If Mabel Monohan’s former son-in-law, Tutor Scherer, hadn’t been a Las Vegas gambler, the 64-year-old widow would never have been murdered. If Mabel Monohan’s former son-in-law, Tutor ...
Since the ’70s, this four-square-mile swath of downtown has been a symbol of the city’s urban blight. But for the people who live there, it’s a neighborhood with codes and customs all its own.
In 1929, dynamite destroyed a volcanic monolith rising some 50 feet above the harbor where Avalon’s iconic Casino building stands today, forever changing the look of Avalon Bay. In 1929 ...