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Black Dahlia: Blogging ‘Black Dahlia Files’ Part 83 — Notes on L.A. Abortions in the 1940s

Posted on April 23, 2018 by lmharnisch

Note: This is an encore post from 2006. Let’s have some fun, shall we? Since we’re talking about abortion and abortion rings, protection, etc., here are all the news stories involving arrests or patients’ deaths in Los Angeles between 1940 … Continue reading →

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Black Dahlia: Blogging ‘Black Dahlia Files’ Part 82 — Request Line XVII

Posted on April 23, 2018 by lmharnisch

Note: This is an encore post from 2006. I have ceased blogging in real time as I read Donald H. Wolfe’s “The Black Dahlia Files: The Mob, the Mogul and the Murder That Transfixed Los Angeles.” Wolfe uses the “Laura” … Continue reading →

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Black Dahlia: Blogging ‘Black Dahlia Files’ Part 81 — Request Line XVI

Posted on April 22, 2018 by lmharnisch

Note: This is an encore post from 2006. I have ceased blogging in real time as I read Donald H. Wolfe’s “The Black Dahlia Files: The Mob, the Mogul and the Murder That Transfixed Los Angeles.” Wolfe uses the “Laura” … Continue reading →

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Black Dahlia: Blogging ‘Black Dahlia Files’ Part 80 — Request Line XV

Posted on April 21, 2018 by lmharnisch

Note: This is an encore post from 2006. I have ceased blogging in real time as I read Donald H. Wolfe’s “The Black Dahlia Files: The Mob, the Mogul and the Murder That Transfixed Los Angeles.” Wolfe uses the “Laura” … Continue reading →

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Black Dahlia: Blogging ‘Black Dahlia Files’ Part 79 — Request Line XIV

Posted on April 20, 2018 by lmharnisch

Note: This is an encore post from 2006. I have ceased blogging in real time as I read Donald H. Wolfe’s “The Black Dahlia Files: The Mob, the Mogul and the Murder That Transfixed Los Angeles.” Wolfe uses the “Laura” … Continue reading →

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Black L.A. 1947: Killers Restage Deadly Robbery of Watts Liquor Store for LAPD Movie

Posted on April 19, 2018 by lmharnisch

10952 Wilmington Ave., Watts, in 2012, as shown in Google Street View. Two two-story residences were built on the property in 2014. April 17, 1947: LAPD detectives have three men reenact the killing of liquor store owner Louis de Ciodda, … Continue reading →

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Black Dahlia: Blogging ‘Black Dahlia Files’ Part 78 — Request Line XIII

Posted on April 19, 2018 by lmharnisch

Note: This is an encore post from 2006. I have ceased blogging in real time as I read Donald H. Wolfe’s “The Black Dahlia Files: The Mob, the Mogul and the Murder That Transfixed Los Angeles.” Wolfe uses the “Laura” … Continue reading →

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Black Dahlia: Blogging ‘Black Dahlia Files’ Part 76 — Request Line XI

Posted on April 17, 2018 by lmharnisch

Note: This is an encore post from 2006. I have ceased blogging in real time as I read Donald H. Wolfe’s “The Black Dahlia Files: The Mob, the Mogul and the Murder That Transfixed Los Angeles.” Wolfe uses the “Laura” … Continue reading →

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Black Dahlia: Blogging ‘Black Dahlia Files’ Part 75 — Request Line X

Posted on April 16, 2018 by lmharnisch

Note: This is an encore post from 2006. I have ceased blogging in real time as I read Donald H. Wolfe’s “The Black Dahlia Files: The Mob, the Mogul and the Murder That Transfixed Los Angeles.” Wolfe uses the “Laura” … Continue reading →

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Black Dahlia: Blogging ‘Black Dahlia Files’ Part 74 —The Old Spuriousity Shoppe

Posted on April 15, 2018 by lmharnisch

Note: This is an encore post from 2006. I have ceased blogging in real time as I read Donald H. Wolfe’s “The Black Dahlia Files: The Mob, the Mogul and the Murder That Transfixed Los Angeles.” Wolfe uses the “Laura” … Continue reading →

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Black Dahlia: Blogging ‘Black Dahlia Files’ Part 73 — The Mailbox

Posted on April 15, 2018 by lmharnisch

Note: This is an encore post from 2006. I still haven’t received an answer. —– Forwarded Message —- From: Larry Harnisch To: DHWolfe1213@aol.com Sent: Friday, April 14, 2006 8:51:13 AM Subject: The “D” Memorandum Hi Don old pal, Long time … Continue reading →

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Black Dahlia: Blogging ‘Black Dahlia Files’ Part 72 — How to Fake a Document

Posted on April 14, 2018 by lmharnisch

Note: This is an encore post from 2006. I have ceased blogging in real time as I read Donald H. Wolfe’s “The Black Dahlia Files: The Mob, the Mogul and the Murder That Transfixed Los Angeles.” Wolfe uses the “Laura” … Continue reading →

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Black Dahlia: Blogging ‘Black Dahlia Files’ Part 71 — Request Line IX

Posted on April 13, 2018 by lmharnisch

Note: This is an encore post from 2006. I have ceased blogging in real time as I read Donald H. Wolfe’s “The Black Dahlia Files: The Mob, the Mogul and the Murder That Transfixed Los Angeles.” Wolfe uses the “Laura” … Continue reading →

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Black Dahlia: Blogging ‘Black Dahlia Files’ Part 70 — Request Line VIII

Posted on April 12, 2018 by lmharnisch

Note: This is an encore post from 2006. I have ceased blogging in real time as I read Donald H. Wolfe’s “The Black Dahlia Files: The Mob, the Mogul and the Murder That Transfixed Los Angeles.” Wolfe uses the “Laura” … Continue reading →

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Black Dahlia: Blogging ‘Black Dahlia Files’ Part 69 — Courtesy Card

Posted on April 11, 2018 by lmharnisch

Note: This is an encore post from 2006. I have ceased blogging in real time as I read Donald H. Wolfe’s “The Black Dahlia Files: The Mob, the Mogul and the Murder That Transfixed Los Angeles.” Wolfe uses the “Laura” … Continue reading →

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Black Dahlia: Blogging ‘Black Dahlia Files’ Part 68 — Request Line VII

Posted on April 10, 2018 by lmharnisch

Note: This is an encore post from 2006. I have ceased blogging in real time as I read Donald H. Wolfe’s “The Black Dahlia Files: The Mob, the Mogul and the Murder That Transfixed Los Angeles.” Wolfe uses the “Laura” … Continue reading →

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Black L.A., 1947: 126 Men, 3 Women Arrested in Raid on ‘Wild Stag Party’

Posted on April 10, 2018 by lmharnisch

The former La Vada Apartments, site of a stag party in 1947, via Google Street View. April 10, 1947: Police raided the ballroom of the La Vada Apartments, 249 E. Vernon, arresting 126 men who had paid $1 for admission … Continue reading →

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Black Dahlia: Blogging ‘Black Dahlia Files’ Part 66 — Request Line VI

Posted on April 8, 2018 by lmharnisch

Note: This is an encore post from 2006. I have ceased blogging in real time as I read Donald H. Wolfe’s “The Black Dahlia Files: The Mob, the Mogul and the Murder That Transfixed Los Angeles.” Wolfe is using the … Continue reading →

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Black L.A., 1947: Famous Flier James O. Plinton Jr. Visits L.A.

Posted on April 6, 2018 by lmharnisch

April 3, 1947: James O. Plinton Jr., a pioneering African American aviator, visits Los Angeles to buy two Grumman amphibious planes. At the beginning of World War II, Plinton went to the Tuskegee Institute, where he was a flight instructor, … Continue reading →

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Black Dahlia: Blogging ‘Black Dahlia Files’ Part 63 — Request Line III

Posted on April 5, 2018 by lmharnisch

Note: This is an encore post from 2006. I have ceased blogging in real time as I read Donald H. Wolfe’s “The Black Dahlia Files: The Mob, the Mogul and the Murder That Transfixed Los Angeles.” Wolfe is using the … Continue reading →

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