Category Archives: Science

A Kinder, Simpler Time Dept.: The Office of Tomorrow

Posted on May 20, 2009 by lmharnisch

May 20, 1964. It's portable! It does multiplication! And it's only $443.09 USD 2008.

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Masked Mob Seizes Black Rape Suspect From Mississippi Jail, April 26, 1959

Posted on April 26, 2009 by lmharnisch

The Times takes a look at the 1910 Aviation Week at Dominguez Hills. Here's a post from last year about J.S. Zerbe. Gunmen wearing masks and gloves raided the jail in Poplarville, Miss., and seized Mack Charles Parker, 23, … Continue reading →

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Jordan’s King Hussein Visits L.A.; Rams to Play Night Game, April 4, 1959

Posted on April 4, 2009 by lmharnisch

The Times' art department retouched Neil Clemans' photo of Marlon Brando giving the finger to photographers. Let's see if we can get a copy of the original. At left, King Hussein of Jordan waves to photographers in Palmdale after flying … Continue reading →

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Burbank Time Capsule Revisited

Posted on March 17, 2009 by lmharnisch

Cinda Cates, Burbank public information specialist, passes along the images that were recovered from the 1959 time capsule placed in the Magnolia Boulevard Bridge. The anonymous photographer recorded the city’s civic buildings (City Hall, a fire station, etc.) and took … Continue reading →

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Russians Attack Chinese Embassy; Dodgers or Padres? March 8, 1969

Posted on March 8, 2009 by lmharnisch

President Nixon presents three soldiers with the Medal of Honor for heroism in Vietnam. UCLA over USC 61-55 in double overtime. You couldn’t blame The Times for paying attention to the expansion San Diego Padres. After all, it looked … Continue reading →

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Billy Sunday Packs Shrine Auditorium, February 15, 1909

Posted on February 15, 2009 by lmharnisch

"I am the sworn, uncompromising enemy of the liquor business." Evangelist Billy Sunday fills the house at the Shrine Auditorium. The former baseball star died of a heart attack in Chicago in 1935. "You hear a great cry up and … Continue reading →

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Burbank to Open Time Capsule!

Posted on February 5, 2009 by lmharnisch

A representative from the city of Burbank says: On Thursday, Feb. 5, 2009, at 10:30 a.m., the city of Burbank will be opening a time capsule that was placed in the Magnolia Boulevard bridge when it was built in 1959. … 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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Imagining the Future, 1959

Posted on February 1, 2009 by lmharnisch

The home of the future will have a "television recorder" and a flat-screen TV! And the kids will have microfilm books that can be projected on the ceiling… In all, pretty accurate, but I’m still waiting for "Kukla, Frank and … Continue reading →

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Paul Coates — Confidential File, January 29, 1959

Posted on January 29, 2009 by lmharnisch

CONFIDENTIAL FILE Here’s Volunteer for Outer Space NEW YORK, Jan. 28– T. Keith Glennan, U.S. space chief, announced last night that the selection of America’s first human space traveler is under way. According to Glennan, the new Federal Space Agency … Continue reading →

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Republican senator calls for smaller government; Rams fire coach, December 27, 1968

Posted on December 27, 2008 by lmharnisch

Here’s an impressive lineup of writers: Art Seidenbaum, Sen. Everett M. Dirksen (R-Ill), William F. Buckley, and Evans and Novak. By any measure, George Allen was a highly successful football coach. But after a holiday phone call from Rams owner … Continue reading →

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A very Daily Mirror Christmas

Posted on December 24, 2008 by lmharnisch

http://video.google.com/googleplayer.swf?docid=-2260027996690730318&hl=en&fs=true Here at the Daily Mirror HQ, we’re watching "Santa Conquers the Martians." And with a title like that, you don’t have to wonder what it’s about.

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Meltdown delays U.S. atomic airplane; Rams win over Colts, December 7, 1958

Posted on December 7, 2008 by lmharnisch

Longtime viewers of the History Channel (or "The Adolf Channel" as we call it at the Daily Mirror HQ) may have seen a program on the U.S. project to develop an atomic airplane. As you can imagine, a key component … Continue reading →

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Voices — Forrest J. Ackerman, 1916 – 2008

Posted on December 5, 2008 by lmharnisch

Robert Gauthier / Los Angeles Times THE TRUE BELIEVER: “I felt that the primary authors of science fiction were opening my eyes … to a better and more fascinating world,” says Forrest J Ackerman of the genre he has championed. … Continue reading →

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Air Force Academy gets youngest cadet, November 19, 1958

Posted on November 19, 2008 by lmharnisch

Iven Kincheloe III, the 1-year-old son of a distinguished X-15 pilot who died in July 1958 in the crash of a jet fighter at Edwards Air Force Base, is recommended for an appointment to the Air Force Academy in 1972. … Continue reading →

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Morse code vs. text messaging

Posted on October 20, 2008 by lmharnisch

Which is faster, Morse code or text messaging? Jay Leno has the answer. (Score one for the brass pounders!) This is what 40 words per minute sounds like.

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October 5, 1958: Lost genius found in homeless camp

Posted on October 5, 2008 by lmharnisch

Elmer Clarence “Mox” Meukel told his story to a couple of hobos in a shack on Scott Island in the Truckee River near Reno. Most people wrote him off as a crackpot dreamer. After all, he was a sometime songwriter … Continue reading →

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Los Angeles history — Nuestro Pueblo

Posted on September 21, 2008 by lmharnisch

An oil derrick in the street near the Beverly Center? Who knew? Oil was 80 cents a barrel or $11.66 USD 2007.

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Los Angeles on smog alert, Braves win against Cards, September 19, 1958

Posted on September 19, 2008 by lmharnisch

Los Angeles urged to drive less and reduce smog Ozone levels in the region reach 0.53 per million, which would be a Stage 3 alert in 2008. The "Mating Urge," in "flaming color." Imdb says this wasn’t released until … Continue reading →

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Movie revival — 2001: A Space Odyssey

Posted on September 16, 2008 by lmharnisch

Oct. 12, 2008, 6 p.m. The Edison downtown. Tickets $20. Stanley Kubrick’s film, written with Arthur C. Clarke.

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