1926 was the height of the roaring twenties and a pivotal year in Hollywood.
The Roosevelt Hotel, built in 1926, played a key role in the lives of those whose stars shone bright during the golden age of Hollywood. Do the ghosts of famous actors haunt the Roosevelt’s halls? Of course they do. And we’re gonna tell you all about it.
She was the Oprah of 1926. America’s first radio televangelist with a nationwide following claiming she had the power to heal thousands with her touch. One day, while swimming at Venice Beach, this famed evangelist goes missing. It’s a true crime spectacle that consumes the summer. Then, she turns up in Mexico five weeks later. What really happened during that strange summer that rocked Los Angeles and the nation?
Take a further look:
Douglas Fairbanks' 1916 cocaine movie: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:The_Mystery_of_the_Leaping_Fish_(1916).webm
Smithsonian Magazine's The Incredible Disappearing Evangelist: https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/the-incredible-disappearing-evangelist-572829/
The Woman Nobody Knows: https://www.lapl.org/collections-resources/blogs/lapl/woman-nobody-knows
Upton Sinclair's poem about Aimee Semple McPherson's disappearance:
An Evangelist Drowns by Upton Sinclair
Through green-white breakers swift I leap,
Sun-sparkled seas by body keep;
Bearer of Gospel-Glory I