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Lost and Found: Original 1927 Grauman’s Chinese Theatre Footprints
(LAPL Digital Archives) NBC Los Angeles reports that concrete slabs bearing the original footprints of Sid Grauman, Douglass Fairbanks and Mary Pickford have been found in — of all places — a local...
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Hanging With the Legendary Tiburcio Vasquez
Source: Wikimedia Today marks the 136th anniversary of the hanging of Tiburcio Vasquez, notorious California outlaw and folk legend. According to Los Angeles A-Z, my bible for everything L.A., he was...
View ArticleThose Devilish Santa Ana Winds
Whether summery hot or wintry tepid like the ones shown above that are currently ravaging Pasadena and the Greater Los Angeles area, Southern California’s fiendish Santa Ana winds are the stuff of...
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L.A.’s Forgotten Lizard People
(StockXchange image) The KCRW Shortcuts blog has a new post exploring the facts and fiction surrounding Los Angeles’ oft-ignored network of underground tunnels. The post includes links to several...
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Can Haunted Los Encinos SHP Be Saved?
Garnier House. (Wikimedia) That’s the question raised by this March 2 Los Angeles Daily News article. (Well, the article doesn’t actually mention the “haunted” angle, but we’ll get to that below.) It...
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Summer Reruns: Keeping Up With the Coronels
The Coronels. (LAPL Digital Archives) Throughout the summer, your humble blogger is performing a much-needed, behind-the-scenes overhaul of Dateline>City of Angels. During that time, we’ll...
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Summer Reruns: A Few Favorite Ghost Posts
(StockXchange image) When it comes to sleuthing a good ghost story, I’m like Velma in the “Scooby Doo” cartoons: I prefer to start my search in the library. Over the years, this blog has paid a lot of...
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Summer Reruns: Murder and Mayhem Edition
(StockXchange) That’s right, folks! Once again we’re pimping the old Dateline>City of Angels archives to reacquaint readers with some of our all-time favorite posts. This week we bring you three...
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Close-Up: L.A.’s Famous Eagle Rock
The famous Eagle Rock. While I’m not that sure it looks all that bird-like up close, this is L.A.’s celebrated Eagle Rock, so named because from a distance it resembles an eagle’s head. Popular legend...
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Close-Up: Monrovia’s Scary Aztec Hotel
Monrovia's haunting Aztec Hotel. Built in 1925 in the Mayan Revival style, Monrovia’s sadly dilapidated Aztec Hotel is a notable example of the once-proudly offbeat motoring attractions that...
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Summer Reruns: Cryptic SoCal Edition
Angeles-Rosedale Cemetery. Like many history buffs, I find old cemeteries profoundly educational. Walking among the plots, statuary and epitaphs, you never know who (or what) you’ll stumble upon. But...
View ArticleWeekend Matinee: Old Town Pasadena “Haunt”
This has got to be some type of Halloween gimmick or hoax. During California’s Mission Era, meticulous records were kept by both civil and Church authorities documenting every phase of a mission’s...
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Rudolph Valentino’s Mysterious Ladies in Black
Valentino; Wikimedia Commons Amazingly, 87 years after his death, Rudolph Valentino continues to capture the imagination of cinema fans. Even more incredibly, he still somehow manages to draw veiled...
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5 Must-Have SoCal Guidebooks
From time to time Dateline>City of Angels readers ask how your humble blogger “knows so much” about our region. While he’d like to say all the data is neatly stuffed into his brain’s memory banks,...
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Exploring the Strange Origins of the SGV’s Suburban Parrots
Red-Crown Amazon; Wikimedia Commons They squawk. They flock. They forage and roost in fruit and nut trees by the hundreds throughout the San Gabriel Valley. But the raucous Green Amazon parrots aren’t...
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Photo Find: Dissuading “Suicide Bridge” Jumpers, 1937
Colorado Street Bridge barricade. Herald Examiner, LAPL Digital Archives Finally frustrated by the shocking number of jumpers drawn to Pasadena’s Colorado Street Bridge, officials took the drastic...
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October Reading: 5 Haunting Guidebooks for Ghost and Grave Hunters
Monument at Colma Cemetery; Michael Imlay It’s October, which means the season of spooks and spirits is upon us. Why not celebrate with a lively ghost hunt at a famous SoCal landmark or a romp through...
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Photo Find: Sister Aimee Semple McPherson Goes to Rest
Sister Aimee Semple McPherson at rest; LAPL Digital Archives In life they say “Sister” Aimee Semple McPherson was the most photographed woman of her time. In death they say she went to her grave with...
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The Hollywood Reporter Names LA’s “Most Haunted” Locations
Ship of ghosts, courtesy the Queen Mary Hotel website The word is out… The best place to rest with the angels is the City of Angels. That’s apparently because, for the dead as well as the living,...
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The Avila Adobe: LA’s Oldest Haunted House?
Olvera Street's Avila Adobe; Michael Imlay Built in 1818 by wealthy rancher and former mayor Francisco Avila near the center of Olvera Street, the Avila Adobe is considered Los Angeles’ oldest...
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