Blog with daily LA crime reports from 1947 - Beyond Tiki

T thejab Grand Member (1 year) Tradewinds Apartments, Alameda, CA Joined: Mar 25, 2002 Posts: 2992	T thejab Posted posted on Mon, Jun 6, 2005 11:34 AM Ever wonder where they get all the good stories for 1940s noir films? From actual events. The Black Dahlia case was just one of many similar crimes in LA in the post war years. Check out this fascinating blog: http://1947project.blogspot.com/
AC Atomic Cocktail Tiki Socialite Land O' The Next Big One-L.A. Joined: Jun 25, 2002 Posts: 929	AC Atomic Cocktail Posted posted on Thu, Jun 9, 2005 1:59 PM I've got a stack of over 100 L.A. newspapers from 1942-45. It's amazing how many woman were beaten, children left in hot cars, suicides and divorces, Also, folks back then sure seemed to like Bourbon. Ahhh, the good ol' days!
T thejab Grand Member (1 year) Tradewinds Apartments, Alameda, CA Joined: Mar 25, 2002 Posts: 2992	T thejab Posted posted on Fri, Jun 10, 2005 2:04 PM Wednesday's installment was so good, I have to share it. Woman's Shoe Foils Kidnapping June 8, 1947 Corner of Bixel & 7th Streets, Los Angeles Nice girls know the difference between a tavern and an automobile. So when Mrs. Deloris Keefer, 24, of 725 S. Bixel Street was propositioned by a fella who suggested she stop waiting for her hubby and hop into his car for a little tipple, she said nope. The would-be barkeep was insistent, though, and grabbed and choked the lady. This so irked Deloris that she slipped off one shapely pump (a dainty size 5 ½, for those keeping score) and laid into to the stinker. He grabbed the shoe away from her, in the process dropping some identifying papers. There was no way Deloris was letting a perfectly good shoe run off with a masher, so she snatched it away as the befuddled fink took a motorized powder. Police used the ID to track down Samuel J. Blight, 22, of 122 43rd Street, Manhattan Beach, and his pal Raymond M. Johnson, 20, of 6121 Citrus Avenue, both of whom are sitting in County Jail on suspicion of attempted kidnapping. Deloris Keefer remained shod at press time.

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thejab Posted posted on Mon, Jun 6, 2005 11:34 AM

Ever wonder where they get all the good stories for 1940s noir films? From actual events. The Black Dahlia case was just one of many similar crimes in LA in the post war years. Check out this fascinating blog:

http://1947project.blogspot.com/

AC

Atomic Cocktail Posted posted on Thu, Jun 9, 2005 1:59 PM

I've got a stack of over 100 L.A. newspapers from 1942-45. It's amazing how many woman were beaten, children left in hot cars, suicides and divorces, Also, folks back then sure seemed to like Bourbon.

Ahhh, the good ol' days!

T

thejab Posted posted on Fri, Jun 10, 2005 2:04 PM

Wednesday's installment was so good, I have to share it.

Woman's Shoe Foils Kidnapping
June 8, 1947
Corner of Bixel & 7th Streets, Los Angeles

Nice girls know the difference between a tavern and an automobile. So when Mrs. Deloris Keefer, 24, of 725 S. Bixel Street was propositioned by a fella who suggested she stop waiting for her hubby and hop into his car for a little tipple, she said nope.

The would-be barkeep was insistent, though, and grabbed and choked the lady. This so irked Deloris that she slipped off one shapely pump (a dainty size 5 ½, for those keeping score) and laid into to the stinker. He grabbed the shoe away from her, in the process dropping some identifying papers. There was no way Deloris was letting a perfectly good shoe run off with a masher, so she snatched it away as the befuddled fink took a motorized powder.

Police used the ID to track down Samuel J. Blight, 22, of 122 43rd Street, Manhattan Beach, and his pal Raymond M. Johnson, 20, of 6121 Citrus Avenue, both of whom are sitting in County Jail on suspicion of attempted kidnapping. Deloris Keefer remained shod at press time.