Monthly Archives: October 2025

October 22, 1957: Paul V. Coates–Confidential File

October 22, 1957: Paul Coates follows up on a series of articles he wrote about the “mordida” suffered by American tourists in Mexico. Continue reading

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October 22, 1907: Mayor’s Son Gives a Lesson in Identifying L.A. County Sheriff’s Badges

October 22, 1907: Mayor’s son gives a lesson on L.A. County sheriff’s badges. Continue reading

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October 21, 1957: Matt Weinstock

October 21, 1957: Matt Weinstock writes about a disgruntled car owner who discovers it’s no longer possible to rent a car battery for a few days. Continue reading

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October 21, 1957: Paul V. Coates–Confidential File

October 21, 1957: Comedy writer Sy Miller writes a serious song, throws it in a drawer, but his daughters want to sing it at camp, so he agrees. The song: “Let there be peace on Earth,” Paul Coates says. Continue reading

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October 21, 1947: Firefighter Sits Through Movie With Dead Friend to Avoid Audience Panic

October 21, 1947: Walter Saul and his wife had just settled in for a movie with his friend Aloysius Bollin when he felt Bollin’s head on his shoulder. Saul, a firefighter, realized that Bollin had no pulse. He was dead. But rather than created a disturbance, he waited until the double feature was over. Then told Bollin’s son Joseph to go get his mother because his father was sick. Continue reading

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October 21, 1907: L.A. Doctor Wants to Exterminate Cats Over Their Diet of Diseased Rats

October 21, 1907: Dr. E.O. Sawyer wants to kill all the cats in town because cats feast on diseased rodents and then come home to be babied by families laboring under the misguided notion that they somehow “own” the cats.
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October 20, 1959: Matt Weinstock

October 20, 1959: Matt Weinstock writes about H.C. “Chad” McClellan’s recent trip to the Soviet Union, representing capitalism. His message to Rotarians was that young Communists were misguided, misled and misinformed. Not evil. Continue reading

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October 20, 1944: MACARTHUR IN PHILIPPINES

October 20, 1944: MacArthur in Philippines. Continue reading

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Movieland ‘Unsuitable’ Mystery Photo (Updated + + + +)

For Monday’s ‘unsuitable’ movie, we have a mysterious guest. Continue reading

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October 20, 1907: Winsor McCay, ‘Little Nemo’ and The Imp

October 20, 1907: Winsor McCay and his cartoons never completely go out of fashion and are periodically rediscovered. Living in the era of legacy comics, bland writing. weak drawing, and panels the size of postage stamps, it’s easy to forget comics once ran a full page. And then there’s Imp. Continue reading

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October 19, 1957: Matt Weinstock

October 19, 1957: Matt Weinstock profiles former newspaperman Edwin Anthony Browne, who appears in Carroll and Garrett Graham’s “Queer People” a hilarious book about crazy movie people in the crazy 1920s. Continue reading

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October 19, 1957: Paul V. Coates–Confidential File

October 19, 1957: Paul Coates talks with scenarist Jack Wagner about his recent visit to Cuba and how the talk about Fulgencio Batista reminded him of the way Mexicans talked about Porfirio Diaz. Continue reading

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October 19, 1947: Times Political Editor Kyle Palmer Waves the Banner for Earl Warren

October 19, 1947: Kyle Palmer was an institution at The Times for many years, the embodiment of a reporter as backstage powerbroker and kingmaker, and his front-page story and opinion column were the opening salvos of his campaign to put Earl Warren in the White House. Continue reading

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October 19, 1938: Stolen statue — Nuestro Pueblo

October 19, 1938: Writer Joe Seewerker and artist Charles Owens visit the statue of a miner at Carthay Center, later stolen and cut up by thieves. And yes, they were caught. By Stephanie Lazarus. Continue reading

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October 19, 1938: Mystic vision

October 19, 1938: Meet the Rev. Violet Greener “The Ghost of Hollywood,” a psychic who was consulted by many people in the industry. Continue reading

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October 19, 1907: Toku, Abandoned by Man Who Claimed to Be Wealthy, Denied a Divorce

October 19, 1907: Visiting Japan, K. Tsuneda met a young woman named Toku. Claiming that he was a wealthy Stanford student, Tsuneda married Toku and they came to the U.S. so his new wife could get an American education. She learned that Tsuneda wasn’t rich or a Stanford student. Continue reading

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October 18, 1957: Matt Weinstock

October 18, 1957: The city health department has a complaint desk and some of the calls would test anyone’s sanity, Matt Weinstock says. Continue reading

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October 18, 1947: S.S. General Saw Mass Executions as ‘Necessary to Win War’

NEURNBERG, Oct. 17 (A.P.)—S.S. Gen. Erich Naumann, whose commandos killed thousands of Jewish men, women and children on the eastern front, told a war crimes court today he saw nothing wrong with that. Continue reading

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October 18, 1943: Errol Flynn Named in Paternity Suit

October 18, 1943: Shirley Hassau charges that Errol Flynn is the father of her 3-year-old daughter. Her lawsuits were dismissed in 1951. Continue reading

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October 18, 1907: Newspaper Cartoonist Ted Gale Makes His Point

October 18, 1907: The Los Angeles Times features pen and ink drawings by “Gale.” That’s Edmund Waller “Ted” Gale, who contributed to The Times for years, creating “Miss L.A.,” then quit in 1934 to go to the Examiner. Continue reading

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