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Weetzie BatBy Francesca Lia Block
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Weetzie Bat• “A pop-culture-driven, fable-laden, sentimental-
tone prose poetry… strange and dreamlike.” Patrick Jones
• No other writer has written so accurately about the reality of life in Los Angeles” Patricia J. Campbell
• Written as a college senior at UC Berkeley when nostalgic for LA.
• Inspired by Magical Realism: Gabriel Garcia Marquez 100 Years of Solitude and Isabelle Allende’s House of Spirits.
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Marylyn's prints at Graumann’s (Chinese Theatre) (1)
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Oki Dogs (1)
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Tinys was known for it's curbside service - girls on roller skates, T-shirts, and skimpy costumes. different for those days. Teenagers cruised here. women used to come there in carloads. It was a big place for everyone. Northwest corner of Sunset and La Brea. (1)
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Jerry. Dirk’s car a red ‘55 Pontiac (2)A slinkster-cool car
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Jayne Mansfield in The Girl Can’t Help it. (3)
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Laurel Canyon where Houdini and Jim Morison used to live (2)
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Venice Beach and boardwalk (5)
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Sunset Boulevard
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The Depression Era Tick Tock Tea Room has remained virtually unchanged in the last 70 years.
A truly Vintage restaurant
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Grandma Fifi’s cottage? A Hollywood cottage with one of those fairy tale roofs that looks like someone has spilled silly sand. (30)
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ARROW AND LUCIAFASHION STORY INSPIRED BY WEETZIE BATPAPER MAGAZINE
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Some poetic lines. What do they mean?
• Love is a dangerous angel. 15• She couldn’t leave where it was hot and cool,
glam and slam, rich and trashy, devils and angels, Los Angeles. 21-22
• Weetzie felt her heart stealing all the blood in her body. 49