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who are you to tell people what they can read, think and believe.
you have to be a liberal! They always let us know what they fear the most by what they criticize and harp on….and you fear people eating grapefruit!
Could the Masonic Temple on wilshire be the CDAN club location?
The Marciano brothers, Guess Jeans,opened the temple in 2017 as a museum and aburptly shut it down.
a very interesting article on the 'props' found in the basement. Just don't know if it was ever used by a film co as a warehouse.
Built in 1961 by Millard Sheets, a prolific mosaic artist and bank architect, the building was more or less abandoned by the Masons in the mid-nineties, given over to rave promoters and spillover crowds from nearby synagogues on the High Holidays. At its peak, in the sixties, the Masonic temple is said to have had eighteen thousand members; its vast auditorium could seat two thousand. Unlike regular Freemasonry, which has three degrees, Scottish Rite has thirty-two, which are attained by performing dramatic initiation plays.
According to Susan Aberth, an art-history professor at Bard who serves as the Marcianos’ Masonry consultant, the dramas provided a welcome outlet for the frustrations of mid-century middle-class male life. “Businessmen who sold shoes could escape their homes and become patriarchs of old and fight with swords and do things that masculinity did not allow,” she said. “It was a safe space.”
The building was a Tut’s tomb of ritual accoutrements. There were scripts for plays likely never seen by the uninitiated: “4th Degree: Court of the Secret Master,” “32nd Degree: Master of the Royal Secret.” In the basement, the Marcianos found special cabinets containing fezzes, crowns, faux-chain-mail headdresses, fanciful Egyptian-style hats like the ones worn by Osiris, or Papa Smurf; a huge space devoted to strappy Biblical sandals. “Those guys like a lace-up sandal, I’ll tell you that much,” Aberth said.
“The wildest, wildest was the wig room,” Maurice Marciano said the other day in the museum. (The building will open to the public, as the Marciano Art Foundation, on May 25th, with a show that includes work by Paul McCarthy, Louise Lawler, and Sterling Ruby.) Marciano wandered around the room he thinks of as “the museum of the museum,” where the Masonic objects—sceptres, ledgers, velvet capes, combo goggle-blindfolds known as hoodwinks, and, everywhere, the all-seeing eye with compass (“G,” for “Geometry” or “God”)—will be on permanent display. “We want to explain the process of becoming a Freemason. I hope they’re not going to get mad, because they can be so secretive.”
The Guess Brothers’ Masonic Temple
May 29, 2017 Issue
https://www.crazydaysandnights.net/2020/04/blind-item-6-it-was-quick.html
https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/story/2020-02-16/la-et-cm-marciano-art-foundation-story-behind-the-closure
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2017/05/29/the-guess-brothers-masonic-temple
https://www.laconservancy.org/locations/scottish-rite-masonic-temple