Neither has Cinematic Faceliftology.


BRAZIL [1985]

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I'll wish everyone a Happy New Year with a picture from 75 years ago. We've seen the Hollywood Canteen numerous times, but I think this image is new to the thread.

New Year celebration at the Hollywood Canteen. Shown is Tarawa veteran Seaman First Class Clayton Johnson, Dolores Moran and Cpl. Bing Crosby wishing everyone a Victory New Year for 1944

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Happy New Year Hoss...now about the Canteen card--I'm not seeing Bing.... That's him on the left??

HAPPY NEW NOIRISHERS

Shall we start the new year off with a MURDER. *maniacally rubs hands together*


MARCH 1960 Veronica Smith Locke found murdered.

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3 images. Murder, 26 March 1960. Body of Veronica Smith Locke found in warehouse at 830 Ducommun Street. ; Caption slip reads: "Photographer: Olmo. Date: 1960-03-26. Reporter: Farrell. Assignment: Murder. 25: Coroner's Assistants carry sheet-wrapped body of Veronica Smith Locke from boiler room of warehouse at 830 Ducommon [sic] St. 26-27: Dep. Coroners carry out body. 28: Outside view of warehouse in which body was found."

The address is


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Coroner's Assistants carry sheet-wrapped body of Veronica Smith Locke from boiler room of warehouse at 830 Ducommon [sic] St.






In 1956, Veronica Locke Smith lived in an apartment just north of Echo Park Lake. (now a parking lot)

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It appears she was separated from her husband.


I'm hoping one of you minions noirishers will be able to find some additional information.


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Ms. Smith-Locke might have come from Owensmouth. (today's Canoga Park)


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LAPL Of course it could be a different Veronica Smith.






This church is on Winnetka Avenue...to me, it looks like it might have been a school at one point in time.

7911 WINNETKA AVE.
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That's my supposition anyway.


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Ready to help, boss!

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A quick search for Veronica Smith Locke only yielded a story about a lady being widowed in Reno several years earlier, although there are links to California (if not LA). The articles are dated July 7/8, 1953. This is from the Reno Evening Gazette. I wonder if this is the same person. Maybe someone with access to the LAT archives can help us out.

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Sorry, e_r, Hoss, all . . . I come with empty hands: Nothing pertinent in the Los Angeles Times for Veronica Smith Locke, Veronica Locke, nor Veronica Smith; indeed, nothing in the Times reported as happening on Ducommun in March, 1960. Hm! :wah:

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Thanks for the follow-ups minions.
Wouldn't there be mugshots of her if she was arrested numerous times?

Dig! Dig!

*cracks whip*


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Using the search words "Ducommun street murder" I found another murder!

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but I don't have a date. (nor even the year) ....the way the headline is written maybe 1947?



p.s. If you click on the pinterest image it takes you to pinterest..if you click that image it takes you to....yep, pinterest.....if you click on that image it takes you to pinterest....if you...

It's like a never ending loop from hell. :hell:


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This article comes from the March 11, 1947 of the Madera Tribune, which is slightly strange because most sources list Evelyn Winters' death as March 12. Being so close to the murder of Elizabeth Short, her murder is mentioned on many sites. I think all the other articles say she was 42, but ages differences in these reports aren't unusual.

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Evelyn's murder is covered on the 1947project.

For newcomers to the thread.

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Red arrow at right points to Ducommun Street.

Complete 1956 Shell Oil map can be found at davidrumsey

Are there any archives of vintage mugshots on the net? Not just a few select photos of famous people, but ones that include the hoi polloi as well as the beau monde?

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Happy New Year from France 2019 !

As you can see from the partial sign, 830 Ducommun St was previously home to Armor Paper Products Co Inc. Despite the Ducommun address, the warehouse actually backed onto the river. I've arrowed it in this 1958 view. The building was almost literally in the shadow of the gasometers.

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Yes! That is the campanile from the Agua Caliente resort in Old Mexico. It was designed by Wayne McAllister in 1928.
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In the 1947project post to which you link, where I go on at the end about Tiernan, it's a reference to the previous 47p post.

Here's Winters at Ducommun & the Santa Fe Right-of-Way, March 11 of '47. I've covered her up but you can see a hand and foot to give a relative idea as to the positioning of the supine body.

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She had been murdered elsewhere and then dragged from a car, approximately ten feet. There was blunt force trauma to the head but the cause of death was stabbing.

Of course one of the most unusual facets of the case was George Wickliffee, who found her, and alerted authorities (a nearby SoCal Gas Co fireman) after he'd kissed her and fondled her breasts (Winters was exposed from the neck down)—they were tipped off by her lipstick on his lips. Wickliffee was thereafter confined to Camarillo.

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George Franklin Wickliffee had a long record, and was a professional vagrant and window-peeper.

In the game LA Noire, there's a copycat case as "Evelyn Summers" and when a railroad worker confesses he'd kissed the corpse, Detective Galloway hauls off and clocks him one; well, you can see for yourself.

Ducommun street was named after the Ducommun family who sold various metals.

That name always reminds of when my father died. His die casting company and of course by then my mother owed the Ducommun Company $10,000 [in 2019 that would be about $86,000]. This bill due was for aluminum and zinc he had purchased for making aircraft parts.

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Charles Louis Ducommun, a watchmaker by training, emigrated to the US from Switzerland in the early 1840s. He started a general store, providing supplies (and credit) to gold prospectors and other pioneers who had settled in the burgeoning pueblo of Los Angeles. Ducommun Street was named for Charles Louis.

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I saw this photo captioned: Barbara Britton at the Hollywood Canteen.

I hadn't seen any exterior photos of the Hollywood Canteen that were similar so I tried to figure out where this was taken. I believe the building at top center is the Guaranty Building located at Hollywood Blvd. and Ivar St. I'm sure it was taken south of there because if it were taken north the Knickerbocker Hotel would block the Guaranty building in some respect. Both the Hollywood Canteen and the USO were a block west of Ivar, so the angle wouldn't be right if Miss Britton were at either of those places.

I don't think it was taken on Vine Street because the Broadway or Plaza would be in the view and I don't recall any trees on the west side in any Vine St. pictures of this area.

Because of this photo...


...and because to the left of the group in the Britton photo there are cars parked there, I believe it was probably taken behind either the CBS Radio Theatre or Tom Breneman's restaurant where he did his radio show.
The first street west is Morningside Court which intersects Selma Ave.

Then I discovered this 1949 photo...

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In the left top of this photo is the Guaranty Building. Directly below it in the photo is a three story white building whose configuration looks the same as the building in the background of the Britton photograph.
So the general location for that photo is behind one of the locations fronting Vine Street. Could anyone be more specific?