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Re:A Design History of L.A.'S Dingbat Apartment Buildings by bastardoperator on Monday November 13, 2023 @12:20PM (#38252616)
Born and raised in Los Angeles, lived there for 40+ years, had family in Korea Town and lived in Hollywood off of Cahuenga. I'm very familiar with these structures, I've never heard them referred to as dingbats, ever.
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Re:A Design History of L.A.'S Dingbat Apartment Buildings by Root_Denied on Monday November 13, 2023 @12:42PM (#38252863)
3rd generation LA native here - my family has never called them anything except dingbats as far back as I can remember. Plenty of other people I've talked to who are from LA used that term as well (or were familiar with it), so I don't think it's a regional LA thing either.
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Re:A Design History of L.A.'S Dingbat Apartment Buildings by youcantcook on Monday November 13, 2023 @12:25PM (#38252683)
Same. Never heard this term before, but the article showed the pink flamingo and I instantly understood what they were talking about.
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Re:A Design History of L.A.'S Dingbat Apartment Buildings by bastardoperator on Monday November 13, 2023 @12:41PM (#38252856)
The second I saw it, I knew it too, and then I immediately started getting anxiety about parking.
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