Return to West Hollywood. Attended the SOS Climate Change International was a return to the neighborhood where I lived during a number of years between 1960-1965. I attended Fairfax High School.

Date:   7/28/2008 4:33:19 PM ( 16 y ago)

West Hollywood Mayor JEFFREY PRANG, KEEP the BEET Media Star, and LESLIE.

2;27 PM
July 28, 08

I almost missed the SOS Climate Change
International Conference held at the
Pacific Design Center on Melrose Avenue
West Hollywood, July 26, 2008,

The week before was an exhausting frustrating
week. I had intense Technological breakdowns all week
and a major learning curve using the HP Kiock down
at Staples. When all was said and done, I really got
to know this Kiosk and recommend it. The quality
for photos is excellent.

My assignment was to come up
with a creative presentation of photos taken
at the 1994 ABA CHICKEN SOUP FOR THE SOUL
party at the Biltmore. I was the photographer that
night for Mark Victor Hansen.

That event in 1994 was basically a coming out
party for the first Bestseller in the CHICKEN SOUP series.
I took the HCI books, including CHICKEN SOUP,
to a stream at the Taylor's Herb Farm in Vista
on the way home from LA. I blessed them
and their success.
They rest is history.

For me, that trip down Melrose Ave July 26,
was a return to the Hood.
Until yesterday, I had no idea I hailed from
West Hollywood, but thanks to West Hollywood's
delightful Mayor JEFFREY PRANG, who graced us
with his presence, there is now a name in my head
for that neighborhood in L.A. I attended Fairfax High School,
that Jeffrey tells me is the High School located in West Hollywood.

It was around 1960 the summer of my mother's death
that our family moved from Boyle Heights--The East Side- to the Fairfax
Borscht Belt--The West Side.

[Research on Fairfax Borscht Belt

http://curezone.com/blogs/fm.asp?i=1224699 ]

Those were lost years for me.
They were my years from 12-17,
wandering years, helpless years.

They were the years I first showed signs of a body
unable to walk without pain. It was ten more
years before the doctors at UCLA could give an official name
to my condition--Anglyosin Spondylitis--and that was
about 12 years before I first looked into the eyes
Dr. Bernard Jensen who was the first man who helped
me make sense of my life purpose.


August 2, 2008
6:04 PM

In the neighborhood, a few books from our house,
there was the Silent Movie on Fairfax.

Many a Friday night, I would go down there.
The death of my mother was still fresh.
I would go down there alone.
It only cost 5 cents to go into the theatre.

I would interact with the original owners.
John Hampton and his wife. Often it was his
wife who would be at the window where I paid in my nickle.

At the time I was growing up there really weren't too many places
where people could go to see silent movies.

It is an amazing part of my growing up that as a 12 year old
I could go have that kind of experience. In those days, the theatre
was open six days a week. I believe it opened at 6 PM.
The Hamptons lived upstairs.


http://www.seeing-stars.com/Theatres/SilentMovie.shtml


My father, Solomon Goldman, lives right around the corner
from the Silent Movie, just across the back alley.

in 1969, the year I attended UCLA, I would pile some
of my dorm mates into Magnolia, my 1952 Chevy.
We would go down there on a Saturday night, and then
cap the evening with a hot dog down at world famous Pinks
over on La Brea a little bit north of Melrose.

What memories.

The Hamptons were still running the place then.

A few years ago, I revisited the SIlent Movie.
I had a vision I would one day have an event there,
maybe the coming out of one of books.

I would like to do there with my new friends in the
Transformational Media Team. That would really be a hoot!
Pile everyone in the EG Mobile, my 68 VW Van and go
to the SIlent Movie. Then we could go over to the Tea Garden.
on Melrose for one of those delightful Gingerbread smoothies
that Jake served us all at the SOS Climate Change International Conference
After Party. Maybe we could have a Raw Salad, or KEEP the BEET will
offer us up some of her BEET GREENS. Maybe my new friend
Brian Lucas, AKA Chef Belive can have something special for us
at the Tea Garden.

The SIlent Movie:
That was the first place where I first saw a Charlie Chaplin film.
He did a lot of his early film making not far from there.
My junior High School was Bancroft. Richard, my best friend,
would go up to Norms at La Brea and Sunset for a piece
of Cocoanut Cream Pie. We would pass by the Old Charlie Chaplin Studio
on La Brea.



RELATED BLOGS & LINKS:

ON THE SILENT MOVIE:

Wednesday Silent FIlms 2008
at the Silent Movie:

http://www.silentmovietheatre.com/calendar/wednesday.html#aug


611 N. Fairfax Avenue,
Los Angeles, CA. / (323) 655-2520

http://www.seeing-stars.com/Theatres/SilentMovie.shtml

CHARLIE CHAPLIN STUDIO:

http://www.seeing-stars.com/Studios/ChaplinStudios.shtml


DR. BERNARD JENSEN
CENTENNIAL CELEBRATION:

http://curezone.com/blogs/fm.asp?i=1188361