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Of the 4 massage locations, including Circus Maximus, mentioned in this article that challenged the ban on nighttime massages, I managed to find a photo of one of them: West L.A. Massage, 7756 Santa Monica Blvd. (about 3 blocks east of Fairfax Ave.) Taken December 16, 1977. http://jpg1.lapl.org/pics34/00036648.jpgLAPL It's not an expansive view of the location, but in the window reflection you can discern a hardware and liquor store among the buildings across the street. Currently at this address is Langer's Luggage & Shoe Repair, but right next door is a massage place. 7754 Santa Monica Blvd.: New York Deli 7756 Santa Monica Blvd.: Langer's Luggage & Shoe Repair 7758 Santa Monica Blvd.: Smile Massage |
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Is anyone else a reader of the Central City Crime Report? It's so weirdly dry it's almost lulling, while, at the same time, leaving one with an Edward Gorey-ish sense of creeping unease:
"DTLA - In the Central City Crime Report, we survey the recent week in public safety. All information is provided by the LAPD’s Central Division. On the morning of June 10, a person was sleeping on a bench on Hope Street. Someone approached and grabbed the individual’s luggage. Someone smashed the passenger-side window of a car parked on North Broadway on the morning of June 10. The thief took clothes and a radio. At some point between June 10-15, unidentified individuals got past a fence at a Little Tokyo temple on Third Street. A door was pried open and unspecified items were taken. At mid-day on June 10, two people got into an argument at Sixth Street and Stanford Avenue. One person hit the other with a flashlight. A women entered a store on Colyton Street on the afternoon of June 10. She picked up a hat, put it on and then left without paying. She fled on a scooter. A woman attempted to cut in line for a restroom at a nightclub on the evening of June 10. Another woman told her to wait her turn. The first woman began kicking and punching the person, knocking her out. At mid-day on June 10, a man armed with scissors approached someone on San Pedro Street, raised the scissors and threatened, “I’m going to stab you.” An apartment resident answered a knock at the door on June 11. When the door opened, a person on the other side pepper sprayed the inhabitant, then punched the person in the eye and demanded money. While on a Metrolink train at Union Station on June 12, a man got up to use the restroom. When he returned, his bag was gone. On the morning of June 12, a motorist accidentally struck a car’s window at Ninth Street and Grand Avenue. The other driver then tried to ram the motorist. Three people approached a pedestrian at Olympic Boulevard and Olive Street on the afternoon of June 13. One grabbed the victim’s phone while the other pulled out a gun. The third assailant hit the victim before all three fled." |
For your delectation, two maps of the Nu-Pike area in Long Beach (did anyone ever really call it "Nu-Pike" [as signs would have it] in conversation? To my family, it was always just "The Pike"):
1958: https://s26.postimg.cc/4arxgyp15/Pike2.jpg https://longbeachhistory.wordpress.c...there-in-1958/, detail, much enlarged. 1970: https://s26.postimg.cc/z4z6eo7ih/PikeMap1970.jpg https://www.flickr.com/groups/thepike/ |
The Garden of Allah Hotel, Sunset Blvd, circa late 1940s - cleaned up and colorized
A while ago I came across a photo of the Garden of Allah I hadn't seen before. It was taken from the north side of Sunset Blvd some time in the late 1940s. It was obviously a scan from a book but I didn't know what book. So I kept photo and paid some guy on Fiverr to clean it up for me. Then, this past week, I revealed the cover for the 9th and final book in my series of novel set in and around the Garden of Allah and Los Angeles in the late 1920s through late 1950s and to help launch it, I wanted a memorable image along with the cover art that I was revealing. So I threw another five bucks at Fiverr to colorize it for me. It's not quite the same as finding a nice, crisp Kodakchrome of the place (which would be my holy grail) but until I do, this'll have to suffice.
BEFORE: https://martinturnbull.com/wp-conten...1940s-copy.jpg AFTER: https://martinturnbull.com/wp-conten...verr-630kb.png |
Someone just asked me if I have any info on the theft of Hoosier Caroline A. Lloyd's 7' bronze of "Poise" (1946) from the Rose Garden at Exposition Park.
I can't even find a photo of it before it was lopped off at the ankles. Anyone here have the story? https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/SZ...h=w420-h493-no publicartinla |
Prospect at Myra Avenues / Los Angeles, 1961
https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/1...923/0ZkahA.jpg jericl cat on flickr At first I was a bit baffled by this photograph, but luckily jericl cat included the location, "Prospect and Myra Avenue". The woman is standing in the parking lot of Prospect Studios before the parking lot was enlarged to include that empty lot you see behind her in the 1961 pic. Below: I placed a red dot where I believe the woman was standing when she posed for the photo. https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/1...924/LeudXl.jpg GSV History of Prospect Studios HERE (as most of you know, it opened in 1915 as Vitagraph Studio) |
re: Fee-Fi-Faux flowers in Virginia Hotel's Sunken Garden
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Temple Street looking west from about Edgeware Road, Los Angeles, 1930.
https://scontent-lax3-2.xx.fbcdn.net...25&oe=5BDB5550 USC Archive A then and now... The house at the end of Edgeware Road is at 1274 Court Street, Los Angeles. Circa 1901. https://scontent-lax3-2.xx.fbcdn.net...dd&oe=5BE2206E USC Archive The same house, 2018. Picture taken by Laurie Avocado. I'm amazed the house has survived, nearly 120 years later. https://scontent-lax3-2.xx.fbcdn.net...d5&oe=5B9FB792 My apologies if these pictures have already been posted! |
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Below: Is this it? https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/1...921/NJjomM.jpg Howard Gribble on flickr Early 1980s. It seems to be in the right location according to odinthor's 1970 map. ____ To be totally honest the first photo that came up when I googled "Walk of 1,000 Lights' was this one with a sniper mid snipering. https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/8...923/nDSgN6.jpg disneywizard But I don't see any lights, just flags. :shrug: The screengrabs are from the short lived television series, S.W.A.T. (1975-1976), Episode Sole Survivor This screengrab tells us it's the same street as the top photograph. https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/8...923/IOK3Vw.jpg disneywizard So am I correct in saying this is the 'Walk of 1,000 Lights'? _ |
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I am re-doing my late father’s garden, and I was thinking about these single trees that can grow multiple citrus fruits. For example: https://i.imgur.com/fuVcpHF.jpg Of course, the idea of having such a tree is quite tempting! Do you know if there are any downsides to having such a hybrid citrus tree? Do you know if they are perhaps hard to maintain, lacking in vigor, or anything else a potential planter should be aware of? PS: I already have an orange tree and a lemon tree, and they both seem to be essentially maintenance free. |
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The Pike in relation to the Virginia hotel (the large building in the distance):
https://s26.postimg.cc/5gi5av9a1/Pike5.jpg odinthor collection/http://web.csulb.edu/~odinthor/socal20.html If I'm not mistaken, the "Walk of 1,000 Lights" is not what we're seeing at center going diagonally across the card but rather would be the (unseen in image) parallel walk next over to the right (in other words, on the other side of the buildings we see to the right). |
Wynn Chevrolet. Showroom vehicles depicted appear to be from early '50s. Several sources place it on Colorado Blvd.
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https://www.google.com/maps/place/20....2119542?hl=en It's is a block west from one of my favorite casual dining Mexican restaurants, Taco Spot. |
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