Events

October, 1974

Neva Friedenn is becoming our Unofficial Historian of California Weird--Which, as you might imagine, keeps her fairly busy. Here's her latest bulletin from the City of Lost Angels:It's a bright, sunny Saturday, the smog for once has gone somewhere else, and it's the official opening of the OddBall Olympics--an assortment of programed lunacies designed specifically to add new names to the Guinness Book of World Records, held, naturally, at Century City in Los Angeles. The place itself is a startl...