In case you just tuned in, I’m doing a little fact-checking as I go through Scotty Bowers’ “Full Service.” This will be fairly tedious except to a research drudge.
On Page 2 (I warned you this would be tedious) Scotty Bowers begins the tale of his first Hollywood encounter – purportedly with Walter Pidgeon. I spent the last two posts gathering the raw material for a timeline of Pidgeon’s life in 1946, the year the encounter allegedly occurred.
This time I’m going to expand on the last post to add information from The Times on when the local beaches were crowded. Recall that Bowers says:
It was a lovely, clear sunny day and I wasn’t expecting much traffic. In that kind of weather folks usually headed for the beach; they weren’t going to spend much time riding around in hot, stifling automobiles. I resigned myself to a potential day of boredom.
Next, I’ll try to figure out what it all means and how the historical record compares to the account in “Full Service.”
Fact-Checking “Full Service”: Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 | Part 4 | Part 5 | Part 6 | Part 7 | Part 8 | Part 9 | Part 10 | Part 11 | Part 12 | Part 13
The photos are Adams in his documentary mode and are not like the bravura images of Half Dome for which he is famous. The pictures document workers leaving the Lockheed plant and people’s daily lives in a trailer park.
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