IV: Chapter 19 - page 343

[Mark Kohut]

Crocker Fenway.....the banker's game?....

Adrian Prussia had many on a list---Louisville slugger-related. (last chapter)...

Crocker owns the ballpark. Crocker runs the game.

--- On Sun, 1/3/10, Bekah <bekah0176 at sbcglobal.net> wrote:

> From: Bekah <bekah0176 at sbcglobal.net>
> Subject: IV: Chapter 19 - page 343
> To: "pynchon -l" <pynchon-l at waste.org>
> Date: Sunday, January 3, 2010, 8:20 PM
> 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
> 
> 
> 
> ****
> one down - 7 to go -
> 
> Bekah
>