Portal:Greater Los Angeles/Did you know/12


 * ... that John W. Olmsted earned his blues playing lawn tennis in 1927?
 * ... that Martin Manulis was the producer of Playhouse 90, voted the greatest television series of all time in a 1970 poll of television editors?
 * ... that The Owl Drug Company (business letter pictured) sponsored a minor-league baseball team and ran a beauty contest in which winners received a Hollywood screen test?
 * ... that Walt Disney's first interest in animatronics came after he happened upon a toy animatronic bird by chance while on vacation? ( TAFI )

October 2014