Topic: SOLVING AN OLD MYSTERY (Read 5288 times)

bk · « **on:** May 19, 2015, 01:26:42 AM »

Well, you've read the notes, the notes began solving an old mystery, and now it is time for you to post until the cows come home - they're currently solving an old MOOstery.

bk · « **Reply #1 on:** May 19, 2015, 01:27:27 AM »

And the word of the day is: TATTERDEMALION!

Jrand74 · « **Reply #2 on:** May 19, 2015, 01:40:47 AM »

First after MR BK!

Huzzah!

Jrand74 · « **Reply #3 on:** May 19, 2015, 01:45:01 AM »

A short playlet:

Time: 4:05 a.m.
Place: My House
Sound: Loud banging on the front door.

Voice: Police! Police!!

Continued banging.

I get up....it is indeed the police, so I turn off the alarm and open the door.

Policeman: Is that your car? (indicating car in front of my house on the street)

Me: No.

Policeman: We've had cars with windshields busted out tonight. Whose car is that?

Me: It belongs to the people across the street.

Policeman: Okay, thank you.

I close the door and go back to bed.

A few minutes later.....

Voice From Down the Hall, barely audible: Who was that?

Me: The police.

Voice: Who? What?

Me: The police....someone broke the windshield in a car.

Voice: What?

Me: I will tell you in the morning.

Precious: Bark Bark.....is it time to go for a walk?

Me: NO!

THE END

Jrand74 · « **Reply #4 on:** May 19, 2015, 01:46:55 AM »

If you look at this site, most of those cars seem to be from 1949 or so.

http://www.vintageadbrowser.com/cars-ads-1940s/3

Jrand74 · « **Reply #5 on:** May 19, 2015, 01:48:19 AM »

I think I have my cast for BAD SEED.....emails going out in the morning. I am hoping everyone accepts the part offered.

We shall see. I did indeed find a Rhoda. She is very good, although more like Rhoda in real life than I would like....without the murdering part.

Her grandmother and my mother are cousins....

Ben · « **Reply #6 on:** May 19, 2015, 02:24:16 AM »

Morning all.

That is all.

singdaw · « **Reply #7 on:** May 19, 2015, 03:22:55 AM »

Interesting photo mystery in the notes, about which I haven't a clew.

singdaw · « **Reply #8 on:** May 19, 2015, 03:23:26 AM »

Maybe it's called the Sky High because their prices are sky high.

Just a thought

singdaw · « **Reply #9 on:** May 19, 2015, 03:23:52 AM »

singdaw · « **Reply #10 on:** May 19, 2015, 03:25:53 AM »

DR Jrand64 - congratulations on finding your cast.

singdaw · « **Reply #11 on:** May 19, 2015, 03:26:40 AM »

That was an entertaining playlet. Although not as entertaining to actually live through, no doubt.

elmore3003 · « **Reply #12 on:** May 19, 2015, 04:12:43 AM »

Good morning, all! I had a very intense dream about working at the Drama Book Shop with two lines of customers, one wanting information and one waiting to purchase items. It wasa frenzy.

I am off to Toyland. About two weeks ago, I discovered a large carton that should have gone to the Library of congress last year and was overlooked. The carton contained choral compositions by John McGlinn, along with his libretto and vocal score for a musical version of Philip Barry's comedy Holiday and a draft fr a musical version of Our Town, all written as a student at Northwestern. This morning, I will take these scores to Fed Ex and send them to the Library of Congress.

elmore3003 · « **Reply #13 on:** May 19, 2015, 04:15:44 AM »

DR JRand64, casting The Bad Seed and a nocturnal visit by the police. How exciting!

I will compose a TV opera, entitled Jack and the Night Visitors, to celebrate this night of thrills and chills.

ChasSmith · « **Reply #14 on:** May 19, 2015, 04:43:20 AM »

Good morning, all.

The only dream I remember had to do with transporting the cats in a large canvas carry bag (like the one I have that DR Elmore knows) that kept getting large lizard-like creatures in it as well, but fortunately the cats and the lizards got along fine till we got to where we were going. Then the bag turned into large crates or cages and I had to figure out how to tell some people who were taking over the cages that it had the lizards, but by the time we all looked again, it was apparent that they had left of their own accord.

Oy! Coffee!

FJL · « **Reply #15 on:** May 19, 2015, 04:55:34 AM »

I may start calling TCB "Tomas" like Dan did - I think it rather fits TCB's suave nature.

ChasSmith · « **Reply #16 on:** May 19, 2015, 05:08:16 AM »

Great set of notes there, BK. The photos and the near-solving of the mystery are wonderful.

That was my first Du-Par's, discovered in 1972 when I had only recently moved to L.A. I loved the place, and the style of the building itself. I'm surprised to see they were still there as late as 1978, but how sad to see the reduced architecture. But I would have guessed we lost that Du-Par's even earlier than that.

The store to the east, Adray's, was a large discount store where I bought a nice cassette deck and maybe one or two other things in the early 1980s. This of course was in the days before the big box type of discount stores we know now, and I was always thrilled to walk in there to browse or to buy.

The middle photo would have been taken from right in front of the El Rey, if I'm right about it being in the block east of Burnside.

Anyhoo, congratulations on the Kiru research so far. Wonderful stuff.

Laura · « **Reply #17 on:** May 19, 2015, 05:15:26 AM »

Good morning.

A fascinating playlet, JRand. I hope you got back to sleep.

ChasSmith · « **Reply #18 on:** May 19, 2015, 05:15:47 AM »

Was the classical radio station KFAC-FM in that Prudential building or adjacent to it? And was there a record store somewhere in the area of that Coulter's on the south side of Wilshire? (I know that's a vague shot in the dark.) And did Coulter's become a Broadway by the 1970s?

Laura · « **Reply #19 on:** May 19, 2015, 05:19:03 AM »

JRand, how many more episodes of RuPaul's Drag Race are there? Do they go down to two next week? And then one the week after?

ChasSmith · « **Reply #20 on:** May 19, 2015, 05:19:31 AM »

Well done, DR Jrand64! An exciting one-act play in a quiet setting where you would never expect such goings on. David Lynch would approve! Will you be licensing it out to schools and community theater groups?

Jane · « **Reply #21 on:** May 19, 2015, 05:20:42 AM »

'morning. I have been awake for over an hour now. I think I might be abe to go back to sleep.

ChasSmith · « **Reply #22 on:** May 19, 2015, 05:22:21 AM »

Coffee shops have meant A LOT to me throughout my life, from my earliest memories of a few places as a child in Columbus. Back later with some.

Kerry · « **Reply #23 on:** May 19, 2015, 05:30:08 AM »

Neat sleuthing and pics in the notes! I look forward to more answers!

elmore3003 · « **Reply #24 on:** May 19, 2015, 06:45:42 AM »

Greetings from Toyland!

elmore3003 · « **Reply #25 on:** May 19, 2015, 06:52:58 AM »

The bus ride was hellish this morning: first a 25 minute wait for a bus, and then a fat, obese middleaged bitch with a walker. She had been on the No. 7 bus several weeks ago being a complete pig, and she continues to be one. Her walker is huge, it won't fold up because she put too much crap onto it, and she blocks the aisle with it. This poor older - and i mean old - lady with her shopping cart was having a helluva time getting her shopping cart past the walker blocking the aisle, and this fat bitch kept yelling, DON'T BREAK MY WALKER. I said to the bus driver, you ought to throw her off.

Druxy · « **Reply #26 on:** May 19, 2015, 06:57:00 AM »

I like DOWN THREE DARK STREETS. It's a nifty little crime drama. I have it on DVD.

I saw it in Seattle (at the Orpheum Theater) when it first came out.

I knew Broderick Crawford. He was a nice man; totally unlike his screen image.

Little known fact: Ruth Roman, who co-stars, was a survivor of the Andrea Doria sinking.

Druxy · « **Reply #27 on:** May 19, 2015, 07:00:45 AM »

TOD:

There was a corner coffee shop on Broadway in Seattle that we used to go to quite a bit. Then, when I was at the University of Washington, there was one coffee house that folks in the Drama Department would often frequent.

I don't recall the name of either one.

Jrand74 · « **Reply #28 on:** May 19, 2015, 07:18:06 AM »

Yes DR CHAS SMITH my playlet will be available, but it is restricted. As soon as DR ELMORE finishes his opera, it will be available for production, too.

It was quite exciting.

Jrand74 · « **Reply #29 on:** May 19, 2015, 07:18:39 AM »

So far, seven of ten people have accepted their roles.

News:

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