Let’s head south for the restaurants
Know where I’ll be Tuesday as George Clooney, Matt Damon and
Brad Pitt put their hand and foot prints in front of the historic
Grauman’s Chinese Theatre. I still think they should make an
exception with J Lo and let her implant her butt, now that should
get a crowd. But, butt. Aye chee waa waa!
Let’s head south for the restaurants
Know where I’ll be Tuesday as George Clooney, Matt Damon and Brad Pitt put their hand and foot prints in front of the historic Grauman’s Chinese Theatre. I still think they should make an exception with J Lo and let her implant her butt, now that should get a crowd. But, butt. Aye chee waa waa!
The L.A. Times is a snob newspaper and when Charles Nelson Reilly of Hollywood Square fame died they wrote that he appeared on the Johnny Carson Tonight Show at a near record guest appearance making ribald ripostes. When I make ribald ripostes they just call me a dirty old man telling dirty stories.
One newspaper that isn’t the L.A. Times, thank God, is the Horsebend Arkansas Pacesetter. My good friend from Hollister, Gary Cherry, visits the deep South and always sends me newspapers and now I want to move to Horsebend. Karen’s Kitchen out at 701 Southbend Dr. has a deluxe complete dinner of stuffed pork chops for $6.99 or Fish Fry at $5.99. But old Martha at Martha’s Home Cooking will not be outdone and I suspect even Karen took her mother to Martha’s Mother’s day special. Stuffed pork chops, scalloped potatoes, tuscan blend vegetables, dinner rolls, salads, desserts including beverage for $7.95. How much did you pay for your Mother’s day?
Reminds me of the Ding A Ling in Hollister in 1955 when it was located on Fourth Street near the main drag. When you walked in the Ding A Ling the ding a ling attached to the screen door would ding and ling. Not a bell but a local ding a ling!
The Ding A Ling was also the Greyhound bus depot. Many a time as a teen I would have breakfast at the Ding A Ling, take the bus to San Francisco to see four or five double bills and get back to Hollister before my parents even missed me.
More next week on bus service in Hollister. Isn’t it funny that when Hollister was a hick town we had great bus service and I remember taking the train to San Francisco.
Thanks for that picture of what is wrong with downtown Hollister: parking or rather a lack of it. Someone put up one of those Historical Downtown Hollister signs with the arrow pointing to downtown over a pole that already had a city sign which read No Parking at Anytime. Truth in advertising? What hysterical downtown Hollister needs is a multi million dollar parking garage. What? You already have one but nobody uses it?
Yes, I remember when it was built and Hollister’s brilliant city manager proclaimed after nobody was using it for free, that if this continued the city would have to charge to use it.
I once sold him some Mexican Jumping Beans and told him they were moon rocks!
Best movie of the year is “Waitress” which has been out 5 weeks and made 4 million dollars. Pirates the 3rd in its first week made $140 million. Bet we won’t be seeing a “Waitress 2.”
So, Jack Black of “Nacho Libre” fame is going to film his next movie at Casa de Fruta near Hollister. Makes sense as he can get all the extras from Hollister, the original Casa de Fruta y frutos. Aye chee waa waa.
Loved that headline “Ailing Diddley Recovering.” I wondered how they knew about my poor diddley. What? They were writing about Bo Diddley.
And finally, reading another newspaper from the deep south has me packing much to the cheers of the Hollywood Chamber of Commerce. Do you know what a beer costs in a Hollywood Gentleman’s club? Well at the Upscale Gentleman’s Club in Memphis, Tenn., a beer will set you back, according to their ad, 69 cents. The other 69 service I’m sure costs a skoosh more. Aye chee waa waa!
