Best banana picture ever – from the banana museum’s website
Fake memoirist, real novelist, and – best of all – Oprah nemesis James Frey mentions Altadena banana museum; Los Angeles Times uses “banana expert” (me) to confirm that it exists (or existed; it has since moved to Hesperia, in the California high desert.)
About the picture: The proprietor of the museum, Ken Banister, has his shirt open at the belly. He is standing above a “banana club” logo, and next to a pile of bananas. A man who has burst into flames runs in front of them. To Ken’s left a child on an adult’s shoulders seems to stare in amazement. To the right, two adults laugh. The man closer to Banister seems to be applauding. All the way on the left side of the picture, a man in a pork pie hat and red knee socks, sitting and only half in frame, appears to be indifferent to the spectacle.
What in heck is going on here?
Nobel Prize winner Paul Krugman 
This is an event known as the IBC Picnic and Games! One of the members decided to earn his M.B. degree by lighting himself on fire and having his Hollywood crew put him out as he threw the Banana Man a message in the peel! Yes…he was a stuntman !
“What in heck is going on here?”
You’re the banana expert. You tell us!