Another fine, cool, sunny, not humid day in LA. I was very fortunate that my friend Bran let me borrow her car today. I've been keeping a list since I've been away from home of things that I wanted to see, do, accomplish or so while here. Today I had the chance to knock three things off of that list.
This morning and early afternoon, I drove to Griffith Park to the Gene Autry Museum. For those that don't know Gene Autry was a famous actor during the 30's through the 50's. He was known for being in westerns, other wise known as cowboy movies, particular a genre called B-Westerns. He also had a TV show I believe. Later he was an owner of the California Angels, now called the LA Angels major league baseball team. He even has his number retired by the team. Well, my Dad is a huge fan and wanted me to check the gift shop for something. So I drove over to check out the museum. It was a pretty neat museum to check out. Unfortunately though, they didn't have the dvd's in stock that my Dad wanted from the gift shop. From there I drove over to east LA to check out an art museum. Another famous actor, Vincent Price, was known for playing villains, creepy characters, and the like. He was a major collector of art and a huge donor as well. Prior to his death, he donated the majority of his art collection to East LA College. So not long after a museum was established to house the collection. It was great! It wasn't as big as I thought it was going to be, but what a nice collection. He had some great pieces by David Alfaro Siqueiros, a Mexican muralist, and his contemporaries. And many more. A fine collection! We capped off the day by ironically heading to an Angels game (since Autry once owned them). It was a great game against the Twins, until the Angels completely fell apart in the 10th inning. One of the coolest things was they had a special promotion for folks who were attending their first Angels game. If you went to the guest services office, they handed you a special certificate, a hat, and you placed a sticker on a map in their office on where you came from. It was a wonderful day capped off by a great night!
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