West Coast Ledgies Unite!!!
 

At SapphireSister's suggestion, we're polling fellow west coast ledgies for a suggested location for a proposed Stevie-themed event. Others should feel free to vote as well, only if they would be attending! ;)

Also, if anybody has any ideas on themes, location, etc. let me know. Let's do some brainstorming.

Maybe Stevie can host it at her place :nod:

Terry

Themes: if it's in 2006, we could celebrate 25 year anniversary of Bella Donna, or we can do it to celebrate her birthday if we wait until May, or we can do something in her honor like make it a fundraiser for AHI or for the soldiers at Walter Reed.

umm...how about Vegas?

I'm sure you could rent out a room in a hotel....maybe :shrug: ....and there's lots to do there.

Maybe we can do 2? :shrug:

I'd go to L.A. if the southerners came to ours... :)

Would you be willing to go to Vegas? Or any other CA people? I would probably do that.

Ooh, that's another idea! Would you (or any other east coasters) be willing to come if it was in Vegas?

Personally, I'd rather not have it in that scorpion-infested wasteland.

I live in Los Angeles, but I'd travel up to the Bay Area because it's so much prettier & cooler. When you're meeting fellow ledgies, you get nervous & you sweat. So the air temperature should be below 70, with plenty of cleansing, cool breeze, preferably with a hint of sea brine.

We could have an excellent ledgie picnic at Golden Gate Park, & then trip in to see the planetarium show & the dinosaurs. Then over to the Cliff House for crab cocktail & vodka tonics. Then a nice long walk through the park grounds.

You should be a tour guide, David! :)

But yeah, scorpions suck.

Ok, that settles it....we have it in Morro Bay or Cambria.

I would love to come, don't think I could pull it off, though. If I did, I'd prefer San Fran. I've already been to L.A. :shrug:

Isn't there a good place kind of in between for you guys?


BTW - can you avoid May? Don't forget Night of 1000 Stevie's in NYC for those that can make it. :D

Hmmm... I don't think anyone will come up HERE... so I'll say San Francisco.

Not really. In between San Fran & L.A. is Fresno, so you can imagine no one wants to meet there.

If you stay along the coast, there's Monterey, but that's not halfway, that's a lot closer to San Fran.

Hi Terry!
I grew up in Redondo and Hermosa. My mom still lives off Prospect.

Um, yeah so... that's exciting, huh?
just thought I would say :wavey:

I guess I miss my beach.

Eliza

Oh, it'll be well, well below 70, even in July! I call that "cool breeze" a "biting foggy wind".
;^)
But you are right, it is an amazing glorious City, and the park would be a good place to get together. In fact, the weather makes it possible to show off velvet coats and hats, etc.
That'd be easy for me, as I just moved south to Santa cruz after 17 years in the City, and I have some friends still up there I could stay with.
But, could we all have the vodka tonics before the Planetarium?

Here's a picture taken from my living room. I love living at the beach and would miss it too! I'm not far from Prospect on Avenue A just up the hill from PCH.

Terry

http://i21.photobucket.com/albums/b2...4/18978b6d.jpg

Sigh. Thanks for that view.
Santa Cruz has beautiful beaches, but they aren't the same. Your View is looking ove to Riviera Village, where I lived, just off the Esplanade, until I was 11. It sure has spiffed up since I was a kid in the 70's, it was a little shabbier and funkier then. Every time I visit my mom, I think it is starting to look like Santa Barbara. (hey, that would be a nice place for a gathering)

Well, it's not so bad, I've got redwoods out my back window. Now I am a "lady from the mountain", or "lady from the fountain" as my toddler likes to call it.

How about Sausalito? Maybe Big Sur or Monterey. I really love Santa Barbara and Montecito. Maybe even Pacific Palasaides. So many really beautiful places that would be fitting of a gathering in honor of a beautiful person...

Laura

Darling, i flew to Los Angeles 2 years ago for one day to see a concert featuring Prince's old band "The Revolution" perform... What do you think? ;)

Well, I would love to go to San Francisco but one small problem. I am flat broke! :distress:

A little suggestion...

If the idea is to get the West Coast Ledgies together, might it be a better idea to make the event Fleetwood Mac themed rather than Stevie? That way those of us who are more into other members/incarnations won't feel left out or alienated?

I don't know, maybe I'm just speaking for myself, but if a Fleetwood Mac themed event were held in San Francisco (L.A. is out of the question), I might try to find a way to make it. If the theme is strictly Stevie, I won't even consider it. :shrug:

I think...
 

Dallas would be logical for those of us who live in the SouthWestern part of the US...

The only place in CA I ever plan to visit is California City.

I assure you, if I attend or help plan this event, it will be Fleetwood Mac theme, not Stevie Nicks.

Sausalito is north of San Francisco -- no sense in doing that (unless we went to Crescent City with its extraordinary tsunami museum).

Big Sur isn't an appropriate spot for a group of us to lodge. Monterey is a strong possibility -- or even better, Pacific Grove.

Santa Barbara area is a possibility, as is a bit further south in Ventura.

I like the idea of heading to Placerville for some hangtown fries. And Amber can show us around the Gold Country.

Good choice :wavey:

That's cool too. Whatever it takes to draw the biggest crowd, I say... :shrug:

Yes, I would rather it be Fleetwood Mac.

If there is a consideration of heading further North (it doesn't seem likely) then Guerneville would be fun, and there are many affordable lodging possibilities there, next to the russian river. Also, Santa Cruz and Monterey bay have a lot of rentable "retreat" centers, and some even have music stages, but then the group would be sort of isolated. It's true that Big Sur would not be appropriate, except there is this one funky place called the Fernwood Resort, and they have been booking bands from San Francisco.

I was thinking that if the event were held in LA, it would be cool to find some old deco hotel - used to go to a club that was held at the old Embassy - something with a ballroom.

I guess I am getting a little ahead of myself...I am new here...
:sheepishly retreats:

Lord Have Mercy. That would probably be expensive. Even a dump here is five hundred to a thousand bucks for a BALLROOM. Can't imagine we would have that many people. But it is a grand idea. I could go North or stay in LA. As long as I get to meet Amber and give her some grief.

It looks like SF is the logical choice here according to the voting. So let's start planning the date and location. Someone from up North should help out here :). I wouldn't mind ending up at a kareoke bar to sing some Stevie/FM hits. We could all make fun of eachother. Any suggestions?

Sorry, I was thinking too big, although I *was* imagining a shabby if once-elegant hotel. I guess there really aren't any of those anymore. I actually have no idea how many people show up at a gathering like this - have never been to one.

Here is a beautiful venue in the City, above Cafe Du Nord. I suppose it would be too expensive, and too large.
http://www.swedishamericanhall.com/h...or-Freja-14210

If the group is , like, ten people, the Buddha bar is a fun dive.

Oh, you would like my style of grief, Homegirl.

:woohoo:

That is a swanky and cool place. I can't imagine there would be enough people for it unless someone is ambitious enough to produce another NOTS.

Ask Strand.


Morning beer. :lol: So ghetto.

Speaking of ghetto, I bought some Corona light, god knows why, and it made me violently ill Wednesday night. I just figured out it was the beer last night when I had half a bottle and was instantly miserable again. Hating.

Oh, indeed, the hair. Good god, it gets bigger by the day. It'll be a friggin' fro if I am not careful.

It must have been a bad batch. I have a sensitive stomach when it comes to any bugs. It is cast iron when it comes to good tequila and spicy food. But, a touch of bacteria, and I am screwed.

Did just you hear that over a dozen people died in India from contaminated booze and almost 70 are in the hospital after drinking it? :shocked:

You just want to get ripped and be able to walk home. :lol:

No. No lemon. I dumped the rest of that crapola down the drain, Frank.

BTW I am at a theatrical rehearsal right now and the director has been screeching like a banshee. It always makes actors really coooperate.

Tell him that Luffoon is not the kind of chick whose bad side he wants to be on. Celestia just might return and cut a bitch.

Of course I haven't heard that. Now that I have a bunch of new music I don't even listen to NPR in my truck. I have no idea what is going on in the world.