Good news if you’re the plaintiff or...
Good news if you’re the plaintiff or defendant in a big, costly legal case:
When it’s all over, and your lawyer wants to take a well-deserved rest in Europe, he or she may be eligible for a 20% discount, thanks to TWA.
“High-powered deals for lawyers,” says the airline’s cheery ad in Los Angeles Lawyer magazine. “As a member in good standing of the Los Angeles Bar Assn., you and an accompanying guest qualify for substantial discounts when you fly TWA.”
Bon voyage, counselor!
And, now, for today’s edition of: How bad is the recession?
The newest feature at the 99 Only Stores is . . . a bridal registry. “Attention brides,” the chain says. “Over 9,999 exciting choices (nothing over 99).”
Like we always say, when a couple’s starting to build a life together, there’s nothing they need more than a good box of rubber bands.
We recently proposed a list of candidates--including the 1933 Willys atop Samson Auto Salvage on Alameda Street--that Long Beach might consider adopting as part of its effort to become the Immobilized Vehicle Capital of the West.
The city, you may recall, recently approved construction of a restaurant that will have a race car embedded in the wall. It’ll be a companion piece of sorts for the Queen Mary and the Spruce Goose.
Now, more nominations are rumbling into Only in L.A.’s coffers from readers, including:
* Aadlen Bros.’ Auto Wrecking display of “The 10 Worst Cars Built in the 1970s” in Sun Valley.
* The 1970ish Schwinn Varsity embedded in the front wall of Encino Cyclery (see photo).
* The wrecked Cessna 550 protruding from the roof of the Hangar Inn in Manhattan Beach.
It’s still too soon to tell whether the controversial riderless cars proposed by Sumitomo Corp. for the Metro Green Line may soon be eligible for this category.
Before he turns it over to the Ripley’s Believe It or Not Museum, Jack West of Long Beach showed us a copy of an L.A. County assessor’s notice that included the date “12-49-77” (1977 was not a leap year, you’ll recall).
West was moved by our recent item about a letter that carried a “Dec. 32, ‘91” date. We have to confess, however, that three readers have since written to point out that, in that case, the date on the envelope was not stamped by the U.S. Postal Service, as we had stated, but by a private meter.
Speaking of bad dates, we also wrote a while back that the L.A. Examiner’s last issue was published Jan. 6, 1962, when we should have said Jan. 7 of that year. We can’t blame that mistake on the post office, either.
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A survey of skiing magazines found Denver to have the most subscribers of any U.S. city on a per capita basis. The Anaheim/Santa Ana area ranked third. L.A. was 19th.
