Sponsored by the LAPL Photo Collection and Photo Friends.

Former beauty pageant winner Hazel Belford Glab was handy with a gun, and she wasnâ€t afraid to use one to further her agenda.  When her husband threatened to divorce her, Hazel hatched a plan to cash in before Mr. Glab could bail out.

During the Deco Era when a wife wasnâ€t taking deadly aim at her husband, itâ€s probably because sheâ€d focused instead on the “other woman”.

When neighborhood gossip hinted at a love affair between Clara Phillips†husband and an attractive young widow, Clara became a woman with a mission, to remove the woman she thought was a rival for her husbandâ€s love by any means necessary.

The Depression of the 1930s resulted in the perpetration of darker crimes. Women became involved in bandit gangs, and they were active participants in kidnappings, bank robberies, and murders.

During the early 1930s Bonnie Parker and Clyde Barrow were on the run from the law in the Midwest.  In Los Angeles, Burmah and Thomas White were also on the run. The nineteen year old bride and her twenty-eight year old groom spent their honeymoon on a deadly crime spree.

While some women blatantly committed crimes on the streets of Los Angeles, other women went quietly about their evil business in the comfort of their own homes.

Youâ€ve heard of someone keeping a skeleton in their closet – Walburga “Dolly” Oesterreich kept her murderous secret in the attic of her home, and when it was finally revealed it was so unbelievable that it made headlines.

Curvy killers have always been a part of the fabric of Los Angeles, and whether you empathize with them, or find them repellent, you are certain to be fascinated by Felonious Flappers!

ABOUT THIS EVENT: For three days, May 3-5, 1939, Angelenos celebrated the long awaited opening of Union Station with parades, performances, and speeches. This week marks the station’s 73rd anniversary, so please join the Art Deco Society of Los Angeles for Cocktails in Historic Places and a tour of a much loved Los Angeles landmark.

Union Station, known as the “Last Great Train Station”, was originally the site of Los Angeles’ Chinatown. For many years Chinatown was considered to be a hot bed of sin, and there had been numerous political and social campaigns to demolish it. Drug busts, prostitution, white slavery, and tales of underground opium dens frightened, and titillated, the residents of the City of Angels.

After nearly two decades of court battles among the City of Los Angeles, the railroads, and the Chinese residents, Union Station was constructed on a foundation strong enough to withstand powerful earthquakes; but, it was also built on a foundation of shady real estate deals and political corruption.

Please join the Art Deco Society of Los Angeles for Cocktails in Historic Places in Traxx Bar on Friday, May 4, 2012 at 6 pm. At 7 pm we will gather for an informal tour which will include a brief history of the station, and its architecture, led by Joan Renner, LAVA member and ADSLA board member.

A limited number of tickets to an evening of conversation and hors d’ouvres with bestselling author James Ellroy are now available. James will take ticketed guests for a personal and conversational tour of the exhibition. Guests will receive refreshments and hors d’ouvres and receive an autographed copy of his best selling novel, The Black Dahlia.

A very limited number of tickets are available for this March 16th event at the LA Police Museum from 7 to 9 pm. Tickets are priced at $250 per person

The following day, March 17, 2012, Mr. Ellroy will host conversational tours with small groups of visitors through the new exhibition. Visitors will also receive an autographed copy of The Black Dahlia. Tours will last approximately 45 minutes and will be available at 10 am, noon and 2pm. Tickets are priced at $100 each. Tickets to either, or both events can be purchased by phoning (323) 344-9445.

Both events are unique opportunities to visit the Los Angeles Police Museum and support its programs and activities. The Los Angeles Police Museum is a 501 (C)(3) organization.

A limited number of tickets to an evening of conversation and hors d’ouvres with bestselling author James Ellroy are now available. James will take ticketed guests for a personal and conversational tour of the exhibition. Guests will receive refreshments and hors d’ouvres and receive an autographed copy of his best selling novel, The Black Dahlia.

A very limited number of tickets are available for this March 16th event at the LA Police Museum from 7 to 9 pm. Tickets are priced at $250 per person

The following day, March 17, 2012, Mr. Ellroy will host conversational tours with small groups of visitors through the new exhibition. Visitors will also receive an autographed copy of The Black Dahlia. Tours will last approximately 45 minutes and will be available at 10 am, noon and 2pm. Tickets are priced at $100 each. Tickets to either, or both events can be purchased by phoning (323) 344-9445.

Both events are unique opportunities to visit the Los Angeles Police Museum and support its programs and activities. The Los Angeles Police Museum is a 501 (C)(3) organization.

What is it about Los Angeles that brings out the evil in a woman? Crime writer Raymond Chandler speculated that a local weather phenomenon could cause a woman to contemplate murder: “There was a desert wind blowing that night. It was one of those hot dry Santa Anas that come down through the mountain passes and curl your hair and make your nerves jump and your skin itch. On nights like that every booze party ends in a fight. Meek little wives feel the edge of the carving knife and study their husbands†necks. Anything can happen. You can even get a full glass of beer at a cocktail lounge.”

Whether itâ€s the climate, their greed, or that theyâ€re just plain evil, curvy killers have always been a part of the fabric of Los Angeles. You may empathize with the femme fatales, or find them repellent, but you are sure to be fascinated by them.

Social historian and writer Joan Renner will present an illustrated lecture which will explore the cases of a few Los Angeles women who found themselves on the wrong side of the law during the Art Deco era.

Presentation will be followed by a rare theatrical screening of the pre-code “lady criminal film” THE LADIES THEY TALK ABOUT starring Barbara Stanwyck.

Presented by Photo Friends. Writer and social historian Joan Renner explores the dark side of Southern California in a presentation focusing on crime photos from the Herald-Examiner collection, and drawn from the stories of legendary Los Angeles newswoman Agness Underwood.  Free and open to the public.

With a nod to the HBO series, “Boardwalk Empire” that is set in 1920 during Prohibition, the ADSLA offers a step back in time. For one magic night, our guests will be able to immerse themselves in living history, vintage style, legal gaming tables and prohibition-era cocktails in the oldest private club in Los Angeles. The Los Angeles Athletic Club was founded in 1880 and counts may of old Hollywood’s glitterati among its members. The evening begins at 7pm. Enjoy 4 hours of drinking Sidecars, savorying hors d’ oeuvres and taking your chances at the medley of gaming tables from Poker to

Roulette.

1920s dress in encouraged, but not required.

The ADSLA is a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization that focuses on the celebration and preservation of the architecture, art, music, dance, clothing and elegance of Art Deco.

A portion of your ticket price is tax deductible.