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I am retired from the Los Angeles Times

Black Dahlia: Blogging ‘Black Dahlia Files’ Part 44 — Honored Guests

Posted on March 17, 2018 by lmharnisch

Note: This is an encore post from 2006. I’m blogging in real time as I read Donald H. Wolfe’s “The Black Dahlia Files: The Mob, the Mogul and the Murder That Transfixed Los Angeles.” Wolfe is telling the story in … Continue reading →

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March 14, 1907: San Bernardino Jury Clears Man in 10 Minutes of Killing Black Over ‘N-word’

Posted on March 17, 2018 by lmharnisch

Note: This is an encore post from 2006. March 14, 1907 Elijah Washington died because he didn’t like being called a six-letter word for black people. And a San Bernardino jury decided that Tough Webster had done nothing wrong in … Continue reading →

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Black Dahlia: Blogging ‘Black Dahlia Files’ Part 43 — Our Far-Flung Correspondents

Posted on March 16, 2018 by lmharnisch

Note: This is an encore post from 2006. I’m blogging in real time as I read Donald H. Wolfe’s “The Black Dahlia Files: The Mob, the Mogul and the Murder That Transfixed Los Angeles.” Wolfe is using the “Laura” format … Continue reading →

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Panoramas of Los Angeles

Posted on March 16, 2018 by lmharnisch

Note: This is a video I did in 2006 as part of the 1907 blog. Remember that this was in the early days of YouTube. My little ode to my favorite city, covering a roughly 20-year period centered on 1907 … Continue reading →

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Black Dahlia: Blogging ‘Black Dahlia Files’ Part 42 — The Face Is Familiar

Posted on March 15, 2018 by lmharnisch

Note: This is an encore post from 2006. I’m blogging in real time as I read Donald H. Wolfe’s “The Black Dahlia Files: The Mob, the Mogul and the Murder That Transfixed Los Angeles.” Wolfe is using the “Laura” format … Continue reading →

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March 15, 1907: In Which We Begin

Posted on March 15, 2018 by lmharnisch

Note: This is the beginning of the 1907 blog, which I began March 15, 2006. This followed the original cycle of the 1947project, begun by Nathan Marsak and Kim Cooper on March 13, 2005. As I began to write my … Continue reading →

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March 15, 2007: The Bridge Is Still Standing

Posted on March 15, 2018 by lmharnisch

Note: This is an encore post from 2007. March 15, 2007 South Pasadena Here’s the Gold Line, its passengers mercifully unaware that they are zipping along to Pasadena in the “Gorge of Eternal Peril” beneath “The Bridge of Death.” Here’s … Continue reading →

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In Which a Ghostly Visitor Returns

Posted on March 15, 2018 by lmharnisch

Note: This post and the next were the finales of my crawl through 1907. Keep on reading because we will circle around with posts from 2006. March 15, 2007 Los Angeles “Well, dear boy, I suppose you thought you were … Continue reading →

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Black Dahlia: Blogging ‘Black Dahlia Files’ Part 41 — The Whole Nine Yards

Posted on March 14, 2018 by lmharnisch

Note: This is an encore post from 2006. I’m blogging in real time as I read Donald H.Wolfe’s “The Black Dahlia Files: The Mob, the Mogul and the Murder That Transfixed Los Angeles.” Wolfe is using the “Laura” format in … Continue reading →

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March 14, 1907: A Now-Forgotten ‘Carmen’ Passes Through L.A.

Posted on March 14, 2018 by lmharnisch

Note: This is an encore post from 2007. March 14, 1907 Los Angeles Harry C. Carr, future author of “Los Angeles: City of Dreams,” visits Fely Dereyne, who is starring in the San Carlo Opera Company’s touring production of “Carmen.” … Continue reading →

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Black L.A. 1947: Bert McDonald Dies; First Black Deputy City Atty.

Posted on March 13, 2018 by lmharnisch

The latest records by Jimmy Rushing, Duke Henderson and King Perry are at 1065 N. Fairfax Ave. 1065 N. Fairfax Ave., where you got the latest hip 78s in 1947, via Google Street View. March 13, 1947: The Sentinel publishes … Continue reading →

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Black Dahlia: Blogging ‘Black Dahlia Files’ Part 40 — Who Was That Masked Man?

Posted on March 13, 2018 by lmharnisch

Note: This is an encore post from 2006. I am blogging in real time as I read Donald H. Wolfe’s “The Black Dahlia Files: The Mob, the Mogul and the Murder That Transfixed Los Angeles.” Wolfe is telling the story … Continue reading →

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Movieland Mystery Photo (Updated + + + +)

Posted on March 12, 2018 by lmharnisch

This week’s mystery movie has been the 1927 Universal film “The Cat and the Canary,” with Laura La Plante, Creighton Hale, Forrest Stanley, Tully Marshall, Gertrude Astor, Flora Finch, Arthur Edmund Carew, Martha Mattox, George Siegmann and Lucien Littlefield. Adapted … Continue reading →

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Mary Mallory: Hollywood Heights – ‘Human Wreckage’

Posted on March 12, 2018 by lmharnisch

July 6, 1923: “Human Wreckage” opens in Los Angeles. Photo: Mrs. Wallace Reid, left, and Bessie love in “Human Wreckage.” Credit: The Bioscope. Note: This is an encore post from 2011. There are many lost silent films desired by film … Continue reading →

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Black Dahlia: Blogging ‘Black Dahlia Files’ Part 39 — Aiding and Abetting

Posted on March 12, 2018 by lmharnisch

Note: This is an encore post from 2006. The original post had ads that, as you can imagine, don’t work 12 years later, so they have been deleted. I’m blogging in real time as I read Donald H. Wolfe’s “The … Continue reading →

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March 12, 1907: Brave War Dog Killed by Speeding Car

Posted on March 12, 2018 by lmharnisch

Note: This is an encore post from 2007. Feb. 12, 1907 Whittier Don had rushed up San Juan Hill with the Rough Riders, fearless in the face of enemy fire. But he could not survive a speeding driver on the … Continue reading →

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Black Dahlia: Blogging ‘Black Dahlia Files’ Part 38 — Slasher Flick

Posted on March 11, 2018 by lmharnisch

Note: This is an encore post from 2006. I have my search engines set to scour the Internet for material related to the Black Dahlia and this morning discovered yet another slasher version of the Elizabeth Short case. Think nudity … Continue reading →

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Los Angeles Has No History

Posted on March 11, 2018 by lmharnisch

Note: This is an encore post from 2007. Feb. 24, 1907 Los Angeles Google Earth, 2007

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Otis Chandler Tribute

Posted on March 10, 2018 by lmharnisch

Note: This is an encore post from 2006. These are audio files I made of the in-house memorial to Otis Chandler (at right with his 1937 V-12 Packard, originally owned by Bette Davis), conducted March 7, 2006. These are field … Continue reading →

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March 10, 1907: Religious Leader’s Last Words ‘I Will Return in 1,000 Years’

Posted on March 10, 2018 by lmharnisch

Note: This is an encore post from 2007. March 10, 1907 Los Angeles Someone who opened the Los Angeles Times on this Sunday might be forgiven for wondering what had become of the world, for Page 1 was full of … Continue reading →

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