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Check out this article on BBook.com: http://www.blackbookmag.com/article/wild-palms Wild Palms By Michael Ruffino Ramada Inn, Los Angeles, above. The Ramada Plaza Suites Hotel West Hollywood, north of Fairfax, east of Beverly Hills, west of Hollywood, and south of the mountains, is in Boys Town, so called because it is usual in the neighborhood bars and clubs for men to endeavor unconnected to the presence of women. The hotel identifies just Hollywood, of course, recommending Dan Tana‘s or The Palm to some, nothing in particular to others. The hotel also identifies its facing street not as Santa Monica Boulevard but as “world-famous Historic Route 66,” on a giant plaque outside the lobby. Management is obviously keen on that mildly absurd point of interest-an employee directing us to nearby Spanish Kitchen instructed, “a left on Route 66, which is right out front here, and a right at CVS.” As he did, the lobby’s automatic doors dismissed a teen demimondaine past us, past the giant plaque and out onto Historic Route 66, where with a terminal-sounding sigh she climbed into a Chrysler Sebring (henceforth Sigh-Bring), where an irreparable bald chap waited at the wheel. We note that Route 66 is also called The Mother Road, sometimes for all the wrong reasons. www.bbook.com