IV: Chapter 19 - page 343

[Bekah]

Apologizing profusely if some of my material has been covered  
earlier.   I been missing my memory lately - one chip shy anyway  
but ...    Also,  I had a disastrous northland experience what with  
the blizzard up there and didn't get back until a couple days ago -  
supposed to be the 26th.  And my camera and iPod broke, too!  And I  
spent too much money.   (Waaaaaa....)   It's good to be home even with  
the fog.

  Here goes:


Chapter 19
Page 343:

And we pick up with Doc on his way to visit Crocker Fenway,   
Japonica's dad,  on Fenway's own turf - er club, the Portola near  
Elysian Park which,  btw, is right behind Dodger Stadium.    Is this  
Crocker bank?  Crock 'o shit?   And of course  Fenway is another  
famous ball park on different turf.

Doc keeps his eye out for Big Foot's vehicle,  probably an El Camino  
or an Impala  ( oink, oink).   He's also aware of the possibility of  
helicopters -  which the LA  police started using in 1950s.  They had  
4 helicopters in 1971 and 17 today.   (The LA Police Academy is in  
Elysian Park - which probably has absolutely no bearing on anything.)

Arrives at the Portola Valley "Club" with its Moorish Revival  
architecture - could be based on:

The Wilson Harding Clubhouse which is just up the road apiece from  
Dodger Stadium - built in 1937
http://www.montereyconcessions.com/theclubhouse/clubhouse.html

or

the Adamson House in Malibu  which was built in 1929.
http://www.adamsonhouse.org/

"a mural depicting the arrival of the Portola expedition in 1769 at a  
bend of the river near what became downtown L.A.
A real or imagined mural?"  (question from IV Wiki)

At the Adamson house there is a mural by

http://www.adamsonhouse.org/Artisans/artisans.html
check out the small photo of the mural at the Adamson house -
http://www.flickr.com/photos/stars4esther/3362286931/
looking for a better image but ...  it's by Ejnar Hanson done in 1940.
also:  http://www.flickr.com/photos/stars4esther/sets/72157615417907138/


The Moorish Spanish Colonial Revival Adamson Home was

Another example of Moorish Revival architecture in LA:
http://www.figueroahotel.com/pages/about.html


The pictorial style reminded Doc of labels on fruit and vegetable crates
http://content.cdlib.org/ark:/13030/kt987021sv/?docId=kt987021sv&layout=printable-details
http://www.boxofapples.com/galleries/gallery_001.htm



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Bekah