The Cheech Marin Center for Chicano Art & Culture

[NotHardUp1]

[edit] "& Industry"

I've never been to LA, aside from a business trip over 20 years ago to El Segundo, but I won't hold that against LA.

As I lay here waking, I was watching CBS Eye on America, and they had a feature on the museum. It looks great, and Marin donated more than 500 works of art.

In an era in which it is easy to bemoan a broad lack of good citizenship, Mr. Marin shines. I fell in love with the Spanish American culture during my decade in Albuquerque, if not as much in love with the desert.

LA has not generally been appealing to me, but I feel it's time for a change. I'm planning a trip with a friend to San Diego, for just vacation, and I'm going to add a drive to Riverside to see that museum.



Has anyone toured it? Is there already a thread about it on JUB (it opened in 2022)?

His passion for art is infectious. God bless him.

The Cheech Marin Center for Chicano Art & Culture

Open since June 17, 2022, The Cheech Marin Center for Chicano Art & Culture aka “The Cheech” (3581 Mission Inn Ave., Riverside, CA 92501) resides in a renovated mid-century building that originally opened as the City of Riverside, California’s public library in 1964. Dedicated to showcasing...

riversideartmuseum.org

 

[unloadonme]

To save any one else reaching for Google:

Cheech Marin: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cheech_Marin

Chicano Art: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chicano_art_movement

The place looks interesting.

 

[NotHardUp1]

Sorry. I heard of Cheech & Chong back in the 70's, but I was a kid, so drug humor wasn't something I followed.

 

[rareboy]

His collection is amazing in breadth and depth.

This is a great gift.

 

[Latimer]

Riverside also has the Mission Inn. I haven't stayed there in years, but it's a destination in and of itself:

https://www.missioninn.com/?gclid=EAIaIQobChMIjrTFo7CB_QIVeAatBh3rAgaZEAAYASAAEgLSMfD_BwE&gclsrc=aw.ds

 

[Vannie]

Can you ride the ferris wheel?

 

[Kahaih]

Can you ride the ferris wheel?

Yeah, but it must be up Shits Creek. I don't see a paddle.

 

[Harke the Boeotarch]

Thank you for sharing this.

My late love Jack said he knew Chong. Wish he could have introduced me like he introduced me to a few of the other famous people he knew.

When first I attempted college I happened to move into a stoner pad and we watched a Cheech and Chong movie or two.

Twenty-eight years later I'm staying in a recovering stoner houseboat. What are the ods? Not very small?

More of a psychonaut now. Don't really like weed (which never was a habit) and hashish will stay with you for several days as well.

As a Dutchman it's interesting how U.S. states have legalized (medical) marihuana now. We even saw Martha Stewart edibles in Fort Lauderdale!

Did you know The Netherlands never actually legalized marihuana? Instead they decriminalized its use and 'legally tolerated' sale of limited amounts in places called "coffeeshops". They did that to prevent people who simply wanted to buy marihuana and hashish from buying heroin as well.
And it worked.

But now the political tide in The Netherlands is very much against 'coffeeshops'...

Haven't been to LA.

Last December we went to see relatives and friends on the East Coast after our first trip thirteen years ago.

Jack had worked on editing Koyaanisquatsi in Venice beach. Would like to go there before I die.

 

[Latimer]

^
What did Jack have to say about the place?

 

[Harke the Boeotarch]

^
What did Jack have to say about the place?

Not having a real address anywhere, he used to fill in the name of the residence in Venice as his domicile.

Apparently there were a whole group of people working on that project living there at one point.

He mentioned that he knew Ray Manzarek from The Doors, but then, more people meet famous people than ordinary people... or they remember it more.

That's why they're famous, no?

Jack didn't tell me much more about Venice and only a little more about Koyaanisquatsi, but when Philip Glass cs performed the score he composed for the movie in The Heineken Music Hall here in Amsterdam he thanked "Jack Moore" in the end credits (Jack had died then).

 

[nycguydowntown]

Nice. He’s been into his culture all his life.