Monthly Archives: January 2008

Matt Weinstock

Posted on January 10, 2008 by lmharnisch

Jan. 10, 1958 The seminar on semantics will come to order. A reporter phoned the Bureau of Public Works seeking information on the collection of combustible rubbish. He wanted to know whether a refuse truck, when filled, hauled the load … Continue reading →

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Paul Coates

Posted on January 10, 2008 by lmharnisch

Jan. 10, 1958 It was yesterday, late afternoon, when I got the tip. Davie Mack was going to surrender. If it was true, it definitely was news. Because Davie, according to my sources, was a very wanted young man. He … Continue reading →

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Foreign cars

Posted on January 10, 2008 by lmharnisch

  Jan. 10, 1958Los Angeles This is an old joke, but these are old pictures: Question: Why don’t the British manufacture typewriters? Answer: They can’t figure out how to make them leak oil. OK, this is the Berkeley roadster, which … Continue reading →

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Jan. 10, 1958

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Jan. 10, 1908

Posted on January 10, 2008 by lmharnisch

A "widow" from the Azusa Street Revival evicts her husband and says the Lord will be a father to their children… (she’s developed the "gift of tongues," which has "driven a score or more crazy in this city")… a dog … Continue reading →

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Johnny Grant

Posted on January 10, 2008 by lmharnisch

Sept. 4, 1948 Los Angeles The King’s, 8153 Santa Monica Blvd.,  1945-1954KWIK-AM (1490) 1947-1951 Johnny Grant 1923-2008

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Matt Weinstock

Posted on January 9, 2008 by lmharnisch

Jan. 9, 1958 Passengers on a plane en route to Los Angeles from New York a few days ago were in a state of mild excitement over the presence of Lee J. Cobb, the distinguished actor. Somewhere over the wide-open … Continue reading →

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Ebay mystery

Posted on January 9, 2008 by lmharnisch

  Los Angeles Times file photo Pat Collins, left, Edward G. Robinson and Julian Eltinge for a performance by the Dominos Club, Nov. 25, 1935. Well, that explains it. Yes, I was trolling EBay again in my continual search for … Continue reading →

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Black Dahlia

Posted on January 9, 2008 by lmharnisch

  This letter showed up on my desk last week. Note the postmark: August 2007. Apparently "Black Dahlia" and "Los Angeles Times" is almost all it takes to get a letter to me–eventually–although I don’t recommend it. For the record, … Continue reading →

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Marion Davies

Posted on January 9, 2008 by lmharnisch

Marion Davies gives $10,374,451.61 USD 2006 for a children’s wing at UCLA Medical Center, the largest individual gift to the university up to that time.

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Jan. 9, 1958

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Jan. 9, 1908

Posted on January 9, 2008 by lmharnisch

Daniel Meskil is convicted of fatally shooting Officer Patrick Lyons, the second LAPD officer ever killed in the line of duty. Notice that The Times used an illustration for breaking news instead of a photograph… Searching for moonstones on Redondo … Continue reading →

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January 8, 1958: Matt Weinstock

Posted on January 8, 2008 by lmharnisch

January 8, 1958 Monday at 6:30 a.m., as Marvin Hanks of East L.A. walked from his home to his garage to drive to work, he observed that the full moon in the western sky was green–grass green.”What goes on here?” … Continue reading →

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Cold War

Posted on January 8, 2008 by lmharnisch

      Nov. 7, 1952 Operation Skywatch was launched July 14, 1952, and used thousands of ground-based civilian observers who volunteered to search the skies around the clock for unidentified aircraft that were undetected by U.S. radar. According to … Continue reading →

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January 8, 1958: Paul Coates

Posted on January 8, 2008 by lmharnisch

Jan. 8, 1958 There are businessmen in this town whose professed interest in humanity I question. Among them is the owner of a local tire agency who advertised in an East Los Angeles paper this week: “If you are riding … Continue reading →

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Century City

Posted on January 8, 2008 by lmharnisch

    Jan. 8, 1958 Los Angeles Here’s a wonderful project to put under someone’s microscope: 20th Century Fox decides to cash in 176 acres next to Beverly Hills for a massive development of office towers, apartments, an auditorium and … Continue reading →

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Darrall Imhoff

Posted on January 8, 2008 by lmharnisch

Here’s the Laker in our mystery photo: Darrall Imhoff.   Photograph by Ben Olender / Los Angeles Times The Lakers over the Celtics 123-115, April 26, 1966, tying the playoffs 3-3.  The Celtics, playing in Boston, won the seventh game … Continue reading →

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Jan. 8, 1958

Posted on January 8, 2008 by lmharnisch

Here’s a relic of headline writing: "H’wood."

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Jan. 8, 1908

Posted on January 8, 2008 by lmharnisch

Oil at 40 cents a barrel ($8.36 USD 2006), overcrowded jails,  a road from the San Gabriel Valley to Long Beach (the stirrings of a freeway, perhaps?), a near-lynching and a lady of the stage who had led a colorful … Continue reading →

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Man kills son

Posted on January 7, 2008 by lmharnisch

  Jan. 7, 1958 Los Angeles "Dear mother," the note from 9-year-old Jimmy began. They weren’t his words, of course. They were dictated by his father, David James Darr, a 34-year-old machinist who was apparently holding a .45 to his … Continue reading →

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