Feb. 10, 1958

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Feb. 10, 1948

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Yes, Cornero survived being shot. He died in 1955 at a Desert Inn crap table, $10,000 in the hole.

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Raymond bombing

Posted on February 10, 2008 by lmharnisch

Feb. 10, 1938
Los Angeles

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Los Angeles officials, led by Mayor Shaw, say they have nothing to hide from an Assembly  vice inquiry and are perfectly willing to turn over their income tax records.  The mayor’s brother, Frank, however, is unavailable for comment … Notice that T. Ray Costerian, who is being questioned in the Harry Raymond bombing, has an LAPD lieutenant’s badge even though he isn’t an officer. In fact, he has a conviction for petty theft … And an ad for San Diego.

 

 

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Dogfight

Posted on February 10, 2008 by lmharnisch

Feb. 10, 1908
Los Angeles

 

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The Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals raids a carefully planned dogfight in an orange grove outside Covina. Officers capture 23 spectators who came to the fight from across the country while more than 100 escape. Notice that officers used the train and teams of horses to get to the fight rather than autos, and that the dogs were transported in a wagon … A motorist driving a Pope Toledo is injured when he hits a palm tree at Pico and Alvarado at 40 mph after the clutch stopped working.

 

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Feb. 9, 1958

Posted on February 9, 2008 by lmharnisch

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It’s Sunday in 1958, and The Times features a suburban tract home, designed with young (and growing) families in mind.  There’s no address for this house, so we don’t where it was. Click here to download the page: Download 1958_0209_home.jpg

Fighting in the Middle East … President Eisenhower’s health is improving … Bus service is expected to resume in Pasadena and Glendale once striking union members ratify their contract … Investigators try to determine why an ICBM exploded shortly after being launched … And Brigitte Bardot has a nervous breakdown.

 

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Raymond bombing

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Feb. 9, 1938
Los Angeles

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Let’s cruise down Wilshire and take a look at the Ambassador–oh wait, I forgot. We let L.A. Unified tear it down, didn’t we?  Meet a colorful minor character in the Harry Raymond case: T. Ray Costerisan. A bail bondsman who admitted being an underworld agent in the slot machine racket, Costerisan was the grandson of Los Angeles architect George F. Costerisan … A judge in Pasadena rules that wiretapping is illegal … Investigators working on behalf of animal rights organizations find a statewide cockfighting ring …  An escaped convict who remade his life as a Sunday school superintendent asks to go back to prison. Prison board officials say they will ask that he be excused from the whipping usually administered to escaped convicts in Texas.

 

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Great White

Posted on February 9, 2008 by lmharnisch

Feb. 9, 1908
Los Angeles

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And the Great White Fleet is sailing around the world. The Owl Drug Co. is sponsoring a contest to guess when it will arrive in Los Angeles.

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Feb. 9, 1908

Posted on February 9, 2008 by lmharnisch

 

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It’s Sunday, but instead of featuring a home of the week, The Times real estate pages highlight the new Pacific Coast Soda Co. in Santa Ana, and the images are barely visible. However, there’s a nice ad for a book on bungalows. Note the stone chimney in the illustration. Guess what happens in the first major earthquake.

 

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Isn’t this a great ad? $500 is $10,993.52 USD 2007.

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Feb. 9, 1908

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KFWB

Posted on February 8, 2008 by lmharnisch

Feb. 8, 1958
Los Angeles

 

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OK, I give up. Any ideas?

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Paul Coates

Posted on February 8, 2008 by lmharnisch

Feb. 8, 1958

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"Paul, I am in financial difficulties. The proffeser gave me a job one day–the best he could do.

"My wife just brought me two big beef sandwitches. A friend of mine who works in a restaurant gave them to my wife.

"The only thing I can think of now is to sell my life story back to
Memphis Ward, Hollywood, for 25 bucks. It would be a payment on another
taxi anyway.

"Groucho Marx mentioned me in a Saturday Evening Post story last May
without my permission. He did not mention my name but talked about a
taxi driver on his show that crossed the San Francisco Bay without his
taxi.

"That’s when I had my small amphibious Jeep as a cab.

"Groucho still doesn’t answer my letters to tell me why he doesn’t show the other show of his I was on on television.

"Paul, I challenge Groucho Marx to fight me at Hollywood Legion Stadium, and that is no joke!"

—Parkey Sharkey, Palo Alto Hotel, Palo Alto


Now, Parkey, that’s irrational. you know that Groucho can’t make your weight.

   
   

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February 6, 1958: Thief Saved by the Cross

Posted on February 8, 2008 by lmharnisch

February 7, 1958: Headline: Crucifix blocks bullet, saves robber suspect, 17.

February 7, 1958: Elias Alvarado lying on table, with inset of crucifix pierced by a bullet

Feb. 6, 1958
Los Angeles

This was supposed to be a simple story, a story about second chances: A 75-cent crucifix saves the life of a teenage thief who is shot in the chest. Lying in his hospital bed, he exclaims: “I’m gonna reform!”

But life is rarely so simple. Instead, it’s a story of East L.A. gangs, violence and murder.

His name was Elias Alvarado. He was 17 years old and lived at 3773 Princeton St. On the night he went into the Jewel Theater, he was on parole from the Fred C. Nelles School in Whittier with arrests for burglary, auto theft and assault with a deadly weapon.

According to an usher at the theater, Elias and three friends stole a purse belonging to Delia Gross, the wife of the theater manager, Loren Gross. The usher said he chased the four youths to the lobby, where Elias pulled a knife. Continue reading →

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Lawless nation

Posted on February 8, 2008 by lmharnisch

Feb. 8, 1958
Los Angeles


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Quote of the day: "Crime prevention is not the function of the police. It is the primary responsibility of the family, schools and churches." –Police Chief William H. Parker

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Feb. 8, 1958

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Raymond bombing

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Feb. 8, 1938
Los Angeles

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Above, Lutheran minister Martin Niemoeller protests a secret trial by the Nazis on charges of treason. Niemoeller, who survived the war, was one of hundreds of dissident German ministers who were arrested by the Nazis in the 1930s … A new grand jury is selected and prepares to hear evidence in the Harry Raymond bombing … Bombing witness Hope Green says she received a threatening phone call telling her to "take $2,500 and leave town or get rubbed out" … Police in Georgia investigate the slaying of a minister as he was writing his sermon … A British health expert talks about the success of public healthcare in Britain and says the U.S. medical profession will follow suit–someday … And an airplane that can land itself, short stories and human interest features in the Saturday Evening Post–only a nickel (71 cents USD 2007). 

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Feb. 8, 1908

Posted on February 7, 2008 by lmharnisch

 

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A brawl on a Hollywood ranch may be to blame for the death of William Schumaker, hit above the right ear with a lantern and booted in the head … Empty streetcars heading back to the barn often speed through town, endangering pedestrians … A streetcar on Temple lurches to a stop at Beaudry with such force that passengers are shoved against the front door, throwing one woman to the ground, where she is pinned by the door and cut by broken glass …  A burglar is caught by a special officer …  The Humane Society has been busy protecting the safety of working horses, mules and burros.  And prosecutors plan charges against railroad officials in a fatal crash between a freight train and a streetcar.

Three stories about problems with the streetcar system on one page–I’m beginning to notice a pattern.

 

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Craby Joe’s RIP

Posted on February 7, 2008 by lmharnisch

Craby Joe’s is gone but the sign lives on.

Jeremy Hansen writes: The Museum of Neon Art is hoping to have the sign up and running by Feb. 14, the next downtown LA Artwalk.  The new location of the museum is on 4th, between Spring and Main on the south side of 4th.  Check it out.

That’s great. By the way, Ed Fuentes of View From a Loft has suggested getting official designation of 7th and Main–the former home of Craby Joe’s–as Charles Bukowski Square. It sounds good to me.

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1947project

Posted on February 7, 2008 by lmharnisch

My pals at the 1947project are looking for several new writers as the site rolls over into its newest incarnation. I can tell you from my own experience with 47p that they’re a great bunch of folks (shout out to Richard, Kim, Nathan and Mary) and that you’ll get an awesome education on Los Angeles history.

Here’s the post.

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Feb. 7, 1958

Posted on February 7, 2008 by lmharnisch

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Test pilot Henry C. Bosserman, a distinguished World War II flier, dies when his chute fails to open in the crash of a F-104A near Palmdale. The debris endangers children waiting at bus stops … Wedding bells are to ring for 77-year-old Rep. Usher L. Burdick (R-N.D.) and his "thirtyish" secretary …

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Raymond bombing

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A "bodacious riot of hillbilly hotcha"–with Humphrey Bogart? And who else is in the cast? Ronald Reagan? Coming up next year, Bogart as a cowboy (with Jimmy Cagney) in "The Oklahoma Kid."

The Carnegie Foundation warns that colleges risk ruining themselves in competing for desirable students by offering recruitment deals to athletes, drum majors and tuba players  … Japan has no intention of revealing its plans for naval expansion … A convoluted story that says the U.S. will beam anti-Axis propaganda to Latin America … Concerns over German ambitions toward Austria … Police detectives dispute a landlady’s story that conspirators used her rooming house to prepare the bomb that injured Harry Raymond …  And 195 inches of snow on Donner Summit.

On the jump, civic groups appeal to the governor to clean up Los Angeles … A prisoner on Sing Sing’s death row asks to hear a jazz broadcast on the night he is to be executed. Prison rules forbid playing the radio in the death house on the day of an execution … And a woman shows off her rare rug–made of platypus pelts. Written by a Times reporter who assumed a platypus was a waterfowl.   

 

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