Yeah, of course it is east. I don't know what I was thinking...or actually not thinking.

OK Hold Everything! I've just uncovered another Claire and Clio photograph!

https://i.postimg.cc/6Q7W0f48/creepy.png
The Shining, Warner Bros. 1980



Sorry, I couldn't resist :worship:

The old Aliso has--as you might imagine--always been of the highest interest to me. Imagine my delight when the following came up years ago on eBay unidentified, and I realized what it was . . . and won it . . .

https://i.postimg.cc/Bn51HmwW/Aliso.jpg
odinthor collection and http://web.csulb.edu/~odinthor/socal1a.html

Is there a better image of the old Aliso anywhere? I haven't seen one.

The Stoll, Winton and Stanley apartments are visible as the we pass over the 2nd st. tunnel entrance at the 5:15 mark of this old NLA favorite:

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I see a sad clown walking a small dog that's pulling a cart with a stuffed animal in it. What the heck is going on with this circus lol.

You're right about everything but the "small dog."

It's actually a...DUCK!

https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/1...924/VSsveY.jpg
ENLARGED
It's like a poor man's Ringley Bros, badrunner.


For example: Look at the old truck tires on the chariot.

https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/1...924/2tfG8j.jpg

It looks like they were dug out of some junk yard. lol




I've been trying to decipher what's going on in these two slides shown below.

I'm perplexed by the pink 'phallic' thingy protruding from the Hobo clown's head.

https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/1...921/pHziGA.jpg

I thought the clown in white was holding it out. . .but it doesn't look like his arm is extended in that direction.



A CLOSER LOOK.
https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/3...923/DGBQny.jpg

I'm sorry, but all I see is a sex toy. ....note the french tickler.





.....WHAT KIND OF CIRCUS IS THIS ?

It's a prop bird, probably intended to be a vulture or Condor, sitting on his shoulder:

http://www.bitsmasherpress.com/LANoir/Bird.jpg

If you look *really* closely, you can barely see his chin line against the black of the bird's wing.

Cheers,

Earl

It would be absolutely fascinating to hear the life stories of the folks who traveled with this strange outfit.

My wife traveled with Ringling Bros Circus for a few years in the 80's after attending Clown College in Sarasota. The Circus world is rich and fascinating, populated by very colorful characters to say the least. I can tell you the scenes in the photos are all very typical clown behavior (ask the man who married one!). It is also a very faithful and supportive community, rivaled only by an Investigation of Noirishers.

I could do it, but considering how low-resolution the photo is, coupled with the fact that Beaudry is probably buying it, I think it's best to see how the sale pans out first.

EDIT: I see that the auction has already ended. Did you win it, Beaudry? eBay doesn't give the names of the bidders.

There was an interesting episode of The X-Files that was set in a mobile home park in Florida that served as a retirement community for circus folk. It was well done and these photos reminded me of it.

Just above the hood-straddling man, is that something hand-written on the photograph or is that part of the billboard?

Revival
 

The 1906 Azusa Street Revival of Los Angeles.

Video link>>>>>>

https://youtu.be/-1NHVQQw404


https://3.bp.blogspot.com/-yuxRdQ4eB...2BCollage2.jpg
ARM ministries

That little house at the lower right was the beginning. Its still standing and I've been inside. Its furnished just as it was in 1906.

https://3.bp.blogspot.com/-jeXuzUzxn...usaStr5eet.png
ARM

Seen before but this is the building that housed the meetings that went 24/7 for several years. BTW that 1906 Revival continues to this day in 2019 in other locations around the US.
ARM

That circus came to town and never left by the looks of it ;)

Here's another snapshot from the 'Claire & Clio' photographs. (sans Claire & Clio)

It's such an interesting photograph I couldn't NOT post it...*scratches head* .... ...did I say that right?


https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/1...923/UoB0sV.jpg
ebay

This is the Pac Mu facing Central Park (Pershing Square), right? ........WRONG> It's THIS building. (I was confused for a moment) Hold ON. It is the same building!.still confused...:ahhh:

I'm in a rush. I have to take my car in for repairs. *sad*....I'll figure this out LATER. bye


reverse
https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/1...923/TMkth9.jpg


I'm not sure who the lad is, posing in the photograph. Did Claire & Clio have a brother?

Hmmmm...or maybe it only looks like he's posing. He might be walking by with the newspaper tucked under his arm.

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It's this building, right?

.................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................I'VE ALWAYS LOVED THIS PHOTOGRAPH.
https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/1...924/2pNIj5.jpg
HERE

But it seems too short (length-wise) Did they add onto the back?


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:previous:


That's the building, at the nwc of Sixth and Olive--the empty lot was at the nec of Sixth and Grand, where Pacific Mutual built a 12-story addition in 1921. The three bays were added to the back of the original 1908 building in 1913....

Shall we go with just one more Clio sighting?


I straightened the photograph but lost a bit of the writing at the bottom.. and a small portion of the house on the left.

https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/1...921/il652p.jpg
ebay

As you can see..Clio's on the stoop.







Here's the crooked version.

https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/8...924/kxlrzE.jpg

The mysterious men by the utility pole add a touch of 'noir' to the snapshot. ....(could they be kidnappers discussing Clio?)...



I'm sorry folks but that's how my brain works. ha....
...ha

Here's how the Pacific Mutual Building took over neighboring lots while Central Park became Pershing Square:

1910
https://i809.photobucket.com/albums/...Mutual1910.jpg
www.historicmapworks.com

1914
https://i809.photobucket.com/albums/...Mutual1914.jpg
www.historicmapworks.com

1921
https://i809.photobucket.com/albums/...Mutual1921.jpg
www.historicmapworks.com

By 1923, the Biltmore Hotel filled most of the rest of the block.

Oh yeah, bought and paid for! I'll put up four or five of 'em once they get here in a few days.

Just ran across something I didn't know existed. I was already familiar with the three shots at Sacramento of one of my fave Deco buildings, William Richards' 1931 State Mutual Building & Loan, once wedged between Title Guarantee and Temple Auditorium. Richards, of Dodd & Richards fame, worked a lot in the Streamline vernacular after the death of William J. Dodd in 1930.

https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/...581bb66a_b.jpg
https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/...3aeb0ec9_b.jpg
cal state library

...dig the bas-relief of these guys by Salvatore Cartaino Scarpitta, sitting around the State Mutual building, on the State Mutual building.

Anyway, not part of that set, and just stumbled upon, is this interior:

https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/...119a0813_h.jpg
cal state library

Decoriffic, right? What really got me was the wallpaper frieze, which appears to be of modernistic "City of the Future" towers rendered in that vaguely Hugh Ferriss way delineators of the late 20s liked to...delineate.

https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/...7e862019_o.png

https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/...d698d35b_o.png

https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/...55df6d53_o.png

Maybe it's not paper, but all hand-painted? Who would have done that sort of work? And I wonder if it lasted through to its 1985 demolition.