Flemming

Times staff writers Jack Flemming and David Zahniser contributed to this report.

“Our life was a lot more simple back then. We just wanted to make art and create things. We were living in the moment and wanted to have fun with our friends,” said Josh Flemming, who founded the stage alongside his two brothers Jesse and Dede.

When formulating the idea of the Do Lab, the Flemming brothers say they weren’t thinking about what was next.

Arthur Flemming, who served as President Eisenhower’s Cabinet secretary for health and welfare, told Congress at the time there was no way for FDA regulators to know whether any exposure level was low enough to be truly safe.

Regulators were no longer as clueless as they’d been in Flemming’s day.