CBD requested some noir pics, as always the L.A. Examiner archive provides.
This is textbook tabloid crime stuff, Weegee would approve....images of utter urban desolation...
Dead woman at 411 East 4th Street, 24 January 1952. Daisy Lorene Johnson;
Found dead on a fire escape over a grimy alley on a chilly January morning....covered in a (likely) imitation fur, and some flop-house bedding.
The homicide guy won't relinquish his stogie as he examines the body.
There's weak grey light in the sky, my guess is it's morning....a gentlemen's shoe on the floor....
Was she a hophead o.d., fixing with her companion who then dragged her to the fire escape?....or was it murder?
411 E. 4th St., Chetwood Hotel