When I first moved to LA in '83, one of the big thrills was finding places named in Zevon's songs. Trader Vic's was one of the first. But I looked away down Gower Avenue (people honk when you do that.) I stared reverently at the Pioneer Chicken on Alvarado Street. (Also ill-advised- at the time it wasn't an area one should stand still in for very long.) And once, I made a wrong turn on Yucca and found myself staring at... The Hollywood Hawaiian Hotel! (It's condos now.)
There were only the faintest echoes of Raymond Chandler's LA by then. But Zevon's LA was alive and well. (Okay, so maybe just alive...)
When I first moved to LA in '83, one of the big thrills was finding places named in Zevon's songs. Trader Vic's was one of the first. But I looked away down Gower Avenue (people honk when you do that.) I stared reverently at the Pioneer Chicken on Alvarado Street. (Also ill-advised- at the time it wasn't an area one should stand still in for very long.) And once, I made a wrong turn on Yucca and found myself staring at... The Hollywood Hawaiian Hotel! (It's condos now.)
There were only the faintest echoes of Raymond Chandler's LA by then. But Zevon's LA was alive and well. (Okay, so maybe just alive...)
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