Re: Hollywood Stars/Los Angeles Angels/San Francisco Seals/Oakland Oaks

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Brent,

<L.A.'s Wrigley Field while the minor league
<Angels are playing a game.  Then for the other side of the coin, 50's LA
<baseball style, you can watch 711 OCEAN DRIVE with Edmond O'Brien, with a
<scene at Gilmore Field during a Hollywood Stars game.

Amazing how the Pacific Coast League is still talked about all the time in 
San Francisco (the San Francisco Seals and the Oakland Oaks) but no one in 
L.A. really bothers talking about the world pre-L.A. Dodgers.  In Frisco, 
there is the amazing piano bar/restaurant LEFTY O'DOUL'S which is a great 
remnant left by the Seals long time manager, there is a Lefty O'Doul 
Boulevard, and they also did a book about Pre-Giants baseball in Frisco 
that's in every Frisco library.  Plus, catty-corner to where the old Seals 
Stadium is, there is the DOUBLE PLAY bar, which is still a Seals hang.... and 
everyone still holds Joe Dimaggio to their collective local bosom... he's a 
local icon in Frisco.  I was lucky enough to have my dad take me to the old 
DIMAGGIO'S RESTAURANT near Fisherman's Wharf in the summer of '67 when we 
went there on vacation.  It closed in the mid-'80s, but the Dimaggio's still 
own the property.  Imagine the dichotomy...  seein' Summer of Love Hippies on 
Haight and in Golden Gate Park, then goin' up to Dimaggio's.  That was really 
mind-expanding.

When I lived there, there was also a vintage card shop on Taraval, the guy 
had more PCL stuff in there than major leagues... he closed down in about '96.

Domenic Priore