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The Girl Who Knew the Numbers
Submitted by kim on Fri, 09/05/2008 - 03:51.Location: 220 South Grand Avenue
Date: June 18, 1929
It is a thirsty Bunker Hill that laments the arrest of the bright and brainy Shirley Winters, 23-year-old resident of 220 South Grand, on suspicion of conspiracy to violate the Volstead Act.
Shirley was popped in a South Hill Street hotel room after Georgia Street vice squad Detective Lieutenants Shoemaker and Kearner overheard her take two telephone orders, one for two and another for three quarts of hooch. (In case you're wondering, it's $3.50 each for two quarts, and just $3 more for lucky number three.)
Driving Angels Flight
Submitted by kim on Sat, 03/29/2008 - 01:15.Location: 300 Block Hill Street
Date: September 1, 1934
We cannot know how many times mechanic Herbert Stockwell gazed from his window at 316 Clay Street over the steps adjoining the Angels Flight Railway and dreamed, but this was the night he partook of some liquid courage and attempted to drive down the steps. He crashed about 50 feet shy of Hill Street, knocking his teeth out and bloodying his nose, and was discovered wandering confusedly by Officer Hull. Hull took him to Georgia Street police station, where Stockwell was charged with grand theft auto and drunk driving. The wrecked car belonged to Doris George, wife of a physician in the Black Building at Fourth and Hill.




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