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[Jane]

Just read that Danny DeVito and Rhea Perlman are calling it quits. That's sad.

I saw that. 

[ChasSmith]

That was my SECOND Hughes, DR Jane!  Across from Chasen's, right?

Walked and biked there from the Clark Drive apartment.

Just realized that when I think of Hughes Markets, I think of Van de Kamp cinnamon rolls.  Not to mention the Van de Kamp windmilled coffee shops.  Oh, now there I go again.

[John G.]

I just got my first rave for EILEEN. It made me very happy after all the slams the Collected Herbert songs got.

Congrats on that, too. Great Monday for you.

[Jane]

I finished the score reconstruction for ROBERTA so the whole shebang is in the hands of the copyists.

Congratulations!

[John G.]

Let's bring some closure for the time being, to this trip through Hollywood, with one final blast of

Hughes Market – at Highland and Franklin.  Amazingly, many memories tied up with that store, my first L.A. supermarket.  Likewise...

The first Hughes market I knew of was long after we had moved away.  There was a very nice one on Doheny Drive walking distance from my father's condo.  I was staying with my father after his surgery for bladder cancer and was walking around Hughes when my shopping cart and I almost collided with another shopper who was in town visiting her mother.  I still chuckle when I remember how Susan Gordon I both looked at each other in shock, neither of us expecting to run into anyone we knew.  We hadn't seen each other for years.  After that we continued to kept in touch.

Great story.

[ChasSmith]

Let's bring some closure for the time being, to this trip through Hollywood, with one final blast of

Hughes Market – at Highland and Franklin.  Amazingly, many memories tied up with that store, my first L.A. supermarket.  Likewise...

The first Hughes market I knew of was long after we had moved away.  There was a very nice one on Doheny Drive walking distance from my father's condo.  I was staying with my father after his surgery for bladder cancer and was walking around Hughes when my shopping cart and I almost collided with another shopper who was in town visiting her mother.  I still chuckle when I remember how Susan Gordon I both looked at each other in shock, neither of us expecting to run into anyone we knew.  We hadn't seen each other for years.  After that we continued to kept in touch.

Great story.

Indeed.  Jealous!

[ChasSmith]

Wait, am I right about where Chasen's was?  Hold on, I'll find out.

[ChasSmith]

Yes.  They were on Beverly Blvd. at Doheny, Hughes on the SE block, Chasen's on the NE. 

[ChasSmith]

Looks like it's still some kind of store.

[bk]

I fell back asleep at eight and woke up at eleven-thirty, and then had to leave immediately to get the hard drive with the two Outside The Box episodes to the editor's assistant so it can be loaded into the computer and synched up.

[bk]

Chas, there was another Coffee Dan's close to the Warner Cinerama.  I'm pretty sure it was also on the south side of the street - I need to find this out exactly because maybe my memory is just playing tricks because it's hard to imagine there would be two in the space of five blocks. 

[John G.]

OK, here's a new trend that makes me glad I'm old:

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1278583/Young-people-drinking-neat-vodka-EYE-quick-buzz.html

[Matthew]

I finished the score reconstruction for ROBERTA so the whole shebang is in the hands of the copyists. Thomas Bagwell arrived and picked up two of the three cartons of scores he purchased, and I helped him get them to a taxi. He'll call when he wants to come back for the third.

I've listened to the new EILEEN release and a 2-CD set of Carl Davis conducting Russell Bennett's show medleys for orchestra. I juyst heard "South Pacific," "Show Boat," and "My Fair Lady." "Porgy and Bess" is playing at the moment.

Now I've got to assemble a chart of all the ROBERTA musical numbers and what characters sing/speak in each number. I also have to scan  the dialogue pages for all numbers, showing the copyists where it fits over the music. My week is cut out for me. I think I will now head home.

DR Elmore, I'm intrigued by the Carl Davis CD.  Is it available and if it is, what's it called?

DR Matthew, it's "Great American Musicals" on the EMI Classics for Pleasure label. and it's now an out of print CD. I see that I can find it on Amazon using key words "Robert Russell Bennett" and "Carl Davis." There are two reasonably priced used copies. Be certsin that the set has both CDs. The first copy I purchased only had one CD because the seller was a moron.

There are also several other collections of Bennett's show medleys, if you'd likesome titles.

Awesome... I love show medleys.  I believe there is one as a bonus track on a The Sound of Music reissue.  I'll check out the others, though.

[Matthew]

Chas, there was another Coffee Dan's close to the Warner Cinerama.  I'm pretty sure it was also on the south side of the street - I need to find this out exactly because maybe my memory is just playing tricks because it's hard to imagine there would be two in the space of five blocks. 

Precursor to Starbucks it seems like.

[John G.]

Was just told of another new trend, apparently happening up Canada way: One kid gets into the trunk of the car and the driver then goes on a wild and bumpy ride. And this is done voluntarily. 

[Jane]

That was my SECOND Hughes, DR Jane!  Across from Chasen's, right?

Walked and biked there from the Clark Drive apartment.

Just realized that when I think of Hughes Markets, I think of Van de Kamp cinnamon rolls.  Not to mention the Van de Kamp windmilled coffee shops.  Oh, now there I go again.

I saw you looked it up.  I know Chasen's was a landmark and my parent's went there fairly often, yet it isn't a place I paid too much attention to.

For me Hughes meant wonderful California fruit, veggies, and flowers.

[Jane]

OK, here's a new trend that makes me glad I'm old:

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1278583/Young-people-drinking-neat-vodka-EYE-quick-buzz.html

[ChasSmith]

Chas, there was another Coffee Dan's close to the Warner Cinerama.  I'm pretty sure it was also on the south side of the street - I need to find this out exactly because maybe my memory is just playing tricks because it's hard to imagine there would be two in the space of five blocks. 

Precursor to Starbucks it seems like.

No, not that kind of coffee shop.  Whole different thing.  The classic L.A. coffee shop is a wonderful thing, more like a diner, luncheonette, family restaurant, things of that ilk.  Examples are the Van de Kamps I just mentioned above, Parasol, Du-Par's, Copper Penny, Beverly Hills Cafe -- there are (or were) so many examples, really.  And one of the greatest of them all, Ship's -- but don't even get me started.  Talk about criminal acts of destruction...

[Jane]

Was just told of another new trend, apparently happening up Canada way: One kid gets into the trunk of the car and the driver then goes on a wild and bumpy ride. And this is done voluntarily. 

This stuff gives me shivers.

[Jane]

Chas, there was another Coffee Dan's close to the Warner Cinerama.  I'm pretty sure it was also on the south side of the street - I need to find this out exactly because maybe my memory is just playing tricks because it's hard to imagine there would be two in the space of five blocks. 

Precursor to Starbucks it seems like.

No, not that kind of coffee shop.  Whole different thing.  The classic L.A. coffee shop is a wonderful thing, more like a diner, luncheonette, family restaurant, things of that ilk.  Examples are the Van de Kamps I just mentioned above, Parasol, Du-Par's, Copper Penny, Beverly Hills Cafe -- there are (or were) so many examples, really -- and one of the greatest of them all:  Ship's -- and don't even get me started... talk about yer criminal acts of destruction...

When I think of the classic coffee shop I think of Ship's.

[ChasSmith]

This is because great minds think alike, DR Jane.

[ChasSmith]

I think you can even call Bob's Big Boy a coffee shop.  At least out there, where it really fits in as such.

But correct me if I'm wrong on any of these assertions.

[John G.]

Chas, there was another Coffee Dan's close to the Warner Cinerama.  I'm pretty sure it was also on the south side of the street - I need to find this out exactly because maybe my memory is just playing tricks because it's hard to imagine there would be two in the space of five blocks. 

Precursor to Starbucks it seems like.

No, not that kind of coffee shop.  Whole different thing.  The classic L.A. coffee shop is a wonderful thing, more like a diner, luncheonette, family restaurant, things of that ilk.  Examples are the Van de Kamps I just mentioned above, Parasol, Du-Par's, Copper Penny, Beverly Hills Cafe -- there are (or were) so many examples, really -- and one of the greatest of them all:  Ship's -- and don't even get me started... talk about yer criminal acts of destruction...

When I think of the classic coffee shop I think of Ship's.

We have a classic coffee shop, Earl Abel's, that sells remarkable fried chicken and the pie chef just retired after 61 years there. He made a maple pecan pie that is beyond belief. The coffee, eh, not so hot.

[MBarnum]

DR ChasSmith, did you mention that one of the apartments you rented in Hollywood was on Orange? Isn't that just a block from Orchid?

I am remembering that when I stayed at The Hollywood Orchid Hotel on Orchid, I would walk down Orange to get to Hollywood Blvd and my daily dose of morning coffee. Although some days I took Highland...and once I took Yucca...but never again will I make that mistake!

I loved the Hollywood Orchid. I should stay there again someday.

[MBarnum]

I think that whole lot of us should take a trip to LA at the same time and visit all of the old places (or new places, for some of us).

I still want JRAnd62 to come down there during one of my trips so I can take him to see and touch Allison Haye's Hollywood house.

[Jane]

This is because great minds think alike, DR Jane.

[Jrand74]

I noticed in the photo of my relative's market was RED CROSS SPAGHETTI - which I remember came in a green box with a ... red cross.

[Jane]

I think you can even call Bob's Big Boy a coffee shop.  At least out there, where it really fits in as such.

But correct me if I'm wrong on any of these assertions.

I didn't go to a Bob's Big Boy until we lived in Michigan.     I suppose so.

Did you ever go to Dick Webster's? 

[George]

OK, here's a new trend that makes me glad I'm old:

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1278583/Young-people-drinking-neat-vodka-EYE-quick-buzz.html

Makes me glad I don't drink.

[George]

I just got my first rave for EILEEN. It made me very happy after all the slams the Collected Herbert songs got.

That's great news, Larry!