We Must Play Our Part to Keep It Clean
A garden containing herbs that are mentioned in Shakespeare’s works opened in front of the Bayshore Library in Belmont Shore, and officials can only hope that grungy beach-goers steer clear of it.
“When our library was designed back in 1958, the architect envisioned a beautiful fountain at the Bayshore entrance,” the library newsletter recalled sadly. “It was built and filled with water. However, the many beach-goers at the adjacent bay saw the fountain as a welcome stop to wash the sand from their feet.”
Further proof that, as the Bard said of Southern California, all the world’s a beach.
A POLICY THAT’S ALL WET: Laura Buck of Canyon Country noticed a swimming pool in Imperial Beach where the clothing regulations would seem to prohibit everything except perhaps dunking one’s feet (see photo).
LIST OF THE DAY: Autopsy/Post Services Inc. is a private L.A. service run by Vidal Herrera, whose license plate says AUTOPSY and whose phone number is (800) AUTOPSY. Herrera’s slogan is: “We Give the Dead a Voice.”
The latter inspired this column to recall some other noteworthy slogans and mottoes of the last few years:
* “Best Buns in Town” (Puritan Bakery)
* “I’ll get you out, if it takes 10 years” (bail bondsman Art Aragon)
* “We drink! We smoke! We gamble!” (Milton magazine)
* “Too Big to Live, Too Weird to Die” (Chicken Boy, former eatery mascot now the cover-fowl of a design studio’s catalog)
* “A Little West of Washington, a Little East of L.A.” (city of Albuquerque, N.M.)
* “Like our music or leave” (Hinanos bar in Venice)
* “Look for the shack” (Tommy’s hamburgers, referring to the original stand on Beverly Boulevard )
* “Vegetarians can eat the bun” (Wienerschnitzel, since dropped)
* “Our Day Begins When Your Day Ends” (On a coffee mug advertising Long Beach police’s homicide division)
* “Where waitress is queen . . . and the customer is always wrong!” (Millie’s Restaurant in Silver Lake, before the ownership changed)
FOOD TO DIE FOR: After Jill Smith notified us of a creepy-sounding dish (see accompanying) in Northridge we called the restaurant in question. An employee told us she didn’t know what the plate was but that it was no longer being served. Cancel that (800) AUTOPSY call!
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Al Capone, Angeleno? It could have happened. The Chicago mobster, looking for a spot to get away from it all, made a train excursion here in 1927, according to a new Capone biography by Laurence Bergreen. But the LAPD told him to get out of town in 12 hours. After spending the night at the Biltmore downtown, he toured the studios, then was ushered back on to a train heading East. Capone, who obviously knew something about L.A., lamented, “Who ever heard of anyone being run out of Los Angeles that had money?”
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Steve Harvey can be reached by phone at (213) 237-7083, by fax at (213) 237-4712, by e-mail at steve.harvey@latimes.com and by mail at Metro, Times Mirror Square, L.A. 90053.
