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Black Dahlia – Another Good Story Ruined
Curbed L.A. has posted a list of some “haunted” locations in L.A., including the Biltmore, where Elizabeth Short was left by Red Manley in January 1947, never to be seen again. The photo, alas, shows...
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Errol Flynn Set for Trial in Sex With Underage Girls
Nov. 7, 1942: Pursuing British mobile forces, equipped with big American-made Gen. Sherman tanks, have overtaken some of the remnants of Marshal Erwin Rommel’s Afrika Korps in the Matruh region of...
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Millennial Moment: Church Officials Killed
Nov. 9, 1982: Patrick James Henneberry and George Peters, leaders of the purported Church of Naturalism, were beaten to death with a blunt instrument and shot at close range on the Laurel Canyon...
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Millennial Moment – Cheating at Card Clubs
Dec. 5, 1982: George Reasons and Anne La Riviere write a long investigative piece about professional cheats at the card clubs in Bell and Gardena. According to Reasons and La Riviere, cheaters are...
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Millennial Moment – Investigation of LAPD Spy Unit Sought
Dec. 11, 1982: David Johnston writes about the case of undercover LAPD Officer Fabian Lizarraga, who infiltrated the Revolutionary Communist Party and led protesters in a May Day march in 1980 that...
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Christmas in Los Angeles, 1912
Dec. 26, 1912: The Times makes the rounds of Christmas celebrations among the less fortunate and discovers that the emergency wards are full – but readers are assured that no women or girls are among...
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China Bans Traditional Clothing for Western Fashions
Jan. 3, 1913: The Chinese government issues an edict against traditional clothing in favor of Western fashions. Women were called upon “to abandon their trousers for the occidental skirt and men to...
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The Day’s News – Pestilence and Starvation, Jan. 9, 1913
Jan. 9, 1913: We like to think that the past was a kinder, simpler time — when life moved at a slower pace. But no. The Times publishes a Page 1 news map “as an aid to the busy reader helping him to...
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LAPD the ‘Storm Troopers’ of L.A., Lawmaker Says of Police Brutality
Jan. 1, 1943: This is the beginning of the Stanley H. Beebe case, in which LAPD officers were accused of beating a suspect who died of his injuries. Beebe, an accountant, was arrested on a streetcar...
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Mary Mallory / Hollywood Heights: Jerry Giesler, Miracle Man
Photo: Walter Wanger, left, and Jerry Giesler. Courtesy of Mary Mallory. Long before Johnnie L. Cochran Jr., Richard “Racehorse” Haynes, or F. Lee Bailey hit the scene, soft-spoken, circumspect Jerry...
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Seals Juggle, Walk Rope, Plus Little Miss Manicure at the Pantages!
Jan. 23, 1913: Juggling, rope-walking seals! Little Miss Manicure and the Scarecrow Man! On the jump, a couple of juicy divorces and Carl Warr, the dynamiter.
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LAPD Officer Kicks News Photographer, Delays Beebe Inquest
Jan. 13, 1943: The inquest in the death of Stanley H. Beebe, who was fatally injured in a beating by LAPD officers, is halted when Officer John Yates kicks Herald-Express photographer Edward Phillips...
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Smallpox Epidemic – Los Angeles, Feb. 7, 1863
Read the entire Feb. 7, 1863, edition of the Los Angeles Star from the Huntington Library, scanned by USC. Feb. 7 1863: The coroner holds an inquest in the killing of Christian Hutt. George Wright,...
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Black Dahlia: The Non-Smoking Gun – George Hodel Files Part 3
Here’s the third installment of the Non-Smoking Gun for Feb. 20, 1950. Are you bored with this yet? Phone rang 12 times – No answer! Ellen enters –- turns on radio – Mexican program!!!!! The George...
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Black Dahlia: The Non-Smoking Gun – George Hodel Files Part 6
Hodel phoned someone asked for $1,000.00 cash advance — said he was short of ready cash! I guess being a maniacal killer doesn’t pay very well. (Speaking of which, how can Dexter Morgan afford a boat,...
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Black Dahlia: The Non-Smoking Gun – George Hodel Files Part 11
Thursday I may be going to Santa Barbara!!! And here is Part 11 of the Dr. George “Evil Genius” Hodel transcripts for Feb. 28, 1950. The George Hodel files Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 | Part 4 | Part 5 |...
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Black Dahlia: The Non-Smoking Gun – George Hodel Files Part 31
Sounds like Hodel is trying to pull a fast one of some kind!!!!! Still playing Chinese music — music worse than Hodel’s music!!! March 20, 1950: Discussions of books and poetry!! Going to see Burrel...
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Folsom Prison Break 1893 – Found on EBay
A photo showing the guns and individuals involved in an unsuccessful escape attempt at Folsom prison in June 1893 has been listed on EBay. The photo is listed as Buy It Now for $699. As with anything...
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Millennial Moment: Officer Kills Boy, 5, Holding Toy Gun
March 3, 1983: Patrick Andrew Mason was too sick to go to school, and his mother Patricia Ridge, 29, had no one to care for him while she went to her job charging car batteries at a Sears store in...
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Human Fly Flees Hall of Justice
April 4, 1943: Col. Darryl F. Zanuck comes under criticism for trying to return to civilian life. (Zanuck said there wasn’t much chance that he would make more movies of combat.) Sen. Harry Truman...
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