Forget about San Francisco and New York....
Forget about San Francisco and New York. L.A.’s next big rival may be . . . Grand Junction.
The western Colorado city (Pop.: about 30,000) has infiltrated L.A. radio stations with ads, encouraging local businesses to defect. Grand Junction isn’t even above using subliminal warfare, giving out the last four digits of its phone number as M-O-V-E.
“We just started the ads this week and we’ve received 60 phone calls,” said Jil Anderson of the Mesa County Economic Development Council. “Most are from businesses, but some are from individuals who want to move their families here. . . . One said, ‘L.A. is a bad place.’ ”
Unlike Seattle and other points of entry for ex-Angelenos, Grand Junction won’t be posting any “Go Home” signs, either.
“I’m from out there myself--La Canada,” Anderson admitted. “I have very nice memories of Southern California.”
She added that she left in 1956.
We know one business that isn’t about to M-O-V-E to Colorado--Timmy Nolan’s restaurant in Toluca Lake. After all, it prides itself upon being “In the Irish-Californian Tradition.” And what better way to show it than by offering “free sushi every Wednesday?”
We should have realized something was amiss when we read in Lament magazine that the brains inducted into the Mensa Hall of Fame included Leonardo da Vinci, Nicolaus Copernicus, Charles Darwin and Wayne Newton.
Turns out that the high-IQ society was having a bit of fun, as you can see from the accompanying “correction.”
Now Lament tells us, after we’ve already lost a bar bet on which Newton discovered the law of universal gravitation.
The unnamed Hollywood Park Goose Girl, whose photo we ran the other day, is a mystery no more.
It was Carol Asire--she doesn’t want her married name revealed--a former Miss Inglewood who held the title at the racetrack in 1956. Hers is a happy story--she’s been married 35 years and has three children and four grandchildren.
She and her husband even appeared that year on “You Bet Your Life,” the old TV quiz show with Groucho Marx as host.
Told of her title, Groucho removed his cigar and quipped: “Goose Girl, eh? Next time I’m out at the track, I’ll take a gander.”
What better person to sponsor a Compost Kick-Off Festival than a politician? Yup, County Supervisor Mike Antonovich is doing the honors today at 11 a.m. at the Eaton Canyon Nature Center in Pasadena. Don’t forget to contribute your speech to the heap, Mike.
Artist Cy Young chairs La Mirada’s Senior Citizens Commission, so when the city launched a Senior Recognition Program recently, he knew of several worthy nominees.
One in particular.
Young, 71, chose to bestow the first honor on his father, Ross, 100.
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The Caesar salad takes its name not from a Roman leader but from an Italian hotelier--Caesar Cardini, who created it in a Tijuana kitchen in 1924 and moved his business to L.A. in 1938. A key ingredient is a “coddled egg,” whatever that is.
