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Bless You Boys (12/30/08 |
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... that
Bless You Boys is
Sparky Anderson's diary as manager of the first
American League
baseball team since the 1927 Yankees to "lead the race from wire-to-wire" and win the
World Series?
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| 226.
Royce Howes (12/29/08) |
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450 |
... that
Royce Howes won the
Pulitzer Prize for an editorial on the shared responsibility of labor and management for an unauthorized strike that put 45,000
Chrysler workers out of work?
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| 225.
Procopio (12/26/08) |
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2,645 |
... that 19th-century California bandit
Procopio, also known as Red-Handed Dick, was said to "love the feel and the color of warm blood," and his name was used by mothers to frighten their children?
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| 224.
Dick Kempthorn (12/21/08) |
|
|
... that 1949
Michigan football
MVP
Dick Kempthorn later flew more than 100 missions as a jet fighter pilot in the
Korean War and received the
Distinguished Flying Cross?
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| 223.
1980 Michigan Wolverines football team (12/21/08) |
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1,100 |
... that the
1980 Michigan Wolverines football team did not give up a touchdown in the final 22 quarters of the season?
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| 222.
Bruce Hilkene (12/21/08) |
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300 |
... that
Bruce Hilkene was captain of the
1947 Wolverines who were selected as the greatest
Michigan
football team of all time?
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| 221.
John P. McCormick (12/19/08) |
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353 |
... that the
Chicago Tribune's
John McCormick received the 2002 Distinguished Writing Award for Editorial Writing for his work on
9/11,
Afghanistan, and the sale of naming rights for
Soldier Field?
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| 220.
The Swimming Hole (12/19/08) |
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8,600 |
... that artist
Thomas Eakins was fired shortly after the exhibition of
The Swimming Hole pictured), cited as a prime example of
homoeroticism in
American art?
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| 219.
Henry Hatch (12/19/08) |
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2,008 |
... that
University of Michigan Athletic Hall of Honor inductee
Henry Hatch lived with his wife and daughter on the grounds of
Michigan Stadium for more than a decade?
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| 218.
Garden Gnome Liberationists (12/17/08) |
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14,200 |
... that the leader of the French
Garden Gnome Liberation Front was given a suspended sentence after the group "liberated" over 150 garden gnomes in 1997?
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| 217.
Timeline of Australian inventions (12/17/08) |
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3,800 |
... that
Australian inventions include the
boomerang,
didgeridoo,
black box flight data recorder,
Vegemite,
spray-on skin, and
bionic ear (pictured)?
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| 216.
Bill Paparian (12/15/08) |
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1,312 |
... that
Bill Paparian, who visited
Cuba while mayor of
Pasadena, California, was reported to admire both
Che Guevara and the
U.S. Marine Corps?
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| 215.
John Barbato (12/13/08) |
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1,746 |
... that
"Johnny Sausage" Barbato, charged with being a "capo" or "captain" in the
Genovese crime family, was released from prison in July 2008 at age 74?
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| 214.
Sue K. Hicks (12/11/08) |
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5,914 |
... that
Sue K. Hicks, a prosecutor in the
Scopes Monkey Trial who later became a judge in
Tennessee, may have been the inspiration for the song, "
A Boy Named Sue," popularized by singer
Johnny Cash in 1969?
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| 213.
Lincoln Broyhill (12/10/08) |
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10,108 |
... that
B-17 Flying Fortress
tailgunner
"Babe" Broyhill set a record by destroying two
Messerschmitt ME-262 jet fighters in a mission over
Berlin in March 1945?
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| 212.
Zoia Horn (12/9/08) |
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2,286 |
... that the
Zoia Horn Intellectual Freedom Award is named for a librarian who was jailed for refusing to testify in the 1972 trial of the
Harrisburg Seven anti-war activists?
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| 211.
Rachel Hirschfeld (12/9/08) |
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1,950 |
... that attorney
Rachel Hirschfeld works in the field of pet rights, including the creation of pet trusts allowing pets to inherit property?
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| 210.
Sunburst (community) (12/1/08) |
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2,648 |
... that the
Sunburst community, a Southern California
commune combining elements of
mysticism,
Christianity and
Hopi rituals, was once one of the largest shippers of
organic products in the
U.S.?
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| 209.
Florizel von Reuter (12/1/08) |
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5,815 |
... that
Florizel von Reuter (pictured), a
child prodigy on the
violin, later developed
psychic interests and wrote books describing communications with dead composers, including
Paganini and
Rimsky-Korsakov?
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| 208.
Hacienda Arms Apartments (11/24/08) |
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6,108 |
... that
Hacienda Arms on the
Sunset Strip was the "most famous brothel in
California" in the 1930s and now houses a celebrity-owned restaurant described by
Newsweek as "so hip it hurts"?
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| 207.
Tea Fire (11/20/08) |
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2,899 |
... that the
Montecito Tea Fire, which destroyed more than 200 homes in
California, was caused by smoldering
embers from a bonfire party at an abandoned tea house?
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| 206.
Sayre Fire (11/19/08) |
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2,200 |
... that the
Sayre Fire resulted in the worst loss of homes due to fire in the history of
Los Angeles, surpassing the loss of 484 residences in the
1961 Bel Air fire?
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| 205.
Hugo Bettauer (11/18/08) |
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1,400 |
... that
Hugo Bettauer, author of a satire depicting
Vienna after expulsion of its Jews, was shot and killed in 1925 after Nazis branded him a "Red poet" and "corruptor of youth"?
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| 204.
Rob Epstein (11/17/08) |
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755 |
... that
Rob Epstein, Academy Award-winning director of
The Times of Harvey Milk, also directed
Paragraph 175 chronicling the treatment of
homosexuals in Nazi Germany?
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| 203.
Dick Liddil (11/16/08) |
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1,578 |
... that
James-Younger Gang member
"Dick" Liddil surrendered to authorities after killing
Jesse James' cousin, reportedly out of fear of that James would seek revenge?
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| 202.
Stuart Macrae (inventor) (11/13/08) |
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2,514 |
... that the
sticky bomb was designed by
Stuart Macrae at a laboratory known as "
Winston Churchill's Toyshop"?
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| 201.
Michigan Tech Huskies (11/10/08) |
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335 |
... that the
Michigan Tech Huskies, from
Michigan's
Upper Peninsula, have won three
NCAA Division I championships in
ice hockey, with players such as
Tony Esposito?
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| 200.
List of Los Angeles Historic-Cultural Monuments in South Los Angeles (10/16/08) |
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2,315 |
... that the
Historic-Cultural Monuments in South Los Angeles include
Ray Charles' recording studio,
a stadium that hosted two
Summer Olympics (pictured), and
an early home of the
Oscar ceremonies?
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| 198-199.
List of Los Angeles Historic-Cultural Monuments in the Harbor area,
Powder Magazine (Camp Drum) (10/7/08) |
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1,794 + 1,206 |
... that the
historic monuments in the Los Angeles Harbor area include a
Civil War
Powder Magazine, a
World War I coastal artillery battery, and the bridge of a
World War II heavy cruiser?
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| 197.
Encino Oak Tree (10/6/08) |
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11,416 |
... that
Los Angeles police were sent to guard the remains of the 1000-year-old
Encino Oak Tree, a victim of "slime flux", after it was felled by an
El Niño storm in 1998?
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| 196.
Orcutt Ranch Horticulture Center (10/4/08) |
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2,509 |
... that the main house on the grounds of the city-owned
Orcutt Ranch Horticulture Center in
Los Angeles incorporates
swastikas in its architecture?
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| 194-195.
List of Los Angeles Historic-Cultural Monuments in the San Fernando Valley,
Los Angeles Historic-Cultural Monument (9/30/08) |
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13,797 + 770 |
... that a
tower of 2,000 wooden Schlitz beer pallets described as "a rotting vestige of one man's egotism" that festers "like a sore on the community's body" is a
Los Angeles Historic-Cultural Monument?
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| 193.
Menlo Avenue–West Twenty-ninth Street Historic District (9/28/08) |
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732 |
... that the
Menlo Avenue Historic District in
Los Angeles reflects the transition to
American Craftsman style architecture?
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| 192.
North University Park Historic District (9/27/08) |
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1,044 |
... that
North University Park in
Los Angeles contains many well-preserved
Victorian houses and was the birthplace of
U.S. Presidential candidate
Adlai Stevenson?
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| 191.
Alfred Rosenheim (9/25/08) |
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731 |
... that
architect
Alfred Rosenheim doubted whether
modern architecture could strictly be regarded as architecture?
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| 190.
Burro Flats Painted Cave (9/23/08) |
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3,806 |
... that some believe the
pictographs in
Burro Flats Painted Cave were drawn by
Native American maidens who slept in the cave as part of a
puberty ritual?
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| 189.
Elmer Grey (9/21/08) |
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1,196 |
... that architect
Elmer Grey recalled that "my health broke down completely" after he finished a major commission on a
Christian Science church in
Milwaukee, Wisconsin?
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| 188.
Bardsdale United Methodist Church (9/20/08) |
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365 |
... that the 1898
Carpenter Gothic
Bardsdale Methodist Episcopal Church in
California underwent extensive renovations after a portion of the ceiling fell on a parishioner during a 1982 service?
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| 187.
Frederick Roehrig (9/19/08) |
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1,113 |
... that
Frederick Roehrig's
Castle Green (pictured) in
Pasadena, California, was called "a fantastic folly created from the imagination of a Victorian architect with a penchant for Arabesque opulence"?
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| 186.
Camarillo Ranch House (9/17/08) |
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4,014 |
... that
Camarillo Ranch House (pictured), headquarters for "the largest
bean ranch in the world", was renowned for its
Arabian stallions that led the
Rose Parade?
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| 185.
San Buenaventura Mission Aqueduct (9/16/08) |
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6,512 |
... that the seven-mile-long
Ventura Mission Aqueduct, built between 1780 and 1815, has been called "an engineering marvel"?
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| 184.
National Register of Historic Places listings in Pasadena, California (9/15/08) |
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2,109 |
... that there are nearly
100 Registered Historic Places in Pasadena, California, including a
25-foot Space Simulator and the
JPL
Space Flight Operations Facility (pictured)
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| 183.
John C. Austin (9/15/08) |
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379 |
... that English-born
architect
John C. Austin designed several landmark buildings in
Southern California, including the
Griffith Observatory?
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| 182.
Carnegie Art Museum (Oxnard) (9/13/08) |
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260 |
... that the
Carnegie Art Museum in
Oxnard, California originally opened in 1907 as a
Carnegie library?|
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| 181.
Albert C. Martin Sr. (9/12/08) |
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2,756 |
... that architect
Albert C. Martin successfully defended his design of the 28-story
Los Angeles City Hall (pictured) against those who argued the city government could fit into the first four floors?
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| 180.
Adamson House (9/7/08) |
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5,225 |
... that
Adamson House, called the "
Taj Mahal of
Tile", has an elaborately tiled dog bath (pictured)?
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| 179.
Azusa Civic Center (9/7/08) |
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612 |
... that a parade honoring
Jack Benny was held at the
Azusa Civic Center, commemorating his running gag in which a conductor called out, "Train leaving now for Anaheim, Azusa and Cucamonga"?
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| 178.
Pomona City Stables (9/6/08) |
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1,103 |
... that the
Pomona City Stables, which housed 22 horses upon its completion in 1909, is reported to be one of the oldest municipal buildings still extant in
California?
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| 176-177.
Phillips Mansion,
Louis Phillips (9/5/08) |
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6,256 (PM) |
... that the
Phillips Mansion, described as having been built in the "Classic Haunted Mansion" style, was the home of
the richest man in Los Angeles County from 1875 to 1900?
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| 175.
San Dimas Hotel (9/4/08) |
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9,667 |
... that the 33-room
San Dimas Hotel (pictured) built in 1887 never had a paying guest due to a
land boom that never occurred?
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| 171-174. Adobes of
Rancho San Jose (9/4/08) |
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478 + 312 + 334 + 722 |
... that the
Palomares Adobe,
Casa Alvarado and
Casa Primera, built between 1837 and 1855, provided a stagecoach stop, chapel, school and early homes for the 22,000-acre
Rancho San Jose in
Los Angeles County?
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| 170.
Sunset Tower (9/1/08) |
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3,511 |
... that the
Sunset Tower (pictured) in
West Hollywood, California was home to gangster
Bugsy Siegel, who was asked to leave after being charged with running a
bookmaking operation there?
|
| 169.
Harold Lloyd Estate (9/1/08) |
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4,210 |
... that
Harold Lloyd's Estate, called "the most impressive movie star's estate ever created," included a
golf course and a 900-foot
canoe stream?
|
| 168.
Drum Barracks (8/31/08) |
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4,054 |
... that
Drum Barracks were built in 1862 and 1863 at a cost of US$1 million to quell pro-
Confederacy sentiments in
Los Angeles?
|
| 167.
Banning House (8/30/08) |
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1,131 |
... that the 1864
Banning House (pictured) reportedly hosted "the first yachting party on the West Coast" and has been called "one of the best examples of
Greek Revival architecture in the west"?
|
| 166.
Old Warner Brothers Studio (8/28/08) |
 |
2,601 |
... that the
Old Warner Brothers Studio, where the first "
talkie" was filmed in 1927, has recently been the location for
Judge Judy and
Hannah Montana?
|
| 165.
Millard House (8/28/08) |
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21,499 |
... that
Frank Lloyd Wright said of the
Millard House (pictured) that he "would rather have built this little house than
St. Peter's in
Rome"?
|
| 164.
Minnie Hill Palmer House (8/27/08) |
 |
2,411 |
... that the
namesake of the
Minnie Hill Palmer House was born there in 1886 and remained in the 1970s, still tending her garden, then located adjacent to a golf course, with an antique hand plow?
|
| 163.
C.E. Toberman Estate (8/14/08 |
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1,572 |
... that the
C.E. Toberman Estate was used as the "trophy" house of
Vincent Chase on the first two seasons of
HBO's
Entourage?
|
| 162.
Convento Building (Mission San Fernando) (8/13/08) |
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3,103 |
... that the
Convento Building is the largest
adobe building in
California and the largest original building at any of the
Spanish missions in California?
|
| 161.
Ramsay-Durfee Estate (8/12/08) |
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7,905 |
... that the widow-owner of the
Durfee Mansion died in 1976 at age 99, leaving an untouched
wine cellar stocked with vintage
wines and
whisky dating to the 1890s?
|
| 160.
U.S. Post Office-Los Angeles Terminal Annex (8/12/08) |
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3,100 |
... that the
Terminal Annex Post Office was
LA's central mail processing facility for 50 years and became a filming location when it closed?
|
| 159.
Municipal Warehouse No. 1 (8/10/08) |
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1,104 |
... that for many years,
Municipal Warehouse No. 1 at the
Port of Los Angeles stored the
railcar that carried
Winston Churchill's body to burial?
|
| 158.
Heinsbergen Decorating Company Building (8/9/08) |
 |
692 |
... that the
Heinsbergen Decorating Company Building was built in 1928 with bricks salvaged from the old
Los Angeles city hall?
|
| 157.
El Pueblo de Los Ángeles Historical Monument (8/8/08) |
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2,206 |
... that the
Plaza Historic District was the historic center of
Los Angeles in the days of Spanish and Mexican rule?
|
| 156.
Exposition Park Rose Garden (8/8/08) |
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843 |
... that
LA's
Exposition Park Rose Garden has more than 20,000
rose bushes and 200 varieties of roses?
|
| 155.
Ralphs Grocery Store (Westwood) (8/8/08) |
 |
9,000 |
... that
Ralphs Grocery Store (location pictured), part of a plan to build the "model college town" in 1929, was photographed by
Ansel Adams?
|
| 154.
Pico Canyon Oilfield (8/5/08) |
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3,841 |
... that
Well No. 4 in the Pico Canyon Oilfield was the first commercially successful
oil well in the
Western United States and the longest producing oil well in the world at 114 years?
|
| 153.
Highland Park Police Station (8/4/08) |
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2,309 |
... that the
Highland Park Police Station, where the radical
Symbionese Liberation Army (emblem pictured) once planted a bomb that proved to be a dud, is now the Los Angeles Police Museum?
|
| 152.
Neutra Office Building (8/4/08) |
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2,526 |
... that the
Neutra Office Building, once the office of
Modernist architect
Richard Neutra, is said to be the only commercial structure that is still intact with Neutra's original design?
|
| 151.
Smith Estate (Los Angeles) (8/1/08) |
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2,600 |
... that the
Smith Estate was the home of a writer on
occultism, the head of a railroad, and a
deputy mayor, and the
shooting location for the
cult film
Spider Baby?
|
| 150.
Highland Park Masonic Temple (8/1/08) |
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5,900 |
... that the old Lodge Room at the
Highland Park Masonic Temple (pictured) has been preserved with original anaglyphs and
cherry wood paneling?
|
| 149.
Miller and Herriott House (7/31/08) |
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2,870 |
... that original
stained glass from the
Miller and Herriott House was removed to a restaurant near
Disneyland, prompting one writer to compare the new glass to the
wooden leg on
Sarah Bernhardt?
|
| 148.
Frederick Mitchell Mooers House (7/30/08) |
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5,170 |
... that
Mooers House (pictured), an example of
West Coast
Victorian
architecture, is named for its owner who struck
gold after years of
prospecting in the
Mojave Desert?
|
| 147.
Spring Street (Los Angeles) (7/28/08) |
 |
|
... that the
Spring Street Financial District, known as the "Wall Street of the West", contains
Los Angeles's first
skyscraper (pictured) and more than twenty historic financial buildings?
|
| 146.
Bryson Apartment Hotel (7/28/08) |
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2,077 |
... that
The Bryson, featured in
Raymond Chandler's
The Lady in the Lake and the
neo-noir film
The Grifters, has become a symbol of
LA's
film noir past?
|
| 145.
El Molino Viejo (7/28/08) |
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1,886 |
... that
El Molino Viejo (pictured), a
grist mill built in 1816 by
native Indian converts from the
San Gabriel Mission, is the oldest commercial building in
Southern California?|
|
| 144.
Santa Fe Freight Depot (7/23/08) |
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3,885 |
... that
Sci-Arc architecture school built its
Los Angeles campus from the 1907
Santa Fe Freight Depot (pictured), a concrete structure with 120
bays stretching as long as the
Empire State Building is tall?
|
| 143.
Pisgah Home Historic District (7/23/08) |
 |
2,745 |
... that the
Pisgah Home (pictured) was the centre of a controversial movement in the early 1900s by a
Pentecostal
faith healer to care for the poor and downtrodden?
|
| 142.
Dick Larkins (7/21/08) |
|
|
... that petitions called for the firing of
Ohio State athletic director
Dick Larkins when he hired little-known football coach
Woody Hayes in 1951 instead of
Paul Brown?
|
| 141.
Fire Station No. 23 (7/21/08) |
 |
|
... that
LA's
Fire Station No. 23 (pictured) has been a location in over 50 film productions, including
Ghostbusters headquarters and scenes from
The Mask and
National Security?
|
| 140.
Mary Andrews Clark Memorial Home (7/18/08) |
 |
3,165 |
... that the
Clark Memorial Home, built in 1913 as a home for single working women, has been a shooting location for
Rocketeer,
Twins, and
Mr. Saturday Night?
|
| 139.
Watts Station (7/15/08) |
 |
4,525 |
... that
Watts Station was the only structure to remain intact along "Charcoal Alley" during the
Watts Riots?
|
| 138.
SS Catalina (7/14/08) |
|
12,887 |
... that
SS Catalina, after reportedly carrying more passengers than any other ship anywhere, has been stuck half-submerged in
Ensenada, Mexico for more than ten years?
|
| 137.
Eugene W. Britt House (7/13/08) |
 |
|
... that the largest sports research library in
North America is located on the grounds of
LA's
Britt House, a
Colonial Revival mansion built in 1910?
|
| 136.
Hale House (7/12/08) |
 |
5,007 |
... that the 1880s
Victorian
Hale House (pictured), with its exuberant ornamentation and color scheme, has been called "the most photographed house" in
Los Angeles?
|
| 135.
South Park Lofts (7/11/08) |
 |
3,718 |
... that
South Park Lofts in
Los Angeles, originally an eight-story
parking garage, was
converted to lofts, whereupon residents complained about a lack of parking?
|
| 134.
Garbutt House (7/7/08) |
 |
5,624 |
... that the 20-room
Garbutt House in
Los Angeles, California was built with
concrete walls and ceilings,
steel-reinforced doors and no
fireplaces due to the owner's intense fear of fire?
|
| 133.
Broadway Theater and Commercial District (7/7/08) |
 |
4,638 |
... that the
Broadway Theater District, with 12
movie palaces (example pictured) in six blocks, is the first and largest historic theater district listed on the U.S.
National Register of Historic Places?
|
| 132.
El Cabrillo (7/7/08) |
 |
2,256 |
... that
El Cabrillo courtyard apartments, built in 1928 by
Cecil B. DeMille and later home to transvestite actor
Divine, are said to be "steeped in old Hollywood lore"?
|
| 131.
Los Angeles Board of Trade Building (7/5/08) |
 |
1,405 |
... that
LA's
Board of Trade Building (pictured), site of the California Stock Exchange, was the first office building on the
Pacific coast with automated
elevators?
|
| 130.
San Fernando Building (7/4/08) |
 |
1,706 |
... that the
San Fernando Building in
Los Angeles, California, recently converted into upscale lofts, was raided several times for
illegal gambling operations between 1910 and 1930?
|
| 129.
Avenel Cooperative Housing Project (7/3/08) |
 |
2,724 |
... that units in
LA's
Avenel Cooperative Housing Project, reportedly built as "a
cooperative living experiment for a group of
communists", were selling for US$300,000 in 2002?
|
| 128.
Sears, Roebuck & Company Mail Order Building (7/1/08) |
 |
|
... that boxer
Oscar De La Hoya has been involved in efforts to redevelop the
Sears, Roebuck & Company Mail Order Building in the
Boyle Heights neighborhood where he grew up?
|
| 127.
Ralph J. Bunche House (7/1/08) |
 |
654 |
... that the
Ralph J. Bunche House in
South Los Angeles was the boyhood home of
Ralph Bunche, the first
person of color to receive the
Nobel Peace Prize?
|
| 126.
Florence Casler (6/30/08) |
|
2,814 |
... that after moving to
Los Angeles, California in 1912 as a widow with two daughters,
Florence Casler became a pioneering woman
real estate developer, constructing more than 60 buildings?
|
| 125.
Bruno Fonseca (6/29/08) |
|
1,425 |
... that
Bruno Fonseca's paintings The War Murals, inspired by violence in
Eastern Europe, have been called "the most powerful statement of their kind since
Picasso's great
Guernica"?
|
| 124.
Alvarado Terrace Historic District (6/20/08) |
 |
657 |
... that the
Alvarado Terrace Historic District includes a church built in 1912 that was the
LA home of
Jim Jones'
Peoples Temple before the group's 1977 mass suicide in
Jonestown?
|
| 123.
Ebell of Los Angeles (6/19/08) |
 |
4,900 |
... that young
Judy Garland was discovered, and
Amelia Earhart made her last public appearance, at
Ebell of Los Angeles (pictured)?
|
| 122.
El Greco Apartments (6/18/08) |
 |
6,900 |
... that the
El Greco Apartments (pictured), once home to
Casablanca director
Michael Curtiz, were saved from demolition with fund-raising help from
Star Trek's
Leonard Nimoy?
|
| 119-121. LA Carnegie libraries (6/15/08) |
 |
282 + 216 + 217 |
... that the
Vermont Square,
Lincoln Heights, and
Cahuenga Branches are the only surviving
Carnegie libraries in
Los Angeles?
|
| 118.
John Sowden House (6/08) |
 |
5,700 |
... that the
Lloyd Wright-designed
John Sowden House (
pictured) is known as the "Jaws House" because its facade resembles the open mouth of a
shark?
|
| 117.
Storer House (6/12/08) |
 |
7,353 |
... that
Frank Lloyd Wright's textile block work,
Storer House, was restored in the 1980s by
Joel Silver, producer of the films
Die Hard and
The Matrix?
|
| 116.
Dunbar Hotel (6/10/08) |
 |
1,530 |
... that the
Dunbar Hotel was the heart of
LA's
jazz scene with visits by
Duke Ellington,
Billie Holiday, and
Louis Armstrong?
|
| 115.
Centinela Adobe (6/9/08) |
 |
3,219 |
... that the builder of
Centinela Adobe traded his 2,200-acre (880 ha) ranch encompassing the modern city of
Inglewood for a keg of whisky and a small home in
Los Angeles?
|
| 114.
Los Angeles Fire Department Museum and Memorial (6/8/08) |
 |
1,815 |
... that
Engine Co. No. 27 served a dual function as a movie location and an operating
firehouse serving the
Hollywood
studios?
|
| 113.
Wadsworth Chapel (6/6/08) |
 |
1,713 |
... that the 1900
Carpenter Gothic
Wadsworth Chapel has separate
Catholic and
Protestant chapels under one roof?
|
| 112.
Montecito Apartments (6/6/08) |
 |
3,207 |
... that the
Art Deco
Montecito Apartments (pictured) had been the home of
Ronald Reagan,
James Cagney,
Montgomery Clift, and
George C. Scott before becoming a
senior citizens' housing project?
|
| 111.
Judson Studios (6/5/08) |
 |
1,117 |
... that
stained glass from
Judson Studios is found not only in churches, but also in
Frank Lloyd Wright houses, the
U.S. Capitol and the
Tropicana Casino?
|
| 110.
Hollywood Studio Club (6/1/08) |
 |
4,500 |
... that
Marilyn Monroe posed naked in 1948 to raise US$50 to pay the rent for her room at the
Hollywood Studio Club (pictured)?
|
| 109.
Hollywood Masonic Temple (5/29/08) |
 |
5,016 |
... that the
Neoclassical
Hollywood Masonic Temple (pictured) has been used as a
Masonic Lodge,
opera house, and
nightclub, and is now the home of the
Jimmy Kimmel Live! television show?
|
| 108.
Jardinette Apartments (5/28/08) |
 |
3,932 |
... that
Richard Neutra's
Jardinette Apartments building in
Hollywood is considered one of the first
Modernist buildings in America?
|
| 107.
Bolton Hall (5/21/08) |
 |
1,913 |
... that
Bolton Hall, the community center for a
Utopian community formed in 1913 in the foothills north of
Los Angeles, was later used as a jail?
|
| 106.
National Register of Historic Places listings in Los Angeles (5/21/08) |
|
2,728 |
... that the City of
Los Angeles has
186 sites listed on the
National Register of Historic Places?
|
| 105.
El Cortez (San Diego) (5/15/08) |
 |
2,439 |
... that
San Diego's
El Cortez Hotel, site of the world's first outdoor glass
elevator and
moving sidewalk, became a school for
evangelists in the 1970s?
|
| 104.
Golden Gate Theater (5/14/08) |
 |
5,511 |
... that the historic
Golden Gate Theater was saved by a stop-work order after
demolition crews had begun to dismantle the walls?
|
| 103.
Stimson House (5/10/08) |
 |
4,630 |
... that after surviving a
dynamite attack in 1896,
fraternity parties in the 1940s, and an
earthquake in 1994,
Stimson House (pictured) is now a
convent for
Catholic
nuns?
|
| 102.
McCarty Memorial Christian Church (5/8/08) |
 |
4,300 |
... that
McCarty Church (pictured) in
Los Angeles gained attention for its pastor's decision to racially integrate his white Protestant church in the mid-1950s?
|
| 101.
Leonis Adobe (5/4/08) |
 |
1,609 |
... that the spirits of a wealthy rancher and his Indian wife have been seen and heard since the 1920s at
Leonis Adobe, according to TV show
Most Haunted?
|
| 100.
Breed Street Shul (5/4/08) |
 |
1,835 |
... that
Breed Street Shul, now vacant in a Hispanic part of
Los Angeles, was the largest
Orthodox
synagogue in the western
United States from 1915 to 1951?
|
| 98-99.
Lopez Adobe,
Rómulo Pico Adobe (5/4/08) |
 |
324, 411 |
... that
Lopez and
Pico Adobes, built near the
San Fernando Mission, are the oldest residences in
San Fernando Valley?
|
| 97.
Burbank City Hall (5/2/08) |
 |
2,008 |
... that the
art deco
Burbank City Hall (pictured), with
murals by
Hugo Ballin, uses more than twenty types of
marble in its main lobby?
|
| 96.
Lorenzo Tucker (4/30/08) |
|
4,222 |
... that a scandal arose when
African-American actor
Lorenzo Tucker, known as the "Black Valentino", playing a
pimp in a play, kissed
Mae West, playing a
prostitute?
|
| 95.
Wilshire Boulevard Temple (4/29/08) |
 |
4,513 |
...that
Wilshire Boulevard Temple, with its landmark
Byzantine
dome (pictured), is the oldest
Jewish
synagogue in
Los Angeles?
|
| 94.
Blessed Sacrament (Hollywood) |
 |
1,729 |
... that
Hollywood's
Blessed Sacrament Church was the site of
Bing Crosby's wedding and funerals for
John Ford and
Mack Sennett?
|
| 93.
Mary Star of the Sea (San Pedro) |
 |
3,807 |
...that the bronze of Mary (pictured) atop
Mary Star of the Sea, known as the "Fishermen's Church," is lit at night so she can be seen from the
Port of Los Angeles harbor?
|
| 92.
Padre Serra Parish (4/27/08) |
 |
366 |
...that
Cardinal Mahony petitioned Rome to name
Padre Serra Church after
Junipero Serra despite controversy over his treatment of
California
Indians?
|
| 91.
St. Brendan (Los Angeles) (4/24/08) |
 |
5,270 |
..that
St. Brendan's Church (pictured) has been a location for two apocalypse movies: the
Martian attack in 1953's
War of the Worlds and the wedding at the end of
Armageddon?
|
| 90.
St. Augustine (Culver City) (4/22/08) |
 |
3,906 |
...that a
Muslim fundamentalist beheaded a statue of the
Virgin Mary at
St. Augustine's and carted a statue of
Father Serra to a nearby
mosque in October 2001?
|
| 89.
St. Monica (Santa Monica) (4/22/08) |
 |
2,104 |
...that
Academy Award winner
Going My Way was filmed at
St. Monica's (pictured), and the irascible old Irish priest character was based on its pastor?
|
| 88.
St. Cyril (Encino) (4/20/08) |
 |
3,440 |
...that
St. Cyril of Jerusalem Church (pictured) was the site of the baptism of
Clark Gable's son and the funeral of
Mercury Seven astronaut
"Gordo" Cooper?
|
| 87.
Incarnation Church (Glendale) (4/21/08) |
 |
2,064 |
...that police patrolled
Incarnation Church during the 2000 funeral of a Hispanic youth killed by
Armenian-Americans?
|
| 86.
St. Finbar (Burbank) (4/20/08) |
|
|
...that
St. Finbar Church in
Burbank, faced with a dwindling flock and changing
demographics, was one of the first U.S.
parishes to offer
Spanish language
Mass?
|
| 85.
St. Andrew's (Pasadena) (4/19/08) |
 |
1,506 |
...that when
St. Andrew's Church in
Pasadena was built in the 1920s, it was compared to "a jeweled crown on the head of a
Byzantine queen"?
|
| 84.
St. Robert Bellarmine (Burbank) (4/17/08) |
 |
464 |
...that the
pastor of
Burbank's
St. Bellarmine Church was a
World War I
chaplain who modeled the campus on
Monticello and
Independence Hall?
|
| 83.
St. Charles Borromeo (North Hollywood) (4/13/08) |
 |
1,513 |
...that
Paul Salamunovich, choir director since 1949 at
St. Charles Borromeo Church (pictured) in
North Hollywood, has also conducted choirs for dozens of feature films, including
The Devil's Advocate?
|
| 82.
Sportsmen's Lodge (4/8/08) |
 |
1,614 |
...that
Robert Kennedy stayed at the
Sportsmen's Lodge (sign pictured), formerly the "Hollywood Trout Farms", in
Studio City, California the night before his
assassination?
|
| 81.
Hillcrest Country Club (4/2/08) |
|
5,400 |
...that
Groucho Marx joined
Hillcrest Country Club even though it was willing to have him as a member?
|
| 80.
Biff, the Michigan Wolverine (4/2/08) |
|
7,908 |
...that the
Michigan Wolverines' practice of parading their live mascot
Biff before matches was stopped as the animal grew larger and more ferocious?
|
| 79.
McCabe's Guitar Shop (4/2/08) |
 |
7,100 |
...that more than a dozen artists have recorded live albums in the back room of
McCabe's Guitar Shop, including
Townes Van Zandt,
Ralph Stanley, and
R.E.M.?
|
| 78.
Santa Monica State Beach (4/2/08) |
 |
1,211 |
...that the
Veterans for Peace erect a memorial called
Arlington West every Sunday at
Santa Monica Beach consisting of a cross in the sand for each
U.S. military person who has died in the
Iraq War?
|
| 77.
Pico Boulevard (3/31/08) |
 |
1,859 |
...that the
1947 song "
Pico and Sepulveda" about an intersection on
LA's
Pico Boulevard (pictured) was frequently on
Dr. Demento's radio show?
|
| 76.
Van Nuys Boulevard (3/21/08) |
 |
3,416 |
...that
Van Nuys Boulevard, running through the heart of
LA's
San Fernando Valley, was a center of teenage cruising from the 1950s through the 1970s?
|
| 75.
Reseda Boulevard (3/12/08) |
 |
1,049 |
...that 16 people died when the top two floors of the Northridge Meadows Apartments on
Reseda Boulevard collapsed in the 1994
Northridge Earthquake?
|
| 74.
Victory Boulevard (Los Angeles) (3/11/08) |
 |
3,519 |
...that
Victory Boulevard (pictured), running the 25-mile length of the
San Fernando Valley, is mentioned in
Randy Newman's
I Love LA: "Victory Boulevard (We Love It!)"?
|
| 73.
Vicki Morrow (2/27/08) |
|
2,203 |
...that
softball
pitcher
Vicki Morrow was named
Big Ten Player of the Year in 1987 after winning 26 games, including 18 shutouts, and
striking out 446 batters?
|
| 72.
Ruth Pickett Thompson (2/26/08) |
|
|
...that
synchronized swimmer
Ruth Pickett Thompson received the
AIAW's 1979 and 1980
Broderick Awards?
|
| 71.
Ann Colloton (2/25/08) |
|
1,501 |
...that swimmer
Ann Colloton, the
University of Michigan's Female Athlete of the Decade for the 1980s, was inducted into the school's
Hall of Honor in February 2008?
|
| 70.
Gus Stager (2/23/08) |
 |
234 |
...that before his 40th birthday
Gus Stager swam for an
NCAA championship team and coached three high school championship teams, four NCAA championship teams, and the 1960 U.S. Olympic team?
|
| 69.
Francie Kraker Goodridge (2/21/08) |
|
1,709 |
...that
Francie Kraker Goodridge, who set a world indoor record in the 600-yard run, did not receive a
varsity letter or sports scholarship and had to work as a waitress to put herself through college?
|
| 68.
Mike Leach (tennis) (2/20/08) |
|
535 |
...that the
American
tennis player
Michael Leach gained national rankings in
doubles playing with his father?
|
| 67.
Penny Neer (2/18/08) |
|
751 |
...that
Penny Neer, 1982
AIAW
discus champion and one of the top U.S. discus throwers, also
blocked 64 shots for the
University of Michigan
women's basketball team?
|
| 66.
Al Renfrew (2/17/08) |
 |
214 |
...that
University of Michigan
Hall of Honor inductee
Al Renfrew was the first person to play on a
NCAA championship college
hockey team and later coach a national champion?
|
| 65.
Bill Orwig (2/17/08) |
 |
241 |
...that
Bill Orwig hired
Bob Knight as
basketball coach at
Indiana and has been inducted into the athletic halls of fame at three universities — Indiana,
Michigan and
Toledo?
|
| 64.
Marie Hartwig (2/17/08) |
 |
512 |
...that
Marie Hartwig, faculty member at the
University of Michigan from 1930–1976, was a lifelong advocate for
women's sports and one of the first women inducted into the school's
Hall of Honor?
|
| 63.
Chuck Ortmann (2/15/08) |
 |
1,505 |
...that
halfback
Chuck Ortmann
punted 24 times in the famed 1950
Snow Bowl, having decided the best strategy was to keep the slick ball on the other side of the field in the opponents' hands?
|
| 62.
Wally Weber (2/13/08) |
|
2,904 |
...that
Wally Weber,
football player, coach and broadcaster at
Michigan for 45 years, was renowned for his "polysyllabic fluency" and sounding like an "an educated foghorn"?
|
| 61.
Doug Roby (2/13/08) |
 |
700 |
...that
USOC president
Doug Roby initially took no action against
Tommie Smith and
John Carlos after their
Black Power salute at the
1968 Olympics, but expelled them after an
IOC threat to expel the entire
U.S.
track team?
|
| 60.
Harry Holiday (2/10/08) |
|
506 |
...that
swimming
Hall of Famer
Harry Holiday won 6
NCAA championships, and set 7 world and 18 American records in the mid-1940s but never competed in the Olympics due to
World War II?
|
| 59.
Charlie Fonville (2/8/08) |
|
2,523 |
...that
Charlie Fonville broke a 14-year-old
shot put world record by almost 12 inches (30 cm) at the 1948 Kansas Relays but was not allowed to stay with the other athletes because he was
African-American?
|
| 58.
Bob Webster (2/7/08) |
 |
1,809 |
...that two-time Olympic
diving gold medalist
Bob Webster won his first collegiate diving title for a junior college with no pool, training off a board in his coach's back-yard sand pit?
|
| 57.
Jenny Allard (2/4/08) |
|
774 |
...that
University of Michigan All-American
softball player
Jenny Allard has led
Harvard University to its first four
Ivy League softball championships since taking over as coach in 1995?
|
| 56.
Dick Kimball (2/4/08) |
 |
903 |
...that
Dick Kimball,
University of Michigan diving coach 1958–2002, won national championships both as a springboard diver and
trampoliner?
|
| 55.
William Revelli (2/2/08) |
|
518 |
...that
William Revelli, director of the
University of Michigan
Marching Band for 36 years, was the first to synchronize music and movement, in place of traditional rigid military-style formations?
|
| 54
Ralph W. Aigler (1/31/08) |
 |
|
...that law professor
Ralph Aigler, once known as the "dominant figure in Michigan's athletics," negotiated the
Big Ten's exclusive contracts with the
Rose Bowl in 1946 and 1953?
|
| 53.
Newt Loken (1/30/08) |
 |
533 |
...that before coaching gymnastics at the
University of Michigan from 1948 to 1983,
Newt Loken was the
NCAA all-around gymnastics champion in 1942?|views=533}}
|
| 52.
Thomas Trueblood (1/29/08) |
 |
6,700 |
...that
University of Michigan
elocution professor
Thomas Trueblood received nationwide attention when the
Chicago Tribune reported in 1903 that he was offering a new "course in love making"?
|
| 51.
Cliff Keen (1/29/08) |
|
886 |
...that
Cliff Keen's tenure as
Michigan’s
wrestling coach (1925-1970) was the longest of any coach in any sport in
NCAA history as of 1991?
|
| 50.
Willis Ward (1/30/08) |
 |
2,668 |
...that
Gerald Ford threatened to quit the
Michigan
football team when
African-American player
Willis Ward was kept out of a 1932 game in response to
Georgia Tech's refusal to play an
integrated team?
|
| 49.
George Jewett (1/27/08) |
 |
718 |
...that
George Jewett was the first
African-American to earn a
varsity letter in
football at both the
University of Michigan and at
Northwestern University?
|
| 48.
Rich Strenger (1/26/08) |
|
1,233 |
...that
offensive tackle
Rich Strenger told reporters that
Michigan Wolverines
football coach
Bo Schembechler ran a more strenuous training camp at the college level than he experienced in the
NFL with the
Detroit Lions?
|
| 47.
Scott Shafer (1/24/08) |
|
|
...that
Scott Shafer, hired in January 2008 as the
Michigan Wolverines
defensive coordinator, started in
football as a high school and college
quarterback in
Ohio?
|
| 46.
Harry Newman (1/19/08) |
 |
572 |
...that
New York Giants
quarterback
Harry Newman threw the first
touchdown pass in an
NFL Championship Game 75 years ago in the
1933 NFL Championship Game against the
Chicago Bears?
|
| 44-45.
Ralph Heikkinen (1/17/08) |
|
|
...that
Ralph Heikkinen was the first
All-American football player from the
Upper Peninsula of Michigan, being raised in the
Finnish-American communities of the
Gogebic Range?
|
| 43.
Stanfield Wells (1/16/08) |
 |
605 |
...that
Stanfield Wells was the first of more than ten
All-American
football players from
Washington High School in
Massillon, Ohio?
|
| 42.
Anton Zamloch (1/11/08) |
 |
2,901 |
...that 19th century
magician and
vaudeville star
Anton Zamloch was accused, and then exonerated, of having "bewitched" a woman's wedding ring from her gloved hand?
|
| 41.
Ed Frutig (1/11/08) |
 |
399 |
...that
All-American
end
Ed Frutig was the main
pass receiver for
Heisman Trophy winner
Tom Harmon from 1938-1940?
|
| 40.
Maynard Morrison |
 |
506 |
...that coach
Harry Kipke had to travel to the home of
All-American
Maynard Morrison in 1930 to seek his father's permission to switch Morrison from a
fullback to a
center?
|
| 39.
Bill Daley (1/7/08) |
 |
1,312 |
...that
All-American
fullback
Bill Daley is the only person ever to win
Little Brown Jug games playing for both
Minnesota and
Michigan?
|
| 38.
Paul G. Goebel (1/6/08) |
 |
|
...that
All-American footballer
Paul G. Goebel (pictured) recommended
Gerald Ford to the coach of the
Michigan
football team and later urged Ford to run for
Congress
|
| 37.
Bob Chappuis (1/3/08) |
 |
|
...that, after eluding capture for three months when his
B-25 bomber was shot down behind enemy lines in
World War II,
Bob Chappuis was the
MVP of the
Rose Bowl 60 years ago?
|
| 36.
Bump Elliott (1/1/08) |
 |
|
...that
All-American
Bump Elliott and his brother
Pete Elliott played
halfback and
quarterback for the
Michigan
football team that beat the
USC Trojans 49-0 in the
Rose Bowl 60 years ago today?
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