1960 Vintage Photo: Los Angeles Robbery Homicide Policemen in Drag

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[DogByte6RER]

Circa 1960 - LAPD Robbery Squad officers dressed as women “as part of an operation to catch a purse snatcher who murdered an elderly woman while she was on her way to church.”

[laplata]

These old school detectives were badass.

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They didn’t hesitate to smack the punks around, either.

[taildragger]

Like Foghorn Leghorn in a henhouse on a 3 day Viagra bender.

OMG that is funny, CC you need to stand-up, you must be a fan of Don Rickles, only he could weave a thread like that!

[mikrofon]

Somewhat extraneous Ping NOW ..... anyway-

[laplata]

Looks like the 3 shifts of ladies who cooked for my early-60s Mt Prospect HS, in Chicago NW Suburbs. Pretty darned good grub except for that Friday “Tuna Casserole”. They added “fish sticks” as an option, and I still don’t know what those things are.

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LOL You brought back some memories. I think fish sticks consist of “parts”. Like Vienna Sausages.

[cripplecreek]

Cluckeda Cluckeda Cluckeda

[Daffynition]

[Daffynition]

Circa 2013 face of LAPD

[a fool in paradise]

Now they dress that way for fun? ;-)

Only while drag racing.

[faithhopecharity]

you don;t want to know

[faithhopecharity]

yes, good for them... but none of them would fool any purse-snatcher (who wasn’t legally blind). These guys need to visit San Francisco to learn how to dress more convincingly like females

[a fool in paradise]

That stuff plays in England, but here in the U.S. we don’t find it as funny.

It kept Milton Berle out the draft, didn't it?

[NormsRevenge]

one looks like rudolf hess or maybe alger hiss.. coincidence ;=]

[posterchild]

I vaguely remember Jack Lord in a Hawaii 5 0 episode wearing a very flamboyant pink scarf. Was this the part of the same sting?

[WeatherGuy]

Col. Flagg: "Hey, up close you're a guy..."

Klinger: "Far away too."

[BBell]

Loved the old SNL. I quit watching when the original cast left.

[dljordan]

Thanks, I’ve never seen that one.

[the OlLine Rebel]

I was going to say. We also had Flip Wilson. This was before it was cool to be a transsexual transvestite, and just something to laugh at.

[Carriage Hill]

Spam’s the same way; if you don’t think about what’s in it, when you fry it up w/ eggs and hash browns, it ain’t bad at all. Heh.

[Carriage Hill]

Hot dogs, sausages, Spam, compressed meats... best not to think about what’s in ‘em; just cook and eat.

[laplata]

That’s right. LOL