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Movieland Mystery Photo [Updated]
[Update: This is Carrie Finnell. Please congratulate Dewey Webb for identifying her. Finnell (d. 1963) was a famous stripteuse of the 1920s and ‘30s who invented the art of tassel twirling with her...
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Found on EBay – The Follies Burlesque
This photo of dancers at the Follies Burlesque on Main Street has been listed on EBay. The vendor hasn’t identified the source of the picture or the dancers’ names, but says it dates to the 1950s....
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L.A. Detectives Meet New York Mobster’s Plane at Burbank Airport
Nov. 8, 1941: Waxey Gordon, whose real name was Irving Wexler (d. 1952, Alcatraz), lands at Lockheed Air Terminal (now Burbank Airport), where he is greeted by detectives from the district attorney’s...
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Battle of the Coral Sea, 1942
May 9, 1942: Allied forces fight the first what would be six major aircraft carrier battles with the Japanese, the next being the Battle of Midway. On the jump, a war map by Times artist Charles...
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Found on EBay – Follies Burlesque Theater
This photo of the Follies Burlesque on Main Street has been listed on EBay. Bidding starts at $22.99.
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Mary Mallory / Hollywood Heights: Gypsy Rose Lee and ‘The G-String Murders’
Photo: Barbara Stanwyck in “Lady of Burlesque.” This post has been corrected. See note below for details. While being tops in your field can be exciting, an ambitious or intellectually curious person...
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Death Rolls the Dice in Friends’ Fatal Craps Game
Oct. 12, 1942: Walter Miller, a 31-year-old lumberyard foreman, and his friend Eddie “Red” Phillips, a 32-year-old mechanic, were shooting dice in the living room of Phillips’ home, 1442 E. 59th St.,...
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Feuding Women Sentenced to 90 Days in Same Jail Cell
Oct. 24, 1942: Yetta Furst of 2208 Sheridan St. and Anna Rubenstein of 2214 Sheridan St. had been feuding for 20 years and had been charged with disturbing the peace. Municipal Judge Ida May Adams...
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Found on EBay – Follies Burlesque
This photo of an unidentified dancer at the Follies Burlesque Theatre in Los Angeles has been listed on EBay. Bidding starts at $18.95.
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Stripper Discharged From Waacs Was Out of Uniform – and Everything Else
Dec. 15, 1942: Some restaurants close for lack of butter, meat and sugar due to wartime food rationing. And people rush to the Pike amusement park in Long Beach after rumors that it had plenty of...
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Streetcar Strike Could Paralyze Los Angeles!
July 24, 1943: Labor problems threaten to paralyze mass transportation in Los Angeles. The Times says that 3,000 Los Angeles Railway workers have ended a 24-hour walkout while 2,500 Pacific Electric...
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Tempest Storm at the Follies Burlesque
An undated photo of the famous Tempest Storm at the Follies Burlesque in Los Angeles – which reveals more than I am showing here – has been listed on EBay. Bidding starts at $17.95.
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Escaped Soldier Denies Attacking Former Screen Star
Sept. 11, 1943: The Times features the Los Angeles Times-Army Ordnance in Action Show being held at Exposition Park. The Times promised that “visitors will see the massive 32-ton Gen. Sherman tanks...
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Bandit 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...
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Movieland Mystery Photo [Updated]
[Update: This is Carrie Finnell. Please congratulate Dewey Webb for identifying her. Finnell (d. 1963) was a famous stripteuse of the 1920s and ‘30s who invented the art of tassel twirling with her...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Found on EBay – The Follies Burlesque
This photo of dancers at the Follies Burlesque on Main Street has been listed on EBay. The vendor hasn’t identified the source of the picture or the dancers’ names, but says it dates to the 1950s....
View ArticleClik here to view.
L.A. Detectives Meet New York Mobster’s Plane at Burbank Airport
Nov. 8, 1941: Waxey Gordon, whose real name was Irving Wexler (d. 1952, Alcatraz), lands at Lockheed Air Terminal (now Burbank Airport), where he is greeted by detectives from the district attorney’s...
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Battle of the Coral Sea, 1942
May 9, 1942: Allied forces fight the first what would be six major aircraft carrier battles with the Japanese, the next being the Battle of Midway. On the jump, a war map by Times artist Charles...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Found on EBay – Follies Burlesque Theater
This photo of the Follies Burlesque on Main Street has been listed on EBay. Bidding starts at $22.99.
View ArticleClik here to view.
Mary Mallory / Hollywood Heights: Gypsy Rose Lee and ‘The G-String Murders’
Photo: Barbara Stanwyck in “Lady of Burlesque.” This post has been corrected. See note below for details. While being tops in your field can be exciting, an ambitious or intellectually curious person...
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