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tiful and the press picked up an excellent nickname for the case but it also tapped into the dark side of hollywood and the hollywood dream that very few cases do a young girl comes west full of dreams and finds only pain and death it s a worst case scenario certainly much worse than many of those that exist today not getting into the right clubs not having your agent do anything for you getting fired what happened to the black dahlia exists on an entirely different plane than everyday life yet we all know that los angeles despite its endless sunshine its lush foliage and friendly grin will gut you if it gets the chance and never look back this is why the black dahlia in her own way belongs to each and every one of us she embodies those dark moments where you think you might not make it out alive posted by kuaptic 9 01 am 0 comments tuesday january 17 2006 legacy like any legends stories have grown up around elizabeth short and not just the kind in books they say she was a hooker a virgin physically unable to have sex a loose woman who was asking for it she had an affair with marilyn monroe she worked at the hollywood canteen a place where actors and actresses showed their appreciation to soldiers by serving up free pie and coffee while chatting and dancing none of these stories are true but many of them sprung from the attitudes of the time during the war when beth was coming of age women were expected to be independent to work support their families to hang around in bars drinking and entertaining soldiers they were finding their own way in the world she grew up in a family supported only by her mother and spent lots of time away from home in the winters in florida when she had troubles living with her father she had no compunction about leaving him and finding a job she knew she could find her own way in the world in 1947 the war had been over for two years but culturally speaking men were having trouble getting women back into the kitchen they wanted their jobs and authority back the family unit needed to be reinforced and the only way to do that were for women to go home having a beautiful young girl preyed upon horrendously violated because she was vulnerable in the world served a cultural need the papers reinforced this notion as the weeks progressed calling the killer a werewolf drawing attention to similar crimes independent young women slain go home ladies get a man to protect you posted by kuaptic 3 58 pm 0 comments aftermath over fifty people have confessed to killing the black dahlia all of them have been checked out by the lapd and they concluded th at none were guilty even now people have all kinds of theories as to what happened and who did it there s more than one person who feels their father did it a childhood friend believes orson welles did her in and another writer basically wrote a novel which has somehow become the authoritative text on the subject one blames a doctor with a tangential relationship to beth s sister a curious website hashes it all out with some arcane numerology james ellroy wrote a mystery based on the case called the black dahlia which is being made into a film most of these theories make interesting reads though they tell you more about the writer than about elizabeth short herself she gets a bit lost in the shuffle but there s no denying that she s caught the imagination of thousands over the years would she have felt that her long and painful death was worth immortalization it s doubtful but that s why people come to la right so you never know posted by kuaptic 8 18 am 0 comments friday january 13 2006 january 15 1947 it was an early cold january morning in the leimert park neighborhood of los angeles betty bersinger took her infant son for a walk in his carriage she was approaching the 3900 block of norton avenue which was paved but not yet built up grass was growing wild in the vacant lots in the grass betty saw a white form like a manaquin but in two halves sprawled in the grass she never got closer she never thought it was anything other than a a dummy but something about felt so wrong that instead of investigating she turned heel went to the nearest house to use their phone she called the police there s some question as to whether or the police or the reporters showed up first however there s no doubt of the horror they found there she was naked she had been bisected some would say with medical precision and cleaned her body laid out in a very specific and lewd manner she had chunks of flesh missing but they think she died from the lascerations to her face incisions that went from the corners of her mouth up through the cheeks it was chaos at 39th and norton the crime scene was compromised by people tramping all over it there were also some problems due to the rivalry between two different police factions though taunting notes in cut up newsprint were sent to the police directing them to beth s purse and other belongings the case was never solved they did do something right though morgue techs collected her and sent her fingerprints through a primitive fax machine because she had worked at camp cook they identified her by the end of the day her name was elizabeth short posted by kuaptic 6 49 pm 0 comments last days could she feel the walls closing in beth fled to san diego on december 8th 1946 dorothy french who found her asleep when she was closing her theater for the night the girl took beth to her home in pacific beach where she lived with her mother she stayed on irritating dorothy s mother by not looking for work and sleeping late one night people pounded on the door the family didn t answer at beth s behest a few days later on january 9th she beat it back to los angeles getting a ride from a traveling salesman robert red manley she d been seeing in san diego she met him when he spoke to her from his car while she was standing on a street corner he dropped her off at the biltmore hotel downtown at seven pm she claimed she was meeting her sister there and they would go up to berkeley together beth hung around the bar for hours agitated she made a number of phone calls she left on foot around 10pm observed by the doorman walking down olive and into los angeles history posted by kuaptic 8 20 am 0 comments thursday january 12 2006 enter the dahlia beth was seeing a boy who worked at an airbase in long beach another pilot she was staying nearby it was at a drug store soda fountain there that she earned the moniker the black dahlia because of her penchant for wearing black it was not a name she was called during her lifetime rather something picked up by the papers later the name comes from the movie the blue dahlia a 1946 film starring alan ladd and veronica lake where an ex bomber pilot is accused of killing his adulterous wife beth was a mercurial girl described as shining with warmth and sympathy but quick to turn to distant ice these highs and lows became part of her the character she played bolstered by her natural beauty and unique style for beth it must have seemed that she had wrought herself from nothing a poor girl without school smarts in massachusetts to someone who might have walked out of a movie and into the pig n whistle or steve boardner s bar it s possible that her transformation was less deliberate than that perhaps it came from a dreamy place something she could barely control one moment she was a swan but the next she was a phoenix all light and fire with no one close to give these changes any context life was a dream and she drifted fitfully on its currents unaware that her beauty and her solitude were part of heady mixture that would make her a legend posted by kuaptic 1 29 pm 0 comments nothing says class like a toilet out front oh yes palms pulls out all the stops it was especially inspired to put it in such a carefully manicured piece of landscaping it s not even grassy so it doesn t stand out in terms of size but rather is nestled into some xeriscape esque plants duchamps would be proud posted by kuaptic 9 20 am 0 comments wednesday january 11 2006 out west life with her father was not like betty now calling herself beth thought it would be she worked all day as a cashier at camp cook where was voted the camp cook cutie and when she came home her father expected her to clean and make him dinner she didn t come out west to be locked up with an old man she d come to see things to have a good time eventually he kicked her out for being lazy and staying out late then beth was on her own eventually she was picked up for underage drinking and sent back to medford but one taste of california left beth wanting more she drifted back not associating with her father she lived life on the edge of poverty she spent her days hanging out at soda fountains hoping to be discovered at night she worked as a bar or b girl someone employed by bars to make men stay and buy more drinks though she did some small time modelling there s no proof that she ever made it to celluloid she lived in apartments she shared with other girls in similar situations or when nothing else was available she would get a cheap hotel room posted by kuaptic 3 54 pm 0 comments sunny florida betty spent a year in high school but dropped out before long an indifferent student because of her asthma she spent winters in florida hanging around the beach and waitressing to support herself it was in miami that she met major matt gordon a young pilot and member of the flying tigers there s some disagreement as to whether matt and betty became engaged she certainly claimed they were and he introduced her to his sister so they could begin a correspondence he gave her a watch as an engagement gift she was in medford when she heard that he had been killed on his way home from the war in the pacific theater in a telegram from matt s mother curiously beth asked his family for some money so she could go out west and start a new life a move that may seem scheming but could have been made out of desperation in 1943 all of nineteen she decided she would join her father in vallejo california she needed a change from medford and florida where all she could think of was matt it would be better for her health she reasoned and then she would be closer to hollywood maybe she would get discovered posted by kuaptic 8 20 am 0 comments monday january 09 2006 medford ma medford massachusetts isn t much to look at a small suburb of boston medford s history as most of the rest of massachusetts dates back to the 1600s it was incorperated as a city in 1892 it was bustling and industrious then a center for building clipper ships and they had a number of factories producing tile and brick by the 1920s some of these industries had slackened certainly clipper ships were no longer in production but there was still enough industry there to draw a family that had come on hard luck in nearby hyde park phoebe mae and cleo short moved their family of five daughters virginia dorothea elizabeth eleanora and muriel to medford in the late 20s things may have been better there but then the stock market crash hit the family got even deeper in debt and eventually began to head into bankruptcy in 1930 cleo disappeared they found only a suicide note and his car near a local bridge phoebe mae was on her own she took odd jobs to support her family our story concerns the middle daughter called betty or bette by her family she had little interest in school but loved going to the movies where she escaped the poverty and shame of her homelife naturally she dreamed of being a part of that world it was easy to see her succeeding at such aspirations betty was a natural beauty with her heart shaped face and pale blue eyes she began to dye her hair a more dramatic black as a teenager it was about this time that cleo short resurfaced he had been living in california and wished to rejoin his family phoebe forbid it he kept up a relationship with his girls through letters posted by kuaptic 3 01 pm 0 comments all the sweetest fairy tales nowadays fairy tales have been cleaned up and often outfitted with boring pop culture referential comedy that mitigates the timelessness of the stories cinderella s evil sisters don t cut off parts of their feet to fit into the glass slipper the little mermaid lives happily ever after instead of sacrificing herself to save the life of her beloved these stories were made to tap into children s deepest fears to give weight to the shadows the crept up on them and thus to be able to put some space between children and their fears some fairy tales didn t have happy endings and some did in los angeles more often than not they don t this is a town where the big bad wolf eats all three of the little pigs or little red riding hood where beings as malicious and evil as anything imagined in the old world wander the streets and haunt studio lots all over town over the next few days we re going to explore a story that had all the trappings of your favorite fairy tale a beautiful girl from a poor family who leaves home to find a better life but this girl walked into the woods and never came out posted by kuaptic 9 05 am 0 comments friday january 06 2006 lax is lax remember how when lax put up their arty glowing colored pylon thingies it was controversial there were people who thought they should have put that money into the ailing communities around the huge airport they were probably right though simplistic and let s be honest obviously phallic the pylons grew on us they made for a dynamic entrance into the airport although the loop and overcrowded airlines stunted such feeling once you got past them lax has suspended the running of the light show as these expensive glass cylinders have never worked correctly it seems so typical that something so expensive would need more money poured into it posted by kuaptic 10 46 am 0 comments thursday january 05 2006 every couch here we have a couch that is typical of its kind beige for some reason many of the wild couches of palms are pale beige and the fabric is soft thin pile it has no cushions what do people do with those cushions anyway are they keepsakes do they nail them to the wall like some do animal heads or is it just to add insult to the injury of getting pitched we may never know dumped unceremoniously on its side it awaits its fate taciturn in nature with only a shopping cart for company posted by kuaptic 8 33 am 0 comments tuesday january 03 2006 back to life january is a peculiar month anywhere but in la winter evaporates when the trees hit the curb under frequent rain storms and cool tart blue skies the grass grows longer wildflowers percalating beneath the green so glance up sometimes you ll see the clearest blues and the most rains all year posted by kuaptic 5 23 pm 0 comments so this is the new year kuaptic has some new year s resolutions to share a new look maybe even get off of blogger to explore the hidden ruins of los angeles finally put up that in depth 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