How Many Can You Name?

The Manson Mugshots. Can you attach a name to each face - without cheating?

THE BARRYMORE MANSION

1301 SUMMITRIDGE DRIVE

From "The Family"

"The Process spent time at the Barrymore Mansion, and may have attended parties there for show business personalities."

More from "The Family"

"Some (of The Process) may have been staying at the Barrymore Mansion on Summit Ridge when the vicious dogs went after Roman Polanski"

This mansion is only a few blocks from the home that the Polanski's rented from Patty Duke at 1600 Summitridge Drive. Yes, Barrymore is the same family as in Drew Barrymore.

WTF Wednesday Caption Contest

What would Britney Spears' Manson Family name be? Best caption wins bragging rights for a full week!

THE CLOCK

The 1969 Sony FM-AM Digimatic Clock Radio

Advertised as

"The first clock radio you don't have to set the night before"

Eviliz just slept through an earthquake

Hawthorne Shootout news footage

Thanks Andy!

Awesome photo I never saw before.
The girls sewing and freshly "X-ed." They really did some beautiful work.
I personally think there are very few pictures of
Ruth Ann and Kitty and consider this a rare photo.

Thank You to Cease2 for the photo enhancement!

THE HOSE

The Rudy Weber house

9870 Portola Dr. Beverly Hills

The ONLY reason this house is connected to the most publicized murder in History, is because the hose was laying in the driveway. I mean, if you lived in this house, would you still leave the hose laying there like this? I guess you have better odds of being struck by lightning twice, than having blood drenched killers stop by to get a drink from your hose twice.

Who cares about finding the motive, I need to figure out how in the hell they turned that car around. I drove a Ford Ranger up this street and it wasn't easy making a u-turn without hitting something. Portola Dr. is an alley at best and turning a 1959 Ford Fairlane around seems to me would be almost impossible. Below is Portola Dr. in front of the Weber house and possibly where the killers parked.

Today in Manson History - August 21

Excellent read on the Hawthorn shootout which was 40 years ago today on cielodrive.com

http://www.cielodrive.com/

Today in Manson History - August 20

1918 - Jacqueline Susann born

From History.com:

On this day in 1918, Jacqueline Susann, the author of Valley of the Dolls, the 1966 mega-hit novel about the showbiz lives of three women (reportedly modeled in part after Judy Garland, Marilyn Monroe and Grace Kelly), is born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

Like her characters in Valley of the Dolls, Jacqueline Susann moved to New York City as a young woman to pursue acting. She landed small roles in theater and television, married press agent Irving Mansfield and wrote a play, Lovely Me, which had a brief run on Broadway. Susann’s first book, published in 1962 and titled Every Night, Josephine!, was about her poodle. Some 26 million readers snapped up Valley of the Dolls, her second work, despite less-than-favorable reviews by critics who labeled it trashy. It went into The Guinness Book of World Records as the planet’s then-most popular novel. The “dolls” in the book’s title referred to the uppers and downers the characters ingested to cope with their soap opera-like lives. Susann traveled extensively to promote Valley of the Dolls and became a frequent guest on TV talk shows.

In 1967, Valley of the Dolls was released as a movie starring Patty Duke, Sharon Tate and Barbara Parkins. The film was nominated for an Academy Award for its score, composed by John Williams, and Tate received a Golden Globe nomination for Most Promising Newcomer.  (The wife of movie director Roman Polanski, Tate was murdered at her Los Angeles home in 1969 by members of the Charles Manson cult.)

Valley of the Dolls has twice been adapted for television, in 1981 and 1994. Two of Susann’s other books, The Love Machine and Once Is Not Enough, were also gobbled up by her many fans, making Susann the first novelist with three consecutive books to reach the top spot on The New York Times bestseller list. Like Valley of the Dolls, both novels were adapted for the big screen, in 1971 and 1975, respectively. Susann died of cancer at age 53 on September 21, 1974. In 2000, Bette Midler starred as Susann in a big-screen biopic, Isn’t She Great, co-starring Nathan Lane as Irving Mansfield.