88 1

Armand Hammer reneges on pledge to donate his art collection to LACMA, builds
his own museum in Westwood (opens 1990); Second (and last) L.A. Weekly Rock
Music Awards;

LAX cops mistake baseball great Joe Morgan for drug courier, wrestle and handcuff
him;

LAPD begins Operation Hammer;

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Landmark Variety Arts Center is bought and gutted; Red Hot Chili Peppers’
Hillel Slovak ODs; LAPD rampage destroys four apartments on Dalton Avenue and
39th Street — sledgehammers and battering rams used against walls, furniture
and toilets in futile search for drugs;

Equity Waiver war pits Actors Equity Association against small-theater owners;
Dodgers win World Series against Oakland A’s; Kit Rachlis hired as L.A.
Weekly editor;

Gene Autry Museum of Western Heritage opens; B-2 Stealth bomber makes first
public appearance at Air Force Plant 42, Palmdale.

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