Eunice Gastelum, 96, Who Could Find Anything the Times Ever Printed
For forty years she ran the newspaper's clipping morgue under a filing system of her own devising, and for thirty more the paper called her at home when it got lost in it.
Obituaries
Remembering the lives of our community.
Leo Farkas, Who Ran the Reels in Half the Houses on the Boulevard, Dies at 88
For fifty years he threaded film and tended the carbon-arc lamps in Hollywood's movie palaces, keeping the light steady from a hot booth the audience never saw.
Salvatore 'Sal' Prima, Studio Scenic Painter Who Made a Thousand Skies, Dies at 94
For half a century he stood on scaffolds with a brush the size of a broom and painted the horizons that fooled the camera; colleagues said his clouds looked more like clouds than clouds do.
Bernard Salcido, Who Ushered in the Boulevard's Movie Palaces for Fifty Years, Dies at 84
From a teenager with a flashlight to a fixture of the balcony on a crowded night, he made a craft of seating strangers in the dark without a word.
Perla Quintero, 79, Whose Flowers Stood Behind Fifty Years of Premieres
From a family shop off the Boulevard, she built the arrangements that framed opening nights and funerals alike, and she could tell you which was which by the order.
Dorothy Bramble, Who Crossed Three Generations of Children on Franklin Avenue, Dies at 89
For forty-one years she worked one school corner with a whistle, a stop-sign paddle and every child's name, until the neighborhood could not picture the curb without her.
Warren Tibbetts, 91, Who Kept KHWD on the Air When Everything Else Went Dark
For four decades he was the engineer behind a Hollywood radio station's signal, nursing its transmitter through earthquakes, brush fires and the occasional act of God.
Sonny Barbieri, Whose Saxophone Colored a Hundred Films You Never Knew Was Him, Dies at 92
A studio session player of the old school, he sight-read film scores for seventy years, took union scale, left no credit, and called that doing it right.
Vera Lindqvist, 85, Who Taught Three Generations to Dance Above a Boulevard Storefront
From a walk-up studio with a sprung floor and a wall of mirrors, she taught the children of her first students, and then their children, for six decades.
Roz Vardanian, Who Fitted Costumes for Six Decades of Pictures, Dies at 87
A studio seamstress who built hero garments in matching copies and aged new cloth to look worn, she knew everyone's measurements and kept every secret.
