Change Is Inevitable, But Not Always For The Better

10 Things Going Extinct in Los Angeles 

2) Diners
 
R.I.P. Ships, 1956 to 1996. (According to Wikipedia: "The Ships menu included Shrimp Louie, navy bean soup and cottage cheese with peach or pineapple. Toasters were located at tables and on the counters for customers to prepare their own toast.")

R.I.P. Tiny Naylor's. R.I.P. Twains. R.I.P. Jan's. R.I.P. Junior's. R.I.P. Victor's. R.I.P. Zucky's. R.I.P. Ed Debevic's (!). And of course, R.I.P. Johnnie's, 1956 to 2000, which became, and remains, a potemkin village diner, available only as a filming location.

At least there's still Norms.

5) Horse racing
 
The decline of horse racing, once known as the "sport of kings," has been felt especially sharply in California, which saw the closing of the Bay Meadows Racetrack in San Mateo in 2008, followed by the closing of Hollywood Park in Inglewood in 2013. The former playground of Bing Crosby and Jimmy Stewart will soon be the site of Inglewood's new $2.5 billion NFL stadium.

Now there's only one racetrack left in L.A. – Santa Anita.

10) Indoor Malls
 
Life as a teenager in the 1980s and 1990s revolved around the mall: sheltered, antiseptic, cavernous. The medium arguably reached its peak in Los Angeles with the Beverly Center in 1982. But it was another Los Angeles locale which helped kill the indoor mall – The Grove, built in 2002, and designed to look just like the city of Europe. Rick Caruso's brainchild quickly taught Californians that if you're gonna spend all day watching your wife try on pants, you may as well get a few minutes of sunshine.

Outdoor malls are in; indoor malls are out. In South L.A., Marlton Square Shopping Mall was demolished in 2011. Hawthorne's Mall remains eerily abandoned. And Santa Monica Place, designed by none other than Frank Gehry, tore off its roof in 2010, begetting this wonderful headline: "SANTA MONICA PLACE SWAPS GEHRY FOR AIRY." (It really only works if you say it aloud.)

At least we still have the Beverly Center, which is planning yet another expensive renovation.

Complete list (LAWeekly.com)