Monthly Archives: July 2025

Found on EBay — Quiet Birdmen

Posted on July 31, 2025 by lmharnisch

In an encore post from 2009, a Quiet Birdmen belt buckle and other belongings of a QB member was listed on EBay. Continue reading →

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Matt Weinstock, July 31, 1959

Posted on July 31, 2025 by lmharnisch

July 31, 1959: Matt Weinstock on the experiences of a driver whose car was rear-ended, but the man didn’t have car insurance…. Continue reading →

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Paul V. Coates — Confidential File, July 31, 1959

Posted on July 31, 2025 by lmharnisch

July 31, 1959: Paul Coates has the story of 12-year-old Joe Oliveira and his coverage of the Laurel Canyon fire. Continue reading →

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1944 in Print — Walter Winchell and Louella Parsons, July 31, 1944

Posted on July 31, 2025 by lmharnisch

July 31, 1944: Walter Winchell has the latest on Otto Preminger’s hit film ‘Laura,’ while Louella Parsons dishes on Mary Pickford. If today is your birthday, If you keep emotions sensibly controlled you need not fear difficult spots today may produce. Chin up, be enthusiastic. You’ll shine as you usually do. Continue reading →

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1944 in Print — Life Magazine, July 31, 1944

Posted on July 31, 2025 by lmharnisch

July 31, 1944: President Roosevelt is nominated for a fourth term, and Life magazine has the story. Continue reading →

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July 31, 1907: After a Day at the Beach, Beer, a Fight and Gunshots

Posted on July 31, 2025 by lmharnisch

July 31, 1907: A day at the beach ends in a fight over beer. Evelyn Ferguson is accused of shooting newsboy Charles ‘Winnipeg’ Wilson with a policeman’s gun because Wilson was attacking her friend, who ‘was not in a condition to remember much about how it happened.’ Continue reading →

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Matt Weinstock, July 30, 1959

Posted on July 30, 2025 by lmharnisch

July 30, 1959: Matt Weinstock writes about Lawrence Lipton, the “Boswell of beatniks.” Also Venice declares war on beatniks! Continue reading →

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Paul V. Coates — Confidential File, July 30, 1959

Posted on July 30, 2025 by lmharnisch

July 30, 1959: Paul Coates writes about a certain tangential figure in the Black Dahlia case whose phone number is confused with that of Edd “Kookie” Byrnes. Continue reading →

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July 30, 1947: Peaches Strange at the Follies Burlesque

Posted on July 30, 2025 by lmharnisch

July 30, 1947: Peaches Strange, an ‘artistic’ stripper at the Follies Burlesque, is a modest woman who used to teach Sunday School. Continue reading →

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1944 in Print — Hollywood News and Gossip by Louella Parsons, July 30, 1944

Posted on July 30, 2025 by lmharnisch

July 30, 1944: Louella Parsons profiles two new glamour girls at MGM: June Allyson and Gloria de Haven. Continue reading →

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July 30: 1907: Runaway Horse Races Down Broadway, Plows Into Hotel Lobby

Posted on July 30, 2025 by lmharnisch

July 30, 1907: A runaway horse hitched to a buggy outside Jevne’s grocery store at 6th and Broadway plows through a plate glass window at the Lankershim. Continue reading →

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Matt Weinstock, July 29, 1959

Posted on July 29, 2025 by lmharnisch

July 29, 1959: Matt Weinstock writes about the dangers of body surfing; and a look at the slinky characters of Sunset Strip. Continue reading →

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Paul V. Coates — Confidential File, July 29, 1959

Posted on July 29, 2025 by lmharnisch

July 29, 1959: Paul Coates writes about a man who has a problem with a wildcat in a eucalyptus tree. Also: A man tells Dear Abby he can’t live without his ex-wife. Continue reading →

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13 Die When B-25 Hits Empire State Building, July 29, 1945

Posted on July 29, 2025 by lmharnisch

July 29, 1945: Newspaper coverage of a B-25 bomber hitting the Empire State Building. Continue reading →

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Reminder – My Next ‘Ask Me Anything’ on the Black Dahlia Case Is August 5

Posted on July 29, 2025 by lmharnisch

Reminder: I will be doing a live Ask Me Anything on the Black Dahlia case on YouTube next Tuesday, August 5, at 10 a.m. Pacific time. Have questions? Leave them in the comments. Continue reading →

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Midnight Show at the Follies Burlesque — July 29, 1939

Posted on July 29, 2025 by lmharnisch

July 29, 1939: Someone caught the midnight show at the Follies Burlesque and saw Betty Rowland, the “Ball of Fire.” Continue reading →

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Matt Weinstock, July 28, 1959

Posted on July 28, 2025 by lmharnisch

July 28, 1959: Columnist Matt Weinstock writes that insurance companies raising the rates of drivers who get too many moving violations. Also, a Van Nuys high school teacher is in trouble for giving students an “immoral sex survey” after another teacher already conducted the survey. “We know all the answers already,” one student said. Continue reading →

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Paul V. Coates — Confidential File, July 28, 1959

Posted on July 28, 2025 by lmharnisch

July 28, 1959: Columnist Paul Coates writes about hospitals turning away patients without treatment if they couldn’t pay and didn’t have proof of insurance. Also stripper Candy Barr on the Sunset Strip and Dear Abby on a woman’s parents who are fighting after 44 years of marriage. Continue reading →

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July 28, 1947: Free Horoscope for Your DOG!

Posted on July 28, 2025 by lmharnisch

July 28, 1947: The Los Angeles Times doesn’t publish a daily horoscope — but you can get a free one for your dog! And The Times publishes a daily Bible verse on its editorial page (discontinued October 23, 1970). An encore post from the 1947project in 2005. Continue reading →

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Movieland Mystery Photo (Updated + + + +)

Posted on July 28, 2025 by lmharnisch

For Monday, we have our mysterious leading lady, as see from the back. Continue reading →

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