Paul V. Coates – Confidential File, Oct. 6, 1959

Posted on October 6, 2009 by lmharnisch
Oct. 6, 1959, Paul Coates 
Oct. 6, 1959, Abby 

Oct. 6, 1959: Abby advises a young man to read “Johnny Tremain.”

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Koufax vs. Shaw

Posted on October 6, 2009 by lmharnisch

Oct. 6, 1959, Sports  
Oct. 6, 1959: Sports editor Sid Ziff says the Dodgers outclass the Chisox.

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A Kinder, Simpler Time Dept.: Your Movies

Posted on October 6, 2009 by lmharnisch
Oct. 6, 1934. Movies 
Oct. 6, 1934: Joan Blondell refuses to take off her wedding ring to play a single woman in “Kansas City Princess,” so it’s camouflaged by the makeup department. And look! It’s Rube Wolf.

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Coming Attractions – Fourth Annual Archives Bazaar

Posted on October 6, 2009 by lmharnisch
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William Dotson of USC sends along a reminder of the fourth annual Archives Bazaar, which will be held Oct. 17 from 10 a.m. to 5  p.m. at USC’s Davidson Conference Center. Admission is free.

The bazaar, presented by L.A. as Subject, is an essential introduction for anyone planning to research Los Angeles because the city is a vast subject and historical materials have been preserved in astonishing places. Many times, the location of an item has nothing to do with its origin. To cite one of my favorite examples: Material on the early history of USC’s Medical School is at UCLA Medical School’s Special Collections. In the same way, material from the Los Angeles Times can be found at UCLA Special Collections (photos) and the Huntington Library (documents).

More information is here>>>

And there’s a Facebook page>>>

The list of representatives attending the bazaar gives an idea of how many resources there are in Los Angeles:

Academy Film Archive
All the Saints of the City of the Angels
Autry Library and Braun Research Library, Autry National Center of the American West
Beverly Hills Public Library Historical Collection
Robert S. Birchard Collection
California African American Museum
California Council for the Humanities
California State University Dominguez Hills
California State University Fullerton, Center for Oral and Public History
California State University Northridge, Geography Map Library
California State University Northridge, Special Collections & Archives
Chinese American Museum
Chinese Historical Society Of Southern California
Classic American Photos Inc.
County of Los Angeles Public Library Resource Centers
Culver City Historical Society
El Pueblo de Los Angeles Historical Monument
Filipino American Library
Gazin Contemporary Cultural Archive
Getty Research Institute
Glendale Public Library Special Collections
Historical Society of Centinela Valley
Historical Society of Long Beach
History Day L.A.
Japanese American Historical Mapping Project
Japanese American National Museum
La84 Foundation Sports Library
La Señora Research Institute In Collaboration
With Adamson House and Santa Monica Conservancy
Los Angeles City Archives
Los Angeles City Historical Society
Los Angeles Public Library
Los Angeles Unified School District Art & Artifact Collection/Archives
Loyola Marymount University Archives And Special Collections
Mayme Clayton Library and Museum
Occidental College Library
One National Gay & Lesbian Archives
The Orange and the Myth of California
Orange County Archives
Orange Empire Railway Museum
Pacific Palisades Historical Society
Pasadena Museum Of History
St. Vincent Medical Center Historical Conservancy
Santa Monica Public Library Image Archives
Seaver Center For Western History Research, Natural History Museum Of Los Angeles County
Shotgun Freeway: Drives Thru Lost L.A.
Society Of California Archivists
Southern California Genealogical Society
The Studio For Southern California History
UCLA Chicano Studies Research Center
UCLA Department Of Special Collections, Charles E. Young Research Library
UCLA Ethnomusicology Archive
UCLA Film & Television Archive
UCLA Library’s Center For Oral History Research
USC Libraries Special Collections
USC Warner Bros. Archives
Wally G. Shidler Historical Collection of Southern California Ephemera
Workman & Temple Homestead Museum

The bazaar will also include appearances by authors:

Alex Moreno Areyan
Mexican Americans in Redondo Beach and Hermosa Beach

David G. Brown
Watts Towers: A Tale of a Vision
The Historical West Adams District: Street of Dreams

Stan Chambers
KTLA’s News at Ten: 60 Years with Stan Chambers

Jenny Cho
Los Angeles Chinatown

Judith Freeman
The Long Embrace: Raymond Chandler and the Woman He Loved

Florante and Rose Ibanez
Filipinos in Carson and the South Bay

Errol Wayne Stevens
Radical L.A.

And there will be seminars:

Robert S. Birchard
One Hundred Years of Film in Los Angeles

Avery Clayton, Steve Ross, and Sue Tyson
Illuminating History through Archives: The Role of Primary Sources in Historical Discovery

Colleen Fitzpatrick
Photo Forensics: What You Can Learn from Old Photos

Michelle Light
Preservation 101: Basic Tips for the Household Archivist

Two documentaries will also be shown during the event:

“On These Shoulders We Stand” and “Inventing L.A.: The Chandlers and Their Times.”

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Angels Beat Orioles, 4-3

Posted on October 6, 2009 by lmharnisch
Oct. 6, 1979, Sports
Oct. 6, 1979: Hey, Keith! Sister Sledge!

image Another first for the Angels. They won their first playoff game in franchise history, a 4-3 ninth-inning nail biter at Anaheim Stadium. The big play was made by Baltimore's Al Bumbry. He dropped a ball hit by Bobby Grich, scoring Rod Carew to tie the score 3-3 in the ninth inning.

Then Larry Harlow drove in Brian Downing with a double to keep the Angels from being eliminated.

So the Angels had some fight left in them. If the victory wasn't enough, they showed some emotion on the plane ride from Baltimore after Game 2.

The Times reported that pitcher Jim Barr, broadcaster Don Drysdale and Manager Jim Fregosi were involved in confrontations aboard the Angels' chartered flight.

Barr had a cast on his pitching hand and wasn't pitching in the playoffs. Drysdale thought he should be. "He told me if I was a man, I'd cut it off and pitch. I told him to stop messing with my mind," Barr said.

Players and coaches put a stop to things before punches were thrown. Fregosi told Drysdale to leave his players alone, The Times reported.

Fregosi called it one of those things. Drysdale said he took "full blame for the whole thing."  

— Keith Thursby

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Sox Face Sudden Death Against Dodgers

Posted on October 6, 2009 by lmharnisch
Oct. 6, 1959, Cover

Oct. 6, 1959. Two Rembrandts, a Rubens and a Renoir are among stolen paintings recovered by Canadian authorities.

1959_1006_sports_thumb The Dodgers were one win away from a World Championship, their 5-4 victory over the White Sox in front of another record Coliseum crowd giving them a commanding 3-1 lead.

How bad were things for Chicago? Here's how The Times' Frank Finch saw it: "No damsel in distress in the old saw mill ever found herself in such a desperate fix as has now engulfed Al Lopez's American League champions."

Gil Hodges broke a tie ballgame with a home run in the eighth. A front-page photo showed Hodges receiving a congratulatory kiss from his wife. "In fact the Dodgers' big first baseman was embarrassed as the wave of sports writers charged him," Al Wolf wrote in a sidebar. "He quickly tried to remove a bit of lipstick from his cheek.

" 'The wife, you know,' he said. 'She planted this kiss on me.' "

Sandy Koufax, described as the Dodgers' hot and cold left-hander, would try to close out the series. — Keith Thursby

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Black Sox Game Rained Out

Posted on October 6, 2009 by lmharnisch
Oct. 6, 1919, Black Sox

Oct. 6, 1919: Rain in Chicago stops the fifth game of the Black Sox World Series. Los Angeles baseball fans set an attendance record of 21,000 for a double-header between the Angels and the Tigers. I believe this was the ballpark at Washington and Grand.

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Sept. 30, 1920: The Times  says, "Crooked baseball! Before that proven charge the American sporting public bows its head in humiliation."

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Oct. 1, 1920: Former boxing champion Abe Attell says gamblers made $250,000 [$3,085,954.23 USD 2008] from fixing the 1919 World Series.
Newsboys call the eight Black Sox players the "Benedict Arnolds of Baseball.”

 
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Police Raid Chinatown Gambling Operation

Posted on October 6, 2009 by lmharnisch
Oct. 2, 1909, Raid  

Oct. 6, 1909: Police officers cross the roofs of buildings, using a ladder to span alleys, to raid a lottery operation in Chinatown. I suspect the Sgt. Sebastian mentioned in the story is future Police Chief and Mayor Charles E. “Charlie” Sebastian. School will be dismissed early on Oct. 11 so students can see President Taft during his visit to Los Angeles. And an overdose of morphine kills a baby – but nobody can determine how he got it. 

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Found on EBay – Chester Place

Posted on October 5, 2009 by lmharnisch

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 This postcard of homes on Chester Place has been listed on EBay. Chester Place was named for Chester Silent, the son of Judge Charles Silent, who developed the tract. Chester Silent died in a mysterious accident with a shotgun while attending Stanford.  Bidding starts at $3.99.
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October 5, 1959: Matt Weinstock

Posted on October 5, 2009 by lmharnisch

October 5, 1959: Matt Weinstock on UFOs, downtown bars and the greatest invention of all time.

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Paul V. Coates – Confidential File, Oct. 5, 1959

Posted on October 5, 2009 by lmharnisch
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Dodgers Lead Sox

Posted on October 5, 2009 by lmharnisch
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Oct. 5, 1959: The Dodgers are leading the Chicago White Sox at press time.

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A Kinder, Simpler Time Dept.: Your Movies

Posted on October 5, 2009 by lmharnisch
Oct. 5, 1933, I'm No Angel
Oct. 5, 1933: “I’m No Angel” is opening at Grauman’s Chinese Theatre.
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Angels Lose to Orioles, 9-8

Posted on October 5, 2009 by lmharnisch

Oct. 5, 1979, Sports The Angels limped back to Orange County down 2-0 in the American League playoffs after a 9-8 loss to the Baltimore Orioles.

The Angels came back from a 9-1 deficit and had the bases loaded, but Brian Downing hit a grounder to future Angel Doug DeCinces, who tagged out Dan Ford. Downing was up because the Orioles walked Don Baylor, the league's Most Valuable Player in 1979, to load the bases.

One more loss and the season would be over.

— Keith Thursby

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Dodgers Pull Ahead of White Sox

Posted on October 5, 2009 by lmharnisch

Oct. 5, 1959, Cover The Dodgers pulled ahead in the 1959 World Series with a 3-1 victory over the White Sox played in front of a record 92,294.

Carl Furillo's pinch-hit single in the seventh inning made the difference, with Larry Sherry again registering a save for the Dodgers.

Chicago's Luis Aparicio blamed the Coliseum infield for his inability to reach Furillo's grounder. "When I put my glove down the ball bad hopped over it. That infield was a little lumpy," Aparicio said. "And that background was really rough. It was hard looking up into all those white shirts on line drives and fly balls."

If only the Dodgers had a real baseball park to play in.

Funny that should come up. The Times had an update on construction at Chavez Ravine, filled with earth-moving equipment to move all that dirt around. Readers did learn that most of the construction workers were wearing Dodger caps—was that up to safety regulations?

Back to the Coliseum. The Times found the fan with the worst seat in the Coliseum, who traveled from New Mexico and paid $77 for a pair of seats after he and his brother-in-law were shut out in the ticket line. "I still think we got a bargain," he said. Now that's a fan.

–Keith Thursby

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Black Sox Lose Game 4

Posted on October 5, 2009 by lmharnisch
Oct. 5, 1919, World Series

Oct. 5, 1919: Edmund Waller “Ted” Gale on Game 4 of the World Series.

Oct. 5, 1919, Sports

The Black Sox lose Game 4 of the World Series, 2-0.

Sept. 30, 1920, Black Sox

Sept. 30, 1920: The grand jury investigation of the Black Sox prompts an inquiry in New York into whether gamblers tried to fix the 1920 World Series. 

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Claude Williams testified:

"This situation was first brought up to me in New York. Mr. Gandil called me to the one side, out in front of the Hotel Ansonia, and asked me if anybody had approached me about the World's Series, and I said, 'Just what do you mean?' He said, 'That the series be fixed, if they fixed it what would do about it? Would you take an active part, or what?'

"I said, 'I am in no position to say right now.' I said, 'I will give you my answer later, after thinking it over.'

"After coming back to Chicago I was called down to the Warner Hotel, where Eddie Cicotte, Chick Gandil, Buck Weaver and Happy Felsch and two fellows introduced as Brown and Sullivan."

"They were the gamblers?"

"Brown and Sullivan, supposed to be the gamblers, or fellows that were fixing it for the gamblers — one of the two, they didn't say which. They said they were from New York. They wanted us to throw the series to Cincinnati for $5,000 [$61,719.08 USD 2008]." 

"Apiece?"

"Yes, and I said that wasn't enough money to fool with and I was informed that whether or not I took any action the games would be fixed."

"Who informed you of that?"

"Chick Gandil. So I told them anything they did would be agreeable with me; if it was going to be done anyway, that I had no money and I might as well get what I could."

"I was supposed to get $10,000 after the second game when we got back to Chicago; and I didn't get this until after the fourth game, and Gandil then said that the gamblers had called it off; and I figured then that there was a double-cross someplace. On the second trip to Cincinnati, Cicotte and I had a conference. I told him that we were double-crossed and that I was going to win if there was any possible chance. Cicotte said he was the same way. Gandil informed me in Cincinnati that Bill Burns and Abe Attell were fixing it so we could get $100,000, making $20,000 more that I never received." 

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October 5, 1909: Dies on Gold in a Filthy Cot

Posted on October 5, 2009 by lmharnisch

October 5, 1909: Richard Johnson Proctor, a penniless old character in Santa Ana, dies on a cot in a filthy room. Investigators discover he was wealthy man with a fortune in gold.

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Found on EBay – J.W. Robinson’s

Posted on October 4, 2009 by lmharnisch

JW Robinson's Hat EBay  

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This remarkable hat from J.W. Robinson’s, one of the upscale clothing stores in early Los Angeles, has been listed on EBay. The vendor says it’s in the original box. Bidding starts at $250.
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Dear Readers

Posted on October 4, 2009 by lmharnisch
I have said this before, but it’s worth repeating. All comments on this blog must be approved.

Note: A previous version of this post contained someone's IP number. The Daily Mirror erred in posting it.

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A Kinder, Simpler Time Dept.: Your Movies

Posted on October 4, 2009 by lmharnisch
Oct. 4, 1932, Blonde Venus 

Oct. 4, 1932, Blonde Venus

Oct. 4, 1932, “The Blonde Venus” is opening at the Paramount.

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Oct. 8, 1932: Philip K. Scheuer reviews “The Blonde Venus.”

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