This is kind of fun after my recent Elks Club/Park Plaza post.
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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. |
:previous: That helps alot Mayor Shaw! Thanks. :)
__ 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. |
Big watch dog guarding Nazimova's residence. GRRRRRR.
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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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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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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 |
:previous: Thanks for the information GW.
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..as seen in that hanging medallion
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Can you imagine when there was this much 'virgin' land for vegetable gardens.
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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 |
[QUOTE=GaylordWilshire;5890042]I had to get a closer look at that window at the lower right...
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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 |
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 __;) |
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 __ *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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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? |
: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).
__ 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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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. |
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. __ 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 __ |
In 1875, the Main Street & Agricultural Park Railroad began shuttling passengers to the park.
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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 __ postcard from the 1940s. I love the look of that bar. http://imageshack.us/a/img152/3365/aabmoritzpc.jpg http://pinterest.com/pin/46161964901020950/ __ |
An amazing kodachrome slide found on ebay. The cars are so beautiful!..and what is KYRON?
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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 _____________________________ A few blocks away (6823 Santa Monica Boulevard - SMonica and Highland) Pathé Studios aka International Studios. http://jpg1.lapl.org/00097/00097694.jpg lapl |
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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 |
:previous: Those are some very nice memories H.L.P. Thank you for sharing them.
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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 |
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Speaking of Technicolor...
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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 |
...and who knew Natalie had her own line of TVs?
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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... |
On Castle tonight they've got a scene filmed in the Dutch Chocolate Shop. :)
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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 |
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June 13, 1933 Remember this day, Frank? Now, about that 'stache... |
Don't leave him hanging
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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 |
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"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!" |
:previous: LOL, my absolute favorite line from the movie!
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Election Day!
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