Hollywood Then and Now - January 2020

Yesterday marked the 58th anniversary of the death of famed TV comic Ernie Kovacs.   I have faint memories of him from movies on TCM.  Creatively, he was an acquired taste.

Well, on that fateful January 13, he crashed into a light pole at the corner of Santa Monica Boulevard and Beverly Glen.   Here's the wreckage.

And allegedly the pole he crashed into.  

Urban legend has it his car skidded as he reached for one of his beloved Muriel cigars in the glove compartment.

Due to construction and road changes, the area looks a lot different these days.

And what's noteworthy about all this?   Well, if you take any service road exit on the right, you will drive about 100 feet and find...

...my apartment building.

I love how all this ties together.

Dinner last night:  Roast beef sandwich at my NY apartment.