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Matt Weinstock

Posted on February 5, 2008 by lmharnisch

Feb. 5, 1958 AROUND TOWN–Naughty youngsters are filling paper bags with water and putting them in the seats of sports cars parked near KTLA. When the owners get in their cars in the dark, squish … Note of anachronism: A … Continue reading →

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Matt Weinstock

Posted on February 4, 2008 by lmharnisch

Feb. 4, 1958 Everyone is out to make an extra buck but sometimes opportunity knocks so hard it takes a man off his feet. As in the case of a mail pitch received by E. Hewe of Pasadena from a … Continue reading →

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Matt Weinstock

Posted on January 31, 2008 by lmharnisch

Jan. 31, 1958 It is generally conceded that newspapermen have an infinite capacity for nonchalance, irreverence and wryness. No one is sure why. Maybe it’s the interesting people they don’t meet. Anyway, several reporters were reminiscing the other day and … Continue reading →

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Matt Weinstock

Posted on January 30, 2008 by lmharnisch

Jan. 30, 1958 As all dedicated students of trivia know, it’s the little things, not the big ones, that irritate and arouse people. At the moment, the mail is littered with derogatory comments about the proposal, presented at the recent … Continue reading →

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Matt Weinstock

Posted on January 29, 2008 by lmharnisch

Jan. 29, 1958 Charles Judson, former city editor of the late lamented L.A. Daily News, is now farm editor of the daily Grand Junction (Colo.) Sentinel. His job requires that he travel about the countryside, checking agricultural conditions and writing … Continue reading →

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Matt Weinstock

Posted on January 28, 2008 by lmharnisch

Jan. 28, 1958 T.J. Flournoy, who makes pianos look and sound like they’re supposed to, went to a customer’s home for a tune-up job and found him busily putting his record collection in order by discarding unwanted platters. The householder … Continue reading →

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Matt Weinstock

Posted on January 24, 2008 by lmharnisch

Jan. 24, 1958 There are about 110,000 streetlights in the city of Los Angeles. Keeping them lighted is quite a chore. The Department of Water and Power has 23 two-man crews assigned to service and maintenance. Last month they replaced … Continue reading →

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January 23, 1958: Matt Weinstock

Posted on January 23, 2008 by lmharnisch

January 23, 1958 Confidential magazine may have purged itself of obscenity but the expose complex it created is not so easily dispelled. So says an experienced writer of fact articles. The way he analyzes the present situation, the public’s appetite … Continue reading →

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Matt Weinstock

Posted on January 22, 2008 by lmharnisch

Jan. 22, 1958 No one better mention elk hunting very soon to Bill Molinar, Pasadena real estate man. Bill recently went on a safari in northwest Montana, near Swan Lake. It is very primitive country. His party packed in five … Continue reading →

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Matt Weinstock

Posted on January 20, 2008 by lmharnisch

Jan. 18, 1958 After a long, persistent search, a collection agency operative the other day located–in jail–a young man who had become six months delinquent on a bill he owed. And he told his pathetic story. He is a foundry … Continue reading →

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Matt Weinstock

Posted on January 17, 2008 by lmharnisch

Jan. 17, 1958 Add to the file of consternation creators the name of Sterling Ferguson, Redlands real estate man. He does his diabolic act in crowded restaurants at dinnertime. While waiting for a table the other night, he listened as … Continue reading →

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Matt Weinstock

Posted on January 16, 2008 by lmharnisch

Jan. 16, 1958 Fellow beer drinkers, we’ve got a crisis bubbling over right in front of us. Before we call in the United Nations, let’s give it a brief rundown. Plans have been going ahead, more or less quietly, for … Continue reading →

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Matt Weinstock

Posted on January 15, 2008 by lmharnisch

Jan. 15, 1958 No one wants to disillusion the politicians, a high-minded group, but duty dictates that a conversation between two fortyish women in the Crenshaw shopping district be recorded. When George Watkins first encountered them they were eating hot … Continue reading →

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Matt Weinstock

Posted on January 14, 2008 by lmharnisch

Jan. 14, 1958 Judges try not to smile, no matter how ridiculous the charade unfolding before them becomes. Sometimes they hold back only with great difficulty. A woman seeking a divorce in Judge Burnett Wolfson’s court was asked on what … Continue reading →

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Matt Weinstock

Posted on January 13, 2008 by lmharnisch

Jan. 13, 1958 There are words which somehow people think mean the opposite of what Mr. Webster states about them in his big book. For instance, enervate. It means to deprive of strength, to enfeeble. Yet many people think it … Continue reading →

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Matt Weinstock

Posted on January 11, 2008 by lmharnisch

Jan. 11, 1958 This is to report that progress has whacked away another footnote in the American credo, this time the Tom Sawyer-Huck Finn division. Ralph Hopkins, who spends his weekends fixing up his desert hideaway, tried to buy some … Continue reading →

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Matt Weinstock

Posted on January 10, 2008 by lmharnisch

Jan. 10, 1958 The seminar on semantics will come to order. A reporter phoned the Bureau of Public Works seeking information on the collection of combustible rubbish. He wanted to know whether a refuse truck, when filled, hauled the load … Continue reading →

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Matt Weinstock

Posted on January 9, 2008 by lmharnisch

Jan. 9, 1958 Passengers on a plane en route to Los Angeles from New York a few days ago were in a state of mild excitement over the presence of Lee J. Cobb, the distinguished actor. Somewhere over the wide-open … Continue reading →

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January 8, 1958: Matt Weinstock

Posted on January 8, 2008 by lmharnisch

January 8, 1958 Monday at 6:30 a.m., as Marvin Hanks of East L.A. walked from his home to his garage to drive to work, he observed that the full moon in the western sky was green–grass green.”What goes on here?” … Continue reading →

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October 23, 1957: Matt Weinstock

Posted on October 23, 2007 by lmharnisch

Oct. 23, 1957 The lady, an Ay–Ayer, is sober again, and philosophic. Not long ago, she slipped, as A-Ayers sometimes do. Finding herself well-soused, with no money left for a cab and little sense of direction, she decided the clink … Continue reading →

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