A crowd gathers outside the Neft Music Shop in downtown Los Angeles to buy the latest record released by Aimee Semple McPherson. You’d think she was a popular singer making an in-store appearance instead of a Pentecostal evangelist. This photo was taken on November 22, 1926, when McPherson’s national celebrity was at its peak following her was-she-or-wasn’t-she kidnapping in May and subsequent grand jury inquiries that filled headlines for the rest of the year. Whether the kidnapping took place or not, it was certainly good for business.