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Zuma Beach

"It always seems to me that I should be happy anywhere but where I am, and this question of moving is one that I am eternally discussing with my soul. "

Florence & Normandie

The possessive is gone, but the shop remains.

Sandpoint, Idaho

As we heard at the opening of yesterday's post, "She had to leave Los Angeles." And leave she did, for whatever reason, eventually finding herself in Sandpoint, Idaho, with her husband, with whom she had a child, before moving back to L.A., where she lives today.

"Los Angeles" (1980)

MacArthur Park

Northwest of the Morrison Hotel is MacArthur Park, a former drinking water reservoir and the inspiration for Jimmy Webb's song of the same name, made famous by Richard Harris in 1968, and then by Donna Summer ten years later.

MACARTHUR PARK
((Jimmy Webb)

Spring was never waiting for us, girl
It ran one step ahead
As we followed in the dance
Between the parted pages and were pressed,
In love's hot, fevered iron
Like a striped pair of pants

MacArthur Park is melting in the dark
All the sweet, green icing flowing down...
Someone left the cake out in the rain
and I don't think that I can take it
'cause it took so long to bake it
and I'll never have that recipe again
Oh, no!

I recall the yellow cotton dress
foaming like a wave
on the ground around your knees
The birds, like tender babies in your hands
and the old men playing checkers by the trees

MacArthur Park is melting in the dark
All the sweet, green icing flowing down...
Someone left the cake out in the rain
and I don't think that I can take it
'cause it took so long to bake it
and I'll never have that recipe again
Oh, no!

There will be another song for me
For I will sing it
There will be another dream for me
Someone will bring it
I will drink the wine while it is warm
and never let you catch me looking at the sun
And after all the loves of my life
after all the loves of my life
You'll still be the one.

I will take my life into my hands
and I will use it
I will win the worship in their eyes
and I will lose it
I will have the things that I desire
and my passion flow like rivers through the sky.
And after all the loves of my life
After all the loves of my life
I'll be thinking of you
and wondering why.

MacArthur Park is melting in the dark
All the sweet, green icing flowing down...
Someone left the cake out in the rain
and I don't think that I can take it
'cause it took so long to bake it
and I'll never have that recipe again
Oh, no!

"Land Ho!" (1970)

Pictures taken of the Doors on 1246 South Hope Street (Morrison Hotel) and 300 East 5th Street (Hard Rock Café) in Los Angeles, shortly before the release of their fifth studio album, Morrison Hotel, in February, 1970.