LA Noir Feed Feed Informer http://feed.informer.com/images/fd.gif http://feed.informer.com/ http://app.feed.informer.com/digest3/MB0TAXN45L.html Respective post owners and feed distributors http://feed.informer.com/ On March 13, 2006, 1947project completed its mission to spend one year documenting the offbeat and criminal history of 1947 Los Angeles. You've found our archive site.Come explore our other time travel blogs:1947project.com (1907 and 1927 Los Angeles crimes)On Bunker Hill, a lost neighborhood found In SRO Land, lost lore of the historic core Or climb aboard the Esotouric bus to discover the http://1947project.blogspot.com/2006/03/welcome-to-our-old-house-feel-free-to.html 1947project http://1947project.blogspot.com/2006/03/welcome-to-our-old-house-feel-free-to.html? Thu, 16 Mar 2006 15:07 GMT Esotouric bus adventures mailing list1947project online store http://1947project.blogspot.com/2006/03/all-aboard.html 1947project http://1947project.blogspot.com/2006/03/all-aboard.html? Wed, 15 Mar 2006 19:33 GMT March 13, 1947Los AngelesDetectives questioned James Joseph Tiernan Jr., 30, tonight about his movements Monday night, both before and after the time he claimed that Evelyn Winters, 42, left his hotel room at 912 W. Sixth Street. Winters turned up dead just after midnight Tuesday in the railyard at Ducommun Street, her clothes in disarray, with a blood alcohol level of .28, a nearly fatal http://1947project.blogspot.com/2006/03/police-grill-pin-boy-in-winters-whack.html 1947project http://1947project.blogspot.com/2006/03/police-grill-pin-boy-in-winters-whack.html? Tue, 14 Mar 2006 01:23 GMT 1947—a lot of women-killing, a lot of booze. It’s enough to turn one into a teetotaling sub. Almost.And here, a woman killing herself. With booze. Nowadays, her family would call up A&E and she’d be on Intervention. Perfect fodder for the show—someone: somewhere once, nowhere now. Our identified family member has hit bottom. Get them into treatment. God, give me the strength to blame those http://1947project.blogspot.com/2006/03/winters-of-our-discontent.html 1947project http://1947project.blogspot.com/2006/03/winters-of-our-discontent.html? Tue, 14 Mar 2006 01:11 GMT March 12, 1947WhittierSheriff's deputies have obtained a confession from shaggy-haired Myron Funk, 23, in the shocking slaying of Mae Lorena Lund, the 46-year-old ladyfriend of Funk's father Frank (aka Hardrock).Lund's strangled body was found in the shallows of the San Gabriel River in Norwalk, several miles from her home at 115 Burton Street, Bellflower. Funk admitted that he had returned http://1947project.blogspot.com/2006/03/down-by-river.html 1947project http://1947project.blogspot.com/2006/03/down-by-river.html? Sun, 12 Mar 2006 16:07 GMT We take for granted all that easily obtainable marihuana of our teens, and that ever-so-precious peyote gobbled in our twenties, and all this easily obtainable Xanax of our thirties; back in the day, there was just booze. You didn’t have to go cop, and everything you did score had rigorous quality control. Your only worry was making sure you got to Manny’s Grog n’ Groc before the Tick Tock http://1947project.blogspot.com/2006/03/bring-us-funk.html 1947project http://1947project.blogspot.com/2006/03/bring-us-funk.html? Sun, 12 Mar 2006 13:54 GMT Oh, you delightful sickniks! After tabulating the votes for the next Crime Bus date, I see that the majority of respondents have asked for the tour to roll on Easter Sunday, 4/16.And so it shall. If you would like a seat on the Easter Sunday Crime Bus tour, featuring strange and horrible tales from the history of downtown Los Angeles, please visit this site to purchase through paypal.You may also http://1947project.blogspot.com/2006/03/easter-sunday-nightmares-of-bunker.html 1947project http://1947project.blogspot.com/2006/03/easter-sunday-nightmares-of-bunker.html? Sun, 12 Mar 2006 13:31 GMT Henceforth you will find us at our own URL, 1947project.com.Our RSS feed will be published exclusively through feedburner.And a whole new adventure begins... http://1947project.blogspot.com/2006/03/1947project-is-moving-house-on-tuesday.html 1947project http://1947project.blogspot.com/2006/03/1947project-is-moving-house-on-tuesday.html? Sun, 12 Mar 2006 13:14 GMT March 11, 1947Los AngelesA shiny new dime glinted brieflyat the bottom of a hole at East 58th Street and Naomi Ave. before being topped by a trolley pole, the first of many to planted as part of a new electrical trackless trolley system.B.M. (Barney) Larrick, L.A. Transit Lines operating manager, dropped the dime as a symbolic good luck offering to the new coach route which, once it opens on June http://1947project.blogspot.com/2006/03/lucky-dime-do-not-disturb.html 1947project http://1947project.blogspot.com/2006/03/lucky-dime-do-not-disturb.html? Sat, 11 Mar 2006 15:26 GMT March 10, 1947Los AngelesJames Edwards, 57-year-old busboy in a Broadway cafeteria, is one of those folks who doesn't trust banks. He's been saving for many years with the dream of owning his own home.This morning, near East Second and Los Angeles Streets, a robber clouted him over the head and emptied his wallet. When checked into the Georgia Street Receiving Hospital, Edwards still wore his http://1947project.blogspot.com/2006/03/not-quite-cleaned-out.html 1947project http://1947project.blogspot.com/2006/03/not-quite-cleaned-out.html? Sat, 11 Mar 2006 00:54 GMT Lucky Jim Edwards. He had been watched over, from the southwest, by the kindly St. Vibiana’s (Kyzor/Mathews, 1876). 58 years later, he would have been less well looked after from the northwest by the breathtakingly BorgCube Caltrans VII building (Thom Mayne/Morphosis, 2005), its 216,000sf having turned its back to the action. http://1947project.blogspot.com/2006/03/e-2nd-and-los-angeles-to-day.html 1947project http://1947project.blogspot.com/2006/03/e-2nd-and-los-angeles-to-day.html? Sat, 11 Mar 2006 00:48 GMT Gentle riders,The 1947project bloggers have been hard at work, uncovering some of themost ghastly tales ever to unfold in the great central heart of ourcity. In April, you can discover these horrors on a little bus tourwe're calling Nightmares of Bunker Hill.To give us a sense of how much demand there is for seats, we ask yourassistance. If you would be interested in attending this tour, http://1947project.blogspot.com/2006/03/april-crime-bus-tour-nightmares-of.html 1947project http://1947project.blogspot.com/2006/03/april-crime-bus-tour-nightmares-of.html? Sat, 11 Mar 2006 00:42 GMT March 9, 1947Santa AnaFlummoxed partway through the ride home to El Toro Marine Base, when the Negro cabbie suggested he come up front and take the wheel as he was feeling sleepy, Patrick Crawford accomodated the snoring driver by delivering him straight to the Santa Ana cops. It was a good instinct on the young Marine's part: investigation revealed that sleepy Mervin Wilturner, 21, was likely http://1947project.blogspot.com/2006/03/taxi-driver.html 1947project http://1947project.blogspot.com/2006/03/taxi-driver.html? Fri, 10 Mar 2006 00:09 GMT March 8, 1947AlhambraWhile busting Robert Chelsea Putter, 49, on a forgery charge, officers made a delightful discovery. Putter had written an 18-page booklet instructing would-be forgers on the rules of the trade. Unfortunately, he had neglected to follow his own advice, and landed in the pokey.The specific rules not followed? "When you don't succeed in passing a check, get out of town but fast. http://1947project.blogspot.com/2006/03/those-who-cant-do-teach.html 1947project http://1947project.blogspot.com/2006/03/those-who-cant-do-teach.html? Wed, 08 Mar 2006 12:22 GMT March 7, 1947Portland, ORIn the course of fining a driver who admitted to driving 38mph in a 20mph zone, Judge J.J. Quillin quipped that he admired the fellow's forbearance, for he was the first California driver he'd ever known to drive under 50! http://1947project.blogspot.com/2006/03/har-de-har-har.html 1947project http://1947project.blogspot.com/2006/03/har-de-har-har.html? 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