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[Bekah]

Onward,

The suit Doc is wearing for the Portola meeting is supposedly the one  
worn by John Garfield in The Postman Always Rings Twice.   Doc is a  
big-time Garfield fan and discusses his film appearances throughout  
the book.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Garfield
TRP chose Garfield for a reason -  smallish, he played rebellious but  
sympathetic parts,   I look at photos of him and yeah, I  can see Doc.

And he wore the above suit with his Liberace  "necktie covered with  
thousands ... of magenta and green sequins in a piano-keyboard pattern"

Wladziu Valentino Liberace, better known by only his last name  
Liberace,  was a famous American entertainer and pianist of Polish and  
Italian descent.  During the 1950s–1970s (when Elvis Presley and The  
Beatles were at the height of their popularity), he was the highest  
paid entertainer in the world.  Liberace was playing in Las Vegas  
Caesar's Palace in 1971.

Is this that necktie - or close?
http://www.bobsliberace.com/museum/my.collection.4.html
(scroll down a bit)
http://www.liberace.net/liberace_products/images/Rhinestone-Neckties.JPG

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And in Fenway's club the darkened bar is decorated with fake-Mission  
furniture.
http://www.missioninn.com/rooms-virtual-tour-restaurants.htm#
Check out the decor in the Mission Inn Restaurant - it's in Riverside  
but these types of places are pretty common (on a smaller scale) .

"West Highland Malt:"  a whiskey from the Isle of Skye probably,   
bottled and shipped specially for the Portola.
http://www.scotchwhisky.com/english/about/malts/regwest.htm

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Gummo Marx Way,  a fictitious  LA street which TPR named after Gummo  
Marx,  the youngest of the Marx brothers.  He was still alive in  
1970-71.   Fenway's reference is to pages 283-284 when it is  
discovered that Bigfoot's partner was murdered by one Adrian Prussia,   
apparently a contract hit man for the LAPD (and his assistant Puck  
Beaverton).

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St. John's Episcopal Church
 From the IV Wiki:  "The reference may seem odd, as the church is now  
- and was in 1970 - a very liberal one. Of course, Crocker Fenway  
would have been married there in the 1940s, before its transformation  
from "an upper-level parish church controlled by businessmen" had  
occurred. Since 2008 referred to as St. John's Cathedral."
Also:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St._John's_Cathedral,_Los_Angeles

People were born into the religion of the family and Episcopal has  
historically been the religion of the power-base in the US.   The  
current theology of the church is less important than who also goes  
there.   It's like the Corleones  (The Godfather) going to and heavily  
supporting the Catholic Church whilst creating havoc in their family  
business.

Bekah

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