Museums

August, 1974

Neva Friedenn, a writer friend who moved to Los Angeles four years ago and promptly became, like so many of her predecessors, an almost morbid aficionado of Southern California gaucherie, allows neither earthquake nor mudslide nor gas shortage nor dark of smog to stay her self-appointed rounds among the natives in search of folkways and artifacts to feed her habit. On a recent safari throught the manicured wilds of Malibu, she happened by the gate of the J. Paul Getty Museum, figured she'd unear...