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Musician Little Willie G. remembers the Million Dollar Theater and Chavez Ravine. The director Ed Wood's Vampira, Maila Nurmi, tells us how she found inspiration in Norma Desmond, the aging starlet of Sunset Boulevard. And ten miles west of Hollywood, a forgotten surfer gave birth to Gidget and the Beach Boys.

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If you're hungry for pie and a good story, visit manager Bruce Grant at the House of Pies. Then find salvation behind an auto parts store at the Iglesia Pentecostes Pacto de Fe; lose money where everybody knows your name, the Normandie Casino; and watch birds drop out of the sky at the L.A. Racing Pigeon Club.]]> http://www.scpr.org/programs/pacificdrift/listings/2006/07/20060702.html#story2 Sun, 02 Jul 2006 19:00:00 CST Catherine Feeny]]> http://www.scpr.org/programs/pacificdrift/listings/2006/07/20060702.html#story3 Sun, 02 Jul 2006 19:00:00 CST http://www.scpr.org/programs/pacificdrift/listings/2006/07/20060702.html#story4 Sun, 02 Jul 2006 19:00:00 CST