"Los Angeles was an impression of failure, of disappointment, of despair, and of oddly makeshift lives. This is California? I thought.“


-Joseph Barbera

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Los Angeles was an impression of failure, of disappointment, of despair, and of oddly makeshift lives. This is California? I thought.

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