Category Archives: 1930

Movieland Mystery Photo (Updated + + + +)

Posted on July 10, 2023 by lmharnisch

This week’s mystery movie was the 1930 Columbia picture Rain or Shine, with Joe Cook, Louise Fazenda, Joan Peers, William Collier Jr., Tom Howard, Dave Chason (Chasen), Alan Roscoe, Adolph Milar, Clarence Muse, Nella Walker, Edward Martindale, Nora Lane and … Continue reading →

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Found on EBay: 1930 Los Angeles Junior League Cookbook

Posted on December 2, 2022 by lmharnisch

A vendor has listed a rare copy of the 1930 Los Angeles Junior League Cookbook. For $1,760. No really.

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Mary Mallory: Hollywood Heights – Fred Hartsook

Posted on June 7, 2021 by lmharnisch

Photo: Child in sailor suit by Hartsook studios, for sale on EBay. Bidding starts at $74.95. Note: This is an encore post from 2011. Patience is a prerequisite for being a stills photographer, and it is also important for those … Continue reading →

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Mary Mallory / Hollywood Heights: Eastern Columbia Brings Style to Shopping

Posted on September 28, 2020 by lmharnisch

One of Los Angeles’ most glorious examples of architecture merging glamour and commerce, downtown’s Eastern-Columbia building turned 90 years old September 12. Designed by Claud Beelman and erected in 1930, it symbolizes the City of Angels’ ascendance to the pinnacle … Continue reading →

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Mary Mallory / Hollywood Heights: Ethel Barrymore Dons Blackface for ‘Scarlet Sister Mary’

Posted on September 7, 2020 by lmharnisch

Ethel Barrymore in “Sister Scarlet Mary” Stage legend Ethel Barrymore continually sought challenges to advance her craft through her many decades in the theater. In the late 1920s, she took on perhaps her biggest challenge, portraying the lead character in … Continue reading →

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Movieland Mystery Photo (Updated + + + +)

Posted on May 25, 2020 by lmharnisch

This week’s mystery movie was the 1930 First National Pictures film “Road to Paradise,” with Loretta Young, Jack Mulhall, Raymond Hatton, George Barraud, Kathlyn Williams, Fred Kelsey, Purnell Pratt, Ben Hendricks Jr., Dot Farley, Winter Hall and Georgette Rhodes. Adaptation … Continue reading →

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Movieland Mystery Photo (Updated + + + + +)

Posted on April 20, 2020 by lmharnisch

This week’s mystery movie was Henry King’s  1930 picture “Hell Harbor,” with Lupe Velez, Jean Hersholt, John Holland, Gibson Gowland, Harry Allen, Al. St. John, Paul Burns, George Bookasta and Ulysses Williams. Adapted by Fred DeGresac, from the novel “Out … Continue reading →

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Los Angeles Junior League Cookbook, 1930

Posted on April 29, 2019 by lmharnisch

A copy of the Los Angeles Junior League cookbook from 1930 has turned up on EBay. It’s not cheap, listed as Buy it Now for $250, but then again, who can put a price on Mrs. John Russell’s recipe for … Continue reading →

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July 6, 1947: 1930 Duesenberg Convertible for Sale. Best Offer

Posted on July 6, 2018 by lmharnisch

Sigh.

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Mary Mallory / Hollywood Heights: Ravenswood Apartments Attract the Stylish

Posted on November 14, 2016 by lmharnisch

Mae West in her boudoir at the Ravenswood, Life magazine, Feb. 19, 1940. Note: This is an encore presentation of a post from 2014. Built during the early years of the Great Depression, the luxurious Ravenswood Apartment building at 570 … Continue reading →

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Eve Golden’s YouTube Theater: Well, Here Is the Damndest Film You’ll Ever See

Posted on October 4, 2016 by lmharnisch

  “Cigarette Life!” A deathless line from “Tomato Is Another Day.” I offer for your bewilderment Tomato Is Another Day (1930), seven of the weirdest minutes ever committed to film. It was never widely shown (for obvious reasons) and was … Continue reading →

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Mary Mallory / Hollywood Heights: Ravenswood Apartments Attract the Stylish

Posted on November 10, 2014 by lmharnisch

Mae West in her boudoir at the Ravenswood, Life magazine, Feb. 19, 1940. Built during the early years of the Great Depression, the luxurious Ravenswood Apartment building at 570 N. Rossmore Ave. stands as one of the best examples of … Continue reading →

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From the Stacks – ‘Death Valley the Facts’

Posted on November 23, 2011 by lmharnisch

Is it wrong to buy a book on the basis of one map? I suppose it is, but I couldn’t resist. I found this copy of W.A. Chalfant’s “Death Valley the Facts” the other evening at the Last Bookstore and … Continue reading →

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Gangster Kills Tribune Reporter, 1930

Posted on October 4, 2011 by lmharnisch

Ken Burns’ series on Prohibition has brought a reexamination of the era. John McCormick of the Chicago Tribune looks at the tawdry end of the Trib’s Alfred “Jake” Lingle, who was shot to death in 1930, revealing a secret life. … Continue reading →

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Found on EBay — John Barrymore’s Town Car

Posted on May 4, 2011 by lmharnisch

       A photograph of John Barrymore’s 1930 Cord L-29, with a body by Murphy Coach Builders of Pasadena, has been listed on EBay. According to an 1989 article in the Spartanburg Herald-Journal, this car is in the Auburn, … Continue reading →

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Amazing Predictions for 1961!

Posted on December 28, 2010 by lmharnisch

         hile the rest of the news business spends the final days of December looking back at the major events of the year, the Daily Mirror is peering forward, and for us at least, the future is … Continue reading →

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