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Lemon holds the lot until December 25, 1867, when he sells to Lola Bennett.[20] Lola[21] is the wife of Joseph F. Bennett[22], a California Column veteran. The Bennetts (Lola by some accounts) build a new structure on the lot, evidently removing the stone structure. Looking for space to expand, Lola buys half of her southern neighbor’s lot for $125
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No matter what was in fashion, Janet Wilton was a step beyond. She was the one everybody was trying to become, except that the minute they became Janet Wilton, a curly brunette with blueberry mascara and rapist-slash cheek toner, Janet had turned into a French blonde with a simple powdered nose, and was suddenly pink instead of pomegranate.
Eve Babitz • Sex and Rage: A Novel
Jacaranda found not a crack of hope for herself and Shelby. She remembered that the way he’d looked at her the night before had the look of finality, that he wasn’t going to subject himself to her wild mercurial tempers anymore. He was going to close off the lagoon, lose the map, swim alone.
Eve Babitz • Sex and Rage: A Novel
Jacaranda wondered how anyone as clever as this Janet Wilton, with New York at her fingernail tips, had come to the Bamboo Café that night and given Jacaranda her card.
Eve Babitz • Sex and Rage: A Novel
In early 1942 he opened an after-hours dive bar called Club Nosotros off the corner of Avenida Eduardo Conde and Calle Martino. It was right across the street from the Villa Palmeras Cemetery and, more importantly, just half a mile away from Camp Las Casas.
Nelson Denis • War Against All Puerto Ricans
La Jolla (Shuffle Off to Mexico) They dropped Sunrise’s things off at her friend’s garage—the one who was out of town—and hoped the boxes wouldn’t be stolen. “But it’s O.K. if they are,” Sunrise said, “because I’m obviously not meant to have anything anyway.”
Eve Babitz • Sex and Rage: A Novel
when Max one day said, “Jacaranda is the best-dressed woman in Los Angeles,” it came out sounding mean-spirited and vile. The gold had washed off the surface and the Gates of Paradise had been melted down for private purposes no longer on public view. It was only art anyway,
Eve Babitz • Sex and Rage: A Novel
Guerrero turned them into a living; a daughter, Ana Natalia, branched out with her mother’s approval and opened a chain of Anitas restaurants across Los Angeles, taking with her the family’s taquitos recipes and opening Las Anitas on Olvera Street, not far from Cielito Lindo. Competitors copied those taquitos, along with Mexican restaurants across
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