http://www.twotreatises.org/558 Wed, 09 Nov 2011 20:29:12 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://www.twotreatises.org/558/comment-page-1#comment-9719 David Clark Tue, 21 Sep 2010 05:39:58 +0000 http://www.twotreatises.org/558#comment-9719 I'm glad you liked the book. "Political commentary", well yes, from the Carey McWilliams - John Steinbeck - "Chinatown" school of California history. 38 years later, I'm not so sure that I know everything, as I thought back then. By the way, the book came about because in the summer of 1969 I lived in Paris as a student. I saw people doing things in Paris that they could do, but were not doing, in Los Angeles. Like going to the Produce Market at 4 AM. I wanted people in L.A. to realize what their city had to offer. And I loved slipping in anecdotes about unnoticed curiosities, like the buzzer in Olvera Street that was used to warn the gamblers in the basement when the sheriff was near, or the miniature lighthouse in Laguna Beach that was actually a sewer vent. I have just finished writing a history of Good Samaritan Hospital, in Los Angeles, to be published next month. It took about 10 times as much work as "L.A. on Foot". I’m glad you liked the book. “Political commentary”, well yes, from the Carey McWilliams – John Steinbeck – “Chinatown” school of California history. 38 years later, I’m not so sure that I know everything, as I thought back then. By the way, the book came about because in the summer of 1969 I lived in Paris as a student. I saw people doing things in Paris that they could do, but were not doing, in Los Angeles. Like going to the Produce Market at 4 AM. I wanted people in L.A. to realize what their city had to offer. And I loved slipping in anecdotes about unnoticed curiosities, like the buzzer in Olvera Street that was used to warn the gamblers in the basement when the sheriff was near, or the miniature lighthouse in Laguna Beach that was actually a sewer vent. I have just finished writing a history of Good Samaritan Hospital, in Los Angeles, to be published next month. It took about 10 times as much work as “L.A. on Foot”.

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