On Fri, 17 Nov 2000, Ralph Walter wrote:

> Cuyler,
>
> What a mess, and what good things you've done with it all.
>
> I take if from your review that I ought to make an effort to visit the Museum
> of Jurassic Technology when I next return to my native Culver City.  Culver
> City looked better in it's (and my) youth, too:  but one will be able to see
> Culver City in old Hal Roach movies (Hal's studio became the site upon which
> Mr. Eric Owen Moss affixes carbuncles to uninspired warehouses) and old TV
> shows (Stalag 13 surrounded by eucalyptus trees).  Sigh.

My cousin Diane (the former chess champion) grew up in Culver City.  She
recalls seeing one of those old movies when she was a kid; the audience of
other Culver City kids erupted in cheers, because the streetscape in the
movie was quite recognizable in the Culver City at the time.

Not any more, she says -- all that stuff is gone.

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