Chicago
Future singer-songwriter, and mythologizer of a uniquely seedy ’70s noir L.A., Warren Zevon is born today.
Kim Cooper
Kim Cooper is the creator of 1947project, the crime-a-day time travel blog that spawned Esotouric’s popular crime bus tours, including The Real Black Dahlia. She is the author of The Kept Girl, the acclaimed historical mystery starring the young Raymond Chandler and the real-life Philip Marlowe, and of The Raymond Chandler Map of Los Angeles. With husband Richard Schave, Kim curates the Salons and forensic science seminars of LAVA- The Los Angeles Visionaries Association. When the third generation Angeleno isn’t combing old newspapers for forgotten scandals, she is a passionate advocate for historic preservation of signage, vernacular architecture and writer’s homes. Kim was for many years the editrix of Scram, a journal of unpopular culture. Her books include Fall in Love For Life, Bubblegum Music is the Naked Truth, Lost in the Grooves and an oral history of Neutral Milk Hotel.
And I went to meet my man
He hangs out down on Alvarado Street
By the Pioneer chicken stand
“Carmelita”
https://home.comcast.net/~gr8tvfx/PCS/Pioneer_Chicken_Stand.html
Or maybe he meant the Pioneer on Echo Park, just north of Sunset, across from the House of Spirits? At least that one still stands.