Maybe Money Was Mickey’s, Not Mick’s

You may recall that I mentioned discovering that the city of Los Angeles had 10 bank accounts totaling more than $4,000 on the “unclaimed property” Web site of the secretary of state’s office.

Well, Tammie Haller of Redondo Beach explored the site and found two unclaimed accounts for Mick Jagger, each containing small payments from Walt Disney.

Wait till those right-wing religious critics of Disney learn that the company has a relationship with Mick (not to be confused with Mickey!).

By the way, I’ve so far been unable to determine what Jagger did to earn the money. (The Web site doesn’t say, and he hasn’t been over to my house for dinner lately.) But, as Haller put it, “Somehow I don’t think he was a Mouseketeer.”

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ANYONE AWAKE AT CITY HALL? The “unclaimed property” file for L.A. has increased to 13 accounts since I wrote about it. That’s money just waiting to be picked up. But what the heck. It’s not like the city of L.A. has a tight budget these days.

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WHEELED BRIGADE: When a recycling center opened at a market in San Diego, a nearby resident noticed a large increase in street-person foot traffic. Noticing a pedesterian crosing sign, he surreptitiously added a symbol for the preferred means of aluminum can transport (see photo).

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THE PIZZA GUY MUST GO CRAZY: Janet St. Rain of Long Beach sent along a snapshot of the curb address at her home, which evidently dates to Roman times (see photo). Freelance curb painters never come knocking at her door.

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NAME DEPARTMENT: Jerry Leeds of Calabasas saw an announcement of a “Day for Women” event at Cal Lutheran, featuring keynote speaker Wilma Mankiller.

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YOU MIGHT CALL HER A DRIFTER: Barbie, who celebrated birthday No. 40 on Tuesday, has had 75 careers.

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THIS DAY IN HISTORY: March 10 marks the 66th anniversary of the 6.3-magnitude Long Beach quake, an event noted in F. Scott Fitzgerald’s novel “The Last Tycoon.” Narrator Cecilia Brady, whose father is a Hollywood producer, says:

“We didn’t get the full shock like at Long Beach, where the upper stories of shops were spewed into the streets and small hotels drifted out to sea--but for a full minute our bowels were one with the bowels of the Earth--like some nightmare attempt to attach our navel cords again and jerk us back to the womb of creation.”

At the flooded studio, two women are seen floating atop the prop head of an Indian deity. “We ought to let ‘em drift out to the waste pipe,” a studio exec says, “but De Mille needs that head next week.”

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UNCLEAR ON THE CONCEPT? Terri Lau of North Hollywood noticed that a local hospital was showing a free video on insomnia as part of its “Coffee Hour Medical Video Series.” I’ll bet none of the viewers fell asleep.

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Did you notice that the just-released road rage list had Los Angeles and Orange counties ranked 15th worst among metropolitan areas, with Riverside-San Bernardino No. 1 and Las Vegas No. 4? Seems to be a lot of angry drivers between Southern California and Vegas. Wonder how many of them are enraged gamblers?

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