2019 Eat Shop Play Local TAP Card

Three TAP Cards within a week!!  Yes, this Eat Shop Play Local TAP Card was the third TAP Card I added to my collection within a week!  I got the Charles White TAP Card, then the Eat Shop Play Crenshaw, and now the Eat Shop Play Local!!

This TAP Card was given out at the really cool Photoville event in Century City!  Photoville had storage containers with photos both on the inside and outside of the container.  It's a free event, and there are some cool pictures!

The Eat Shop Play Local TAP Cards are given out at businesses that are effected by the construction of new Metro train lines.  In 2019, the have TAP cards with the neighborhood on the TAP card.  There is a Koreatown Eat Shop Play TAP Card that is out, but I haven't added that to my collection yet.

Yes, this is different than the 2017 Eat Shop Play Local TAP Card, the 2019 Eat Shop Play Local TAP Cards have the two palms trees on the and the Eat Shop Play is horizontally placed on the card.

This is a nice addition to my TAP Card collection!

2019 Eat Shop Play Crenshaw TAP Card

Eat Shop Play is a program that supports businesses that are effected by the construction of new Metro train lines.  Early I got the Eat Shop Play DTLA TAP Card.

Metro hosted a community meeting for the Crenshaw Line in Inglewood.  They talked about the progress of the Crenshaw Line.  During the meeting they gave away this Eat Shop Play TAP Card.

Two TAP Cards to my collection within four days!!

2019 Charles White LACMA TAP Card

On April 15, 2019 LACMA tweeted they were partnering with Metro on a new TAP Card, the Charles White TAP Card.  Charles White is a well known artist, and one of his students, Richard Wyatt, has done many art projects with Metro. At Union Station, there is his mural- City of Dream/River City.

If you went to LACMA on April 20, 2019, with paid general admission you got a free Charles White TAP Card!  They said they expected the TAP Cards to go quickly. 

I took the Purple Line to Wilshire and Vermont, then took the 720 Rapid bus.  The jerk bus driver told me, the 720 doesn't go to LACMA, and told to me exit at Crenshaw.  I know LACMA is near the intersection of Fairfax and Wilshire.  I also know that the 720 Rapid stays on Wilshire, even past Fairfax.

Despite the jerk bus driver, I got the LACMA about ten minutes after they opened.  I went to the box office, paid my admission, and got the TAP Card.

This is an neat design.  But, to be honest, I thought Charles White was the former USC and LA Rams running back.