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‘Negroes and Whites, Including Women, Mix in Unbelievable Orgies’
March 24, 1925: I found this while researching something else and it’s too cool not to share.
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Millennial Moment: Renovations at Earl Carroll Theatre
Oct. 31, 1982: Times staff writer Ruth Ryon profiles the renovations at the Earl Carroll Theatre, 6230 Sunset Blvd. Now the Nickelodeon Studios, the theater was designed by Gordon B. Kaufmann and...
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Found on EBay – The Florentine Gardens
A Sept. 16, 1944, photo from the Florentine Gardens – with souvenir lipstick prints – has been listed on EBay at Buy It Now for $25. The lot includes souvenir photos from Ace Cain’s, 1369 N. Western...
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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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The Death of Ted Healy — Part 8
Dec. 22, 1937: “Beating of Ted Healy Told in Death Probe,” in the Los Angeles Daily News. In case you just tuned in, we are nearing the end of a long journey that began in April, when I stumbled...
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The Death of Ted Healy — Part 10
Dec. 22, 1937: Ted Healy in the Los Angeles County morgue, photographed by the Daily News. In case you just tuned in, we are nearing the end of a long journey that began in April, when I stumbled...
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The Death of Ted Healy — Part 11
Dec. 25, 1937: Ted Healy “never learned to save money.” (Los Angeles Examiner) In case you just tuned in, we are nearing the end of a long journey that began in April, when I stumbled across a...
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A Night at the Florentine Gardens, 1943
Here’s another item from the Florentine Gardens: A 1943 photo of people that has been listed on EBay for 99 cents.
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The Whisky a Go Go Opens, Jan. 15, 1964
The Whisky a Go Go at Sunset Boulevard and Clark Street via Google Street View. Trentham Roberts, the proprietor of “The ‘60s at 50” blog, has an entry on the opening of Whisky a Go Go on Jan. 15, 1964.
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Flo Ash — The ‘Cutest Little Nudist’— Gets a Divorce
Jan. 26, 1944: “Flo Ash” is one of my favorite names from 1940s Los Angeles. In 1940, she sued the Florentine Gardens and producer Nils T. Granlund over use of the nickname “Cutest Little Nudist.”
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1944 in Print —‘Walter Winchell on Broadway,’ Feb. 9, 1944
Feb. 9, 1944: Al Jolson is Jinx Falkenberg’s most constant visitor at her St. Luke’s Hospital bedside…. New Yorkers suspect that Wayne (wife-killer) Lonergan’s sudden coin (to hire a lawyer) came from...
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1944 in Print —‘Walter Winchell on Broadway,’ Feb. 15, 1944
Feb. 15, 1944: Notes of an Innocent Bystander “The Sullivans” … This is the movies’ memorial to the five Sullivan boys who died in the same sea action. It’s tender and moving and resists the...
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1944 in Print — Walter Winchell on Broadway, March 7, 1944
March 7, 1944 Notes of an Innocent Bystander The Magic Lantern: Danny Kaye, who knocked off B’way in his first start, put Hollywood in his pocket the same way. His starter, “Up in Arms,” makes him a...
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1944 in Print — Walter Winchell on Broadway, March 6, 1944
March 6, 1944 Broadway Ballad The Orchid Garden: Zanuck’s newest click, “The Purple Heart.” The author is listed as Melville Crossman. That’s Zanuck … Editorial Dept. Novelette: It happened in the...
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Mary Mallory / Hollywood Heights: Studio City Nightclubs Jazz Up San Fernando...
The Zomba Cafe in “The Loved One,” about the 1:38 mark. Thanks to its geographic location and its proximity to entertainment industry businesses, Studio City has served as the home for eclectic...
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‘Negroes and Whites, Including Women, Mix in Unbelievable Orgies’
March 24, 1925: I found this while researching something else and it’s too cool not to share.
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Millennial Moment: Renovations at Earl Carroll Theatre
Oct. 31, 1982: Times staff writer Ruth Ryon profiles the renovations at the Earl Carroll Theatre, 6230 Sunset Blvd. Now the Nickelodeon Studios, the theater was designed by Gordon B. Kaufmann and...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Found on EBay – The Florentine Gardens
A Sept. 16, 1944, photo from the Florentine Gardens – with souvenir lipstick prints – has been listed on EBay at Buy It Now for $25. The lot includes souvenir photos from Ace Cain’s, 1369 N. Western...
View ArticleClik here to view.
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...
View ArticleClik here to view.
The Death of Ted Healy — Part 8
Dec. 22, 1937: “Beating of Ted Healy Told in Death Probe,” in the Los Angeles Daily News. In case you just tuned in, we are nearing the end of a long journey that began in April, when I stumbled...
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