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Author Archives: lmharnisch
1944 in Print — Hollywood News and Gossip by Louella Parsons, October 3, 1944
October 3, 1944: Danton Walker says: Complaints of civilians who have had to wait while Nazi prisoners are fed in dining cars have resulted in a new ruling; hereafter the prisoners must remain in their guarded cars and eat out of waxed paper boxes. Continue reading
Posted in 1944, Columnists, Comics, Film, Hollywood, Horoscope
Tagged 1944, comics, Danton Walker, film, hollywood, horoscope, Louella Parsons, Walter Winchell
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October 3, 1907: The Mystery of Felt Lake
October 3, 1907: Chester Silent, one of the most promising students at Stanford, disappears…. Continue reading
October 2, 1959: Matt Weinstock
October 2, 1959: “Thelonious Monk, who’ll be among those present at the Hollywood Bowl jazz festival tonight, is the composer of “Round About Midnight, in my opinion one of the finest mood pieces of recent years.” Continue reading
Posted in Columnists, Matt Weinstock, Mickey Cohen
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October 2, 1959: Paul V. Coates &ndash
October 2, 1959: Paul Coates looks at the myths surrounding Caryl Chessman, scheduled to die in the gas chamber. Continue reading
Posted in Caryl Chessman, Columnists, Paul Coates
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October 2, 1947: On Skid Row, Homeless Children Mourn Their Beloved Sister Ollie
October 2, 1947: Sister Ollie (though she was famous under another name) died happy, according to her mother, Sister Sibbie, the superintendent at Sunshine Mission, 558 S. Wall St., a shelter for homeless women and children on skid row. Continue reading
Posted in 1947, Film, Hollywood, Obituaries
Tagged #Silent Films, film, hollywood, homelessness, obituaries, Olive Borden
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1944 in Print — Hollywood News and Gossip by Louella Parsons, October 2, 1944
October 2, 1944: Danton Walter says: Part of the campaign to eliminate Nazi influence in the postwar world is an order from Washington to commanding generals to destroy all films made in Germany since 1933, Danton Walter says. Continue reading
Posted in 1944, Columnists, Comics, Film, Hollywood
Tagged 1944, comics, Danton Walker, film, hollywood, Louella Parsons, Walter Winchell
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October 2, 1907: Patient Dies After Chiropractor Treats Spine With Mallet and Drill
October 2, 1907: Thomas H. Storey, an unlicensed chiropractor, has a patient lie with his head on one chair and his knees on another. Storey gets on the patient’s back so all his weight is resting on the spine. Next, he puts his knee in the small of the patient’s back. Then he twists the neck. Continue reading
Posted in 1907, 1909, Crime and Courts, Medicine
Tagged 1907, chiropractors, crime and courts
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October 1, 1959: Matt Weinstock
October 1, 1959: A caller tries to tap Matt Weinstock for a few dollars. He’s not an easy touch. Continue reading
Posted in Columnists, Matt Weinstock
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October 1, Paul V. Coates — Confidential File
October 1, 1959: Paul Coates writes about Caryl Chessman and his scheduled execution. And Mickey Cohen plans to marry Beverly (Jean) Hills. Continue reading
Posted in #courts, Columnists, Mickey Cohen, Paul Coates
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October 1, 1947: Meet Matt Weinstock, Author of ‘My L.A.’
October 1, 1947: Meet Matt Weinstock, author of “My L.A.” Everybody’s parents or grandparents seem to have purchased this little red-bound book with the blue title on the spine. There was a time when you could find a copy in just about any secondhand store or used bookshop in the Southwest next to “Inside U.S.A.” or one of the WPA guides. Continue reading
Posted in 1947, Books and Authors, Columnists
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1944 in Print — Hollywood News and Gossip by Louella Parsons, October 1, 1944
October 1, 1944: The always unpredictable and exciting Maria Montez never fails to come through with some unexpected and dramatic episode when I talk to her, Louella Parsons says. Continue reading
Posted in 1944, Columnists, Film, Hollywood
Tagged 1944, film, hollywood, Louella Parsons
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October 1, 1910: ‘A Terrible Roar’
October 1, 1910: The Los Angeles Times Building is bombed, killing 20 employees. Continue reading
Posted in 1910, Crime and Courts, Downtown, Fires, Labor, LAPD
Tagged #Times bombing, 1910
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October 1, 1909: Fatal Land Dispute Near El Monte
October 1, 1909: High winds ground the aeroplanes of the Wright brothers and Glenn Curtiss…. A property dispute near El Monte ends in a death with racial overtones. Continue reading
Posted in #courts, Transportation
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September 30, 1959: Matt Weinstock
Sept. 30, 1959: “The body of a San Bernardino Freeway crash victim was hurled into a tree where it hung unnoticed for five hours today” … W.C. Fields vs. Cecil B. DeMille … and Matt Weinstock on some friendly traffic officers. Continue reading
Posted in Columnists, Film, Hollywood, LAPD, Matt Weinstock, Transportation
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September 30, 1959: Paul V. Coates — Confidential File
September 30, 1959: Paul Coates follows up on the tale of a young man pulling a magazine subscription scam, and on the troubles of Barbara Burns. Continue reading
Posted in Columnists, health, Paul Coates
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1944 in Print — Hollywood News and Gossip by Louella Parsons, September 30, 1944
September 30, 1944: Lucille Ball, since her separation from Desi Arnaz, has gone to live in the Hollywood home of Jody and Renee (DeMarco) Hutchinson, Danton Walker says. Continue reading
Posted in 1944, Columnists, Comics, Film, Hollywood, Horoscope
Tagged 1944, comics, Danton Walker, film, hollywood, horoscope, Louella Parsons
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Reminder – My Next ‘Ask Me Anything’ on the Black Dahlia Case Is October 7
Reminder: I will be doing a live Ask Me Anything on the Black Dahlia case on YouTube next Tuesday, October 7, at 10 a.m. Pacific time. Have questions? Leave them in the comments. Continue reading
Posted in 1947, Black Dahlia, Cold Cases, Coming Attractions
Tagged 1947, Ask Me Anything, Black Dahlia, Cold Cases, Steve Hodel
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September 30, 1907: The Quick Brown Fox and Friends From A to Z
September 30, 1907: A list of sentences using all the letters of the alphabet. “Pack my box with five dozen liquor jugs seems to have fallen out of favor.” Continue reading
Posted in 1907, Books and Authors
Tagged 1907
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September 29,1959: Paul V. Coates — Confidential File
September 29, 1959: Paul Coates has the story of Dorothy Roseborough and her adventures writing articles and eventually a book as Dorothy Ross. Whenever she sold something, the pay was deducted for her pension, so she saw no point in writing. But she did anyway. Continue reading
Posted in books, Columnists, Paul Coates
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