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"Thanks" - Tax Big Oil Rally 7/22/10

On Thursday, July 22, 2010, Rebuild California held a rally at the Westwood Federal Building to urge Big Oil to pay their share to help communities, schools, public services and families stay afloat during this recession. Unlike other states, the Big Oil companies don't pay a penny in taxes for draining California's natural resources.

The rally began at the Federal Building in Westwood. Speakers spoke from a huge truck used as a platform. Afterwards, the supporters marched two blocks to the Occidental Petroleum Headquarters building where they chanted and dumped fake oil on the sidewalk in protest. Speakers urged Big Oil companies to pay their share. The rally concluded with thanks to the LAPD for their excellent assistance. The fake oil was cleaned up.

"Pay Your Share" - Tax Big Oil Rally 7/22/10

On Thursday, July 22, 2010, Rebuild California held a rally at the Westwood Federal Building to urge Big Oil to pay their share to help communities, schools, public services and families stay afloat during this recession. Unlike other states, the Big Oil companies don't pay a penny in taxes for draining California's natural resources.

The rally began at the Federal Building in Westwood. Speakers spoke from a huge truck used as a platform. Afterwards, the supporters marched two blocks to the Occidental Petroleum Headquarters building where they chanted and dumped fake oil on the sidewalk in protest. Speakers urged Big Oil companies to pay their share. The rally concluded with thanks to the LAPD for their excellent assistance. The fake oil was cleaned up.

"Dumping Oil" - Tax Big Oil Rally 7/22/10

On Thursday, July 22, 2010, Rebuild California held a rally at the Westwood Federal Building to urge Big Oil to pay their share to help communities, schools, public services and families stay afloat during this recession. Unlike other states, the Big Oil companies don't pay a penny in taxes for draining California's natural resources.

The rally began at the Federal Building in Westwood. Speakers spoke from a huge truck used as a platform. Afterwards, the supporters marched two blocks to the Occidental Petroleum Headquarters building where they chanted and dumped fake oil on the sidewalk in protest. Speakers urged Big Oil companies to pay their share. The rally concluded with thanks to the LAPD for their excellent assistance. The fake oil was cleaned up.

"March to Oxy" - Tax Big Oil Rally 7/22/10

On Thursday, July 22, 2010, Rebuild California held a rally at the Westwood Federal Building to urge Big Oil to pay their share to help communities, schools, public services and families stay afloat during this recession. Unlike other states, the Big Oil companies don't pay a penny in taxes for draining California's natural resources.

The rally began at the Federal Building in Westwood. Speakers spoke from a huge truck used as a platform. Afterwards, the supporters marched two blocks to the Occidental Petroleum Headquarters building where they chanted and dumped fake oil on the sidewalk in protest. Speakers urged Big Oil companies to pay their share. The rally concluded with thanks to the LAPD for their excellent assistance. The fake oil was cleaned up.

"That Ain't Right" - Tax Big Oil Rally 7/22/10

On Thursday, July 22, 2010, Rebuild California held a rally at the Westwood Federal Building to urge Big Oil to pay their share to help communities, schools, public services and families stay afloat during this recession. Unlike other states, the Big Oil companies don't pay a penny in taxes for draining California's natural resources.

The rally began at the Federal Building in Westwood. Speakers spoke from a huge truck used as a platform. Afterwards, the supporters marched two blocks to the Occidental Petroleum Headquarters building where they chanted and dumped fake oil on the sidewalk in protest. Speakers urged Big Oil companies to pay their share. The rally concluded with thanks to the LAPD for their excellent assistance. The fake oil was cleaned up.

Tax Big Oil Rally 7/22/10 Westwood

On Thursday, July 22, 2010, Rebuild California held a rally at the Westwood Federal Building to urge Big Oil to pay their share to help communities, schools, public services and families stay afloat during this recession. Unlike other states, the Big Oil companies don't pay a penny in taxes for draining California's natural resources.

The rally began at the Federal Building in Westwood. Speakers spoke from a huge truck used as a platform. Afterwards, the supporters marched two blocks to the Occidental Petroleum Headquarters building where they chanted and dumped fake oil on the sidewalk in protest. Speakers urged Big Oil companies to pay their share. The rally concluded with thanks to the LAPD for their excellent assistance. The fake oil was cleaned up.

Walkabout: Sunset News Stand

On My Walkabout:

News stands are disappearing daily. I still can't believe the Las Palmas News Stand in Hollywood is gone. Well, time marches forward and so do I.

Black Dahlia Murder Suspect Norman Chandler

Black Dahlia Suspect

Norman Chandler

Chandler, publisher of the Los Angeles Times, is accused of involvement in Elizabeth Short's murder, in Donald Wolfe's "The Mob, the Mogul, and the Murder That Transfixed Los Angeles." In a complicated scenario involving multiple perpetrators, Wolfe claims that Chandler impregnated Short while she was working as a call girl for the notorious Hollywood "madam" Brenda Allen, which led to Short's murder at the hands of gangster Bugsy Siegel. Wolfe's claim that Short was a prostitute is at odds with the Los Angeles County district attorney's files, which plainly state that she was not, as is Wolfe's assertion that she was pregnant.[6]

-- wiki

Norman Chandler (September 14, 1899 - October 20, 1973, both Los Angeles, California) was the publisher of the Los Angeles Times from 1945 to 1960, and largely responsible for the success of the newspaper.

Chandler attended Stanford, where he was a member of Delta Kappa Epsilon fraternity (Sigma Rho chapter). After dropping out of Stanford, Chandler started working at the newspaper as a secretary to his father, Harry Chandler, who had been its publisher since 1917. Norman Chandler became general manager in 1936, president in 1941 and at his father’s death in 1944, the third editor of the newspaper.

The Times prospered under Chandler, and gained regional, as well as national, prominence. In 1947 it became the largest-circulation newspaper in Los Angeles, and in 1961 the Sunday paper had a circulation of more than one million. Chandler retired as publisher in 1960, leaving the job to his son Otis Chandler, but remained as chairman of the board from 1961-1968.

He funded the construction of the Hollywood Palladium at a cost of $1.6 million in 1940.[1] His wife, Dorothy Buffum Chandler, led Los Angeles' cultural revitalization in the 50's and 60's , first with the restoration of the Hollywood Bowl, then with the construction of the Los Angeles Music Center (the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion, Mark Taper Forum and the Ahmanson Theatre).

1.^ Jezek, George Ross; Wanamaker, Marc (2002). Hollywood: Now & Then. San Diego, CA: George Ross Jezek Photography & Publishing. pp. 92-93. ISBN 0-9701036-1-1.

-- wiki

BLACK DAHLIA Corpse Found on Norton Avenue

The body of Elizabeth Short was found on January 15, 1947, in a vacant lot in Leimert Park, Los Angeles, severely mutilated, cut in two, and drained of blood. Her face was slashed from the corners of her mouth toward her ears, and she was posed with her hands over her head and her elbows bent at right angles. The autopsy indicated she was 5′ 5″ and 115 pounds, with badly decayed teeth, light blue eyes and brown hair.

-- wiki

January 15, 6:30 AM: Bob Meyer sees 1936/37 black Ford sedan stop near vacant lot 39th and Norton.
January 15, 10:30 AM: Betty Bersinger sees "two pieces of mannequin" in vacant lot: calls police.
January 15: 10:54 AM: Communications Divisions of LAPD clocks in call of a "person without clothes on."

-- blackdahlia.com

The Murder Scene

On January 15, 1947 Elizabeth Short was found murdered, her body left in a vacant lot on South Norton Avenue between 39th Street and Coliseum. Homemaker Betty Bersinger was running an errand with her three-year-old daughter when she realized that what she was looking at was not a mannequin but an actual body in the lot along the street where she was walking. She went to a nearby house, made an anonymous call to police, and reported the body.

When police arrived on the scene, they found the body of a young woman who had been bisected, displayed face-up on the ground with her arms over her head and her lower half placed a foot away from her torso. Her legs were wide open in a vulgar position and her mouth had three-inch slashes on each side. Rope burns were found on her wrists and ankles. Her head face and body was bruised and cut. There was little blood at the scene, indicating whoever left her, washed the body before bringing it in the lot.

The crime scene quickly filled with police, bystanders and reporters. It was later described as being out of control, with people trampling on any evidence investigators hoped to find.

Through fingerprints, the body was soon identified as 22-year-old Elizabeth Short or as the press called her, "The Black Dahlia." A massive investigation into finding her murderer was launched. Because of the brutality of the murder and Elizabeth's sometimes sketchy lifestyle, rumors and speculation was rampant, often being incorrectly reported as fact in newspapers.

-- Charles Montaldo, About.com
"Murder and Investigations in the Black Dahlia Murder Case: An Investigation Riddled With False Confessions"

At 11:07 a.m. on January 15, Betty Bersinger, who lived at 3705 S. Norton Avenue, was walking south on Norton, pushing her daughter in a carriage, when she saw the body in two pieces laying in the lot. She hurried along, not wanting to frighten her child, and knocked on the door of a house nearby and asked to use the telephone. She called the police and reported what she had seen and then went on with her business.

At 11:18 a.m., Officer S. J. Lambert arrived at the scene. Twelve minutes later, LAPD Homicide Detective, Sergeant Finis A. Brown and his partner, Detective Harry L. Hansen, from Central Division, were on hand and examined the body.

More officials and newspaper reporters showed up. After the coroner had the body removed, the investigation began. Headlines, stories and photographs about the Black Dahlia filled the papers for weeks.

Finis Brown felt the killer was a publicity hound. He thought the body was placed in clear view to be seen. He didn’t feel that the body was thrown or laid out. He said,

"It would indicate that it was dropped. The upper half was quite a little further in. The foot, left foot was about a foot from the sidewalk. The person wouldn’t have to drop the body or flip it out there, wouldn’t have to lean over to do it, you know. It didn’t land absolutely straight. If it had been laying, laying right together - the two halves were about a foot apart, but he legs were spread and the type of mutilation that was done would indicate a person - to my estimation who had a mania for publicity. The newspapers up until the 23rd when things began to slack off and we only had one page in the newspaper - one column, the 23rd and the 24th - that night we received the belongings of the Short girl. The next day it was full. The papers was full of it then. It continued that way until altogether about 33 days. To my estimation, the person sent that in because they wanted publicity to gloat over the fact that they had been successful in their crime and got a kick out of it."

-- theblackdahliainhollywood.com

Marilyn Monroe Crypt Auction 2009

Richard Poncher 1905-1986 RIP

Birth: Apr. 25, 1905

Death: Aug. 30, 1986

American Folk Figure. There is a persistent, though never proven, story that he was so enamored of Marilyn Monroe that he went to great lengths to secure the crypt above hers. After his own death, the story continues, Poncher's close friends waited for everyone else to leave, then turned the body upside down before the crypt was sealed--leaving Poncher face down "on top of" Marilyn for eternity. William Poundstone, in his book "Biggest Secrets," tells the story and adds that he was unable to come up with any information proving or disproving it. The inscription on Poncher's crypt reads, "To the man who gave us everything and more. You're one in a million, 'Freddie.'"

-- findagrave.com

On August 8, 1962, Marilyn Monroe was interred in a crypt at Corridor of Memories #24, at the Westwood Village Memorial Park Cemetery in Westwood, Los Angeles. Lee Strasberg delivered the eulogy. The crypt space immediately to the left of Monroe's was bought and reserved by Hugh Hefner in 1992.

In August 2009, the crypt space directly above that of Monroe was placed for auction on eBay. Elsie Poncher plans to exhume her husband and move him to an adjacent plot. She advertised the crypt, hoping "to make enough money to pay off the $1.6 million mortgage" on her Beverly Hills mansion.

-- wiki

Poor Marilyn Monroe!

Crypt auction fails yet again

Reuters

Monday, November 2nd 2009, 9:44 AM

A second attempt to sell a crypt on top of Marilyn Monroe's final resting place has failed, with not a single bid received for the burial spot in a celebrity-filled Los Angeles cemetery.

Widow Elsie Poncher is trying to sell her husband's crypt to pay off the mortgage on her Beverly Hills home. On selling the crypt, Poncher had planned to move her husband, who died in 1986, to an adjacent crypt intended for her.

But a $4.6 million bid submitted through online auctioneer eBay Inc in August fell through when the unidentified bidder pulled out.

A second auction on eBay with a reserve price of $500,000 also failed, with a notice on the online trading website saying it had closed with no bids on the marble mausoleum where Monroe was laid to rest in 1962.

The crypt is located at the Westwood Village Memorial Park cemetery, home to celebrities including Dean Martin, James Coburn, Roy Orbison, Truman Capote, Natalie Wood, Carl Wilson, Minnie Riperton and recent arrival Farrah Fawcett.

The space next to Monroe's vault was sold in 1992 to the publisher of Playboy magazine, Hugh Hefner, for $75,000.

Winning bidder in eBay auction for spot above

Marilyn Monroe's crypt can't afford $4.6M price tag

By Nancy Dillon

DAILY NEWS WEST COAST BUREAU CHIEF

Tuesday, August 25th 2009, 1:16 PM

LOS ANGELES - Someone just jilted Marilyn Monroe.

An eBay bidder from Japan who offered $4.6 million for the chance to spend eternity on top of the sexy screen siren has backed out.

Beverly Hills widow Elsie Poncher, whose dead husband was laid to rest in the crypt directly above Monroe, put her beloved's valuable vault on the block Aug. 14 to help pay off the $1.6 million mortgage on her home.

Bidding started at $500,000 and shot to $4.6 million in three days. Everything seemed to be going so well, until the widow's rep sent an invoice to the winning bidder Monday.

"I am awfully sorry, but I need to cancel this because of the paying problem," the unidentified bidder said in an email, according to the Los Angeles Times.

The widow's rep has since emailed the 11 other bidders who bid at least $4.5 million, giving them 24 hours to submit new offers.

He told the Times that if the right offer isn't made, he and Poncher may try to find another way to sell the crypt.

EBay had been vetting the bidders and cancelled several offers that appeared fraudulent - leaving 21 final bids.

Poncher's late husband was buried face down, looking at Monroe, when he died 23 years ago at age 81, the auction posting revealed.

His 80-year-old widow said her decision to sell the crypt at the Pierce Brothers Westwood Village Memorial Park was a practical one.

"I can't be more honest than that," she told the Times. "I want to leave my house free and clear for my kids."

Richard Poncher bought the crypt from Yankee great Joe DiMaggio during his divorce from Monroe, the widow said.

Poncher wasn't a huge fan of Marilyn at the time, the widow said, but as he lay dying, he made a startling vow.

"He said, "If I croak and you don't put me upside down over Marilyn, I'll haunt you the rest of my life," Elsie Poncher said.

Monroe died of a drug overdose ruled a "probable suicide" at the age of 36 in 1962. The star of "Some Like it Hot," "How to Marry a Millionaire," and "Gentlemen Prefer Blondes" was named the sexiest woman of the 20th century by both Playboy and People magazines.

The stone façade of her above-ground crypt stands out with a darker hue left by the fingerprints and lipstick marks of countless fans.

The Day They Bombed the L.A. Times 1910

The original Los Angeles Times building sat on the northeast corner of Broadway and 1st Street.

The Los Angeles Times bombing was the purposeful dynamiting of the Los Angeles Times building in Los Angeles, California, on October 1, 1910 by a union member belonging to the International Association of Bridge and Structural Iron Workers. The explosion started a fire which killed 21 newspaper employees and injured 100 more. Termed the "crime of the century" by the Times, brothers John J. ("J.J.") and James B. ("J.B.") McNamara were arrested under suspicious circumstances in April 1911 for the crime. Their trial became a cause célèbre for the American labor movement. J.B. admitted to setting the explosive, was convicted, and sentenced to life in prison. J.J. was sentenced to 10 years in prison for bombing a local iron manufacturing plant, and returned to the Iron Workers union as an organizer.

-- wiki

After the bombing, the Los Angeles Times rebuilt across the street at the southwest corner of Spring and 1st Street.

1910 Bombing of the Los Angeles Times - You Tube

Thanks to danieljbmitchell for the video.

Lyle and Erik Menendez News Clip

Thanks to g12er for the video.

LaBianca Slideshow - You Tube

Thanks to jvarela965 for the video.

Sharon Tate Murder CBS 1969 Newscast - You Tube

Thanks to bretg78 for the video.