Back in the late ’70s, my brother – a master woodworker in addition to having several patents for speaker designs – did a lot of custom cabinet work in the Los Angeles area, mostly in Beverly Hills. While he was Beverly Hillbilly-ing around, he got to see some interesting places, and I remember him telling me the one time he drove down to Hollywood to see the sights. He described Hollywood, about 1977 if memory serves, succinctly: “It’s a dump.”
Then, in 2007-2008, I worked on a nearly two-year consulting project involving setting up and validating a new manufacturing facility, and one weekend, I decided to see Hollywood for myself. Later, I told my wife: “It’s a dump.”
These days, Los Angeles in general is suffering from the “It’s a dump” syndrome, and now we see that, like many of California’s productive people, the film industry and the glitterati that…
