Archive for the 'Los Angeles' Category
September 7, 2009
Can you get any cooler than Joe Friday in this scene?
Posted in Los Angeles, Myrtle's Mens, Retro Trash, Television |
Tags: detective, Dragnet, Jack Webb, Joe Friday, LAPD, police
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August 13, 2009
So back on August 3rd, my brother (I have 2) flipped and rolled his work truck. He’s a pool man, so all of the chemicals spilled and they closed the freeway for FOUR hours.
See for yourself – http://www.10news.com/news/20267677/detail.html?taf=sand
To celebrate this momentous occasion, I decided to get all vintage-Los-Angeles-traffic-spills on your ass and show you some [...]
Posted in History, In the News, Los Angeles, Movies |
Tags: 1970's, 1974, 1980's, closed, Earthquake, fire, freeway, Golden State Freeway, Harbor freeway, Hazmat, latex, Long Beach Freeway, Los Angeles, movie, oil, Pasadena Freeway, Pomona Freeway, pool chemicals, San Bernardino Freeway, San Diego, Santa Monica Freeway, spill, toxic
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August 4, 2009
Myrtle likes herself some fancy root beer.
I usually get the Dog’s N’ Suds (my favorite), but I thought I’d try out a different one to see if it could kick The Pup’s ass.
So in this fight we have the returning champion, Dog’s N’ Suds, versus Berghoff.
Posted in Food, Life at the Ranch, Los Angeles, Morrissey, Movies, Myrtle's Travels, PADRE (Preservation, Architecture, Design, Real Estate), Retro Trash, The Reasons Why Myrtle Is the Way She Is |
Tags: Beefaroni, Berghoff, cars, criminal justice, Dogs N' Suds, Frosty, Hall and Oates, La Concha Hotel, Los Angeles, Morrissey, Pacific Electric Line, porno tapes, Puerto Rico, root beer, San Juan, Thingamajig, VCR, VHS, Yellow Cars
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July 20, 2009
There was this really cool web page called “So-Cal Drive-In’s”. The guy who used to maintain it really did some great research and was able to get some great pics. But unfortunately, I don’t think he’s done anything with it since 2006.
I guess if all the drive-in’s are gone, what’s left to do?
Posted in History, Los Angeles, Movies, Retro Trash, The Reasons Why Myrtle Is the Way She Is |
Tags: Anaheim, Anaheim Drive-In, Century Drive-In, Cinerama, Circle Theatre, Drive-in, Harbor Blvd. Drive-In, Lakewood, Lakewood Drive-In, Los Angeles, Los Feliz, Los Feliz Drive-In, Pacific Theatres, San Gabriel, San Gabriel Drive-In, Santa Ana, Southern California, Sundown Drive-In, week, Whittier, Whittier Drive-In
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July 13, 2009
I’m sick of everyone (a.k.a. Steve) shitting on L.A. all of the time.
So I thought I’d pick a historical site and go with it.
The Pan-Pacific Auditorium was a landmark structure in the Fairfax District of Los Angeles. It opened in 1935 and closed in 1972 – the new Convention Center in Downtown LA killed it. [...]
Posted in History, Los Angeles, PADRE (Preservation, Architecture, Design, Real Estate) |
Tags: Beverly, Elvis, Fairfax, fire, Los Angeles, Pan Pacific Auditorium, Xanadu
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April 24, 2008
……why did you have to go away?
Myrtle loves Sambos.
Unfortunately, Myrtle is too young to actually remember going to a Sambos, although my mother insisted that we would go when I was a baby.
Posted in Books, Mags, and Ephemera, Food, Los Angeles, PADRE (Preservation, Architecture, Design, Real Estate), Retro Trash, Uncategorized |
Tags: America Sings, bi-centennial, coasters, coffee, coffee shop, decaf, Denny's, India, Little Black Sambo, pancakes, Sambos, tiger
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February 23, 2008
The first and last thing I saw when I came and went from my apartment was “909″ on the door in those cheap shitty brass letters.
I thought I had finally gotten away from that number.
Posted in Food, Just Whatever Myrtle Feels Like Bitching About, Los Angeles, Morrissey, PADRE (Preservation, Architecture, Design, Real Estate), The Reasons Why Myrtle Is the Way She Is, Uncategorized |
Tags: Charlie O's, Crabby Joes, crackheads, downtown, Hayward Manor, King Edward, Los Angeles, MST3K, The Standard, U2
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February 5, 2008
I think I’m getting sick, but I hope it’s just allergies from the dust of moving shit at work.
So guess what? Myrtle is a SNOB now! Actually, I’ve always had a cultured intellectual side that I’ve always been embarrassed to show, but now it will be shown against my will. If you’re a loyal reader [...]
Posted in Just Whatever Myrtle Feels Like Bitching About, Los Angeles, Myrtle's Attempts at Creative Writing, Myrtle's Pics, Myrtle's Travels, PADRE (Preservation, Architecture, Design, Real Estate), Retro Trash, The Reasons Why Myrtle Is the Way She Is, Wah! |
Tags: architecture, Case Study House #22, Chimay, Fox, Los Angeles, mall bats, Modernism Magazine, novel, Pierre Koenig, snob, Stella, vampires
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January 12, 2008
While being up for 4 days straight due to insomnia, I was busy writing. A lot. I kind of went off on this one, but that’s what happens when you’re an insomniatic architecture snob.
Are you ready to talk about some shitty architecture?
I am.
There was an article in the Press Enterprise the other day about [...]
Posted in Fucking Bullshit, Gross, In the News, Just Whatever Myrtle Feels Like Bitching About, Los Angeles, PADRE (Preservation, Architecture, Design, Real Estate), Uncategorized |
Tags: A Clockwork Orange, art deco, avocado green, Better Homes and Gardens, Bonaventure, Bradbury Building, Cesar Pelli, City Hall, design, Dr. Phibes, Droogs, Loma Prieta, macrame, Northridge Quake, Pacific Design Center, Pier One, San Bernardino, Spanish Armada
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