| Here’s an unusual item: An 1883 Los Angeles city-county directory has been listed on EBay. As the vendor notes, there is only one copy listed in online catalogs and that’s at UCLA. As the vendor also notes, a copy from the Dawson collection was sold in 2007. That copy (item 228) sold for $5,175. Bidding starts at $3,750. |
“It is a very special day in a young woman’s life when she makes her first ice box cake. And as with the leg of lamb, I regret that they have declined in popularity, because it was delicious.” | This week in Cooking With the Junior League, Mary McCoy visits the cuisine of Pasadena. She writes: The Junior League of Pasadena’s classic Pasadena Prefers (1964) is another of those time capsule cookbooks that perfectly capture the home cooking of a particular time, place, and people. Here, it’s affluent suburban housewives in southern California in the 1960s, the kind of women who might be called upon to wrangle a hoard of hungry small children, whip up a weeknight supper for the family, or pull off some gracious, elegant entertaining at a moment’s notice, and make it look effortless. Read more>>> |
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| Aug. 5, 1938: Joe Seewerker and Charles Owens feature the Bethlehem Baths at Vignes and Ducommun, which closed in 1926. Note: The original run of Nuestro Pueblo concluded in 1939. I’m going back and picking up the entries that I missed the first time |
| This book of Los Angeles Examiner front pages from World War II has been listed on EBay. I’ve only seen these books on EBay so I’m not positive but judging by the vendors’ photos, the reproduction appears to be fairly readable. The Examiner was once the leading paper in Los Angeles but merged with the afternoon Herald-Express to form the Herald Examiner in 1962 and is little more than a memory these days. Bidding starts at $24.95. |
| A copy of “Quick Watson, the Camera,” has been listed on EBay. Long out of print, “Quick Watson” is terrific survey of photographs by the Watson family and was edited by the late Delmar Watson, formerly of the Mirror-News. Bidding starts at $9.99. |
| Aug. 4, 1959: I almost didn’t post this Cecil Smith column because it’s not terribly well done and is mostly Smith rambling to great length about ghost stories. But I reminded myself that at this point, very few people had seen anything but the first few episodes and nobody knew what to expect. Until “The Twilight Zone” debuted in 1959, there had been very little in this vein besides “Science Fiction Theatre,” a show that began in 1955, and perhaps “Alfred Hitchcock Presents” (1955-1962), which was more of a mystery/suspense show. “The Outer Limits” didn’t begin until 1963 and was considered a “Twilight Zone” knockoff. The American Cinematheque is paying tribute to "The Twilight Zone" with a program on Friday. Read more here.>>> (Notice that despite what this article says, the lines quoted above are the original opening. The introduction that most of us remember didn't emerge until later).
“Science Fiction Theatre,” 1955-1957, was one of my favorite shows as a kid. It’s out on DVD but I’m afraid to watch the programs because like so many TV shows of my childhood, they might be absolutely awful. It was a dark and sobering day when I sat down as an adult with “Sky King,” “Whirlybirds” and “Highway Patrol.” Aug. 20, 1959: Some thoughts on Rod Serling ... And notice "Destruction Derby" with women drivers! Hey, what should we watch? Baxter Ward or “Twilight Zone?” |
| The Times didn’t write much about “Twilight Zone” in its first season after the show debuted. I’ll be watching for articles as we continue our jaunt through 1959 and into 1960. |
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| Aug. 1, 1938: Joe Seewerker and Charles Owens visit Griffith Park and discover an old lime kiln left from mission days. Note: I posted most of the Nuestro Pueblo features when I was going through 1938-39, but I’m picking up the ones I missed. |
| “Industrial Independence” is a code phrase for “no unions.” | ||
| Oct. 24, 1909: The Times recommends “The Tyrant in White,” promising: "There are no long rambling lectures or sermons in its pages. The characters do their own talking. They are boys who grow up into young men and they talk exactly as schoolboys talk, as baseball players talk, and as young men whose fancies 'lightly turn to thoughts of love' talk, too." Copies of “The Tyrant in White” sell for hundreds of dollars – if you can find them. But you can read it online for free, thanks to Archive.org. |
| William Bendix in “Kill the Umpire!” What? Not on Netflix? |
| Oct. 22, 1949: “Pinky” gets a supportive review from Edwin Schallert. He calls the film a “fascinating, sometimes sentimental narrative with rare feeling.” It’s interesting how The Times indented the paragraph with the plot summary. |
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| July 27, 1938: Joe Seewerker and Charles Owens visit Pasadena for Nuestro Pueblo. Here’s a map of Japanese-owned businesses in Pasadena before World War II. Note: The original run of Nuestro Pueblo concluded in 1939. I’m going back and picking up the entries that I missed the first time. |
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