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1 Weetzie Bat By Francesca Lia Block

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3 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.

4 Marylyn's prints at Graumann’s (Chinese Theatre) (1)

5 Oki Dogs (1)

6 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)

7 Jerry. Dirk’s car a red ‘55 Pontiac (2) A slinkster-cool car

8 Jayne Mansfield in The Girl Can’t Help it. (3)

9 Laurel Canyon where Houdini and Jim Morison used to live (2)

10 Venice Beach and boardwalk (5)

11 Sunset Boulevard

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13 The Depression Era Tick Tock Tea Room has remained virtually unchanged in the last 70 years. A truly Vintage restaurant

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15 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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22 ARROW AND LUCIA FASHION STORY INSPIRED BY WEETZIE BAT PAPER MAGAZINE

23 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


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