[dropcap size=big]T[/dropcap]here is a moment in the documentary City of Gold where Jonathan Gold pretty much sums up Los Angeles car culture in one perfect phrase: “I’m an L.A. guy. I drive. I am my truck. My truck is me.”
Saturday, L.A. City Hall and the old L.A. Times building will light up in gold to honor the quintessential L.A. guy on what would have been his 58th birthday.
The L.A. native was an an unwavering champion of Los Angeles and Southern California culture. Here are seven other perfect Jonathan Gold quotes about El Pueblo de Nuestra Señora la Reina de los Ángeles de Porciúncula.
“It is the coldest night of the year, the winds have started to blow, and I am driving along Olympic Boulevard in East Los Angeles, ravenously hungry, looking for one of the itinerant flame-throwing taco carts that sprout in that neighborhood around midnight. You also may belong to L.A.'s great brotherhood of taco eaters, huddled around trucks late at night, balancing three ounces of highly spiced meat and drawing furtively from an icy bottle of imported Mexican Coke.