In the Great Chase Place, Running Isn’t a Trivial Pursuit
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On one freeway billboard, the promoters of Sunday’s L.A. Marathon obviously wanted to discuss the race in terms that would be relevant to Angelenos. It says:
“High speed chase through downtown L.A. Live at 7:30.” Well, how many other areas have spawned a website -- www .pursuitwatch.com -- that enables you keep track of the latest cop chases?
Speaking of excitement: Jean Meltzer of L.A. says she feels safer now that she found an ice cream scoop, manufactured in El Monte, that could survive the gunfight at the OK Corral (see accompanying).
Needling each other: On the Long Beach Freeway, Neil Clark of Long Beach spotted dueling tattoo philosophies (see photo).
Unreal estate: This could be the sign that every homeowner has dreaded.
Has the real estate market leveled off? That’s the conclusion you could reach when you note the very affordable housing spotted by Leo Campbell of Glendale (see accompanying).
School daze: San Diego Magazine says overworked, underappreciated teachers “might take some solace” from the 1870s-era sign salvaged from a historic schoolhouse in Old Town. Under “Instructions to Teachers,” it said:
* Teachers will fill lamps, clean chimneys and trim wicks each day.
* Each teacher will bring a scuttle of coal and a bucket of water for the day’s use.
* After 10 hours in the school, the teacher should spend the remaining time reading the Bible and other good books.
* Women teachers who marry or engage in other unseemly conduct will be dismissed.
* The teacher who performs his labors faithfully without fault for five years will be given an increase of 25 cents a week in his pay, providing the Board of Education approves.
It’s an outrage: When a stretch of Laurel Canyon Boulevard was shut down Tuesday because of landslide fears, one frustrated motorist told KFWB-AM (980) that the roadblock prevented her from going to her workout. “I need to exercise,” she complained. “This is L.A. I have to look good.”
miscelLAny: Dennis Drissi of Oxnard alerted me to the fact that actor Tommy Chong’s tour of “The Marijuana-Logues” has been canceled because of theatergoers’ use of drugs at his performances. Chong, who served a nine-month sentence in prison for selling drug paraphernalia, explained that under the terms of his parole, “I can’t be in places where substances are being sold or used.” Still another illustration of the dangers of secondhand smoke.
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