Category Archives: Religion

Paul Coates — Confidential File, March 25, 1959

Posted on March 25, 2009 by lmharnisch

Confidential File Quiet Costs Merely $14 for 15 Minutes RIPLEY, Tenn, (AP) — A businessman who doesn’t like rock ‘n’ roll music bought 15 minutes of radio time yesterday and devoted almost all of it to silence. James W. Porter … Continue reading →

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Nixons Visit Capistrano; Alcindor Era Ends, March 23, 1969

Posted on March 23, 2009 by lmharnisch

President and Mrs. Nixon join Cardinal McIntyre at San Juan Capistrano. One of college basketball’s most dominating players ended his college career in customary fashion as Lew Alcindor led UCLA to its fifth national championship in six seasons with a … Continue reading →

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New Pope Crowned; Fleeing Jews Trapped in Snow, March 13, 1939

Posted on March 13, 2009 by lmharnisch

Ads for Gilmore gas take a more informal tone than most others.   Czech mob attacks Nazis. The world’s Roman Catholics welcome a new pope, Pius XII, the first time a  papal coronation was broadcast on radio.  The guests included Joseph … Continue reading →

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Mystics Predict the ‘Big One’ Will Destroy California; Dodger Recalls Negro Leagues, March 12, 1969

Posted on March 12, 2009 by lmharnisch

L.A. is doomed! … Again! "The most knowledgeable scientists say not only inconceivable but ridiculous." Above, Mama Cass sings "California Earthquake," one of the tunes inspired by the notion that a huge quake was about to destroy the state. Another … Continue reading →

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Random Shot –Temple B’nai B’rith, 1896

Posted on March 4, 2009 by lmharnisch

Los Angeles Times file photo I can’t even explain it, but I adore this building, Temple B’nai B’rith at Hope and 9th streets, which was built in 1896. The congregation sold the building in February 1927 and moved to Wilshire … Continue reading →

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Misterogers Visits KCET; Tom Lasorda at Spring Training, March 3, 1969

Posted on March 3, 2009 by lmharnisch

Fred Rogers visits KECT-TV, with King Friday XIII and the rest. I know that high-minded Daily Mirror readers will completely ignore the story at left about streaking and that the subject of naked college kids running around holds no interest … Continue reading →

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World Mourns Death of Pope; Ban Baseball on Radio? February 18, 1939

Posted on February 18, 2009 by lmharnisch

  The Daily Mirror is a few days late with coverage of the passing of Pope Pius XI, who died at the Vatican on Feb. 10, 1939. In Los Angeles, Pius XI was remembered in an elaborate Mass at St. … Continue reading →

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Coming Attractions — City of Seekers

Posted on February 15, 2009 by lmharnisch

The Los Angeles Conservancy is sponsoring a self-driving tour of five landmarks in the spiritual history of L.A.: Angelus Temple, the Self-Realization Fellowship Mother Center, Chapel of the Jesus Ethic, the Philosophical Research Society and the Bonnie Brae House, home … Continue reading →

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Jewish Home for the Aged — Ida Mayer Cummings

Posted on January 29, 2009 by lmharnisch

Photograph by Ken Dare / Los Angeles Times Ida Mayer Cummings, Dec. 15, 1957. Alicia Mayer Beverley writes from Australia: I ran across your blog entry on the 1957 Women of the Year. My great-grandmother Ida Mayer Cummings is one … Continue reading →

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Former child star dies in fight over $50, voices of Chavez Ravine, January 22, 1959

Posted on January 22, 2009 by lmharnisch

I finally found a Times story in which the paper talked about people living in the Chavez Ravine area. Cordell Hicks’ short story told of some local kids who tried to find a place in their neighborhood to play baseball. … Continue reading →

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Vivian Leigh cast as Scarlett O’Hara, January 1939

Posted on January 16, 2009 by lmharnisch

  On January 14, 1939, The Times published the news that an English actress had been cast in the lead of "Gone With the Wind." Excuse me, but Jean Arthur as Scarlett? Hedda Hopper covers the furious reaction over David … Continue reading →

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Thousands in Los Angeles pray for peace, January 14, 1939

Posted on January 14, 2009 by lmharnisch

About 4,000 worshipers attend a Perpetual Novena for Our Sorrowful Mother at St. Vibiana’s Cathedral. People knelt in the aisles, in the doorways and outside praying for peace and for relief of the poor, The Times says. County Supervisor Roger … Continue reading →

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Paul Coates — Mikoyan interview, January 13, 1959

Posted on January 13, 2009 by lmharnisch

Interview With Coates Russian Stars on TV Show By Paul V. Coates, Mirror News Columnist When President Eisenhower sits down with Soviet Deputy Premier Anastas Ivanovich Mikoyan on Saturday to plan give-and-take with West Berlin and Germany, it’ll be Ike … Continue reading →

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Baby abandoned at hospital; Times’ Oscar favorites, January 8, 1939

Posted on January 8, 2009 by lmharnisch

Sheriff Eugene Biscailuz is honored for 32 years of public service. Above, a baby nicknamed Little Buttercup is abandoned at White Memorial Hospital. Unfortunately, The Times never followed up on what became of her. We also take a look at … Continue reading →

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Christmas 1938

Posted on December 25, 2008 by lmharnisch

The Times’ front page features a poem by James "Sunrise Jim" Warnack, the paper’s religion writer for many years.

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Radio station cancels ads as Christmas present to listeners, Dodgers and Phillies swap players, December 24, 1958

Posted on December 24, 2008 by lmharnisch

As a Christmas gift to its viewers, radio station KPOL is going without ads for 48 hours … and watch for Santa Claus played by Peter Lorre (with Milton Berle) and Buster Keaton ("The Donna Reed Show")! The plot of … Continue reading →

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Hanukkah 1980: Man recovers 400-year-old menorah from dump

Posted on December 21, 2008 by lmharnisch

The Goldberg family of Cheviot Hills usually kept their 400-year-old menorah in a bank vault, but Ellen Goldberg decided to show the family heirloom to a religion class she taught at Wilshire Boulevard Temple. She brought it home and left … Continue reading →

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Vandals paint swastika on Hollywood synagogue, December 12, 1938

Posted on December 12, 2008 by lmharnisch

Vandals paint a swastika on Temple Beth El, 1508 N. Wilton. Nazi police censor sermons of Vienna’s Catholic priests. The former temple photographed by Nathan Marsak, who wrote a wonderful post on the 1947 project. Today’s edition of The Times … Continue reading →

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Cult members describe bombing, December 11, 1958

Posted on December 11, 2008 by lmharnisch

"Venta will return and be resurrected." Known as "the barefoot people." Above, followers of Krishna Venta describe life at the Fountain of the World religious compound and the bombing that killed 10 people. "A tower of blue and white flame … Continue reading →

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Cult leader killed in bombing of religious compound, December 10, 1958

Posted on December 10, 2008 by lmharnisch

American history presented as a lavish pageant, the only film directed by Anthony Quinn, who took over from the ailing  Cecil B. DeMille. With a great score by Elmer Bernstein. An ad published in The Times shortly before the explosion. … Continue reading →

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