My take on Elvis's cars...
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'65 Chrysler wagon; '56 Ford Customline; an MGA produced (late '50s-early '60s); '65 Chevy Impala; '60 Cadillac hardtop |
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re: Rocca Place rental home.
I thought it was a different house than the one that's there now. So thanks for proving me WRONG Noir Noir (with the permit) and CBD. I can't tell who's right or wrong about the cars. As most of you know, I'm really really bad at identifying makes of cars. That said...I do know the bus is a Vistaliner. https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/8...924/R9iYCG.jpg I like to outline things. The front matches this one. https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/8...921/RbgeKr.jpg mabroelvisworld I spy Priscilla. below: "Elvis' tour bus leaves the estate 1174 Hillcrest - Beverly Hills." https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/8...921/Yfizi5.jpg mabroelvisworld Not Rocca Place...but 1174 Hillcrest? Was that another rental? (I believe Elvis owned, at point in time, two houses on Perugia Way) but I could be wong. A glimpse inside Elvis' Vistaliner. https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/1...921/R9mwUO.jpg mabroelvisworld :eek: Holy Shit! Here's one more....thankfully it's in black and white. https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/1...923/rHK8um.jpg mabroelvisworld I'm not sure I'd sleep under that TV....especially on a bumpy road. It might come loose and...GOODBYE LEGS. :( __ |
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https://i.imgur.com/KaruUpb.jpg?2http://6364cadillac.ning.com/forum/t...age=1#comments The Black '63 Caddy convertible could be one and the same. Quote:
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We have seen a large number of photographs of the 1938 flood on NLA over the years.
This album of 23 snapshots has recently turned up on Ebay. The seller only gives us a sampling of five. If anyone recognizes the location(s) let us know. #1 https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/1...924/G3KwWL.jpg Ebay #2 https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/1...921/xchIJu.jpg Ebay #3 https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/1...922/6ybfWg.jpg Ebay #4 https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/1...921/JG62uK.jpg Ebay Best for last. #5 https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/1...922/mOxlBh.jpg Ebay Let's look at the last one a bit larger. (because it's pretty darn cool) https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/1...921/DGC0Kg.jpg Ebay Does anyone know where Swift's Red Steer Fertilizer plant was located? (obviously the byproduct of Swift's meat packing plants) __ |
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Re photo #2: Here's post 7288 from 2012.... Here it is today-- Garthwaite and W 43rd... https://i.postimg.cc/4NdBjnfc/garthwaite43-bmp.jpg and re photo #4-- Kelly Pipe at left was at 525 N Mission Rd... https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/1...921/DGC0Kg.jpg https://i.postimg.cc/2SPPGnfT/525mission2-bmp.jpg |
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I think that the fertilizer plant is the large building at the center of this August 14, 1941 view, taken after the flood damage was repaired. http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...rtilizers1.jpg mil.library.ucsb.edu The building is shown on the 1921 Baist map as Agricultural Chemical Works, which I assume got shortened to the A C W Fertilizers seen in e_r's picture. I can't find that company in the CDs, but Agricultural Chemical Works was originally listed at 905 Macy. Looking at Historic Aerials, the building survived into the '70s, and had quite possibly only just been demolished in the 1980 view. Quote:
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:previous: Thanks for your help GaylordWilshre and HossC!
I don't know how I missed those other pics Hoss. Neat ol' Grand Central Air Terminal sign. https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/8...921/25GQbQ.jpg I remember a black and white photograph of a low flying plane going over this road. Does anyone else remember that photo...or is it a figment of my imagination? |
...another flood pic that I missed the first time around.
This snapshot reminded me of a couple gifs I had come across several months ago. https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/8...923/bEp4gh.jpg https://imageshack.com/a/img922/8431/DRoDfv.gifhttps://imageshack.com/a/img921/2231/yPUadP.gifgiphy I believe the person dangling from the moving crane is Buster Keaton. from the silent film 'Seven Chances'(?) __ |
mystery object.
This postcard of Willard's was first posted [on NLA] over 8 years ago. (it was before we had honed our sleuthing abilities. ;)) https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/1...923/snK282.jpg What, pray-tel, is the structure in the distance that sort of looks like a pyramid missing its top. Let's take a closer look. If I'm not mistaken, we are looking south...and a tiny bit west. Correction: "we're looking north...and a tiny bit east." per GW HERE'S A CLOSER LOOK. https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/8...921/048D1C.jpg Any ideas folks? Update: While searching for past posts and info. on the Los Feliz Willard's I happened upon this 2nd postcard.that might be new to NLA. LOOKING EAST https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/1...923/L0GRYp.jpg Ebay Amazingly, the Willard's building, later a Brown Derby, still stands on the southwest corner of Los Feliz and Hillhurst. https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/8...921/jal4GF.jpg GSV FROM THE SAME ANGLE FOR COMPARISON https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/8...922/hPi75M.jpg GaylordWilshire first pointed this out HERE. GW also included a photograph of Willard's when it was a Brown Derby. p.s. Don't forget about the mystery structure! :) |
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I can't see the truncated pyramid, but maybe this July 18, 1928 view will help someone else track it down. I've arrowed Willard's on the corner of Pico and Beverwil. Another view from September 14, 1937 shows a few more houses. http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...AWillards1.jpg mil.library.ucsb.edu Willard's is still listed at 9625 W Pico in the 1956 CD. |
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Well, ER, since this is the Pico/Beverwill Willard's, we're looking north...and a tiny bit east.... But I can't give you an answer on the Mayan pyramid |
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The white house to the left of Willard's in the picture is still there at 1153 Beverwil Drive. https://i.imgur.com/MvSxoMd.jpg GSV Here's an aerial from 1937 with new builds to the right since HossC's 1928 aerial. https://i.imgur.com/rhqHqr7.jpg mil.library.ucsb.edu These were built circa 1930 - 33. Perhaps the picture quality plus the skewed angle of these houses to the camera is giving the odd shape in the original picture. :shrug: |
mystery gas station.
"Opening of Santa Claus display at station, Shell Oil Co., Southern California, 1930." (but it says 1929 on one of the giant books in the display) https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/1...924/RMiB4B.jpg USC DIGITAL ARCHIVES If you look closely, along the left edge, you can see the name of the owners of the station. https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/6...921/hk7eJO.jpg DETAIL: Van Fleet & Durkee #176 I also spotted *pats self on back* ;) a clue in the far distance. Drum roll please. https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/8...921/8WHNZy.jpg DETAIL USC didn't list Van Fleet, Durkee or Belmont...but they did list a ton of other details. https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/6...923/IhTaXL.jpg also https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/6...923/arT75B.jpg It looks like someone from Paramount designed the fantastic Christmas backdrop. (it's not really a backdrop...but you know what I mean) I'm curious...what does [ilg] mean? (it's used numerous times in the 2nd paragraph) ___ To see the other two photographs of the Christmas decorations go HERE. |
OK, I'll go ahead and post this because it shows the 1929 book that I mentioned above. (so why did USC date the photographs 1930?) *shrugs*
https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/1...922/eNWZrO.jpg usc digital archives It's next to the giant Santa's chair. FREE BALLOONS! |
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Looking for more pictures of the Shell station, I found a set of four photos of the decorations being constructed. Here are two of them. Christmas display at station on Wilshire Boulevard and South Catalina Street, Shell Oil Co., Los Angeles, CA, 1930 http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...Christmas1.jpg USC Digital Library |
Dedicated Noirishers checking the Baist map books.
https://66.media.tumblr.com/d4b583ca...px5vo1_500.gif gif circus |
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What was there: Permits for the first Shell station buildings at the nec of Wilshire & Catalina were issued on Aug 1, 1930--more than six years after the Aronson house was cut up and moved to Fremont Place.... The full story is here. https://i.postimg.cc/QMpx4thw/3325-MAIN4-FB.jpg The building seen at right is the Post Building, built in 1925--you can just seen the Aronson lot at left, apparently bare and awaiting Shell... Read all about the Post Building here. https://i.postimg.cc/Kz3P1t2w/3301-WB-Post-Bldg-bmp.jpg LAPL |
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Who should break the news over at L.A. Relics? https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/1...922/icG6Lj.jpg #WRONG_ADDRESS By the way, I didn't see the Du Barry sign. Good eye Hoss. Quote:
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And from the other side of giant Santa's chair.
https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/6...922/Mo46Te.jpg The only Mitzi I know is Mitzi Gaynor and Mitzi Rose Lee. wink |
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https://i.imgur.com/QlhxPRS.jpg ecrater.com The film is on archive.org - Tom Sawyer - 1930 |
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Never heard of her, but I guess she was the coming thing in 1929...but then came Shirley https://i.postimg.cc/qqRj9CtS/mitzi1-bmp.jpg LAT Oct 18, 1929 |
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The scene where Jack Nicholson rips pages out of a plat book ('coughing' each time to cover up the ripping sound). The male librarian looks up...but doesn't realize what's going on right under his nose. Remember that scene? |
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https://i.postimg.cc/W49svYyG/warnick-UT-bmp.jpg Actor Allan Warnick in that scene... Here he is later in The Two Jakes (from post 5896 from 2012) https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-u...2520PM.bmp.jpg |
If anyone needs ideas for presents, these two new LA books are great:
https://i.postimg.cc/zDKTFdg2/LAbook.jpghttps://i.postimg.cc/mDtWGzQh/librarybk1.jpg The story of the library fire is noirish and the writing is great A sample from Dear Los Angeles that I especially liked... Evelyn Waugh, February 13, 1947 (right after, of course, the demise of E Short): "The city is quarter-built, empty building lots everywhere and vast distances. Since the war they have succeeded in spoiling even the climate by inducing an artificial and noxious fog...." |
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bamf 2 photos here from the Hall of Records scene...... |
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In her adult career, she was most famous for her role in Rodgers & Hart's Babes in Arms. She introduced My Funny Valentine and The Lady is a Tramp. How soon we forget. |
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I'm not sure anyone who saw her on Broadway in 1937 is still alive, so her not being so well remembered is understandable. Plus, she died young. Seems it's up to NLA to revive her fame. She was big. It's the pictures that got small. Big enough to have star on the Boulevard (6400 block): https://i.postimg.cc/pL9v9Vkg/mitzistar-bmp.jpg Wonder where this might have been taken... https://i.postimg.cc/vBvwR4H6/mitzi1-bmp.jpghttps://i.postimg.cc/Fzs5hh7C/mitzi2-bmp.jpg |
Here's a photograph of the FBI office in Los Angeles. [1950s?]
https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/6...923/wgmMa5.jpg I found the pic HERE (the address wasn't given) Does anyone know where this field office was located? My guess is..somewhere near LAX. (the building looks 'airporty' to me) __ |
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The slant of the street made me doubt it being too near LAX, but I totally get your thinking that it looks--or looked--"airporty"... It's at 1340 West 6th St...seems to have been also, at least until recent renovations, an office of the DEA... https://i.postimg.cc/N0Lwnfmb/1340w6th-bmp.jpg https://i.postimg.cc/kMvhxPt5/1340compl.jpg LAT April 27, 1956 |
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____ re: FBI. Here's J. Edgar Hoover in Hollywood, 1951. I'd love to know what's going through Hoover's mind at this very moment. https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/1...924/SGiM8g.jpg Hoover visits Dorothy Lamour and Cornell Wilde on the set of The Greatest Show on Earth, with Charlton Heston in the background, 1951 This article at abcnews says he 'dated' Dorothy Lamour. (despite the title of the article, "J. Edgar Hoover: Gay or Just A Man Who Has Sex With Men.") :shrug: __ J. Edgar with his companion Clyde Tolson. https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/3...924/agYZX5.jpg |
mystery room.
Rare C1900 Los Angeles California Photo Trainmen In Railroad Or Transit Station https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/6...921/C7ndE6.jpg EBAY There are two photographer's stamps on the reverse. https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/1...924/6ogi6o.jpg EBAY Tracy, Photographer 102 S. Spring St. Los Angeles, Cal., Phone A 9623 Established 1902 A closer look. https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/1...921/wLIJVU.png EBAY I wonder if this photograph was taken in the Pacific Electric Building at 6th and Main? __ |
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https://i.postimg.cc/SRGhjW8W/NLArepubclub2-bmp.jpg LA Herald July 4, 1897 Ran across the above newspaper image of a house once at 533 South Main St while looking for something else...fun to see the floor plan with it. USC has a photo on which the drawing appears to have been based. Looks to be a typical 1880s Italiante city residence. The Rowans of the real estate family owned it and rented it to the Silver Republicans*--then sold it in 1905. Convenient poultry-supplies shopping right across the street: https://i.postimg.cc/RCQr9LvF/leespoultry.jpg In early 1910, police raided the premises looking for illegal gambling...then in 1911 Woodley's Optic Theatre replaced it. Turns out the estimable ER and HossC got a handle on the address four years ago in post 23688 AND in post 26613 the next year--with more photographic images of the house. Later images of the theater's exterior and interior: https://i.postimg.cc/43J7L549/woodleysext-bmp.jpghttps://i.postimg.cc/9fJ4v7zN/woodleys1-bmp.jpg *Had to refresh my memory about Silver Republicans (if I ever had a memory in the first place). Here's what Wikipedia has to say: "The Silver Republican Party was a United States political party in the 1890s. It was so named because it split from the Republican Party over the issues of free silver (effectively, expansionary monetary policy) and bimetallism. The main Republican Party supported the gold standard. Silver Republican strength was concentrated in the Western states where mining, particularly silver mining, was an important industry. Silver Republicans were elected to the Congress from several Western states. In 1896, Silver Republicans supported Democratic presidential nominee William Jennings Bryan over William McKinley. After 1900, the Silver Republican Party was on the decline and most of its members rejoined the Republican Party." |
I've just read an interesting story which will hopefully influence future similar situations in places like Los Angeles.
Last year, Ross Johnston bought the Richard Neutra-designed 1936 Twin Peaks house in San Francisco for $1.7m. This year he demolished the house and then applied for a permit to build his planned new home. Unfortunately for Mr Johnston, the City Planning Commission has just ruled that he must rebuild a replica of the Neutra house and include a street-side plaque explaining what happened. The story can be found at various sources including the San Francisco Chronicle. |
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mystery bungalow.
from Photoplay 1930 https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/1...922/Pf2WaD.jpg internet/archive Movietone City eventually became 20th Century Fox Studios. This aerial of Fox Movietone was taken a year after the Photograph article. [c.1931] https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/1...922/DX1Ysw.jpg Hollywood Photographs hmmm...I think...I might see the bungalow but I'm only about 53.5% ;) sure that it's the right building. Does anyone see John McCormack's bungalow? (I'm curious to see if it matches my candidate) ___________________________________________________________________________________________ f.y.i John McCormack was a famous Irish tenor. This bit of information is also quite interesting. "McCormack bought Runyon Canyon in Hollywood in 1930 from Carman Runyon. McCormack saw and liked the estate while there filming Song o' My Heart (1930), an early all-talking, all-singing picture. He used his salary for this movie to purchase the estate and built a mansion he called 'San Patrizio', after Saint Patrick. McCormack and his wife lived in the mansion until they returned to England in 1938." wiki Hmmm....have we seen McCormack's mansion, 'San Patrizio', on NLA? __ |
Tis the season.
https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/1...921/Twv0ea.jpg 35mm negative found in old file Farmers Insurance Group building [1937] on the southeast corner of Wilshire and Rimpau. I had this building confused with the Golden State Mutual Life building by Paul Williams. Since I like mysteries, can anyone tell me what we see down the street? https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/8...922/R49OB3.jpg detail Not only the tower...but the bright sign with red in the middle distance. Prove to the world how sleuthy we are! :) ___ |
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The wood ceiling appears to be too old and flammable for 6th and main The windows do not appear to be correct. My guess Los Angeles Pacific depot between 4th and 5th on Hill. |
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http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...kBungalow1.jpg Hollywood Photographs The UCSB site has some 1927/28 aerial views before the buildings above were constructed, and some very detailed images from 1939. The detail view below is from one of the 1939 images. The center houses seem to match the McCormack's bungalow and its neighbor, but with the thatch replaced with a regular tiled roof. http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...kBungalow2.jpg mil.library.ucsb.edu |
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Not sure if this one has been posted previousy - John Mccormack at San Patrizio in the 1930's. https://i.imgur.com/hT19Uoi.jpg hollywoodphotographs.com Some more with his family in the grounds here |
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