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Debut 1947project Podcast

Submitted by kim on Thu, 2007-05-31 22:15.

Greetings, citizens of the future! Click here to enjoy the debut bi-weekly podcast from your pals from the 1947project.

Featured is a lively and sometimes tasteless recap of recent crimes covered on the blog (including the Bath Township school disaster), recommended events for the next two weeks for listeners in 1927 or 2007, A Moment with Crimebo the Crime Clown, Nathan Marsak's saucy faux adverts and a sneak announcement of a top secret Crime Bus tour not otherwise available to the public.

On the mic: Kim Cooper, Crimebo the Clown (Michael Perrick), Nathan Marsak, Mary McCoy and Joan Renner. We certainly hope you find this 40 minute podcast to your liking, and thank you for your kind attention.

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Crimebo and Pals on Saturday's Pasadena Confidential tour

Submitted by kim on Mon, 2007-05-28 16:45.

above: Nathan Marsak and Crimebo the Clown prepare for the debut performance of The Jack Parsons Story as presented by the Crimebo Players. Weird Sex! Rocketships! Space Creatures! Warlocks! Sex Slaves! Is this the Pasadena the Chamber of Commerce wants us talking about? Hmmm.... maybe not. But we sure had fun.

Below, a visit to Mitchell Books, where John Mitchell held us rapt with tales of real and fictional murder.

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G4's Blair Butler dons dead hooker finery to ride the Crime Bus

Submitted by kim on Fri, 2006-11-10 09:09.

Visit G4 to see the video evidence from our recent Halloween Horrors tour. Beware: Crimebo inside!

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CourtTV rides the Crime Bus

Submitted by kim on Fri, 2006-11-10 08:52.

Lisa Sweetingham of CourtTV rode the Halloween Horrors Crime Bus, and reports in with a charming little feature she calls "The bus ride to hell, and back."

LOS ANGELES — "Ladies and gentlemen, this tour should not be taken by anyone with a heart condition ... We recommend you leave the bus immediately." A tour guide makes the announcement as the doors slam shut on our filled-to-capacity 56-seat cruising bus. We are rolling into Los Angeles noir, embarking on an exhaustive five-hour tour of grisly crime scenes and lesser Halloween hijinks from the '20s to the '50s.

The 1947project's inaugural Halloween Horrors crime bus tour is touted as a BYOBB (Bring Your Own Barf Bag) event. And no children are allowed.

So why is there a clown breathing down my neck?

Crimebo the crime clown (aka Michael Perrick) bares his teeth and purrs in a gravelly voice as he walks down the aisle with a cauldron full of cheap candy, some shaped like eyeballs. "Something sticky?" he offers.

He pops a balloon animal and quips, "These things just keep committing suicide."

Kindly click to read on.

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Crimebo on WIBC radio today

Submitted by kim on Tue, 2006-08-08 12:32.

Crimebo the Crime Clown will be talking about his unique brand of birthday fun on the Wilson Show on Indianapolis radio WIBC today at 3:10 Pacific Time. You can hear Crimebo on the web at http://www.wibc.com (click the "listen live" button in the upper right). Go little Crime Clown, go!

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Photos from the August 6 Pasadena Confidential Tour

Submitted by kim on Mon, 2006-08-07 19:23.

Yesterday's Pasadena Confidential Crime Bus Tour was a hoot, as we glided around the Crown City in our air conditioned murder bus with a happy coterie of grisly lookyloos. Here are a few photos snapped along the way...

Below, Crimebo honors the lucky Miss Cathy with a pre-birthday litany of all the horrors that happened on the day she was born.

Here, Crimebo and hosts Kim and Nathan take a mid-tour breather at Connal's on Washington Boulevard, conveniently loated between the sites of a hammer murder and a bathtub suicide. Plus their malts is yummy!

And another view of that scary clown Crimebo... don't you want him at your birthday party?!

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Crimebo on Jack & Ali Show

Submitted by rss on Tue, 2006-08-01 23:32.

Listen to the podcast of Crimebo the Clown, Courtesy of Spin Talk with Jack & Ali on Spin 1038 in Dublin, Ireland.

Subscribe to the channel, and stay in tune.

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Menaced by Crimebo

Submitted by kim on Mon, 2006-07-31 19:02.

Yes, kids, that's Crimebo the Crime Clown looming horribly behind 1947project Crime Bus Tour hosts Kim and Nathan (and Nathan's collection of embalming fluid bottles), in an outtake from today's photo shoot for the cover of Pasadena Weekly!

You can hear Crimebo tonight on Peter Anthony Holder's show at 10:35pm Pacific Time, over the web from the website of CJAD 800 AM, Montreal, Canada. And next Friday, he's the guest of the Molson & Lee Show on WMAY, Springfield, IL, live at 11am Pacific Time. Click and enjoy.

Photo above by Richard Schave. Stay tuned for more grisly images soon.

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Walk Lost L.A.

A 1947project Exclusive: nine incredible large format photos of the Historic Core circa 1903-10, for just $18 postpaid. To get your set, click here.

Do you have questions for the bloggers? Memories of Old Bunker Hill or Los Angeles in general? Visit Off Bunker Hill, an online discussion of the weird old L.A. that's not there anymore. Click here for more info.

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