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And in trying to find a photo of the Hamburger place, I discovered that this has recently been announced for consideration to build on that corner: https://la.urbanize.city/sites/defau...monica%204.jpgUrbanize L.A. is rising...the more people, the more height buildings are getting...until we have a tremor...or something...and they'll have a second look. |
So I think we have concluded that there were TWO locations for The Phone Booth
9011 Sunset (Above the Roxy Theater) AND 8505 Santa Monica Blvd. The address on Santa Monica Blvd. cycled through many restaurants and other tenants until it was demolished for a mini mall around 1980. All that and I get to say "Belcher's Broiler" over and over again. Kiefer’s Pine Knot Drive-In Café Daily News 5/2/39 Vetry’s Den 4/2/46 Belcher’s Broiler (Later Beecher’s) Citizen News 7/6/48 Ted Steele’s Steak House 11/29/55 Dover House Evening Citizen 5/2/60 Albert Califano’s Dover House LAT 10/17/65 Phone Booth fire LAT 1/1/70 Tomorrow’s Antiques LAT 3/23/75 Leo’s Flower Shop (in new mini mall) LAWeekly 4/3/80 https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/...19a72003_b.jpg Quote:
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Meanwhile at 9011 Sunset:
1939: https://i.postimg.cc/PJSmdqCs/Sunset...T-1939-2-4.jpg LA Times, 2/4/1939 1960: https://i.postimg.cc/76xGbk8x/Sunset...-1960-3-25.jpg LA Times, 3/25/1960 And something of 9009 Sunset in 1958: https://i.postimg.cc/kXt4J46Q/Sunset...T-1958-2-7.jpg LA Times, 2/7/1958 |
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https://web.archive.org/web/20210125...lacienega1.jpghttps://web.archive.org/web/20210103...lacienega2.jpg Two photos of the intersection of Santa Monica Blvd. and La Cienega Blvd., 1969. The building in the bottom right corner of both photos is the Extension. I see there's a an actual "phone booth" outside it. Also notice the La Cienega Bowling Lanes across the corner. If you were standing in the exact spot these photos were taken you'd now be standing in the relocated Tail o' the Pup stand. |
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https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/p/...000-w1000-h830 The Ruscha photo I posted showing the Phone Booth at 9011 was taken in 1966, so it must've moved by 1973, unless for some reason there were two of them across the street from one another. |
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I was dubious about the address given for the photo of the band standing on the stairs, since the building looks different, but eventually stumbled on a site which linked to the dead www.rayandrobby.com and then took a gander at the archived version. Update I now see that Martin Pal and HossC wrote about The Phone Booth back in 2013. Includes some dead hotlinks :diablo: |
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Here's The Classic Cat from the same photographer. (circa 1970s) I am almost certain this was a video store when I lived on Hancock in West Hollywood. (1980s) https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/1...923/ZJCGIM.jpg eBay Here's pretty much how it looked when it was the video store. https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/1...923/X88j1W.jpg gsv - 2011 - Southeast corner of Sunset Blvd. and Larrabee. And today. https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/1...924/TWU6lj.jpg GSV Outer-Spacey All I can say is the photographer of all these recent slides must have been a strip joint connoisseur. . |
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Case in point..The Losers Club. https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/1...923/e6hN4D.jpg eBay (location unknown) The LSD Revue? ..The mind boggles. :eeekk: . |
E_R, the original Classic Cat opened in 1965 at 8844 Sunset Boulevard and closed in the late '70s.
There's a NEW Classic Cat next door to the original location at 8830 Sunset Blvd. and I believe it opened in the fall of 2021, where Pono Burger was, but has been having trouble with "authorities" when they ignored coronavirus restrictions still in place at first, and they've recently been cited for after hours drinking. And noise. The place, for some reason, doesn't even have a sign outside advertising itself. I don't know much about it. Supposed to be a supper club. I don't think the employees are topless. Before the original Classic Cat on the corner at Larrabee, it was Bublichki's Russian Restaurant and then torn down and remodeled as Jerry Lewis' Restaurant ("Jerry's") and became the Classic Cat after that. It then was University Stereo before it became Tower Video until the building was torn down in 2012: https://sunsetandclark.files.wordpre...wer-video2.jpgSunsetandClark Then the bank, as you mentioned. |
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Nothing on the Longhorn, but I found a matchbook cover that lists several locations for Casa Escobar Restaurants and one of them was located at 806 N. La Cienega Blvd. which is at Waring Avenue. I couldn't find any other photos of the Casa Escobar there, but I found a photo from the mid-'50s at that address which was the Encore, where the Gross Trio is appearing...how appetizing! (E_R found this photo in a 2013 post.) https://farm6.staticflickr.com/5151/...4cd60c7e6a.jpgOnBunkerHill The street sign indicates it is indeed located at Waring. The link for the photo says: In 1946, the building at 806 N. La Cienega was home to Billy Gordon Originals, custom fashions, and by the late 1970s, it was the Jeffrey Horvitz art gallery. In years between, it was the Encore, a joint that was something of a magnet for trouble. No mention of Casa Escobar, but the link details the trouble at the Encore joint. |
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https://i.postimg.cc/WzTgxrYN/Longho...-1969-4-13.jpg LA Times, 4/13/1969 https://i.postimg.cc/PfQmY3NP/Longho...-1969-6-20.jpg LA Times, 6/20/1969 https://i.postimg.cc/SNZCtn64/Longho...-1969-6-20.jpg LA Times, 6/20/1969 |
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Odinthor, thanks for finding the Longhorn...at 826 N. La Cienega Blvd.! |
When I was searching the La Cienega and Santa Monica Blvd. intersection becauae of the recent posts, I happened upon a photo concerning Art Linkletter's La Cienega Lanes.
https://media.gettyimages.com/id/147...3So7QxGHa9lhU= (Photo by Bert Parry/Archive Photos/Getty Images) The caption: Art Linkletter on the left with a group of people, c.1955. I think they might be notable people! Some guesses...agree? 1. Art Linkletter 2. Donald O'Connor 3. Shelley Winters 4. Lex Barker 5. ? 6. ? Not to mention the guy with the bowling shirt: Linkletter's | La Cienega. |
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Just a guess but #6 kind of looks like Jonathan Winters. He seems to be a logical fit with that crowd and time. |
Mercury tablets in a school water cooler is interesting, but the ad for the Hormone Pharmacy really caught my eye.
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It would've been a better "prank" to put the hormones in the water cooler.
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Next door in the photo above is the McKenzie Gallery at 861 N La Cienega. It was open for about 10 years. Its owner, Richard (Dick) McKenzie, married Fred Astaire's daughter, Ava. There's a little more info about the gallery here and here. |
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