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ethereal_reality Nov 3, 2012 4:18 AM

This is kind of fun after my recent Elks Club/Park Plaza post.

http://imageshack.us/a/img17/8360/el...bjericlcat.jpg
ebay
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ethereal_reality Nov 3, 2012 4:24 AM

Transparency 1964.

http://imageshack.us/a/img202/2082/transparencyla.jpg
ebay
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Mayor Shaw Nov 3, 2012 5:16 AM

The Factory/Studio One/ Mitchell Camera Corp.
 
I've done a little looking around on line, I hope this helps:

It seems the building we are looking at extends between North Robertson on the East to North LaPeer on the West. The address for Studio One was 652 N. LaPeer.

In the 30's and 40's the building was occupied by the Mitchell Camera Corp. which used the address of 661 N. Robertson, (the same address that The Ultra Suede uses today. Both these addresses acess the same building.

In 1942 the Mitchell Camera Corp. employed 74 people including 53 machinists, 2 clerks, 3 draftsmen, 3 watchmen, 4 engineers, 3 foremen, 1 supervisor, 1 general manager, 1 repairman, and various office persons. The whole shebang was owned by Stanley Anderson.

During the war, they did indeed manufacture bomb-sights at this location. At some point, Mitchell Camera sold out to Panavision.

I think it first became a night club venue when a party for the movie "Tommy" was held there on the Studio One side of the building

I hope this helps. I'm sure there is more to the story.

ethereal_reality Nov 3, 2012 7:33 PM

:previous: That helps alot Mayor Shaw! Thanks. :)
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Here's the building today (LaPeer side).

http://imageshack.us/a/img87/7724/aabone1.jpg
google street view





It stretches from N. LaPeer (left) to N. Robertson (right).

http://imageshack.us/a/img29/158/aabone.jpg
google street view

I see Phyllis Morris is still on the same block.





The Mitchell Camera Corporation in the early 1930s. (It took me awhile to locate this photo)

http://imageshack.us/a/img40/511/aabone1929.jpg
http://wehonews.com/z/wehonews/archi...articleID=5328
http://imageshack.us/a/img585/1688/aabone1929info.jpg
http://la.curbed.com/archives/2010/0...p_for_sale.php










Here is some information on that 1951 fire photograph that started this conversation.

http://imageshack.us/a/img27/5831/aabone1951fire.jpg

http://imageshack.us/a/img41/6195/aa...bancomment.jpg
http://la.curbed.com/archives/2010/0...p_for_sale.php


The info. is from Vokoban at lacurbed.

ethereal_reality Nov 3, 2012 9:02 PM

Big watch dog guarding Nazimova's residence. GRRRRRR.

http://imageshack.us/a/img713/1508/swithbigdog.jpg
postcard/ebay
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ethereal_reality Nov 3, 2012 9:42 PM

I've been trying, without success, to find the location of this early photograph.

http://imageshack.us/a/img196/9692/a...homeonlake.jpg

http://imageshack.us/a/img145/6001/a...onlakeinfo.jpg
ebay

The description says lake but I'm not so sure. Could it be a salt marsh?





below: details

http://imageshack.us/a/img840/4923/aanewlyhome1b.jpg




http://imageshack.us/a/img694/8317/a...ome1detail.jpg





http://imageshack.us/a/img827/541/aa...me1adetail.jpg

Anyone want to wager a guess?
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ethereal_reality Nov 3, 2012 11:37 PM

http://imageshack.us/a/img832/4535/a...1negsunset.jpg
ebay

http://imageshack.us/a/img440/4599/a...lantinfosu.jpg







http://imageshack.us/a/img248/5716/a...rdproducts.jpg

What intrigues me the most is that it says 'Sunset Plant' on the negative. So are we to believe this plant was located on Sunset Boulevard?





below: detail....cattle in pens and a large swath of nothingness.

http://imageshack.us/a/img577/5903/a...2whycattle.jpg






below: another detail....I was searching for a street address/number. No such luck.

http://imageshack.us/a/img10/7955/aa...roducts193.jpg






below: Where is this short rail spur going?

http://imageshack.us/a/img844/1989/a...roductscop.jpg

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kznyc2k Nov 4, 2012 12:56 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by ethereal_reality (Post 5888835)
The green neon leads me back to one of my favorite movies.....
http://imageshack.us/a/img809/3185/aabhaykiminroom.jpg

Anyone? :)
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I have no idea why but my mind raced ahead to 1990's Dick Tracy at first...I guess the green neon got me thinking of the amazing noir colors in that movie, and that profile shot does look like it could be Tess Truehart. But that's wrong -- it's gotta be Kim Novak in Hitchcock's classic Vertigo.

ethereal_reality Nov 4, 2012 1:12 AM

:previous:...and you sir, are correct! :)
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ethereal_reality Nov 4, 2012 1:19 AM

http://imageshack.us/a/img854/584/aa...ommercebad.jpg
ebay
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GaylordWilshire Nov 4, 2012 1:20 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by ethereal_reality (Post 5889732)


https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/-S...2520PM.bmp.jpgLAPL
1929 L.A. City Directory

Fibreboard Products Inc is now PABCO. Per its website:


"The PABCO Paper plant was built in 1912 in the industrial city of Vernon just southeast of downtown Los Angeles.
It was originally known as the Southern Board and Paper Mills. In the 1920's it became a division of Fibreboard Products
and in 1977 was sold to a local packaging company. The mill was bought by Pacific Coast Building Products in 1984
and began operating as PABCO Paper."


https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/-y...2520PM.bmp.jpgPABCO


ER: Perhaps the original Southern Board/Fibreboard buildings are buried in this fascinating industrial conglomeration...
that's Pacific Boulevard at top, seen curving south.

https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/-9...2520PM.bmp.jpgGoogleSV

https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/-x...2520PM.bmp.jpgGoogleSV

ethereal_reality Nov 4, 2012 5:25 AM

:previous: Thanks for the information GW.

I still wonder why the glass negative was labeled 'Sunset Plant'?
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ethereal_reality Nov 4, 2012 5:34 AM

..as seen in that hanging medallion

http://imageshack.us/a/img856/8233/p...ofcommerce.jpg
postcard/ebay
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ethereal_reality Nov 4, 2012 5:49 AM

Can you imagine when there was this much 'virgin' land for vegetable gardens.

http://imageshack.us/a/img196/9505/aabelysia.jpg
ebay
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GaylordWilshire Nov 4, 2012 9:22 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by ethereal_reality (Post 5889958)
..as seen in that hanging medallion

postcard/ebay
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I had to get a closer look at that window at the lower right...

http://img812.imageshack.us/img812/5224/53593375.jpgUSCDL


https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/-C...dwindow200.jpgUSCDL


http://img39.imageshack.us/img39/2895/rabbitfull.jpgLos Angeles Herald March 23, 1905



Below, the 1903 Chamber of Commerce building at 130 S Broadway seen later--
the Herald had added a blade sign... the Chamber itself was soon to move
down to 1151 S Broadway.

http://img831.imageshack.us/img831/5...amberlater.jpgLAPL

GaylordWilshire Nov 4, 2012 9:46 AM

http://img825.imageshack.us/img825/7462/00043705.jpgLAPL

Have we seen this little gem before? ...the fantastic 1925 Hollywood Chamber of Commerce building by Morgan, Walls, & Clements. It still stands:

https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/-J...2520AM.bmp.jpgGoogleSV

rcarlton Nov 4, 2012 3:09 PM

[QUOTE=GaylordWilshire;5890042]I had to get a closer look at that window at the lower right...



http://img39.imageshack.us/img39/2895/rabbitfull.jpgLos Angeles Herald March 23, 1905



You're leaving us hanging...how many miles did the squirrels travel???:yes:

GaylordWilshire Nov 4, 2012 5:15 PM

:previous:

http://img594.imageshack.us/img594/7...dycomplete.jpgLos Angeles Herald June 12, 1905


If A. M. Eddy is Albert M. Eddy...by 1911, he was at 845 Franklin Avenue--renumbered 7245 by 1913...I haven't looked to see if this is the Grider & Hamilton Grant Tract mentioned in the article... (there was at least one other A M. Eddy in L.A. at the time).

Could A. M. Eddy have been the Albert M. Eddy whose luck ran out by 1929? Here's the obit of a man by that name who was 51 that year--born in the what would have been the same year as the contest winner (1878)...


http://img822.imageshack.us/img822/7894/eddyobit.jpgLos Angeles Times April 21, 1929

ethereal_reality Nov 4, 2012 5:54 PM

Great couple of posts GaylordWilshire!!!
Running squirrels and the discovery of the old Hollywood Chamber of Commerce building. That was quite a find!



I had no idea the beautiful C of C building even existed.

http://imageshack.us/a/img5/9038/dsc0848a.jpg


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ethereal_reality Nov 4, 2012 7:50 PM

Interesting article in today's L.A. Times
http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la...7527546.column



http://imageshack.us/a/img442/8365/a...ug2bank190.jpg
http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la...7527546.column





below: The Colonial Drug Store, Highland Park in 1928.

http://imageshack.us/a/img195/6801/a...ugshighlan.jpg
http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la...7527546.column





The store's inventory (of nearly 85,000 items) has found a home at Heritage Square.

http://imageshack.us/a/img22/9741/aabcolonialdrugs1.jpg
http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la...7527546.column
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*note: The original Bank/Pharmacy building still exists on Figueroa in Highland Park.


...and please tell me this isn't it.
http://imageshack.us/a/img547/347/aa...thisittoda.jpg
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GaylordWilshire Nov 4, 2012 8:13 PM

http://img688.imageshack.us/img688/8766/00056189.jpgLAPL
http://img201.imageshack.us/img201/4...vinagsv800.jpgGoogleSV

Facing the northeast corner of Citrus and College, Covina; the occasion at top was the raffle of a Buick in 1926.


http://img87.imageshack.us/img87/5770/covina2.jpgGoogleSV


http://img688.imageshack.us/img688/6915/buickraffle.jpgLAPL


PS So ER... what's with the squirrel?

ethereal_reality Nov 4, 2012 8:28 PM

:previous: It was just a joke (a bad one I guess) because you guys kept talking about the running squirrels (which I thought was quite funny).
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While searching for that bank on Figueroa I came across this blank sign atop a building at Figueroa Street and Roselawn Place.

http://imageshack.us/a/img705/463/aa...roaatrosel.jpg
google street view

The shape of the sign looks familiar but I can't quite place it. We've probably covered it before.




below: A little further down the block is another fine vintage rooftop sign.

http://imageshack.us/a/img87/3407/aa...gueroasign.jpg
google street view
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GaylordWilshire Nov 4, 2012 11:29 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by ethereal_reality (Post 5890380)


I got my hopes up for a second that the drugstore was going to be revived in its original location... anyway, I was sure that we'd seen the Bank of Highland Park here before-- I searched the thread and finally came up with a few more views:
this post and this one.

Up the street was the Sunbeam Theater here.

ethereal_reality Nov 5, 2012 12:13 AM

Exposition Park was previously Agriculture Park (established in 1872 by the Southern District Agricultural Society).

http://imageshack.us/a/img402/8635/a...rkgatelapl.jpg
http://www.lapl.org/

...but the fairground could not turn a profit and was foreclosed in 1879.
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And now for something you probably didn't know:
The park's new owners took advantage of the fact that the park lay just outside the southwestern corner of Los Angeles' original four-square-league royal land grant. With gambling, prostitution, and related activities banned inside the city limits, these vices migrated across the boundary into Agricultural Park.

http://imageshack.us/a/img708/3563/aaagrnb.jpg
http://www.kcet.org/updaily/socal_fo...tion-park.html

I pictured Agricultural Park as a bucolic place with cake walks and ice cream socials.
Well it might have been like that for the park's first 5 years, but the next 20 years the park was more like sodom and gomorrah.
I've even heard the 'busy hotel' described as the fairground brothel.

Finally, in 1899 (with help from some big-wigs at USC) the park was annexed by the city to rid the area of the sordid crowds and their lascivious vices and unsavory activities.

http://imageshack.us/a/img255/9784/aaagrimap.jpg

Link:
http://www.kcet.org/updaily/socal_fo...tion-park.html
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ethereal_reality Nov 5, 2012 12:31 AM

In 1875, the Main Street & Agricultural Park Railroad began shuttling passengers to the park.


http://imageshack.us/a/img651/2558/a...metrolibra.jpg
Metro Transportation Library
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ethereal_reality Nov 5, 2012 1:27 AM

A couple of photographs of St. Moritz Hotel in the 1970s or 80s. (found on ebay)

http://imageshack.us/a/img221/6281/s...detailpotc.jpg

above: 77 rooms...much larger than I thought. I would have guessed 37.



below: This one is slightly different...showing the gables

http://imageshack.us/a/img338/7159/s...926correct.jpg



The St. Moritz today.

http://imageshack.us/a/img715/885/aabmoritz1.jpg
google street view
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postcard from the 1940s. I love the look of that bar.

http://imageshack.us/a/img152/3365/aabmoritzpc.jpg
http://pinterest.com/pin/46161964901020950/
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ethereal_reality Nov 5, 2012 1:57 AM

An amazing kodachrome slide found on ebay. The cars are so beautiful!..and what is KYRON?

http://imageshack.us/a/img803/4926/a...ugstorelac.jpg


originally posted by GaylordWilshire
http://imageshack.us/a/img90/3769/aabrexallgw.jpg
http://forum.skyscraperpage.com/show...postcount=3077








below: Here is an earlier post on the same building.

Quote:

Originally Posted by ethereal_reality (Post 5189585)
A photograph of the 'world's largest' Rexall on the SE corner of Beverly Blvd. and LA Cienega.

http://img219.imageshack.us/img219/5...ybeverlyce.jpg
unknown/possibly ebay


below: Here is the main entrance to the building.
I can't remember if these were Rexall executive offices.......or perhaps medical practices (Cedars-Sinai Hospital is a block west).


http://img806.imageshack.us/img806/5...24rexall1a.jpg




below: The entrance to the Rexall Drug Store was at the rounded nw corner of the bldg.

http://img33.imageshack.us/img33/5189/la0524rexall1.jpg


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BifRayRock Nov 5, 2012 3:32 AM

Technicolor 6311 Romaine Avenue (1930-75 at this location), circa '38
http://jpg3.lapl.org/pics44/00071987.jpglapl

Circa '38
http://jpg2.lapl.org/pics08/00013552.jpglapl

The Technicolor complex, circa '48
http://jpg3.lapl.org/pics44/00071986.jpglapl

http://gws2.maps.yahoo.com/MapImage?...47,-118.329033

Television Center, 6311 Romaine Street (1975-present)
http://farm3.staticflickr.com/2302/2...c9dba4d2_b.jpgflickr

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A few blocks away (6823 Santa Monica Boulevard - SMonica and Highland) Pathé Studios aka International Studios.
http://jpg1.lapl.org/00097/00097694.jpg lapl





H.L.P Nov 5, 2012 4:10 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by ethereal_reality (Post 5890380)

*note: The original Bank/Pharmacy building still exists on Figueroa in Highland Park.


...and please tell me this isn't it.
http://imageshack.us/a/img547/347/aa...thisittoda.jpg
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Great post on Highland park E_R. Im sorry to say that this is the the building that sit where the original bank was. And I remember as a kid the sign at the corner of Fig and Roselawn used to be for another paharmacy but i cant remember the name.

I also love the Highland Theater sign, a while back the sign was in disrepair, only some of the letters worked, the light bulbs were old and the sign was rarely turned on, but as of a few years ago, the sign was restored and is lit up every night.

Also, in the picture of the theater sign, the brick chimney sticking out from behind the Figueroa street sign is a Italian restaurant called Follieros Pizza. The little brick building it's in kinda stands out from it's neighbors. they have a little nice sign on the front as well. Me and my family would go eat there and then go watch a movie across the street. As soon as we would walk in we could see the cooks making the food and the delicious smell would hit my nose

ethereal_reality Nov 5, 2012 4:31 AM

:previous: Those are some very nice memories H.L.P. Thank you for sharing them.

It is so great to hear that the old Highland Theater sign is lit up every night.
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ethereal_reality Nov 5, 2012 4:56 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by BifRayRock (Post 5890778)
Technicolor 6311 Romaine Avenue (1930-75 at this location), circa '38
http://jpg3.lapl.org/pics44/00071987.jpglapl

BifRayRock, I didn't realize this wonderful art deco building originally housed the Technicolor Corp.

http://imageshack.us/a/img689/3968/aabtechnicolor.jpg
http://patentlawcenter.pli.edu/2012/...e-patent-wars/

Thanks for that insight. :)
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haiku99 Nov 5, 2012 5:40 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by ethereal_reality (Post 5889011)
:previous: Interesting Mayor Shaw. Think how many 'secrets' there are in each and every hotel in Los Angeles.
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no doubt! Jim Thompson, maybe the greatest noir writer ever worked in hotels in his youth and said that is where he got the ideas for many of his dark and twisted tales...

MichaelRyerson Nov 5, 2012 1:42 PM

http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7113/8...989c5d33_o.jpg
Traffic accident on Hiway 101, 1958

Traffic accident on Hiway 101, 8 March 1958. Meno Besanson -- 43 years (victim); Christopher Besanson (victim); Philip Besanson (victim); Ethel Besanson; Bula Honeycutt (victim); R. M. Rackerby.

Caption slip reads: "Photographer: Sandusky. Date: 1958-03-08. Assignment: Traffic, 101 Highway 2384: Meno Besanson, 43 at lower left lying on back. To right of him, obscured by sheriff, is son Christopher. Other son Philip lies next to station wagon. Wife, Ethel Besanson, talks to investigator R. M. Rackerby, center. Right rear, ambulance attendants & firemen carry Bula Honeycutt to ambulance".

USCdigital archive/Los Angeles Examiner Negatives Collection, 1950-1961

GaylordWilshire Nov 5, 2012 2:53 PM

:previous:

Blame it on Bula

http://img89.imageshack.us/img89/4615/bulahoneycutt.jpgLos Angeles Times March 9, 1958

Wenders Nov 5, 2012 3:53 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by haiku99 (Post 5890864)
no doubt! Jim Thompson, maybe the greatest noir writer ever worked in hotels in his youth and said that is where he got the ideas for many of his dark and twisted tales...

You may see Jim Thompson's own residence, Villa Bonita apt building on Hillcrest Dr & Franklin ave (just north of Franklin, a block west of Highland.) If Google streetviewing it, remember to zoom up to see the Villa Bonita writing on building's south -facing wall. The quite tall structure (for this neighborhood) seems to be unaltered from its original style. It was just one of his Hollywood foothills -area homes. In his biography, his daughter wasn't too fond about the Villa Bonita, called it a dump or something similar.
Most of Jim's Hollywood homes were in walking distance from Musso & Frank's.

GaylordWilshire Nov 5, 2012 3:58 PM

Speaking of Technicolor...
 
http://img40.imageshack.us/img40/636...ompleterev.jpgLAT

http://img254.imageshack.us/img254/4...musdual2nd.jpgLAT


All of which brings into relief a quote from this online history of Technicolor:

"If you think Charles and Diana had problems.... No piece written about Natalie Kalmus has ever been found that didn't include the word 'bitch.' The Curator sees no need for name calling, especially when others have done it so eloquently."

The Battling Kalmuses...
http://img163.imageshack.us/img163/2...erttkalmus.jpghttp://img685.imageshack.us/img685/8...aliekalmus.jpgWidescreen Museum

GaylordWilshire Nov 5, 2012 4:49 PM

...and who knew Natalie had her own line of TVs?
 
http://img820.imageshack.us/img820/9...ompleterev.jpg
Los Angeles Times November 16, 1950


"Your TV dealer will show you the radical, unbelievable, inconceivable,
incomparable NATALIE KALMUS Television set. To miss seeing this is like
missing the headlines in an ATOMIC EXPLOSION..."...


If you can't find yours at a store in the list above, here's another source:

http://img3.imageshack.us/img3/7228/kalmustvebay.jpgebay

Details here.

Presumably this is the "modern" version of the "Full Combination" with the TV on the right...

Moxie Nov 6, 2012 3:37 AM

On Castle tonight they've got a scene filmed in the Dutch Chocolate Shop. :)

haiku99 Nov 6, 2012 3:41 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Wenders (Post 5891095)
You may see Jim Thompson's own residence, Villa Bonita apt building on Hillcrest Dr & Franklin ave (just north of Franklin, a block west of Highland.) If Google streetviewing it, remember to zoom up to see the Villa Bonita writing on building's south -facing wall. The quite tall structure (for this neighborhood) seems to be unaltered from its original style. It was just one of his Hollywood foothills -area homes. In his biography, his daughter wasn't too fond about the Villa Bonita, called it a dump or something similar.
Most of Jim's Hollywood homes were in walking distance from Musso & Frank's.

thanks, I did not know that...here is a screenshot from Google Maps Street View...I read the the bio on him "Savage Art" years ago and it made a big impression, need to find another copy

https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/-m....58%2520PM.jpg

AviationGuy Nov 6, 2012 4:19 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by MichaelRyerson (Post 5890998)
http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7113/8...989c5d33_o.jpg
Traffic accident on Hiway 101, 1958

Traffic accident on Hiway 101, 8 March 1958. Meno Besanson -- 43 years (victim); Christopher Besanson (victim); Philip Besanson (victim); Ethel Besanson; Bula Honeycutt (victim); R. M. Rackerby.

Caption slip reads: "Photographer: Sandusky. Date: 1958-03-08. Assignment: Traffic, 101 Highway 2384: Meno Besanson, 43 at lower left lying on back. To right of him, obscured by sheriff, is son Christopher. Other son Philip lies next to station wagon. Wife, Ethel Besanson, talks to investigator R. M. Rackerby, center. Right rear, ambulance attendants & firemen carry Bula Honeycutt to ambulance".

USCdigital archive/Los Angeles Examiner Negatives Collection, 1950-1961

Today's view at this location, from Google Streetview (hosted on Flikr):

http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7136/8...40c70f66_b.jpg

GaylordWilshire Nov 6, 2012 12:02 PM

http://img801.imageshack.us/img801/2657/00044126.jpgLAPL

Come as you are to the polls, as Mrs. Lucile Wheat of L.A. did on August 26, 1930, when voting machines
were introduced... just VOTE TODAY

Mayor Shaw Nov 6, 2012 6:30 PM

Doing His Civic Duty
 
The squirrel returns

http://imageshack.us/a/img840/6360/votet.png

Uploaded with ImageShack.us

GaylordWilshire Nov 6, 2012 7:07 PM

http://img685.imageshack.us/img685/337/00029161.jpgLAPL
June 13, 1933

Remember this day, Frank? Now, about that 'stache...

Mayor Shaw Nov 6, 2012 8:22 PM

Don't leave him hanging
 
:previous:
My administration is remembered for many things, not the least of which is the first recorded use of the "High Five" in Los Angeles.

As far as the 'stache goes, my brother Joe thought it conveyed a sense of authority

Lwize Nov 6, 2012 8:46 PM

From today's LA Times:

Quote:

'Sunset Boulevard' digitally restored for its Blu-ray debut
Billy Wilder's 'Sunset Boulevard' (1950) was digitally restored — a process complicated because the original negative is missing — for Blu-ray release.

By Susan King, Los Angeles Times

November 5, 2012, 5:43 p.m.

"Sunset Boulevard" is ready for its close-up.

Billy Wilder's 1950 award-winning darkly satiric tale of Hollywood starring William Holden, Gloria Swanson, Erich Von Stroheim and Nancy Olson is making its Blu-ray debut Tuesday in a new digital restoration.

This isn't the first digital restoration for "Sunset Boulevard," which earned 11 Oscar nominations and won three Academy Awards. "Sunset Boulevard" was restored a decade ago for its DVD release. "It was the first time that an entire film was scanned for restoration," noted Andrea Kalas, vice president of archives at Paramount Pictures.

But in the last 10 years, she said, digital technology has improved immensely. "Because it was Paramount's 100th anniversary, we knew we could do something really spectacular, using the tools that exist now to get that fantastic film noir look of the film."

One of the biggest hurdles was finding the best surviving elements for the restoration because the original negative of "Sunset Boulevard" no longer exists. Kalas said there is no record of what happened to the negative. ("Sunset Boulevard" isn't the only classic film with a missing negative; "Citizen Kane" and "Stagecoach" are among the seminal films whose original elements have suffered the same fate.)

Kalas and her staff found a duplicate negative that had been made from the original in the 1960s in the Paramount archive to use for the restoration. But the duplicate negative was not without its flaws.

"There were a few frames missing," Kalas said. "There was lots of cleaning and a few small tears."

Kalas worked with Technicolor on the restoration. "They have a lot of different tools at their hands ranging from standard restoration tools that are able to clean up [problems] to special effects tools when they need to do something particularly special. The capacity to restore it to its original glory is much more possible now than it had been before."

A 35mm print of "Sunset Boulevard" from the Library of Congress that was made from the original negative at the time of release was helpful in the restoration. That print was "our main reference for the film" to restore the correct shadings and shadows to John F. Seitz's atmospheric black-and-white noir cinematography.

"There's one scene where Holden is in the garage with Erich Von Stroheim and all you see practically is von Stroheim's face," said Kalas. "Everything else is in the darkness. We wanted to make sure we got that right."

The decades haven't dimmed the brilliance of "Sunset Boulevard." The film was a comeback for Swanson, who began her career in 1914. She gives an iconic performance as faded silent screen star Norma Desmond, who hires a struggling young writer (Holden) to help work on her comeback vehicle.

"It's a wonderful capsule of Hollywood," said Kalas. "The script is perfectly pitched. It doesn't hold back on its criticism [of Hollywood], but there's definitely a lot of affection."

Olson, who earned a supporting actress Oscar nomination as Holden's girlfriend, recalled that even during production, Paramount was abuzz that "Sunset Boulevard" was something special.

"Every day at 6 p.m., studio executives, directors and technical people attended the dailies," she noted. "There could be at least 15 movies being filmed at the same time. People would show up to see how the prior day's footage looked [of their film] and then leave immediately."

But a quarter of the way during production on "Sunset Boulevard," Olson said, "everyone stayed to watch the dailies. They had to bring in extra seats. They wanted to know what was going to happen next."
http://www.latimes.com/media/photo/2012-11/73187941.jpg
image: LA Times

GaylordWilshire Nov 6, 2012 8:54 PM

:previous:

"Shut up, I'm rich! I'm richer than all this new Hollywood trash! I've got a million dollars.... Own three blocks downtown, I've got oil in Bakersfield, pumping, pumping, pumping! What's it for but to buy us anything we want!"

ethereal_reality Nov 6, 2012 10:24 PM

:previous: LOL, my absolute favorite line from the movie!




...and this is my favorite image.

http://imageshack.us/a/img854/6848/aabjoenpool.jpg
http://thechaosofdeath.blogspot.com/...oe-gillis.html

ethereal_reality Nov 6, 2012 10:49 PM

http://imageshack.us/a/img28/4474/aa...ng1951ebay.jpg
ebay






reverse/info.
http://imageshack.us/a/img231/3111/a...1951revers.jpg
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ethereal_reality Nov 6, 2012 11:29 PM

Election Day!

http://imageshack.us/a/img844/4315/aabpatrioticava.jpg
http://pinterest.com/pin/68328119317158350/
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side note: When I worked for Lorimar Productions on the MGM lot I had to deliver some publicity stills to Ms. Gardner's dressing room
(she was appearing as Ruth Galveston on Knots Landing). It was the middle of a sunny afternoon and she was inside
drinking bourbon and chain smoking. She had a deep husky voice (it was always deep and husky)
and she asked me in. I showed her what I had brought down from the publicity dept.

On the sly, I also brought with me my favorite photograph of her from The Killers (1946).

this one.
http://imageshack.us/a/img341/6310/aabpatavakillers.jpg
http://justacineast.blogspot.com/201...1_archive.html

She couldn't remember very much about the photograph except that she was afraid the table was going to flip over.
She asked me if I wanted her to sign it. So I said yes of course.

...and that was that. Quite exciting for a 23 year old transplant (me) from rural Illinois.
She died soon after.

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BrysonWilshire Nov 6, 2012 11:31 PM

The Brasher Doubloon
 
Quote:

Originally Posted by GaylordWilshire (Post 5041158)
:previous:

Jeff-- You can watch--sort of--The Brasher Doubloon on youtube (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1lfE895sJqg), but the print is so bad (maybe it was filmed off of tv) that it's really unwatchable, which these stills of the house, while still identifiable as the still-extant Rindge house at 2263 S. Harvard, show:

http://lh5.ggpht.com/_zXN_GwdMYMo/TN...93558%20AM.jpg20th Century-Fox

http://lh4.ggpht.com/_zXN_GwdMYMo/TN...83019%20AM.jpg20th Century-Fox
Montgomery-as-Marlowe desribes it as being "way out in Pasadena."


http://jpg1.lapl.org/pics47/00043056.jpgLAPL
The Rindge House, closer to its 1903 construction date.

More information and contemporary pictures of the Rindge house are at http://bigorangelandmarks.blogspot.c...dge-house.html

Frederick Roehrig designed it. A quick look doesn't reveal if he might possibly have also done the similar-feeling Hershey house I think you're thinking of, but there is alot of interconnectedness in that Roehrig also designed the W. E. Ramsey house near the Rindge, on property sold to Mr. Ramsey by...Mira Hershey ( http://bigorangelandmarks.blogspot.c...lla-maria.html)

The house you must have in mind, which was at 4th and Grand on Bunker Hill:

http://jpg3.lapl.org/pics24/00061893.jpgLAPL

The full story of the Hershey house (long gone by the time The Brasher Doubloon was made in 1947), is here:
http://www.onbunkerhill.org/Hershey_CastleTowers


It looks like there are some other good L.A. establishing shots in the movie, including these:

http://lh3.ggpht.com/_zXN_GwdMYMo/TN...83253%20AM.jpg20th Century-Fox
Marlowe's Hollywood office

http://lh4.ggpht.com/_zXN_GwdMYMo/TN...83801%20AM.jpg20th Century-Fox
In the movie George Montgomery, as Marlowe, describes Bunker Hill as a place "people live because they
haven't got any place else to live." I'll have to look for this building in the various Bunker Hill resources,
but can anyone identify it in the meantime?

Its entrance:
http://lh5.ggpht.com/_zXN_GwdMYMo/TN...83818%20AM.jpg20th Century-Fox

There's a much better copy of The Brasher Doubloon on YouTube
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mViN_...hannel&list=UL.

Here are cleaner stills:

http://sphotos-a.xx.fbcdn.net/hphoto...80599416_n.jpgTwentieth Century-Fox

http://sphotos-b.xx.fbcdn.net/hphoto...05038408_n.jpgTwentieth Century-Fox

http://sphotos-b.xx.fbcdn.net/hphoto...53826221_n.jpgTwentieth Century-Fox

http://sphotos-b.xx.fbcdn.net/hphoto...05332624_n.jpgTwentieth Century-Fox

http://sphotos-a.xx.fbcdn.net/hphoto...21333764_n.jpgTwentieth Century-Fox

http://sphotos-a.xx.fbcdn.net/hphoto...70666205_n.jpgTwentieth Century-Fox


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