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July 28, 1947: Free Horoscope for Your DOG!
Note: This is an encore post from 2005 and appeared on the 1947project. July 29 is Elizabeth Short’s birthday—she would have been 81. Although horoscopes were a regular feature in the Examiner in the...
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Aug. 4, 1907: Galveston Plan Brings Russian Jews to Southwestern U.S.
Note: This is an encore post from 2006. Aug. 4, 1907 Galveston, Texas The Times reports on the Jewish Territorial Organization headed by author and playwright Israel Zangwill and banker Jacob Schiff...
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Aug. 7, 1907: Too Late for Wife to Repent Marriage to Abusive Husband, Judge...
Note: This is an encore post from 2006. Aug. 7, 1907 Los Angeles He swore at her and told her to go to hell. He rarely worked and only helped her run their boarding house when he felt like it. She...
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Black L.A. 1947: Drag Ball Planned for the Avodon Ballroom in DTLA
The site of the Avodon Ballroom at 843 S. Spring St., via Google Street View. Aug. 14, 1947: A drag ball is planned for the Avodon Ballroom, 843 S. Spring St. Although the Sentinel didn’t follow up...
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Note: This is an encore post from 2006. William Renwick, recent graduate of Pomona College, was to attend Yale in the fall, and rather than more mundane modes of travel decided to head East by auto in...
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Aug. 25, 1947: Police Investigate Death of Doctor’
Note: This is an encore post from 2005 and originally appeared on the 1947project. A doctor and a mysterious death—of course, Dr. Manuel de J. Castillo came under suspicion, although I suspect it was...
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Aug. 27, 1907: Undertaker Sent Home as Minister Survives Suicide Attempt
Note: This is an encore post from 2006. Manhattan Beach Aug. 27, 1907 Retired Episcopal minister the Rev. John Jewett, 83, wanted to die, so while staying with his son-in-law, J.D. Porter, he slit his...
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Aug. 30, 1907: Rabbi Leads Campaign to Open Hebrew University in L.A.
Note: This is an encore post from 2006. Aug. 30, 1907 Los Angeles Led by Rabbi Alfred Arndt of Congregation Beth Israel, the local Jewish community hopes to open what The Times describes as “the only...
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Black Dahlia Avenger: From Steve Hodel to James Ellroy to EBay
Note: This is an encore post from 2006. My goodness, one never knows what will turn up on Ebay. This morning I found a copy of “Black Dahlia Avenger” inscribed by Steve Hodel to James Ellroy, who...
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Sept. 5, 1907: Young Cecil Moore Explores L.A., One Step Ahead of the Law
Note: This is an encore post from 2006. Sept. 5, 1907 Los Angeles Poor old Mrs. Moore was ill, so instead of paying the grocer his monthly bill, she put a $10 gold piece in an envelope and told her...
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Black Dahlia: More Steve Hodel, James Ellroy and EBay
Note: This is an encore post from 2006. I couldn’t stand the thought of James Ellroy’s copies of “Black Dahlia Avenger” going for so little on EBay. After all, don’t people know the book has been...
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Black Dahlia: Steve Hodel, James Ellroy and EBay: Outbid!
Note: This is an encore post from 2006. Gosh, I upped my bid on James Ellroy’s copies of “Black Dahlia Avenger” (the hardback and paperback) but was outbid. Darn. I’m going to do my best to get them...
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James Ellroy: ‘Don’t Anybody Say the Name Steve Hodel’
Note: This is an encore post from 2006. An incredibly curious thing happened yesterday. I’ve been taping segments for an “America’s Most Wanted” episode on the Black Dahlia and the producer called to...
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Black Dahlia: EBay Avenger
Note: This is an encore post from 2006. OK, I’ve had my fun with Ellroy’s copies of the “Avenger” books. The hardback stands at $38 and the paperback at $29. Despite my minimum bids, there is always...
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Sept. 11, 1907: In Praise of the Corset for the ‘Woman Who Weighs a Ton’
Note: This is an encore post from 2006. Sept. 11, 1907 Direct Wire From New York Wow! Now this is the kind of quote one simply doesn’t see every day, at least in the 21st century. The Victorians...
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Brian De Palma’s ‘The Black Dahlia’
Note: This is an encore post from 2006. Further note: Rotten Tomatoes, gives this film 32% on the Tomatometer. “The Black Dahlia,” directed by Brian De Palma, screenplay by Josh Friedman based on the...
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Black Dahlia: Annual Halloween Reminder
Somewhere, somebody is already thinking about a Black Dahlia costume for Halloween, so here is my annual reminder: Dressing up like the victim of a grotesque murder is not the look you want. Please...
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Oct. 5, 1947: Santa Monica Police Link Killing of Teenage Girl to Earlier...
Note: This is an encore post from 2005 and originally appeared on the 1947project. It was a response to Kim Cooper’s post on the stabbings of Lillian Dominguez and Barbara Jean Morse. I’m really glad...
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Oct. 9. 1907: Trellis, The Confidence Woman
Note: This is an encore post from 2006. Oct. 9, 1907 Los Angeles She was known as Trellis C. Harris or Trellis Blessing—or Edna Hall. But her method was always the same. She would commit some theft,...
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L.A. Noir: Will Someone Please Get the New York Times a Map of Los Angeles?
The New York Times has published a “guide” to “Where Noir Lives in the City of Angels.” With text by Gal Beckerman. And take a good look at the graphic by Ross MacDonald (no, not that Ross MacDonald;...
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