Sheila Weller, Girls Like Us: Carole King, Joni Mitchell, Carly Simon—And the Journey of a Generation, Atria Books, 2008, ISBN 0743491475. Each of the two 16-passenger cars had two trolley poles, one to a positive overhead wire and one to a ground overhead wire, and were able to sway to either side of the street, only using power uphill. Each trolley was actually an Oldsmobile bus whose gasoline engine was replaced with a 15-horsepower electric motor. [7] Their original bodies were rebuilt in 1912, [8] their open sides being enclosed. [7] The service ended sometime in 1915 and was replaced by Stanley steam buses, the overhead wires taken down. [8] [7] Until 1918, the shuttle service traveled up and down Laurel Canyon to meet the half hour schedule to Los Angeles. It was insufficiently patronized and discontinued when Pacific Electric stopped running streetcars between Gardner Junction and Laurel Canyon Boulevard, and demand failed to support it. [19] [20] Holmes then admits to driving Nash's bodyguard Diles and three other heavies to the Wonderland house on the early morning hours of July 1 and buzzed the intercom to the house where he asked Ron to let him in (with Diles holding a gun to Holmes head the whole time). Holmes then suddenly stops his story and refuses to tell anymore except that he just walked away after letting the gang inside the house and did not see anything. In 1990, Nash was charged in California state court with having planned the murders, and Diles was charged as a participant. Thorson testified against them, but the trial ended with a hung jury vote of 11–1 for conviction. [14] A second trial, in 1991, ended in acquittal for both Nash and Diles. [15] Diles died from liver failure in 1997. [16] He began working with the Doors when he was 12 years old, answering their fan mail. At age 17 he replaced the Doors' original manager, Bill Siddons, following the death of Morrison in July 1971.

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Boogie Nights (1997), a feature film loosely based on the life of John Holmes, includes a sequence inspired by the initial robbery of Nash's home. [19]The Laurel Canyon area was inhabited by the Tongva people, a regional tribe of the indigenous peoples of California, for thousands of years. [ citation needed] A spring-fed stream flowed year-round providing water. Eddie Nash was a powerful presence in the underworld of Los Angeles. As one Wonderland Gang member recalled after the robbery, “The certain type of dope dealer you didn’t rob was Mr. [Nash]. It was obvious from the time we got in the house that we were over our heads.” Wonderland Avenue was my favorite book as a teenager and I really, really wanted to be the Gen-X version of Danny Sugerman, a goal I never came anywhere close to achieving because I was a geeky poor kid from Appalachian Ohio. Source: [ https://allthatsinteresting.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/wonderland-avenue-house.jpg] Danny Sugerman (1995). Wonderland Avenue: Tales of Glamour and Excess. Little, Brown and Company. ISBN 0316773549.

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Two days later, four of the Wonderland Gang members were found bludgeoned to death. The so-called Wonderland Murders were so gruesome that local police likened them to the Manson Murders of 1969. Today, the Wonderland killings are remembered as one of Hollywood’s most gruesome moments — a horror story whose images and video have continued to haunt long after the bodies were buried. Holmes would die of AIDS-related complications in 1988, but not before calling Eddie Nash “the most evil man I’ve ever known.” Indeed, come 1990, Nash was charged with the Wonderland Murders too, but he escaped justice by bribing a juror into a hung 11-1 jury.

How he did not die at 21, with an enlarged heart, two types of hepatitis, malnourshment and God knows what else, is a miracle in and of itself. Sadly he did die at 50 of heart failure, a fairly young age to die, but just amazed he even made it that far even if he had stayed sober since, considering all the damage that had already been done to his body. John befriended a group of people including a man named Billy Deverell. Deverell was a 44-year old drug dealer and low-level thief who lived at 8763 Wonderland Avenue in the Laurel Canyon area of L.A. with his girlfriend, Joy Miller. Joy was 46, a divorcee who had once been married to a high-priced attorney but after medical issues (including surviving breast cancer) she became addicted to heroin.