1947, a bloody wonderful year

Having been born in the year 1947 at the old Cedars of Lebanon Hospital in Hollywood (now the site of the Scientology headquarters) and living at my first home on Wilton Place just north of Melrose (now the site of a drug and alcohol rehab hospital, I believe), I found your piece on crime in L.A. that year to be quite interesting [“Perfect Year for a Slay Ride,” by Cindy Chang, Jan. 26].

For people like myself, who were born and grew up in Los Angeles and did not come here for a screen test or wild times, it was just plain home, just as home was for a kid growing up in Muncie, Ind. I just took for granted that all of the stuff I read about in the Hollywood Citizen News that I delivered to doorsteps from my bike every afternoon, like the saga of Mickey Cohen and his girlfriend, Candy Barr, or all the weird murder cases, was normal everyday life.

DOUG WEISKOPF

Burbank