Raymond Chandler’s LA

So I just got back from LA and I have to say that LA really has changed a lot, it is no longer the cool, seductive and slightly secretive place that Chandler used to describe in his mystery novels. Well having just said that I wonder if it was ever like that? LA in Chandler’s books seems to have mystery to it, to be quite, but loud if you speak the lingo. This is contrary to the image of LA today that noisy, crowded and much more interesting to the young bohemian types than it is to detectives and their dames. Anyway, it would have been interesting to be in LA in the 50s to see if it was like the Chandler LA. Maybe a new writer will come out and be able to write about the LA of today. I doubt it will appeal itself to a mystery though.