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I am retired from the Los Angeles Times

Coming Attractions — Last Remaining Seats

Posted on April 2, 2009 by lmharnisch

  Tickets for the Los Angeles Conservancy's annual Last Remaining Seats have gone on sale. Tickets are available to members only ($80/$16) through April 14 and go on sale to the public ($100/$20) April 15. But surely most Daily Mirror … Continue reading →

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In the Theaters, April 2, 1911

Posted on April 2, 2009 by lmharnisch

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Second Takes — Billy Wilder

Posted on April 2, 2009 by lmharnisch

At left, our 1939 review of "Midnight," with Don Ameche and Claudette Colbert, which carried Billy Wilder's first writing credit in The Times. We can quickly cover his earlier work in Hollywood: Oct. 12, 1934: "One Exciting  Adventure" is the … Continue reading →

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Kathy Fiscus Revisited — April 9, 1949

Posted on April 2, 2009 by lmharnisch

The Times, April 9, 1949, a little San Marino girl is trapped in an old well. L.A.Times photo Bill Yancey is lifted to the surface, carrying the body of Kathy Fiscus. I attended William Deverell's lecture Monday night on the … Continue reading →

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Mickey Cohen at Center of Underworld Probe; Comedy of Errors at Wrigley Field, April 2, 1949

Posted on April 2, 2009 by lmharnisch

The San Bernardino County Grand Jury finds widespread corruption in the Sheriff's Department. What do we find in the 1949 paper but Mickey Cohen in the middle of the Alfred Pearson scandal. To vastly simply the story, Pearson picked up … Continue reading →

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Found on EBay — Earl Carroll’s Nightclub

Posted on April 1, 2009 by lmharnisch

This unusual ashtray from Earl Carroll's nightclub has been listed on EBay. Bidding starts at $6.99.

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Matt Weinstock — April 1, 1959

Posted on April 1, 2009 by lmharnisch

End of the Trail It may take a generation or two — and in the broad scheme of things what are a few years — but writer Bob Schiller is confident of the inevitable demise of the TV western. The … Continue reading →

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Paul Coates — Confidential File, April 1, 1959

Posted on April 1, 2009 by lmharnisch

Confidential File My Mom Loves Me, in a Sinister Fashion I'm a member, in good standing, of the grossly sentimental school which maintains, despite statistical evidence to the contrary, that a boy's best friend is his mother. When all others … Continue reading →

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In the Theaters — April 1, 1909

Posted on April 1, 2009 by lmharnisch
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Second Takes — Billy Wilder

Posted on April 1, 2009 by lmharnisch

Photograph by Ken Hively / Los Angeles Times Billy Wilder, Dec. 17, 1999, at Louis Stern Fine Arts in West Hollywood. Note: I had so much fun posting a month's worth of Times stories about Raymond Chandler that I thought … Continue reading →

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Happy Birthday, Chuck Hillinger!

Posted on April 1, 2009 by lmharnisch

The Daily Mirror apologizes for the murky reproduction of stories on the "new, improved" Typepad platform. We're trying to fix it. If you click on it to make it full size you will be able to read it.

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Baseball Turns 100, April 1, 1969

Posted on April 1, 2009 by lmharnisch

 Baseball's 100th anniversary was celebrated–again. Ross Newhan's story explained the confusing reasons for the event, "the second time in 30 years that we have paused to observe baseball's 100th anniversary." The Cincinnati Red Stockings in 1869 signed their players to … Continue reading →

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Bullet Hits Child at Desert Nudist Camp, April 1, 1939

Posted on April 1, 2009 by lmharnisch

The Times wrote very little about the Land of Moo nudist colony in Lancaster. All we know is that rancher Jack R. Majonnier was given a suspended sentence of $25 or 50 days in jail.   Joe Shaw gets out … Continue reading →

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Found on EBay — Duesenberg

Posted on March 31, 2009 by lmharnisch

What appears to be an authentic Deusenberg 8 radiator emblem has been listed on EBay. Bidding starts at $49.99.

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In the Theaters — March 31, 1986

Posted on March 31, 2009 by lmharnisch
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Trouble Was His Business — Raymond Chandler

Posted on March 31, 2009 by lmharnisch

A historic passion * Author Judith Freeman researched Raymond Chandler's marriage. November 7, 2007 By Graham Fuller, Special to The Times Twenty years ago, Judith Freeman became "obsessed," as she puts it, with Raymond Chandler, whose novels featuring the private … Continue reading →

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Christine Jorgensen Tries to Marry, March 31, 1959

Posted on March 31, 2009 by lmharnisch

  Christine Jorgensen and Howard J. Knox attempted to get married, but could not obtain a license.  The Times headline writers had fun with this: Ex-GI becomes GI-RL. Har har har. And the same day, an ad for the upcoming … Continue reading →

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Nuestro Pueblo, March 31, 1939

Posted on March 31, 2009 by lmharnisch
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Found on EBay — L.A. Streetcars

Posted on March 30, 2009 by lmharnisch

This lot of books about streetcars has been listed on EBay and includes several on the Pacific Electric Railway and one on pre-Huntington cars. The books are listed as best offer or Buy It Now for $150.

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Matt Weinstock — March 30, 1959

Posted on March 30, 2009 by lmharnisch

Back on Canopus … Another election is only a week away and the air is heavy with confusion, obscurantism and apathy — mostly apathy. The confusion belongs to the voters. Many of them are recent arrivals who don't understand our … Continue reading →

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