Category Archives: Nightclubs

Found on EBay — Earl Carroll’s Nightclub

Posted on April 1, 2009 by lmharnisch

This unusual ashtray from Earl Carroll's nightclub has been listed on EBay. Bidding starts at $6.99.

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Found on EBay — Little Joe’s

Posted on March 11, 2009 by lmharnisch

Someone went to Little Joe’s, in what used to be an Italian neighborhood but is now Chinatown, and swiped an ashtray. Although the restaurant closed years ago, the building remains, although it has been heavily modified over the years. Bidding … Continue reading →

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Birth Control Producing Nation of Criminals, Educator Says, February 28, 1939

Posted on February 28, 2009 by lmharnisch

The Florentine Gardens, "on Hollywood Boulevard just east of Vine Street in the city of films, Hollywood, Calif." Until I found that "Maurice the Voice Teacher" in the Black Dahlia case was Maurice Clemens, I wondered if he was Maurice … Continue reading →

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Found on EBay — 1931 Theater Guide

Posted on February 22, 2009 by lmharnisch

An Aug. 31, 1931, issue of Playgoer, a guide to local theaters, has been listed on EBay. Bidding starts at 99 cents.

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Central Vice Reports on the Norbo Grill, 1958

Posted on February 20, 2009 by lmharnisch

Photograph by Larry Harnisch / Los Angeles Times The Hotel Norbo, 526 E. 8th St., Feb. 14, 2009 Photograph by Larry Harnisch / Los Angeles Times The former Norbo Grill, 530 E. 6th St., Feb. 14, 2009 Photographs by Catriona … Continue reading →

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Paul Coates — Confidential File, February 3, 1959

Posted on February 3, 2009 by lmharnisch

Bail Cut on Yanks in Tijuana Bail on some of the 20 U.S. residents held in Tijuana on gambling charges has been reduced from $1,600 to $400 and on others to $800. State Atty. Gen. Stanley Mosk was informed by … Continue reading →

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Found on EBay — The Insomniac

Posted on February 1, 2009 by lmharnisch

A poster from the Insomniac, the Hermosa Beach coffee house, has been listed on EBay. Bidding starts at $49.99. At left, Jack Smith visits the Insomniac, May 1, 1963.

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Missing Boy Found Dead, L.A. Hockey, January 28, 1959

Posted on January 28, 2009 by lmharnisch

Bad news for beatniks. Above, the supermarket strike-lockout appears to be over … The Soviet Union promises world domination (remember Nikita Khrushchev is coming to visit Los Angeles later in the year) … Vice President Richard Nixon supports foreign aid … Continue reading →

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Another Night at the Haig

Posted on January 26, 2009 by lmharnisch

Richard Koch writes: I have a question. Sometime in the late 90’s I was in Los Angeles and I was researching the location where the famous Haig was. I just wanted to stand there and take some pictures at this … Continue reading →

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Found on EBay — Earl Carroll’s

Posted on January 20, 2009 by lmharnisch

Here’s what appears to be an original snapshot of Earl Carroll’s, listed on EBay. Bidding starts at 99 cents.

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Black Lakers players barred from white hotel, January 17, 1959

Posted on January 17, 2009 by lmharnisch

The Times reports that detention facilities for juvenile girls is badly overcrowded but doesn’t really address the reason, merely saying that the rapid increase in Southern California’s population and lack of room at state facilities are to blame. But why … Continue reading →

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Retro holiday gift — Earl Carroll’s Theatre

Posted on December 21, 2008 by lmharnisch

The facade of Earl Carroll’s in Hollywood A frame grab of the nightclub’s neon. This is the best shot I’ve seen of the signatures that used to be outside Earl Carroll’s nightclub at 6230 Sunset Blvd. in Hollywood. Listed on … Continue reading →

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Found on EBay — Florentine Gardens

Posted on December 9, 2008 by lmharnisch

Here’s one of the souvenir photos from the Florentine Gardens that occasionally turns up on EBay. It’s listed as Buy It Now for $15.99.

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Comedian dies during Friars roast, November 24, 1958

Posted on November 24, 2008 by lmharnisch

Ozone in downtown Los Angeles reaches 0.49 parts per million, just short of a Stage 1 alert. Today, 0.50 would be a Stage 3 alert. Marilyn Monroe and Arthur Miller arrive in New York. Comedian Harry Einstein, 53, known as … Continue reading →

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Box Set — Hank Williams

Posted on November 5, 2008 by lmharnisch

Hank Williams’ obituary in The Times, Jan. 2, 1953 October 28, 2008 By Robert Hilburn More than a half century after his death, Hank Williams remains so revered as a songwriter that his gifts as a singer are often underappreciated. … Continue reading →

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Times election endorsements, November 2, 1958

Posted on November 2, 2008 by lmharnisch

A Methodist church in Little Rock offers a facility rent-free for segregated classes after Gov. Orval Faubus refuses to open the city’s integrated high schools. And an African American boycott of segregated buses in Birmingham, Ala., gets a slow start. … Continue reading →

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Pasternak wins Nobel, October 25, 1958

Posted on October 25, 2008 by lmharnisch

Boris Pasternak wins the Nobel for "Dr. Zhivago" and rejects the award under withering criticism from the Soviet government. In Rome, 52 cardinals gather to select the next pope … Arthur Godfrey’s helicopter "crash-lands" when it was a foot … Continue reading →

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Coming attractions — The Palladium reopens

Posted on October 15, 2008 by lmharnisch

Los Angeles Times file photo Opening night http://www.archive.org/flow/FlowPlayerLight.swf Grateful Dead at the Hollywood Palladium, Aug. 6, 1971. By Geoff BoucherTimes Staff Writer SIXTY-EIGHT years ago this month, the Tommy Dorsey Orchestra and its new singer, a skinny 24-year-old New Jersey … Continue reading →

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Los Angeles history — stage

Posted on September 15, 2008 by lmharnisch

T.C. Jones, male actress ‘T.C. Jones is the greatest female impersonator I have seen and heard since Julian Eltinge — and that’s going back a long way.’ — Philip K. Scheuer, Los Angeles Times Los Angeles Times file photoT.C. Jones … Continue reading →

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May 22, 1958

Posted on May 22, 2008 by lmharnisch

Above, a stripteuse brings a lawsuit alleging botched plastic surgery — on her neck. As if you can see her neck in this photo. At left, it’s divorce No. 2 for Jack Webb, this time from actress Dorothy Towne … … Continue reading →

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