Topic: BURNING THE MIDNIGHT OIL OR NOSTALGIA CONTINUED (Read 21045 times)

singdaw · « **Reply #60 on:** June 25, 2013, 10:13:15 AM »

Quote from: Ron Pulliam on June 25, 2013, 09:49:25 AM

Copraphilia, which was once a recurring topic here at HHW.com

I had to look that one up.

singdaw · « **Reply #61 on:** June 25, 2013, 10:13:55 AM »

And I am NOT doing a page 3 Copraphilia dance! $:-\$

George · « **Reply #62 on:** June 25, 2013, 10:17:45 AM »

Ron, you were a cute baby!

singdaw · « **Reply #63 on:** June 25, 2013, 10:22:18 AM »

However, in that vein, I will share this photo of a tattoo gone horribly, horribly wrong....

George · « **Reply #64 on:** June 25, 2013, 10:28:16 AM »

Quote from: ChasSmith on June 25, 2013, 07:40:25 AM

Well, I have neither crawled back into bed for a little more sleep, nor gotten my arse moving toward getting anything done today.

I think I'll try both of those things, and in exactly that order.

I was actually able to get up very early (for me) and get my 1998 Ford Escort to the dealer before 8:00 am. They did have me listed as a drop-off, so there wasn't a specific appointment time, but I explained that I had stuff do to last night (the audition and the feeding of a friend's cats) and all was well. If they only do what they expect to do, it'll cost less than $450. That would be nice. It's only been about 13,000 miles since I brought it in two years ago, so not a lot has happened. I haven't been extremely diligent about getting the oil changed, but the 3,000 mile rule is rather arbitrary anyway, isn't it? The owner's manual actually says to change the oil every 3,750 miles, so I'm not worried at all.

George · « **Reply #65 on:** June 25, 2013, 10:29:16 AM »

Quote from: singdaw on June 25, 2013, 07:18:30 AM

Well, no marriage equality ruling from the Supreme Court today.

Hopefully, they will "be on the right side of history."

bk · « **Reply #66 on:** June 25, 2013, 10:43:37 AM »

I'm up, I'm up - finally, eight and a half hours of sleep (I didn't get to bed until two).

bk · « **Reply #67 on:** June 25, 2013, 10:46:21 AM »

To answer ChasSmith's two queries: The Hollywood Blvd. Orange Julius was next to the New View Theater (in the 70s, the Pussycat) on the south side of the boulevard and also next to the original location of Larry Edmunds). I'm not at all sure it was an Orange Julius in the 70s, though, but it was definitely a hot dog stand and may have had a knockoff Orange Julius, hence the confusion.

Now I've forgotten the other query - I'll go find it again and then post the answer.

bk · « **Reply #68 on:** June 25, 2013, 10:55:21 AM »

Quote from: ChasSmith on June 25, 2013, 06:53:43 AM

Didn't know Nickodell's, unfortunately. It looks great. The only place I remember wandering into down there, after seeing some movie at the Continental, was diagonally opposite the original Paramount gate on what looks like a street called Marathon before Paramount swallowed up that block. It was probably a Mexican jernt, since all I remember is the yummy quesadilla.

Here's the other one. The place you're talking about was a real favorite of mine - location just as you describe, diagonally across from the old main gate (the one you see in Sunset Blvd. and countless other movies and the one I used in the 70s) - directly east and on the same side as the main gate was the famous casting building, where I read for and got The Young Lawyers. That was the one and only time I was in that building - after that casting was always held in producers' offices on the lot itself. Anyway, the restaurant was called Oblath's - if you didn't want the commissary you went to Oblath's or Nickodell's or Lucy's (across the street on the south side of Melrose and the only one of those that's left - and still as mediocre as it always was - it's enduring popularity has always baffled me). But Oblath's had great food, and one of my most vivid memories of it was shooting one of the two Happy Days episodes I did, and going to Oblath's for lunch with some of the cast. I walked in and there sitting in the very first booth next to the door - John Wayne. Couldn't believe it and only wish I'd spoken to him.

bk · « **Reply #69 on:** June 25, 2013, 10:58:40 AM »

BTW, I loved Orange Julius (yes, it's in the first Kritzer book) - mine was located at Pico and Robertson on the southwest corner. It was actually inside a drug store, but had an open part that looked out onto Robertson so you could order from there and eat outside on a stool. Directly south of it was our big newsstand, where I bought my first MAD Magazine (probably in 1954 - the comic book size version - those were the first 23 issues) and the occasional Superman comic and, of course, my beloved TV Guides.

Jrand74 · « **Reply #70 on:** June 25, 2013, 11:03:02 AM »

Very warm today.

bk · « **Reply #71 on:** June 25, 2013, 11:05:14 AM »

I'll have to jog in the afternoon.

Jrand74 · « **Reply #72 on:** June 25, 2013, 11:23:15 AM »

Nice photos DR RLP.

elmore3003 · « **Reply #73 on:** June 25, 2013, 11:33:39 AM »

Trying to finish up and get out of this place, only there are too many obstacles in achieving it: glitches in the Finale program, printing problems, the binding machine, my short temper. Oy!

This place is working my last nerve today.

singdaw · « **Reply #74 on:** June 25, 2013, 11:46:43 AM »

Quote from: Jrand62 on June 25, 2013, 11:03:02 AM

Very warm today.

Now if only you had posted that LAST month, we would have had... Very Warm for May.

singdaw · « **Reply #75 on:** June 25, 2013, 11:50:20 AM »

~ ~ ~ VIBES OF PATIENCE AND FORTITUDE ~ ~ ~ for DR elmore3003!

singdaw · « **Reply #76 on:** June 25, 2013, 11:51:58 AM »

I had an Orange Julius growing up in Los Angeles and loved it, but couldn't tell you the location. We lived in Rancho Palos Verdes (then Palos Verdes Estates), but moved back to the East Coast in 1971.

singdaw · « **Reply #77 on:** June 25, 2013, 11:54:05 AM »

We used to joke that we could see my Dad's office building in downtown from our backyard, but it took an hour to drive there.

Laura · « **Reply #78 on:** June 25, 2013, 12:02:14 PM »

Quote from: Jrand62 on June 25, 2013, 11:03:02 AM

Very warm today.

It's June.

Laura · « **Reply #79 on:** June 25, 2013, 12:02:31 PM »

DR Sandra is still sleeping.

ChasSmith · « **Reply #80 on:** June 25, 2013, 12:49:07 PM »

Oblath's! Yes!! Oblath's!

Thank you, BK. Instantly recognized and (now) so familiar, but I would not have dredged the name up myself in a million years.

Jrand74 · « **Reply #81 on:** June 25, 2013, 12:54:59 PM »

An Orange Julius growing up in Los Angeles? What is in the ground out there?

Jrand74 · « **Reply #82 on:** June 25, 2013, 12:55:37 PM »

Getting ready to go to the rehearsal of Act Two ANGEL STREET.

ChasSmith · « **Reply #83 on:** June 25, 2013, 12:56:21 PM »

As to Orange Julius, another thanks, because that hot dog stand is probably what I'm thinking of. I just know I was introduced to the drink fairly early on, somewhere along there.

I'll bet there's a lot of confusion, on my part as well as anybody's, as to which places were actual Orange Julius stands, which ones weren't but served the drink, or which ones weren't at all and served a knockoff drink. If that makes sense...

ChasSmith · « **Reply #84 on:** June 25, 2013, 12:57:39 PM »

And which was the case at Stan's Donuts?

ChasSmith · « **Reply #85 on:** June 25, 2013, 01:02:57 PM »

A mention of Oblath's closing:

http://articles.latimes.com/1987-02-19/food/fo-4227_1_chicken-mole

EDIT: Or rather, its replacement.

Ron Pulliam · « **Reply #86 on:** June 25, 2013, 01:01:57 PM »

It's June 25th in Oakland CA and it's RAINING!

We don't have rain in June!

Maybe a sprinkle or two...but it's been raining since yesterday.

This is weird.

Ron Pulliam · « **Reply #87 on:** June 25, 2013, 01:02:51 PM »

Quote from: singdaw on June 25, 2013, 10:22:18 AM

However, in that vein, I will share this photo of a tattoo gone horribly, horribly wrong....

Either that, or she has an unusal fetish...

ChasSmith · « **Reply #88 on:** June 25, 2013, 01:06:45 PM »

Quote from: Ron Pulliam on June 25, 2013, 01:02:51 PM

Quote from: singdaw on June 25, 2013, 10:22:18 AM
However, in that vein, I will share this photo of a tattoo gone horribly, horribly wrong....

Either that, or she has an unusal fetish...

Not to mention that it's horribly off center -- at least going by the belt loop...

George · « **Reply #89 on:** June 25, 2013, 01:07:30 PM »

Quote from: Ron Pulliam on June 25, 2013, 01:02:51 PM

Quote from: singdaw on June 25, 2013, 10:22:18 AM
However, in that vein, I will share this photo of a tattoo gone horribly, horribly wrong....

Either that, or she has an unusal fetish...

Which, sadly, is not unheard of.

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