Goat Thing of the Day: A 1927 Cutie in Los Angeles

There I was, at Iron Steaks bar, just off Broadway in Sacramento. It was a gathering of writer types. When from out of the sea of people my new friend Russell who has a website called SugarLump or The Sweetest Thing Living, I'm not really sure which, approached with a framed photograph.

"I have something for you...," he said.

Oh boy! Finally someone was going to give me a million dollars! Woo-hoo!

"This is my dad," he said, showing me a black and white photograph.

Oh.

Oh! With a goat!

This was what they clogged the San Diego freeway with back then.

"Is there a story behind this?" I asked him.

"I don't know the story. Only that he's three or four years old in that picture and it was taken in 1927 in Los Angeles."

"I will return this to you," I told him.

"Oh no, that's a copy I made for you."

"But the frame..."

"Oh, please. Ninety-nine cents at Walgreens."


I love you people.