Re: IVIV (15) 269/274—7000 Romaine revisited

[Joseph Tracy]

>
> The clues we're given are on page 269 through 274. It's West  
> Hollywood. We know that Bigfoot and Doc are taking a stroll here.  
> The streets are specifically named. Look at the map:
>
> http://tinyurl.com/ygq7ca4
>
> Things are specific as regards street names here, assuming that  
> Bigfoot and Doc are always on foot, Bigfoot might still have his  
> car parked at "Waste-a-Perp" or even otherwise: zooming out on the  
> Google map from the corner of Le Brea and Santa Monica, with your  
> view extended outward to show both Sweetzer and South LaBrea and  
> the two streets make an arrow that points to 7000 Romaine Street,  
> Los Angeles. Stooopid? Sure! But survey the map anyway.
>
> Doc is asking who's behind all these cokehead doctors and massive  
> shipments of smack and skinhead thugs and professional hit men and  
> Bigfoot is pointing to 7000 Romaine Street, Los Angeles 90038.
>
So I looked at the map and I don't see the pointer pointing to  
Romaine at all, Sweetzer points to the north and west , and S Labrea  
on the diagonal  to the east. Also that seems real obscure.

   However from the corner of Sweeetzer and Santa Monica Blvd   
heading toward Fairfax you would after 4 large blocks and a turn  
toward Melrose come to the HH address on Romaine  but that is 19  or  
23 blocks if you count every street and either way you overshoot  
Fairfax. On the other hand the short blocks are only 2 lots wide so  
Pynchon could be talking about the longer blocks between major  
streets. It does seem like Pynchon is pointing to a real place, and  
you couldn't find a likelier candidate.