An evolving cryptic tale of flying jazzbos on a bebop jag and charting a course down the coastline coaster to the NU-Pike, where coded co-conspirators abound, the berth of the cruel and the death of the Black Dahlia. Once we have established our initial bearing at today's address, 3825 S. Norton, of the once vacant lot. We can now trace out a path east. Let's go. Why East? Why not? It's only been sixty-one years and the murder is still unsolved and the case still open. It was early in 2007 when I first published the cartogram, losing that year as a leit-motif.
At the exact interval one minute of longitude. A real hot spot, we are now located in the bowl of the Olympic torch, high above the Los Angeles Memorial Colseium. Olympics, it's all relevant. Continuing east, we arrive at our next interval of sixty seconds, the intersection of S. 24th St.& S.Alameda Ave.
I had never heard of a place by the name of Clement Junction and that having lived within 10 miles of the place for eight years. It's an old railroad junction. It marks the original termius of the Southern Pacific's road down from San Francisco as it was laid out by the great surveyor, Lewis M. Clement back in 1876, thus earning this place in Los Angeles history. We're at the end of the line now, so everybody out. Not you, Harnisch.
Other of the so-called Black Dahlia sleuths will of course recognize the M. Clement part as the ubiquitious movie talent scout Maur(r)ice Clement of the 1949 Grand jury's list of suspects, and the open reference to the railroad pioneer invites us to head back to the west from here, assured as might be, that we are following at the correct speed and using the correct methodology, in this case, a grid survey.
But we need one more thing before we go, to somehow tie Edwin F. Burns to this location, or failing that, something tangable to connect Ed Burns to Maurice Clement in anyway and for that we need to exhume another forgotten celebrity, the French movie grand-pere Clement-Maurice. who was a camera operator to the famous surgeon Dr.Eugene-Louis Doyens and their work. Now we know that according to his Army Enlistment he was a thirty-three year old expert camera repairman when he was inducted in December 1942, and served as such as a Warrant Officer, Branch Immaterial, a skilled technican or repairman. Ed then certianly knew all about these characters and he's used them again and again, in his L.A. alias, Maurice Clement, and in the first act of his opus major, the murder of Elizabeth Short.
At the exact interval one minute of longitude. A real hot spot, we are now located in the bowl of the Olympic torch, high above the Los Angeles Memorial Colseium. Olympics, it's all relevant. Continuing east, we arrive at our next interval of sixty seconds, the intersection of S. 24th St.& S.Alameda Ave.
I had never heard of a place by the name of Clement Junction and that having lived within 10 miles of the place for eight years. It's an old railroad junction. It marks the original termius of the Southern Pacific's road down from San Francisco as it was laid out by the great surveyor, Lewis M. Clement back in 1876, thus earning this place in Los Angeles history. We're at the end of the line now, so everybody out. Not you, Harnisch.
Other of the so-called Black Dahlia sleuths will of course recognize the M. Clement part as the ubiquitious movie talent scout Maur(r)ice Clement of the 1949 Grand jury's list of suspects, and the open reference to the railroad pioneer invites us to head back to the west from here, assured as might be, that we are following at the correct speed and using the correct methodology, in this case, a grid survey.
But we need one more thing before we go, to somehow tie Edwin F. Burns to this location, or failing that, something tangable to connect Ed Burns to Maurice Clement in anyway and for that we need to exhume another forgotten celebrity, the French movie grand-pere Clement-Maurice. who was a camera operator to the famous surgeon Dr.Eugene-Louis Doyens and their work. Now we know that according to his Army Enlistment he was a thirty-three year old expert camera repairman when he was inducted in December 1942, and served as such as a Warrant Officer, Branch Immaterial, a skilled technican or repairman. Ed then certianly knew all about these characters and he's used them again and again, in his L.A. alias, Maurice Clement, and in the first act of his opus major, the murder of Elizabeth Short.
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