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While in my back yard helping my handyman with some work he was doing I heard a lot of cars blowing their horns right before the crash but when my air compressor came on little did I know that was the moment of impact. The driver of a white Ford van going north on the south bound side of Crenshaw Blvd. struck 2 cars with the Lincoln and it’s occupants receiving the brunt of the force from the collision. The couple that were in the Lincoln had to be freed from their vehicle with the Jaws of Life by the L.A.F.D. The crash which took place around 2:25p.m.Tuse. 9/30/15 at the intersection of 54th street & Crenshaw blvd in the Angeles Mesa area near Leimert Park of South L.A. The driver of the gray Cadillac was uninjured and the driver of the van and driver and passenger of the Lincoln are reported to be in critical condition per NBC News. The investigation was reported as still on going to determine why the van was traveling the wrong way.
The Postcard
A postcard that was published by B. B. of London. The card was printed in Saxony.
The card was posted in Folkestone on Friday the 10th. July 1908 to:
Mrs. H. Harmer,
No. 64, Providence Street,
South Ashford,
Kent.
The message on the divided back of the card was as follows:
"Getting on A1. Just got
home for dinner.
Hope you are alright.
H & P".
Carl Jacobi
So what else happened on the day that the card was posted?
Well, the 10th. July 1908 marked the birth in Minneapolis of Carl Jacobi.
Carl Richard Jacobi was an American journalist and author. He wrote short stories in the horror and fantasy genres for the pulp magazine market, appearing in pulps featuring the bizarre and uncanny such as Thrilling, Ghost Stories, Startling Stories, Thrilling Wonder Stories and Strange Stories.
He also wrote stories crime and adventure which appeared in such pulps as Complete Stories, Top-Notch, Short Stories, The Skipper, Doc Savage and Dime Adventures Magazine.
Jacobi also produced some science fiction, mainly space opera, published in such magazines as Planet Stories. He was one of the last surviving pulp-fictioneers to have contributed to the legendary American horror magazine Weird Tales during its glory days (the 1920's and 1930's). His stories have been translated into French, Swedish, Danish and Dutch.
Jacobi, who was a lifelong bachelor, lived in Minneapolis throughout his life. He was a voracious reader, gulping down at an early age large quantities of Jules Verne, Edgar Allan Poe and H.G. Wells, as well as the Frank Merriwell and Tom Swift boys' adventure yarns.
Carl Jacobi - The Early Years
Jacobi was a writer from an early age; at his junior high school he earned good pocket-money concocting his own 'dime novels' (short story booklets) and selling them to fellow students as 10 cents each.
Jacobi attended the University of Minnesota from 1927 to 1930, majoring in English Literature, where he began his writing career in campus magazines. He wrote of this period in Thrilling Wonder Stories (June 1939):
"I tried to divide my time between
rhetoric courses and the geology lab.
As an underclassman I was somewhat
undecided whether future life would
find me studying rocks and fossils or
simply pounding a typewriter.
The typewriter won."
Jacobi's first stories were published while he was at the University. Long before graduation he made his first professional sale, a short detective tale, "Rumbling Cannon", to Secret Service Stories. This ought to have paid around fifty dollars, but Jacobi received nothing since the pulp folded soon after the story was published.
The last of the stories he published while at university, "Moss Island", was a graduate's contribution to The Quest of Central High School, and "Mive" (which won a college-wide contest), published in the University's Minnesota Quarterly.
Both stories were later sold to Amazing Stories and Weird Tales respectively, and marked his debut in professional magazines. "Mive" (Weird Tales, 1932) brought him a payment of 25 dollars.
"Mive" was praised by H. P. Lovecraft in his letter to Jacobi of the 27th. February 1932:
"Mive" pleases me immensely, and I told Wright
that I was glad to see at least one story whose
weirdness of incident was made convincing by
adequate emotional preparation and suitably
developed atmosphere."
Lovecraft commended Jacobi's work to Derleth, and thereby helped set up the long-term relationship Arkham House would have with Jacobi.
Beginning in 1928, Jacobi corresponded with adventure-pulp veteran Arthur O. Friel.
Jacobi's early story "The Monument" (1932) was submitted only once - to Farnsworth Wright of Weird Tales. It was not submitted subsequently, but was discovered in a filing cabinet when R. Dixon Smith was researching his biography Lost in the Rentharpian Hills: Spanning the Decades with Carl Jacobi (1985). It finally saw print when included by Smith in Smoke of the Snake (1994).
Carl Jacobi in the 1930's
Jacobi joined the editorial staff of The Minnesota Quarterly, and after graduation in 1931, he became a news reporter, reviewer and sub-editor for the Minneapolis Star, as well as a frequent reviewer of books and plays.
He also served on the staff of the Minnesota Ski-U-Mah, a campus humor magazine (described on the jackets of Jacobi's books as 'a scholastic publication').
After a while regular hours palled, and he left the Star, renting an office in uptown Minneapolis which contained a typewriter, paper, a few reference books, and a list of editorial addresses in New York.
Jacobi met August Derleth in January 1931 when Derleth was visiting Minneapolis to meet Donald Wandrei. Jacobi had read Derleth's stories in Weird Tales, and his Solar Pons stories in Dragnet, and asked to be introduced; they met together, and with Donald Wandrei, for a literary roundtable at Minneapolis' Rainbow Cafe.
Though Derleth and Jacobi corresponded for 40 years thereafter, Jacobi only saw him a few times in St. Paul, and never visited Derleth's home of Sauk City, Wisconsin.
Over the following summer, when Derleth worked briefly as an editor for Fawcett Publications, outside Minneapolis, the three men frequently got together for brainstorming sessions.
Jacobi owned his own private retreat, a cabin at Minnewashta in the outlands of Minneapolis. His familiarity with the terrain there provided the setting for many of his stories.
From 1932 until Jacobi's death in 1997, pulp writer Hugh B. Cave corresponded with Jacobi. Scores of their letters are quoted in Cave's 1994 memoir Magazines I Remember, although many of Jacobi's early letters to Cave were lost in a fire in the early 1970's, along with copies of all Cave's early stories. Jacobi and Cave often criticised and improved each other's stories.
Jack Adrian writes:
"In the depression years of the early 1930's, the pulp-
writer needed as formidable a creative armoury as
possible, along with a certain amount of luck and
cunning to crack even the lowest paying markets.
Jacobi had a useful knack for dreaming up memorable
milieu against which to set his tales, and bizarre
situations that stayed in the mind long after the
magazine the story itself was in had been finished and
tossed away.
He may have been the only writer ever to have a story
firmly rejected by the redoubtable Weird Tales editor
Farnsworth Wright, only to have Wright, weeks later,
begging for the story back, because an incident in it
had stuck in his mind.
This was "Revelations in Black", a chilling, and much-
reprinted, vampire tale set in an old stone farmhouse
outside Minneapolis.
Jacobi had driven past it one night, and the house's
eerie statue-lined garden, as seen by brilliant moonlight,
had caught his eye and his imagination".
Jacobi wrote scores of tales for all the best-known magazines of fantasy and science fiction, and was represented in numerous anthologies of imaginative fiction published in the United States, England and New Zealand.
Carl's stories also appeared in such publications as Short Stories, Railroad Magazine, The Toronto Star, Wonder Stories, MacLean's Magazine, Ghost Stories, Strange Stories, Thrilling Mystery, Startling Stories, Complete Stories, and Top-Notch.
Though best known for his macabre fiction, Jacobi also wrote science fiction, weird-menace yarns and adventure stories.
Already by 1935, Jacobi was seeing a greater percentage of rejected stories. Pressed by financial problems and the need to help his parents survive the Depression, he took a $50 a week job as a continuity writer for the local radio station where he stayed until 1940.
Jacobi was fascinated by adventure tales with a Southeast Asia setting, particularly in regard to Dutch central Borneo and the Maritime Southeast Asia. Jacobi wrote to officials working in Southeast Asia to obtain details for his stories, and he had considerable knowledge of that background in his fiction. According to Jack Adrian:
"He would write to those in charge of far-flung
outposts deep in the heart of the Borneo jungle,
say, demanding geographical detail, obscure
ethnic lore, atmospheric and forestall conditions;
anything, in short, you couldn't get out of a book.
This way he became an acknowledged expert in
a field he had created himself, at the same time
inventing whole new fiction subgenres, such as
Borneo Terror Tale, New Guinea Adventure, and
so on.
Later he turned the same trick with Baluchistan".
In 1939, Jacobi met writer Clifford D. Simak when Simak moved to Minneapolis to take a job with the Minneapolis Star, and they became friends. At this time, Jacobi listed his hobbies as
"Studying the night sky with a 60 power glass;
continuing contacts with friends now located in
jumping off spots of the South Seas and Malaysia;
and collecting old tobacco tins."
Carl Jacobi in the 1940's and 1950's
In 1940-41, Jacobi served as editor of Midwest Media, an advertising and radio trade journal. He then spent some years as a reporter, and reviewer of books and plays, for the Minneapolis Star. He worked for them for many years, writing fiction on the side.
Following this, he reported:
"I travelled a spell; fooled about with telegraphy,
both wireless and Morse for another spell; then
turned to writing fiction full-time."
At the time of the compilation of Revelations in Black (1947), Jacobi's first collection, Jacobi was at work on a novel, but it is unknown whether this was completed.
Jacobi continued to sell stories to Weird Tales up through the 1950's, with that market taking eighteen of his stories in all.
When the pulp markets collapsed, Jacobi took regular employment with one of the Honeywell defense plants as an electronics inspector, a job he had through WWII and beyond, while writing part-time.
He worked the night shift at Honeywell seven days a week, which had a severe effect on both his writing schedule and his health, leading to heart problems.
Carl Jacobi in the 1960's
1964 saw the publication of Jacobi's second collection of weird fiction, Portraits in Moonlight, and several short stories published in magazines.
Carl Jacobi in the 1970's and 1980's
In 1972, Arkham House published Jacobi's third collection of weird fiction, Disclosures in Scarlet. Don Herron, writing in Jack Sullivan's Penguin Encyclopedia of Horror and the Supernatural, calls Jacobi's 1972 story The Unpleasantness at Carver House:
"It is his masterpiece - a ghoulish tale of horror
and madness that may rank with the best work
of Robert Aickman and Walter de la Mare in its
brilliant use of suggestion.
A feeling of unease pervades the story, and its
many macabre implications prey on the
imagination long after the last sentence is read."
In 1973, Jacobi attended the 31st. World Science Fiction Convention, held in Canada, having been persuaded to attend by literary agent Kirby McCauley.
There he met such figures as J. Vernon Shea and Robert Bloch. In the same year, Etchings and Odysseys magazine was launched in Minneapolis by Kirby McCauley, John Koblas, Eric Carlson, Joe West and others. Jacobi attended the launch, along with Mary Elizabeth Counselman, who had frequently appeared in the pages of the same magazines as Jacobi.
Koblas had come to know Jacobi much earlier, and received encouraging criticism from Jacobi on his manuscripts. Jacobi also came much in contact with poet and novelist Richard L. Tierney. During this period, however, Jacobi had suffered a stroke which left one side of his body paralysed and gave him a speech impediment.
1980 saw a collection of Jacobi's stories published in French, under the title Les Écarlates. In 1989 appeared a collection of all-reprint adventure stories from the pulps, East of Samarinda.
In the late 1980's, Robert M. Price's Cryptic Publications published a number of obscure Jacobi stories in such magazines as Astro-Adventures, Pulp Stories, Pulse-Pounding Adventure Stories and Shudder Stories.
Jacobi continued to write macabre stories in the 1970's and 1980's. Many are collected in his final volume, The Smoke of the Snake (1994). His last published story, A Quire of Foolscap (1987) contains an in-joke: an unfaithful wife and her lover check into a motel "out on Carcosa", an obvious reference to Ambrose Bierce's An Inhabitant of Carcosa.
Later Life and Death of Carl Jacobi
Debilitating illness crippled Jacobi during the final years of his life, although his literary agent and biographer R. Dixon Smith did much to alleviate his various afflictions.
Jacobi died at the age of 89 at St Louis Park, Minnesota on the 25th. August 1997.
A memorial for him was held at the Arcana Convention in September 1997 at the Holiday Inn Express in Minneapolis.
Burlington Northern Santa Fe & Metrolink Locomotives at the Keller Street Yard Light Repair/ Servicing area.
While cruzing the Blvd. a motorscooter kop's Remington 870 Pump action pistol grip Shotgun disengaged from the locking mechanism on the bikes rack and fell into the street in the area of Bronson Avenue and Martin Luther King Boulevard in LAPD’s Southwest Division. The gun was picked up by a bystander and he took off running with it and a large LAPD search and destroy mission ensued .... I mean a large search ensued and suspect was later caught and the shotgun retrieved.
While cruzing the Blvd. a motorscooter kop's Remington 870 Pump action pistol grip Shotgun disengaged from the locking mechanism on the bikes rack and fell into the street in the area of Bronson Avenue and Martin Luther King Boulevard in LAPD’s Southwest Division. The gun was picked up by a bystander and he took off running with it and a large LAPD search and destroy mission ensued .... I mean a large search ensued and suspect was later caught and the shotgun retrieved.
Jasmine on stage with tha Killaz at indie club Kitsch Bitch, which on this occasion was held at Madame Jojo's. It was Jasmine's last gig with the Killaz, and the group's second-last ever. Photo: Sarah Demetriou. Originally appeared in Miss K's Killaz flickrset.
Find out more about Six Inch Killaz here...
I didn't know Mr. Salvador Pena well I only waved at him when I got to work early in the morning as he drove his sweeper truck around cleaning up the lot and parking structure. When I turned on the TV that morning I saw the fire men working hard to get him out.
Firefighters were able to free Salvador after many hours trying to clear debris without hurting him any more. He suffered crushed legs and a partially dislocated spine — and get him airlifted to UCLA Medical Center. I can not imagine what his wife and 5 kids were going through. Can you believe he lived through that? .... look at his truck!!
While cruzing the Blvd. a motorscooter kop's Remington 870 Pump action pistol grip Shotgun disengaged from the locking mechanism on the bikes rack and fell into the street in the area of Bronson Avenue and Martin Luther King Boulevard in LAPD’s Southwest Division. The gun was picked up by a bystander and he took off running with it and a large LAPD search and destroy mission ensued .... I mean a large search ensued and suspect was later caught and the shotgun retrieved.
It was the first week of school after summer and some knuckle heads do a drive by on a group of teens walking down the street across from Crenshaw High. Two were hit but thankfully no one was killed.
The cowardly perpetrators that shot this young man don't need a reason.... Pay back.... mistaken identity.... wearing the wrong colors.... walking by your self..... walking in a group.....maybe he looked like a rival... so lets just Blast him any way..... what you looking at?..... hey lets not forget the young deaf woman and young deaf man that were gunned down when they were signing one another because the dumb ass thug thought they were throwing up gang signs. Our justice system is too slow, we need to execute these cold blooded murderers, execute them even if their victim lives so they can't contaminate the rest of the planet, OHH I'm sorry did I say something politically incorrect? Ask me if I care.
While in my back yard helping my handyman with some work he was doing I heard a lot of cars blowing their horns right before the crash but when my air compressor came on little did I know that was the moment of impact. The driver of a white Ford van going north on the south bound side of Crenshaw Blvd. struck 2 cars with the Lincoln and it’s occupants receiving the brunt of the force from the collision. The couple that were in the Lincoln had to be freed from their vehicle with the Jaws of Life by the L.A.F.D. The crash which took place around 2:25p.m.Tuse. 9/30/15 at the intersection of 54th street & Crenshaw blvd in the Angeles Mesa area near Leimert Park of South L.A. The driver of the gray Cadillac was uninjured and the driver of the van and driver and passenger of the Lincoln are reported to be in critical condition per NBC News. The investigation was reported as still on going to determine why the van was traveling the wrong way.
While in my back yard helping my handyman with some work he was doing I heard a lot of cars blowing their horns right before the crash but when my air compressor came on little did I know that was the moment of impact. The driver of a white Ford van going north on the south bound side of Crenshaw Blvd. struck 2 cars with the Lincoln and it’s occupants receiving the brunt of the force from the collision. The couple that were in the Lincoln had to be freed from their vehicle with the Jaws of Life by the L.A.F.D. The crash which took place around 2:25p.m.Tuse. 9/30/15 at the intersection of 54th street & Crenshaw blvd in the Angeles Mesa area near Leimert Park of South L.A. The driver of the gray Cadillac was uninjured and the driver of the van and driver and passenger of the Lincoln are reported to be in critical condition per NBC News. The investigation was reported as still on going to determine why the van was traveling the wrong way.
....for a brief second I thought someone had a really thumpin' sound system in their car as I was pulling in to the parking lot headed to the market.
Based on the radio program that aired over 21 years (1936 - 1957), the Gang Busters TV series had a short run in 1952 on a bi-weekly schedule alternating with Dragnet. Although both shows did well in the ratings, when Dragnet production reached weekly capability, Gang Busters was dropped.
DC Comics published 67 issues of the comic book from 1947 to 1958.
"We want to be free... Free to ride our machines without being hassled by the man!" It started out with old classics and lowriders and Harleys converging on the bridge and a car show broke out. Then some knuckle head brought unnecessary attention to the whole thing by lighting a smoke canister / bomb. From the distance I guess it looked as if some one was doing a burn out. The L.A.P.D. comes and breaks up the show. But as the photos prove the SHOW still went on.... UNDER THE BRIDGE.
While cruzing the Blvd. a motorscooter kop's Remington 870 Pump action pistol grip Shotgun disengaged from the locking mechanism on the bikes rack and fell into the street in the area of Bronson Avenue and Martin Luther King Boulevard in LAPD’s Southwest Division. The gun was picked up by a bystander and he took off running with it and a large LAPD search and destroy mission ensued .... I mean a large search ensued and suspect was later caught and the shotgun retrieved.
Yes, the same Ben Alexander who played Officer Frank Smith in Dragnet on TV. His son was later a BMW dealer in southern California.
Luis on stage with tha Killaz at indie club Kitsch Bitch, which on this occasion was held at Madame Jojo's. It was Jasmine's last gig with the Killaz, and the group's second-last ever. Photo: Sarah Demetriou. Originally appeared in Miss K's Killaz flickrset.
Find out more about Six Inch Killaz here...
Drag competition finals of Dragnet in Brooklyn, NY on June 20, 2013 hosted by Merrie Cherry and Untitled Queen at Metropolitan bar.
Drag competition finals of Dragnet in Brooklyn, NY on June 20, 2013 hosted by Merrie Cherry and Untitled Queen at Metropolitan bar.
I was able to take these photos from the Blair Hills area (on a residential cul de sac) which is sandwiched between Baldwin Hills and Culver City just behind Ladera Heights and can be seen from La Cienega Blvd. near the entrance of Kenneth Hahn Park . I have seen this house ... I mean mansion before but never took any real notice till I heard about it on TV and recently saw it in the news paper. This old house sits in the middle of the Inglewood Oil Field with oil derricks as it's only neighbors.
The mansion has a very rich history and interesting dirt about some of Los Angeles high society folks back in the day.
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The Los Angeles Police Department, or LAPD, is the third-largest municipal police department in the United States, with more than 9800 officers and 2700 staff. It serves a massive area of 1,290 km^2 and a population of 4,030,904. The LAPD has a history of both proud media appearances and controversies related to racism, police brutality and corruption.
Early policing in Los Angeles were volunteer forces, including the Los Angeles Rangers in 1853 and the Los Angeles City Guards. As neither were quite effective in bringing law and order to the community, the first paid force was established in 1869 under City Marshal William Warren. Even in 1900, the LAPD remained a minuscule 70 officers, and Los Angeles became known for its vice and corruption. In 1933, the LAPD first interacted with the media when CBS released the first police drama show Calling All Cars. During WWII the LAPD was overwhelmed by the Zoot Suit Riots of 1943, when white Navy sailors began attacking mostly Hispanic locals for being "unpatriotic" wearing the fabric-heavy Zoot Suits. Chief of Police Clemence Horrall was forced to resign in 1949 after getting caught up in the Brenda Allen vice scandal. After a brief tenure by Marine Corps Maj Gen William Worton, the Chief of Police went to William Parker. In 1951 seven civilians, two whites and five Hispanics, were severely beaten by police officers. The Bloody Christmas attack lead to five convictions by officers of the LAPD.
Also in 1951, the TV show Dragnet was first released. Starring fictional police Sergeant Joe Friday, Dragnet became one of the most famous and influential police procedural dramas in history. With a focus on realism and based on real incidents of the LAPD ("Ladies and gentlemen: the story you are about to hear is true. Only the names have been changed to protect the innocent."), Dragnet was praised by police and went on from 1951-1959, 1967-1970, 1989-1991, and 2003-2004. A frequent guest was Police Chief William Parker, who in the 1950s began reforming the LAPD to become a professional force. While greatly reducing corruption, standardizing the police academy and enacting a more proactive policing approach, Parker also militarized the LAPD, creating SWAT (Special Weapons And Tactics) team in 1965 following the Watts Riots and had a confrontational approach to crime, coining the term "the Thin Blue Line". He was willfully blind to racial issues, desegregating the police force in 1962 but otherwise leading the LAPD through ever-increasing charges of police brutality, especially among Hispanics and African-Americans.
After Parker, Thomas Reddin became the Chief of Police, introducing community policing and attempting to modernize the LAPD. In 1978 Daryl Gates, one of the founders of SWAT, became Chief of Police. As a crime wave hit South Central Los Angeles, Gates established DARE (Drug Abuse Resistance Education) with the Rotary Club and CRASH (Community Resources Against Street Hoodlums) to deal with the problems through the community, and finally Special Order 40, prohibiting police officers from stopping people for the sole purpose of obtaining immigration status. Gates also instituted Operation Hammer, massive 1000 officer sweeps through South Los Angeles, an extremely controversial venture that resulted in 25000 arrests (most without charge). In 1991 Rodney King was arrested and then beaten by officers of the LAPD. As the video of the beating appeared, Gates and the LAPD came under fierce criticism for police brutality. Gates was called by Mayor Tom Bradley to resign, but refused. On the day the indicted police officers' verdict was to be released, Gates, who finally agreed to resign, sent the day shift home. As the Rodney King Riots began, he told reporters that everything would be under control and then left for a fundraiser. As Los Angeles erupted into flames of looting, arson and riots, Gates and the LAPD were seen as, at best, incompetent and incapable of handling the situation; at worse, acting spitefully to punish the city for not supporting the police force.
In 1997, Chief of Police Bernard Parks was credited with a significant reduction in gang-related violence in Southern Los Angeles. However the Rampart police brutality and corruption scandal related to CRASH (involving unprovoked shootings, unprovoked beatings, planting of false evidence, stealing and dealing narcotics, bank robbery, perjury, and the covering up of evidence of these activities) ended his term. He was replaced by William Bratton, who promoted the "Broken Window" theory. The LAPD is now under Chief of Police Charles Beck.
The LAPD is now located here in the 2009 New Police Administration Building, immediately adjacent to Los Angeles City Hall, reflected in the windows.
Downtown, Los Angeles, California