Tag Archives: 1957

LAPD Crime Statistics for 1957 | Looking Back at ‘Our Lawless City’

Posted on January 2, 2019 by lmharnisch

If you are a longtime reader, you may remember when the Daily Mirror was hosted by the Los Angeles Times. The Times holds the copyright on these items, even though the blog was killed in 2011 (thank you, Jimmy Orr), … Continue reading →

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Found on EBay: Souvenir of Club Mecca, Site of Deadly 1957 Firebombing

Posted on January 17, 2018 by lmharnisch

A vendor has listed a cocktail napkin advertising four Los Angeles night spots, including the Mecca Cafe at 5841 S. Normandie Ave. Six people were killed when a man who had been thrown out of the club threw a five-gallon … Continue reading →

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Eve Golden’s YouTube Theater: Poor Judy Tyler. Poor ambitious, talented, dead Judy Tyler

Posted on December 27, 2016 by lmharnisch

  Los Angeles Times, July 5, 1957, Judy Tyler and her husband are killed in a car accident. There have been a lot of careers cut short just as they were starting: from Clarine Seymour to James Dean to the … Continue reading →

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1957 Club Mecca Firebombing in South L.A. Kills 6

Posted on December 4, 2016 by lmharnisch

5841 S. Normandie, the site of the Club Mecca bombing, as photographed in 2007. April 7, 1957, the Los Angeles Times publishes an extra on the Club Mecca firebombing.   The tragic warehouse fire in Oakland, which has killed at … Continue reading →

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LAPD Parker Center Cop Shop Files

Posted on April 8, 2014 by lmharnisch

In 2013, I was given a box of material that was cleaned out of the old press room at the LAPD’s Parker Center headquarters, sometimes called “the cop shop.” The box was a jumble of press releases, photographs, artists’ sketches … Continue reading →

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Harvey Glatman: The Early Years — Part I

Posted on January 2, 2014 by lmharnisch

Aug. 27, 1946: Harvey Glatman in the Yonkers, N.Y., Herald Statesman. Whenever I am contacted by TV producers about appearing on a crime show, I always caution them that I’m a specialist not a generalist. I don’t do Sal Mineo, … Continue reading →

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One Magazine From 1957 and 1958

Posted on September 20, 2013 by lmharnisch

What the vendor says are complete runs of the 1957 and 1958 issues of One magazine have been listed on EBay at $69.99 each. Individual issues often sell for $10-$20 or more, so this is actually a deal – if … Continue reading →

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The healer

Posted on December 15, 2009 by lmharnisch

  Sept. 20. 1957, Los Angeles Tent revivals are nothing new in Los Angeles–they have been going on for a century. But by any standards, Oral Roberts’ crusades were sensational events. The televangelist staged his first Southern California revival from … Continue reading →

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Recalling Michael Todd

Posted on March 24, 2008 by lmharnisch

Here’s Cecil Smith’s two-part series on Michael Todd, published in The Times in May 1957. David Niven called him, "The best thing to ever hit Hollywood." John Farrow, fired as the director of "Around the World in 80 Days," said: … Continue reading →

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Videotape

Posted on March 10, 2008 by lmharnisch

April 28, 1958Los Angeles As The Times noted in November 1957, NBC planned to introduce videotaped programs with the switch to daylight saving time. Although the time switch didn’t occur until April 27 in 1958, we have already rolled the … Continue reading →

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Voices, Frank Heller

Posted on February 25, 2008 by lmharnisch

Photograph by the Los Angeles Times Frank Heller and Linda Mintz in a photograph published Nov. 11, 1958, in The Times. Frank Heller was a defense attorney for Linda Mintz, the housekeeper charged with beating her employer Thelma Macomber to … Continue reading →

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Judith Mae Andersen

Posted on February 22, 2008 by lmharnisch

I was 7 1/2 at the time of Judith Mae Andersen’s murder, and living on the South Side of Chicago.  I remember the adults being very upset, this murder following the murders of the Grimes sisters and the Schuessler/Peterson boys. … Continue reading →

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Killing revisited

Posted on January 13, 2008 by lmharnisch

  Sylvan C. Diamond writes of the Felicitas Nicholson case: I covered the Nicholson trial as a reporter for the all news radio station in Riverside, KACE. (No longer there). I was allowed by presiding Superior Court Judge John Gabbert … Continue reading →

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Our lawless city

Posted on January 1, 2008 by lmharnisch

<p><p><p><p><p><p><p><p><p><p><p><p><p>lapd_crime_stats</p></p></p></p></p></p></p></p></p></p></p></p></p> Los Angeles Police Department Crime Statistics Offense 1956 1957 Increase/Decrease Homicide 104 119 +14.4% Rape 1,056 1,271 +20.4% Robbery 3,548 4,269 +20.3% Aggravated Assault 5,315 5,786 +8.9% Burglary 22,799 26,887 +17.9 Larceny (Except Auto Theft) 45,276 50,173 +10.8% Auto … Continue reading →

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Dec. 31, 1957

Posted on December 30, 2007 by lmharnisch

 

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Dec. 30, 1957

Posted on December 29, 2007 by lmharnisch

 

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Van Nuys Boulevard

Posted on December 29, 2007 by lmharnisch

Dec. 29, 1957Los Angeles Isn’t this building cool, in its weird 1950s Space Age way? This is a wonderful detail from a Times ad for the opening of a Van Nuys Savings and Loan office at 8201 Van Nuys Blvd. … Continue reading →

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Dec. 29, 1957

Posted on December 29, 2007 by lmharnisch

 

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Before YouTube

Posted on December 28, 2007 by lmharnisch

You may be wondering why you are looking at a poster of the 1973 film “Bad Charleston Charlie.” (And what a poster: the hair… the bloated lettering… the hearts… that suit! If this doesn’t say “lousy 1970s movie” I don’t … Continue reading →

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Dec. 28, 1957

Posted on December 27, 2007 by lmharnisch

 

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