Category Archives: Matt Weinstock

November 13, 1959: Matt Weinstock

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November 13, 1959: As the city suffers under a heavy layer of smog, the copy desk wonders if L.A. will be abandoned by 1975, Matt Weinstock says. Continue reading →

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November 12, 1959: Matt Weinstock

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November 12, 1958: It has become a kind of game for the young men who pilot the jungle boats at Disneyland to invent bright new lines for their spiels during the voyage, Matt Weinstock says. Continue reading →

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November 11, 1959: Matt Weinstock

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November 11, 1959: A Palm Springs getaway to cure a dog’s cough? Matt Weinstock tells the tale. Continue reading →

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November 9, 1959: Matt Weinstock

Posted on November 9, 2025 by lmharnisch

November 9, 1959: Clearly it’s no more possible to control the gags about the quiz show scandal than it is to control the mushrooming scandal itself, and the other day a group of coffee break philosophers of my acquaintance got around to the subject, Matt Weinstock says. Continue reading →

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November 5, 1959: Matt Weinstock

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November 5, 1959: Los Angeles residents are hit by a large increase in property taxes and Matt Weinstock has the story. Continue reading →

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October 30, 1959: Matt Weinstock

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October 30, 1959: A woman walking to the store is “kidnapped” by a bus of Stanford graduates en route to the football game against USC, Matt Weinstock says. (Stanford lost). Continue reading →

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Matt Weinstock, Oct. 28, 1959

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October 28, 1959: Janice, 11, saves her money for more than a year to send her parents on the honeymoon they never had because they married during World War II, Matt Weinstock writes. Continue reading →

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October 27, 1959: Matt Weinstock

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October 27, 1959: A driver named Hank says he is always outwitted by traffic congestion. “I’m sure the word goes out when I leave the house — Drive this guy nuts,” he says. Continue reading →

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October 26, 1959: Matt Weinstock

Posted on October 26, 2025 by lmharnisch

October 26, 1959: Steve Medved says he was beaten unconscious by the LAPD while being arrested for being drunk. When his trial ended in a hung jury, Medved says, the LAPD began targeting him for drunkenness, Matt Weinstock says. Continue reading →

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October 24, 1959: Matt Weinstock

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October 24, 1959: A driver with a long, majestic beard stopping in Paso Robles during a beard-growing contest for Pioneer Day is the envy of every man, Matt Weinstock says. Continue reading →

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October 23, 1957: Matt Weinstock

Posted on October 23, 2025 by lmharnisch

October 23, 1957: An intoxicated woman hails a police car, which provides a ride to jail. She’s freed, but then arrested for a warrant on a traffic ticket on a 1956 car — only she says she never owned a 1956 model, just a 1926 that she sold a year ago. Continue reading →

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October 22, 1957: Matt Weinstock

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October 22, 1957: Yelling “Boy!” for a copy boy has nearly disappeared from the newsroom, Matt Weinstock says. Continue reading →

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October 21, 1957: Matt Weinstock

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October 21, 1957: Matt Weinstock writes about a disgruntled car owner who discovers it’s no longer possible to rent a car battery for a few days. Continue reading →

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October 20, 1959: Matt Weinstock

Posted on October 20, 2025 by lmharnisch

October 20, 1959: Matt Weinstock writes about H.C. “Chad” McClellan’s recent trip to the Soviet Union, representing capitalism. His message to Rotarians was that young Communists were misguided, misled and misinformed. Not evil. Continue reading →

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October 19, 1957: Matt Weinstock

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October 19, 1957: Matt Weinstock profiles former newspaperman Edwin Anthony Browne, who appears in Carroll and Garrett Graham’s “Queer People” a hilarious book about crazy movie people in the crazy 1920s. Continue reading →

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October 18, 1957: Matt Weinstock

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October 18, 1957: The city health department has a complaint desk and some of the calls would test anyone’s sanity, Matt Weinstock says. Continue reading →

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October 17, 1957: Matt Weinstock

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October 17, 1957: Matt Weinstock interviews George B. Murphy, an aircraft inspector for whom Murphy’s Law was named. Continue reading →

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October 16, 1957: Matt Weinstock

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October 16, 1957: Matt Weinstock writes about a man who claimed he saw Saturn from his backyard — without a telescope. Which was impossible. Was it spacemen? Continue reading →

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October 15, 1959: Matt Weinstock

Posted on October 15, 2025 by lmharnisch

October 15, 1959: Matt Weinstock takes a look at Caryl Chessman’s case and his grounds for appeal. Chessman remains the only person executed in California who never killed anyone. Continue reading →

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October 14, 1957: Matt Weinstock

Posted on October 14, 2025 by lmharnisch

October 14, 1957: The Dodgers are coming, but there’s a reason to believe the Battle of Chavez Ravine is not quite over. Twelve families there are sitting tight, some of them on land their grandfathers bought and built homes on and they don’t think the city has done right by them, Matt Weinstock says. Continue reading →

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