Palo Alto Mission will have their Grand Opening at their new digs on Saturday, June 13th at 3:30 p.m.
The invite says: "The new mission is very spacious and modern and is located just a block off of California Avenue. We are pleased to offer you such an aesthetic space in which to do your Scientology and Dianetics services"
I suppose a proper obituary should be written.
The new Palo Alto Mission of the (highly upstat) Church of Scientology has shuttered its doors.
The rooms are empty. There is no sign on the door.
Palo Alto, once a center run by my wife on Waverly back in the 60s, across the street from the church where Maude stole the minister's VW in "Harold and Maude."
Where Hal Puthoff (head of SRI's remote viewing project), Uri Geller (spoon bender), Ed Mitchell (astronaut, who walked on the moon), John Brodie (quarterback for the Forty Niners, MVP for the NFC that year), Gene Washington (wide receiver for the Niners), most of the Niners and the owners of the Niners, Stanford and San Jose State professors galore, Ed Marinaro (Heisman trophy winner, later Hill St. Blues actor), Mervin Morris (owner of Mervyn's Department Stores), several important Mafia members, the Feshbachs, radio station and TV station execs, hotel owners, many business movers and shakers, software designers, actors and actresses, a world famous psychiatrist, new agers, and many more once walked the halls.
now: dust