tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-115197312024-03-24T16:32:21.124-07:001947projectThe original Los Angeles time travel blog.Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger375125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11519731.post-1142543415427224182006-03-16T13:07:00.001-08:002017-12-28T08:55:43.984-08:00Welcome To Our Old House. Feel Free To Poke Around.On March 13, 2006, 1947project completed its mission to spend one year documenting the offbeat and criminal history of 1947 Los Angeles. You've found our archive site.
Come explore our other time travel blogs:
1947project.com (1907 and 1927 Los Angeles crimes)
On Bunker Hill, a lost neighborhood found
In SRO Land, lost lore of the historic core
Or climb aboard the Esotouric bus to discover Unknownnoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11519731.post-1139189877122811802006-03-15T17:33:00.000-08:002010-12-03T20:06:12.751-08:00All Aboard! Esotouric bus adventures mailing list1947project online storeUnknownnoreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11519731.post-1142322344623275442006-03-13T23:23:00.000-08:002006-03-14T00:01:34.280-08:00Police Grill Pin Boy in Winters WhackMarch 13, 1947Los AngelesDetectives questioned James Joseph Tiernan Jr., 30, tonight about his movements Monday night, both before and after the time he claimed that Evelyn Winters, 42, left his hotel room at 912 W. Sixth Street. Winters turned up dead just after midnight Tuesday in the railyard at Ducommun Street, her clothes in disarray, with a blood alcohol level of .28, a nearly fatal Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11519731.post-1142288852714672762006-03-12T14:07:00.000-08:002006-03-13T14:27:34.113-08:00Down By The RiverMarch 12, 1947WhittierSheriff's deputies have obtained a confession from shaggy-haired Myron Funk, 23, in the shocking slaying of Mae Lorena Lund, the 46-year-old ladyfriend of Funk's father Frank (aka Hardrock).Lund's strangled body was found in the shallows of the San Gabriel River in Norwalk, several miles from her home at 115 Burton Street, Bellflower. Funk admitted that he had returned Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11519731.post-1142192365244115042006-03-12T11:31:00.000-08:002006-03-13T10:47:37.700-08:00Easter Sunday Nightmares of Bunker Hill Crime Bus TourOh, you delightful sickniks! After tabulating the votes for the next Crime Bus date, I see that the majority of respondents have asked for the tour to roll on Easter Sunday, 4/16.And so it shall. If you would like a seat on the Easter Sunday Crime Bus tour, featuring strange and horrible tales from the history of downtown Los Angeles, please visit this site to purchase through paypal.You may alsoUnknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11519731.post-1142191040053606712006-03-12T11:14:00.000-08:002006-03-12T11:17:20.466-08:001947project is moving house on Tuesday 3/14Henceforth you will find us at our own URL, 1947project.com.Our RSS feed will be published exclusively through feedburner.And a whole new adventure begins...Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11519731.post-1142112919876818042006-03-11T13:26:00.000-08:002006-03-11T13:35:20.740-08:00Lucky Dime, do not disturbMarch 11, 1947Los AngelesA shiny new dime glinted brieflyat the bottom of a hole at East 58th Street and Naomi Ave. before being topped by a trolley pole, the first of many to planted as part of a new electrical trackless trolley system.B.M. (Barney) Larrick, L.A. Transit Lines operating manager, dropped the dime as a symbolic good luck offering to the new coach route which, once it opens on JuneUnknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11519731.post-1142060554671062022006-03-10T22:54:00.000-08:002006-03-10T23:02:34.746-08:00Not quite cleaned outMarch 10, 1947Los AngelesJames Edwards, 57-year-old busboy in a Broadway cafeteria, is one of those folks who doesn't trust banks. He's been saving for many years with the dream of owning his own home.This morning, near East Second and Los Angeles Streets, a robber clouted him over the head and emptied his wallet. When checked into the Georgia Street Receiving Hospital, Edwards still wore his Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11519731.post-1142059475938642982006-03-10T22:42:00.000-08:002006-03-10T22:44:36.216-08:00April Crime Bus Tour: Nightmares of Bunker HillGentle riders,The 1947project bloggers have been hard at work, uncovering some of themost ghastly tales ever to unfold in the great central heart of ourcity. In April, you can discover these horrors on a little bus tourwe're calling Nightmares of Bunker Hill.To give us a sense of how much demand there is for seats, we ask yourassistance. If you would be interested in attending this tour, Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11519731.post-1141971365846602152006-03-09T22:09:00.000-08:002006-03-09T22:16:06.120-08:00Taxi DriverMarch 9, 1947Santa AnaFlummoxed partway through the ride home to El Toro Marine Base, when the Negro cabbie suggested he come up front and take the wheel as he was feeling sleepy, Patrick Crawford accomodated the snoring driver by delivering him straight to the Santa Ana cops. It was a good instinct on the young Marine's part: investigation revealed that sleepy Mervin Wilturner, 21, was likely Unknownnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11519731.post-1141842431383427642006-03-08T10:22:00.000-08:002006-03-08T10:27:11.866-08:00Those who can't do, teachMarch 8, 1947AlhambraWhile busting Robert Chelsea Putter, 49, on a forgery charge, officers made a delightful discovery. Putter had written an 18-page booklet instructing would-be forgers on the rules of the trade. Unfortunately, he had neglected to follow his own advice, and landed in the pokey.The specific rules not followed? "When you don't succeed in passing a check, get out of town but fast.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11519731.post-1141802754378219722006-03-07T23:22:00.000-08:002006-03-07T23:26:03.166-08:00Har-de-har-harMarch 7, 1947Portland, ORIn the course of fining a driver who admitted to driving 38mph in a 20mph zone, Judge J.J. Quillin quipped that he admired the fellow's forbearance, for he was the first California driver he'd ever known to drive under 50!Unknownnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11519731.post-1141698418198131172006-03-06T18:25:00.000-08:002006-03-06T18:26:58.393-08:00Fatal HeroicsMarch 5, 1947VeniceHis curtains blazing, Charles Mason, 71, raced towards the heat of the flames and fought bravely to extinguish them. He gave no thought to his blindness and merely did all he could to staunch the fire and save his furnishings--and succeeded, though not without injury. When his roomate William H. Watson came home to the flat at 1126 Washington Blvd., he found Charles terribly Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11519731.post-1141697973455809892006-03-04T18:13:00.000-08:002006-03-06T18:19:33.673-08:00Boo-boo for a Looky-loo!March 4, 1947Los AngelesWhen two Pacific Electric freight cars derailed near Firestone Blvd. and Maie Avenue, Helen Gil, 25, observed the carnage from a prudent 40 yards away... prudent, that is, until the fence beside which she was standing crumpled under the weight of the cars and collapsed, fracturing her ankle and giving her a possible concussion.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11519731.post-1141447782790088642006-03-03T19:32:00.000-08:002006-03-03T20:49:43.103-08:00The Case of the Divorcee in the ElevatorMarch 3, 1947Los AngelesSince 1944, Sarah Shirley Ruenker, 32, has suffered crippling claustrophobia, an ailment that today nearly kept her from filing for divorce against her machinist husband Carl. Accompanied by her attorney Barry Woodmansee, she bravely stepped into the tiny elevator at City Hall... then crumpled in tears and had to be carried out by Woodmansee and the operator. After Unknownnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11519731.post-1141443068017389962006-03-02T19:21:00.000-08:002006-03-03T19:31:08.256-08:00Lucky PennyMarch 2, 1947Los AngelesCabbie Clifford Brown is fortunate to be alive tonight after an encounter with an armed robber at 110th and Central. A fare asked him to wait there while he picked up a buddy, but the buddy came packing heat. Before Brown had a chance to respond, the gunman's finger twitched, and a bullet tore into the cabbie's breast pocket. The pocket was stuffed full of change, which Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11519731.post-1141371799889230242006-03-01T23:37:00.000-08:002006-03-02T23:43:54.730-08:00Whoooo whooooo!March 1, 1947Los FelizThe long-awaited midget railroad in Griffith Park is nearing completion, and wee tykes citywide can scarcely hold their water as they anticipate the thrill of circling the figure-eight-shaped, half-mile track near the Riverside Drive side of the Park.The new concession is work of Floyd Wells and Sam Bornstein, its $50,000 cost covered by the city in return for $150 monthly Unknownnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11519731.post-1141354836915414532006-02-28T18:55:00.000-08:002006-03-02T19:00:37.200-08:00Oh, and that kidnapped girl...February 28, 1947near Long Beach'tis the season for faked abductions, with yesterday's nude 17-year-old found bound in her underpants with a cigarette burn on her wrist confessing to police that she had "dreamed up" the sinister man who attacked her, and had tied and injured herself. She's Jacqueline Mae Stang of 2009 Chestnut Ave., Long Beach, currently in custody of the Long Beach juvenile Unknownnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11519731.post-1141273518646391992006-02-27T20:18:00.000-08:002006-03-01T20:25:19.053-08:00February 27, 1947near Long BeachFiends are loose in the city, and no girl or woman is safe! The latest victim is a 17-year-old high school girl--found naked and bound with her own underclothes, with a cigarette burn on her wrist--near the Union Pacific underpass at Willow Street. After treatment at Seaside Hospital, which revealed no sign of criminal assault, the shaken girl recovered Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11519731.post-1141107389978991102006-02-26T22:10:00.000-08:002006-02-27T22:16:30.333-08:00Phoney Baloney!February 26, 1947Seattle, WARemember Eugene White, the businessman who disappeared on Valentine's Eve, leaving his coat, wallet, bloodstained car and gifts for the Missus? Police speculated he'd been robbed, beaten and tossed into a passing freight car, but it turns out he's fine and well, and camped out with a pal in Seattle. It was the wife of that friend, Jay Stevens, who convinced White to Unknownnoreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11519731.post-1140941359182589282006-02-26T00:05:00.000-08:002006-02-26T00:09:19.376-08:00May-December Indian ClubsFebruary 25, 1947Los AngelesJuggling-act partners Elizabeth Reinke, 25, and Walter Beemer, 77, married in 1943 and divorced in 1946, stepped into judge's chambers today to re-knot their troth. The lady explained, "It was not the same after our divorce. We both worried. It once caused him to drop an Indian club on my foot." We hope the pair have many happy years ahead of them, with no broken toes Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11519731.post-1140940800938221642006-02-24T23:51:00.000-08:002006-02-26T00:04:36.753-08:00Fat 'n' SassyFebruary 24, 1947ComptonLittle Patti Sue Roeder, stricken with polio before she turned two, has become the pet of the Textile Association of Los Angeles. The group vowed to donate the child's weight in ten cent pieces to the March of Dimes. When she stepped onto the scale today, it read 33 pounds... and while the TALA had raised 37 pounds of coinage, they decided to let the difference slide. The Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11519731.post-1140664899052029802006-02-22T19:16:00.000-08:002006-02-22T19:21:39.336-08:00Another victimFebruary 22, 1947Los AngelesTen hours after the plating factory explosion on East Pico Blvd., 20-year-old Charles Batye turned on a machine at the creamery at 1120 Towne Avenue and was badly injured when a shard of glass, a by-product of the explosion, flew out and hit him in the left eye.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11519731.post-1140586635778744432006-02-21T21:26:00.000-08:002006-02-21T21:37:16.113-08:00A New Club Dedicated To Historic SoCal Dining LoreA message from our pal Jonathon at the essential L.A. Time Machines site, who is speaking at this March 18 event:The group we are forming will focus on Los Angeles Restaurant History in general, with an emphasis on restaurant memorabilia collectors, writers on restaurant history and the oral history of classic restaurant employees and owners. Scheduled to speak at our first meeting are Jim Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11519731.post-1140576843798900542006-02-21T18:28:00.000-08:002006-02-21T18:54:04.133-08:00A Terrible BlastFebruary 21, 1947Los AngelesThe city continues to reel under the horrific impact of yesterday's chemical explosion at the O'Connor Electro-Plating Company, 926 E. Pico Blvd., which leveled the factory, damaged 116 homes, injured hundreds and killed more than a dozen persons.City officials scattered rat poison around the blast site to deter vermin, while others condemned the contents of local Unknownnoreply@blogger.com1