Horrors for Hollywood: The Weird Museum, a...

Horrors for Hollywood: The Weird Museum, a collection of mummies, skeletons and various freakish exhibits on Cahuenga Boulevard, will reopen in June, almost a decade after it was severely damaged by fire.

George Derby, the Weird’s curator, recalls that firefighters were shocked at what they found inside--items such as the 300-year-old mummified hand of an executed murderer.

“They didn’t realize that all the human things were our exhibits,” Derby said. “But it worked out all right because the stuff was taken to the coroner and he was able to authenticate the age of them.”

Nothing like a happy ending.

Everyone’s an entertainment critic. . . : Randy Randall contributed an eye-catching address label, which was sent to an acquaintance by the Bradford Exchange, a Chicago mail order company. (See reproduction.) We think that just because Studio City derives its name from its entertainment roots, that’s no reason for Bradford to give two thumbs down to the community.

Three-alarm tan: When a youngster made a comment about the dark complexion of Los Angeles City Fire Capt. Steve Ruda, his 8-year-old daughter Gina responded: “Well, you know he’s a fireman. He gets burned all the time.”

Waste removal, doggie division: If owners will hire people to walk their dogs, Kurt St. Jean of Hermosa Beach figures that some owners will surely contract with professional pooper-scoopers. St. Jean, 21, calls his fledgling business Kurt’s Land Mine Removal Service. He’s been advertising his services--$40 a month for 12 back-yard visits--in various pet stores. St. Jean doesn’t think he has any area competitors--at least none have ads in the Yellow Pages.

The big shutdown: And, finally, a eulogy of sorts from Raymond Chandler’s “The Big Sleep” for the Bullock’s Wilshire building, the 64-year-old zig-zag Moderne classic that Macy is shutting down:

“ Give me the money.” The motor of the gray Plymouth throbbed under her voice and the rain pounded above it. The violet light at the top of Bullock’s green-tinged tower was far above us, serene and withdrawn from the dark, dripping city . . . . Three men dead, Geiger, Brody and Harry Jones, and the woman went riding off in the rain with my two hundred in her bag and not a mark on her.”

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Exhibits at the Eco Expo March 13-14 at the L.A. Convention Center will include a dress consisting of 500 bottle caps, shoes made from recycled tires and diapers, biodegradable potato starch knives, and carpeting made from recycled soda bottles.