Where the bodies are buried: The annual...

Where the bodies are buried: The annual Rosedale Cemetery Tour will feature some live entertainment this year--actors who will portray famous and infamous Angelenos in period costumes at the grave sites.

Long before Heidi, for instance, L.A. had Hattie. That was Hattie Wilson, one of the city’s turn-of-the-century brothel keepers mentioned in the scholarly tome, “Tarnished Angels.”

Hattie will rise to say a few words at the Sept. 24 event. Another speaker will be A. C. Harper, a former mayor who is also a permanent resident under the ground at 1831 W. Washington Blvd.

It’s appropriate that Harper should appear along with Hattie because he was known as a frequenter of brothels right up to the time that he was forced to resign as mayor.

Harper’s explanation was that he was on fact-finding missions.

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Sure, a lot of financial institutions have gone under . . . But a colleague of ours was still surprised to see a marquee in a Long Beach shopping center that said:

FIRST INTESTATE BANK.

Hey, let’s keep it clean!Just when the Tailhook scandal was starting to cool down, we came across an invitation to a Navy-related event that seemed to hint at some belly-dancing activities.

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Know your suburbs: The San Fernando Valley Historical Society’s publication reports that the town of Taft, now part of Woodland Hills, “was named for President William Howard Taft in 1909. Before that, the town was called ‘Moron.’ ”

We imagine this was one name change that didn’t engender much opposition.

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For that out-of-work tot: Marion Goebel of Hawthorne, meanwhile, passed along an ad from a local paper demonstrating that there are jobs available for young people--the extremely young in this case.

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Beer happens: The Miller Brewing Co., you may have heard, has filed a lawsuit to stop a San Gabriel Valley reclamation plan from forcing it to use water made out of effluent in its beer. If Miller’s suit should fail, the Irwindale company will at least have a host of recycled slogans available, including:

* “This Crud’s for You!”

* “It’s Sewer Time!”

* “Tastes Grate!”

* “It’s the Water--and a Lot More!”

* “Proud To Be Your Sludge!”

* “Visit Our Famous Microbe Brewery!”

* “The Champagne of Effluent Beer!”

* “From the Land of Sky-Brown Water!”

* “Let It Be Sewer Brau!”

This is the type of offbeat Southern California story that seems likely to receive national attention from Jay, Dave and other commentators. So we should add one more: “The Beer That Made Irwindale Infamous!”

miscelLAny To our list of multicultural eateries, we must add Curry House, a Japanese restaurant in Weller Court adjacent to the New Otani hotel whose specialties include German spaghetti.