For What It’s Worth, 1986 Is History : ONLY IN L.A.

Cowboy Montie Montana divorced his wife, Eleanor, but won permanent custody of his horse, Larry.

A nonprofit organization called Pharmacy Planning Service held a condom-awareness event at USC, featuring students participating in a decathlon of condom-related events, including a distance throw for water-filled condoms and a condom blow-up contest.

A duffer at the Westlake Village Golf Club sliced a drive that broke the windshield of a Thousand Oaks woman on the adjacent Ventura Freeway. The woman, en route to church, was uninjured.

The Los Angeles Police Department was named the best-dressed force by the National Assn. of Uniform Manufacturers and Distributors. Among the ensembles cited: A pregnant-officer outfit.

Nudists marched for rights at Venice Beach.

Fortunetellers marched for rights in Long Beach.

No sooner had Beverly Hills come up with one world first--valet parking at the city’s post office--than a Rodeo Drive boutique opened a water bar, offering 51 chilled varieties at $1 to $2 a glass. No ice, though, because the cubes “void out the subtleties,” the proprietor said.