Carol Schatz being crowned queen of Downtown by the LA County Board of Supervisors in October 2016.We still have not had time to read through the vast dump of Fashion District BID emails that I recently published on the Archive, but we’re working on it. This morning, though, while reading through the endless bitching and moaning, I happened to notice this little gem from January 2016. It’s an email about her impending retirement as president and CEO of the nightmare horror show Central City Association, in which she states: Here’s another famous queen who vowed never to relinquish her title, depicted in the act of having it forcibly explained to her that it’s not always possible not to relinquish such things.
Lastly, while there will be some changes in my responsibilities, there is one title I will never relinquish: I will always be the Queen of Downtown. Make no mistake about that!
Image of Carol Schatz’s coronation is from the Flickr stream of Supervisor Mike Antonovich, wherein he claims that it’s under copyright, but actually he is wrong, if not lying. It’s a California public record, and therefore not subject to copyright. The picture of the last moments of Marie Antoinette’s life is in the public domain.
