Archive for November 2017
The Gentleman, The Cowboy and The Bracero: Los Feliz Elementary School 1949
November 19, 2017 Los Angeles It was the second to the last day of April, 1949, a Friday. A light rain was falling on the streets of Hollywood, as the Gentleman, the Cowboy and the Bracero each readied himself for the picture taking. It was mid-morning when each gathered with their separate classmates at Los…
Read More"Waking the Echos of the Spot" Dorothy Huston Hodel and Two Childhood Memories
November 14, 2017 Los Angeles, California Kelvin, Michael, Steven Hodel circa 1944 Dorothy Huston Hodel (Man Ray 1944) One of my strongest childhood memory’s remains a song that our mother sang to us at bedtime. Not…
Read MoreLos Angeles Times Lists 2017 Top Three Haunted "Murder Homes": "Black Dahlia Sowden House," "Menendez Brothers Home" and Phil Spectors "'Pyrenees Castle"
November 12, 2017 Los Angeles, California I’ve heard of the FBI’s “Top Ten Most Wanted” and the “Top Twenty Most Watched Classic Films” even Forbes’s “Top Fifty U.S. Colleges” but the “Top Three Haunted Homes” was new to me. I hadn’t seen this Los Angeles Times article, May 2, 2017 “Hot Properties” article. Had you?…
Read MoreAnother Black Dahlia Portrait at Harvard's Fogg Museum? Part II- Mystery Solved?- Lithograph Possibly Juliet "Julie" Man Ray
November 7, 2017 Los Angeles, California Thanks to the Eagle Eyes of my good friend, Robert “Dr. Watson” Sadler, retired Dallas 5-0 police officer, crime novelist, and all around good guy, our own mystery lithograph has possibly been identified– and it only took him two days! Based on this information the previously unnamed “Portrait” appears…
Read MoreAnother Black Dahlia Portrait? Harvard's Fogg Museum Displays Two Man Ray Artworks-George Hodel portrait and Elizabeth "Black Dahlia" Short Lookalike
November 5, 2017 Los Angeles, California Two original Man Ray artworks are currently on display at Harvard’s Fogg Art Museum. The first is a photograph taken by Man Ray of his good friend Dr. Hodel upon his return from China in September, 1946. Dr. Hodel is seen wearing his UNRRA (United Nations Relief and…
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