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I am retired from the Los Angeles Times

Main Street Gym

Posted on November 29, 2007 by lmharnisch

I dug out the old photos of the Main Street Gym and fired up the scanner at the Daily Mirror HQ. Photograph by Marilynn K. Yee / Los Angeles Times Then I took a closer look at this picture from … Continue reading →

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Nov. 29, 1957

Posted on November 28, 2007 by lmharnisch
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Aaron baseball sold

Posted on November 28, 2007 by lmharnisch

Nov. 29, 1957 Adjusted for inflation, this baseball went for $7,165.28 in 2006 dollars.   I can hear every memorabilia collector in America screaming.

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Photo shoot

Posted on November 28, 2007 by lmharnisch

Here’s how news editors (now they’re called "page designers") used to crop feature pictures down to a one-column mug. The original portrait. Here’s hoping the poor AP photographer never saw how it got butchered.    First, rotate the picture so … Continue reading →

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Woman kills robber

Posted on November 28, 2007 by lmharnisch

  Nov. 28, 1957 Los Angeles The last bad decision in James B. Burton’s 42 years of bad decisions was to light a cigarette. Because to light the cigarette, he had to put down his gun.  Of course he had … Continue reading →

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Nov. 28, 1957

Posted on November 27, 2007 by lmharnisch

     

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In memoriam

Posted on November 27, 2007 by lmharnisch

Nov. 25, 1957Los Angeles The Daily Mirror is in mourning.     Email me

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Kennedys have girl

Posted on November 27, 2007 by lmharnisch

Nov. 27, 1957

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Rampages revisited

Posted on November 27, 2007 by lmharnisch

  Photograph by Larry Harnisch / Los Angeles TimesHere’s 307 Tamarac Drive, where Harvey F. Rawlings killed his family and committed suicide.   And this is 555 Avenue 64, where Harold Oilar killed his family in 1954.   And here’s … Continue reading →

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Murder-suicide

Posted on November 27, 2007 by lmharnisch

Nov. 27, 1957 Los Angeles Everybody says the Rawlings family are fine people. They have a big house at 307 Tamarac Drive in San Rafael, one of the finer neighborhoods in Pasadena. Nice house, isn’t it? Four bedrooms, two baths, … Continue reading →

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Nov. 27, 1957

Posted on November 26, 2007 by lmharnisch

 

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Caryl Chessman

Posted on November 26, 2007 by lmharnisch

Nov. 26, 1957Los Angeles Here’s an update on two stories we have been following…. After 98 witnesses and eight weeks of testimony, the prosecution is about to rest in the murder trial of L. Ewing Scott. Throughout the trial, the … Continue reading →

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Mystery photo

Posted on November 26, 2007 by lmharnisch

I came across this photo in the archives and thought I’d share it. This is Orson Welles at the Stork Club in New York in early 1946. Who’s the blonde?   Los Angeles Times file photo   Virginia Mayo? Interesting … Continue reading →

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Nov. 26, 1957

Posted on November 26, 2007 by lmharnisch

 

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Things to come

Posted on November 25, 2007 by lmharnisch

Nov. 25, 1957Los Angeles The designers display a painting of the proposed Theme Building at LAX:  

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Sex change

Posted on November 25, 2007 by lmharnisch

Nov. 25, 1957 Scotland Frank Little, 40, was a brilliant scientist, a husband, the father of three children–and he was terribly unhappy being a man, according to an Associated Press story from Rosyth, Scotland. Little said that his psychological and … Continue reading →

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Brenda Allen

Posted on November 25, 2007 by lmharnisch

The scanner at the Daily Mirror has been working overtime on the Brenda Allen photos. It's interesting to put all the battered old pictures in order and go through them, as if you can pick up a feeling for someone. … Continue reading →

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Nov. 25, 1957

Posted on November 25, 2007 by lmharnisch

 

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Brenda Allen

Posted on November 24, 2007 by lmharnisch

    Photograph by Al Humphreys / Los Angeles Times Someone asked: Who was Brenda Allen? I imagine you’ve read something about her or more likely you have at least heard of her. This is Brenda (she also used the … Continue reading →

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Best sellers

Posted on November 24, 2007 by lmharnisch

Nov. 24, 1957

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