Tag: LA
The Doghouse
UNITED STATES—The Palmer House got all gussied up with the help of a threat from the city. Then came the big day of the...
Mattresside
UNITED STATES—The revamping of the Palmer House, a fleabag of over 100 rooms, didn’t just occur out of the blue. Nothing ever did in...
The Fox Outfoxed
UNITED STATES—The Wylie Empire included a hotel in a prime location on Skid Row—the elegantly named Palmer House on Wall St. (conveniently around the...
Reseda
UNITED STATES—The property owner, Jim Wylie, was a gambler in a big way, but not in the literal sense. Jerry Segal, his colleague and...
Thanks To Mick
UNITED STATES—My parents and sister showed up on my doorstep in Los Angeles to tell me Mick, my cousin had died. I didn’t even...
Love And War
UNITED STATES—Crazy thing. One of the residents of Manhattan Place recognized a woman who’d left a deposit on a room I had shown. The...
More Maya
UNITED STATES—I get a kick remembering when Maya turned to me with the Wooster, Massachusetts edge and the fleeing r’s in her voice and...
Hard Boiled
UNITED STATES—Working for Wylie, a door opened at Fraser Bros. Boiler Company, the ersatz office of Wylie properties. The location next to a beauty...
Sea-Change
UNITED STATES—The Jones moved in. They were the picture of happiness. The young couple who had been wed in Las Vegas got Mac’s recently...
Keeping Up With The Joneses
UNITED STATES—Mac Murphy got out of the honor camp near Baker, in the high Mojave, and came to take one last look at his...