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I am retired from the Los Angeles Times

Black Dahlia: Blogging ‘Black Dahlia Files’ Part 71 — Request Line IX

Posted on April 13, 2018 by lmharnisch

Note: This is an encore post from 2006. I have ceased 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 uses the “Laura” … Continue reading →

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Coming Attractions: Chaplin’s ‘The Great Dictator’ at the Alex Theatre With John Bengtson

Posted on April 12, 2018 by lmharnisch

Charlie Chaplin, as Adenoid Hynkel, performs a balletic routine with a globe in “The Great Dictator.” John Bengtson, who has performed fabulous detective work in tracking down movie locations in early films, will introduce Charlie Chaplin’s “The Great Dictator”  at … Continue reading →

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Black L.A., 1947: White Student Refuses to Leave Black School

Posted on April 12, 2018 by lmharnisch

April 10, 1947: James O. Plinton Jr., left, and Sentinel Publisher Leon H. Washington with one of the Grumman planes Plinton bought for his air service. April 10, 1947: Karla Rosel Galarza, 22, is refusing requests by the Washington, D.C., … Continue reading →

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Black Dahlia: Blogging ‘Black Dahlia Files’ Part 70 — Request Line VIII

Posted on April 12, 2018 by lmharnisch

Note: This is an encore post from 2006. I have ceased 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 uses the “Laura” … Continue reading →

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Black Dahlia: Blogging ‘Black Dahlia Files’ Part 69 — Courtesy Card

Posted on April 11, 2018 by lmharnisch

Note: This is an encore post from 2006. I have ceased 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 uses the “Laura” … Continue reading →

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Fades

Posted on April 11, 2018 by lmharnisch

Note: This is an encore post from 2006. Pity the blind

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Black Dahlia: Blogging ‘Black Dahlia Files’ Part 68 — Request Line VII

Posted on April 10, 2018 by lmharnisch

Note: This is an encore post from 2006. I have ceased 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 uses the “Laura” … Continue reading →

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Black L.A., 1947: 126 Men, 3 Women Arrested in Raid on ‘Wild Stag Party’

Posted on April 10, 2018 by lmharnisch

The former La Vada Apartments, site of a stag party in 1947, via Google Street View. April 10, 1947: Police raided the ballroom of the La Vada Apartments, 249 E. Vernon, arresting 126 men who had paid $1 for admission … Continue reading →

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Mary Mallory / Hollywood Heights: N. Hollywood Playhouse Promotes Theater in San Fernando Valley

Posted on April 9, 2018 by lmharnisch

  The North Hollywood Playhouse in 1962, when “Rebel Without a Cause” was being performed, from the Los Angeles Public Library. In her memoir, actress Teri Garr wrote being in the production.   For more than 75 years, North Hollywood … Continue reading →

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Black Dahlia: Blogging ‘Black Dahlia Files’ Part 67 — A Mystery Solved

Posted on April 9, 2018 by lmharnisch

Note: This is an encore post from 2006. I have ceased 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 … Continue reading →

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Movieland Mystery Photo (Updated + + + +)

Posted on April 9, 2018 by lmharnisch

This week’s mystery movie was the 1941 RKO picture “Father Takes a Wife,” with Adolph Menjou, Gloria Swanson, John Howard, Desi Arnaz, Helen Broderick, Florence Rice, Neil Hamilton, Grady Sutton, George Meader, Mary Treen and Ruth Dietrich. The screenplay was … Continue reading →

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Black Dahlia: Blogging ‘Black Dahlia Files’ Part 66 — Request Line VI

Posted on April 8, 2018 by lmharnisch

Note: This is an encore post from 2006. I have ceased 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 … Continue reading →

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Black Dahlia: Blogging ‘Black Dahlia Files’ Part 65 — Request Line V

Posted on April 7, 2018 by lmharnisch

Note: This is an encore post from 2006. I have ceased 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 … Continue reading →

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Black L.A., 1947: Famous Flier James O. Plinton Jr. Visits L.A.

Posted on April 6, 2018 by lmharnisch

April 3, 1947: James O. Plinton Jr., a pioneering African American aviator, visits Los Angeles to buy two Grumman amphibious planes. At the beginning of World War II, Plinton went to the Tuskegee Institute, where he was a flight instructor, … Continue reading →

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Black Dahlia: Blogging ‘Black Dahlia Files’ Part 64 — Request Line IV

Posted on April 6, 2018 by lmharnisch

Note: This is an encore post from 2006. I have ceased 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 … Continue reading →

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Black Dahlia: Blogging ‘Black Dahlia Files’ Part 63 — Request Line III

Posted on April 5, 2018 by lmharnisch

Note: This is an encore post from 2006. I have ceased 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 … Continue reading →

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1907: Eugen Sandow, Early Bodybuilder, Suggests Exercises for Women

Posted on April 5, 2018 by lmharnisch

Note: This is an encore post I wrote in 2006. In a 1907 article in the Los Angeles Times, Eugen Sandow offers this advice to women seeking to retain their youthful appearance, noting: “At first I thought it might seem … Continue reading →

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Black L.A., 1947: Mother Sues Hospital Over Baby Mix-Up

Posted on April 4, 2018 by lmharnisch

Jewell Sperling with her son James Sperling Jr., Pittsburgh Courier, April 12, 1947. April 3, 1947: Jewell Sperling of 714 W. 32nd St., sues Hoover Hospital for $3,500, charging that she suffered mental distress from being sent home with the … Continue reading →

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Black Dahlia: Blogging ‘Black Dahlia Files’ Part 62 — Request Line II

Posted on April 4, 2018 by lmharnisch

Note: This is an encore post from 2006. I have ceased 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” and am taking requests … Continue reading →

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Black Dahlia: Blogging ‘Black Dahlia Files’ Part 61 — Request Line

Posted on April 3, 2018 by lmharnisch

Note: This is an encore post from 2006. I have stopped 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 … Continue reading →

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