The excellent new Eastsider blog (disclaimer: it links to the very words you're reading) cares about Chicken Corner history. Most recent entry offers a window/link into Chicken Corner past: It's 1935, and the Three Stooges are playing the Three Little Beers with a crazy scene at...Chicken Corner. Back, back back, when none a those groovy beards you see lounging beneath the canopies -- sorry, pigeons! -- were even a twinkle in the gleam of a razor blade...or something. Before insouciance, there was Stooges! Thanks for the reminder, Eastsider! These days it's hard to imagine history, for all the dust and upset at the construction site at Echo Park Ave. and Delta.

Meantime 3 Stooges fans, my husband, RJ Smith, guest wrote a post about Three Little Beers for Chicken Corner in March 2007. Complete with interior dialogue....