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Century City may house a former President as well as several high-powered lawyers and doctors, but it’s losing the National Hobo Assn.

The Century City Tavern and Restaurant, the West Coast meeting place of the idlers’ group, is going out of business, meaning the ‘bos will be left out in the cold.

“We’d like to find another place to keep our Hobo Wall of Fame,” lamented a spokesman named Captain Cook. “We’ve got some great classic and modern-day photos. And we need to have a place to meet for people who are passing through on one railroad or another.”

People the likes of Itchy Foot, Whiskey Nancy and Sundown Cowboy, not to mention the reigning King and Queen of the Hobos, El Paso Kid and Slow-Freight Ben, respectively. (“Ben,” we assume, is short for Bernice.)

Some of the newer breed are professional or “yuppie” hobos, such as actor Bobb (Santa Fe Bo) Hopkins, who publishes the Hobo Assn. newsletter and keeps the names of members stored in a computer.

Cap’n Cook, a friend of Century City Tavern owner Voja Vladkovic, says the group started meeting there about five years ago. On Tuesday night, the hobos will hold a final ceremony at the tavern, at which they’ll offer a Hobo Survival Training Workshop.

Admission is free, obviously.

Sign of the Times: The Joy of Learning, an educational bookshop in Tarzana, has been replaced by a store selling comic books and toys.

With the many scandals involving television ministers in the last few years, it was perhaps inevitable that a local radio newscaster would mistakenly refer to a possible “evangelical tax” as an “evan genital tax.”

Speaking of colorful uses of the language, a bit of poetry has been removed from the streets of Los Angeles.

No longer can motorists near LAX stop to marvel at the street signs that said “111st St.” No longer will they ponder whether the signs said “One Hundred Elevenst Street” or “One Hundred Eleven Street Street.”

Alas, the blue-and-white posts on both sides of La Cienega Boulevard have been replaced by newer ones that say, simply (and boringly), “111th St.”

Some readers speculated that the original sign painter was a fan of Tolkien’s “The Lord of the Rings,” in which one character celebrates his “Eleventy-First birthday.”

The city wouldn’t disclose the correct pronunciation of the original works. One staffer, in fact, denied that the “111st St” signs existed because, he explained, the work orders said “111th St.” And, of course, work orders can’t be wrong.

But, as the old saying goes, The Times had photos.

Just the City of Industry’s luck. Pasadena has announced that it will hold a Pizza Expo, in honor of the dish’s 100th anniversary, on April 1. That’s the same day scheduled for Industry’s Great Snail Festival.

Is it too late to combine the two eat-a-thons?