PHIL/DC/LA/SF TRIP 1960-1961
December 19, 1960 - January 8, 1961
MONDAY, DECEMBER 19: Send more Christmas cards and cash checks and write letters and clean apartment and buy plane ticket and get to Laird's at 9PM and get out to cruise till 2.
TUESDAY, DECEMBER 20: Proofread for Laird and get to University of Pennsylvania and meet Jim Lissenden and see museum and see "L'Elisir D'Amore" and cruise a little and get to bed.
WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 21: See Rosenbach gallery and pack and get 4PM bus to Washington, read "Myth of Sisyphus" and go unhappily to Hut.
THURSDAY, DECEMBER 22: Call Paul and meet Chip and go skating and have dinner at Dr. Grant's and talk LONG into evening, and back to hotel with Paul.
FRIDAY, DECEMBER 23: Watch TV and do Christmas shopping and watch lighting of National tree and get money from Dr. Grant and meet Paul and get early to hotel for great time.
SATURDAY, DECEMBER 24: Up and buy ticket and look at terminal and bus and read "Brothers Karamazov" and to New York City at 7:30 and read letters and mail and look at books and get to bed late.
SUNDAY, DECEMBER 25: Up to "Nutcracker" at City Center and mess with blocks and fix up apartment and pack for California and fly out at 12 midnight.
MONDAY, DECEMBER 26: Read and look at Grand Canyon and Rockies and in Burbank at 9. Call Carl and get ride through town and lie on beach and meet Lou (writes for Freeburg) and Joe Carpenter and eat at deli.
TUESDAY, DECEMBER 27: Loaf in apartment and out at 2. Eat in drug store and shop bookshops and Ballocks, buy pants and get to Red Raven and meet Luke.
WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 28: With Luke to Pancake House and Le Playo and surfers beaches and to fabulous Knott's Berry Farm. Back to dine at Jack's medieval barn and cruise and to bed.
THURSDAY, DECEMBER 29: Out on Wilshire bus to IBM and Carl and I get lunch with new SRIers, and I get to Angels Flight and to Gardens and meet Fred Moy and we eat steaks.
FRIDAY, DECEMBER 30: Bus to Pacific Ocean Park and back to get flight to San Francisco. Check in at Cleft and meet Mike and I get off to Hideaway and meet Joe Nasternak.
SATURDAY, DECEMBER 31: Cable car with Carl and Gary Nelson to Buena Vista and see Balclutha and Fisherman's Wharf and I try preview but we end up at Actor's Ensemble and I spend New Years on Market St, also seeing "Los Disarraigados" earlier in the evening.
1961
SUNDAY, JANUARY 1: New Years on Market Street in San Francisco, and up to see Gary off and cable car to a closed Buena Vista and eat at MTF's and move flight up, fly to LA, eat at Surf Room and Carl and cops and five-minute raid at Brownstone.
MONDAY, JANUARY 2: Up at 11 and hunt for bread and pack lunch and get to "Beach North of Malibu" for "Art of Love" by Fromm and octopus and cold. Back to hamburgs and meet Rob Pendleton and John Olson and home early.
TUESDAY, JANUARY 3: Wait for Luke till 12 and get bus to Exposition Park for two museums, rather sketchy, eat at Casa Mica, tasty tacos and meet Merle and back early to bed.
WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 4: Into town with Carl, wander Central LA, look and cruise in Library and bus to Huntington Museum and Library, great, and help Carl and eat at Chatham and bed early.
THURSDAY, JANUARY 5: Get haircut and groceries and laundry and back for breakfast and Rob calls and I tour UCLA with him and talk here and I get to bed early.
FRIDAY, JANUARY 6: To town with Carl and bus tour of U-I studios and talk with Dean Stockwell and lunch in commissary and trip to Marineland and back for "Exodus" and almost WALK home.
SATURDAY, JANUARY 7: Up at 10 and breakfast after bed at 2AM, out and Rob and Carl and I to Disneyland and free tickets and back and tuna here and I try to get Rob and fail. "Facts of Life," "Let No Man Write My Epitaph."
SUNDAY, JANUARY 8: On beach and up canyons and to airport and fly here, C16.