Posted on 08/10/2025 6:29:45 AM PDT by MtnClimber
Thar she blows: Elon Musk’s new / retro Tesla Diner on the corner of Santa Monica Blvd and Orange Street in Hollywood, CA. Designed to appeal to the deepest techno-narcissistic yearnings of the tech genius class of Americans. . . a very small demographic. It’s all sleek chrome and glass, with overtones of UFO. Cutting Edge! Transhuman chic! America is probably as sick of the tech fantasia trend as it is with Woke ideology. We’re beginning to grok that the future isn’t what it was cracked up to be. I predict the Tesla Diner will soon become the target of flash mobs seeking Rolex watches, Hermès Birkin handbags, and the keys to hot cars parked in its modest lot.
Note (in shot below, which is likely a rendering, not a real photo) that the structure actually addresses the street-corner properly. It’s brought up to the sidewalk edge as a truly urban building with ground-floor retail should be. Parking is in mid-block. Points for that. The neighborhood is attempting to densify with multistory apartment buildings. But LA, as we know, is struggling with suicidal tendencies, what with massive homeless squalor, the “undocumented” La Raza invasion, and Marxist municipal politics. I’m not so sure the densification project will continue.
Also note (photo following the one below) just how weak and squalid the urban condition is right across Santa Monica Blvd from the diner.
You might as well be in Jolliet, Illinois.
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Eyesore of the month ping
I like it. Bold architecture is always mocked initially.
And there is no “Jolliet” Illinois. The article loses total credibility when the author compare it to somewhere they’re obviously NOT familiar enough to spell it correctly: Joliet.
Meh I kinda like it, espedially,the look, at night.
Reminds me a little of the Edward hopper painting I think k it was of diners sitting in a diner, lonely scene, I’ll see if I can find it.
Why all the snark? I think it’s kinda cool with a “Jetsons” vibe. Just a futuristic concept of the all-stainless Airstream-esq diners of the ‘50s. If they make a decent burger it’s all good.
Too bad it attracts ugly cars and trucks.
Someone has a very deep butthurt over Musk, and obviously never seen any of Disney’s crapitecture in California.
I knew a Joliet Jake...
I thought that spelling looked weird
Author is often pretty good so I was surprised
Lol, would be MUCH better if it attracted 50’s and 60’s classic cars
Kunstler has drifted out of his lane.
As a diner?
I actually kind of like it.
It has personality.
Which is more then you can say for the square dull gray boxes that are currently in vogue.
When I was in Los Angeles last year, the hotel I stayed at is not far from this area, so I can attest to the condition that the nearby area on Santa Monica is in, lol. I went to the Mel’s (inspired by the movie American Graffiti) on Sunset Blvd and that’s about a block away from where I was.
Santa Monica Blvd? That’s soooo gay...
I’d rather look at that than the vast homeless encampments, tent cities set up on public sidewalks, broken down cars and motorhomes that line the streets of Santa Monica and the ensuing mountains of trash, needles and filth in public spaces.
Looks like the only draw it received was the great American Graffiti movie on the screen.
who cares what it looks like as long as it’s clean and has good burgers for a reasonable price ... still if that pic of the neighborhood is accurate, it might give one pause ...
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