My motel was the
Howard Johnson Los Angeles.
While not particularly
fashionable and somewhat fearsome looking on Google Maps, it was comparatively clean,
seemingly safe, reasonably-priced, and perfectly located.
The motel had the benefit of being around the corner from an inexpensive
Chinese place and there are numerous fast-food options to the east on Vermont.
The Korean places in adjacent Koreatown tend to be pricey, and the one
Korean barbecue I tried to visit would only take parties of two or more.
That's my people.