L.A. crime news from long ago

[Fletch]

The Daily Mirror blog recounts nasty happenings in lotusland from an "as it happened" perspective: the Los Angeles Times of 100, 70, and 50 years ago. (Why 70 and not 75, I don't know.)

The beat is crime and police reporting, but you'll also find overviews of contemporary culture in ads and short features along the way.

Good stuff for some of us - altho our SoCal FL crowd is wide awake enough, someone's probably posted about it already. If so, excuse please.

http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/thedailymirror/

 

[BegintheBeguine]

Thanks, Fletch!
Somehow visiting that site that made me want to eat a hot dog.

 

[BegintheBeguine]

lol lol Thank you. Aren't you kind?
I'm reading Crime Wave by James Ellroy so that site fits right in.

 

[LordJohnRoxton]

I grew up hearing stories of the old Los Angeles.... Mickey Cohen, Joe Stampanatto, and all... thanks for the link!

 

[Miss Neecerie]

Good stuff for some of us - altho our SoCal FL crowd is wide awake enough, someone's probably posted about it already. If so, excuse please.

http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/thedailymirror/

I have indeed posted this before....but since we know no one listens....good job on posting it again, its one of my daily visited sites.

 

[Mike in Seattle]

There's also similar on the LA Times. I was Googling Johnny Stompanato just yesterday for something a friend was looking for and found the Times blog and there were loads & loads & loads of photos, copies of Times & other articles and so forth.

 

[Miss Neecerie]

Mike,

The Daily Mirror is part of the LA times site...



Its one of their many blogs.....

Another great LA based site is http://www.1947project.com/

and their -new- blog called http://www.onbunkerhill.org/ which does not cover just crime, but more the people and places of this 'lost' LA neighbourhood.

 

[Mike in Seattle]

Thanks for the update, m'dear!

 

[Fletch]

their -new- blog called http://www.onbunkerhill.org/ which does not cover just crime, but more the people and places of this 'lost' LA neighbourhood.

Anybody ever see the suppressed remake of M (1951)? It was shot entirely in Bunker Hill - one of the few films noirs that takes place entirely in broad daylight.

David Wayne as the sicko at his mob "trial."
A surprisingly good remake which alluded so strongly to the media witch hunts of those days that it got several of its principals, including director Joseph Losey, kicked clean out of the industry.

 

[ScionPI2005]

It's probably my criminologists' roots, but I find looking at old newspapers of crime from earlier days really fun. Thanks for posting that.

 

[ShoreRoadLady]

Very nice! Thanks for sharing the link.

*sigh* The only problem with old papers being so accessible is that I can barely get through today's news, let alone news from fifty years ago!