In 1938, famed mystery writer Raymond Chandler penned a short story entitled "Red Wind" published first in Dime Detective Magazine and currently found in the collection: Raymond Chandler: Collected Stories. Red Wind is another local name for the Santa Ana wind. The Chandler story has been dramatized on television and radio, most recently as a 1996 episode on Showtime's Fallen Angels. Danny Glover received an Emmy nomination for his role in this adaptation playing detective Philip Marlow.
In the story, Chandler describes the Santa Ana thus:
"There was a desert wind blowing that night. It was one of those hot dry
Santa Anas that come down through the mountain passes and curl your hair and make your nerves jump and your skin itch. On nights like that every booze party ends in a fight. Meek little wives feel the edge of the carving knife and study their husbands' necks. Anything can happen. You can even get a full glass of beer at a cocktail lounge."
"Red Wind" (1938)
A writer could get staggering drunk on the high-proof lore surrounding L.A.'s notorious Santa Ana winds.
During a Santa Ana blow, the viciously hot and blasted days give way to insufferably hot and noisy nights. Trees thrash our rooves and fling branches all over the street.
Bad Religion calls them "the murder winds."
all taken from a previous post of mine during the last "red wind".
In 1938, famed mystery writer Raymond Chandler penned a short story entitled "Red Wind" published first in Dime Detective Magazine and currently found in the collection: Raymond Chandler: Collected Stories. Red Wind is another local name for the Santa Ana wind. The Chandler story has been dramatized on television and radio, most recently as a 1996 episode on Showtime's Fallen Angels. Danny Glover received an Emmy nomination for his role in this adaptation playing detective Philip Marlow.
In the story, Chandler describes the Santa Ana thus:
"There was a desert wind blowing that night. It was one of those hot dry Santa Anas that come down through the mountain passes and curl your hair and make your nerves jump and your skin itch. On nights like that every booze party ends in a fight. Meek little wives feel the edge of the carving knife and study their husbands' necks. Anything can happen. You can even get a full glass of beer at a cocktail lounge."
"Red Wind" (1938)
A writer could get staggering drunk on the high-proof lore surrounding L.A.'s notorious Santa Ana winds.
During a Santa Ana blow, the viciously hot and blasted days give way to insufferably hot and noisy nights. Trees thrash our rooves and fling branches all over the street.
Bad Religion calls them "the murder winds."
all taken from a previous post of mine during the last "red wind".
