They worked their way up Sunset, stopping by the properties of people they knew and making alternately jubilant and heartbreaking calls to deliver updates.

Still, Hollywood was everywhere among Chandler’s belongings, which included several screenplays alternately owned and written by him, as well as film treatments.

And who could forget “the Pan,” described by the author as “a repulsive and unsatisfactory arrangement that was to be alternately praised … and abhorred” by 18th-century sanitarians?

McVay alternately described it as “a strange game” and “a weird day.”

Early returns in downballot contests also reflect where Orange County stands politically, swaying alternately between red and blue.