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[bk]

Well, you've read the notes, the notes were neither erotic nor thrilling, and now it is time for you to post until the erotic cows come home.

[bk]

And the word of the day is: FORTUNE!

[George]

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[bk]

Almost bed time. I just spent almost two HOURS trying to figure out a location. Someone on one of the LA Facebook groups, Lost Angeles, posted a photo making the rounds of all those groups - Hedy Lamarr sitting in a car in a drive-in restaurant. Impossible to tell which. IMPOSSIBLE. The only clew is the building you can see in back of her - Beverly Motor Company, and a Pontiac sign. The only drive-in in Beverly Hills (that's how the photo is identified - 1941 Beverly Hills - was Carpenter's on Wilshire and Le Doux, which became Dolores. But there was no auto dealer next to it.

[bk]

Then I began to think maybe it was Beverly Blvd. - many drive-ins on Beverly Blvd. in the 1940s, but none of the photos I found looked right. I could find zero on Beverly Motor Company at all, until I did a deeper dive and found a single reference to it on Google in a newspaper classified section from the 1940s - the actual site with that classified is impossible to decipher, but in the Google description it had an address - 9744 Wilshire Blvd. I Googled it and of course you can't tell what was there because all those buildings vanished long ago - near the corner of Wilshire and Linden. No way to really confirm it unless - UNLESS - one could find a drive-in at that location. IMPOSSIBLE. Nothing at all, but I kept on digging and digging and finally hit paydirt - one single mention and one photo in a book called Early Beverly Hills, which I actually own. In it, a photo of Simon's Drive-In, located at the corner of - Wilshire and Linden.

[bk]

I thought I almost had it, only I could find not proof there was a Simon's there. I had locations for a ton of Simon's Drive-Ins and the closest was Wilshire and Fairfax, where now Johnie's sits across from the May Company. That was the only one I could find on Wilshire. Then I searched Simon's locations.

[bk]

Again, nothing came up at all, just the locations I'd already seen, but nothing in Beverly Hills. Then I found a Simon's menu on eBay. And there, on the back, was a list of Simon's Drive-Ins in 1940, including - Wilshire and Linden. BK, the detective, scores again.

[Freddie]

TOD question:  When you have just one sip of champagne for the New Year, do other people drink the rest of the bottle? 

[Freddie]

With the McRib mention in the Notes: 

I had the McRib again yesterday.  It was very very good.  Having a bite of the slivered onions with the bites of the McRib was so much better than the bites without the onions.

[Freddie]

They keep saying the McRib is for a Limited Time Only, though. 

[John G.]

Good morning, all.

[singdaw]

Good morning, freinds.

[singdaw]

And others.

[singdaw]

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[singdaw]

Celebrate as you will.

[singdaw]

 

[singdaw]

Pretty

[Freddie]

That's hilarious!

[singdaw]

No. No, they cannot.

[elmore3003]

Good morning, all!

[elmore3003]

I am out of my muscl;e relaxers and painkillers, and I cannot requet prescription refills until January. 2 because I have no money until then. So . . . last night I took to Advil PM to knock myself out. I was feeling unconscious by 8:30, so I went to bed, slept rather well, although by 2:30 my leg pains were worsening. Around 6:00 the alarm reanf and I turned it off. I finally decided to get out of bed around 7:45. I'm a little groggy, but we're all fed and Miss Annabelle seems happy sleeping next to me on my teacart.

[elmore3003]

I am estimating that 75% of my iTunes stll exists on my hard drive to be reloaded back to my iTunes, and at the rate it's taking me, judging by yesterday's work, I suspect it will take me 3-4 months before everything is cleaned up, reloaded, or trashed. This is ridiculous.

[Laura]

Good morning.

[elmore3003]

DR MichaelG, I listened carefully to both Lawrence recordings several times. I also worked for the Ira Gershwin estate on several projects, including assisting Michael Tilson Thomas on the Gershwin Centennial Celebration at the Brooklyn Academy of Music, a production of  Strike Up the Band, directed by a jerk Gary Davis in Pasadena, 1988 (I think) and a revival of Oh, Kay! at Goodspeed, either before or after - who remembers now? - that Pasadena production.

Until I was unceremoniously sacked by another jerk and supposed friend in a 1991 power struggle inside Roxbury Recordings, I had been the primary editor of the first recording Girl Crazy. My last project with the Gershwins and Library of Congress, Life Begins at 8:40, was equally disastrous.

[elmore3003]

I could have run across rthe lyrics anywhere between 1984 and 1991.

[elmore3003]

Good morning.

Hello, DR Laura!

[vixmom]

Good morning

[vixmom]

I did not attend church this morning

[vixmom]

The sneezing seems to have stopped but I’m still feeling achey

[vixmom]

And very very tired despite sleeping nearly 12 hours last night