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The Crocker Mansion - 300 South Olive
Angels Flight, crocker, elk's, clay street, olive street300 Block At the turn of the 20th Century, no building dominated Bunker Hill like the Crocker Mansion. Perched high at the corner of Third and...
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Last Shore Leave
robbery, shooting, police, marines, navy300 Block, 300 Block, 300 Block Location: 350 Clay Street Date: June 3, 1946In the not-quite-twelve hours since John M. Kelly was discharged from the Marine...
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He's Alive! Alive!
amnesia, canoe, Frankenstein, resurrection300 BlockMarch 1, 1922Death is a very dull, dreary affair, and my advice to you is to have nothing whatsoever to do with it. W. Somerset Maugham No,...
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Burning Bush on a Mount of Olives
religious sects, cults, Burning Bush300 BlockWhen the residents of Bunker Hill discovered that the Alameda Street crib district prostitutes were living in their neighborhood, they drafted polite...
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Bunker Hill: A Desperate Race of Men
Emsmovies, drugs, heroin, marijuana, prisonOlive Street, 300 Block Hats off to those contemporary "pulse-pounding" pictures what depict early-fifties dope and/or early-fifties Los Angeles for they are...
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The Kellogg/Palace/Casa Alta—317 South Olive
fire, Angels Flight, suicide, murder, assault, jewels, amnesia, explosion, child support, insecticide, interracial, Hotel Clayton, grifters, hatchet, Palace Hotel, Casa Alta, Kellogg HotelOlive Street,...
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The Ems — 321 South Olive
Emsaccident, alcohol, suicide, robbery, assault, volstead act, impersonation, fall, motorcycleOlive Street, 300 BlockIn what will surely go down as the smarmiest piece of journalism in history, the...
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