AtD (37) p.1045 Merle R. appears, old farmland, flirting?

[Paul Mackin]

Mark Kohut wrote:
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> Merle Rideout, been there a long time and feared he ws turning into a hybrid citrus?? A tree? Planted-like? just a Merle R. witticism? (wikipedia says citrus trees hybridize easily)  
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> Why does OBA have Lew and Merle come together here? Merle, photographer and lightning rod salesman in film noir LA? Where Hollywood is happening. 
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> Sycamore Grove...Iowa girls...The Grove was mostly farmland then, it seems. Became (or also was) a park.
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It would have been a pretty secluded area on those days when the state 
picnics were not being held (about half way between Pasadena and 
downtown L.A.).

Sycamore Grove Park.

The Iowa picnic was always a big affair. (as was the Nebraska picnic, 
which I was at a couple of times during the thirties with my former corn 
husker parents)

The park had some relatively wild parts. Once some of us kids (or maybe 
I was alone) wandered off the main track into a hilly area and came 
across a very unfriendly man who told us, "Don't come up here no more."  
I think the area had a reputation as a haven for "undesirables."  No 
problem for Lew or Merle.

P.


Shalimar, named after a battleship, remember, offers to be Lew's 
"muscle".Hilarious.
> flirting with Erlys? for saying she looks the same as always?. Well, the woman seems to be right in these situations, yes?
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> Zombini. Name of a famous magician.
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