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Dome Wrap-Up
After our initial report on The Dome, we promised there’d be more, and there was—the Little BGirl Who Could, a couple of jumpers, a self-slashing Simons pilferer, even the owner of the Dome itself, who...
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Bunker Hill Tackles L.A.'s Traffic Problem
In January 1924, inventor Raymond Ragsdell of 202 South Grand wrote a letter to the Los Angeles Traffic Commission about his idea for a collapsible car that would fold down to the size of a go-cart....
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Location: 220 South Grand Avenue Date: June 18, 1929It is a thirsty Bunker Hill that laments the arrest of the bright and brainy Shirley Winters, 23-year-old resident of 220 South Grand, on suspicion...
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CRA Relocation Offices - 232 South Grand Avenue
By the spring of 1968 only three of the great mansions on Bunker Hill were still standing. The Castle (325 South Bunker Hill Ave) and Salt Box (339 South Bunker Hill Ave) were soon to be moved to...
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Of Munsters and Bunker Hill
They were eastern European immigrants, utterly integrated into the ways of American society. They were doting, loving parents; rarely does television depict such a highly functional family. They were...
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The Nugent/New Grand Hotel – 257 South Grand
One cannot help but be enamored of the Nugent. Maybe it’s the big spooky tower. Maybe it’s the Nugent’s corner site at Third Street and Grand Avenue...3rd & Grand just purrs off the tongue, which...
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The Musical Cure and the Dead Girl - 240 South Grand
Location: 240 South Grand Avenue Date: September 14, 1904For about a year, from summer 1902 to spring 1903, Broadway strollers might hear exquisite sounds of healing emerging from the windows at 529...
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A Poor Choice
The Holy Trinity of Noir: the Tough Hood, the Tougher Cop, and the Dame. The Dame—in peril, and perilous to know.Tonight’s tale takes this Trinitarian shape, but contains, oddly, but two players. Our...
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Love(joy) and Death — 529 W. Third
1947project readers may remember this addition that King of Historians Larry Harnisch made to the blog back in its earliest incarnation. It’s the story of Gerald Richards, and, because you can read the...
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