Tom and Marie MacLaughlan look so happy!
Little do they realize that their father Alva Elwood MacLaughlan has saddled them with a family myth that would take decades to unravel. Click the button to read more.
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KRLA Beat: news of the sixties
The KRLA Beat website preserves the past! You can read a history of the station, peruse issues of the newspaper, listen to KRlA airchecks, read disc jockey biographies, and more! Visit the KRLA Beat Facebook page for more fun.
Spring flowers
One of the earliest ground covers to bloom in spring is Ajuga 'Parrot Paradise,' a species of bugle weed. Nothing weedy about it! The plant loves to fill in bare spaces (even around bricks and stone) and creeps delicately into corners.
A couple of Liverpool boys practicing a new song
It was Autumn 1962. Here Paul McCartney and John Lennon rehearse a new song they'd written called "I Saw Her Standing There" in Paul's front room at Forthlin Road.
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'Grace Seward,' a new single rose'
She arrived from California via UPS and already in bud. Here's her first flower. Read more about this splendid single rose.
Lorraine and Lolus Bruns, Chicago, 1940
This photo of the two Bruns sisters enjoying a day out was taken somewhere by a lakeside near Chicago in September 1940.
