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"It was only a short drive from NERF to the conference headquarters, in downtown Santa Monica."

"Nicholas Drake was sitting at his desk in his home in Brentwood, near Santa Monica."

"SANTA MONICAWEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 139:00 A.M."

"SANTA MONICAWEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 139:33 A.M. They were sitting on a bench across the street from the conference hall, just beyond the milling crowds near the entrance."

"SANTA MONICA WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 13 10:33 A.M."

"Who got her fiddle out of hock that time in Santa Monica? Who?"

"I was unhappy about going to meet Mr. Albright because I wasn’t used to going into white communities, like Santa Monica, to conduct business."

"OUR TEAM WORKED in a large hangar on the south side of the Santa Monica plant."

"Joppy’s house was dark and his bar was padlocked from the outside. The night watchman on duty at Albright’s building... So I made up my mind to call information for every town north of Santa Monica."

"I DROVE PAST SANTA MONICA into Malibu and found Route 9."

"One night I came upon the place at Santa Monica where Camilla and I had gone swimming in those first days."

"she drove the San Diego to the Harbor, the Harbor up to the Hollywood, the Hollywood to the Golden State, the Santa Monica, the Santa Ana, the Pasadena, the Ventura."

"At two o’clock they met Carter and the lawyers outside the courtroom in Santa Monica, and at two-thirty Maria swore and Helene confirmed that the defendant, Carter Lang, had repeatedly struck and in other ways humiliated the plaintiff, Mrs. Maria Lang."

"Baseline and Meridian. The beginning of southern California, where some old white man had laid out the streets that went all the way to LA and Hollywood and Santa Monica."

"Los Feliz has small mountains. Santa Monica is the west. We are in the center."

"And Santa Monica. From a slim green flowered park (a statue of Saint Monica serenely eyeing the long lines of cars turning from Wilshire Boulevard toward the beaches), the sand gleams expansively white—and Pacific Ocean Park gathers itself like a small facsimile pleasure-island: rides, a simulated sea, Neptune holding court over rainbowed fish, make-believe jungles."

"We returned to Santa Monica that afternoon. Crossing the bridge leading to the amusement park, he said: “I'm glad you decided to hang around with me. My vacation will be over soon—then I have to go back. I hate to think about it…”"

"I remember the man on the beach, that afternoon in Santa Monica, with whom I had sat on the sand watching that bird Escape into the sky."

"…and I recognize that crewcut man: the man on the beach who had fled from me that lonely night in Santa Monica—and suddenly I feel like crying because it’s true that people dont have wings...."

"the man on the beach in Santa Monica (and I remember him, instead, as I had seen him earlier here in New Orleans)"

"…a large circle of benevolent and open‐minded people from Manhattan, Austin, Santa Monica, Cambridge, and many other places."

"We got the ticket just as we were coming into Santa Monica."

"They took us to the station in Santa Monica. I put up cash bail and the desk sergeant said, 'Now get back where you belong and stay there."

"Insurance. I got desk room in Puss Walgreen’s office, Fulwider Building, Western and Santa Monica."

"On Santa Monica the water was level with the sidewalk and a thin film of it washed over the top of the curbing."

"I drove far out, to Santa Monica, found a bad motel, with two double beds and a television that worked."

"…once you got up there, in those mountains north of Santa Monica, you were safe; they couldn’t get to you."

"I drove carefully, Van Morrison blaring his “Tupelo Honey” and other repetitive hits, out of the maze of the marina and into Venice, up along the Palisades of Santa Monica, trying to re* member what 1 knew about Buenos Aires."

"but south of the towns of Santa Monica and Ocean Park, down a street called Washington, which ran headlong into a parking lot and then sand and then a fishing pier and then the sea"

"she made me come out to the Santa Monica palisades, just five blocks west of the deli where she worked, to watch as she handed that silken swatch to an old, sad woman on a bench."

"lay down in some retirement hotel on the Santa Monica bluffs."

"Florists all over the city had 'folded their tents' and let their roses wither, so the handsome waiters at Michael’s scurried out and plundered all the gardens of Santa Monica to bring back great branches of bougainvillea and entire plants of furiously blooming marguerites."

"If you wanted to paint your house sky-blue or Provencal-pink with lime-green shutters, you were perfectly welcome to move into the San Fernando Valley or to Santa Monica or anywhere else you chose, but if you bought into Arroyo Blanco Estates, your house would be white and your roof orange."

"...right on the edge of Malibu and only, what, twenty minutes from Santa Monica?"

"When Delaney broached the idea of taking in a movie that evening, he observed, “I was about to say that I hadn’t really decided, but there were two foreign films in Santa Monica, one at eight‐forty‐five and one at nine‐oh‐five, but of course that would exclude Jordan…”"

"…the Cherrystones had gone to Santa Monica and wouldn’t be back till seven."

"…that meant they’d have to go into the city, down to Santa Monica or Venice, or up over the canyon and into the Valley."

"Jack reserved the Range Rover for the freeway wars, five days a week, down the canyon road to the PCH and up the Santa Monica and 405 freeways to Sunset and his office in Century City."

"for generous financial support provided during the long, sometimes lean, years between books, I am grateful to: Santa Monica Artist Fellowship City of Santa Monica Nathan Birnbaum Cultural Affairs Director"

"Trent reaches into his pocket. “Here,” he says, handing me a card. “This is the address of a tanning salon on Santa Monica. Now, it’s not artificial lighting or anything like that, and you don’t have to rub Vitamin E capsules all over your bod.”"

"I leave the parking lot of Cedars-Sinai and make a couple of wrong turns and end up on Santa Monica."

"The tan blond usher standing by the door says to me, “Hey, I know you. Two Decembers ago at a party in Santa Monica, right?”"

"I pull up to Danny’s Okie Dog on Santa Monica and she trips as she climbs out of the small back seat of the Mercedes and lies on the sidewalk and laughs as I drive away."

"I surfed Venice and Santa Monica. Mostly Station 24. Sometimes 20."

"He stood over me while I was shin-deep in the rice paddy, planting stalks into the mud. He muttered something about choosing between Jews in Santa Monica and Gentiles in Holmby Hills, then began citing research that black kids who go to school with white kids of any religion “do better,” while also positing some not-so-credible research that black people were “better off” during segregation."

"Sky blue signified kickback cool bedroom communities like Santa Monica, Rancho Palos Verdes, and Manhattan Beach."

"Current temperatures … Santa Monica 79°/66° …"

"“I was just wondering—please say no if you don’t like the sound of it—would you really like to be a bank president? Because the money is there, now.” The Third Women’s Bank of Santa Monica."