Category Archives: 1957

Not on Netflix

Posted on April 26, 2007 by lmharnisch

               Note: Plot summaries are based on a variety of sources since it’s difficult to find viewing copies of these cinematic gems from 1957. "China Gate." Bad things happen in Viet-Nam when an American … Continue reading →

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Ex nihilo nihil fit

Posted on April 20, 2007 by lmharnisch

April 20, 1957 Los Angeles By Matt Weinstock ONLY IN L.A.–A woman about to board a Metro 91 bus at Hollywood Blvd. and Vine asked, “Do you go on La Brea?” (Some turn on Fairfax). The driver said no. She … Continue reading →

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I love to tell the story

Posted on April 20, 2007 by lmharnisch

  April 19, 1957 Los Angeles It seems incredible, but The Times never ran an obituary on Charles E. Fuller, who helped found Fuller Theological Seminary and was one of the pioneers of radio evangelism. Broadcasting live from the Long Beach … Continue reading →

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Dear Mr. O’Malley

Posted on April 19, 2007 by lmharnisch

April 19, 1957 Los Angeles Dear Walter, We all know that the lease on Ebbets Field expires in 1959. How would you like a nice 78-acre parcel in Flushing Meadows, 12 miles from Midtown Manhattan, for the Dodgers? Forget this … Continue reading →

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You have got to be kidding me

Posted on April 18, 2007 by lmharnisch

  Tulsa buries a 1957 Plymouth in a time capsule. Email me

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Con game

Posted on April 18, 2007 by lmharnisch

April 18, 1957 Los Angeles By Matt Weinstock  Dist. Atty. William O. Weissich of Marin County has announced that he plans to ask all persons with access to San Quentin’s death row to take lie-detector tests to find out how … Continue reading →

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“My Father, My Son”

Posted on April 18, 2007 by lmharnisch

April 18, 1957 Los Angeles Someone at The Times had a sense of humor to place a story about a drunk driving case next to an ad for Southern Comfort. There really wasn’t much news to it, just the son … Continue reading →

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Strictly: Human Interest

Posted on April 13, 2007 by lmharnisch

April 8, 1957Los Angeles   Latin Holidayby Pepe Arciga Here's how the anguished voice of a stricken lady, Norberta Venegas, pleaded for what should not be perhaps a lost cause. This she said to me in hesitant Spanish: "Senor Arciga… … Continue reading →

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Look to the Skies!

Posted on April 11, 2007 by lmharnisch

April 11, 1957 Temple City By Larry Harnisch Early that morning, about 4:40 a.m., a sonic boom that was perhaps from some secret aircraft shook the San Gabriel Valley awake, setting off burglar alarms and breaking a window at 275 … Continue reading →

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Smog Is a Four-Letter Word

Posted on April 10, 2007 by lmharnisch

Paul V. CoatesConfidential File April 10, 1957 And it is a comparatively new word in the American vocabulary. The 1953 Webster in my office defines smog as "a fog made heavier and darker by the smoke of a city." But … Continue reading →

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15 Minutes

Posted on April 9, 2007 by lmharnisch

April 9, 1957 Los Angeles By Larry Harnisch He was 4. His mother dressed him in a coat and tie, and took him to the airport. Out to the airplane. There were lots of people there. Men with cameras. A … Continue reading →

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Deal Me a Card, HAL

Posted on April 7, 2007 by lmharnisch

April 7, 1957 Los Angeles By Larry Harnisch In a gathering for newsmen, Caltech staged a demonstration of its "electronic brains." Charles Ray showed off the Royal Precision Electronic Computer LGP-30, a 740-pound "desk computer" with 113 vacuum tubes and … Continue reading →

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Sorry It Had to Happen This Way

Posted on April 4, 2007 by lmharnisch

April 4, 1957 Los Angeles By Larry Harnisch Sometime in the night, Robert Tunis Palmer, a 27-year-old meatpacker from Marysville, Ohio, sat on the steps of the church at 14th and Union, finished his can of beer, put the muzzle … Continue reading →

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Ovation for Ollie

Posted on April 4, 2007 by lmharnisch

April 3, 1957     If you haven’t taken a look at the Civic Center scenery lately—and many longtime residents boast they haven’t been downtown for years—a surprise awaits you. Except for the public buildings and a few others, it’s … Continue reading →

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