Posted Apr 19, 2021, 4:30 AM
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Join Date: May 2011
Location: Los Angeles, CA
Posts: 395
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Originally Posted by Martin Pal
SF Historian: [...] I am a professional historian by trade, but my focus for two decades was San Francisco. However, some of your tweets showed up in my feed one day, and I realized that Los Angeles was just as rich, historically, and so wanted to learn more. I LOVE when people have research questions, and this was a very fun ... well, how do I put this? It's like being on an Easter egg hunt, but as an adult. What's funny is that the LA Noirish website was actually the key. They posted this photo (see attached), and once I had the owner name, I could search the newspaper archives. That led me to the sale when he purchased the property, which led me to the original owner, which led me to the answer!
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There's no two ways about it, historians are the cat's pajamas.
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