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From the Reference Desk
My childhood heroes: The Lookies! They don’t guess, they look it up in their new World Book Encyclopedia! Dr. Michele K. Troy of Hillyer College writes: Rob Wagner (Red Ink, White Lies) recommended I...
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‘Zoot Suit’ and History – Part 3
In March 1943, Disney studios released “The Spirit 1943,” a cartoon in which Donald Duck is forced to choose between saving his money for “taxes to bury the Axis” (aided by a thrifty proto-Scrooge...
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Day in Hollywood: July 8, 1941
July 8, 1941: I thought it would be fun to check in with our old pals, Lee Shippey, Tom Treanor and Jimmie Fidler. Lee writes about visiting researchers spending their summers at the Huntington....
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Attorney Storms Office, Seizes D.A.’s Bugging Equipment
July 15, 1941: Defense attorney Samuel Rummel (shot to death Dec. 11, 1950) breaks a door and seizes a dictograph wired to a microphone in his office in the William Fox Building, 608 S. Hill. Rummel...
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Van Nuys Plane Crash Kills 2 – Aug. 11, 1941
Aug. 11, 1941: Walter P. Palmer and William S. Raney are killed when their plane goes into a spin during a flying lesson and crashes into a bean field at Woodley Avenue and Oxnard Street in Van Nuys,...
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Location Sleuth: Lasky Mesa
Photo: “Charge of the Light Brigade,” filmed at Lasky Mesa. James Curtis’ interview with Dick Lane touched on a filming location known as Lasky Mesa. Films shot there include “Rose of the Rancho”...
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Jimmie Fidler in Hollywood, Sept. 1, 1941
Sept. 1, 1941: I thought it would be interesting to check in with our friends in 1941, since Pearl Harbor is only three months away. Times editorial cartoonist Bruce Russell’s Labor Day drawing says...
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Widow Accused of Killing Ft. MacArthur Officer, Sept. 3, 1941
Sept. 3, 1941: OK, Maj. Tucker, let me get this straight. You and your wife, Marie, got home from a party, where both of you had been drinking. She was in the bedroom and you were in the kitchen...
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Judge Urges U.S. to Deport Union Leader Harry Bridges
Sept. 30, 1941: A judge recommends the deportation of Harry Bridges, head of the International Longshoremen’s and Warehousemen’s Union, a decision that was cheered by The Times. Of course, Bridges...
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Woman Jailed for Driving Too Slowly
Oct. 7, 1941: You’re probably wondering how fast Blanche Roberts was driving. The story doesn’t say anything more specific than “an exceedingly low rate of speed” on the Calabasas Grade. Apparently no...
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L.A.’s Traffic Nightmare Threatens Downtown’s Future! Oct. 28, 1941
Oct. 28, 1941: Lee Shippey writes about Los Angeles’ congested streets (no, traffic is not a new problem – it’s a very old one that we are still trying to solve). Notice that Shippey says streetcars...
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N.Y. Bans Night Baseball!
May 19, 1942: It’s officially straw hat season in Los Angeles, so men, dump that felt chapeau and get yourself a nice Panama. Lee Shippey writes that the evacuation of the Japanese has forced many...
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Union Pleads With Streetcar Workers Not to Strike
Sept. 5, 1943: Explaining that “war strategies between President Roosevelt and Britain’s Prime Minister Churchill come first,” William P. Nutter of the Brotherhood of Railway Trainmen pleads with...
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From the Reference Desk
My childhood heroes: The Lookies! They don’t guess, they look it up in their new World Book Encyclopedia! Dr. Michele K. Troy of Hillyer College writes: Rob Wagner (Red Ink, White Lies) recommended I...
View ArticleClik here to view.
‘Zoot Suit’ and History – Part 3
In March 1943, Disney studios released “The Spirit of ’43,” a cartoon in which Donald Duck is forced to choose between saving his money for “taxes to bury the Axis” (aided by a thrifty proto-Scrooge...
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Day in Hollywood: July 8, 1941
July 8, 1941: I thought it would be fun to check in with our old pals, Lee Shippey, Tom Treanor and Jimmie Fidler. Lee writes about visiting researchers spending their summers at the Huntington....
View ArticleClik here to view.
Attorney Storms Office, Seizes D.A.’s Bugging Equipment
July 15, 1941: Defense attorney Samuel Rummel (shot to death Dec. 11, 1950) breaks a door and seizes a dictograph wired to a microphone in his office in the William Fox Building, 608 S. Hill. Rummel...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Van Nuys Plane Crash Kills 2 – Aug. 11, 1941
Aug. 11, 1941: Walter P. Palmer and William S. Raney are killed when their plane goes into a spin during a flying lesson and crashes into a bean field at Woodley Avenue and Oxnard Street in Van Nuys,...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Location Sleuth: Lasky Mesa
Photo: “Charge of the Light Brigade,” filmed at Lasky Mesa. James Curtis’ interview with Dick Lane touched on a filming location known as Lasky Mesa. Films shot there include “Rose of the Rancho”...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Jimmie Fidler in Hollywood, Sept. 1, 1941
Sept. 1, 1941: I thought it would be interesting to check in with our friends in 1941, since Pearl Harbor is only three months away. Times editorial cartoonist Bruce Russell’s Labor Day drawing says...
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