Reply #62: Ha! It was one of those jaw-dropping places

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where the best thing to eat was usually the ubiquitous pizza joints on every other street corner, where Frederick's of Hollywood was still a major contributor to the neighborhood as far as strange thrills (and LONG before Victoria's Secret!), where C.C. Brown's and Swensen's were still THE ice cream spots to go, and Grauman's Chinese Theatre was still Grauman's!

It was always good for a laugh to take people on their first visit to the area and see gum and other detritus on the stars on the Walk of Fame, and to take them into the International Love Boutique with the acrobatic statue of a woman right in the front of the store. :rofl: