Within a few years of arriving in California, his rates dropped from $500 per session to $100, then $50. Then, in 1932, Los Angeles passed its first ordinance against fortune telling. Chapter 4, Article 3, Section 34:30: “No person shall advertise to tell fortunes, to find or restore lost or stolen property, to locate oil wells, gold or silver or other ore or metal or natural product; to restore lost love or friendship, to unite or procure lovers, husbands, wives, lost relatives or friends, for or without pay, by means of occult or psychic powers, faculties, forces, crafts or sciences, including clairvoyance, spirits, mediumship, seership, prophecy, astrology, palmistry, necromancy, cards, talismans, charms, potions, magnetism or magnetized articles or substances, oriental mysteries, magic of any kind or nature, or numerology.”

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