Legend has it that troubled souls once haunted the May Co. department store that has since been reborn as the Academy Museum of Motion Picture's Saban Building.
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“Then, as four dozen elderly patrons looked on in horror, the 87-year-old retired carpenter turned the handgun on himself and fired a single round into his head.”
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