Haines His Way
Haines His Way => Daily Discussions => Topic started by: bk on July 15, 2015, 12:35:04 AM
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Well, you've read the notes, the notes were curious and disappeared, and now it is time for you to post until the curious cows come home.
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And the word of the day is: ALLEGIANT!
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First after BK again?!
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Woke up thinking of Cillaliz
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Vibes and prayers for a successful surgery
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Maybe I can get a few more winks before I have to get up
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Good morning, all! I need to check the weather report. if we are in for a downpour, then I am not sure I want to schlep up to Columbia.
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I had some sort of dream about a Jurassic Park, but it's all too vague now.
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Protein smoothie with banana strawberries an d blueberries
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Good Morning! Wednesday sure seems to have taken a long time to get here (how many days of Monday and Tuesday did we have anyway?)!!!
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Good morning, all.
Surgery vibes for Cillaliz.
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Good morning, all.
Yes, I think we're in for some rain. My weather thing says scattered thunderstorms during the afternoon, but it's quite overcast out there right now. I gave the central a/c the night off, opting for open windows and fans -- which felt damn nice and relaxing for a while, but by morning it's feeling pretty damp in here. I'll wait for the day to heat up a little bit then lock the house down and turn the system back on. Can't live with it, can't live without it. I'm actually an a/c nut -- gotta have it -- but I love me my fresh air, too. What we've got out there now isn't what I'd call fresh.
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That was an overly long post about weather, and, if you ask me, a rather boring one. I hope everyone skipped down to this one, which is much more erudite.
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Well, I've got to say that BK's discovery of those vintage clips of L.A. and NYC and Vegas and other places is quite significant. I spent a lot of time at it, and will be spending much more. Of course the L.A. ones are the most near and dear to the ol' heart, but they're all essential viewing if you know a place at all.
There are many things one can comment on, but it's overwhelming. Just a few observations:
BK notes that these are shot late at night after most of the movie theater marquees are dark, but what's interesting is how many other signs and storefront lights are still ablaze. And how damned lucky we are, because they're all quite incredible, and they lent such color to street life then. Except in certain circumstances (Times Square, Las Vegas, etc.), it isn't just the movies that got small -- it's the signage and the sense of excitement about the things of everyday life. Like I said when we found that Miracle Mile clip several weeks back, the design of stores, restaurants, and theaters made you want to be around them and patronize them. They attracted you, got you interested. That kind of commercial architecture and signage are lost arts.
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Another thing is how our memories, as precious and wonderful as they are, do in fact rearrange things. Not a lot (hopefully!), but I've been finding that with the detailed memories that I pride myself on, the oddest mistakes do creep in over the years. So this kind of photographic evidence, for me, is not only beautiful and evocative in its own right -- it's essential in correcting things that go astray.
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Woke up thinking of Cillaliz
Me, too.
Wishing her well this morning.
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It's about time for her to be reporting for duty at the hospital. (8:30 central?) And in a few hours she'll be back home. VIBES for an easy surgery and recovery!
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I'm amazed that BK found a Stats where I remembered that coffee shop near Doheny. I was NEVER positive it had been a Stats. I don't recall it being very large, but I also can't swear to having been in other Stats locations either (anyone know how long they were around?) for comparison. An incredible find. Details, man. They're incredible.
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I was also loving that mid-century style of a solid raised structure as an integral part of a building which would house a restaurant's sign, Lawry's being the prime (ha ha) example. That's still part of that building today (with "The Stinking Rose" in small lettering), and it looks like total CRAP in comparison with the colorful Lawry's sign and logo from that clip. Of course, it doesn't help that it's so common nowadays to whitewash a nice brick structure like that one. Gee, how inventive -- a white slab with small ordinary lettering on it. Wow. Makes me want to go there.
Idiots.
Another in that style, which I didn't know myself but I learned it from BK and found a picture or two, was Dick Webster's. The Miracle Mile had a nice example or two, as well.
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Wednesday morning greetings!
Woke up thinking of Cillaliz
Me, too.
Wishing her well this morning.
Me, three.
And ditto!
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I didn't notice Ollie Hammond's in that film clip. Or am I simply not recognizing it? How far up from Lawry's was it? I've been thinking just one or two buildings to the north.
Also, thank you for the shout-out on the Beverly Hills Cafe, BK. And that record store! I'm sorry I didn't know it. The intersection wasn't even recognizable without the (I forget the name) modern oval office building there. But that store...
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Wonder of wonders, miracle of miracles, we turned off our AC and opened the windows last night! Richard wanted to fumigate the house of all his cold germs. Looks like we'll be able to use nature's air conditioning until tomorrow - unless the humidity gets to be too much.
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Okay, enough chatter from the likes of moi. Time to get moving on some projects around here.
Vibes to all!
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Surgery vibes for DR CILLA LIZ this morning.
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No word yet on my father, but hopefully he will get to come home today.
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I have been driving all over NYC and LA thanks to HHW. Most interesting.
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Tonight is performance four of THE BAD SEED.
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Vibes for DR JRand's Dad and fir the second weekend of THE BAD SEED!
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Vibes to Cilla!
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Vibes for DR JRand's Dad and fir the second weekend of THE BAD SEED!
Ditto!
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I think we have someone coming today to give us a quote for a screen door that rolls, the kind you only use when you want to leave your door open.
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Hey!
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Sending vibes also to Jrand's dad.
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Details of the new The Carol Burnett Show DVDs have been released.
https://timelife.com/products/the-carol-burnett-show-the-lost-episodes-ultimate-collection
Of special note: the box set will include the color 1972 broadcast of Once Upon a Mattress.
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Ask BK:
Who put the bomp
In the bomp bah bomp bah bomp?
Who put the ram
In the rama lama ding dong?
Who put the bop
In the bop shoo bop shoo bop?
Who put the dip
In the dip da dip da dip?
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Happy Wednesday, everyone!
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I see one heckuva millstone approaching, DR Ron. Okay, there's five hundred posts to go. But you can do it!
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I was going to ask BK if there are any interior photos of Coffee Dan's, meaning the one on Hollywood near Highland. Though I've searched before, I just looked again and stumbled upon this astounding photograph for the first time (scroll down to second post):
http://forum.skyscraperpage.com/showthread.php?t=170279&page=870
Unless I'm having the world's largest brain fart, I don't remember ever knowing about that one. I DO remember BK once thinking there had also been a Coffee Dan's near Vine St., if not right on it. But the address, 1511 N. Vine, is just north of Melrose -- and that building is Wallich's, isn't it?
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Okay, here's the deal. Search on 1511 Vine Street and you get Vine at Sunset. Search on 1511 N. Vine Street and it's Vine at Melrose. Good lord.
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Good morning to all
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Continue health vibes for everyone that needs them
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ASK BK
Because it came up again on Facebook.
Have you ever thought of recording the songs from your musical version of To Kill A Mockingbird or perhaps evening at Kritzerland at Sterlings with special guest star Don Murray
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Apropos DR Ron Pulliam's post earlier...
Does anyone know the story of Frank Sinatra's recording of "Strangers in the Night."
What's with the "DOO BEE DOO BEE DOO" section?? ???
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He was in his "doo bee doo bee doo" phase...that's all.
Sort of like Bing Crosby having his "boo boo boo boo" phase.
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Okay, here's the deal. Search on 1511 Vine Street and you get Vine at Sunset. Search on 1511 N. Vine Street and it's Vine at Melrose. Good lord.
Is 1511 Vine and N. Vine on an intersection? Sunset crossing Vine and becoming Melrose?
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Sunset and Melrose run east and west, parallel, about a mile apart. Vine runs north and south, crossing them.
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HHW becomes GPS.
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My father will remain in the hospital to build up his strength for another day.....or so.
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My father will remain in the hospital to build up his strength for another day.....or so.
Strength building vibes!
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That is disappointing, DR Jrand64, but ultimately I guess it is for the best.
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I am home from Columbia. Missed the rain coming and going, so I hope my luck holds out for other things as well, like selling that damned Ohio property or winning the lottery.
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I want a cookie.
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Further good wishes for your dad, DR JRand64!
Oatmeal raisin cookie, I think.
Or prehaps a snickerdoodle.
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From Bruce:
And here is what has become of my father's restaurant at 3474 W. 8th Street - should be a head on view of "grand opening" - at least they've cleaned it up - I may have to go down there and check it out :) If you drag the view to the right looking west you'll see a corner yellow building next to a red building - that whole thing was called Carl's Market - there's a beauty salon next to the restaurant - that was a barber shop, where my father got his haircuts once a week. If you drag to the left the corner building at the other corner was the drugstore where I bought all my paperback books.
https://www.google.com/maps/@34.057667,-118.306018,3a,75y,181.5h,84t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1sXbQzv32h53lY3ug0tKF5bw!2e0!7i13312!8i6656
Drag the view to the left corner where the drugstore was and turn right onto Hobart. You will see the parking lot for the "drugstore". To the left of that, 809 So Hobart, was my father's office. It was in a house that he and another doctor converted into a very nice office in 1969. It was far more attractive than it is today.
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When I met my father for lunch you can guess where we always went. :)
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I want a cookie.
In my mind's ear, I always hear Angela Lansbury singing "Lookee, lookee, here comes cookie now!" from the Cookie Ballet in Anyone Can Whistle.
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TOD: The Visit arrived today. Roger Rees last performance.
What was like to worth with on the charity shows, BK?
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I want a cookie.
In my mind's ear, I always hear Angela Lansbury singing "Lookee, lookee, here comes cookie now!" from the Cookie Ballet in Anyone Can Whistle.
Lol
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Lunchtime! Then I'm going to bake cupcakes for my book group. They're coming here tomorrow evening to discuss THE ASTRONAUT WIVES CLUB and I'm serving things like they would have had at their "launch watch parties." It's not a meal event, so we're just having layered Jello (red, white, & blue, of course) and cupcakes stuck with little American flags.
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Lunchtime! Then I'm going to bake cupcakes for my book group. They're coming here tomorrow evening to discuss THE ASTRONAUT WIVES CLUB and I'm serving things like they would have had at their "launch watch parties." It's not a meal event, so we're just having layered Jello (red, white, & blue, of course) and cupcakes stuck with little American flags.
Post pix. Please.
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That's a nice building DR JANE.
So many Chinese symbols on the buildings now....
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Thanks for the vibes everyone!
Tomorrow may be the day.
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Yes, DR John G, I'm planning some photos when I get the table all together tomorrow.
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I'm up, I'm up - I guess I got close to seven hours of sleep.
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I've never seen that Coffee Dan's at Sunset and Vine (next to Wallich's Music City)! It was gone by the time I was going to the Huntington Hartford in 1961. Great photo, though. And let's post all those kinds of photo finds.
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Ollie Hammond's is definitely in that clip.
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WHEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!
(http://i1282.photobucket.com/albums/a532/singdaw1/red%20white%20amp%20blue_zps9wzkg2ds.jpg)
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:)
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I feel much better now.
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WHEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!
(http://i1282.photobucket.com/albums/a532/singdaw1/red%20white%20amp%20blue_zps9wzkg2ds.jpg)
Close, DR Singdaw, very, very close...
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Vibes to Cilla.
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Time for food in about thirty minutes.
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Lunchtime! Then I'm going to bake cupcakes for my book group. They're coming here tomorrow evening to discuss THE ASTRONAUT WIVES CLUB and I'm serving things like they would have had at their "launch watch parties." It's not a meal event, so we're just having layered Jello (red, white, & blue, of course) and cupcakes stuck with little American flags.
Cute. Have fun. Did you enjoy the books?
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That's a nice building DR JANE.
So many Chinese symbols on the buildings now....
Thanks. From the outside it looked like a house when my father was there. I often walked next door to the drug store to pick up orders. We would call all of our orders in and my father would pick them up before leaving work, very convenient.
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From Bruce:
And here is what has become of my father's restaurant at 3474 W. 8th Street - should be a head on view of "grand opening" - at least they've cleaned it up - I may have to go down there and check it out :) If you drag the view to the right looking west you'll see a corner yellow building next to a red building - that whole thing was called Carl's Market - there's a beauty salon next to the restaurant - that was a barber shop, where my father got his haircuts once a week. If you drag to the left the corner building at the other corner was the drugstore where I bought all my paperback books.
https://www.google.com/maps/@34.057667,-118.306018,3a,75y,181.5h,84t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1sXbQzv32h53lY3ug0tKF5bw!2e0!7i13312!8i6656
Drag the view to the left corner where the drugstore was and turn right onto Hobart. You will see the parking lot for the "drugstore". To the left of that, 809 So Hobart, was my father's office. It was in a house that he and another doctor converted into a very nice office in 1969. It was far more attractive than it is today.
To the right down a couple of blocks on West 8th Street was my father's first office. I don't remember the address but I'm pretty sure it was on the left just after the fork in the road. I spent many hours counting pills in the little back room. My father always took me out to lunch where I had the best Shirley Temples with extra, extra, maraschino cherries.
Basically, without knowing it, I had a connection to Bruce most of my childhood, yet we never crossed paths until high school.
I have no idea if there were other restaurants to eat in the area. My father either went to the Kiaru or ate delicious lunches my mother packed for him.
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Lunchtime! Then I'm going to bake cupcakes for my book group. They're coming here tomorrow evening to discuss THE ASTRONAUT WIVES CLUB and I'm serving things like they would have had at their "launch watch parties." It's not a meal event, so we're just having layered Jello (red, white, & blue, of course) and cupcakes stuck with little American flags.
Cute. Have fun. Did you enjoy the books?
The book brought back a lot of memories of the late '50s and '60s. Such a different time...
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Off to performance number four of The Bad Seed.
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Off to performance number four of The Bad Seed.
BREAK A LEG!
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I need a nap.
And a cookie.
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Has anyone here seen the video from Paris of the fireworks at the Eiffel Tower yesterday (Bastille Day)? They are awesome.
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And I need a new computer. I think my big computer just gave up the ghost.
Damn.
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DR elmore3003 -
I hope this doesn't mean that you have lost any critical files.
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Has anyone here seen the video from Paris of the fireworks at the Eiffel Tower yesterday (Bastille Day)? They are awesome.
They are indeed!
Here's a link to a very brief compilation clip, for those who haven't seen it:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4qCEXmax8HY
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Apropos DR Ron Pulliam's post earlier...
Does anyone know the story of Frank Sinatra's recording of "Strangers in the Night."
What's with the "DOO BEE DOO BEE DOO" section?? ???
I'd read that he sang, "Scoo Bee Doo Bee Doo" at some point and that's how Scooby Doo got his name.
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My father will remain in the hospital to build up his strength for another day.....or so.
~~~Continued Vibes for Jrand's Father!!~~~
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Off to performance number four of The Bad Seed.
BREAK A LEG!
~~~Ditto!!~~~
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DR elmore3003 -
I hope this doesn't mean that you have lost any critical files.
I did a backup last night but I don't know how to connect the backup to this Macbook. I may take it down to a Mac Shop on West 20th Street and see if they can get it working again. I need a fucking job so I can afford a new computer. I don't have the money with these tidily jobs trickling in.
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And I need a new computer. I think my big computer just gave up the ghost.
Damn.
I'm getting closer to needing a new computer. I had to update several things last night, and I couldn't update a couple because updates are no longer available for Windows XP.
:P
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Well,
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since we're so close... ;)
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4!
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From Bruce:
And here is what has become of my father's restaurant at 3474 W. 8th Street - should be a head on view of "grand opening" - at least they've cleaned it up - I may have to go down there and check it out :) If you drag the view to the right looking west you'll see a corner yellow building next to a red building - that whole thing was called Carl's Market - there's a beauty salon next to the restaurant - that was a barber shop, where my father got his haircuts once a week. If you drag to the left the corner building at the other corner was the drugstore where I bought all my paperback books.
https://www.google.com/maps/@34.057667,-118.306018,3a,75y,181.5h,84t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1sXbQzv32h53lY3ug0tKF5bw!2e0!7i13312!8i6656
Drag the view to the left corner where the drugstore was and turn right onto Hobart. You will see the parking lot for the "drugstore". To the left of that, 809 So Hobart, was my father's office. It was in a house that he and another doctor converted into a very nice office in 1969. It was far more attractive than it is today.
To the right down a couple of blocks on West 8th Street was my father's first office. I don't remember the address but I'm pretty sure it was on the left just after the fork in the road. I spent many hours counting pills in the little back room. My father always took me out to lunch where I had the best Shirley Temples with extra, extra, maraschino cherries.
Basically, without knowing it, I had a connection to Bruce most of my childhood, yet we never crossed paths until high school.
I have no idea if there were other restaurants to eat in the area. My father either went to the Kiaru or ate delicious lunches my mother packed for him.
I used to stand at the bar (before the doors opened for the lunch crowd) and eat those cherries like crazy. The Kiru was something special - there just aren't many places like it left, especially with that quality food.
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Had a turkey sandwich for lunch, then got the motor car washed and hand-waxed for the first time in four months. Boy did it need it and boy does it look good.
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Of course, I'd much rather have eaten here - I would have ordered a salad with oily roquefort dressing, the Jumbo Jim burger with extra Z sauce and the Suzie-Q fries. Located one block west of La Cienega on Wilshire and directly across the street from the Fine Arts theater.
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I'm home. Everything went well. Will post more later
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Good evening!
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I'm home. Everything went well. Will post more later
Great news, DR Cillaliz!
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From Bruce:
And here is what has become of my father's restaurant at 3474 W. 8th Street - should be a head on view of "grand opening" - at least they've cleaned it up - I may have to go down there and check it out :) If you drag the view to the right looking west you'll see a corner yellow building next to a red building - that whole thing was called Carl's Market - there's a beauty salon next to the restaurant - that was a barber shop, where my father got his haircuts once a week. If you drag to the left the corner building at the other corner was the drugstore where I bought all my paperback books.
https://www.google.com/maps/@34.057667,-118.306018,3a,75y,181.5h,84t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1sXbQzv32h53lY3ug0tKF5bw!2e0!7i13312!8i6656
Drag the view to the left corner where the drugstore was and turn right onto Hobart. You will see the parking lot for the "drugstore". To the left of that, 809 So Hobart, was my father's office. It was in a house that he and another doctor converted into a very nice office in 1969. It was far more attractive than it is today.
To the right down a couple of blocks on West 8th Street was my father's first office. I don't remember the address but I'm pretty sure it was on the left just after the fork in the road. I spent many hours counting pills in the little back room. My father always took me out to lunch where I had the best Shirley Temples with extra, extra, maraschino cherries.
Basically, without knowing it, I had a connection to Bruce most of my childhood, yet we never crossed paths until high school.
I have no idea if there were other restaurants to eat in the area. My father either went to the Kiaru or ate delicious lunches my mother packed for him.
I used to stand at the bar (before the doors opened for the lunch crowd) and eat those cherries like crazy. The Kiru was something special - there just aren't many places like it left, especially with that quality food.
My father enjoyed it very much. For me it was a treat to go.
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I'm home. Everything went well. Will post more later
Hoo and Ray!
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Take care, Cilla Liz!
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Okay, DRs, I need some computer vibes. Eric of GeeksofGotham.com is coming at 2:00 tomorrow to see if he can rescue the damned thing. He's been recommended by mt former Mac Mechanic who divorced his wife, turned to acting and headed to LA to pursue a former girlfriend.
I was hoping that damned Packard Humanities Institute job offer would have landed by now. I might have got a new Mac out of them, but with the salary i could have afforded to buy a new one. Damn.
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Computer vibes for DR Elmore!
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Cupcakes are cooling and I'm about to pour the blue layer onto the Jello. I've also prepared and eaten a pork roast dinner with my husband and son. I quit for today!
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I'm home. Everything went well. Will post more later
Let the recovering begin!
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Good news from DR Cillaliz!!!
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I am gallbladder and appendix -less. My surgeon explained to my family that I had some inflammation of my appendix and that was likely part of the problem I've been having. It was a little slow going coming out of it, but after I got sick on the nurse all was well. Bet she won't leave someone without a barf bag or one of those little trays again
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Wrote a little more than half of the commentary.
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Glad you are doing well, Cillaliz. Also glad they took the appendix so you won't have to go through it again.
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Glad you are doing well, Cillaliz. Also glad they took the appendix so you won't have to go through it again.
I could have done without receiving the full color photos, but they are kind of interesting
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LOL. Yeah. I don't think I like the idea they are taking photos of me while under anesthesia.
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Well, it's time for me to leave work and go home, except that I first need to go to Fred Meyer and then to Costco.
Be back later. :)
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Congrats to Cilla. Holy cow, two birds with one stone. Amazing, but what a great thing to be rid of an inflamed appendix. Good catch there, docs!
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Serious Computer Vibes for DR Elmore!
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I'm home. Everything went well. Will post more later
Wonderful to learn this, CIllaliz. Vibes for a speedy recovery.
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Starting to watch "Cymbeline" with Ed Harris and Ethan Hawke. Set among the biker club set. Starting off good.
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Dancing tonight was just way too long and way too exhausting.
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And speaking of eventually needing a new computer, I got home tonight and turned on my computer and my screen was letterboxed! :o
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It's already a widescreen monitor, but there are black bars on the top and bottom of my screen and the image is all squished together! WTH?
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Everything otherwise seems to be working, but the image is all wonky.
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I restarted my computer to see if that would do anything, but it didn't help.
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I don't know what this means. I'm going to call my sister's boyfriend to see if he has any ideas.
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What a way to start a new page. :-\
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Whew!
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I was able to fix my monitor problem through the "graphic properties" and not just the regular desktop properties.
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I still don't know how it originally happened, but at least I can try this again to fix whatever happened.
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NOW my only problem is that my desktop icons are all messed up.
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It's a small price to pay for the correct monitor aspect ratio. :D
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Since my eye takes so long to dilate, I have to leave for the eye surgery at 7:15 a.m. I guess I won't be getting much sleep tonight.
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LOL. Yeah. I don't think I like the idea they are taking photos of me while under anesthesia.
The photos are of inside of me while I was under anesthesia. I'm sure it's part of the laparoscopy. I think I'll take them to my follow up so he can go through them with me.
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LOL. Yeah. I don't think I like the idea they are taking photos of me while under anesthesia.
The photos are of inside of me while I was under anesthesia. I'm sure it's part of the laparoscopy. I think I'll take them to my follow up so he can go through them with me.
I hope you're not one of those people who like to post those kinds of pictures on-line. :P
;)
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Congrats to Cilla. Holy cow, two birds with one stone. Amazing, but what a great thing to be rid of an inflamed appendix. Good catch there, docs!
Yes, I'm very happy about that. I would have been back for sure. Paul and I watched What Happened Nicole Simone? tonight. Very good documentary. I'm eating without a problem and getting around pretty easily. I'm sure the pain pills help, but I really feel good and Paul said I seem much much better than when he came by earlier tonight. I didn't ask him to stay, but he said if I call he'll be here in less than 10 minutes and he has a key
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Since my eye takes so long to dilate, I have to leave for the eye surgery at 7:15 a.m. I guess I won't be getting much sleep tonight.
Surgery vibes and speedy healing vibes to you TCB
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LOL. Yeah. I don't think I like the idea they are taking photos of me while under anesthesia.
The photos are of inside of me while I was under anesthesia. I'm sure it's part of the laparoscopy. I think I'll take them to my follow up so he can go through them with me.
I hope you're not one of those people who like to post those kinds of pictures on-line. :P
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LOL, no, I wouldn't do that. They aren't that icky. I've seen a lot worse photos in some of my cases
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Vibes and good thoughts for you, TCB.
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LOL. Yeah. I don't think I like the idea they are taking photos of me while under anesthesia.
The photos are of inside of me while I was under anesthesia. I'm sure it's part of the laparoscopy. I think I'll take them to my follow up so he can go through them with me.
I hope you're not one of those people who like to post those kinds of pictures on-line. :P
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LOL, no, I wouldn't do that. They aren't that icky. I've seen a lot worse photos in some of my cases
I can only imagine!
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~~~Eye Surgery Vibes for TCB!!~~~
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Dilation and speedy surgery vibes for TCB!
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I gotta say, it's incredible how these procedures and surgeries happen these days.
I had my appendix out at age eight. I'd had an attack one evening, the family doctor made a house call and determined that's what the problem was, and they checked me into the hospital the next day. I guess the surgery was the following day, but I was in there for three or four days after. One thing that delayed my getting out was that I'd popped a stitch trying to climb the walls during recovery from the anesthetic. They didn't catch why the incision kept bleeding. Finally they did and wheeled me back up to the operating room to put a couple of staples in (I remember that, and screaming bloody murder), and a day or two later I went home. But even without that complication, it was normal to have a "hospital stay" for anything like that.
So now you can go in for a gall bladder, throw in an appendix, and still be at home eating and watching TV and posting later in the day.
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I gotta say, it's incredible how these procedures and surgeries happen these days.
I had my appendix out at age eight. I'd had an attack one evening, the family doctor made a house call and determined that's what the problem was, and they checked me into the hospital the next day. I guess the surgery was the following day, but I was in there for three or four days after. One thing that delayed my getting out was that I'd popped a stitch trying to climb the walls during recovery from the anesthetic. They didn't catch why the incision kept bleeding. Finally they did and wheeled me back up to the operating room to put a couple of staples in (I remember that, and screaming bloody murder), and a day or two later I went home. But even without that complication, it was normal to have a "hospital stay" for anything like that.
So now you can go in for a gall bladder, throw in an appendix, and still be at home eating and watching TV and posting later in the day.
Yup...it's the Miracle of Modern Medicine!
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I gotta say, it's incredible how these procedures and surgeries happen these days.
I had my appendix out at age eight. I'd had an attack one evening, the family doctor made a house call and determined that's what the problem was, and they checked me into the hospital the next day. I guess the surgery was the following day, but I was in there for three or four days after. One thing that delayed my getting out was that I'd popped a stitch trying to climb the walls during recovery from the anesthetic. They didn't catch why the incision kept bleeding. Finally they did and wheeled me back up to the operating room to put a couple of staples in (I remember that, and screaming bloody murder), and a day or two later I went home. But even without that complication, it was normal to have a "hospital stay" for anything like that.
So now you can go in for a gall bladder, throw in an appendix, and still be at home eating and watching TV and posting later in the day.
It is amazing.
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I'm just hoping that I feel even better tomorrow. I'm not going to over do it. I have two other friends planning to stop over, so that will be good. Fiona and I will watch a movie in the evening. Don't know when Pam is stopping by, but I'm glad to have her stop
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I'm home. Everything went well. Will post more later
Darn, I missed this and was thinking you weten't up to reporting in.
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Congrats to Cilla. Holy cow, two birds with one stone. Amazing, but what a great thing to be rid of an inflamed appendix. Good catch there, docs!
Yes, I'm very happy about that. I would have been back for sure. Paul and I watched What Happened Nicole Simone? tonight. Very good documentary. I'm eating without a problem and getting around pretty easily. I'm sure the pain pills help, but I really feel good and Paul said I seem much much better than when he came by earlier tonight. I didn't ask him to stay, but he said if I call he'll be here in less than 10 minutes and he has a key
Excellent news!
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I am gallbladder and appendix -less. My surgeon explained to my family that I had some inflammation of my appendix and that was likely part of the problem I've been having. It was a little slow going coming out of it, but after I got sick on the nurse all was well. Bet she won't leave someone without a barf bag or one of those little trays again
Almost funny. I suggest you find out is demoral or another pain med is why you got sick. I speak from personal experience.
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Congrats to Cilla. Holy cow, two birds with one stone. Amazing, but what a great thing to be rid of an inflamed appendix. Good catch there, docs!
Yup.
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Eye surgery vibes for DR TCB!
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Computer vibes for elmore & George.
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Finished with my viewing and finished all but the last three songs' commentary. So, I'll finish that tomorrow.
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Computer vibes for elmore & George.
Thanks, Jane!
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And since we're so close...
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IT'S PAGE SIX!
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We saw the new Terminator movie tonight and to my surprise, I liked it.
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Then we watched part of "The Court Jester".