There was no need to remind Domino’s...

There was no need to remind Domino’s downtown delivery force that Southern Californians were supposed to stay out of their cars Thursday.

Since January, the shop’s 20 intrepid pizza porters have operated exclusively on bicycles.

“There are just too many traffic and parking problems using cars,” said supervisor Mario Betancourt. “We tried having them just drive at night when there was less traffic, but even that wasn’t as effective as delivering on bikes.”

The pizza pedalers still must adhere to Domino’s guarantee that the order will be delivered within 30 minutes, or $3 will be docked from the price. But there’s a catch. The messengers will only venture six blocks from the ovens at 545 S. Olive St. (a fitting location for a pizza shop).

There are dangers even in that limited area, though.

“We give our people locks, now,” Betancourt said. “Some of them have had their bikes stolen.”

At least when you get stuck in an elevator, you have a bit of privacy. Not so the unfortunate woman who was caught inside a revolving glass door Thursday morning at Bunker Hill’s California Plaza. The door malfunctioned, according to witnesses. Plaza officials had no comment on the matter. The woman was trapped about half an hour at the entrance to the (otherwise) futuristic office tower until workers freed her by removing some of the door’s panels.

Some Wilshire residents have objected to the proposal of Los Angeles school authorities to build an “Ambassador” high school.

The nonprofit Wilshire Stakeholders would rather have the bankrupt Ambassador Hotel converted into a development.

But perhaps it’s all a misunderstanding, and residents and school officials aren’t really at odds.

As the Stakeholders’ Bruce Dworshak points out, there is a second proposed site that his group finds more preferable.

It’s a few blocks north of the Ambassador Hotel. One of the businesses currently occupying this site is the Ambassador Dog & Cat Hospital.

“Editor: I am compelled to bring to your attention an example of literary desecration that occurred recently in the ‘Only in L.A.’ column,” begins a friendly note from Stephen Pastorkovich of Arlington, Va.

The same desecration also prompted a faxed message from Sam Gamgee of Santa Barbara, who no doubt wanted the error corrected as quickly as possible.

Here it is: In discussing a Los Angeles street sign with the tongue-twisting name of “111st St.,” we speculated that the sign painter was inspired by Frodo Baggins, who celebrates his “eleventy-first” birthday in Tolkien’s “Lord of the Rings.”

Alas, as Pastorkovich and Gamgee point out, Frodo does no such thing. It’s his cousin, Bilbo Baggins, who hits that milestone. (Of course--Bilbo!)

Eleventy-one slashes for your columnist.