Last week in Taki's Magazine, I wrote about how John Lautner was the leading architect working in the indigenous aesthetic of the car, plane, and movie-crazed eastern San Fernando Valley where I grew up. This week, car customizer Dean Jeffries, another local artistic legend, died at his North Hollywood home, age 80.
What a great time and place to be a little boy ...
ReplyDeleteYeah but now we have Twitter and Facebook to inspire technically minded little boys. Just as good, no?
ReplyDeleteWhat a great time it was to be an American among...Americans.
I was in LA at that time going to college, but I couldn't really appreciate it because of the smog and soon left. Did the smog bother you Steve?
ReplyDeleteRobert Hume
Brings back fond memories of Hot Wheels.
ReplyDeleteWhat a great time and place to be a little boy
ReplyDeleteSure, but not because of the wacky car designs. It was the beaches, the baseball fields, and the girls. (more major leagues came out of SoCal than anywhere else) Maybe the openness that allowed for the latter also led to the former, but it was still peripheral.