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(brie as girl reporter lois lane)
an envelope with these stamps:
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and containing this card:
also, containing this letter:
Dear Larry:
Thanking you for letting me use some items from your blog!
I am now reading Caryl Chessman’s “Cell 2455, Death Row.” What a wasted life!
Chessman seemed to prefer the Glendale area, though I guess his parent’s house was in Atwater, according to a photo in your blog.
Too bad chessman didn’t describe better some of the locations in his book.
My best blog entry, except for the stuff I got from you, was probably the entry on Margot Kidder’s
nervous breakdown period.
During that time her last known address was the Bell motel on Colorado Blvd.
Two years ago I went to the address, but the Bell motel was no longer there, since a new building was put up!
So, I only got a picture of the new building, but also on Google satellite I got a picture of the top of the old Bell motel –probably there when Tom Joad came through. Actually, Steinbeck was living in Eagle Rock (I might have got that information from your blog) during the great depression, swiping avocadoes from other people’s yards for his hamburgers.
Anyway, during my lost semester at Glendale high school, before moving to La Crescenta – not far from the Spike Jones market, I lived in a duplex really close to the unemployment office, which had a donut store next to it, near San Fernando Rd! The unemployment office might have been in Burbank, but our old duplex unit was just inside the Glendale unified school district. Listening to Joe Pyne (“lady go haunt a house!”) on the transistor radio, while walking miles to school. My point is that the unemployment office, the donut store, and our old apartment, which was on an alley, were all gone two years ago, when I was looking around—how utterly disturbing! Remembering the Foothill freeway bulldozing Joe six-packs out of the way going through La Crescenta, while just missing the high school. Three high schools in the GUSD (not counting magnets–my junior high was made into a magnet – whatever those are) John Wayne went to Glendale, Richard Boone went to Hoover, but no one really famous or important ever went to Crescenta Valley!
Finally, when my mom was a girl, she lived in the same area as the Black Dahlia incident!
Most Respectfully yours,
Chatty brie
Most important Angelino ever: Mulhulland for sure
that never arrived.
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comment:
“Having your own blog is like having your own insane asylum.”
(Larry?!?!?!)