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...lately been a mere $3-barely enough to fill a quarter of the tank of a compact car at today's prices. "I've had this car washed four times in six days," reported Fred Tyler as he stood beside a dripping Mercedes 280 on Santa Monica Boulevard in West Hollywood. His reason: the Santa Palm car wash will sell five gallons of gas to anyone who will also pay $3.49 for a cleaning...
...work of such all-night-joint bards as Tom Waits. Chuck E. is a real character, a buddy of Waits' and of Rickie Lee's who has now become, according to the woman who immortalized him, "king of the sidewalk, the most popular guy on Santa Monica Boulevard...
...Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor. The city is engulfed by the fear of invasion, and it is hard to separate the real paranoids from the merely cautious. A sergeant (Dan Aykroyd) steals a tank and starts a blackout by zapping the brightly lit Santa Claus decorations on Hollywood Boulevard. A crazy pilot (John Belushi) flies a P-40 fighter-bomber to search for enemy aircraft but succeeds only in creating panic below. A riot breaks out between native whites and Chicano zoot suiters, and General Joseph Stilwell-yes, the General Joseph Stilwell (Robert Stack)-is in charge of restoring order...
...Euclid Avenue--J.B. Jackson's told us in Gas Stations that a Euclid Avenue address used to be roughly analogous in prestige to one on Park Avenue or present-day Sunset Boulevard--stands the University's physical education building, which houses the best swimming pool in the United States, and quite possibly the world...
With Mardi Gras dead in all but name, there was little celebrating in carnival town. Police huddled in small groups around headquarters and the precinct stations while national guardsmen carrying M-16 rifles patrolled public buildings. On Canal Street, New Orleans' main boulevard, the bleachers erected for the parades stood empty, bereft of bunting. The jazz clubs and hookers on Bourbon Street were having a hard time keeping up spirits-or selling them. "It's our first time in New Orleans and we're heartbroken," mourned Robin Holabird, 25, who had come from Reno with her husband...