there's a plan to restore it to its "natural glory."

> I learned the word "boondoggle" as a child when I read it in the Los
> Angeles Herald Express. It was a reference to the lining of the L.A.
> River with concrete. In the late 1960s I suggested in a letter to the
> editor of the L.A. Times that the L.A. River should be dammed at the
> outlet and Angelenos could sail to work on little boats. Nobody
> bought it. It's still used, I believe, primarily for unauthorized
> teenage drag races and cinema chase scenes.
>
> Dan



--
Jim Devine
"Segui il tuo corso, e lascia dir le genti." (Go your own way and let
people talk.) -- Karl, paraphrasing Dante.

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