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The sun sets on the Mighty Mississip
The sun sets on the Mighty Mississip
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Great Article From The New York Times on LA's Real Estate... circa 1984. Sounds strangely familiar.

The Southern California residential real estate boom began in about 1974. It was not just a boom. It was a superboom, with miserable bungalows in Santa Monica running up from $40,000 in 1974 to $400,000 by 1980. Two-story colonials in Beverly Hills went from $200,000 to $800,000 and then over a million. One-bedroom condos in Hollywood were built and sold for $100,000 - what a house in Beverly Hills had been five years before. Every day, home buyers would look at the prices and say, ”It can’t go on.” But every day, for five years, it did go on. Middle-class families were priced out of the market, and the brokers said, ”But the rich will always be able to buy.” Ordinary rich people were squeezed out of the market in some areas, but the brokers said, ”Never mind, the music business people will buy anything.” The music business fell into a depression in 1979, and the brokers said, ”The foreigners are buying. Compared with Paris or Teheran, real estate in Holmby Hills is a bargain.”

Everyone wanted to get in to the game, get the down payment on a house, somehow struggle with the payments for a year, then sell out and get rich quick. Inflation pushed housing prices into the stratosphere. But even when inflation stopped, brokers said, ”The prices have nothing to do with inflation. Everyone on earth wants to live in L.A. The price will go up forever here, no matter what else happens in the rest of the country.”

Then the music stopped, some afternoon in 1980. As if a spell had fallen over the city, suddenly things began to stay on the market for three months, six months, a year, two years. Buyers disappeared. Asking prices stayed high, but nothing sold.

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Alright people, the race is on.  Who’s going to be the first to do this as a music video?
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Spotted on West Washington Boulevard
Spotted on West Washington Boulevard
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paulscheer is funny:


THE DARK KNIGHT BREAKS A TON OF RECORDS

1. LARGEST NUMBER OF OPENING THEATRES.2. BIGGEST MIDNIGHT PREVIEW GROSS.3. BIGGEST IMAX MIDNIGHT PREVIEWS.4. BIGGEST SINGLE-DAY GROSS IN BOX-OFFICE HISTORY.5. BIGGEST OPENING WEEKEND GROSS IN BOX OFFICE HISTORY.6. BIGGEST OPENING WEEKEND GROSS FOR AN IMAX RELEASE IN BOX OFFICE HISTORY.7. BIGGEST OPENING WEEKEND OF 2008.8. BIGGEST JULY OPENING EVER.9. HIGHEST GROSSING FILM WITH A CHARACTER NAMED “LUCIUS FOX”.10. TALLEST AARON ECKHART EVER RECORDED ON FILM (IMAX ONLY RECORD)11. MOSTEST USE OF THE WORD “GOTHAM” IN A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE.12. WEIRDEST PEOPLE ON LINE FOR A 3AM FRIDAY MORNING SCREENING.13. THE ABSOLUTE HIGHEST AMOUNT COIN FLIPS IN A SINGULAR FILM.14.  BESTEST NECK TATTOO EVER SHOWN
15. BESTEST NECK TATTOO EVER SHOWN IN IMAX.15. BIGGEST AMOUNT OF PLAYING CARDS USED IN A FILM (TIE) w/ KEVIN SPACEY FILM “21” 15.5. LARGEST AMOUNT OF “JOKER” PLAYING CARDS USED IN A FILM16. HIGHEST NUMBER OF TIME THE SENTENCE “HOLY SHIT! THAT WAS AWESOME” WAS USED BETWEEN FRIENDS IN DESCRIBING THEIR REACTION TO THE FILM.

paulscheer is funny:

THE DARK KNIGHT BREAKS A TON OF RECORDS

1. LARGEST NUMBER OF OPENING THEATRES.

2. BIGGEST MIDNIGHT PREVIEW GROSS.

3. BIGGEST IMAX MIDNIGHT PREVIEWS.

4. BIGGEST SINGLE-DAY GROSS IN BOX-OFFICE HISTORY.

5. BIGGEST OPENING WEEKEND GROSS IN BOX OFFICE HISTORY.

6. BIGGEST OPENING WEEKEND GROSS FOR AN IMAX RELEASE IN BOX OFFICE HISTORY.

7. BIGGEST OPENING WEEKEND OF 2008.

8. BIGGEST JULY OPENING EVER.

9. HIGHEST GROSSING FILM WITH A CHARACTER NAMED “LUCIUS FOX”.

10. TALLEST AARON ECKHART EVER RECORDED ON FILM (IMAX ONLY RECORD)

11. MOSTEST USE OF THE WORD “GOTHAM” IN A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE.

12. WEIRDEST PEOPLE ON LINE FOR A 3AM FRIDAY MORNING SCREENING.

13. THE ABSOLUTE HIGHEST AMOUNT COIN FLIPS IN A SINGULAR FILM.

14. BESTEST NECK TATTOO EVER SHOWN

15. BESTEST NECK TATTOO EVER SHOWN IN IMAX.

15. BIGGEST AMOUNT OF PLAYING CARDS USED IN A FILM (TIE) w/ KEVIN SPACEY FILM “21”

15.5. LARGEST AMOUNT OF “JOKER” PLAYING CARDS USED IN A FILM

16. HIGHEST NUMBER OF TIME THE SENTENCE “HOLY SHIT! THAT WAS AWESOME” WAS USED BETWEEN FRIENDS IN DESCRIBING THEIR REACTION TO THE FILM.

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Birthday Pool Party in Paradise
Birthday Pool Party in Paradise
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19th
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Nas murdered it at the Roxy secret show. Thanks Isac!
Nas murdered it at the Roxy secret show. Thanks Isac!
Jul
15th
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from talls
from talls
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paulscheer:

FEIST loves Counting to the Number 4 on Sesame Street.

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The best hot dog birthday cake ever!
The best hot dog birthday cake ever!