Mayor Sam's Memory Lane
With our fourth birthday coming up and our celebration this Friday night at Casa Princesa in Highland Park, I thought it might be fun this week to share with you some of our history.Yes, the blog is four years old. Our very first post, at 4:57 p.m. on Thursday, October 21st, 2004 was a one line article and link about historic Los Angeles. The first time we took a City Council member to task was twenty minutes later when we had some fun with Eric Garcetti's then TV restaurant show on Channel 35. We actually didn't officially announce ourselves later that evening and managed to get one comment which was the first appearance of MEAT on the blog.
The very first comment ever on Mayor Sam came from "Insider" who later wrote for the blog for a period commenting on Palmdale Airport. Another poster quoted a very insightful quote from Council Member Dennis Zine about the LA owned air terminal in the Antelope Valley, "We have Palmdale. And I've never been to Palmdale Airport, wherever it is, I'm sure it's out there."
To show how bleak it was in the day before we had over a thousand readers a day and posts get 20-30 comments on a Sunday, we had to go as far as to comment on reader comments on other blogs (because we had none of our own to retort to). Here former Sister City Blogger Chief Parker responds to comments on the now defunct Fourth Floor Blog.
Labels: casa princesa, chief parker, dennis zine, eric garcetti, LA Palmdale Airport, mayor sam, meat
Posted by Michael Higby @ 10/12/2008 09:53:00 PM
3 Comments:
Michael, it seems to me that your very first post was titled "test" - it was posted January 16, 2003 at 10:06 p.m. Good exercise tips on that posting too, if one leads a sedentary life (I'm pointing fingers at no one).
If you're planning an anniversary celebration on or near January 16, 2009 for the "test" posting, I'll bring the cake (warning: high calorie count!).
Your blog was introduced to me almost 3 years ago by someone who worked (at the time) in the Mayor's office. I will not name the individual, it would adversely affect their employment.
Mr. Foster that's a bogus post that was used for testing a new feature on blogger and it never got deleted. It's a fake date.
Okay, I promise not to bring a bogus fake cake then.
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