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[Cleita]

33. It's loosely based on how the Doheny family made their fortune

in oil in So. CA. It also delves into the politics and world events of those times, which as I said seem not much different than today. Since this is my home turf I'm familiar with the euphemisms he uses, like calling Los Angeles, Angel City, Hearst Castle, The Monastery and Taft, Paradise. Not to be missed is Exxon Oil renamed Excelsior Oil.

just a little aside. I interviewed for a job with the Doheny Holding Company in Beverly Hills years ago. The head hunter was very coy as to whom I was being sent to and only gave me an address and name I was supposed to contact there. The company was in a three story office building on a side street.

I was taken to an office, given the requisite tests to prove I knew my business and then I was interviewed. It was only then I was told that the whole three story office building housed all the worker bees that kept track of the private Doheny family fortune. She informed me that the money holdings were so vast that they had to do a daily trial balance to keep track of it.

I didn't get the job but I thought it was fascinating that anybody could be that rich even though I had spent a lifetime as a worker bee for very wealthy people.