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1947project - Los Angeles De-Mythified


The Apple Box Kid and Miss "I Love L.A." of 1927

February 8, 1927 Los Angeles The fourth is a series of bold daylight robberies of outlying classrooms has been reported at the Lillian School, near Holmes and Slauson Avenues. As a room full...

Started in 1947project - Los Angeles De-Mythified • 9 months ago • 0 responses
Tags: affection, cursing, nicknames, robbery, san fernando valley
Anything for a Bust

February 6, 1927  Over the weekend, the District Attorney's crackerjack Prohibition task force proved beyond the shadow of a doubt their devotion to the cause. Then again, after...

Started in 1947project - Los Angeles De-Mythified • 9 months ago • 0 responses
Tags: bootlegging, lapd, prohibition
Call for Contributors to the new 1947project site

Gentle reader,1947project, a Los Angeles based time travel blog dedicated to unearthing forgotten crime stories and peculiar happenings from the city's past, is seeking extraordinary...

Started in 1947project - Los Angeles De-Mythified • 9 months ago • 0 responses
Tags: 1947project, the wacko file
Was He The World's Most Understanding Husband?

February 5, 1927 Venice The twisted tale of Avalona Carnevale began last December 8, when the 30-year-old housewife from Venice made a phone call to her jeweler husband, Vincent. She couldn't...

Started in 1947project - Los Angeles De-Mythified • 9 months ago • 0 responses
Tags: booze, circus men, he-men, husbands, kidnapping
Everybody Has to Fall Some Time

February 4, 1927 Los Angeles A police dragnet is closing in on the killers of Luther H. Green.  A member of the Los Angeles Stock Exchange, Green was slain outside of his home at...

Started in 1947project - Los Angeles De-Mythified • 9 months ago • 0 responses
Tags: automotive, burglary, gun, murder, prohibition
Angels My Eye

February 3, 1927 Seemingly Everywhere It was another olla podrida fulla banditry in Los Angeles, which bubbled over and burned something fierce at El Molino and Ninth when a gent approached...

Started in 1947project - Los Angeles De-Mythified • 9 months ago • 0 responses
Tags: alhambra, burglary, downtown, east la, hollywood
A Second Engagement

January 2, 1927 Los Angeles The good people of Los Angeles were reminded today of a quieter, simpler time—a time known as "1921".  A magical time of Teapot Domes, and...

Started in 1947project - Los Angeles De-Mythified • 9 months ago • 0 responses
Tags: assault, beating, downtown, murder, strangulation
Second Time's the Harm

February 1, 1927 Whittier Family annihilator George Hassell was convicted of killing his wife and her eight children by his late brother, and has an appointment with the Texas executioner...

Started in 1947project - Los Angeles De-Mythified • 9 months ago • 0 responses
Tags: child abuse, east la, family, gun, killer
Does Not Necessarily Result in Better-Smelling Bandits

January 30, 1927Los Angeles, CA  Today was a good day to be a bad guy in Los Angeles, and a profitable one, too.  Calls to police flooded in from the terrorized, the carjacked,...

Started in 1947project - Los Angeles De-Mythified • 9 months ago • 0 responses
Tags: burglary, carjacking, gun, robbery
The Dare-Devil Club of Gardena

January 29, 1927 Gardena The Artful Dodger would have been nothing without his teacher, Fagin, but the Dare-Devil Club of Gardena didn't need anybody to train them in the techniques of...[[...

Started in 1947project - Los Angeles De-Mythified • 9 months ago • 0 responses
Tags: boys clubs, burglary, crimes, juvenile delinquents