Forty years before he became the visionary builder of downtown Los Angeles’ Angels Flight funicular, James Ward Eddy found himself in the nation’s capital when the Civil War began and on the front lines vastly outnumbered protecting the capital and the president. Found via two sources within the archives of newspapers.com’s archives, reprinted and transcribed …
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This cup belonged to my daughter. It was part of a “The Little Mermaid” set that included a matching plate, bowl, fork, knife and spoon given her as a gift when she a few years old. I can’t remember what for, if it was her birthday or Christmas. I can’t remember exactly when, sometime in …
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At or near their outsets, I usually like to get my shifts at Angels Flight energized up and into cruise control with a musical selection that I’ve dubbed the “morning shiftkicker,” and sometimes I record it. In this case there is that rather unique musical selection (starts with my intro at about the 14:00 mark …
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I’m never so much interested in staying up late in an increasingly inebriated state to celebrate the end of an old annum so much as I am interested in getting up and out fresh at the dawn of the new one to get it off to a right and proper start. It’s a perfect day …
With news of his passing, here is my Ryan O’Neal story. In early 1982 I was a senior in high school and a stock clerk at the glorious long-gone Hunters Books on Rodeo Drive. I worked in the basement with a merry band of misfits young and not-so. We called it the dungeon, lovingly. Celebrity …