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Angels Flight and the Flickers
As an addendum to my Angels Flight post, below, I got to thinking about AF’s relationship to cinema after OnBunkerHill'r John wrote to the other contributors:How many of you have seen the 1965 film,...
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Plucky Dame Pursues Purse Pilferers
August 6, 1889Mrs. C.W. Strong, described by the Los Angeles Times as an elderly lady, was walking from her home at 340 South Hill Street to view a cottage near Fort Street (now Broadway) and Bunker...
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Location: 360 South Hill Street Date: July 25, 1932Mrs. Blanche Hill, a recent widow who had suffered two paralytic strokes, killed herself with gas in her apartment. The smell alerted manager S.J....
View ArticleA Little Nippy
Location: 360 South Hill Street Date: July 11, 1932Mrs. L. Blanchard, 67, left her apartment for a carefree evening at the shore, but had a lousy time. According to Officer Maxwell, Venice PD, he heard...
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Location: 360 South Hill Street Date: June 29, 1931Mrs. W.H. Gadd of this address (presumably a relation of manager S.J.) was driving near 12th Street and Burlington Avenue when a couple of boyish...
View ArticleGoodbye, mother!
Location: 360 South Hill Street Date: September 15, 1910The anonymous rooming house cyanide suicide seemed calculated to deliver himself into an unmarked pauper's grave, but a last impulse led him to...
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Last Shore Leave
Location: 350 Clay Street Date: June 3, 1946In the not-quite-twelve hours since John M. Kelly was discharged from the Marine Corps, he somehow took up with Henry Ehlert, 44, and Dwight C. Lester, 23,...
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Kaboom!
November 15, 1904 Harry L. Redd was crawling around beneath the city streets attempting to repair a telephone wire, but it was so dark he couldn’t see a thing. He’d been catching a whiff of gas fumes...
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Bunker Hill and the Crib Wars
They called it the red light district, the tenderloin, Little Paree, Hell's Half Acre, and my favorite, the crib district. From the late 1800s until the turn of the century, prostitution in Los...
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Two New Mann Images — Final Days of the Flight!
Hillzapoppin' in the OBH! A couple swanky new color images emerged from the greater Mann grotto and the good people at the archives wanted to share them with you. Ain't they the best? This image is...
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