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I further realized the movie, the article, and the subject of one of David Mann's more recent paintings for Roth's posters were all one one in the same. As I went thru the story and accompanying photos, I realized that the 'Psychedelic Love Temple' he was talking about was the same place that I had seen in The Trip.

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It also has a good soundtrack done by The Electric Flag, credited in the movie as The American Music Band, who's members included Mike Bloomfield, Buddy Miles, and Nick Gravenites.Ī photo from the Choppers article, showing the big LOVE/sEx letters painted in the middle of Ardmore Ave., in front of the house.Īlmost a year after seeing The Trip, the April '68 issue of Roth's Choppers Magazine came in the mail, and in it was an article written by 'El Jake' (possibly Jake Jacobs?) entitled 'Turn On With The Walls'. It's an OK '60's timepiece movie, and you can find it on. I remember skipping out of High School at lunch time in '67, for the rest of the afternoon, to go Downtown to see The Trip on the big movie screen. It's during the early '60's when it was finally abandoned. phonebook as the Ardmore Arms, so it must have been converted over to apartments at some time. In the early to late '60's it was still listed in the L.A. It was known early on as the Ardmore Mansion, then sometime in its history was home to a spiritualist for 33 years, and known as the San Souci Culture Temple then. The Temple was built in 1881, at the end of the California Gold Rush. Here's what I've been able to find out about the history of the Temple. It was at Coreman's insistance that Fonda be cast in the lead, and Nicholson finally agreed with that to sell his screenplay. As a sidenote here, Nicholson originally wrote the screenplay for The Trip with himself in mind for the lead part. The Temple appears in the first 5 minutes of the movie, and there were also scenes shot in and around the Temple front exterior area and interior.

Supposedly, the Temple was used as a backdrop for several other movies of the time, but I can't recall seeing it any other time on film. LSD exploitation movie The Trip, written by Jack Nicholson, and starring Peter Fonda, Bruce Dern, and Susan Strasberg as the main characters. This is the only image that I know of that shows the Temple, and I pulled the movie still from the 1967 Roger Coreman/American Intl. And, as it’s a very smart way to tell stories, it’s something I hope we see more papers emulate soon.and here it is, The 'Psychedelic Love Temple', 1039 Ardmore Ave. Warning: The photos of the protest include some of an engineer who was cut with a machete after his presentation, which begs the question of why they were allowed to bring machetes to a public meeting, but I digress.

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My personal favorites are this photo of a Chinese couple after an earthquake struck during their wedding photo shoot at a deserted Catholic seminary and the series on an indigenous tribe protesting a hydroelectric dam.

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The web is free of the restraints of the hardcopy pages, so it’s nice that this blog has actually taken advantage of that. It’s a nice departure from the small images that generally accompany online news articles and the ever-constant space struggle between stories, photos and ads in print. The photojournalism blog is compiled semi-regularly by Alan Taylor and uses high-quality photos from different news services around the world to focus on current events, lesser-known stories or “just about anything that comes across the wire that looks really interesting.”Īnd the featured photos truly are “big pictures ” they run at a size that will take up most of your computer screen. Still, when it comes down to it, sometimes a photo really is better than a thousand words.įew things show this better than The Boston Globe’s new blog, The Big Picture. I enjoy the chance to try and describe a place, a situation or a person, aiming to make the reader feel like they’ve experienced these things themselves. When I first started taking journalism classes in college, I was drawn to the print department over photo or broadcast because, in general, I felt it gave a better opportunity to really tackle an issue rather than try to capture it in a photo or 30-second sound bite.

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