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From the December 1, 1935 issue of the Los Angeles Times: Head: New Tunnel Plans ReadySub: Third Street Job Verdict NearDeck Specifications for proposed WPA Structure Would Doom Angels Flight Hailed as a great stride in the march of progress being made by the Los Angeles of 1900, the Third Street tunnel has fallen into …
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Transcript Tuesday, August 25th, 2026, 9:08am. I’m on my way from my dentist who I travel an inordinate distance to visit for my biannual checkups. He’s in Newbury Park, roughly 40 miles up the 101 Freeway from me. Wasn’t always this way. Until a couple years ago he maintained a second office in the Miracle …
At my Grandma’s house in Alabama I mentioned visting as a child in the previous post, once was when I was 7 years old, which would make it 1971. One hot night my grandma and neighbor Hoyt came out from inside the house where the heat and humidity was decidedly more intolerable. I was sitting …
My Uncle Doug who died in 2013 willed me 13 acres of the family’s land in Alabama. My mother has a 9-acre triangle, the two separated by another family member’s. Upon Uncle Doug’s parcel was my grandma’s house where I stayed a couple summers as a child. The last time I was at the property …
The story of the blue fox was told to me by my mother. The story of the blue fox takes place entirely at the funeral of her beloved Aunt Nellie, who died September 12, 1950, one day after turning 76 and seven days before my mother turned 20. She said she first saw the blue …
The legend of The Phantom Helmsman has it that the ghost of a Helms Bakery delivery driver has been haunting these Los Angeles streets since 1940 when he was killed after the brakes of his truck failed coming down the infamously steep grade of Baxter Street in Echo Park. Some insist the tragedy resulted from …
The screenshot below annotated with key moments in the strange, short, very slow and entirely miraculous journey shows the intersection of Washington Boulevard (running east/west) and Redondo Boulevard (north/south). Backstory: One of our patrol cars, a Crown Victoria paid a visit to the mechanic’s this week, towed there on Tuesday for a busted fuel pump. …
