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Pacific Electric streetcar hugs the coast of Huntington Beach, running parallel to the Pacific Coast Highway (1946)
[Photo by Phillips C. Kauke] https://www.instagram.com/forgottenmadness_la/ https://i.imgur.com/n5zFbeJ.jpg ========================================= Vine and Selma, looking north at dusk (1950s) —— As has been pointed out in the comments, the building on the right was the Hollywood Brown Derby, the second of four locations, which opened at 1628 Vine St. In 1929 (three years after the original Wilshire location opened). The Beverly Hills location opened in 1931, at the corner of Wilshire and Rodeo, and the Hillhurst location opened in 1940. Out of all of these, only the Wilshire location was built for the restaurant. The other three locations all took over existing structures. Photo from @lapubliclibrary https://www.instagram.com/forgottenmadness_la/ https://i.imgur.com/TLXJQUo.jpg =========================== During the summer of 1977, Rochester House was given one last hurrah when it was featured in Disney's "Return from Witch Mountain," the sequel to their extremely popular 1975 hit "Escape to Witch Mountain." https://www.instagram.com/forgottenmadness_la/ https://i.imgur.com/KN9gsWV.jpg |
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UCLA/Adelbert Bartlett papers "Tree house of Amos Aspey, civil war veteran, near National Military Home, Pacific branch, Sawtelle, Cal. House contains, parlor, bedroom, kitchen, roof garden, and is piped with water and gas. Stairs lead up to house. House is built in a eucalyptus tree". Photo is undated, given the children's attire I would guess '20's-'30's. https://hosting.photobucket.com/imag...080&fit=bounds Even considering the laissez-faire tenor of the times, I would imagine Building & Safety had some concerns over this kind of structure. Using the original image (https://dl.library.ucla.edu/islandor...bartlett%3A149) I zoomed in on the house to the right of the tree house property, it shows that house number as 1106....you can see a "2" as the last digit of the subject house (the rest of the number is obscured by the tree) but I would guess that house number is 1102....I assumed that these properties were across San Vicente Blvd. from the V.A. grounds, and the only street with an 1100 block opposite the V.A. is Barry Ave., which runs basically n/s until it intersects Kiowa Ave., just off the corner of San Vicente....so I pulled up 1102-06 Barry Ave..... https://hosting.photobucket.com/imag...080&fit=bounds I think the house may have been at this corner. In my view the sidewalk somewhat matches, with an uphill grade coming off the corner.... https://hosting.photobucket.com/imag...080&fit=bounds I took the Googlemobile a little to the left and looked through the trees lining the V.A. grounds, and this building appears... https://hosting.photobucket.com/imag...080&fit=bounds Possibly the same roofline?.... https://hosting.photobucket.com/imag...080&fit=bounds The 1900 census found the Aspey's in the gold mining boom town of Victor, CO., his occupation was shown as "brick maker"....both the 1920 and 1930 census show Mr. Aspey residing at the Veteran's home at the V.A., so I don't think he lived at the home with the tree house.....possibly he befriended whoever lived there, and walked over from the V.A. to build the thing, maybe spent his days in the tree. More detail on Pvt. Aspey....from findagrave.com... "Age 20 years enlisted October 1, 1861 mustered in November 20, 1861 as Private with Co. B. 65th Ohio Infantry mustered out March 23, 1862 at Nashville Tennessee. Re-enlisted October 7, 1864 as Private with Co. F. 71st Ohio Infantry mustered out on October 16, 1865. Event Type: he was age 21 years married Martha L. Stacey (bn. abt. 1847) on October 25, 1866 at Stark County Ohio....https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/3686252/amos-aspey" He died on 6/3/1930, age 89, and is buried at the L.A. National Cemetery... https://hosting.photobucket.com/imag...080&fit=bounds His wife died 6 months later..... https://hosting.photobucket.com/imag...080&fit=bounds The death certificate was signed by her son-in-law O.B. Wright, as per the '30 census she was living in the Wright home at 1444 Appleton St. when she took her life. The couple may have been out here as early as 1886/87, as an "Amos Aspey" purchased a lot in Coronado....it's also possible they bought the lot from back east, sight unseen....of course it could be a different Amos Aspey.... https://hosting.photobucket.com/imag...080&fit=bounds https://hosting.photobucket.com/imag...080&fit=bounds Mr. and Mrs. Aspey were predeceased by 4 children....they lost two sons, age 15 and 10, in Colorado, in the year 1898...the 10 year old, Harry, was killed when a team of horses bolted... CRIPPLE CREEK MORNING TIMES August 16, 1898 A Little Boy Killed. - A frightful accident occurred at 10:30 yesterday morning on Straub mountain, resulting in the death of the 10 year old son of Amos Aspey. Mr. Aspey, accompanied by the boy, Harry, went after a load of wood. While coming down the steep grade near Dutch town, Mr. Aspey got off the wagon to clear some obstructions out of the road. The team took fright and ran away. The boy was thrown from the wagon bed and the hind wheel passed over his head, crushing his skull in a horrible manner. |
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Thank you C.B. Doug for the kind welcome/warning.
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—— "As has been pointed out in the comments, the building on the right was the Hollywood Brown Derby, the second of four locations, which opened at 1628 Vine St. In 1929 (three years after the original Wilshire location opened). The Beverly Hills location opened in 1931, at the corner of Wilshire and Rodeo, and the Hillhurst location opened in 1940. Out of all of these, only the Wilshire location was built for the restaurant. The other three locations all took over existing structures." Photo from @lapubliclibrary https://www.instagram.com/forgottenmadness_la/ https://i.imgur.com/TLXJQUo.jpg Speaking of what I consider to be lost treasures of L.A. This photo reminded me of one of my many heartbreaks. What I knew as Molly's at the corner of Selma and Vine. SMH. And seeing what they replaced it with. *sigh* |
Good morning everyone. I wanted to lead with an apology if this has already been posted, however, as has been discussed a few times, searching this thread is rather hit or miss.
Anyway, I was recently looking up something about L.A.'s history that turned into something of a multi-part rabbit hole, and ended up researching something else completely unrelated: "Murf the Surf" Jack Roland Murphy was born in Oceanside California in 1937 and moved to Miami in 1955. Apparently he made a name for himself as a surfer. In 1964 he was involved in the largest jewel heist in U.S. history. It seems that he was also involved in assaulting and robbing Eva Gabor. in 1965 he was sentenced to only 3 years in prison. Apparently he was out of prison by 1967. There was a movie made about the heist in 1975. That same year (1967) two secretaries for the firm Rutner, Jackson & Gray, (Terry Rae Frank and Annelle Marie Mohn) apparently stole about $500,000 (almost $4 million today) in stocks and fled to Hollywood Florida where they fell in with "Murf the Surf". It would seem that things did not go well, as they were both found at the bottom of Whiskey Creek with weights tied around their necks. In 1968 Murphy was involved in the robbery of a socialite named Olive Wofford. in 1969 Murphy pleaded not-guilty by reason of insanity for the murder of one of the secretaries (Terry Rae Frank), he was sentenced to life with hard labor. He was given an additional life sentence, plus 20 years for the robbery of Olive Wofford. He only served 17 years. :hell: Apparently he claimed to have found Jesus, and after he was released (after only serving 17 years :hell:), he found a new, legal con, and became a minister. (because of course he did). It seems he made quite a comfortable living bible-thumping until he died just a few months ago, this past September. I stumbled on this story because the two secretaries who were murdered were working in the Fine Arts Building on 7th street downtown. https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikiped...os_Angeles.png https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikiped...os_Angeles.png |
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Amos wasn't in the best of shape in 1913. https://i.imgur.com/FRJZkIp.jpg Congressional Serial Set He appears to have come round somewhat by 1919 and wants to get motoring - a miscreant named Morrison intervenes. :( https://i.imgur.com/8EZ8QbW.jpg cdnc.ucr.edu - Los Angeles Herald, 22 February 1919 Perhaps Amos gave up on the driving lark and decided to build a tree house instead. It's up by 1923 at least. https://i.imgur.com/mvAwFJE.jpg cdnc.ucr.edu - San Bernardino Sun, 21 November 1923 This is the corner at Barry Ave./Kiowa Ave./San Vicente Blvd in 1927. https://i.imgur.com/28L9zz7.jpg mil.library.ucsb.edu No sign of the tree house tree or the houses in the picture at that stage. Maybe cleared in the preceding four years. :shrug: |
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cdnc.ucr.edu - San Bernardino Sun, 21 November 1923 "This is the corner at Barry Ave./Kiowa Ave./San Vicente Blvd in 1927." https://i.imgur.com/28L9zz7.jpg mil.library.ucsb.edu "No sign of the tree house tree or the houses in the picture at that stage. Maybe cleared in the preceding four years." :shrug: I wonder if it was the area across the street, with all of the trees, just to the left and slightly down from the circled area. That is also on Barry Ave. |
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I pulled up the Sanborn map for that intersection from 1924. It would seem that in that era, the street numbers were different. According to the Sanborn map, the addresses along Barry Ave from Kiowa to Goshen are numbered in the range: 2102, to 2130. https://www.loc.gov/resource/g4364sm...,0.298,0.111,0 |
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I am researching an artist named Leonard Del Sonno AKA Leonardo Del Sonno who had a studio at 3319 Sunset in Silver Lake starting in 1958. I found someone by the same name on findagrave who died in 1981 but could not locate an obit on Del Sonno.
He did these outlandish chalkware table lamps, but had some other wild decor on display in his shop window. Any leads would be appreciated. Thank you. https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/...nardo-delsonno https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/...2be66494_b.jpg 1973 Ed Ruscha/Getty https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/...3da5d2a1_b.jpg Etsy https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/...ec246c24_z.jpg Etsy https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/...3082c8d6_b.jpg Ebay https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/...476c170c_z.jpg Monrovia Daily News-Post 11/14/46 |
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I think the lighter photo is an earlier photo. I came to that conclusion due to the growth at the top of the tree, and I noticed in what I'm calling the darker photo, there is a birdhouse/mailbox (?) type of wooden object next to/behind the young boy in that photo that is missing in the lighter photo. Another thing that struck me about the darker photo is the drop off from the bottom step that the young girl is standing above. It seems like quite the cliff face there, exposed roots and all. Then after looking closely at the rest of the cobble-stone wall, I got the impression that the sidewalk may have been recently regraded. That got me to thinking. So I looked at the topo. map and moved west to where about I was guesstimating the 1000 block would have been in that era. I ended up zoning in on the intersection where "Montana Ave." and "Bringham Ave." meet. Just a hunch. It would seem that sometime in the 1920's Montana Avenue was graded over some kind of ditch or depression. I am also of the suspicion that the Spanish-style building that can be seen in the distance in the darker photo is one of the buildings at the VA Hospital, however it's hard to tell. I wasn't able to match it exactly to any existing building that I could see, however it does look to be similar in style to the rest of the remaining buildings. So at best, I've got a wild guess, stemming from a hunch that was based on speculation.:shrug: I've done more with less. |
From this knowledge junkie: Thank you everyone.
Thank you Martin Pal and Snix.
I am still somewhat surprised that I'm somehow only just now finding out about The Brown Derby being in the old Melody Lane building. Then again, that's why I've spent the past 10 years lurking on this forum. I thought that I knew quite a bit about L.A.'s history, however I have learned so much from everyone here. Years ago I attempted to collect the information that I was learning from this site, so that I could create some kind of history database. However I quickly learned that there is SO/TOO much information to keep track of. Also, trying to save each photo and organize them became something of a nightmare. I had it in mind that I was going to try to organize all of the information into some sort of Los Angeles history wiki. It became too daunting, too quickly. I suppose that's a rather long-winded way for me to say: "Thank you everyone!". |
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There is also a photo of the tree house at the Santa Monica Public Library. It says the tree house was on Barrington, but that didn't look quite right. Could Amos' tree house have been on the SE corner of Federal and Rochester Avenues? Assuming for the moment that the UCLA photo looks east, compare it with this May 2019 GSV looking east at the above-mentioned corner. Federal slopes downhill to the right/south like in the UCLA photo. Also, east of Federal, Rochester has a short, slight rise, then it dips down, like in the UCLA photo. At the left center edge of the UCLA photo close-up directly above, we see a house in the distance with what I guess are three attic vents arranged in a triangle. If you look at 11504 Rochester on GSV, the house (built 1929) seems to have the same attic vents, windows, and roofline we see in the close-up (not including the darker roof circled in red). |
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Flyingwedge, here is the S.M. Library photo of which you speak, it's dated 1915 and as you say the caption locates it on Barrington Ave....could that be Ol' Amos up on the roof? Re a positive location i.d. on this one, the assumption I made was that the buildings in the background left on the UCLA image were on the V.A. grounds....in the sliver we see of these structures they seemed to me of an institutional type and height, and not single family residences....so I thought the tree house property was hard by the V.A.....I could be way off on this, maybe they are SFR's, if so it throws the location open to the Brentwood streets further west, including Barrington Ave. https://hosting.photobucket.com/imag...080&fit=bounds In the UCLA photo here is the house to the right of the tree house property, I thought this would be our best clue....I read the number as 1106, but as Sakhal has pointed out the historic Sanborn maps do not show any street with an 1100 block adjacent or close to the V.A. grounds.... As you are aware all the east-west streets in this part of Brentwood are in the 11000+ blocks, I should know, over the years I lived in the 11700 block of Goshen Ave., the 11800 block of Kiowa Ave., the 11700 block of Sunset Bl., among other Brentwood locations....what I am thinking is looking at this street number it looks like it was set in an arc-type pattern....the natural progression would have another numeral, maybe that number fell off, and this house is actually in an 11000 block....if that helps us at all. |
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Monrovia Daily News-Post 11/14/46[/QUOTE] Before this thread drifts along too much farther, I wanted to acknowledge Snix's inquiry out of courtesy. I did try to find some information about Leonard Del Sonno/Leonardo Del Sonno. I came up empty-handed. I even tried alternate spellings (Delsonno, etc.). Nothing. Or, nothing more than what Snix has already discovered. I wonder if "Leonard(o) Del Sonno" was his real name. Ancestry.com seemed to have a few hits on that name, but I wasn't going to sign up for a membership just to answer that question. :shrug: As an addendum, I did find a single mention of "Roger Merrill Lamps" "General Desk Book...: Office of Price Administration": "5158-RogerMerrill Lamps, Los Angeles, Calif. Order No. 5158 established maximum prices for sales and deliveries of cast plaster stone, handpainted, horsehead table lamps and oblong parchment shade, model No. 215 manufactured by the applicant, of $16.67 to jobbers and $19.61 to retailers by the applicant, and $35.30 to consumer by any person* (Issued 9-9-46)." https://books.google.com/books?id=OR...mps%22&f=false |
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"One Hundred and Ninth Street near Santa Monica Boulevard."
Hmmm, now I'm really confused. Do those two streets intersect somewhere? And, now to add even more confusion... According to the 1920 census, it seems that Amos Aspey was residing at 2406 Rochester Ave. (I don't think that address is correct either.) Not that I'm paranoid, but I'm beginning to think that someone's just messing with us. /s Copy of the 1920 census: https://photos.google.com/album/AF1Q...BnFST9Qyq7BNjC https://photos.google.com/album/AF1Q...2N7aUq6PQim0GI I tried creating a Google Photos page to upload the photos, however, apparently it wont actually upload them. It will let me post a link to them. The first one is a close-up of line 68, and the other is the entire sheet. I got this copy of the census from:https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61...3A1%3AMHQ6-5PF I also noticed that as I thought, the sidewalk was regraded at some point. https://photos.google.com/album/AF1Q...sCBgRYgNzUXUYD https://photos.google.com/album/AF1Q...F9vf9mfixtmr1u In the 1930 census, (taken a few months before he died) he's listed as living in the "National Military Home", apparently with a bunch of other veterans. Additionally, according to the 1910 census, from Haynes Neb. his wife was living with him (Martha L. Aspey 62 from Ill.) and a daughter (Pearl Aspey 37 Kansas). So far, I haven't been able to find out much about Pearl Aspey. |
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It should be "Avenue" instead of "Street". Then you get - https://i.imgur.com/d9YtpPM.png rescarta.lapl.org I think Flyingwedge's suggestion of the SE corner of "Federal and Rochester Avenues" is right. From the 1927 aerial it's the corner along Federal (109th) Ave. that fits with the pictures. A tree right at the corner and two small houses close together. https://i.imgur.com/Dd1mfte.jpg dl.library.ucla.edu mil.library.ucsb.edu Where the tree house would have been on the 1924 Sanborn map. https://i.imgur.com/FK6OZVZ.jpg loc.gov |
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S.E. corner of Federal and Rochester is correct....
https://hosting.photobucket.com/imag...080&fit=bounds I thought there was a chance that this was "1406", and not "1106"....and recall that a "2" is visible as the last digit of the tree house property, initially I figured that street number as 1102. Turns out that the subject properties were in the 1400 block of Federal Ave....I ran 1402 Federal Av. on Building and Safety's site, this came up, dated 1932, two years after Mr. and Mrs. Aspey died.... https://hosting.photobucket.com/imag...080&fit=bounds https://hosting.photobucket.com/imag...080&fit=bounds Great work by all in solving the puzzle. |
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For example, I used to live in the Canterbury Apartments at Cherokee and Yucca. Bing Crosby lived there in 1930. And, from what I've read, it was quite the hotspot during the height of the punk era (late 70's - early 80's). Oh, and one of the people involved with the Urantia Book (Harold Sherman) lived there. As well as many other, shall we say, interesting characters. One of my favorite pastimes was going for a late night walk up and down the side streets, (I usually kept north of the boulevard though), or up to Whitley Heights. I would often stop and look around and either reminisce on the stories that I knew, or would wonder about the countless stories that have slipped through the cracks of time. Frank Baum owned a house that used to be across the street from the Canterbury, (before the Canterbury was built), called Ozcot. He died there in 1910. It was torn down in the early 50's and replaced in '55 by a yellow shoebox. https://na-st01.ext.exlibrisgroup.co...2OZCZ36VGVASIA https://na-st01.ext.exlibrisgroup.co...2OZCZ36VGVASIA Ozcot: https://calisphere.org/crop/999x999/...d6f7a22002afb9 https://calisphere.org/crop/999x999/...d6f7a22002afb9 The nondescript pale blob to the left in this photo is the building that replaced Ozcot. https://la.streetsblog.org/wp-conten...ikes-only.jpeg https://la.streetsblog.org/wp-conten...ikes-only.jpeg |
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Dixie Lee lived at the La Leyenda, around the corner on Whitley, when she was dating Bing Crosby, who was performing at the Café Montmartre on Hollywood Boulevard. Ava Gardner lived at the Canterbury in the early 1940s. My mother was walking under her kitchen window on Yucca one evening and heard her and Mickey Rooney in a screaming match. I sat with Mickey behind Musso & Frank one evening shortly before he died and pointed at the Canterbury and asked him if he remembered that apartment building. Mickey once said, "Hollywood has unfortunately become a memory. It's nothing but a sign on the side of a hill." |
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So my newest project is a documentary about the Palisades Del Rey/Surfridge area. Over the next few months I'll be interviewing experts and am getting permits to go in and shoot the butterfly count in late June/early July. If anyone knows anyone or anything they think I should be aware of, do let me know. |
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I had no idea about Ava Gardner living in the Canterbury. Now I'm very glad that I mentioned it. I learned something new. "Hollywood has unfortunately become a memory. It's nothing but a sign on the side of a hill." I suppose that's all it was ever meant to be, the rest was just imaginations run wild. Even though the Canterbury was run down, I loved the ambiance of the place. I used to hang out on the fire escape on Yucca and watch all the random activity on the street below. It was better than t.v. With the history and the general feeling of the place, it was like living in a noir film. I half expected to see the ghost of Philip Marlowe lurking around the joint. I just hope that I don't live to see them tear it down. |
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From the L.A. Times: 06/17/1987 "Sprinklers ’99% Installed’ at Time of Apartment Fire By KENNETH J. FANUCCHI JUNE 17, 1987 12 AM PT TIMES STAFF WRITER Emergency fire sprinklers that city officials had ordered installed earlier this year were not hooked up when a Sunday morning arson blaze forced almost 400 residents to flee a Hollywood apartment complex, authorities said. A senior inspector for the city Building and Safety Department, Domingo Sauceda, said an inspection in February, 1986, revealed that required safety equipment had not been installed at the Canterbury Apartments, 1746 N. Cherokee Ave. Sauceda said the building’s owner, Daniel Wiener of Newport Beach, had been given a year to install the equipment. When an inspection last month showed that the equipment still had not been installed, a hearing was set for today before a city attorney’s hearing officer to determine why the order had not been followed, Sauceda said. Nearly Completed Wiener said the fire safety work was just short of completion. “We have paid for the work,” he said. “My guess is that any delay probably resulted from a lot of work being done in the fire safety area.” Sauceda said the sprinklers appear to be “99% installed . . . including the installation of a (water) meter for the sprinklers and a water supply main. We want to determine why the system was not connected. “Had the sprinklers been working,” he said, “it would have helped contain the fire, although probably not dramatically.” Besides a sprinkler system, Sauceda said, Wiener had been ordered to install smoke detectors and fire doors that close automatically to halt the spread of flames. Sauceda said that equipment was operational and “worked beautifully.” Sauceda said Wiener is scheduled to appear in Los Angeles Municipal Court on Thursday on two misdemeanor charges for failing to install sprinklers at another apartment complex he owns at 756 S. Normandie Ave. Deadline Not Met Failure to comply with an installation order carries a maximum penalty of six months in jail and a $1,000 fine, officials said. “The work has been done,” Sauceda said of the Normandie apartments, “but he failed to meet the deadline and we have no authority to withdraw the charges.” Wiener declined to discuss the case. No one was injured in the fire at the Canterbury Apartments, which caused an estimated $75,000 damage to the structure and $325,000 damage to the contents, fire officials said. Sauceda said most of the fire damage was confined to the fourth floor, but that there is extensive water damage throughout the building. The fire was started on the roof of the 90-unit structure, fire officials said. Time for Repairs Sauceda said that it will take about two weeks to repair the damage so that at least some of the residents can move back into their apartments. The 82-year-old building was one of the first large apartment complexes in Hollywood. It was closed in 1979 by the Building and Safety Department after numerous arson fires and years of disrepair had turned it into a dilapidated slum. It reopened after a major face lift in 1980. A Red Cross spokesman, Ralph Wright, said 170 of the displaced residents stayed overnight Sunday and Monday in a temporary shelter operated by the Red Cross in the Hollywood High School gymnasium. The shelter is expected to remain open through tonight." https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-...496-story.html "JULY 1, 1987 12 AM PT The city attorney’s office filed criminal charges against the owner of a Hollywood apartment house that was set afire June 14. Dan Wiener, of Newport Beach, was charged with 11 misdemeanor counts of failing to install an automatic sprinkler and provide a night fire watch person in the 90-unit Canterbury Apartments, 1746 N. Cherokee Ave. None of the estimated 350 to 400 residents were injured in the arson fire in the four-story, 82-year-old building. The city Building and Safety Department had given Wiener a year, which ended Feb. 18, to complete the improvements. Trial was set for July 23 in Municipal Court. The maximum penalty for each misdemeanor is a $1,000 fine and six months in jail." https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-...582-story.html |
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