July 17, 1939: Los Angeles Times reporter Joe Seewerker and artist Charles Owens visit the Lasky Barn, being used as a gym on the Paramount lot.
One Hundred Twenty Four years ago, what is now the Hollywood Heritage Museum began life as a humble little barn in the farming town of Hollywood, California. Just twelve years later in 1913, it first served as a moving picture studio witnessing the evolution of the community from bucolic rural community into the world’s filmmaking capital.
The rich “frostless” belt and soil around Hollywood gave birth to a wide variety of crops. Everything from citrus to figs to melons to even pineapples grew around the community, from the canyons down to the flatlands. The area from around Prospect Avenue and Gower Street down to what is now Santa Monica Boulevard and Cahuenga Boulevard featured bountiful lemon orchards, rich in output and taste. Continue reading
September 29, 1919: A mob in Omaha sets fire to the courthouse after trying to lynch Mayor Mayor Ed P. Smith when he appealed for law and order. Rioters finally lynch William Brown, an African American accused of raping a white woman. Federal troops were sent to restore order. 
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August 12, 1957–A 19-year-old youth was stabbed and seriously wounded last night as he fought to save an 11-year-old girl from criminal attack in Hollenbeck Park. The youth, Edward Gandara, and Jesus Rodriguez, 16, routed the molester, who escaped after driving a penknife into Gandara’s abdomen. The knife was removed at Lincoln heights Receiving Hospital.
Note: This is an encore post from 2006.
September 25, 1959: Multimillionaire Myford Plum Irvine was trying to raise $5 million at the time of his death and needed $400,000 in cash within four days because he was “sitting on a keg of dynamite,” relatives say.
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