1947project - Los Angeles De-Mythified

Local Man Sets Record

January 20, 1927 Los Angeles A short notice in the paper today about Sidney (or Sydney) Adams who, on August 2, 1925 (most likely) mortally shot his wife Annie in their home at 1234 East...[[...

Of felines, gas grates and tipsy transit

January 18, 1927 Los Angeles Lovers of the purring class will be down at 720-32 South Main Street this weekend to tour the 23rd annual Los Angeles Cat Club exhibition, which this year highlights...

Silence is golden, and so's the shooter's hair

January 17, 1927 Hollywood When the doc refused to keep things quiet after treating oilman Grover Lawler's (happily superficial) bullet wounds at his home in the Dickerson apartments at Berendo...

Mysteries of the Road

January 19, 1927 Santa Monica, Venice A drained, shamefaced whisky bottle and wrecked car were all officers found tonight at Colorado Blvd and Twenty-Third Street. A thorough check of the...

William Wrigley's Ocean Marathon

January 16, 1927Palos Verdes Peninsula, CA  In 1919, the heavily insured William Wrigley Jr. bought a controlling interest in the Santa Catalina Island Co., and sought to promote his...

Sailor's End

January 15, 1927 Los Angeles The body of a young man, dressed in sailor's togs, was found today by four children playing in an open field near Eighteenth Street and Point View Avenue....

To Do: Prune Your Roses in Memory of Beth Short

Gentle reader,Today is a terrible day in Los Angeles history, the 61st anniversary of the morning when Elizabeth Short, soon to be infamous as the Black Dahlia, was discovered dead and cut in...

We're so hungry, we could eat a sheep

January 14, 1927 Taft Hut, two, three, four – an army of field mice is on the march in Taft, and like most armies, this one travels on its stomach. Despite being low on the food chain,...

Is a Woman Ever Really Sorry?

 January 13, 1927 Los Angeles George and Mabel Drummond had nothing if not a tempestuous wedded life.  Married ten years, hitched when George was fifteen and Mabel twenty-one,...

1947project podcast #12

The time travel bloggers share notable events of December and January 1927, including tales of poisonous liquor, hypercritical papas, NIMBYism in historic South Central and a millionairess tied...