More L.A. Then and Now stories
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The changing downtown landscape as captured by two photographers shooting from the observation deck nearly six decades apart
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The extensive grounds were used as the nation’s largest assembly center to house about 19,000 Japanese Americans before they were relocated to camps.
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A TV producer tells of apparitions and strange happenings at former showbiz hangout Ciro’s, now the Comedy Store. Apparitions are said to haunt hotels and the Queen Mary as well.
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There’s plenty of Hollywood money -- and history -- packed along that fabled sandy stretch of Malibu.
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The red neon letters spelling ‘Outpost’ mark the original birthplace of Hollywood as a performers’ town.
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The Bixby Park facility was a popular gathering spot for decades, notably for Iowa reunion picnics. It had fallen into disrepair after being damaged in a 2005 windstorm.
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Nellie May Madison was sentenced to death for killing her husband, until she revealed abuse.
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Angela Copeland is fascinated by the 1928 slaying of her grandfather’s first wife
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The cavalryman played a key but mostly unsung role in the frontier’s settlement.
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The worst mother-in-law in California was also the last woman to be executed in the state, in 1962.
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Indomitable saxophonist Peggy Gilbert got the beat back in the 1920s, when Louis Armstrong, Jelly Roll Morton, Duke Ellington and the Kansas City Nighthawks were wowing Jazz Age dance crowds.
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The man credited with creating the forerunner of the movie projector killed his wife’s lover. But lawyers won an acquittal.
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Belle Martell lost her license soon after she got it in 1940. Hall of fame will induct her posthumously.
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First in a series of occasional stories.
