Oct. 7, 1954, "The Long Goodbye" comes to television. |
 The Times failed to review Chandler’s "The Long Goodbye," but we did a brief advance on the television show. Notice that "Climax!" was a live program. I have no idea whether there is a kinescope, but it’s nice to think that there might be. Note: To mark the 50th anniversary of Raymond Chandler’s death, the |
 Los Angeles Times file photo KHJ-TV sportscasters Lyle Bond, left, and Bill Brundige in a 1957 publicity shot for their coverage of the Los Angeles Angels. |
 I’ve always associated radio re-creations of baseball games with an earlier, simpler era. So I was surprised to find this story about KDAY starting re-creations of Yankee games. Guess I believed 1959 was too hip for such primitive programming, only months from the start of the swinging, Space Age, New Frontier ’60s.
I didn’t expect an L.A. radio station would be interested in American League games when the Dodgers had taken the town by storm. Sure, the Yankees were still the Yankees but would people really be interested in broadcasts of games that were, well, less than authentic since the broadcaster was in a studio and not at the ballpark? And I was a little surprised by the approach taken by Times radio writer Don Page. He spun the news as good for local employment. “When the Dodgers came west many of our local announcers were relegated to lesser jobs with the demise of Coast League baseball,” Page wrote. “Understandably, the Dodgers wanted their announcers, Scully and Doggett. One of our local boys is back in business, however.” The local voice was Bill Brundige, who called Los Angeles Angels games on TV from ’52-57. Brundige was no minor leaguer–he broadcast the Cubs and Phillies before coming to Southern California. Any Daily Mirror readers remember the Yankee weekend games on L.A. radio? –Keith Thursby |
A California condor soars over Ventura County. |
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The 5400 Block of East Jillson Street via Google maps’ street view. |
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More than 11,000 fans watched the all-stars shut out Hollywood, 5-0, "Although the cast was considerably shy of top big league talent … –Keith Thursby |
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A vendor has listed about 20 separate pieces of Batchelder tile, including the one at left. (And no, I don’t know the vendor, who is evidently a collector). Bidding starts at $75 for this piece. |
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Take Creek Chief Wah-Nee-Ota, When he When Bill applied for membership in the musicians union — he plays the vibrola, WHENEVER POSSIBLE Bill tries to straighten people out on the matter of scalping. "We learned it from the white man," he explains. When When the live How did he get along with Mayor Poulson? "We are blood brothers now," Chief Wah-Nee-Ota said stoically. * *
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MONDAY at The men moved a portable platform on the front lawn, As the time approached the dignitaries took their places on the platform and the commoners found seats. At 10:30 sharp the ceremony was called to order. At 10:45, as the oratory shifted into overdrive, the automatic sprinklers went on, soaking the celebrities. * *
"And how do you start ‘fight’ "? she asked. "With a gun," he replied. * *
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 Filming at the Bradbury Building, which is filled with garment workers!
"…The dialogue, as clever as it was then, had become totally dated. I couldn’t use 90% of it."
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Phyllis Kirk and George Eckstein at the Hollywood Bowl, September 1951. Just a reminder on how this works: I post the mystery photo on Monday and reveal the answer on Friday. To keep the mystery photo from getting lost in the other entries, I move it from Monday to Tuesday to Wednesday, etc., adding a photo every day. I have to approve all comments, so if your guess is posted immediately, that means you’re wrong. (And if a wrong guess has already been submitted by someone else, there’s no point in submitting it again). If you’re right, you will have to wait until Friday. There’s no need to submit your guess five times. Once is enough. The only prize is bragging rights. The answer to last week’s photo: Betty Bronson. A Daily Mirror reader named Pat has scanned in some stills from Betty Bronson’s "Peter Pan." Recall that The Times’ library only had one photo of Bronson in her most famous role–and it was heavily repainted. Update: This is, as many Daily Mirror readers guessed, Phyllis Kirk. Congratulations! For some reason, her photo file at The Times doesn’t have any pictures |
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 Ads for Gilmore gas take a more informal tone than most others. |
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 "City Life," painted by Victor Arnautoff in 1934. |
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In San Francisco, the Depression’s artistic legacyBy Christopher Reynolds, 10:20 AM PST, March 07, 2009 Stocks have crashed, industry is shuddering and banks are failing. The restless unemployed will soon fill the streets. Yet in San Francisco, some crazed optimist in the Pacific Stock Exchange Tower has hired Diego Rivera to decorate a private club for stockbrokers. Could this be the most doomed, stupid idea of all 1930? Here is What is the muralist thinking? What are the stockbrokers thinking? |
 Photograph by Tom Uhlman / AP Mary Ann Sell holds one of her |
View-Master to stop selling scenic photosFisher-Price will continue making discs of more popular cartoon characters.Associated Press March 8, 2009
"It was like you could look into a world away," said the 28-year-old from Toledo, Ohio. "My only image of the Grand Canyon was from the View-Master." The iconic reels of tourist attractions, often packaged with a clunky plastic viewer and first sold to promote 3-D photography, are ending their 70-year run after years of diminishing sales. Collectors like Mary Ann Sell of Maineville, Ohio, are dismayed. |
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This postcard of a dragon in Chinatown has been listed on EBay, mailed to Staten Island, N.Y., in 1908. Bidding starts at $1.99. |
A Nose Is Thumbed
It also could reflect a feeling Several Hollywood writers were discussing the decline of meritorious fiction and came up with some bitter comments.
One Another challenged, "Well, if you hate TV so much, why do you keep writing it? What about your novel?" "What are you talking about?" the first retorted. "How can I write junk one day and good stuff the next?" * *
SPEAKING OF TV, a Santa Monican, It has come to this. * *
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THERE’S AN Then there’s the case of Jack Clarke and his brother, visiting here from Chicago. Jack arranged to pick him up the other day at 8:15 a.m. at 36th When two hours passed he phone again. He was told the brother had phoned and said he was waiting at 36th and Hoover but had seen nothing of Jack. On an impulse Jack toured the SC campus area and found his brother. As he suspected, there are two of them — 36th and Hoover Street and 36th and Hoover Boulevard — blocked off from each other. "It’s impossible," the brother said. "Not in L.A.," Jack said. * *
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CONFIDENTIAL FILEDr. Zhivago’s Life Slightly Confusing
Occasionally he’s able to find instant relief by blasting the brains out of a hapless water buffalo. Apparently, I read Ruark for more or less the same reason I read Nick Kenny’s poems — out of a sense of professional obligation. But
The crack was (For When, later, I became I’ve read it. And The hero is a physician named Zhivago. I caught on to
On another occasion, I got hung up for an hour of reading in reverse while I tried to recall the identity of Prov Afanasievich Sokolov, only to find that he was somebody’s cousin twice removed, and didn’t add a thing to the plot. Sifting Out Identities Finally, I was able to eke out the reliable information that Antonina Alexandrovna In their tender, clandestine meetings, Yurii Andreievich calls Pavel Antipov’s wife "Lara," except for one scene when he takes her in his arms and calls her "Larisa Feodorovna."
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Oct. 16, 1949: The Times reviews "The Little Sister" in four paragraphs. The editor’s note introducing Roy "The Fugitive" Huggins is half as long! |
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"I was one of the lucky ones. I was born at the right time," Gilliam told The Times’ John Wiebusch. By 1969 a coach with the Dodgers after a long and versatile career, Gilliam told about his early days in the Negro League. He started playing at 15 and was 21 when the Dodgers signed him. "I think of the old days often, " he said. "I think of the games we played at Bugle Field in Baltimore and how rough it was then. I think of the guys who made it–the Roy Campanellas, the Monte Irvins, the Larry Dobys, the Willie Mayes… the Junior Gilliams. "Then I think of Josh Gibson and the others. And Satchel Paige and the barnstorming days and the guys who played for the New York Black Yankees and the Washington Homestead Grays." Gilliam said if a scout tried to sign Gibson in 1969, "they would have a blank spot on the contract and say, ‘Fill the amount in.’ That’s how good Josh Gibson was." ::
The Global League was supposed to be just that, with teams in the Caribbean, Japan, Mexico and the United States. A.B. (Happy) Chandler, a former baseball commissioner, had signed on for the same title with the new league. Ross Newman’s short story in The Times had a lot of detail on Fregosi, who said he turned down $500,000 over four years. "The cash was there, there never was a doubt in my mind about that," Fregosi said. "I can assure you that it is very difficult turning down security for life." Fregosi was the Angels’ first big attraction, their all-star shortstop and future manager. Newhan reported on March 2 that Fregosi had agreed to a new deal for "a small cut" from the previous year’s salary of $65,000–at that time the highest-paid Angel ever. He said he considered the Global League offer for two weeks but the Angels "have treated me well in every respect." –Keith Thursby |
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Someone went to Little Joe’s, in what used to be an Italian neighborhood but is now Chinatown, and swiped an ashtray. Although the restaurant closed years ago, the building remains, although it has been heavily modified over the years. Bidding starts at $14.99, which seems a bit steep. |
