Travels of THB: Misc, Weekend Update: Los Angeles

Miscellaneous Pics

Sandy and Sinead are cousins

Sinead is older by a year or two and double the size of Sandy

THB has been pulling conicosia for well over 3 years and just discovered the largest single bush ever seen at Monterey Dunes...massive, more than a single large trash bag can hold

Twins on the beach

close-up of blue jelly

twins speeding across suspension bridge at Dennis the Menace park in Monterey, as always they are moving so fast it isn't easy to get them in the picture frame together

Partial solar eclipse in E-ville

Full solar panel installation on the beach house west-facing roof

Bronze gingko trees (public art by Mildred Howard) as part of the world's largest empty parking garage

THB think this woman is living in her car, she brings along her own landscaping

Weekend Update: Los Angeles (April 19. 2024)

Hot Tips:

If you are flying anywhere domestically, plan an extra 30-45 minutes if you are using an airport that has now installed the latest in TSA bag screening. Just horrible...a line at the Oakland airport Friday morning was 100 long and slower than those who just showed up without Clear or TSA-Pre. If flying SWA, consider going through security at Terminal 1 and walking the connecting tunnel to Terminal 2.
If you'd like to blue tooth your phone to the rental car system, plan another 10-15 minutes...even the first instruction wasn't clear, let alone the second or third instructions.
Bring your wam-ish clothes, then wear them, This year, LA is cold and windy in late April. This isn't the LA of THB's youth. THB got off the plane wearing shorts (something that hadn't happened in E-ville in about 5 months either).

Day 1: LA

THB and DB fly into Long Beach (something neither of remember doing before) and think the plane had turned west and brought us to the nearest Hawaiian airport. Much uncovered areas, people dressed in leisure clothes and large suitcases. Turns out this airport is close to where cruise ships dock.

Visit with Emilie and Tom (DB's sister and our bro-in-law), lunch at French bistro, sitting outdoors in the cool hazy (so not LA) weather. THB has a very nice French baguette styled tuna sandwich lined with had-boiled eggs and anchovies. Pastries purchased for the next morning. Dinner at their local "club" (open to residents of Palos Verde) and THB and DB share a huge lightly dressed Caesar salad and THB has an appetizer of lamb riblets - excellent - and draft IPA.

Day 2: LA to Pomona. American Museum of Ceramics Art tour

THB and DB are on a mini-tour of AMOCA board members and supporters. A tour of the two AMOC shows, both terrific. Here are the pics and THB and DB's purchase:

First show: work bought in the last 2 years; AMOCA has something like 13K pieces. * = artist in our collection

Richard Shaw*

Janis Wunderlick *

Patty Warashina *

Beth Lo*

Kurt Weiser

Sin-ying Ho (we considered a much smaller piece by Ho at NCECA)

Jack Earl

Ron Nagle: he does small to very small elegant cups

Babs Haenen

Trudy Chidrix (on the tour, AMOCA Board member) explaining her work

male and female figures

Lisa Clague

Silbers have donated many pieces to AMOCA and, since this is a converted bank, they used the vault for small shows within a show

Claude Conover

Curated by Kathy King: work made in the last 2 years and fits in 24x24" box

THB and DB's latest acquisition

Carly Slade; she will be the featured artist in a future show

Ivan Albrecht

Peter Christian Johnson

Walter Mather

Kushala Vora

Zinra Beiner

Adam Shiverdecker* (the hanging submarine)

Zack Tate

From there we head to the "heritage" protected home and grounds of Sam Maloof, a top level wood craftsman (MacArthur fellow recipient). Pics inside the house tour are only allowed in one room.

Alfreida, first wife of many years, wanted brick floors so Sam laid down concrete to ensure floors were level and then laid down bricks without grouting. That means the floors wiggle when you walk on them and make a smalls sound as the bricks are moving slightly when walked on

Sam and Alfreida (or wife #2, still alive at age 95)

Sam hand built the hinges for all the doors

pics from around the grounds

This is the house that is now part of the "heritage" foundation; the second house was built so Sam and family had somewhere to live and is available for his second wife until she dies or needs to move

Another view of original house

The tour then moves on to see the house and studio on a well-known local ceramics artist, Harrison McIntosh, now deceased in 2016, lived until age 102, and his daughter led us through his small studio.

The tour is going on to see the Turrell light installation on the Claremont colleges campus. We have seen two sunset light watches before, so decide to go to a 6pm dinner with E&J and back to the hotel instead of a dinner starting at 8:30.

The DoubleTree us perfectly adequate, complete with bathtub (and warm chocolate chip cookies).