Thanks for the kind words. I had great fun today and also I felt it was a way to repay the other contributors who have educated and fascinated me so many times here.
I'm kind of hung up on the bar stools, too. You can see the one stainless steel post in my photo, that has a similar look. I don't get it, because the stools seem so perfectly lined up...were they bolted to the floor? It looks uncomfortable and sort of unfriendly...and you wouldn't be able to turn around very easily. Weird.
But the
really weird thing is how Allen Burnell, Mary McCall, and Joe Moore just sit there like nothing has happened, seemingly nonplussed, with George D. Miller's fresh corpse just feet away. I think I'd have paid my tab, left the basement, and retired to my room or gone out for some air. Maybe one of the cops told them to stick around until his sarge showed up. And George was killed all because of a song on the jukebox. Well, it's
noir, that's for sure.
Oh, while were at it, here's the other USC photo:
http://digitallibrary.usc.edu/assets...0BC193032?v=hr