![]() If you wear a mask, see if you can persuade someone to tear it off your face, as in the movie, and back away in horror. Saddle up! Here’s more about San Dimas’ cameo in John Wayne’s ‘Hondo’Ĭostumes are encouraged. In another innovation, there’ll be a no-host bar for the first time, in case you need some liquid courage to face the Phantom. If Friends can show two movies per year instead of one, she says, that may mean twice the proceeds.ĭoors open at 12:30 p.m. “This is the first time we’ve done a movie in the fall,” Mary Jean Comadena, president of Friends, tells me. Some of those tickets were sold in 2020, but the screening had to be postponed two years due to the pandemic. Some $8,500 was raised from ticket sales, the (appropriately) silent auction and donations. I was there and it was great fun, the audience reacting audibly to the drama-drenched plot while the organist punctuated the action on the room’s Kimball organ. It’ll take place in the hotel’s Grand Parisian Ballroom - about as close in name as Riverside can come to the movie’s Parisian setting, the Palais Garnier.įriends of the Mission Inn is the host, with proceeds - tickets are $25 in advance or $30 at the door - used to further Friends’ mission (so to speak) of protecting the historic hotel.įriends’ most recent movie was “Blood and Sand” with Rudolph Valentino back in May. 30 in the Mission Inn with live organ accompaniment. Just in time for Halloween, the 1925 version of “The Phantom of the Opera” with Lon Chaney will screen at 1:30 p.m. In Riverside, it seems, Gridlock isn’t moving. A water line will be replaced, necessitating street digging and traffic control until about March. Starting as soon as Monday, Riversiders will see “Gridlock” emblazoned on cones and equipment on Brockton Avenue from Mission Inn Avenue to 14th Street. The project along Canyon Crest Drive is wrapping up this week after seven months of traffic control along 1.2 miles of road. “If I can slow traffic down in the work zone and keep people safe,” Buchholz says, “I’ve done my job.” Gridlock, at least in the narrow sense of this particular company, is evidently acceptable, perhaps even desirable. Jobs so far have been in Ontario, Carlsbad, San Diego, L.A. (Photo by David Allen, Inland Valley Daily Bulletin/SCNG) It’s the name of the company doing traffic control while the street has been torn up for a new sewer line. “Either that or they’re cursing it, seeing cone after cone with ‘Gridlock,’ ‘Gridlock,’ ‘Gridlock.’” Tubular delineators stamped with the word “Gridlock” have greeted motorists for months on Riverside’s Canyon Crest Drive. “Obviously the public gets a kick out of it too,” Buchholz agrees. I tell Buchholz that on my slow drives past his skinny orange barriers - tubular delineators, in industry parlance - the name has made me laugh, not my usual reaction when stuck in traffic. “We’re trying to create Gridlock Solutions, although at times,” Buchholz admits, “it’s like we’re causing gridlock.” Calling your company Gridlock Solutions is self-descriptive, but possibly optimistic.
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