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2003-09-03 - 8:05 p.m.

So I was down at Bergamot Station which was the train station for the old Red Car Line which was a pretty amazing grid for public transportation that ran from Bunker Hill down to Seal Beach. The movie "Who Framed Roger Rabbit" was kind of about it. This was before cars got cheap and popular, in that order. Before Henry Ford, only the wealthy could afford cars. In the movie "City Lights" Chaplin shut down production for a couple of weeks before he came up with an idea of how to make the blind girl think the Little Tramp was rich. It involved the Little Tramp getting out of a car. You have to see that movie if for no other reason than the last ten seconds. Woody Allen used the same ending in "Manhattan." So Bergamot Station has about 30 or forty galleries, including a friend I went to college with, called the Craig Krull Gallery if you want to to check it out. Lots of parking in the middle with the galleries next to one another forming a square around the parking lot. Out one gallery and into another. A great place to see the latest contemporary stuff, without having to drive from gallery to gallery. I noticed ALL the galleries have Macs in them. The research firm TrendWatch notes that Macintoshes are used by 83 percent of graphic designers, 77 percent of corporate design departments, and 65 percent of ad agencies. End of story.

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