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The legend of The Phantom Helmsman has it that the ghost of a Helms Bakery delivery driver has been haunting these Los Angeles streets since 1940 when he was killed after the brakes of his truck failed coming down the infamously steep grade of Baxter Street in Echo Park. Some insist the tragedy resulted from …
The screenshot below annotated with key moments in the strange, short, very slow and entirely miraculous journey shows the intersection of Washington Boulevard (running east/west) and Redondo Boulevard (north/south). Backstory: One of our patrol cars, a Crown Victoria paid a visit to the mechanic’s this week, towed there on Tuesday for a busted fuel pump. …
Been 35 days since my mom passed on October 30. Couple weeks since I received her ashes. Couple things are indicative of how well things are going. In accordance with her wishes to be buried in her Alabama hometown next to her beloved Aunt Nellie Dill, I sent a letter of inquiry and introduction to …
Hey Mom… I’m down here in the basement. Just wanted to let you know, I fixed your table. The one you’ve had since before I was born and all my life. The one I’ll now have the rest of mine. The rickety one you kept together at various times with spit, glue, hope and masking …
Mom passed away peacefully in her sleep the morning of October 30, 2025. She was 95. Rest in peace.
James Ward Eddy (1832-1916) 1832 – Born May 30 in Java, New York; the son of John Eddy and Caroline Ward. 1850 – Educated at Genesee Wesleyan Seminary and Genesee College in Lima, New York; becomes a school teacher. 1853 – Moves to Illinois. 1855 – Studies law and is admitted to the bar in …
As someone who has endured and emerged from injuries sustained due to life-threatening, blunt-force trauma, the physical and psychological wounds heal in time, but nagging reminders remain. In my case thirty years after and for the rest of my life. On the evening of July 6, 1994, I was heading home to Van Nuys from …
