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Narrow alleyways with a mélange of Venetian and Ottoman buildings, a canvas of faded terracotta and ochre stucco dressed with restaurant signs or wares for sale.
The ancient bronzes are covered with metamorphosing animal shapes--an elephant whose trunk has turned into a dragon, and whose legs are incised with tigers ("stucco'd with quadrupeds and birds all over," as Whitman wrote of himself).
Between La Brea and Western Avenue, the boulevard exhibits the fine, tacky splendor of the 1920s and 30s, with its low, flat stucco buildings, a droopy palm tree or two, and even some vintage Packards and Buicks parked out on the street.
The most interesting part is the Patio de las Doncellas (Courtyard of the Maidens), where the rooms preserve outstanding decorative features — ornamental tiles, carved stucco, and characteristic coffered artesonado ceilings.
The faded stucco of the harbor buildings takes on a delicate rosy hue as night falls, contrasting with the deep blue sky.
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