How Do Waves Not Break The Glass at La Jolla Restaurant The Marine Room?
If you’ve ever been to The Marine Room in La Jolla, you know that the restaurant is famous for ocean waves crashing against its glass windows. The real question is, how do the waves stay outside the restaurant?
The answer is relatively simple. But, it’s steeped in the history of The Marine Room, which stretches back to the 1930s when the Kellogg family founded the La Jolla Beach and Tennis Club (where restaurant is located).
While The Marine Room seems impervious to the crashing tides now, Mother Nature has breached the restaurant’s glass walls in the past. The first breach happened in 1941, when a roaring surge flooded the restaurant.
Eventually, The Marine Room rebuilt — and, this time, used bulletproof glass in its construction. This invention helped the restaurant keep the waves out until 1982. However, the bulletproof glass didn’t fail at that time. Instead, years of salt water exposure had corroded the steel I-beams.
After that incident, the restaurant took nine months to rebuild its iconic dining room. This time, it used reinforced steel covered in Gunite — a material used to construct swimming pools. The Marine Room also upped the ante with even more durable bulletproof glass.
Been thinking about this moment lately where Lonnie is hammering over the hole in the wall that Joyce axed to try to get to Will—
He’s literally trying to rebuild his home by shutting Will out.
If you pay attention to Lonnie’s dialogue, you’ll notice that he actually does want his family back. Now I’m not trying to give him any credit, this isn’t come from a genuine place of love.
Lonnie tells Jonathan that he wants to see him more. Again, not coming from a genuine place, as Jonathan points out, but I also don’t think he’s lieing.
When Lonnie comes back to the Byers’ residence at the end of ep 4, he immediately starts calling Joyce babe. And to be honest, if Joyce hadn’t kicked him out in ep 5, he probably would have tried to stay.
But if Lonnie does miss his family so much, why leave them? And if so, why not stay in town? Why move out to Indianapolis?
It’s pretty clear that Lonnie hated Will. When Joyce get’s mad at Lonnie in the flashback for not showing up, it was specifically about not bringing Will to the baseball game, not about visiting Jonathan or Joyce.
Now, from a base level, it looks like Lonnie was just them in order to get money out of Will’s death. If they were filing a lawsuit, using the broken family angle to get more sympathy in court, and making sure that he’s included in the payout.
And maybe that’s the only angle. But if you wanna get conspiratorial (like me) then there may be more behind Lonnie’s action then we are being shown.
If Lonnie was just in it for the money, why did he say that he wanted to see Jonathan before he knew that Will was “dead?”
I made a post awhile ago that pointed out some of Lonnie’s fishiness, indicating that he may possibly been working with the lab during his dissapearance.
Think about it, if Lonnie was working with the lab to cover up Will’s dissapearance, then doing a payout through a fake lawsuit would be the perfect cover. If Will died and Lonnie suddenly came into a lot of money, that would look fishy to people. But if Will died, and Lonnie sued the quarry and got settlement money, people wouldn’t bat an eye. If we already know that the body is fake and that the guy who found his body was instructed by the lab, then it wouldn’t be too hard to believe that they could be behind the settlement as well.
When Joyce finds about Lonnie’s plan to sue, we get this shot of Lonnie in the shower—
Now, narratively he had to be out of the room so that Joyce could go through his stuff, but figuratively, he is rinsing himself clean of his crimes. Will is “dead” now, he’s in the ground, and he has the perfect cover. He was can wash his hands of what he’s done.
Let’s take a step further and consider Lonnie’s past abuse of Will. If Lonnie was abusing Will when he was younger, and was nervous about Will remembering and telling, then it would make sense for him to skip town and stop visiting Will. And if Lonnie wanted to get his family back, he would have to get rid of the problem, which to him is Will.
Now, obviously Will is the victim here and not to blame, I’m just speaking from Lonnie’s messed up point of view. Lonnie is the one fault here, not Will, but to Lonnie, Will is the one who in the way of his perfect family.
So now the perfect opportunity arises for Lonnie to not only get his family back, but he gets a big payout whatever terrible thing he did to Will dies with him. It’s perfect.
I love Derek but he is genuinely more insane than any of the other vampires simply because he willingly chooses to work retail as an undead creature of the night
hate that "roman empire" has become synonymous with hyperfixations or obsessions like people will say "this is my roman empire" to refer to things they're obsessed with. because imho always thinking about the roman empire is kind of a red flag and a lot of the time it's a dogwhistle for white supremacy and like, "the downfall of western society" I'm not smart enough to explain further so I hope people get what I mean. Twitter accounts with marble statues for icons talking about how any abstract art is garbage. that's the vibe I get from most people who are obsessed with the Roman empire.
Once more i need to ramble about how wild twitter people can be cus yesterday i got this guy who was like "erm achtually because Dogday and Catnap held HANDS they are a better ship than what you have planned and i preffer it that way"
and im just sitting here like "u know theres plenty of AUs that are Dogday/Catnap based right"
Imagine your first date with your fem f/o. You’re a nervous wreck. You’ve put on your cutest outfit and did your hair as nicely as you could for her. You can feel the butterflies raging in your stomach sitting across from her.
But she’s also all the same. She spent countless minutes readying herself to look her best for you. To impress you.
Yet despite the nervousness, she laughs at your jokes and you compliment each other. You go home confident that your relationship has only just begun.
okay why the hell is no one mentioning that when deidameia asks for patroclus' name he says chironides the son of CHIRON. THE CENTAUR WHO TAUGHT HIM!!! like honestly that was truly an underrated moment in tsoa. like he had daddy issues and he looked up to chiron as a father figure. please someone i need these two having a father-son relationship. itd just be so adorable <3