Category Archives: Front Pages

Jackie Robinson, track star

Posted on June 26, 2008 by lmharnisch

June 26, 1938 By Keith ThursbyTimes staff writer It might be the shortest newspaper notice in Jackie Robinson’s career. A two-paragraph item in The Times announced that Robinson, described as the "sensational all-around Pasadena Junior College athlete," would be leaving … Continue reading →

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June 26, 1908

Posted on June 26, 2008 by lmharnisch

Above, Normandie and Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard, "Home of the Garbage Burrito." he Times’ Harry Carr, fresh from the Republican National Convention in Chicago, heads to Lincoln, Neb., to interview William Jennings Bryan, the Democratic presidential candidate. "When he … Continue reading →

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June 25, 1958

Posted on June 25, 2008 by lmharnisch

Someone apparently doesn’t like Dorothy Adamson’s fox terrier, which is missing after her apartment at 1034 Hilldale was bombed. An unidentified caller had complained about the dog’s barking, The Times says. Alas, the paper never followed up on this story. … Continue reading →

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June 25, 1938

Posted on June 25, 2008 by lmharnisch

e have more fallout from Earle Kynette’s conviction in the Harry Raymond bombing. On the jump, The Times reports that seven officers will face a police board of rights on charges of obstructing the Raymond investigation. Mayor Frank Shaw sends … Continue reading →

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June 25, 1908

Posted on June 25, 2008 by lmharnisch

  rue confession: I mixed up June 26, 1908 and June 25, 1908. I suppose that happens more often that one might suspect–or not. Readers either politely didn’t bring it to my attention or didn’t notice. Thank you for your … Continue reading →

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June 24, 1958

Posted on June 24, 2008 by lmharnisch

  t left, a nine-room home in an all-white neighborhood is heavily vandalized after being sold to an African American doctor and his family. The Times says vandals caused $15,000 ($109,315.53 USD 2007) damage to the newly redecorated home at … Continue reading →

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June 24, 1938

Posted on June 24, 2008 by lmharnisch

uestro Pueblo is a new discovery for me, and a very happy one. The Times began the feature by writer Joe Seewerker and artist Charles Owens in June 1938, publishing installments Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays. The series ended in October … Continue reading →

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June 24, 1908

Posted on June 24, 2008 by lmharnisch

loodshed and slaughter mark the beginning of the Persian Civil War, which lasted until 1909. In February, the shah, Mohammad Ali, escaped an assassination attempt when two bombs were dropped on his motorcade from the roof of a house. A … Continue reading →

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Los Angeles traffic

Posted on June 23, 2008 by lmharnisch

Page 26 Page 27 f only Ray Hebert had asked the right question. But how was he to know? Twenty years after Ed Ainsworth focused on a "motorway" system in his series on Los Angeles traffic, Ray Hebert examines the … Continue reading →

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George Carlin, RIP

Posted on June 23, 2008 by lmharnisch

aybe you remember him as Al Sleet, the "Hippy, Dippy Weatherman with the hippy, dippy weather … man" or as Rufus in "Bill and Ted’s Excellent Adventure" or the author of an incredible number of jokes that are  eternally circulating … Continue reading →

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Geneva Ellroy, RIP

Posted on June 22, 2008 by lmharnisch

Geneva Ellroy crime scene, Arroyo High School, El Monte, Calif., via Google maps street view. o much has already been written about the June 1958 murder of Geneva Hilliker Ellroy; there’s very little I can add to what my friend … Continue reading →

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June 21, 1938

Posted on June 21, 2008 by lmharnisch

  ne thing you have to say about Los Angeles Mayor Frank Shaw: He has a sense of humor. Upon returning from Washington, where he spent the final days of the Earle Kynette trial, Shaw was given a list of … Continue reading →

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June 21, 1908

Posted on June 21, 2008 by lmharnisch

epublican William Taft gets the news that he has been nominated as the party’s presidential candidate. This sequence of photos must have seemed revolutionary for 1908. (And yes, this photo reminds me of one of my all-time favorite headlines: "Says … Continue reading →

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June 21, 1908

Posted on June 21, 2008 by lmharnisch

  nteresting things from The Times Real Estate Section: The changing face of downtown Los Angeles (shout-out to my pals at onbunkerhill.org) and a proposed luxury hotel for Hollywood that I don't believe was built. This postcard at left gives … Continue reading →

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June 20, 1938

Posted on June 20, 2008 by lmharnisch

609 E. 2nd St. in 1938, above, and the neighborhood via Google street view, below. At left, thugs vandalizing Jewish businesses in Berlin observe a day of rest. Above, D.W. Griffith’s "Birth of a Nation" at the Criterion, 7th and … Continue reading →

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June 20, 1908

Posted on June 20, 2008 by lmharnisch

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June 19, 1938

Posted on June 19, 2008 by lmharnisch

ermany begins the systematic roundup of Jews on the pretext of putting them in "protective custody" or claiming that they are foreigners "without proper papers." "At Buchenwald Concentration Camp, near Weimar, it was reported that 65 army buses were arriving … Continue reading →

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June 19, 1908

Posted on June 19, 2008 by lmharnisch

o surprise as to the Republican presidential nominee: William H. Taft. But selecting a running mate is far more difficult. According to The Times, Taft was going to leave the selection up to the GOP delegates rather than choose one … Continue reading →

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June 18, 1958

Posted on June 18, 2008 by lmharnisch

wenty years after Ed Ainsworth’s series on Los Angeles’ congested streets, The Times takes another look at traffic. I (almost) never grow tired of saying that the incredible number of transportation studies performed in Los Angeles would fill a library. … Continue reading →

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June 18, 1938

Posted on June 18, 2008 by lmharnisch

irst, we have tragic news from Berlin: Panicked Jews wander the streets in hopes of avoiding mass arrests in which entire families are hauled away in the middle of the night. "…officials explained that the anti-Jewish activities were necessary because … Continue reading →

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