For What It’s Worth, 1986 Is History : INS

The Jesus Saves sign, which was bought by television preacher Gene Scott; the Griffith Park Pony Ride, which survived an insurance scare; the landmark Tail of the Pup hot dog stand, which was relocated after developers evicted it; Richard Polanco, who won City Councilman Richard Alatorre’s old Assembly seat, and Proposition U, endorsed by a large majority of voters, which will reduce by half the height of new commercial buildings that can be built in about 70% of the city. OUTS City Councilman David Cunningham, who resigned after 13 years in office to join an investment banking firm; Municipal Court Judge Maxine Thomas, who was recalled as presiding judge and also lost an election bid for the Superior Court; the Los Angeles Playboy Club, which was one of the last sanctuaries for bunnies; Mayor Tom Bradley, out of the gubernatorial sweepstakes but hinting that he will run for a fifth term in 1989, and Los Angeles County Supervisor Pete Schabarum, who was out at the plate after being tagged by a 50-year-old grandmother whom he knocked down in a slow-pitch softball game.