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Clare Briggs, “When a Feller Needs a Friend.”  |
Oct. 23, 1919: Harry Carr, one of The Times' best-known writers, files a series of vignettes from New York. He says that prohibition is lightly enforced and that it’s still easy to get a drink … and learning the hula is the latest dance craze. Carr writes about the riot over "Die Meistersinger" and says: "Life is never monotonous in a town filled with Irish." |
 Oct. 22, 1959: President Eisenhower transfers German rocket scientists led by Wernher von Braun from Army jurisdiction to NASA. |
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The Dodgers submitted a map for their Chavez Ravine ballpark and some of the features were downright headline grabbers. Proposed were a sit-down restaurant, a quick service restaurant, a carwash and automotive center. And a group-luau restaurant. The City Council quickly moved to delay the whole matter for further study. The city attorney said the automotive center was at the request of traffic and police officials who wanted something nearby to handle stalled cars and overheated engines. "We know that the confusion about the map is very definitely our responsibility," Dodgers owner Walter O'Malley said in The Times Oct. 24. "The baseball stadium will be set in a tastefully landscaped park and of course will be completely without any shoddy atmosphere or commercialism. This is what we have pledged and what we have always intended to build." Personally, I would have loved the luau. But the gas station certainly is part of the Dodger Stadium landscape and without it, there never would have been this classic commercial with Tom Lasorda taking Vin Scully out of the game. --Keith Thursby |
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| Oct. 21, 1959: African Americans are invited to the Arkansas Democratic Harmony Dinner – but they must sit at their own table. |
 Oct. 21, 1959: Moiselle Clinger describes spying on Communists for the FBI. |
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A new appeal seeks to block the execution of Caryl Chessman. |
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“Sign of the Gladiator” in Colorscope. Not on Netflix! |
 Hey, Keith! It’s a tilt at the Coliseum! And a tiff with L.A. scribes! |
 Oct. 12, 1909: President Taft has a bully time in Los Angeles. |
| Oct. 12, 1909: Fire breaks out at 143 N. Gless in “Little Russia.” "Eighteen complaints have been filed against members of the Russian colony because of their noisy manner of worship and other disagreeable habits and last night officers were inclined to the belief that someone in the neighborhood set fire to the houses in an effort to get rid of the colony."
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Although this poem is unsigned, I would suspect it’s by John S. McGroarty, whose poems frequently appeared in The Times. Hal Coffman, who died in 1958 at the age of 75, was a syndicated artist who worked in New York and later in Fort Worth. This is why you don’t want anyone cutting up your archival editions. | ||
 Oct. 11, 1909: President swings through Los Angeles for a day. He stops in San Pedro, Wilmington, Los Angeles and visits the San Gabriel Valley and Riverside before leaving for Arizona. One notable stop is the home of his sister, Mrs. W.A. Edwards, 2600 W. Adams St. View Larger Map  | ||
The Times publishes a glowing editorial about President Taft: "If we were to institute a comparison we would say that only the great Lincoln in the dark days of the war between the states ever faced more exacting duties than those Mr. Taft is called to meet and perform. Mr. Taft has a mighty advantage over that of his glorious predecessor. He comes to these duties with a wisdom acquired by long study of law and statesmanship, rounded out by experience of a varied nature extending over many years." | ||
One of the most interesting aspects of the presidential visit is the large demonstration at the Plaza of “Anarchists, socialists, Mexican revolutionaries and Holy Jumpers.” Our old friends Detective Felipe Talamantes and Sgt. Charlie Sebastian, the future police chief and mayor, put in an appearance in dealing with the protest. Recall that The Times bombing is little less than a year away. |
| How about women? Aren’t they citizens? Then why can’t they vote?  |
| Oct. 10, 1909: The great state of California, the most rapidly growing and one of the largest commonwealths of the nation, is struggling along under a Constitution that was framed to suit conditions that existed in the early days of gold hunting, before agriculture and horticulture had become important factors in its development, and long before manufactures and shipping and railroad transportation had developed to any appreciable extent. From time to time this important instrument has been patched, through amendments adopted by the people without any consideration for their effect on the original Constitution, until now it is an amazing collection of contradictory sections and provisions, which, according to the whim of any lawyer who may attack them, may be construed by the courts in half a dozen different ways. T.S. Knoles, a Los Angeles lawyer, after a careful study of the Constitution, points out many of its defects in the following article. |
Scalpers are selling $10 World Series tickets for $30 (#219.22 USD 2008). |
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