San Fernando Valley : Now They Can Imagine How Geraldo Felt
Okay Geraldo, your turn to laugh.
Dozens of people showed up Monday to watch the opening of a steel box discovered in the ruins of the Southern Pacific Rail Station in Canoga Park. Television cameramen and photographers elbowed for position and history buffs peered over their shoulders as mechanic Bill Brady--who found the box and happens to be past president of the Canoga Owensmouth Historical Society--supervised the opening.
The atmosphere was similar to talk show host Geraldo Rivera’s ballyhooed opening of “Al Capone’s secret vault” in 1986.
With a chisel, Brady cut through an inner layer of concrete. Mystery solved. All the box contained were a few dozen circular metal thingamabobs that looked sort of like bottle caps, a hardware store reorder sheet and a lot of moist sand and dirt.
“I’m a lot disappointed,” Brady said. “I thought maybe we would find gold.”
No need to fret--Geraldo thought the same thing and came up equally empty-handed. On national television.
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