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Note: This is an encore post from 2006. Page 7 (Continued) If the temperature dropped below 35 degrees F in the San Fernando and San Gabriel Valleys, the ranchers had to go out and light their smudge pots to ward … Continue reading →

Note: This is an encore post from 2006. And how are we doing? Some glaring omissions, a few mangled facts and some major errors. In all, the book isn’t doing well and we’re only on Page 6. If this were … Continue reading →

Note: This is an encore of a post I wrote in 2006. P. 5 Extra! Extra! I was raised on the wrong side of the tracks in Beverly Hills. This is the most marvelously amusing statement. I suppose there are … Continue reading →

Note: This is an encore of a post I wrote in 2006. Page 3 There wasn’t much nightlife in Los Angeles back in the 1940s.

Note: This is an encore post from 2006. People keep asking me: “Have you read the Wolfe book?” meaning Donald H. Wolfe’s “The Black Dahlia Files: The Mob, the Mogul and the Murder That Transfixed Los Angeles.” My answer is … Continue reading →

    Note: This is an encore post from 2013. Eighty-five years ago, the Mack Sennett Studio opened at 4024 N. Radford in Studio City. The studio functioned as a magnet in hopes of drawing other film production companies and … Continue reading →

Donald Trump Mad Libs: “It was reported in the (adjective) New York Times and other places that I want to (verb) on the (noun),” Trump (verb, past tense). “I’m the (noun) of (noun). I understand (noun) probably better than anybody. … Continue reading →

Some Mac/Safari users say they get a warning on LADailyMirror.com that the security certificate is missing or that it may be a fake site. Anyone else getting those messages? If possible send me a screen shot. Thanks.

Mayor Eric Garcetti has announced that he will fire up the Lindbergh beacon atop City Hall tonight and that it will remain lit through Jan. 5. I’ll post photos later.

Sigh. No. 1 in eath-day een-say otos-phay. Note: I apologize for using pig Latin, but it’s a way to be invisible to oogle-Gay. I don’t want any more traffic on this subject than I already have. ECM-Tay’s daylong feature of … Continue reading →

Look for it next week!

It’s Friday and still no announcement. And here I was, thinking that the Black Dahlia case was “nearly solved.”  You don’t suppose it was all just a publicity stunt, do you? If you will remember (and of course you do) … Continue reading →

We have a terrific item tomorrow: The first part of James Curtis’ 1975 interview with Jules White, who discusses working with The Three Stooges, Andy Clyde, Buster Keaton and many others.

Yes, I’m at work on another history column for The Times. This one is scheduled to run this week, but the lineup can always change. Cheers, Larry

My latest column  is about the Mayme A. Clayton Library and Museum in Culver City. Cheers to Executive Director Larry Earl Jr., Archivist Cara Adams and volunteer Sandra Lindsey for their help.

crowd is trying to break windows on 3rd floor… we can hear rocks hit… (HARNISCH, 4/29/92 21:00)