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Originally Posted by tovangar2
There's a wealth of choices for a new name for Pershing Square.
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Basically, for me, anything but "Pershing", which memorializes an embarrassingly jingoistic episode. Not our finest hour.
I dunno, what name would you pick?
Nathan Masters on former name changes
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I am not in favor of renaming public places ad infinitum or the current vogue
of making money off selling the name rights as USC is considering to do for the
Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum.
I say, it's been that way about a century, so leave it Pershing Square.
I overheard a relative youngster recently saying they had just seen a movie at the TCL.
I wondered where that was until later it dawned on me he was talking about the TCL Chinese Theatre.
From Grauman's Chinese Theatre to Mann's Chinese Theatre to TCL Chinese Theatre.
Kodak Theatre to Dolby Theatre.
Did you guys know that awhile ago the city of Los Angeles was trying a program of
licensing advertising on the waste receptacles and other type things in the city public
parks? Trash cans and the like were adorned with posters for the new, at the time,
Yogi Bear film. It was not greeted with any enthusiasm.
One night at Dodger Stadium a movie company got the Dodgers to place a
strip at the bottom side of each "base" advertising their upcoming film. The
more players who got on base. The more advertising. I wonder if the people
operating the cameras were told to focus on those? It wouldn't surprise me.
Attending a game once I wondered why a small MasterCard advertisement
was in a really strange place in the stadium on a seemingly innocuous wall
near the visitor's bullpen. Until later in the year I was watching a game on TV
and noticed it all the time on the TV coverage. And I'm sure the way they're
spending money now it won't be long before Dodger Stadium is sold out to
be called something else like Farmer John Dodger Dog Stadium.
How about Noirish Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum?
NLA Chinese Theatre?