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[George]

I've been putting off getting the foot massage and tonight was going to be the night.  Well, they're gone - closed up shop and the storefront is for rent.  Guess I'll have to find another place.

Boy, do I HATE when that happens -- the place closing up shop just like that.

Last Wednesday, I got the weekly flyers and coupons in the mail.  Included in that batch was a page of coupons for Arby's (they have new turkey sandwiches).  I hadn't been to Arby's in a couple of weeks, so i decided to go the next day (Thursday).  I went to the local Arbys's (it's only about a mile and a half away from where I work) and it was closed!  I had no idea!  No one was in the place and no lights were on.  I never noticed when it happened, but it couldn't have been too long ago.  As I was driving away, I noticed that someone else had driven up to the drive-through and I saw that there wasn't even a menu board on the pole...just the pole.  By this time, a woman had driven up and parked and walked to the door before she too realized that it was closed.  Just like that...gone.

As for the coupons, there is another Arby's on the west side of Olympia, so I actually went there on Saturday.  It's a little too far to go for a workday lunch, but afterward or on the weekend, it might happen again.

[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

Makes me glad I don't drink.

DR George, they aren't actually drinking it.

True, but they are "using" and that gets them drunk, which I choose not to do, too.

I know, but technically they aren't drinking it

I would think it would really burn your eyes.

That alone would prevent me from ever trying it.

I know.

[Jennifer]

I am watching an interesting show on Canadian tv. Andrew Lloyd Webber is adding songs to THE WIZARD OF OZ in Toronto. And they are searching for their Dorothy. There are only 7 girls left. But my favorite was in the bottom two. She did not go home. ALW was there for the first shows. But now he has another woman making the eliminations. I hope he comes back soon. It is called OVER THE RAINBOW. There are two out of the seven I love. One other I like a lot. But two others seem really wrong for the part. And the woman keeps saving one of them.

[Jennifer]

Going to watch Dancing With The Stars.

[Laura]

Andrew Lloyd Webber is adding songs to THE WIZARD OF OZ in Toronto. ...

Oh, please no.

[Matthew]

Andrew Lloyd Webber is adding songs to THE WIZARD OF OZ in Toronto. ...

Oh, please no.

Oh geeze - he already added them to the London production.  Really there are really no "songs" in Act Two of the show.  And he added a few to the wicked witch of the West, gives her something to sing.  Seriously, they are forgettable, but nonetheless, they aren't bad and they serve a purpose.  Plus the lyrics are by Tim Rice.

[ChasSmith]

I googled "Dick Webster's lemon meringue pie" and the first two items are the base were....

Stephen Sondheim Stage
www.sondheim.com/comedy/columna/past/46.htmlThe highlight of our skit was a pie fight, and because I didn't know that pie fights ... lemon meringue pies from Dick Webster's, Home of the Lemon Meringue Pie, ...

Benjamin Kritzer - Page 151 - Google Books Result
books.google.com/books?isbn=140330193X
Bruce Kimmel - 2002 - Fiction
As the bus traveled north on La Cienega, Benjamin pointed out some of his favorite places, like Dick Webster's (home of the Lemon Meringue pie), and a bit ...

Ah!!  Thank you!  I'm reviewing that passage.  Didn't remember the name, and would love to know where it was and how long it was there.  La Cienega, south of Restaurant Row and Lawry's, so, south of Wilshire, but how far down.

Here's another:  "Los Angeles was a junk-food paradise: cinnamon rolls at Dick Webster's, Orange Julius on every street corner, Blum's sticky buns and Lum's hot dogs steamed in beer."  That's on this page:
http://articles.latimes.com/1994-09-29/food/fo-44142_1_hollywood-restaurants

And that has a Hollywood place I missed:  Tick Tock!

[Cillaliz]

And speaking of preserving historic homes ... here is something to make you all mad.

http://www.azcentral.com/community/phoenix/articles/20121007frank-lloyd-wright-home-debate.html

Actually it's quite interesting.  Our Hist Pres Commission has no power, we're just advisory

[Cillaliz]

Cilla -  they want only $315.000 for that house?  It would easily go for twice that amount here

That's high for Sioux City

[Ginny]

I did a library errand in the southern Dayton 'burbs and went grocery shopping here in Middletown.  After dinner at home with Richard, I picked up my (and DR Elmore's friend) Loyce for tonight's AAUW meeting.  We learned all about Title IX, which this year celebrates its 40th birthday.  I'm pretty tired and will head for bed as soon as CASTLE's over.

[Ginny]

The Michigan Big Boys were Elias Brothers.

[Cillaliz]

I should say it's very sad that they want to tear down the house.  What I find interesting is the leagal aspects of the case.  It sounds to me like the property owners are holding out for the right amount of money, 1/2 mil.  It's ridiculous, but that's what it sounds like.

[ChasSmith]

The Michigan Big Boys were Elias Brothers.

How right you are!  There are way more regional names than I knew: 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big_Boy_Restaurants

[Jane]

I googled "Dick Webster's lemon meringue pie" and the first two items are the base were....

Stephen Sondheim Stage
www.sondheim.com/comedy/columna/past/46.htmlThe highlight of our skit was a pie fight, and because I didn't know that pie fights ... lemon meringue pies from Dick Webster's, Home of the Lemon Meringue Pie, ...

Benjamin Kritzer - Page 151 - Google Books Result
books.google.com/books?isbn=140330193X
Bruce Kimmel - 2002 - Fiction
As the bus traveled north on La Cienega, Benjamin pointed out some of his favorite places, like Dick Webster's (home of the Lemon Meringue pie), and a bit ...

Ah!!  Thank you!  I'm reviewing that passage.  Didn't remember the name, and would love to know where it was and how long it was there.  La Cienega, south of Restaurant Row and Lawry's, so, south of Wilshire, but how far down.

Here's another:  "Los Angeles was a junk-food paradise: cinnamon rolls at Dick Webster's, Orange Julius on every street corner, Blum's sticky buns and Lum's hot dogs steamed in beer."  That's on this page:
http://articles.latimes.com/1994-09-29/food/fo-44142_1_hollywood-restaurants

And that has a Hollywood place I missed:  Tick Tock!

Thank you for the additional link.  I didn't know that Blum's even had sticky buns-lol.

[Jane]

The Michigan Big Boys were Elias Brothers.

That sounds familiar.

[Ginny]

'night!

[Laura]

I should say it's very sad that they want to tear down the house.  What I find interesting is the leagal aspects of the case.  It sounds to me like the property owners are holding out for the right amount of money, 1/2 mil.  It's ridiculous, but that's what it sounds like.

Is this in response to the Frank Lloyd Wright house?

The owner is a development company, I believe. They bought it with the intent of tearing it down to build two houses.

[John G.]

Well, all this talk of fried chicken made me go to Earl Abel's tonight for some. I also got a slice of their French Coconut pie (a coconut custard confection), but I'll save that for breakfast. And I'll post a pic tomorrow.

[George]

Andrew Lloyd Webber is adding songs to THE WIZARD OF OZ in Toronto. ...

Oh, please no.

Oh geeze - he already added them to the London production.  Really there are really no "songs" in Act Two of the show.  And he added a few to the wicked witch of the West, gives her something to sing.  Seriously, they are forgettable, but nonetheless, they aren't bad and they serve a purpose.  Plus the lyrics are by Tim Rice.

I actually like Red Shoes Blues from the updated version.

[Jane]

I should say it's very sad that they want to tear down the house.  What I find interesting is the leagal aspects of the case.  It sounds to me like the property owners are holding out for the right amount of money, 1/2 mil.  It's ridiculous, but that's what it sounds like.

Is this in response to the Frank Lloyd Wright house?

The owner is a development company, I believe. They bought it with the intent of tearing it down to build two houses.

I hope they can be stopped and I'm not even a FLW fan.

[Cillaliz]

I should say it's very sad that they want to tear down the house.  What I find interesting is the leagal aspects of the case.  It sounds to me like the property owners are holding out for the right amount of money, 1/2 mil.  It's ridiculous, but that's what it sounds like.

Is this in response to the Frank Lloyd Wright house?

The owner is a development company, I believe. They bought it with the intent of tearing it down to build two houses.

The article or maybe it was the comments that said they have had cash offers that would give them $250,000 profit and they wouldn't sell unless they got at least 1/2 mil in profit.    That's what I was referring to.

[Jane]

'night

[Cillaliz]

Don't get me wrong, I love FLW and want to see the house preserved.  But legally the tension  between a property owner's right to do what they want to with their property and the government's ability to prevent them in the name of historic preservation is interesting to me.

[TCB]

Ontra Cafeteria – on Vine, north of Hollywood – and how I wish I’d taken greater advantage of having it there.  Loved that building.  If cafeterias were still around, they’d be a guilty pleasure.

If I remember correctly, the Ontra Cafeteria was so popular with the movie peope, that they opened a second location right on the Fox lot.  They called it...........

<Wait for it>

Ontra Twentieth Century

[Laura]

I think they were trying to fly under the radar and have it demolished before anyone knew about it, and once word got out they said they'd sell for a certain very high price.

It is very hard to type with a purring cat on your lap rubbing its face all over your hands.

[TCB]

DR ChasSSmith, now if only you had photos to go with all those recollections!

Larry Edmund's is still there and I usually pop in each time I am in town. Of course, I have been buying from them since through the mail since I was in high school...got lots of 8x10 stills from that place and a few lobby cards, also.

I didn't know they were allowed to sell those types of photos through the mail.

[Laura]

I'm really not a fan of FLW. But I do understand the significance of the house. And I hate seeing the beautiful vintage houses being torn down in Arcadia just to build what is being built by the thousands in outlying areas of Phoenix.

[Cillaliz]

I think they were trying to fly under the radar and have it demolished before anyone knew about it, and once word got out they said they'd sell for a certain very high price.

It is very hard to type with a purring cat on your lap rubbing its face all over your hands.

Yeah, i think that's right.  They're intentions changed when they got interrupted so to speak

[TCB]

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

Bravo!

[Cillaliz]

It is sad, Laura.   I couldn't believe how much had been torn down and rebuilt out there from the time I left until I went back about 5 years ago.  There were a lot of times I had no idea where I was even though I was in an area I drove through  every day or even lived for a while