Tag Archives: 1957

Downtown rebirth

Posted on December 14, 2007 by lmharnisch

Dec. 14, 1957 Los Angeles   I rarely read old editorials except for amusement. Here’s why. In the middle of the San Fernando/San Gabriel Valley housing boom, The Times says the outlying tract home is dead and that more people … Continue reading →

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Dec. 14, 1957

Posted on December 13, 2007 by lmharnisch
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Company town

Posted on December 13, 2007 by lmharnisch

  Photograph by the Los Angeles Times Actress Taina Elg and Mayor Norris Poulson at Main and 7th streets in a photo published Dec. 13, 1957. HOLLYWOOD'S GOLDEN JUBILEE 1907-1957   MAJOR MOTION PICTURE FILMING INLOS ANGELES BEGAN AT THIS … Continue reading →

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Dec. 13, 1957

Posted on December 13, 2007 by lmharnisch
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Happy birthday!

Posted on December 12, 2007 by lmharnisch

Dec. 12, 1957 Los Angeles The Daily Mirror extends the warmest wishes to: Alexander Sputnik Ornelas Happy 50th birthday!

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Dec. 12, 1957

Posted on December 11, 2007 by lmharnisch
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Heroic dog update

Posted on December 11, 2007 by lmharnisch

No, I don’t know anything further about Baron the German shepherd, but I do have more information about Nyals A. Andreason, thanks to a reader. According to an online obituary, Nyals graduated from Brigham Young University and was a computer … Continue reading →

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December 11, 1957: Heroic dog shot

Posted on December 11, 2007 by lmharnisch

  Dec. 11, 1957Los Angeles This began as a story about a dog and ended in death. On Dec. 10, 1957, a gunman shot a German shepherd named Baron that had been ordered to attack as the robber was leaving … Continue reading →

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Dec. 11, 1957

Posted on December 11, 2007 by lmharnisch

 

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Dec. 10, 1957

Posted on December 10, 2007 by lmharnisch

 

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Dec. 9, 1957

Posted on December 9, 2007 by lmharnisch

 

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Dec. 8, 1957

Posted on December 7, 2007 by lmharnisch

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She’s the sheriff!

Posted on December 7, 2007 by lmharnisch

Someone asked for more information about Jo Daviess County Sheriff Emma “Two Gun” Grebner, who figured in the Maria Ridulph case. Unfortunately, I haven’t any idea how she got her nickname. But here she is (alas, with only one gun):

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Dec. 7, 1957

Posted on December 6, 2007 by lmharnisch

   

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December 3, 1957: Girl kidnapped

Posted on December 6, 2007 by lmharnisch

  Dec. 3, 1957-April 26, 1958 Sycamore, Ill Maria E. Ridulph* was a 7-year-old girl from Sycamore, Ill., who was kidnapped Dec. 3, 1957, and whose decomposed body was found April 26, 1958, near Woodbine, a tiny, unincorporated settlement in … Continue reading →

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Dec. 6, 1957

Posted on December 6, 2007 by lmharnisch

   

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Dec. 5, 1957

Posted on December 4, 2007 by lmharnisch

 

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Paul Coates

Posted on December 4, 2007 by lmharnisch

Nov. 27, 1957 [Note: This is the article that inspired Lenny Bruce’s famous bit on airplane glue–lrh. Below right, Bruce in 1963, by Times photographer Bill Murphy; bottom right, with his daughter Kitty, also in in 1963, by Times photographer … Continue reading →

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Dec. 4, 1957

Posted on December 3, 2007 by lmharnisch
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Body dumped

Posted on December 3, 2007 by lmharnisch

  Nov. 29-30, 1957 Los Angeles We’re in one of those hilly neighborhoods east of Glendale Boulevard, a couple blocks north of Echo Park. They’re putting in Dodger Stadium just over the hill. Everybody else is having Thanksgiving dinner and … Continue reading →

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