197: The Abandoned Lincoln Heights Jail

Ghost Town: Strange History, True Crime, & the Paranormal

Jason Horton & Rebecca Leib

True Crime, Unknown, Paranormal, Weird History, Social Sciences, History, Science

3.7 • 928 Ratings

🗓️ 23 March 2022

⏱️ 21 minutes

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This abandoned LA jail has had its share of famous inmates and is at the heart of many iconic crimes on and off the silver screen. More Ghost Town: https://www.ghosttownpod.com/blog/the-abandoned-lincoln-heights-jail/ Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/ghosttownpod Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/ghosttownpod Sources: https://bit.ly/3CTHe5m Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	L.A. Behind bars. I'm Rebecca Leib. I'm Jason Horton. And this is Ghost Town.
0:20.4	Al Capone, Zoot Suit riots, Watts riots, Bloody Christmas, Nightmare on Elm Street,
0:26.3	The Long Goodbye, Caged Heat, L.A. Confidential. These make up only part of the story of L.A.'s dark
0:32.4	history. We're talking about the abandoned and haunted Lincoln Heights Jail.
0:38.3	Ooh, I can't wait. You just visited this place. I am excited to hear more.
0:44.4	I referenced the Lincoln Heights Jail in a previous episode and instead of referencing it and never
0:50.1	doing anything about it, figured I changed my tune. Took some accountability.
0:56.5	And actually did an episode on the Lincoln Heights Jail. In our world, we've come across
1:01.6	iconic places like this. We're familiar with it, but sometimes you need a reminder and I watched a
1:05.8	movie The Long Goodbye by Robert Oldman, which I had never seen. I'm trying to watch more cinema.
1:14.1	I don't know. I'm trying to watch things that I've never seen, especially something that
1:18.4	is heavily L.A. Centric. Yeah. And it's a good movie. I didn't love it, but it was a good movie.
1:25.2	There's a 10-minute scene in the beginning with a cat that is amazing. If you watch that movie,
1:32.2	it's seen that the cat is so good in 1973, but I look at filming locations as it reflects. I can
1:39.6	enjoy a movie without looking up locations and The Lincoln Heights Jail was not very far from where
1:46.0	we are right now. Not at all, maybe 10 minutes. Not East L.A., but East-ish L.A. It would agree or
1:52.6	disagree what East L.A. is technically or not. Just give you an idea. And there are so many movies and
1:58.8	so many historical events that The Lincoln Heights Jail is somewhat in the center of them. What would
2:05.7	be interesting is a story without The Lincoln Heights Jail would it change any of these stories,
2:09.6	especially a lot of movies that The Lincoln Heights Jail has something to do with in some way,
2:15.2	shape or form. Yeah. That's interesting. The Lincoln Heights Jail operated from the 1930s to 1965
2:22.1	before being decommissioned. Before it's closing, The Jail even housed Al Capone himself. Whoa.
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