Found on EBay – Great White Fleet
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X-treme dining on Tuesday at Grill 'em All in Highland Park. |
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I took a break from blogging the other evening, and on the spur of the moment thought I would check in with the food truck craze that has swept Los Angeles. |
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Feb. 5, 1970: Behold the wonder of Chicken Boy on the roof of a restaurant on Broadway near 5th Street in downtown Los Angeles. |
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Feb. 23, 1941: An old hand at writing columns but feeling his way in his new assignment, The Home Front, Tom Treanor writes: "Of all the times in the history of the world to be writing a column this is unquestionably the most exciting.
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| A copy of “Whiskey Road” by the incomparable Parkey Sharkey has been listed on EBay. Sharkey was a frequent presence in Paul Coates’ columns and many readers suspected that Coates fabricated Sharkey’s letters. Not at all. Sharkey was an actual person, but a rather eccentric one. “Whiskey Road” is sometimes described as a book, but it’s really a pamphlet and much of it consists of Sharkey’s letters to Coates. This copy is signed and is accompanied by a wine list from the Skywood Lodge. I think Sharkey would approve. Bidding starts at $27.95. ALSO Parkey Sharkey on the Daily Mirror |
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[Update: This is Hugh Herbert, but the rest of the people in the photo are unidentified. Please congratulate Dewey Webb, Mary Mallory, Carmen, Rotter, Mark Heimback-Nielsen, Eve, Cold in Phoenix, Roget-L.A., Herb Nichols, Sarah, Julie Merholz, Randy Skretvedt, Mike Hawks, Benito, Norma Desmond and Stacia for identifying him!] Our mystery folks are making a mystery cocktail! Notice the little risers being used to lift the table! |
| A rather battered but interesting copy of “They Call Them Camisoles” has been listed on EBay. “Camisoles” was written by Wilma Carnes under the pen name Wilma Wilson and is a graphic first-person account of her time at Camarillo (“Camisoles” was the hospital’s nickname for straitjackets.) She was beaten to death by a soldier during a “drinking party at her home” in 1943. This copy carries an interesting inscription to Howard Francis Chase and is signed, but has suffered water damage and the cover is badly torn. “Camisoles” is hard to find on the open market, although it’s in many public libraries, and it is usually listed at a high price. Bidding on this copy starts at $200, which seems high, considering the condition. ALSO “They Call Them Camisoles” on the Daily Mirror |
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Dec. 29, 1980: A few days after the incident involving Times restaurant critic S. Irene Virbila at Red Medicine, I came across this piece by the late David Shaw on the relationship between restaurants and restaurant critics. Long-established restaurants are almost impervious to bad reviews, while other establishments languish or close despite favorable coverage, Shaw said. He also noted that most new restaurants in Los Angeles County don’t last a year. Shaw, a Pulitzer Prize winner who died of brain cancer at the age of 62, was quite a bon vivant and I’m sure he relished the reporting on this story. |
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