Just Above Sunset
April 9, 2006 - The Labor Movement in Images
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A few sites of interest
out here, like this (right), "The Keeper of the Watch" at the Hollywood Forever cemetery down on Santa Monica Boulevard, just behind Paramount Studios. This is at the complex of monuments related to the
Los Angeles Times - the first being the grave of Harrison Gray Otis. Otis started the paper. Next to that, the tomb
of his son-in-law, Harry Chandler, who ran the paper until his death in 1944, and Otis' daughter Marian Otis Chandler, and
next that a massive monument to the victims of "The Crime of the Century" - the twenty who died when the Times was
bombed in October 1910. On 1 October 1910
the Los Angeles Times building exploded under mysterious circumstances. The blast was felt throughout the area. One
survivor said, "Frames and timbers flew in all directions. The force of the thing was indescribable." Employees of the Times
tried to escape the flames, and some jumped from windows without safety nets below. A few hours later, nothing remained but
smoldering debris. Twenty people died in the explosion.
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