Category Archives: Transportation

Mickey Cohen’s Cadillac

Posted on November 18, 2007 by lmharnisch

Would you like to see another picture of Mickey Cohen with one of his Cadillacs? Of course you would! This one is a bit mysterious. This is the Cadillac that took a few shots in 1949 outside Sherry's on the … Continue reading →

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1957 auto show

Posted on November 16, 2007 by lmharnisch

 

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Plane crash kills 44

Posted on November 13, 2007 by lmharnisch

Deke Houlgate writes about covering the loss of the Pan Am Stratocruiser "Romance of the Skies" (the lost plane in a publicity shot, below right):  That story was a real panic operation. I came to work for my 3 to … Continue reading →

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1958 auto show

Posted on November 12, 2007 by lmharnisch

 

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Plane crash kills 44

Posted on November 9, 2007 by lmharnisch

Nov. 9-21, 1957 Los Angeles All that remained of the 42-ton aircraft fit into 14 cardboard cartons and two wooden crates that the sailors of the aircraft carrier Philippine Sea hauled ashore in Long Beach after the debris was plucked … Continue reading →

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Death trip

Posted on November 4, 2007 by lmharnisch

Nov. 5, 1957 Los Angeles "I just shot a man, but it was self-defense." Bobby Gene Gray was stopped at a light in South Gate when Harris (Harrison) C. Foster, 26, and his ex-wife Carolyn (Caroline) Foster Alcala, 20, forced … Continue reading →

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Posted on November 2, 2007 by lmharnisch

  Nov. 1, 1957 Los Angeles This is a DC-7 coming in for a landing at Los Angeles International Airport and if you look carefully, you’ll notice that the wheels are up. This is bad. Although it’s a relief that … Continue reading →

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Fatal plunge

Posted on October 26, 2007 by lmharnisch

Oct. 26, 1957Los Angeles There are so many things we don’t about this case. We don’t know where Elizabeth Eigel Senigram was going. We don’t know where she had been. We don’t know if she had any relatives except an … Continue reading →

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Fatal crash

Posted on September 25, 2007 by lmharnisch

  Sept. 25, 1957 Los Angeles John and Beatrice Stone had been warned that their home at 16433 Chase St. would be condemned by 1959 for expansion of Van Nuys Airport. Although most of the houses had already been cleared … Continue reading →

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What is THAT?

Posted on September 2, 2007 by lmharnisch

Sept. 3, 1957Los Angeles

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Wheel-o-meal

Posted on September 2, 2007 by lmharnisch

  Sept. 2, 1957 Los Angeles Let’s suppose you’re a clever businessman. And let’s suppose your city has the nation’s busiest intersection: In three days, 205,022 cars pass through Wilshire Boulevard and Western Avenue. Along with nine horse-drawn milk wagons. … Continue reading →

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Remedy for road rage

Posted on August 30, 2007 by lmharnisch

Aug. 29, 1957Los AngelesSo that’s why we have platinum spark plugs….

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It’s called a Volkswagen

Posted on August 14, 2007 by lmharnisch

Fuel efficiency in the 1950s.

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Rewriting history

Posted on July 28, 2007 by lmharnisch

From left, Times reporter Bonnie Glessner, Tiny Broadwick and Glenn Martin, Jan. 9, 1914 This was supposed to be an upbeat story about the early days of aviation–a nice change of pace from crime and death. And it is–but not … Continue reading →

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Champagne flight II

Posted on July 26, 2007 by lmharnisch

Another picture of the damaged Western Air Lines plane, showing a detail of the hole made by the explosion.

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Champagne flight

Posted on July 24, 2007 by lmharnisch

July 25, 1957Las Vegas There was no room for retired jeweler Saul F. Binstock, 62, on the chartered flight to Las Vegas, so he boarded a Western Air Lines plane at Burbank. As always, he bought insurance naming his wife, … Continue reading →

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Matt Weinstock

Posted on July 18, 2007 by lmharnisch

July 18, 1957 Don Bailey Jr. has no red tab on his rear license plate. He applied for it like other motorists during the renewal period but never received it. Apparently it was lost in the processing at Sacramento or … Continue reading →

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Matt Weinstock

Posted on July 16, 2007 by lmharnisch

July 16, 1957 Account 727-1 in the auditor's office of the Southern Pacific is known within the company as the "Conscience Fund." It consists of money sent in by people for services rendered but unpaid for. An average of $200 … Continue reading →

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Matt Weinstock

Posted on July 15, 2007 by lmharnisch

July 15, 1957 Farther and farther go the freeways, preceded by roaring monsters which sweep aside or reduce to rubble everything in their paths, then claw and shape the earth. But all is not lost. Every Tuesday, Lenard Kester takes … Continue reading →

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Matt Weinstock

Posted on July 11, 2007 by lmharnisch

July 11, 1957 There was a traffic tie-up at the Harbor turnoff the other day as Inspectors Ed Walker and Bob Houghton were traveling inbound on the Hollywood Freeway. They threaded their way through it and came upon a woman … Continue reading →

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