The new city council will be installed tonight at 6:30 p.m. at City Hall. In honor of the event, we dug up some file footage from the installation celebration of 1988 for newly hired City Manager Glenn Southard. We thought this was appropriate since this new council, led by Ellen Taylor, with Sam Pedroza, Linda Elderkin, and Peter Yao in tow, wants to go back to those bygone days.
As you can see from the clip, there was music and mirth, beginning with Southard serenading then-Mayor Judy Wright as he discusses his plans for the city-state:
Duck Soup (1933) © Paramount Pictures
Just kidding. That was really Groucho Marx and Judy Wright. You can see Judy tonight at the council chambers.
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Maybe part of the problem for so long was the Claremont 400 is mostly filled with Margaret Dumonts. It's all self-serious, unaware straight men with no Groucho to balance them.
A behind-the-scenes look at the news of Claremont, CA. We focus on city hall, city staff, and the so-called "Claremont 400" or "Preserve Claremonters" or "Claremonsters", those goofy, too-serious, power types that run most of the town's service organizations, charities, and city commissions. Claremont is indeed a unique place, and we'll try to bring a flavor of that absurd "uniqueness" to the outside world, as well as spotlighting some of the finer things about our city and region.
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