Kim and Nathan on the Radio on Friday
In the early 1990s, 1947project bloggers Kim Cooper and Nathan Marsak collaborated on a demented college radio program in Santa Barbara called The Manny Chavez Show. Nathan played Manny, a washed-up...
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Pasadena Weekly Puts Crimebo and Pals on its Cover
All the world loves a clown... especially a Crime clown! And when the editor of Pasadena Weekly heard about Crimebo, he upgraded Carl Kozlowski's planned feature on the Pasadena Confidential tour from...
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Photos from the August 6 Pasadena Confidential Tour
Yesterday's Pasadena Confidential Crime Bus Tour was a hoot, as we glided around the Crown City in our air conditioned murder bus with a happy coterie of grisly lookyloos. Here are a few photos snapped...
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Blood & Dumplings in the Pasadena Star-News
Why yes, Pasadenans, that was our own Nathan Marsak glowering out at you from page three of the Sunday paper, doing his little AH impression on the former site of the American Nazi Party Headquarters...
View ArticleThe Real Black Dahlia on the BBC's Pods and Blogs show
Tim Coyne of The Hollywood Podcast rode along on The Real Black Dahlia crime bus tour and prepared a cool little piece for BBC 5's Pods and Blogs program (or programme, if you will) explaining Beth...
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New Swag
The 1947project elves have been hard at work, updating our Cafepress shop with a delectable assortment of swag and oddities certain to enliven your life and spark conversations with local crazies....
View ArticleWeird West Adams on KPCC
We direct your attention to Frank Stoltze's wonderful KPCC radio feature on Weird West Adams. This link goes to a transcript with a button you can press to listen. Please listen, Nathan gets some...
View Article1947project's L.A. history presentation at Occidental College
On March 6, 2012, social historians, bloggers and tour guides Nathan Marsak and Richard Schave spoke to students in Dr. J.B.C. Axelrod's History 395 course "Reading and Writing L.A." at Occidental...
View ArticleA new year brings many changes
Welcome, gentle reader, to the new and much-improved 1947project blog. After one full year blogging the crimes and oddities of 1947 Los Angeles, we begin Anno 2 by leaving behind the clunky primitivism...
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