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OK, here's a strange and noirish tale from 1940. As the caption says, this is "Chloe Davis, 11-year-old daughter of Mrs Lolita Davis, who is thought to have killed three of her children before being hammered to death by Chloe".
http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...1.jpg~original http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...hloeDavis2.jpg eBay There's quite a bit about this case online, so I'll try to pick out some of the details. On April 4, 1940, a bloodied 11-year-old Chloe Dibble Davis went to a neighbor's house to phone her father and ask him to come home immediately. He returned to his house at 1211 W 58th Place from a nearby grocery store where he worked as manager to find most of his family dead or dying. As Chloe led him through the house, she showed him her 3-year-old brother, Marquis (sometimes referred to as Mark), and 7-year-old sister, Deborah Ann, on the kitchen floor. Both had been bludgeoned. Chloe then pushed her father to the hallway where her mother, Lolita Davis, was lying dead on a mattress after being bludgeoned and burned. Finally, Chloe took her father to the bathroom where her 10-year-old sister, Daphne, was found with blood and brain matter splattered on the walls, floor and ceiling. At this point, Frank Barton Davis ran into the street screaming. Chloe followed and told her father to "brace up". The two younger girls were still alive when police arrived, but unconscious. Both died soon after reaching hospital, although Daphne apparently told doctors that Chloe had carried out the attacks. After being treated for her superficial head wound, Chloe was held on suspicion of murdering her mother and siblings. The police and their psychiatrist, Dr Paul De River, were surprised by the detached way Chloe recounted the details of the killings. Chloe claimed that her mother believed that her children were inhabited by demons. Her mother had then beaten three of her siblings with a hammer and slashed her own wrists. When Chloe discovered her brother moaning in pain on the kitchen floor, she asked her mother is she should put him out of his misery, which she did. Chloe's mother was still alive at this point, and she asked Chloe to keep hitting her until she could no longer talk. Only when the house went quiet did Chloe calmly go to the neighbor's house to call her father. Chloe is described as having above average intelligence and behaving like a 15- or 16-year-old, but it was her disconnectedness that confused investigators. When she was taken back to her home from the police station for a re-enactment, Chloe is said to have waved at her schoolmates on the lawn. She then took the police around the house, coolly explaining what had happened, and stopping to point at some books, telling them "I'm a bookworm. I read all the time." Despite early suspicions that Chloe had carried out the attacks, Judge W Turney Fox ruled that Chloe's strange behavior and participation had been due to her mother's domination. Although he accepted that Chloe had beaten her mother and brother, the coroner's jury determined that both had died from their original injuries. Her father, Frank, also admitted that his wife had been to see two doctors and a psychiatrist for her illness, and had asked him to buy some chloroform to pour on the children when the demons came to torture them. In the end, Judge Fox ruled that Chloe was not responsible for her actions, and that they were carried out under the complete domination of her mother. He then ordered that Chloe should live with her father at the home of relatives or friends approved by the probation office. Chloe Dibble Davis died in Indiana in 1987. She married three times, and had three children by her first husband. Her last marriage was only a few months before her death. http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...hloeDavis3.jpg Various pictures from derangedlacrimes.com Further reading: Deranged L.A. Crimes - Sole Survivor The Mind of a Murderer: Privileged Access to the Demons that Drive Extreme Violence by Katherine M. Ramsland Beyond Bizarre: Chloe Davis & Her Murder-Coaching Mom - 1940 Chloe Dibble Davis on familyorigins.com |
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I got (and annotated) this shot from GSV: http://almostrandom.com/nla/greatwesternhoagie.jpg amy! |
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History repeats itself......?
LA under-construction building burns to the ground, December, 2014. Real life mimics art.
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v4...ps9cf96fcb.jpg LATimes MGM "Gone With The Wind"... ''Atlanta" burns to the ground in 1939, Culver City. Old MGM back-lot movie sets used in massive movie fire effect. http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v4...ps7b6756ce.jpghttp://img.photobucket.com/albums/v4...ps275dca93.jpg MGM http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v4...pse556e230.jpghttp://img.photobucket.com/albums/v4...psfdf241f7.jpg MGM ~ Vivien Leigh & Hattie McDaniel |
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Symbols of Los Angeles: freeways and palm trees. http://cdn.abclocal.go.com/content/k...ire-img-02.jpgABC7 |
Orsini, Visconti, Medici...
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I also remember Ethereal saying he « wouldn't like to live next to the 110 » in those luxury Orsini, Visconti, Medici etc. apartments. How could they build residential buildings on that narrow space between Fremont and the 110 ? |
^ Alvaro, I believe you're referring to my series of pics. I was the one that became semi-obsessed with it last year and beat that drum good and loud, lol.
--Here's the post with all my photos: http://skyscraperpage.com/forum/show...ostcount=15393 --And here's my post where I lay out my noticing the remains and touch on the history of the site: http://forum.skyscraperpage.com/show...ostcount=12415 Also: wow, what a spectacular fire! This thing at its peak (peek?) was utterly massive, with reports of flames reaching 700 feet up into the night sky. As a fire captain in an LA Times article put it, all that bare wood goes up real good. I mean would you look at this shot! http://imageshack.com/a/img538/5131/hyrFMs.jpg Photo from the LA Times |
The investigation begins........
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Radio reports today say that the fire is of ''suspicious'' origin. The Fire Department says that the building was ''fully engulfed'' in a raging fire before they even arrived on scene. The local Fire Station is 45 seconds driving-time from the site. Here are several excellent post-fire stories about these eyesore buildings. Many downtown mavens declare these neo-Roman apartment buildings a disaster from the get-go. By the way, what does a Medici era design have to do with LA? LA is of Spanish origin, not Italian. http://la.curbed.com/tags/geoff-palmer |
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These types of structures are cheap to build and all the materials extraordinarily flammable, thanks to the unbridled use of chipboard and soft fir studs. My personal opinion is no city anywhere should approve construction of such structures. Nothing but dangerous fire traps! Note the chances are any Holiday inn Express, Best Western, or LaQuinta Motel/Hotel built in the last 5 years is of similar construction type and of similar materials. Cheap and Dangerous! |
This here is Earthquake Country
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As someone has mentioned quite recently in these pages, wood-frame construction is the most suitable method for such a structure hereabouts, in terms of safety and durability. |
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It seems to be a slow news day on NLA, so ...
If there are ever any typos in my posts, I blame my assistant here :). The seller dates "this Los Angeles Dog" using a typewriter picture at 1929. Neither the dog nor his owner is named, so I don't know if this was a one-off for the cameras or a trained performing animal. http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...1.jpg~original http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...2.jpg~original eBay |
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Sam Cooke
50 years ago today singer Sam Cooke, was shot dead in a south LA motel. [IMG]http://i292.photobucket.com/albums/m...a33c2c3dde.jpg[/IMG]
Bertha Lee Franklin who shot Mr. Cooke was cleared of all chardges. [IMG]http://i292.photobucket.com/albums/m...anklin2200.jpg[/IMG] [IMG]http://i292.photobucket.com/albums/m...ke-Coroner.jpg[/IMG] |
Fairfax south of Rosewood. 1-6-37 Los Angeles
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"Los Angeles Electrical Exposition 1936."
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"Pacific Electric car in Santa Ana."
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Tomorrow is National Poinsettia Day.
As mentioned in posts from around a year ago, poinsettias were grown in fields around West Hollywood and Beverly Hills, most notably by the Ecke family, and sold along roadside stands on Sunset Blvd. among other locations. Apparently Albert Ecke, a vegetarian and nature lover, along with his family, owned and operated a health spa in Germany and around 1900 was moving to Fiji with all of them to open another one (?) but at some point when traveling through Los Angeles decided to stay there. Speaking little English, Paul Ecke, later known as Paul Ecke Sr., quickly adapted to his new environs and translated for his father, Albert, during their trips to the wholesale markets. The family lived on a ranch on Hayworth Avenue, where they initially cultivated mostly fruits and vegetables. By 1915 they were growing poinsettias. http://legacy.utsandiego.com/uniontr...es/met-way.jpg Union Tribune / photo from the Ecke family Caption: Paul Ecke Sr. took over his father's business in 1919, selling off the dairy he had run with his sister and focusing his energy on field-grown poinsettias. http://media.utsandiego.com/img/phot...0_r620x349.jpg Paul Ecke III, former owner of Ecke Ranch poinsettia farm, shows a sign from the 1920's for one of his family's old poinsettia packing sheds in Los Angeles. It was among the many artifacts he discovered in the past year while preparing his family's records for an archiving project at Cal State San Marcos. This photo was taken in April 2013. / Bill Wechter/U-T San Diego Because of the growing urbanization in Hollywood, the Eckes moved their ranch to Encinitas in 1923. |
According to dailybreeze.com, the Plush Horse Inn opened at 1700 Pacific Coast Highway in Redondo Beach on August 3, 1960 (the seller dates the slide below as 1959). The article says that the original business included a restaurant called the Plush Horse, and a coffee shop called the Plush Pony. The article also names several of the businesses that have occupied the site since 1980, including Annabelle's Discotheque, a French restaurant called Renaud's, the Strand nightclub, the Club Caprice, and finally a gourmet grocery store owned by Bristol Farms.
http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...lushHorse1.jpg eBay This view from the other side shows the hotel in the background. It's now the Palos Verdes Inn. http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...lushHorse2.jpg dailybreeze.com Here's the building during its time as Bristol Farms. http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...lushHorse3.jpg citysearch.com There have been some alterations over the years, but the building is still easily recognizable. Yelp indicates that the Bristol Farms store/restaurant is now closed (their signs as seen in the picture above are gone in the GSV images after 2008), and I can't see any signage for a current business. http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...lushHorse4.jpg GSV There are more pictures of the inside and outside of the building over the years on facebook.com/StrandRedondoBeach. |
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