What a great and pleasant surprise to see this posting this
morning.
Recently, I decided to re-read Raymond Chandler. Just about
an hour ago I was reading FAREWELL, MY LOVELY and saw the
reference to Bay City. I wondered where it was located in Los
Angeles. I also faintly remembered a reference to a Bay City
in an old ROCKFORD FILES episode.
Lo and behold, I logged in this morning and found this
posting.
I wish I still lived in LA so I could take part in this
tour!
Mark
> Chandler's Bay City is crook town, run down, shabby
town, gambling
> town. Novelist Raymond Chandler gravitated to sin
and debauch, so
> Santa Monica in the 1930s was a frequent stop for
his anti-hero
> detective Philip Marlowe. From doctors feelgood to
second wives with
> pasts to crooked cops with a loathing for a mouthy
PI, this tour has
> it all. Chandler's canonization of sin, wealth and
sunshine on
L.A.'s
> Westside fed the abiding myths of the American
hard-boiled genre and
> play into the popular conception of the
region.
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