IV: Chapter 19 - page 343

[Bekah]

Good catch!

Bekah

On Jan 5, 2010, at 7:49 AM, Carvill, John wrote:

> Chevrolette McAdoo, ATD, Page 26
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> "You're an artiste, Miss McAdoo?"
>
> http://chumpsofchoice.blogspot.com/2006/12/e-extra-read-all-about-it-evil-deal.html
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Bekah [mailto:bekah0176 at sbcglobal.net]
> Sent: Tuesday, January 05, 2010 3:13 PM
> To: Carvill, John
> Cc: 'Robin Landseadel'; 'pynchon-l at waste.org'
> Subject: Re: IV: Chapter 19 - page 343
>
> On Jan 5, 2010, at 4:49 AM, Carvill, John wrote:
>
>>> The "Doheny-McAdoo era" is a very CoL49 drop-in,
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>> McAdoo also recalls ATD...
>
>
> I thought so too but I didn't get a chance (or I forgot is a better
> way to put that) to check where it is in AtD.   At the end,  I think -
> where, where, where?
>
>  "The Beaux-Arts mansion out on Adams" where Dick Counterfly was
> living -  (page 1034)  ???
> The right time period but a significantly different style.
> http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/lanow/2008/04/art-from-bob.html
> (Cecil B. DeMille's home)
>
> West Adams street and it's homes:
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/West_Adams,_Los_Angeles,_California
>
> *****
>
> Doheny-McAdoo era
> This would be the 1920s. William Gibbs McAdoo (1863-1941) took a
> payment of $25,000 from oil executive Edward Doheny (1856-1935), an
> American oil tycoon, in connection with the Teapot Dome scandal, but
> returned it once he discovered Doheny's links with Secretary of the
> Interior Albert Bacon Fall. McAdoo, Woodrow Wilson's son-in-law and
> the leading contender for the Democratic presidential nomination in
> 1924, had served as an attorney for Doheny's oil businesses; 343
>
> His home in LA:
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:052607-011-DohenyMansion.jpg
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> The beach in his name:
> http://www.surfline.com/travel/surfmaps/us/orange_county/images/flame_doheny.jpg
>
> Look familiar?
> http://www.socalwoodies.com/doheny/2006.jpg
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> Bekah
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> My little reading habit:
> http://tiny.cc/gQ72E
>

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