30-cent gas station promotion creates L.A. traffic nightmare

The critically acclaimed Prime Video series “The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel” might be set in the Big Apple, but Amazon this week celebrated “Maisel Day” in Tinseltown by going back to the Fifties depicted in the show, with businesses across town offering 1950s-inspired prices on everything from haircuts, movie tickets, malts and more. Police in Santa Monica had to intervene, by issuing traffic warnings, directing traffic and eventually putting an early stop to the promotional sale at a Chevron station after throngs of drivers lined up for their turn, snarling traffic on Cloverfield Boulevard and the 10 Freeway, according to the Los Angeles Times. Calls complaining about the traffic jam started rolling in almost immediately after the promotion began at 9 a.m. Thursday, the paper reported, and police arrived on the scene shortly afterward to direct traffic.