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Bunker Hill: A Hotbed of Spiritualist Fraud!
spiritualism, Harry Houdini, undercover investigations, fraud, Lankershim Building200 BlockOn October 16, 1924, Los Angeles Times reporter Charles Sloan took rooms at the Alexandria Hotel under the...
View ArticleVan Fleet Apartments - 230 South Flower Street
suicide, gas, gunplay, rent, costs, poetry200 BlockHere was the Van Fleet, a three-story frame apartment house built in 1911 by Garrett & Bixby for citrus man Nelson Van Fleet. The 29 apartments...
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The Marcella — 223 South Flower Street
fire, gun, jealousy, spiritualism, fraud, Barbara Graham, arson, The MarcellaFlower Street, 200 BlockToday we discuss The Marcella, who once flaunted her classical order on Flower (she is Italian,...
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The St. Regis – 237 South Flower
fire, robbery, arson, kidnaping, abductionFlower Street, 200 BlockSay “mother fixation” and dollars to donuts you mean, or are taken to mean, a fixation on your mother. Mrs. Emma Rupe was fixated on...
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Women and Whisky
accidental death, bar fights200 BlockThe scene was a bar at 822 West Third Street, the players, a group of hard-drinking Bunker Hill regulars, but the story would turn tragic on July 22, 1956. Harold...
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Fry Cook Killer
murder, kidnapping, Stanley Apartments200 Block It was a quiet February day in Seattle, Washington when Frank Lindsay ended the argument that he was having with his wife Audrey by bashing her over the...
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The Old Switcheroo
CRA, robbery, assault, Stanley ApartmentsFlower Street, 200 Block May 6, 1915. Mr. H. J. Robinson, of 210 South Flower, met long-time acquaintance Ernest Lightfoot at another house Robinson owned at...
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Keep them Medical Advancements Rollin
LAPD, gun, shooting, bar, bar fights, medicine, surgeryFlower Street, 200 Block Thomas Major Jr., 34, a logger by profession, down from Vancouver to take in the town. He was in the barroom at the...
View ArticleA Drive Through Bunker Hill and Downtown Los Angeles, ca. 1940s
film, stock footage, driving, 1940s, internet archive200 Block , 200 Block, 200 Block, 300 Block, 400 Block, 100 Block An amazing discovery from the good folks at the Internet Archive. Visit the Off...
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