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1947project Podcast #9: Halloween Episode, October 26, 2007
Submitted by kim on Fri, 2007-10-26 11:45.Kids are running amok in 1927 Los Angeles, setting fires, eating razors, crawling under fumigation tents and stealing babies from their mothers. And the adults aren't behaving much better, what with the married guys conning nice working girls into bigamistic unions and the guy what found the fountain of youth and knows where the Czar's fortune is banked, and all he needs from you is $25,000 and a nice spot to rub his mystic peapod paste.
Then there's our own Crimebo the Crime Clown, and he is in a funk. There are so many things he hates about Halloween, can he count the ways? You bet!
Tune in to hear about how Peter Pan tried to kick Crimebo's ass at the Chinese Theater, how the apocalypse is coming with a rain of cheese and Nathan's love letter to crude oil. It's all here on the 1947project Podcast, featuring Crimebo, Kim Cooper, Nathan Marsak, Mary McCoy and Joan Renner.
So give it a listen, won't you?
Here is the Ourmedia link, where you can stream or download.
1947project Podcast #3, July 6 2007
Submitted by kim on Mon, 2007-07-09 17:22.Here's the latest edition of our podcast, a little belatedly due to holidays and bear attack.
This time 'round, the giddy and peculiar show features Joan, Mary, Nathan and myself, and our clown pal Crimebo, riffing on some of the more interesting cases from the past couple weeks of 1947project, and is brought to you by our newest sponsors, Floyd Elberfeld's Lilli-puttian Mini Stroke Tiny Golfatorium and Ku Klux Klams. Patronise both today!
Have a question for Crimebo the Clown's advice column? No inquiry is too personal. Merely contact us with your message to Crimebo, and you might get your answer on a future podcast.
Fanning the Flames of Suspicion
Submitted by larry on Mon, 2006-07-17 10:43.
July 17, 1907
Los Angeles
A serial arsonist has been at work in Hollywood, setting six fires in the last three weeks. The community
Landlord Beware
Submitted by kim on Tue, 2006-07-11 09:06.July 11, 1907
San Pedro
When poolhall manager G.M. Woodward's rented house on 17th Street burned on June 29, landlord Mrs. M. Sweetman was grateful no one was killed. But after discovering the fire was intentionally set by Woodward, who had hopes of claiming $1100 insurance on his furnishings, she is fuming herself. Woodward is in County Jail, unable to make his bail.
Meanwhile, passengers on the North German Lloyd liner Kronprinz Wilhelm arrived in Hoboken with a terrifying tale of their ship having struck an iceberg in the North Atlantic on July 8. Authoress Gertrude Atherton and statesman Baron Speck Von Sternberg were among the shaken travellers.
St. James Raises a Church
Submitted by larry on Mon, 2006-03-20 10:03.
The Methodist Episcopal congregation, formed from a merger of the Centennial and Central churches, planned a wonderful new building at 22nd Street and Union. Although the congregation studied the idea of a new location, the members finally decided there was no better place than the one they had.
The church was designed by A. Dudley using an old English half-timbered style with a Gothic tower. The vaulted ceiling was highlighted with gold and the pews were arranged in concentric circles around a corner pulpit.
The Times noted:
