obviously speeded up to fit the music track)
(My previous Google Earth image posted here was dated from 2011. Several interesting changes appear in this updated view. What was then a large plot of vacant land on Western Avenue just north of 48th Street in the earlier view is now Barack Obama Global Preparation Academy -- a middle school.)