Ballerina Alicia Alonso prepares for the Ballet Russe de Monte-Carlo opening
Los Angeles Examiner, February 8, 1957
Jody and Ms. Bonnie Jean Jones. Jody described as “ruffian” and an evilly disposed marauder with evil designs on neighbor's cat.
Rustan, “Cat Suit,” Los Angeles Examiner, March 24, 1958
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“Want Home for Cat,” Los Angeles Examiner, January 08, 1952
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Beautiful Girl Buried Alive, 1935
I know I’ll like it. I won’t have to worry about traffic lights, and I’ll take plenty of books to read. I’m just nuts on aviation and I’ve got several books on aviation to read while I’m down there.
Diagram shows how 19-year-old Gloria Graves, the “buried alive girl,” lived in her underground coffin for 92 days. For 10¢, customers could peer down the 8 foot airshaft at the smiling beauty with corn-yellow hair. Nearly immobile in her steel tomb, Gloria stared back, a bare light bulb illuminating her face.
sources: Los Angeles Examiner, 1935; D. J. Waldie, ”The Case of the Buried Blonde”
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Sandra Dianne Erickson – 20 (sentenced, attempted murder)
Gaze, Los Angeles Examiner, May 5, 1958
Suzanne Wynne gets Siamese cat
Los Angeles Examiner, July 7, 1951
Accident ...death by burning. Sandra Woodruff, 5, burned to death after nightie caught fire in heater
Los Angeles Examiner, January 23, 1952
“Please take me. I am a good kitty. My name is Tiger. I don’t eat much either. Thank you.”
Los Angeles Examiner, March 14, 1952
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Rita Lauren – 21 years (informed of husband’s death)
Los Angeles Examiner, July 24, 1951
Co-ed attempts suicide
Wyman, Los Angeles Examiner, February 19, 1954
Nancy J. Clark, Santa Monica High School sophomore, who today filed suit against her father for support, charging that he abandoned her at the time of her mother's death last October.
Gaze, Los Angeles Examiner, April 27, 1954
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Narcotics raid at 571 South Coronado
Wesselmann, Los Angeles Examiner, February 13, 1958
Graves brings her coffin to court
Gloria Graves, attractive "buried alive" girl, brought her crypt to court today and showed it to jurors and gaping spectators. She did it to prove she was harming no one, including herself, when she was buried alive, assertedly in violation of a city ordinance against endurance contests.
Los Angeles Examiner, 1935
Beautiful Girl Buried Alive, 1935
I know I’ll like it. I won’t have to worry about traffic lights, and I’ll take plenty of books to read. I’m just nuts on aviation and I’ve got several books on aviation to read while I’m down there.
Diagram shows how 19-year-old Gloria Graves, the “buried alive girl,” lived in her underground coffin for 92 days. For 10¢, customers could peer down the 8 foot airshaft at the smiling beauty with corn-yellow hair. Nearly immobile in her steel tomb, Gloria stared back, a bare light bulb illuminating her face.
sources: Los Angeles Examiner, 1935; D. J. Waldie, ”The Case of the Buried Blonde”
#gloria graves#1930s#vintage#coffin#history#casket#horror#buried alive#nightmare#corinne nienstedt#burial artist#los angeles#noir#santa monica#los angeles examiner#old los angeles#illustration#black and white#d. j. waldie#real l.a. noir: the case of the buried blonde#los angeles public library photo collection#lapl 00030215
Narcotics raid at 571 South Coronado
Wesselmann, Los Angeles Examiner, February 13, 1958
Model ends life, friend hears shot.
Phone where beauty shot herself to death. — Model Barbara Allen (note photo on dial) was talking to friend, said, "Count with me – one, two, three," then the shot rang out.
Los Angeles Examiner, December 13, 1956
Girl gets cat for the one she lost, 1951
Barbara Ann Ostrom and her new cat, Snow White.
Snow, Los Angeles Examiner, December 3, 1951