Stan Cornyn in Studio with Sinatra
L to R: CBS camera man; holding score producer Sonny Burke; on podium, Gordon Jenkins; on right, Frank Sinatra. above podium, liner notes writer. Era: 1965.
I've been meaning to post this for a while now. This is a classic photo of my dad, the great Stan Cornyn, pretending to look busy in a recording studio with Frank Sinatra. Cornyn is the photogenic fellow with glasses and necktie.
Come to think of it, this is one of the few times I've seen him in a necktie. He must have been in trouble with his boss that day.
Bob Biniak R.I.P.
Bob Biniak was someone I've known since I was probably twelve years old. You can read in my DogTown book how we first met--it would not be appropriate to include it here. But as his wife said in her note to some of his personal friends thursday afternoon: "Bobby loves Life and lived more in his short life than many us of can ever imagine to do." From what I knew of Bob I can attest to this not being an exaggeration or a cliché.
via WHAT THE FUCK HAVE YOU DONE?: Bob "The Bullet" Biniakoriginal Z-BoyBad Ass Mother FuckerR.I.P..
Parking Operators Owe the City Nearly $100 Million – LAist
As the city explores ways to sell the operation of public parking garages to private companies for 50 years--the city council today unanimously approved a move to further develop these plans--a recent report listing the top debtors reveals that parking operators owe the city close to $100 million in uncollected taxes.
via Parking Operators Owe the City Nearly $100 Million - LAist.
The Government’s Prohibition Poison Program
It was Christmas Eve 1926, the streets aglitter with snow and lights, when the man afraid of Santa Claus stumbled into the emergency room at New York City's Bellevue Hospital. He was flushed, gasping with fear: Santa Claus, he kept telling the nurses, was just behind him, wielding a baseball bat.
Dim Sum Truck in West LA
I was in Little Osaka earlier today when I got a mobile alert from Twitter. I'd started following @dimsumtruck a few days earlier. The tweet stated,"We're soft-opening in West LA! Free dumplings for whoever finds us!!" I was walking back to my car as I read this and thought, "Where in West LA would the Dim Sum Truck park?"
I turned around and saw this. What luck!
Oak Park Kids Hold Bake Sale for Nuclear Meltdown
In July 1959, a partial radioactive meltdown rocked the Valley's giant Santa Susana Field Laboratory, a nuclear reactor test facility, leading to contamination and alleged cancer cases in Canoga Park and Chatsworth that some say continue to this day. The Neon Tommy blog reports that ...
via Curbed LA: Those Pesky Teenagers! Valley Kids Stick It to Boeing.
Los Angeles is one of the most difficult places for job seekers in the U.S. | Money & Company | Los Angeles Times
Wilshire & Bundy ca. 1968
I found this great photo of the intersection of Wilshire and Bundy in west LA. It was supposedly taken back in 1968.
