Hoping for gloom, Vampira puts up an umbrella on sunny day. She tells signature seekers, "I give epitaphs not autographs."
Dennis Stock, “Good Evening, I Am Vampira,” Life, June 14, 1954
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Actress and pin-up model Vikki Dougan sits above the pool at the Beverly Hills Hotel.
Ralph Crane, Life, 1957
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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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“Sea Monster" float in the Tournament of Roses Parade, Pasadena, Los Angeles Times, January 1, 1934
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“Star of the Sea,” Los Angeles Daily News, January 1, 1938
UCLA student Charlotte Lander and two other models prepare for a fashion show in their dressing room
Los Angeles Daily News, September 1946
“Two Runaway Girls Say They Will Do It Again,” Los Angeles Times, Oct 4, 1935
Gloria Graves is dug up from her steel tomb, Los Angeles, 1935
19-year-old Gloria Graves has been arrested for violating the city's Marathon ordinance outlawing contests and entertainments involving endurance that might affect participants' health due to locking herself in a steel tomb for the past week at Fifth Street and Vermont Avenue. Gloria's open coffin rests on solid ground with her still inside of it. The inside of her coffin is white with a speaker attached to the inside so she could communicate with outsiders and a light bulb so she could see.
"Tomb Girl's Bail Fixed," Los Angeles Times, 17 Nov 1935
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Belcher School of Dancing, Los Angeles, 1929 | Dick Whittington Studio
University of California, Los Angeles, 1932 | Dick Whittington Studio
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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
“Star of the Sea,” Los Angeles Daily News, January 1, 1938