Jake Randolph in "Requiem For A Stripper" Pt. 129
I drove us out to the beach. We slipped our shoes off and walked out toward the water. Jane was wearing a dress and I had a suit and tie on. We looked like a couple whose car had broken down on the way to a fancy ball. Everyone on the beach looked at us like we were a little overdressed. I couldn't blame them.
We decided to just walk down the shoreline. We could see the oil derricks that lined the beach. The town had an oil boom in the 1920s and wells went up all over the place...
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Christopher 10 months ago
I didn't know that about Huntington Beach. I was looking up old pictures of it and I saw what I thought were huge power line poles all stuck together. Then I read into it and found out they were oil derricks, right there on the beach.
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Christopher 10 months ago
Also, this is set in late November, but the temperatures in Los Angeles can be in the 70s or low 80s at times (that's Fahrenheit.) So beach weather is quite possible at that time of the year in Los Angeles.
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Neville Hunt 10 months ago
We’d better get ourselves over to LA then.... but not right now as the weather on the west coast looks to be dangerously hot!☀️🔥
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Neville Hunt 10 months ago
Well, well, well! That’s really well researched Christopher! (Seriously... very well done.)
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Christopher 10 months ago
Thanks. I try to be as accurate as possible, not just with facts but with the dialogue too. If someone today were writing this they'd have everyone dropping f-bombs every other word. I know that word was around back then but people didn't use it indiscriminately like they do now. You were considered very low class if you used that word back then, especially around women. Although technically, Jake does hang around with some pretty low class people!
