N.R.A. Frees Workers to Visit the Library
August 1933: In my journey through years ending in “3,” I have neglected 1933, when the National Recovery Act took effect Aug. 1. President Roosevelt’s plan was to put people back to work by raising...
View ArticleMan Kills Wife and Daughter, Commits Suicide Over Pink Bedroom
Sept. 4, 1933: A streetcar broadsides an auto at the crossing on Olympic Boulevard between Broadway and Figueroa, killing two people and leaving two others near death, The Times said. A man fatally...
View ArticleBandit Killed, LAPD Officers Wounded in Burlesque Theater Shootout
Sept. 18, 1933: Jack Keating, 30, and John Melvin Early, 35, had a plan to rob the Girlesque Theater at 510 S. Main St., but when the shooting was over, Keating was dead and Early and two men who...
View ArticleWoman in Stolen Car Shoots Gun at LAPD Officers
Sept. 25, 1933: How did the Los Angeles Public Library fare in the Great Depression? Here are some answers. The library was forced to make painful cutbacks due to a 24% drop in tax revenue, including...
View ArticlePROHIBITION ENDS!
The Times marks the end of Prohibition with a front page cartoon by Edmund Waller “Ted” Gale, who quit in 1934 and went to the Examiner in a dispute over The Times’ editorial policies. Dec. 5, 1933:...
View ArticleFarewell to Old Los Angeles
The old Plaza area as drawn by Times artist Charles Owens. Along with the demolition to make way for Union Station, historic buildings between the Plaza and Union Station were torn down in February...
View ArticleFact-Checking ‘City of Nets’— Uh-Oh
Back in the 1990s, when I began scrounging and scouring for everything I could find on Los Angeles in the 1940s in my research on the Black Dahlia case, I got a copy of Otto Friedrich’s 1986 book...
View ArticleMary Mallory / Hollywood Heights: ‘The Road Is Open Again’ Promotes Optimism
“The Road Is Open Again,” via YouTube. In times of adversity and challenge, catchy songs or phrases have captured Americans’ imaginations, rallying spirits and action. Though written in 1929, the...
View ArticleFeb. 2, 1933: James M. Cain Writes Appreciation of Ice Cream Truck Driver...
Note: This is an encore post from 2005 and originally appeared on the 1947project. “Red” Shay, 26, was riding with his girlfriend, Nancy Reed, in the rumble seat a car driven by his roommate, L.W....
View ArticleJohn Fante file
Aug. 8, 1933 The Los Angeles Examiner scooped The Times on John Fante. Read the story from Aug. 7, 1933. Thanks to Richard Schave.
View ArticleThe Drunkard
I found this program from "The Drunkard" in a scrapbook that I bought years ago and rediscovered while unpacking a box of books today. "The Drunkard" was one of the most popular and long-running...
View ArticleMovieland Mystery Photo (Updated + + + +)
This week’s mystery movie was the 1933 (copyright 1934) Universal picture “Counsellor at Law,” with John Barrymore, Bebe Daniels, Doris Kenyon, Isabel Jewell, Melvyn Douglas, Onslow Stevens, Thelma...
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This week’s mystery movie was the 1933 film “The Death Kiss,” with David Manners, Adrienne Ames, Bela Lugosi, John Wray, Vince Barnett, Alexander Carr, Edward Van Sloan, Harold Minjir, Barbara...
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This week’s mystery movie was the 1933 Universal picture The Kiss Before the Mirror, with Nancy Carroll, Frank Morgan, Paul Lukas, Gloria Stuart, Jean Dixon, Donald Cook, Charles Grapewin, Walter...
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This week’s mystery movie was the 1933 RKO picture Topaze, with John Barrymore, Myrna Loy, Reginald Mason, Jobyna Howland, Jackie Searl, Albert Conti, Frank Reicher and Luis Alberni. Screenplay by Ben...
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This week’s mystery movie was the 1933 Universal picture Secret of the Blue Room, with Lionel Atwill, Gloria Stuart, Paul Lukas, Edward Arnold, Onslow Stevens, William Janney, Robert Barrat, Muriel...
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