“Get your extension forms!” shouted a postal...

“Get your extension forms!” shouted a postal employee outside the Terminal Annex headquarters as the midnight deadline for mailing tax returns approached.

Amid the confusion--jammed traffic, protesters with banners, wandering television crews--dozens of not-yet-ready-for-tax-time players took him up on the free offer.

“Oh, you’re my hero,” a woman said.

With each set of forms, the vendor also handed out one other item:

A flier advertising his coming show in Hollywood.

“I’m a comic,” he proclaimed.

One day after the California Bankers Assn. took out a full-page ad in The Times displaying the photos of 15 suspected bank robbers, Chris Wahla of the county Sheriff’s Information Bureau received an anonymous phone call.

“You left out one picture,” the caller said.

“Who’s that?” Wahla asked expectantly.

“Charles Keating,” the caller said.

Charles Keating, for those lucky readers who did not invest in Lincoln Savings & Loan, headed the scandalized lending institution.

Attn. Al Davis:

The L.A. Conservancy is sponsoring a forum at 7:30 tonight on “The L.A. Memorial Coliseum: Past and Future” at the California Museum of Science and Industry. Five speakers, including photographer/historian Delmar Watson, will discuss the proposed demolition of the 67-year-old structure to attract a new pro football team (or keep an old one).

Here’s the best part from your point of view, Al:

Admission is free!

In the first rain-out of the criminal justice season, all court proceedings in Compton were cancelled Tuesday when a sprinkler system reservoir broke at the top of the courthouse. The building, which houses both the Superior and Municipal court branches, was drenched, so the judges called it a day. Justice might be blind, but it has enough sense to get out of the rain.

It happened 20 years ago, but the memory is vivid for Hal Jacques of Van Nuys:

“I was walking on 7th Avenue in Manhattan at lunchtime when suddenly all traffic stopped. Pedestrians stopped, too. The crowd literally parted for a woman who was wearing a big floppy hat, dark glasses, slacks and flat shoes. You could hear the word passing through the crowd like wildfire: ‘It’s Garbo! It’s Garbo! It’s Garbo!’ ”

MiscelLAny:

Among the items buried in a time capsule beneath a sculpture on the northeast corner of 9th and Figueroa streets is a baseball glove that belonged to Dodger pitcher Fernando Valenzuela.