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I am retired from the Los Angeles Times

No Street Parking in Downtown L.A.

Posted on March 11, 2010 by lmharnisch

March 11, 1920: What Los Angeles is coming to without street parking in downtown, by Edmund Waller “Ted” Gale. The ban was adopted to ease the seemingly ageless problem of traffic. 

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Woman’s 15-Foot Hat Is World’s Largest

Posted on March 11, 2010 by lmharnisch

March 11, 1910:  It took three days for Katherine Gessner to make the 15-foot Merry Widow hat out of crepe paper and cloth on a framework of bamboo and wire

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Matt Weinstock, March 10, 1960

Posted on March 10, 2010 by lmharnisch

  Lesson for Today     A group of firemen have been engaging lately in baffling exercises with the fire hose at the north end of Echo Park Lake and a lady who lives nearby says she is losing her mind … Continue reading →

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Paul V. Coates – Confidential File, March 10, 1960

Posted on March 10, 2010 by lmharnisch

The book Coates is talking about is, of course, "Black Like Me." DARING THE 'HATE STARE' A White Man Turns Negro (This is the first of two exclusive columns on the remarkable story of a white author who turned "Negro" … Continue reading →

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Willie Davis, April 8, 1959

Posted on March 10, 2010 by lmharnisch

 

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Robert Hilburn on 38-Special, Rush

Posted on March 10, 2010 by lmharnisch

March 10, 1980: “Bearable by most standards, 38-Special was a godsend next to headliner Rush,” Robert Hilburn says. 

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Hedda Hopper, March 10, 1945

Posted on March 10, 2010 by lmharnisch

March 10, 1945: Hedda Hopper has lunch with Clark Gable … and quite a few other folks.

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Price Tag on an All-Star Infield

Posted on March 10, 2010 by lmharnisch

  March 10, 1970: How much would an all-star infield cost these days? The Times' Ross Newhan heard what the Reds' assistant scouting director thought of young Dodgers Bill Buckner, Bill Grabarkewitz, Bobby Valentine and Bill Russell. "I'll give $3-4 … Continue reading →

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Lawmakers Defeat Attempt to Ban Death Penalty

Posted on March 10, 2010 by lmharnisch

“I’ve Got to Live With Myself!”   March 10, 1960: The Senate Judiciary Committee kills Gov. Pat Brown’s effort to repeal the death penalty. Although Caryl Chessman is the pressing issue in the question of capital punishment, his name is … Continue reading →

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Nuestro Pueblo

Posted on March 10, 2010 by lmharnisch

Oct. 7, 1938: Joe Seewerker and Charles Owens visit 942 Yale St. (Google maps’ street view shows the lion is long gone). The original run of “Nuestro Pueblo” concluded last year. I’m going back and picking up the ones I … Continue reading →

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Joseph Scott on the Evils of Frenchwomen

Posted on March 10, 2010 by lmharnisch

  March 10, 1920: Attorney Joseph Scott attacks the morals of  Frenchwomen in closing arguments in the divorce case of Frank Van Camp, head of Van Camp Sea Food Co.  Scott represented stenographer Ruth Cruzen, who was named by Van … Continue reading →

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Pasadena Raids Illegal Stock Exchange

Posted on March 10, 2010 by lmharnisch

  March 10, 1910: A speeding streetcar takes a curve too fast at 7th and Alvarado, jumps the tracks and goes tearing into what’s now MacArthur Park. If it hadn’t run into a telegraph pole and a pepper tree, it … Continue reading →

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Matt Weinstock, March 9, 1960

Posted on March 9, 2010 by lmharnisch

Board Meeting     The hostess at a house party in Santa Monica happened to mention that she had a late model Ouija board,  and several surprised guests, who thought the boards had gone out with mah-jongg, insisted that it be … Continue reading →

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Paul V. Coates – Confidential File, March 9, 1960

Posted on March 9, 2010 by lmharnisch

Father, Son Talk Over the Slaying of Seven     In his 57 years, stolid Ralph Whitney never made a more difficult phone call.      He placed it late yesterday afternoon from the quiet Pomona Valley community of Upland to the … Continue reading →

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Charles Champlin on Farrah Fawcett

Posted on March 9, 2010 by lmharnisch

March 9, 1980: Charles Champlin profiles Farrah Fawcett, 33, on the next phase of her life, when she’s more confident in her own judgment and less influenced by advisers.  

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Hedda Hopper, March 9, 1944

Posted on March 9, 2010 by lmharnisch

  March 9, 1944: Hedda Hopper tells Betty Bacall to forget this Lauren stuff. “ ‘Betty Bacall’ is euphonious and easy to say,” Hopper says. Gosh did she ever get anything right? 

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Kennedy, Nixon Lead in New Hampshire

Posted on March 9, 2010 by lmharnisch

On the jump, an attorney seeks to keep state officials from removing Alice Marie Combs, 4, center, from her foster home in an effort to find a more intellectually stimulating family for the girl, who has an IQ of 138. … Continue reading →

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Black Dahlia on Display

Posted on March 9, 2010 by lmharnisch

  One of many mistakes in the Black Dahlia poster from “Behind-the-Scenes: The LAPD Homicide Experience.” Notice that the location is wrong – the body was actually half a block away. Note: Most of the media’s attention to the LAPD’s … Continue reading →

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Lawyers Too Greedy, Attorney Says

Posted on March 9, 2010 by lmharnisch

  March 9, 1920: Attorneys have given up criminal defense work in favor of wealthy corporate clients and civil cases, attorney Samuel T. Untermyer tells the  county bar association. More on the jump, plus Clare Briggs.

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Car Thief Bluffs His Way Out of Tight Spot

Posted on March 9, 2010 by lmharnisch

  March 9, 1910: One car thief is a fellow with a lot of nerve who tries to talk himself out of a bad situation. On the jump, the rest of the story… and a dying woman uses her children’s … Continue reading →

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