Monthly Archives: October 2009

1929

Posted on October 29, 2009 by barbaraehardy

This is the 80th anniversary of the stock market crash that started the Great Depression in the U.S.A.  It was a momentous year in other ways, too.   1929:   Trotsky expelled from the USSR Dictatorship established in Yugoslavia under … Continue reading →

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Happy birthday, Christina

Posted on October 26, 2009 by barbaraehardy

  Christina is 32 today.  Wow!   How can she be so old already???   Today she is in New York City;  tomorrow she will be in London;  next week back to Paris, I think..possibly back to NY.   Her company is very, … Continue reading →

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Home

Posted on October 25, 2009 by barbaraehardy

Here I am, back in Michigan, exhausted, and a bit groggy from sleeping until 8:45.  Southwest provided an on-time flight home, as they reliably do.  I waited 45 mintues at Midway for the bus to Michigan City; Noel picked me … Continue reading →

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One last “Hollywood” adventure

Posted on October 21, 2009 by barbaraehardy

On Monday I headed down to the Mystery Bookstore on Broxton in Westood only to find the street blocked off to cars and cameras set up everywhere.  Hmmmm.   I asked a bystander who was wearing a wireset what was going … Continue reading →

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Mattel Party on the Pier

Posted on October 19, 2009 by barbaraehardy

On Saturday, we had the privilege of being invited to the Mattel Party on the Pier (in Santa Monica).   This is a very important fund-raiser for Mattel Children’s Hospital  at UCLA.  The Santa Monica Pier reminds me a lot of … Continue reading →

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Ok, they do movies better out here

Posted on October 17, 2009 by barbaraehardy

The movie we saw this morning, "Tinker Bell’s Treasure,"  was, well, a movie.   But the movie experience:  WOW!   They really do do it better in LA.   The movie was shown at El Capitan Theater.  This is one of the very … Continue reading →

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Entering the last week of my visit

Posted on October 16, 2009 by barbaraehardy

Only one week more  in my LA visit.; one more opera class to attend;  seven more breakfasts with Aurelia; and then I’m off to Michigan.  It’s warm again out here, so I’ll be out walking again.   Then, tomorrow we … Continue reading →

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Quiet on the western front

Posted on October 13, 2009 by barbaraehardy

All is quiet in LA. While Aurelia was in school yesterday,  Di and I went to LACMA, the LA art museum.  We had hope to see the Pompeii exhibit, but it had ended last week.  Darn.   We just wandered around … Continue reading →

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Visiting Seal Beach

Posted on October 11, 2009 by barbaraehardy

On Saturday, Diana, Dave, Aurelia and I drove down to Long Beach for lunch with Annie, Todd, AJ, and Kara, the last of whom is Aurelia’s special same-age friend.   Tom and Barb (Annie’s mom) were there, too. Annie prepared a … Continue reading →

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Day sixteen

Posted on October 8, 2009 by barbaraehardy

Today is day 16 of my visit, and that’s the half-way mark.  It’s flown by.  Yesterday’s opera class was about tenors.  Mr. Schub played a recording of Caruso from 1903, which is the year Caruso made his debut in America.  … Continue reading →

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