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Comment on Exploring the Biltmore’s Phantom Past by Summer Reruns: A Few Favorite Ghost Posts

Summer Reruns: A Few Favorite Ghost Posts — Tue, 05 Jun 2012 12:41:53 +0000

[...] Considering that the Black Dahlia was last seen leaving the Biltmore Hotel before her murder, you’d expect its walls to be oozing with ectoplasm. And they are – just not hers. [...]

Comment on Rudy Valentino’s Cryptic DeLongpre Park Memorial by Summer Reruns: A Few Favorite Ghost Posts

Summer Reruns: A Few Favorite Ghost Posts — Tue, 05 Jun 2012 12:41:37 +0000

[...] Of all the alleged specters in the SoCal region, Rudy Valentino’s seems to get around the most. He’s been sighted in some of the oddest places — even a park that he never had any connection to in real life. [...]

Comment on Summer Reruns: Keeping Up With the Coronels by Linnea

Linnea — Thu, 31 May 2012 22:07:28 +0000

He even looks like a scoundrel.

Comment on The Feliz Curse: Ghosts, Greed and Griffith Park by Summer Reruns: Keeping Up With the Coronels

Summer Reruns: Keeping Up With the Coronels — Wed, 30 May 2012 04:38:13 +0000

[...] Of course, the consummate tale involving Coronel is L.A.’s famous urban legend, “The Feliz Curse,” a subject I’ve blogged about in one way or another time and again. Here’s my original post on the topic. [...]

Comment on More Old News: Trouble at the Ol’ Coronel Place by Summer Reruns: Keeping Up With the Coronels

Summer Reruns: Keeping Up With the Coronels — Wed, 30 May 2012 04:28:02 +0000

[...] After Coronel’s death, all sorts of hell broke loose with his widow when she decided to remarry. Relive the 19th-century gossip in “Trouble at the Ol’ Coronel Place.” [...]

Comment on A Very Small Street Honoring a Very Big-Name Angeleno by Summer Reruns: Keeping Up With the Coronels

Summer Reruns: Keeping Up With the Coronels — Wed, 30 May 2012 04:25:38 +0000

[...] Antonio Villaraigosa is L.A.’s first Latino mayor in over a century. But he can’t hold a candle to the ambitious Antonio Coronel, the city’s last Latino mayor before him. Read all about Coronel in “A Very Small Street Honoring a Very Big Name.” [...]

Comment on Blogobuzz: This Past Week’s Odds and Ends by Eric Gonzalez

Eric Gonzalez — Sat, 26 May 2012 16:54:26 +0000

Oh, those poor poor dog owners whatever shall they do? It wasn’t that long ago in our collective past that we can all recall a day when there were no plastic bags readily available for dog owners to pick up their Pooch’s “residoo”. They picked up poop then too (well most did anyways) the lazy bunch didn’t attempt until the big bad city governments started passing fines against it. Bad Government! Bad Government!!

I would assume that you would be rejoicing in this latest LA City Council decision. This being the 2nd largest city in the country, it will open up a huge gap in the market…Hmmm! Here comes human ingenuity and good old fashioned American entrepreneurship to the rescue.

In the meantime I am certain that Doggie Walkers from The Palisades to Echo Park can content themselves with using heavy duty paper bags, plastic drink containers (which have not been banned unfortunately), and heck even Trader Joes reusable bags. :)

As far as the city government not considering solving our budget woes, I offer the following for your consideration: http://articles.latimes.com/2012/may/24/local/la-me-holland-20120524

Happy Memorial Day Weekend. No worries about stepping in doggy poo, Pasadena as of yet has not considered such a ban. :D

Comment on Check It Out: “The Big Sleep” by Raymond Chandler by Linnea

Linnea — Thu, 24 May 2012 23:50:55 +0000

Just a minor correction: film noir (no e)

Then, the fun begins. Try to figure out what places he’s referring to since he renames them. Some say Bay City is Long Beach; some say Santa Monica. What do you think?

Comment on Marian Parker’s Mystery House by Liz

Liz — Tue, 03 Apr 2012 21:23:39 +0000

Interesting story. whatever happen to Marjorie?

Comment on That Mysterious Feliz Family, Revisited by Marc Richard Feliz

Marc Richard Feliz — Thu, 15 Mar 2012 23:04:41 +0000

Furthermore, I know that my great grandmother’s name was Marie, as it is also now my sister’s middle name and I named my 2 year old Clara Marie in her honor as well. This has GOT to be our family too…

Comment on That Mysterious Feliz Family, Revisited by Marc Richard Feliz

Marc Richard Feliz — Thu, 15 Mar 2012 22:54:13 +0000

I had been told by my father that we were also decendants of the Rancho Los Feliz family, but I believe the names we heard about were possibly that of Jose Vicente Feliz rather than Don Antonio Feliz. My father was George Feliz, his father was Arthur (perhaps Arturo) Feliz, his father was 100% Spanish, and his mother was 100% Navajo…does that matter? I have no idea, lol. I was told by a writer a few years back that there is a parade/celebration held in Los Feliz every year, possibly in February, honoring the Rancho Los Feliz decendants. If you have any info on this or anything else, please feel free to share it with me as well. email@marcfeliz.com

Comment on Spain Makes Federal Case Out of Sunken Treasure by Eric Gonzalez

Eric Gonzalez — Fri, 02 Mar 2012 22:58:18 +0000

i guess there goes that “scuba” trip I had planned for the Canary Islands. *darn* :(

Comment on Detail Shot: San Pedro’s Friendship Bell Pagoda by Eric Gonzalez

Eric Gonzalez — Fri, 02 Mar 2012 22:56:24 +0000

Great Photo!!!!

Comment on Before “The Artist” Came “Wings” by Citizen

Citizen — Tue, 28 Feb 2012 02:56:31 +0000

Your blog is the best. Write more often.

Comment on Time Warp: William Desmond Taylor’s Sensational Death Scene by Help solve Hollywood’s first murder mystery… Feb. 1st! | SoCal L.O.W.F.I

Wed, 01 Feb 2012 07:13:36 +0000

[...] http://mimlay.com/blog1/2010/07/25/time-warp-william-desmond-taylors-sensational-death-scene/ [...]

Comment on Tripout to Charles Lummis’ El Alisal Hideaway by L.A.’s Forgotten Lizard People

L.A.’s Forgotten Lizard People — Wed, 11 Jan 2012 01:56:30 +0000

[...] behavior. Either way, even prominent Angelenos have bought into the legend, including (allegedly) Charles Lummis, the famously eccentric writer-researcher of Native American [...]

Comment on Ghosts and GHOULA at Olvera Street’s Casa La Golondrina Mexican Cafe by Sandra Richardson

Sandra Richardson — Mon, 09 Jan 2012 22:47:19 +0000

Looking for haunted tours during April

Comment on Shaking Family Trees: Sanchez, Hossman, Lyon et. al. by Karin Schopp

Karin Schopp — Sat, 31 Dec 2011 21:52:44 +0000

Hello Michael- I was again cruising around the internet and saw this ongoing search. Maybe I can add more to what information you have. I gave up for awhile and am now back at it. We have moved to Carson City, NV . I have made some good contacts re: Cyrus Lyon and family. Let me know what you might need . I still have not found a connection to Petra Feliz Sanchez, but I still believe there is one somewhere. She died while some of her children were still rather young. I have been searching family connections to see if anyone of them ended up living with them. I know that when her last child (my relative Vincent Lyons)) died that he was living with his sister Mary Hossman. He met and married my grandmother in San Francisco and I know some of Marys children were living there also. Sometimes it crosses my mind that they might have been put in an orphanage. That is my next hunt…. I have alot of information on the families you mentioned. Let me know what you want – Karin

Comment on Harry Houdini’s Mythic Haunt by Ricky costas

Ricky costas — Sat, 24 Dec 2011 21:34:45 +0000

http://www.sandiegohaunted.com

also lots of haunts

Comment on Imlay Name Goes Hollywood in Battle:LA by Thom Imlay

Thom Imlay — Thu, 05 May 2011 20:59:20 +0000

I was also curious why they chose the name Imlay for this character. We do not have a very common surname.