Category Archives: @news

Jan. 15, 1958

 

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Jan. 14, 1958

Jayne Mansfield and Mickey Hargitay get married… (note that The Times used an AP photo)… will the Dodgers play at Wrigley Field? (no "Moon Shots" there, folks)… Sarah Churchill, daughter of a fellow named Sir Winston, gets popped for being … Continue reading

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Edmund Hillary

    Here’s Dennis McLellan’s obituary on Hillary.

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Jan. 13, 1958

 

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Jan. 12, 1958

 

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Jan. 12, 1908

A feud between millionaire James Irvine and his neighbors involving access to land ends up in court … a dispute over the harbor… political influence and graft … and a man recovering at home from brain surgery to remove a … Continue reading

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Jan. 11, 1958

 

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Jan. 10, 1958

 

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Johnny Grant

Sept. 4, 1948 Los Angeles The King’s, 8153 Santa Monica Blvd.,  1945-1954KWIK-AM (1490) 1947-1951 Johnny Grant 1923-2008

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Jan. 9, 1958

 

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Cold War

      Nov. 7, 1952 Operation Skywatch was launched July 14, 1952, and used thousands of ground-based civilian observers who volunteered to search the skies around the clock for unidentified aircraft that were undetected by U.S. radar. According to … Continue reading

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Jan. 8, 1958

Here’s a relic of headline writing: "H’wood."

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Jan. 8, 1908

Oil at 40 cents a barrel ($8.36 USD 2006), overcrowded jails,  a road from the San Gabriel Valley to Long Beach (the stirrings of a freeway, perhaps?), a near-lynching and a lady of the stage who had led a colorful … Continue reading

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Jan. 7, 1958

Inside… Chief of Naval Operations Adm. Arleigh Burke predicts that by 1959, the Navy will have an atomic-powered airplane. The Air Force was working on one too. It’s quite a challenge to build an aircraft in which lead is a … Continue reading

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Jan. 7, 1908

A slice of life in Los Angeles: A man is fined $3 for feeding his horse without the bit in its mouth, a  mother rescues her child after a gasoline stove exploded (which they did all the time) and a … Continue reading

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Jan. 6, 1958

 

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Jan. 6, 1908

This is an example of the ghastly injuries that occurred when a streetcar hit a horse. The stories in the days before papers published photos of breaking news were graphic and left little to the imagination–if you are a horse-lover, … Continue reading

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Jan. 5, 1958

Note: Carl Sandburg died at the age of 89, despite his predictions.*   * Of course, if you figure he lived 32,703 days, he was right. It is divisible by 11.

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Jan. 5, 1908

Here’s what we looked like 100 years ago. Notice we have the eight-column grid, and illustrations instead of photographs. I don’t believe the dropcaps on those stacked headlines will come back anytime soon. Most important, there’s almost no local news … Continue reading

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Jan. 4, 1958

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