Get naked, L.A.:The media has been filled...
Get naked, L.A.:
The media has been filled with stories about the damage inflicted by the cold weather on the citrus industry, but another warm-climate business has been all but ignored--nudist colonies.
The nudeniks are fighting back (if only to stay warm). The Journal of the Senses, the publication of Topanga’s Elysium Fields resort, carries a story, complete with diagram, of its pool’s new heat pump along with a red headline declaring:
“The Heat Is On . . . Because Our Pool is 80; Hot Tub 104 . . . “
Doesn’t sound very au naturel to us.
Residents of an apartment complex in Van Nuys couldn’t help but laugh when they saw the license plate frame on the wreckage of a car driven by a non-licensed, non-insured motorist who crashed into their front yard.
It said: “Not Too Close--I Cheated at the DMV.”
Irina Dektiar, a 13-year-old Soviet resident making her first visit to America, finds some of the capitalist wonders of Southern California puzzling (as do most of the rest of us).
But when she attended the Tournament of Roses Parade, she had no difficulty recognizing two staples of the Russian diet that were used to patch floats whose flowers had died in the freezing weather.
“Look at the cabbage and cucumbers!” she exclaimed.
Al Hix of Hollywood wrote to request that, when “the lake at Westlake--oops, sorry, MacArthur--Park is drained” later this year during the construction of a Metro Rail tunnel, could the workers please make a list of what they find on the bottom.
“A girlfriend of mine lost an anklet from one of the electric boats in ‘36,” Hix added. “Never mind how.”
Back then, MacArthur Park was known as Westlake Park, but readers of MisceLAny already knew that.
A 1907 Silver Ghost billed as “the world’s most valuable Rolls-Royce” will be one of the featured machines at the Greater L.A. Auto Show, which opens this week at the Convention Center.
Personally, we don’t see how it could be worth $40 million when it only seats four people. But we bring it up, because we coincidentally noticed a news item that called to mind another Rolls.
Elden Fox, the deputy district attorney who prosecuted famous driver Zsa Zsa Gabor, has been appointed a Municipal judge in Beverly Hills.
Fox, who was often the target of bitter remarks by the defendant in his most famous trial, was asked by a City News Service reporter for an opinion about Gabor.
“Who?” he replied.
It’s sort of a salute to the Land of the Setting Sun. “Cruise Liner” by Michael Moreno of Wilmington Junior High (see photo) was one of 13 works chosen from more than 400 entries by schoolchildren to decorate the “Worldport LA 1991” calendar issued by the Wilmington Historical Society.
Well, New Year’s Eve came and went, and there were no reports of revelers being struck by Champagne corks falling to earth.
We attribute this partly to the warnings of two ophthalmologists, Dr. Richard Handwerger of Beverly Hills and Dr. Larry Pasquali of Lakewood, who sent out separate press releases that warned beforehand of the cork danger.
In addition, KTLA (Channel 5) performed a public service during the last hour of 1990 by showing an episode of “Cheers” in which bar-stool regular Norm is felled by a Champagne missile.
See what an enlightened citizenry can accomplish?
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Attention, shoppers: The No. 1 mall in the county in terms of business in 1990 was Del Amo Fashion Center in Torrance with $444,658,000 in sales.
