Monthly Archives: November 2007

Main Street

Posted on November 20, 2007 by lmharnisch

Several weeks ago, I took this picture of King's Market at 5th Street and South Main while on the L.A. Conservancy's Main Street tour.   Photograph by Larry Harnisch / Los Angeles Times Then in rummaging through the archives, I … Continue reading →

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Nov. 20, 1957

Posted on November 19, 2007 by lmharnisch

 

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Brenda Allen

Posted on November 19, 2007 by lmharnisch

Please welcome this week’s extremely famous mystery woman!   Photograph by Bruce H. Cox / Los Angeles Times Ethel Merman? Interesting guess. But no. Brenda Allen? (Steven Bibb) Yes! This is Marie Cash and her husband, Robert H. Cash, during … Continue reading →

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Times endorsements

Posted on November 19, 2007 by lmharnisch

Nov. 19, 1957Los Angeles Here’s something from another era in politics: An endorsement masquerading as a Page 1 item urging people to vote. And in case people missed it on Page 1, The Times ran another item on Page 4 … Continue reading →

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Santa Claus Lane

Posted on November 19, 2007 by lmharnisch

Nov. 19, 1957Los Angeles Hollywood Boulevard gets ready for Christmas.   I’ll see if I can find a better photo of this in the archives. Meanwhile, here’s a 1946 postcard that shows the electric Christmas trees, courtesy of Nathan Marsak … Continue reading →

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Nov. 19, 1957

Posted on November 19, 2007 by lmharnisch

 

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Ed Gein

Posted on November 18, 2007 by lmharnisch

Here’s my old pal Terry McGarry’s piece on Robert Bloch and Ed Gein from June 19, 1983: Part 1  

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Cohen’s Caddy found!

Posted on November 18, 2007 by lmharnisch

Thanks to a reader, I have located Mickey Cohen’s bulletproof Cadillac. It’s in the Southward Car Museum in New Zealand! (Note to my friends at the Petersen: Wouldn’t it be cool to borrow this car and put it on display?). … Continue reading →

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Wish list

Posted on November 18, 2007 by lmharnisch

Nov. 18, 1957Los Angeles Mom! Dad! I know what I want for Christmas! A 1958 L.A. DODGERS uniform!!!

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The front page

Posted on November 18, 2007 by lmharnisch

The Mirror News gets a redesign for the front page. Eighteen stories plus the index on an eight-column grid. Wow.   Matt Weinstock moves from the editorial page to the cover of the second section. (20 stories on one page! … Continue reading →

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Mickey Cohen’s Cadillac

Posted on November 18, 2007 by lmharnisch

Would you like to see another picture of Mickey Cohen with one of his Cadillacs? Of course you would! This one is a bit mysterious. This is the Cadillac that took a few shots in 1949 outside Sherry's on the … Continue reading →

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Ed Gein arrested

Posted on November 17, 2007 by lmharnisch

Nov. 18, 1957 Plainfield, Wis. “It appears to be cannibalism.” What more does anyone need to say? (Notice that The Times did not put this on Page 1).  

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Nov. 18, 1957

Posted on November 17, 2007 by lmharnisch

 

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Doctor murdered

Posted on November 17, 2007 by lmharnisch

  Nov. 17, 1957 Los Angeles Let’s go back about six months before it happened out on a lonely road half a mile from the cemetery. Monty was 19 and had just gotten out of the Deuel Vocational Institution for … Continue reading →

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Nov. 17, 1957

Posted on November 16, 2007 by lmharnisch

 

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1957 auto show

Posted on November 16, 2007 by lmharnisch

 

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UFO perils O.C.

Posted on November 16, 2007 by lmharnisch

  Nov. 7, 1957Los Angeles Edwin G. Leadford, 19, 10181 Katella Ave., was driving east "over the Katella overpass at the Santa Ana Freeway, a mile east of Disneyland"* at 12:10 a.m. when he saw a mysterious object in the … Continue reading →

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Murder-suicide

Posted on November 16, 2007 by lmharnisch

  Nov. 15, 1957 Los Angeles Your name is Leonard Jackola. You’re 43 and here on a visit from Chicago, staying with your younger sister, Mary, 30, and her family at 3634 E. 177th St., Torrance. Her husband, Arthur E. … Continue reading →

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Random search

Posted on November 16, 2007 by lmharnisch

Someone has been searching the Daily Mirror for information about an unsolved killing in Los Angeles County on May 22, 1963. Send me a little more information and I’ll see what I can turn up…. Email me

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Mickey Cohen

Posted on November 16, 2007 by lmharnisch

Here’s another little nugget of information I found going through the archives. Guess what kind of car Mickey Cohen had after he gave up bulletproof Cadillacs? Go ahead, guess.

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