Nothing says harbors and longshoremen and tattoo parlors like a 61-foot rubber duckie, right?
As its creator, Florentjin Hofman, says, “The friendly, floating Rubber Duck has healing properties: it can relieve the world’s tensions as well as define them.”
Today, I do not analyze, I do not editorialize. Today, I simply marvel at a giant rubber duck in the Port of Los Angeles. In a random world, such things happen.
The picture, btw is from Time Inc.
Fun Blog for Lovers of Los Angeles History
Well, someone's gotta write something interesting, and I have been slacking of late.
So for those missing a fix of local color, you can click here now. You'll get a 21-st birthday salute to the Viper Room, which was once the Melody Room, hangout of Bugsy Siegel and Mickey Cohen. Then it was Filthy McNasty's, then The Central, and finally the Viper--and each incarnation has A History. Alison Martino, proprietor of this blog, has thoughtfully added pictures of the joint through all its varied personas--and she's even included photos of matchbook covers and ashtrays.
I've been following Alison Martino's Vintage LA on Facebook for a couple of years, I didn't know about this website.
There's more, of course, and at the end of every post you'll hear me sigh, "I wish I'd written that!"
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