You are viewing an obsolete version of the DU website which is no longer supported by the Administrators. Visit The New DU.
Democratic Underground Latest Greatest Lobby Journals Search Options Help Login
Google

Reply #54: I hear you... [View All]

Printer-friendly format Printer-friendly format
Printer-friendly format Email this thread to a friend
Printer-friendly format Bookmark this thread
This topic is archived.
Home » Discuss » Latest Breaking News Donate to DU
onager Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Sep-15-05 10:21 PM
Response to Reply #52
54. I hear you...
Edited on Thu Sep-15-05 10:23 PM by onager
I'll admit I still get a little breathless when I'm coming "over the hill" from LAX at night, on the 405.

That stretch of freeway along the hills is so dark--you'd never know the city is right at your back.

Then you crest the hill and WHAM--the whole San Fernando Valley is lit up beneath you, looking like some incredilble alien mother-ship just landed from a distant galaxy.

The dig against L.A. that I love is that we have no history.

Pfft! How many cities can boast a citizen like the amazing Col. Griffith Jenkins Griffith?

Imagine a man who gives over 3,000 acres of land to his adopted hometown for a park, and then donates a fortune to build a popular observatory/planetarium/hall of science and a large open-air theater.

Imagine a man who enrages many of his peers with long years of insufferable pomposity and then shoots his well-regarded high-society wife in a paranoid delusion that she is in league with the Pope to poison him and steal his money.

Imagine if they were the same man.

You've just imagined one of the most unimaginable characters in the history of Los Angeles, Col. Griffith J. Griffith...


http://english.glendale.cc.ca.us/colonel.html

(BTW, stop by and say "Howdy!" to Col. Griffith if you visit L.A. He's buried in Hollywood Memorial Cemetery, and you can't miss his monument...)
Printer Friendly | Permalink |  | Top
 

Home » Discuss » Latest Breaking News Donate to DU

Powered by DCForum+ Version 1.1 Copyright 1997-2002 DCScripts.com
Software has been extensively modified by the DU administrators


Important Notices: By participating on this discussion board, visitors agree to abide by the rules outlined on our Rules page. Messages posted on the Democratic Underground Discussion Forums are the opinions of the individuals who post them, and do not necessarily represent the opinions of Democratic Underground, LLC.

Home  |  Discussion Forums  |  Journals |  Store  |  Donate

About DU  |  Contact Us  |  Privacy Policy

Got a message for Democratic Underground? Click here to send us a message.

© 2001 - 2011 Democratic Underground, LLC