Chapter 8
Due to the amiable 75-degree temperature and cloudless sky, crowds of local people from Los Angeles and tourists from around the world converged at the observatory on Mount Hollywood. Nobly roosting like an art deco palace on the south-facing slope, Griffith Park Observatory and its three copper domes gave visitors the sensation of being suspended above the Los Angeles basin, overlooking hills and neighborhoods east of the downtown skyscrapers to the Pacific Ocean on the west.
Gustavo nonchalantly blended in among the masses, leisurely touring the interior exhibits, planetarium, telescopes, and educational theater. Though fascinated by astronomy and space, this afternoon his primary interest was the human condition, not stars and planets. Gustavo was people-watching, casuall
