Beaudry, I meant to thank you earlier for posting this fantastic photograph!
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Originally Posted by Beaudry
I never thought I'd see an image taken atop the Clark Garage facing its rooftop carwash.
There's the Fremont kittycorner across the street, the Rose Mansion behind it, the Zelda up at 4th & Grand, and across from the Zelda the little-photographed 355 S Grand,
which in the early 1920s was the birthplace of the infamous Blackburn Cult.
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I believe we covered some of the elements of the 'Blackburn Cult', but I wasn't able to find the old posts.
...as a reminder.
re: Blackburn Cult
The religious group known as the Blackburn Cult, the Divine Order of the Royal Arms of the Great Eleven, or the Great Eleven Club
was started in 1922 on
Bunker Hill in Downtown Los Angeles, California; and later formed a retreat in the Southern California Simi Valley.
The group's founder, May Otis Blackburn, is said to have received revelations directly from angels, and along with her daughter Ruth Wieland Rizzio
believed she was charged by the archangel Gabriel to write books revealing the mysteries of heaven and earth and life and death.
Newspaper articles from the time period reported strange rituals including the sacrifice of animals, sex scandals and attempts to resurrect a dead 16-year-old girl.
Police found the corpse of Willa Rhoads under the floor at the Rhoads' residence, wrapped in spices and salt and surrounded by the bodies of seven dead puppies.
Mr. and Mrs. Rhoads later confessed to the police that they had placed their daughter in the tomb fourteen months earlier at the suggestion of May Otis Blackburn.
The cult was also accused of killing a member in an oven, poisoning another during a "whirling dervish" ceremony, and making several other members disappear.
Digging up Willa Rhoads (and the 7 puppies) So where is this?
http://gizmodo.com/angels-made-them-...bur-1711445327
After a few googles I found out the above location is in Venice.
Here's 1094 Marco Place today.
gsv
below: In this detail, you can see that a taller and wider door has been installed.
This article mentions a copper-lined redwood 'caskets'.
You can read the rest of the article here:
https://esotericnz.wordpress.com/201...urection-cult/
I wonder if the current owners know the history of their house?
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"Hello.....is this the owner of 1094 Marco Place?"
EVIL: