The city bunker

In an attempt to find an upcoming urban exploration target, the legendary tunnels beneath Los Angeles, one needs to go through the city's archives. The archives are located underground and accessible via service elevator behind city hall. The tunnels were built to transport various goods and prisoners too sensitive for the streets above between government buildings. Finding either is a righteous pain in the balls.

Today marked my second attempt to descend into the archives to find the tunnels, and despite it being a government off-day (like every minor and imaginary special day) the place was wide open. It was just me and a lot of locked doors about a hundred feet under the earth. Still no tunnels, but upon return I found modified instructions for the next penetration.

What I did find was a curiously unlocked side door for a restricted archive room. It contained court records, old maps, quite a lot of stuff. And since it was basically an archival bunker, it was no frills. No real room to move and absolutely the least fancy thing to grace Los Angeles. Looked like the Ark of the Covenant was hidden back there somewhere.

An interesting note is that I apparently coincidentally photographed the death penalty appeals of Steven Homick, a former police officer hired in a relatively infamous contract killing on a Jewish couple, hired by the couples' sons and dubbed the Ninja Murders. Crazy, that.