In 1988, when four Arizonans weighing more than 1,000 pounds tried to break California off from the continental states by doing jumping jacks at Venice Beach, one man documented the effort.
That same scribe confirmed that bands of chickens roving near the Hollywood Freeway were indeed real and not an urban legend in 2000.
Steve Harvey, who chronicled Los Angeles’ fun side with his “Only in L.A.” column, which ran in the Los Angeles Times for 20 years and continued online in other publications, died Tuesday from complications of Parkinson’s disease and Lewy body dementia. He was 80…