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It is my great pleasure to be here today with Amy Inouye. Today is Monday, June 17th, 2024, and we are recording in the Octavia Lab at Central Library in downtown Los Angeles. Amy is a multi-talented artist, a book designer, graphic designer, community activist, and, since 2011, president of Photo Friends of Los Angeles Public Library, which supports the LAPL photo collection. Yet, Amy is probably best known for rescuing Chicken Boy. For those who may not be familiar with Chicken Boy, can you briefly give us a description of Chicken Boy, Amy?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2367/collection_resources/144104/file/266470#t=6.11,50.9"},{"id":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2367/collection_resources/144104/file/266470/transcript/76805/annotation/2","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eAmy Inouye:\u003c/strong\u003e Sure. Well, it turns out he's 22.5ft tall. He's made of fiberglass. He has a man's body with the head of a chicken, and he's holding a bucket of chicken. And he's a vintage age, I think 1960s, when there were many of these around Los Angeles.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2367/collection_resources/144104/file/266470#t=50.93,72.95"},{"id":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2367/collection_resources/144104/file/266470/transcript/76805/annotation/3","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eKelly Wallace:\u003c/strong\u003e Los Angeles has a lot of examples of, I guess, what we call roadside or vernacular architecture. Randy's Donuts being one of the most famous. Before we start, how do you describe yourself? What title do you","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2367/collection_resources/144104/file/266470#t=74.06,88.946"},{"id":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2367/collection_resources/144104/file/266470/transcript/76805/annotation/4","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eAmy Inouye:\u003c/strong\u003e I just really keep it simple and say I'm a book designer.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2367/collection_resources/144104/file/266470#t=89.39,93.59"},{"id":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2367/collection_resources/144104/file/266470/transcript/76805/annotation/5","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eKelly Wallace:\u003c/strong\u003e And how did you get into book design?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2367/collection_resources/144104/file/266470#t=94.83,98.16"},{"id":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2367/collection_resources/144104/file/266470/transcript/76805/annotation/6","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eAmy Inouye:\u003c/strong\u003e Well, I was always a graphic designer. That was my profession. And I worked in ad agencies around town. I freelanced around, just doing ads, pay stubs back when, you know, we did pay stubs, and I learned how to set type. But around, I don't, I'd say about 30 years ago, I just decided that I was going to make the transition into books because I was always a reader. So it just so happens that I met a person through another client that we were both working for. She was interested in starting a publishing company. So we just, you know, total beginners, we just decided, okay, let's do this. And those were my my first couple of books. And I just kept learning and kept, it kept leading to other book projects. So it worked out.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2367/collection_resources/144104/file/266470#t=98.79,153.57"},{"id":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2367/collection_resources/144104/file/266470/transcript/76805/annotation/7","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eKelly Wallace:\u003c/strong\u003e Where did you grow up and when and how did you move to Los Angeles?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2367/collection_resources/144104/file/266470#t=155.55,161.37"},{"id":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2367/collection_resources/144104/file/266470/transcript/76805/annotation/8","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eAmy Inouye:\u003c/strong\u003e I grew up in the Bay area, in in the suburbs in San Mateo, which is, I don't know, maybe ten miles south of San Francisco. And I moved to Los Angeles. I had been going to community college, studying art, and I had an instructor there who said, hey, you should apply to Art Center. And I never heard of it, but I'm really a person who just goes for the next easiest thing, you know? So so I applied to Art Center and I got in. So next thing I know, two weeks later I'm driving to Los Angeles. Packed","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2367/collection_resources/144104/file/266470#t=161.4,203.67"},{"id":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2367/collection_resources/144104/file/266470/transcript/76805/annotation/9","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eKelly Wallace:\u003c/strong\u003e up your car and— Yes.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2367/collection_resources/144104/file/266470#t=203.67,205.26"},{"id":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2367/collection_resources/144104/file/266470/transcript/76805/annotation/10","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eKelly Wallace:\u003c/strong\u003e And Art Center at that time, it's now in Pasadena. But at that time it was located—","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2367/collection_resources/144104/file/266470#t=206.22,210.785"},{"id":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2367/collection_resources/144104/file/266470/transcript/76805/annotation/11","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eAmy Inouye:\u003c/strong\u003e On Third Street. There's a little, I don't know what it was before, a setback, a kind of a big house that they turned into the school. Excuse me.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2367/collection_resources/144104/file/266470#t=211.11,224.63"},{"id":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2367/collection_resources/144104/file/266470/transcript/76805/annotation/12","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eKelly Wallace:\u003c/strong\u003e Bless you. Interesting. Do you have any memories of that immediate neighborhood?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2367/collection_resources/144104/file/266470#t=225.59,230.93"},{"id":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2367/collection_resources/144104/file/266470/transcript/76805/annotation/13","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eAmy Inouye:\u003c/strong\u003e It was Hancock Park, so it was—","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2367/collection_resources/144104/file/266470#t=231.2,233.6"},{"id":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2367/collection_resources/144104/file/266470/transcript/76805/annotation/14","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eKelly Wallace:\u003c/strong\u003e Very nice.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2367/collection_resources/144104/file/266470#t=234.32,235.064"},{"id":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2367/collection_resources/144104/file/266470/transcript/76805/annotation/15","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eAmy Inouye:\u003c/strong\u003e In the middle of Hancock Park, but it was a really small school at the time. I think there were fewer than 500 students over all the the programs and all the semesters.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2367/collection_resources/144104/file/266470#t=235.1,248.09"},{"id":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2367/collection_resources/144104/file/266470/transcript/76805/annotation/16","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eKelly Wallace:\u003c/strong\u003e And you discover Chicken Boy just a few days after you moved to LA.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2367/collection_resources/144104/file/266470#t=249.96,253.59"},{"id":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2367/collection_resources/144104/file/266470/transcript/76805/annotation/17","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eAmy Inouye:\u003c/strong\u003e Yes, I was just driving around, I came down, I moved to LA and gave myself five days to get acquainted with the city before school started, and I would just get up in the morning and drive around. And so one day I thought, oh, I want to go to Grand Central Market. And I was living, I can't remember where. But anyway, I was driving up the street and that's when I saw Chicken Boy, who used to be, you know, is this right? It used to be two blocks south from Grand Central Market. And it was just kind of, I don't know, not quite, like he didn't glow or anything like that, but, he made me feel comfortable.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2367/collection_resources/144104/file/266470#t=254.76,302.76"},{"id":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2367/collection_resources/144104/file/266470/transcript/76805/annotation/18","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eKelly Wallace:\u003c/strong\u003e And it turns out that you have always liked, that kind of architecture and that you are a fan of—","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2367/collection_resources/144104/file/266470#t=305.76,312.786"},{"id":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2367/collection_resources/144104/file/266470/transcript/76805/annotation/19","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eAmy Inouye:\u003c/strong\u003e Yes.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2367/collection_resources/144104/file/266470#t=313.14,314.01"},{"id":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2367/collection_resources/144104/file/266470/transcript/76805/annotation/20","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eKelly Wallace:\u003c/strong\u003e Doggie Diner.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2367/collection_resources/144104/file/266470#t=314.46,315.275"},{"id":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2367/collection_resources/144104/file/266470/transcript/76805/annotation/21","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eAmy Inouye:\u003c/strong\u003e Doggie Diner was my my fascination when I was a kid. Yes. And he was a, he was a dachshund's head wearing a chef's cap and a handkerchief around, around his neck. And he, he was also fiberglass. And the head, spun on a rod. He was giant. He was, I mean, I think he was 10 or 12ft tall and, likewise, signage. So this was imprinted on me in childhood. So I'm always kind of I think also because, in that way that kids create their own friends. They were friends, my friends.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2367/collection_resources/144104/file/266470#t=315.42,357.36"},{"id":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2367/collection_resources/144104/file/266470/transcript/76805/annotation/22","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eKelly Wallace:\u003c/strong\u003e A few years later, you were driving by and you saw the for lease sign,the chicken stand was all boarded up. Yes. And an impulse hit you to—","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2367/collection_resources/144104/file/266470#t=360.0,375.156"},{"id":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2367/collection_resources/144104/file/266470/transcript/76805/annotation/23","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eAmy Inouye:\u003c/strong\u003e To start calling the phone number that was on the signs. 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I,","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2367/collection_resources/144104/file/266470#t=398.55,403.11"},{"id":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2367/collection_resources/144104/file/266470/transcript/76805/annotation/25","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eAmy Inouye:\u003c/strong\u003e I'm really guessing, but I think over the course of a few months, I would call them every couple of weeks and just see what, because they didn't know. They told me they didn't know what was going to happen with the building or with the statue. So, I just kept calling back nicely and, and just every couple of weeks and how you if, you do that for a while and they don't totally write you off as a nut case, they kind of get a little chatty with you. And that's, that's kind of what happened. They, they kind of started remembering me when I called. And, you know, we got chatty. So, so after a few months of that, they, they I think they called me and said, hey, we have to get him off of the building. You can have him if you come and get him.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2367/collection_resources/144104/file/266470#t=403.26,457.39"},{"id":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2367/collection_resources/144104/file/266470/transcript/76805/annotation/26","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eKelly Wallace:\u003c/strong\u003e Well, that's great, but how do you come and get him?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2367/collection_resources/144104/file/266470#t=459.4,462.88"},{"id":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2367/collection_resources/144104/file/266470/transcript/76805/annotation/27","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eAmy Inouye:\u003c/strong\u003e Yes.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2367/collection_resources/144104/file/266470#t=462.91,463.21"},{"id":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2367/collection_resources/144104/file/266470/transcript/76805/annotation/28","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eKelly Wallace:\u003c/strong\u003e So it's 22ft. He's","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2367/collection_resources/144104/file/266470#t=465.19,466.63"},{"id":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2367/collection_resources/144104/file/266470/transcript/76805/annotation/29","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eAmy Inouye:\u003c/strong\u003e 22ft tall. At that time, we didn't know he was 22ft tall. We were guessing eight feet. Ten feet because he was on top of, he was three stories up, and you could only see him right from the sidewalk.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2367/collection_resources/144104/file/266470#t=466.63,480.7"},{"id":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2367/collection_resources/144104/file/266470/transcript/76805/annotation/30","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eKelly Wallace:\u003c/strong\u003e So I realized that. Yes,","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2367/collection_resources/144104/file/266470#t=480.97,482.41"},{"id":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2367/collection_resources/144104/file/266470/transcript/76805/annotation/31","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eAmy Inouye:\u003c/strong\u003e it was hard, hard to, to gauge because, yeah, I mean, I'm not whatever. At that time, I had two employees, and so I made it a company job that we were going to do this. It was very spontaneous. Yeah, let's just do it. And then we started calling moving companies to see how this was going to happen. We made arrangements to go downtown and look at him, and that's when we found out he was so tall. But we kind of, I guess, this is the kind of thing you do when you're younger. You just commit. You just think it's funny. 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They were supposed to call us so we could go down and watch it and take pictures and stuff, but they didn't. They called us after he was down and we said, okay, we'll meet you at the warehouse. So we met him at the warehouse and we couldn't. There was not enough manpower or anything to get him into the warehouse, because at that time, he they, they cut him off below his shoes and there was structural steel reinforcement in there. So he was really heavy, and we couldn't, we couldn't get the, the truck into the warehouse, and we couldn't, we didn't have enough manpower to lift him out into the warehouse. Okay, so then we started calling around and we found a storage yard nearby that we could just move him to. So that was, that was pretty fast. 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At one point he sort of got kicked out of the first storage unit because the city decided it didn't want this kind of storage in the city limits. So then we had to move him to Monterey Park. 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He ended up eventually in a friend's backyard, and then when they got tired of him, I had to move it into my little parking area at my apartment building. But, you know, it worked. It worked. And","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2367/collection_resources/144104/file/266470#t=745.82,768.5"},{"id":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2367/collection_resources/144104/file/266470/transcript/76805/annotation/44","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eKelly Wallace:\u003c/strong\u003e he eventually ended up on the roof of your studio in Highland Park. 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So can you describe that, what that, what the Guerilla Service Project was and how you got involved.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2367/collection_resources/144104/file/266470#t=911.12,942.53"},{"id":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2367/collection_resources/144104/file/266470/transcript/76805/annotation/57","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eAmy Inouye:\u003c/strong\u003e Yes. So the the guerilla public service was he had decided something had always bothered him about driving up the Harbor Freeway and, in downtown, because they have that really weird interchange that gets you to the 5 where you have to be in the left lane, right. So, but there's no sign. There was no sign to ever indicate that until you actually got to that interchange. There was one for awhile, there was one little sign off to the right of the freeway, but you really, you, nobody would notice that. So he decided he's an artist and kind of, makes his living in the sign world so he knows how to do this stuff. He decided that he was going to put, he was going to correct the overhead big freeway sign with with something indicating that to get onto the 5, you have to be in these lanes. And so he had planned this whole thing out. Over many years, I think, many years. So I was a friend of his, and he was, he had a studio at the Brewery, and every art walk that I went to, I would go visit him and he'd tell me about this project, and I would just encourage him to do it because I thought it was just kind of genius. So, he finally did it and called up a crew of about six friends, maybe, called us up to come meet him. He was going to do this, and he just needed people to videotape and all of that, and moral support. So, again, six o'clock in the morning, he pulled it off. He did this. It was fantastic. He really plans things really well. So he had been making a documentation of the whole thing. And so, he, he assigned us different spots to stand at and film and all of that, so—","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2367/collection_resources/144104/file/266470#t=942.89,1065.51"},{"id":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2367/collection_resources/144104/file/266470/transcript/76805/annotation/58","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eKelly Wallace:\u003c/strong\u003e I believe you told me that you had a camera, but you don't think you shot anything because you were so busy watching. 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But tell us about the, I mean, he went, he cut his hair so he would look like a worker, an official worker, wore an orange vest, but turns out there were real Caltrans workers that day.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2367/collection_resources/144104/file/266470#t=1087.92,1129.731"},{"id":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2367/collection_resources/144104/file/266470/transcript/76805/annotation/61","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eAmy Inouye:\u003c/strong\u003e Yes. It was pretty funny. He made a sign for his truck that he'd pulled off to the side of the freeway that said some kind of blah, blah, blah construction. And, yeah, he did, he's kind of a regular guy, you know, so he knew he was going to fit in. But the day, the morning we were doing that, there was an actual Caltrans workers working on a sign like one sign down or two signs. It was very funny, but he just decided to proceed and act like, you know, like, you know what you're doing and that you belong here. And it didn't take him very long. I mean, it was maybe ten minutes, 15 minutes. It took him to actually haul everything over and he had really planned everything out so well. Just screw them into the sign and all of this kind of stuff. It was fantastic. And","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2367/collection_resources/144104/file/266470#t=1130.8,1193.38"},{"id":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2367/collection_resources/144104/file/266470/transcript/76805/annotation/62","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eKelly Wallace:\u003c/strong\u003e nobody noticed, or nobody official, noticed for like, months. Eight","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2367/collection_resources/144104/file/266470#t=1193.38,1198.744"},{"id":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2367/collection_resources/144104/file/266470/transcript/76805/annotation/63","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eAmy Inouye:\u003c/strong\u003e months, something like eight months. And you know what happened? One of the witnesses to the project got tired of waiting for somebody to discover it and kind of, you know, told on him. Ah, and then the whirlwind of CNN, LA times, you know, every Wall Street Journal, everybody. Three it was three days of solid Richard on television.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2367/collection_resources/144104/file/266470#t=1198.744,1223.05"},{"id":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2367/collection_resources/144104/file/266470/transcript/76805/annotation/64","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eKelly Wallace:\u003c/strong\u003e And I was fascinated with Caltrans response. They actually took it well. They didn't come after him or charge him with anything.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2367/collection_resources/144104/file/266470#t=1223.98,1236.25"},{"id":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2367/collection_resources/144104/file/266470/transcript/76805/annotation/65","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eAmy Inouye:\u003c/strong\u003e No, they said he'd done a good job and they left it up. They left it up. 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Then some, some period of time passed and the sign came down on a Thanksgiving weekend, because a friend of Richard's saw this happening and called him up. They had taken it down and replaced it, and they replaced it as Richard had done it. So, that was pretty cool. But he couldn't salvage the actual pieces that he had made to change the sign. 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Of course, like for me, honestly, to this day, it's one of the proudest moments of my life that, you know, that he asked me to work on this. I did not. But, you know, the art community, the little art community around him just really loved this. And we all love Richard and think he's great and he has great ideas. So we all loved it. We didn't understand, I guess the, the impact that it would really have. Yeah, it was pretty great.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2367/collection_resources/144104/file/266470#t=1298.23,1340.11"},{"id":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2367/collection_resources/144104/file/266470/transcript/76805/annotation/72","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eKelly Wallace:\u003c/strong\u003e So two very, long lasting, impactful projects right here that we've already just discussed. Chicken boy and the Freeway sign. But around the time of the freeway sign, participated in another, I like this word caper, so we'll keep using it, caper. But this was of your own design, creation. This","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2367/collection_resources/144104/file/266470#t=1340.89,1364.29"},{"id":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2367/collection_resources/144104/file/266470/transcript/76805/annotation/73","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eAmy Inouye:\u003c/strong\u003e was the angels project. Okay, so I called it \"Beak Kind to the Angels.\" That's the name of the project, so I don't remember the year again, but, when, who was it? I can't remember who even sponsored the project. But this was when cities were doing big fiberglass, you know, cows in Chicago, blah, blah, blah. Okay, so Los Angeles had angels. There were a bunch of angels, like eight foot tall. I think they were 7 or 8ft tall. fiberglass angels that artists could paint, decorate, whatever, remake into something. And it was a fundraiser for, I'm not sure who, but there were bunches of them all over, so I decided that the ones downtown, I was going to put chicken beaks on them. This is kind of my dabbling in performance art. So I got some chicken beaks and I put them on elastic cords, and I got a bunch of people, I think there were 20, 24 people maybe. I got a crew of people, gave them a map of where all the angels were in downtown Los Angeles, and they were supposed to go put the beak on it. So we were not harming them because it was an elastic band, you know. They had their instructions were, I sent them out in teams of 2 or 3, put the beak on, take a picture, run. So the pictures were going to be my documentation, but I just decided to leave the beaks on them. They all disappeared right away. But I have the documentation. 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I really honestly don't remember who, who had a piece at the Music Center and she had gone, there were about, I'm going to say, at least four of them at the Music Center. And she had gone down to check it out, check out her piece. And they had been up for a while. Okay. So she had gone down to check it out, and she came upon the beaked ones shortly after that crew put them on and somebody on that crew said, oh yeah, this lady was really mad. She was going around taking them off and throwing them on the ground.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2367/collection_resources/144104/file/266470#t=1482.06,1521.42"},{"id":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2367/collection_resources/144104/file/266470/transcript/76805/annotation/76","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eKelly Wallace:\u003c/strong\u003e Oh, that's funny. And this caught the attention of an LA times columnist. 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Also one of my proudest moments, so they did, the Arthurs designed the machines that I think still exist there, maybe for onions and relish, that you crank the thing, there are these aluminum, I don't know what, aluminum-like things that you crank it and then onions and relish would come out the other side. And, so they asked me to design a label for it, and it's really the simplest design ever. But I'm just really, it makes me proud every time I see them. 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So funny I don't know, it's very—","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2367/collection_resources/144104/file/266470#t=1698.775,1701.414"},{"id":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2367/collection_resources/144104/file/266470/transcript/76805/annotation/86","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eAmy Inouye:\u003c/strong\u003e I don't know simple. It's simple to the point.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2367/collection_resources/144104/file/266470#t=1702.32,1705.86"},{"id":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2367/collection_resources/144104/file/266470/transcript/76805/annotation/87","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eKelly Wallace:\u003c/strong\u003e Yes, but. 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I mean, I'm really into simple instructions and simple signage. Oh,","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2367/collection_resources/144104/file/266470#t=1716.95,1723.94"},{"id":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2367/collection_resources/144104/file/266470/transcript/76805/annotation/91","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eKelly Wallace:\u003c/strong\u003e that's what all the instruction books and labels should be these days. Yes, but let's talk just briefly about some of the perks that you got to have lunch with them in the Stadium Club and got tickets that were several rows behind Ethel Bradley. She was mayor Tom Bradley's wife and a well known avid Dodger fan. 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It's got some really lovely little houses and some craftsman. There's some really great pockets all around Highland Park, Eagle Rock, Mount Washington area. And","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2367/collection_resources/144104/file/266470#t=1835.0,1853.87"},{"id":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2367/collection_resources/144104/file/266470/transcript/76805/annotation/97","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eKelly Wallace:\u003c/strong\u003e it's a great location. It's super close to downtown. Yes,","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2367/collection_resources/144104/file/266470#t=1853.87,1857.35"},{"id":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2367/collection_resources/144104/file/266470/transcript/76805/annotation/98","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eAmy Inouye:\u003c/strong\u003e it is, Pasadena, Dodger Stadium.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2367/collection_resources/144104/file/266470#t=1857.35,1860.32"},{"id":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2367/collection_resources/144104/file/266470/transcript/76805/annotation/99","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eKelly Wallace:\u003c/strong\u003e So let's circle back to book design briefly, because working in book design sort of connected you with LA history community and eventually Photo Friends.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2367/collection_resources/144104/file/266470#t=1867.57,1884.669"},{"id":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2367/collection_resources/144104/file/266470/transcript/76805/annotation/100","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eAmy Inouye:\u003c/strong\u003e Definitely. So the what happened was I did these couple of books. Eventually, pretty early on, I met Patty and Scott from Angel City Press, and they started hiring me to work on projects. And even though I was really a beginner at the time, I learned pretty fast. And I'm, I am very attentive to details. So we had not that many issues, because book design is, really there's a million moving parts and you have to think on your feet and adjust and whatever and keep remembering to come back and check certain things and blah, blah, blah. So they hired me to work on a job, and I did okay. So they hired me again, and I ended up working for them for 25 years. I'm going to say, on a freelance basis. But they specialized, of course, in all many things Los Angeles, many niche-y, very specific subjects that have to do with the city or something about, you know, how LA grew. So I learned a lot, saw a lot of images. I became friends with almost all their authors because they believed in, in kind of throwing me together with the authors and talking through their, what they wanted and things like that. So it was it was a great run.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2367/collection_resources/144104/file/266470#t=1884.94,1984.96"},{"id":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2367/collection_resources/144104/file/266470/transcript/76805/annotation/101","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eKelly Wallace:\u003c/strong\u003e And, a footnote here. The library, Los Angeles Public Library has just recently acquired Angel City Press. 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You mentioned a lot of moving parts because there's, we don't think about book design, really, but there's all sorts of— it's not just like where you put the picture, but you like where you want to draw the eye and keep them—","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2367/collection_resources/144104/file/266470#t=2000.08,2013.394"},{"id":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2367/collection_resources/144104/file/266470/transcript/76805/annotation/104","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eAmy Inouye:\u003c/strong\u003e Yes, you want people to keep turning the pages, and I didn't, I mean, I guess because I'm visual and I have always been a reader, I didn't know, I couldn't verbalize this, but now I've learned sort of the psychology of how you, how the eye moves through pages. What I think anyway, is psychology. And so I use, I've developed my own toolkit of things that I do in my book design.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2367/collection_resources/144104/file/266470#t=2013.64,2044.84"},{"id":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2367/collection_resources/144104/file/266470/transcript/76805/annotation/105","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eKelly Wallace:\u003c/strong\u003e Just talk briefly about your involvement with Photo Friends. Okay.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2367/collection_resources/144104/file/266470#t=2046.19,2052.19"},{"id":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2367/collection_resources/144104/file/266470/transcript/76805/annotation/106","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eAmy Inouye:\u003c/strong\u003e So of course I joined Photo Friends because I was asked to by Carolyn Cole our, like, fearless leader of the of the photo collection, who really, I'm going to say she built the photo collection, or she really boosted it. And so I was friends with Carolyn and she asked me to join, and I just stuck around.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2367/collection_resources/144104/file/266470#t=2052.19,2074.449"},{"id":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2367/collection_resources/144104/file/266470/transcript/76805/annotation/107","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eKelly Wallace:\u003c/strong\u003e Um, that brings us to the end of the questions I had prepared for you. Is there anything you want to discuss we haven't touched on?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2367/collection_resources/144104/file/266470#t=2077.12,2086.21"},{"id":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2367/collection_resources/144104/file/266470/transcript/76805/annotation/108","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eAmy Inouye:\u003c/strong\u003e Let's see. I guess I could talk a little bit about about what we've done with Photo Friends, because I think that's, is Christina going to do this? This took me a while to to get to this point, but I was a member of I was on the board for many years, and then, at a certain point, um, just volunteered to be president of it. And I think after I was president for a couple of years and kind of thought about it for, obviously more than I'd thought about it before, and I thought, I'm a book designer and we have access to millions of photographs, and all of these people on my board are really interested in different aspects of LA history. We could do books. And that was, we had previous to that done a very typical friends membership model of making money, which is really tough these days. And the books have helped us not only promote the collection, but it has allowed us to not have to rely on membership. I'm really happy about that. 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I see it as, I mean, I guess this is an old person kind of thinking. It's like my dad would say this, but when I first moved here, I mean, I was in my 20s when I moved here. It was fun. It was just fun. There was so much free stuff you could get to the beach from, I've always lived kind of East Side. You could get to the beach in 20 minutes. You could go to the beach before work. Okay. You know, I think things like that. You'd just travel everywhere, go walking everywhere. It was, I'm not going to say safer, but, you know, maybe in a way, it was a little bit. Like I would walk down Broadway all the time and nobody ever bothered me. Of course, nobody ever bothers me anyway, so that's okay. But, you know, it was just fun. It was fun. Cheap, easy. Restaurants were open 'till really late at night because I'm, yeah, I'm a night person, so yeah, all of that stuff. And then just slowly, slowly, slowly, it's just the traffic, the parking, the price of stuff. I mean, I don't, I wouldn't, honestly I'm not so sure I would move here. If I were 20 years old I'm not sure I would come here. I don't know, maybe that's just old me talking, but.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2367/collection_resources/144104/file/266470#t=2187.69,2283.81"},{"id":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2367/collection_resources/144104/file/266470/transcript/76805/annotation/111","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eKelly Wallace:\u003c/strong\u003e Do you think you're going to stay here? 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I have other things I want to do which are not that interesting or important, but I want to do them. And, so I'm taking it easy while I can, you know, while I can still walk. Yeah.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2367/collection_resources/144104/file/266470#t=2292.09,2313.407"},{"id":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2367/collection_resources/144104/file/266470/transcript/76805/annotation/114","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eKelly Wallace:\u003c/strong\u003e Well, thank you. I really can't thank you enough for spending time with us today and sharing your stories and your experience. I just want to tell anyone who's listening, if you, check out the supplemental files tab next to this interview, there will be some images of the things that we've talked about, Chicken Boy and some of the other things. And, thank you again, Amy. 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