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Death At the Imperial Hotel: 350 South Figueroa
November 16, 1931 This morning, Gene Bowman, 15, and his brother Earl, 22, decided to sleep late after their mother departed for work. In the apartment directly beneath them, R.V. Darby, the Mayor of...
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The 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 J. McAnally of 230 South Flower (the...
View ArticleHe Rode Into the Sunset
February 14, 1924 62-year-old John Byrne, a character actor who typically played the role of the grizzled old sourdough in films, was found dead in his room at 509 Temple Street, a boarding house....
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