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1947project - Los Angeles De-Mythified


Newsflash: win the "People Take Warning!" box set

Gentle reader, When not trawling the archives for tales of past century misbehavior, several of your 1947project/ On Bunker Hill bloggers host Esotouric bus adventures on themes of...

Started in 1947project - Los Angeles De-Mythified • 4 weeks ago • 0 responses
Tags: crime bus tours
Just An Old-Fashioned Girl??? Driving the Getaway Car

March 18, 1927 Los Angeles Police are searching for "bandit queen" Rose Berk with renewed effort after today's arrest of one of her henchmen, Fred J. Cook. Berk (aka Rose Buckingham, aka Rose Burke)...

Started in 1947project - Los Angeles De-Mythified • 5 months ago • 0 responses
Tags: bandit queen, bobbed hair, crimes, henchmen, robbery
Moving Day!

Gentle reader, 1947project has moved... to Bunker Hill. For the next twelve months, our dogged blog team will be exploring this lost neighborhood in all its permutations. Yes, we'll be reporting...

Started in 1947project - Los Angeles De-Mythified • 4 months ago • 0 responses
Tags: downtown
The New 1947project is here

Gentle reader, the new manifestation of 1947project has emerged. For the first time, our crime-a-day blog becomes a house-by-house survey, exploring the great lost downtown neighborhood of...

Started in 1947project - Los Angeles De-Mythified • 5 months ago • 0 responses
Tags: the wacko file
A Second Chance

March 19, 1927 Long Beach, CA Fred and Lela McElrath had been married for 25 years, and raised three children together, now grown. But just as the couple should have been settling down...

Started in 1947project - Los Angeles De-Mythified • 5 months ago • 0 responses
Tags: attempted murder, attempted suicide, domestic violence, gun, long beach
Just An Old-Fashioned Girl … Driving the Getaway Car

March 18, 1927 Los Angeles Police are searching for "bandit queen" Rose Berk with renewed effort after today's arrest of one of her henchmen, Fred J. Cook. Berk (aka Rose Buckingham, aka...

Started in 1947project - Los Angeles De-Mythified • 5 months ago • 0 responses
Tags: bandit queen, bobbed hair, crimes, henchmen, robbery
The New 1947project is coming soon

Peel an eye, gentle reader, as this site will soon undergo a great transformation. Every March for the past three years, 1947project has selected a new year for our social historians to explore....

Started in 1947project - Los Angeles De-Mythified • 5 months ago • 0 responses
Tags: the wacko file
It's a Man's World

March 17, 1927 Bakersfield Frustrated at being rejected for employment as a nurse by Kern Hospital, twenty-one year old Gladys Maryon Lindley came up with a plan – become a...

Started in 1947project - Los Angeles De-Mythified • 5 months ago • 0 responses
Tags: cross-dressing, inland empire, the wacko file
Grossery Shopping

March 15, 1927 Los Angeles Traditionally, the term greengrocer refers to a retail tradesperson who sells fresh fruits and vegetables. Should you be down on Temple Street, you might find...

Started in 1947project - Los Angeles De-Mythified • 5 months ago • 0 responses
Tags: downtown, grocery, temple street
Behind Every Great Man...

  March 16, 1927 Los Angeles    Clarence and Ona Brown were married in 1922, but now Ona wants a divorce. “When I married...

Started in 1947project - Los Angeles De-Mythified • 5 months ago • 0 responses
Tags: clarence brown, divorce, hollywood
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