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Mary Mallory / Hollywood Heights: Do Something for Uncle Sam
“Do Something” via the Library of Congress. One hundred years ago on July 28, 1914, World War I erupted after Austria-Hungary fired the first shots invading Serbia in response to Yugoslav nationalist...
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Mary Mallory / Hollywood Heights: Garden Court Apartments Offer Luxurious...
A postcard of the Garden Court Apartments, listed on EBay as Buy It Now for $9.99. For decades, the elegant Garden Court Apartments represented high-class living for both aspiring and successful...
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Mystery Film of Los Angeles [Updated]
Photo: Nathan Marsak tests the latest Ford. Curbed LA’s link to this 1917 Ford travelogue on Los Angeles has been passed around until I finally saw it. How many of these locations do you recognize?...
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Found on EBay – Mullen & Bluett
This 1917 postcard from Mullen & Bluett advertising Straw Hat Day has been listed on EBay. For many years, menswear stores in Los Angeles promoted Straw Hat Day or Straw Hat Week at the beginning...
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Mary Mallory / Hollywood Heights: Charlie Chaplin Comes to Hollywood
Oct. 16, 1917: An architect’s rendering of Chaplin’s studios in The Times Ninety-five years ago, comedian Charlie Chaplin constructed the first beautiful studio lot in Hollywood, the first to offer...
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Mary Mallory / Hollywood Heights —‘Spirit of ’76’ as Propaganda
A still from the lost film “Spirit of ‘76” from Moving Picture World. The United States’ Espionage Act was ratified in 1917 to punish those abetting the enemy, promoting military insubordination, or...
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Mary Mallory / Hollywood Heights — The Fall of the Romanoffs Documents...
Before CNN, the worldwide web, and the 24-hour news cycle, most persons received their only news of outside world and national events through newspapers. Most cities possessed multiple newspapers...
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Mary Mallory / Hollywood Heights: ‘Mothers of Men’ Promotes Women’s Causes
An image from the teaser for “Mothers of Men,” courtesy of mothersfilm.com. At the turn of the twentieth century, women had few rights anywhere in the world. They were basically considered the...
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Mary Mallory / Hollywood Heights: Garden Court Apartments Offer Luxurious...
A postcard of the Garden Court Apartments, listed on EBay as Buy It Now for $9.99. Note: This is an encore post from 2014 For decades, the elegant Garden Court Apartments represented high-class living...
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Mary Mallory / Hollywood Heights: Charlie Chaplin Comes to Hollywood
Oct. 16, 1917: An architect’s rendering of Chaplin’s studios in The Times Note: This is an encore post from 2013. Ninety-five years ago, comedian Charlie Chaplin constructed the first beautiful studio...
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March 20, 1907: St. James Raises a Church — Burned in 1973 as Hate Crime...
Note: This is an encore post from 2006. The Methodist Episcopal congregation, formed from a merger of the Centennial and Central churches, planned a wonderful new building at 22nd Street and Union....
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Black Dahlia: George Hodel Boy Genius, and Rachmaninoff
Do you love research? Of course you do or you wouldn’t be reading the Daily Mirror. But do you love research about the Hodel family? Possibly not. I’m going to delve into a bit of Dr. George Hodel’s...
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Black Dahlia: George Hodel and Rachmaninoff – A Meeting That Never Occurred
So here we have a passing mention of piano prodigy George Hodel, age 9, meeting Sergei Rachmaninoff “accompanied by the Russian minister of culture.” I’m particularly interested in this line because...
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