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Black Dahlia: Blogging ‘Black Dahlia Files’ Part 47 — Wax On, Wax Off

Note: This is an encore post from 2006. I’m blogging in real time as I read Donald H. Wolfe’s “The Black Dahlia Files (which have been mostly ignored so far): The Mob (a bit of that), the Mogul (no sign … Continue reading

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Black Dahlia: Blogging ‘Black Dahlia Files’ Part 46 — Snooze Alarm

Note: This is an encore post from 2006. I’m blogging in real time as I read Donald H. Wolfe’s “The Black Dahlia Files: The Mob, the Mogul and the Murder That Transfixed Los Angeles.” Wolfe is using the “Laura” format, … Continue reading

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Black Dahlia: Blogging ‘Black Dahlia Files’ Part 45 — Nothing but Compost

Note: This is an encore post from 2006. I’m blogging in real time as I read Donald H. Wolfe’s “The Black Dahlia Files: The Mob, the Mogul and the Murder That Transfixed Los Angeles.” Wolfe is using the “Laura” format … Continue reading

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Black Dahlia: Blogging ‘Black Dahlia Files’ Part 44 — Honored Guests

Note: This is an encore post from 2006. I’m blogging in real time as I read Donald H. Wolfe’s “The Black Dahlia Files: The Mob, the Mogul and the Murder That Transfixed Los Angeles.” Wolfe is telling the story in … Continue reading

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Panoramas of Los Angeles

Note: This is a video I did in 2006 as part of the 1907 blog. Remember that this was in the early days of YouTube. My little ode to my favorite city, covering a roughly 20-year period centered on 1907 … Continue reading

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Black Dahlia: Blogging ‘Black Dahlia Files’ Part 41 — The Whole Nine Yards

Note: This is an encore post from 2006. I’m blogging in real time as I read Donald H.Wolfe’s “The Black Dahlia Files: The Mob, the Mogul and the Murder That Transfixed Los Angeles.” Wolfe is using the “Laura” format in … Continue reading

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Black Dahlia: Blogging ‘Black Dahlia Files’ Part 40 — Who Was That Masked Man?

Note: This is an encore post from 2006. I am blogging in real time as I read Donald H. Wolfe’s “The Black Dahlia Files: The Mob, the Mogul and the Murder That Transfixed Los Angeles.” Wolfe is telling the story … Continue reading

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Black Dahlia: Blogging ‘Black Dahlia Files’ Part 38 — Slasher Flick

Note: This is an encore post from 2006. I have my search engines set to scour the Internet for material related to the Black Dahlia and this morning discovered yet another slasher version of the Elizabeth Short case. Think nudity … Continue reading

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Otis Chandler Tribute

Note: This is an encore post from 2006. These are audio files I made of the in-house memorial to Otis Chandler (at right with his 1937 V-12 Packard, originally owned by Bette Davis), conducted March 7, 2006. These are field … Continue reading

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Black Dahlia: Blogging ‘Black Dahlia Files’ Part 37 — Mystery Woman

Note: This is an encore post from 2006. I’m blogging in real time as I read Donald H. Wolfe’s “The Black Dahlia Files: The Mob, the Mogul and the Murder That Transfixed Los Angeles.” Wolfe has begun with the butchered, … Continue reading

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Comments, Please

  Note: This is an encore post from 2006. I’m waiting. The vote so far: Keep going: 10 (1 via e-mail). Stop the insanity! 0 Disclaimer: I’m not a Susan Powter fan. In fact, she drives me crazy. Special note: … Continue reading

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Black Dahlia: Blogging ‘Black Dahlia Files’ Part 36 — Bust of a Man

Note: This is an encore post from 2006. I have been blogging in real time as I read Donald H. Wolfe’s “The Black Dahlia Files: The Mob, the Mogul and the Murder That Transfixed Los Angeles.” At this point in … Continue reading

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Black Dahlia: Blogging ‘Black Dahlia Files’ Part 35 — Paint by Numbers

Note: This is an encore post from 2006. I’m blogging in real time as I read Donald H. Wolfe’s “The Black Dahlia Files: The Mob, the Mogul and the Murder That Transfixed Los Angeles.” Page 52 Wolfe is using the … Continue reading

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Black Dahlia: Blogging ‘Black Dahlia Files’ Part 34 — Limbo

Note: This is an encore post from 2006. I’m blogging in real time as I read Donald H. Wolfe’s “The Black Dahlia Files: The Mob, the Mogul and the Murder That Transfixed Los Angeles.” At the moment we’re enmeshed in … Continue reading

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Black Dahlia: Blogging ‘Black Dahlia Files’ Part 33 — Pied Type

Note: This is an encore post from 2006. I’m blogging in real time as I read Donald H. Wolfe’s “The Black Dahlia Files: The Mob, the Mogul and the Murder That Transfixed Los Angeles.” At this point in the story, … Continue reading

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Black Dahlia: Blogging ‘Black Dahlia Files’ Part 31 — Phoning It In

Note: This is an encore post from 2006. I’m blogging in real time as I read Donald H. Wolfe’s “The Black Dahlia Files: The Mob, the Mogul and the Murder That Transfixed Los Angeles.” So far we have seen very … Continue reading

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Black Dahlia: Blogging ‘Black Dahlia Files’ Part 30 — Tick, Tick, Tick

Note: This is an encore post from 2006. Page 39 We’re blogging Donald H. Wolfe’s “The Black Dahlia Files: The Mob, the Mogul and the Murder That Transfixed Los Angeles.” Yesterday, one sentence. Today, let’s try to double that, eh? … Continue reading

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Black Dahlia: Blogging ‘Black Dahlia Files’ Part 28 — A Rain Check

Note: This is an encore post from 2006. After spending so much time on Elizabeth Short’s autopsy, Wolfe is heading into autobiographical material. Given all the nonsense surrounding our last foray into the Wolfe household (remember “Uncle Vern” who used … Continue reading

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Black Dahlia: Blogging ‘Black Dahlia Files’ Part 27 — The Pinata Collecting Our Thoughts

Note: This is an encore post from 2006. The two-minute executive summary: In analyzing Donald H. Wolfe’s “The Black Dahlia Files: The Mob, the Mogul and the Murder That Transfixed Los Angeles,” we have spent the last week on the … Continue reading

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Black Dahlia: Blogging “Black Dahlia Files” Part 26 — Missing Man Formation

Note: This is an encore post from 2006. Our story so far: I am blogging—in real time—as I read Donald H. Wolfe’s “The Black Dahlia Files.” It’s been slow going and this is an especially tedious part because I’m examining … Continue reading

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