Trump’s Plan for Ambassador Site
In commenting on Trump’s lofty scheme for the old Ambassador site (Part A, Jan. 16), Robert A. Jones suggests the project overcome the ranking that has so long plagued L.A. Boosterism: “biggest west of the Mississippi.”
It can be done!--by turning to advantage an equally onerous pricing policy, “slightly higher West of the Rockies” (which even today sometimes crops up in an ad in the New Yorker). All it takes is a towering building whose upper stories are mounted on giant jacks. They would thrust Los Angeles’ masterpiece slightly higher than any other building, any other place, which tried to surmount it.
It would be called, of course, the Wild Jack.
CHARLES T. NEWTON
Del Mar
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