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Found on EBay – A 1947 Visit to the Biltmore
A lot of items from the Biltmore Hotel, including a bill for two days in August 1947, seven months after the Black Dahlia killing, has been listed on EBay. This map appears with a booklet titled...
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Mary Mallory / Hollywood Heights — Frank S. Hoover, Portrait Photographer and...
Early Hollywood portrait photography developed from the need of stars for portraits to send out looking for roles, and from studios realizing the value of selling their product through stars. Los...
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Schaber’s Cafeteria and Einar Petersen
This remarkable postcard postmarked 1941 of Schaber’s Cafeteria at 620 S. Broadway, showing an Einar Petersen mural, has been listed on EBay at Buy It Now for $6.99. The Schaber Cafeteria at 620 S....
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Downtown Los Angeles – 427 S. Broadway
This postcard of the Pin-Ton candy store, 427 S. Broadway, has been listed on EBay as Buy It Now for $29.97. March 4, 1909: How about an ice cream and a stop at the occult bookshop? The Pin-Ton...
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Downtown Los Angeles – Broadway and 2nd
Broadway and 2nd Street via Google’s Street View. This picture showing the YMCA and the California Bank at the southwest corner of Broadway and 2nd Street has been listed on EBay as Buy It Now for...
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Mary Mallory / Hollywood Heights: There Is a Lake in Toluca Lake
Photo: Janet Blair sits on the little platform off the banks of the Lakeside Golf Club. Courtesy of Mary Mallory Surrounded by homes and the Lakeside Golf Club, Toluca Lake is all but obscured from...
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Punk Rock Riot on Sunset Boulevard!
How about this retro artwork on the ad for “Nicholas Nickleby?” Sort of Peter Max via “Yellow Submarine.” Jan. 10, 1983: A riot breaks out among an estimated 2,000 punk rockers during a concert at...
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Mary Mallory / Hollywood Heights: Charlie Chaplin Comes to Hollywood
Oct. 16, 1917: An architect’s rendering of Chaplin’s studios in The Times Ninety-five years ago, comedian Charlie Chaplin constructed the first beautiful studio lot in Hollywood, the first to offer...
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On Location: The May Co.
A little of Loretta Young (featured this month on TCM) goes a long way at the Daily Mirror HQ, but I noticed these shots of a department store in “Employees’ Entrance” and they reminded me of the...
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Architectural Rambling on Lemoyne Street in Echo Park
Above: 1548 Lemoyne St. via Google Street View. A vendor has posted photos of 1548 Lemoyne St. in Echo Park on EBay. Personally, I prefer the way it looked in 1911. Bidding starts at $12.99.
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George ‘Evil Genius’ Hodel and the Black Dahlia – Another Good Story Ruined
Look who fell for the fake Daily News front page. Yes, it’s a fake. There are about a thousand things I would prefer to do besides shoot holes in the latest installment of the Dr. George “Evil Genius”...
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Good Fellows Grotto – Found on EBay
At left, Good Fellows Grotto on Main Street in Los Angeles in a photo from the restaurant’s menu. Somebody swiped a teapot from Good Fellows Grotto, the famed Los Angeles restaurant. It’s listed on...
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Mary Mallory / Hollywood Heights – Hollywoodland’s Kanst Art Gallery
The Hollywoodland housing development possessed many unique features when it opened in 1923. The neighborhood was the first themed housing development built on hillsides, the first to include a...
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Black Dahlia: Hodel ‘Murder HQ’ Test Results?
If you will remember (and of course you do) Christine Pelisek wrote in the Daily Beast on Feb. 3, 2013, that test results on soil taken from the Sowden House (George “Evil Genius” Hodel’s purported...
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San Xavier: The Mystery of the Mission’s Missing Lions
In 1982, two hand-carved wooden lions dating from 1797 vanished from the chancel at Mission San Xavier del Bac. In 1988, the reproductions shown above made by brothers Hector and Jorge Ortega were...
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Black Dahlia: The Non-Smoking Gun – George Hodel Files Part 11
Thursday I may be going to Santa Barbara!!! And here is Part 11 of the Dr. George “Evil Genius” Hodel transcripts for Feb. 28, 1950. The George Hodel files Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 | Part 4 | Part 5 |...
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Black Dahlia: George Hodel Murder HQ Soil Tests Overdue – Week 4
I guess everybody has forgotten about this except for me. Let me remind you that Christine Pelisek wrote in the Daily Beast on Feb. 3, 2013, that test results on soil taken from the Sowden House...
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Mary Mallory / Hollywood Heights: Earl Carroll’s Swanky Sunset Boulevard Theater
Photo: Earl Carroll at the groundbreaking for his nightclub, with Jack Benny, Eddie Cantor and W.C. Fields. Courtesy of James Curtis. In the late 1930s, Earl Carroll reigned as Broadway’s exotic...
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Black Dahlia: STILL Waiting for Soil Test Results From Dr. George ‘Evil...
Oh those Brits! The Express has jumped all over the story about Zooey Deschanel and Jamie Linden visiting the Sowden House, Dr. George “Evil Genius” Hodel’s purported Murder HQ. Naturally, since it’s...
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Mary Mallory / Hollywood Heights: Hollywoodland Opens
By the early 1920s, real estate development was booming all around Los Angeles. For decades, the city had boldly advertised itself as a mecca in which average citizens could earn their share of the...
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