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Blaster Jun 28, 2016 12:56 AM

http://www.gstatic.com/hostedimg/d987ec9f92505621_largehttps://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com...c45188667e.jpg


I'm pretty certain that's not Rosemary Clooney at Villa Capri trying to duck the camera. Even the comparison photo on the right doesn't look like her -- a publicity shot designed to make her more svelte and photogenic.

The real question... whose baby is Jayne Mansfield handling?

(Hungry babies were often attracted to Jayne. It went with the job.)

ethereal_reality Jun 28, 2016 2:52 AM

Could someone please explain to me what's going on in this photograph?

http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/102...922/HuVGxH.jpg

The tow-truck is just out of frame on the right------->

& I believe that's the tow-truck driver standing in the doorway.

http://www.ebay.com/itm/VINTAGE-ABST...sAAOSwUuhXcC6w

Flyingwedge Jun 28, 2016 8:22 AM

1801 Wilshire & 2711 Wilshire
 
Quote:

Originally Posted by Flyingwedge (Post 7472217)

Here is the heretofore pictorially obscure "Mission Cottage" at 2711 Wilshire Blvd., probably with
Mr. and Mrs. Ruddy standing at the front door:
http://i1165.photobucket.com/albums/...j.jpg~original
July 5, 1902, The Capital @ Google Books

All of a sudden we're lousy with photos of 2711 Wilshire (now 222 S. Gramercy, as GW advised):

http://i1165.photobucket.com/albums/...z.jpg~original
December 1908 Architectural Record @ HathiTrust

______________________


1801 Orange Street (later 1801 Wilshire) was built in early 1902 by Dr. Francis Bartlett Kellogg (1855-1944), who was
an "oculist and aurist":
http://i1165.photobucket.com/albums/...l.jpg~original
January 1902 Pacific Coast Journal of Homeopathy @ Google Books

It was on the NW corner of Orange and Burlington:
http://i1165.photobucket.com/albums/...r.jpg~original
1906 Sanborn @ ProQuest via LAPL

You can just barely make out "Orange St" on the sign in front of 1801 Orange Street:
http://i1165.photobucket.com/albums/...v.jpg~original
December 1908 Architectural Record @ HathiTrust

Although by December 21, 1917, Dr. Kellogg had moved, he still owned 1801 Orange and on that day got a building permit to
"make two flats on main floor." The work was also written up in the Southwest Builder and Contractor on December 28, 1917:
http://i1165.photobucket.com/albums/...6.jpg~original
Google Books

We get a post-remodel glimpse of 1801 Wilshire at the top of this 1929 photo looking east on Wilshire. It looks like those
cool front porch columns are gone:

http://i1165.photobucket.com/albums/...z.jpg~original
DW-1929-08-10-69 @ USCDL

We can see the corner of 1801 Wilshire's roof out the window in this shot posted by e_r: http://forum.skyscraperpage.com/show...ostcount=24234

Lorendoc ID'd 1801 Wilshire in e_r's photo: http://forum.skyscraperpage.com/show...ostcount=24259

I'm not quite sure when the building was torn down -- perhaps not until the 1960s -- but it was converted from flats into
offices in 1944. There's nothing there now:

http://i1165.photobucket.com/albums/...u.jpg~original
GSV Aug 2015

HossC Jun 28, 2016 9:27 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by ethereal_reality (Post 7487871)

Could someone please explain to me what's going on in this photograph?

http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/102...922/HuVGxH.jpg

I'm guessing that the car ran away down the hill and got caught up on the cable tethering a utility pole. Luckily, the car hit the cable in a fairly central way, so it didn't get flipped over, and damage was probably restricted to the bumper. Why there's a man sitting on the roof of the car is another matter!

MichaelRyerson Jun 28, 2016 12:22 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by HossC (Post 7488012)
I'm guessing that the car ran away down the hill and got caught up on the cable tethering a utility pole. Luckily, the car hit the cable in a fairly central way, so it didn't get flipped over, and damage was probably restricted to the bumper. Why there's a man sitting on the roof of the car is another matter!

Just a guess but: Black guy's car starts to roll away from him, he instinctively jumps on the hood of the rapidly receding car (I know but we do weird things on the spur of the moment), the car, now rolling at something north of 30 mph, finds the guy-wire and decelerates rather abruptly sending the black guy across the hood, up the windshield and onto the roof whereupon he is heard to mutter 'Holy Sh*t!' By-passer offers hand, tow truck driver considers next move.

Tourmaline Jun 28, 2016 2:58 PM

Early thread postings picked from the LIFE files but quite a bit were overlooked. (To be sure, there is somewhat unavoidable redundancy, or apparent redundancy since some images are different frames from the same film roll or a/n image/s from reversed negatives.) Of particular focus is a March 1949-series exploring LA's rush-hour traffic. http://images.google.com/hosted/life...2f4bd846c.html

If the traffic weren't bad enough, the camera compresses the action, where buses, street cars, autos, pedestrians and lost pets politely compete for the same pavement. Fortunately, with the advent of "hands free smart phones," and "highway hypnosis" traffic is a distant memory. :pinocchio:




:drummer:



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Pan Pacific ad on Figueroa
http://www.gstatic.com/hostedimg/23ba6771b6965928_large







Pasadena by sun up?
http://www.gstatic.com/hostedimg/70ea17df276cf47d_large









Pasadena Fwy (Making good time.)
http://www.gstatic.com/hostedimg/deaa66448d3feb9d_large


:previous: Warp drive
http://www.gstatic.com/hostedimg/981d1c65330c3f3c_large







Cahuenga (Monkey Island adjacent) pass.
http://www.gstatic.com/hostedimg/1c50462f1ac63e48_large






Cahunga 2
http://www.gstatic.com/hostedimg/3f250ce83ae29c0b_large

Blaster Jun 28, 2016 3:31 PM

[QUOTE=Tourmaline;7488203]

Pasadena by sun up?
http://www.gstatic.com/hostedimg/70ea17df276cf47d_large


What's the significance of the white "X" on the roof of the car in the lower right?

ethereal_reality Jun 28, 2016 3:41 PM

:previous:
Quote:

Originally Posted by Ed Workman (Post 6931056)
Looks like a mark for aerial photography- mapping, but very strange to put it on something movable- perhaps the car belongs to the survey outfit, and the mark is on top to prevent someone else from parking over the mark if it was on the pavements. Such temporary marks would have been carefully located by ground survey and thus would allow precise adjustment of the photomosaicss to convert to topo maps

Here's your answer blaster. I had the same question back in 2015.

http://skyscraperpage.com/forum/show...ostcount=26521

ethereal_reality Jun 28, 2016 4:02 PM

Man and young lad walk Great Dane in Los Angeles. (I believe that's the Hollywood Athletic Club building down the street)

http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/102...924/kosQIz.jpg
eBay

I wonder if that's their car blocking the sidewalk? (maybe the dog had to take an emergency poo-poo ;) & there was no place to park)
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Thanks Hoss & MichaelRyerson for the rather humorous explanations for the car vs. utility pole photo.
I like how the tow-truck driver was just standing there scratching his head.

Tourmaline Jun 28, 2016 4:28 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by CityBoyDoug (Post 6384237)
In the mood to post a noir scene from Sunset & Vine. Carpenters Sandwich Drive-In.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v4...psf4c76ed5.jpg


Have a strong suspicion this Carpenter's was actually located at Wilshire and Western.;) Looks like the Wilshire Professional bldg. in the background.


http://www.you-are-here.com/building/professional.jpghttp://www.you-are-here.com/building/professional.jpg

HossC's post covers this location: http://forum.skyscraperpage.com/show...ostcount=17961




For CBD:;)

May feel like Summer but its still Spring at the Bowl. http://images.google.com/hosted/life...b914a0f8e.html



(Apprentice) Seaman Henry Fonda in his dress Blues, with some civilian named Tracy seated behind him. "May 1943"

Addressing the Hollywood Bowl Crowd in connection with appearance of Mme. Chiang Kai Shek
http://www.gstatic.com/hostedimg/85fdb1974e31f7a7_large


http://www.gstatic.com/hostedimg/278b518b914a0f8e_large



http://www.gstatic.com/hostedimg/a708f73d57d6be20_large



http://www.gstatic.com/hostedimg/400c8f1e44e1398e_large

ethereal_reality Jun 28, 2016 5:02 PM

:previous:
http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/102...923/0wdcPI.jpg
https://madamechiangproject.wordpres.../april-2-1943/

Friday banquet in the Fiesta Room at the Ambassador Hotel, April 2nd 1943.

"A gala banquet thrown in the Fiesta Room of the Ambassador Hotel in honor of the Madame’s visit. Officially slated to start at 8PM, over 500 guests showed up from all walks
of life; movie stars, community leaders, and assorted dignitaries and diplomats were all in attendance. The guest of honor herself arrived fashionably late, at 9:45 PM."

A hour and 45 minutes late! Mme. Chiang Kai-Chek or not, I'd be pissed.



That's director Frank Capra in the military uniform.

http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/640...921/aQcLKL.jpg



Beautiful Carole Landis (the name of the guy on the right has slipped off my tongue)

http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/640...922/6RWqpD.jpg



Walter Huston left, Edgar G. Robinson right.

http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/640...922/b7m8df.jpg


All from
https://madamechiangproject.wordpres.../april-2-1943/

ethereal_reality Jun 28, 2016 5:17 PM

'mystery' location, ca.1958

Does anyone recognize this intersection?

http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/xq90/924/VnVwmQ.jpg
eBay

:previous: If someone can figure out the word before 'Woods' on that billboard, we might be able to solve the mystery.



http://www.ebay.com/itm/Photo-ca-195...rkvIjcn_9xeFA_

Tourmaline Jun 28, 2016 5:58 PM

:previous:

George Murphy. Also Walter Huston. Seznick on the dais.;)


Go here for even more IDs: http://www.cbi-theater.com/life041943/life041943.html

HossC Jun 28, 2016 7:13 PM

Here are a couple of Julius Shulman's photos of Mullen Bluett on Wilshire. They are "Job 902: Mullen Bluett, 1951".

http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...1.jpg~original

Coulters can just be seen on the left of this rear view.

http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...2.jpg~original

Both from Getty Research Institute

oldstuff Jun 28, 2016 7:38 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by ethereal_reality (Post 7481830)
Thanks oldstuff, I didn't see Warehouse No.1 until you pointed it out.

This is it, right? (red arrow)

http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/128...924/egHEzf.jpg
eBay

Just for fun I thought I'd mess with this aerial with my very limited computer skills.

The BLUE curve is the 'Gaffey Bulge', and my arrow points to Warehouse No.1
http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/128...922/K2c8cg.jpg
google_earth

Looking at this, it appears the parade ground doesn't line up correctly with the B&W postcard image.

So perhaps the photographer wasn't located at the 'Gaffey Bulge' after all, but further north on Gaffey Street.




I believe these are the 'outlines' oldstuff is talking about. She has a good eye.

http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/102...922/xPVEV8.jpg
google_earth / old parade grounds

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Now that I look at it with your lines, I think that what I thought was Warehouse #1 is actually the Cannery Building since it is too far up the channel. Warehouse #1 would be further to the right, out of frame

oldstuff Jun 28, 2016 7:40 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by ethereal_reality (Post 7481862)

It would have to be a very large minion

HossC Jun 28, 2016 7:52 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by ethereal_reality (Post 7488441)

'mystery' location, ca.1958

Does anyone recognize this intersection?

http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/xq90/924/VnVwmQ.jpg
eBay

The Orange County Archives on Flickr identify the location as Chapman at Brookhurst, Garden Grove, circa 1959. A comment by 49er Badger says "Comparing this photo with the 1972 aerial shot on historicaerials.com seems to confirm the location: Chapman at Brookhurst, looking southwest." The 1963 image is closer to the date of the photo, but the 1972 image is clearer, and most of the buildings are the same. The Union 76 gas station is on the northwest corner of the intersection.

http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...rookhurst1.jpg
Historic Aerials

Just for fun, here's the same view in 1953.

http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...rookhurst2.jpg
Historic Aerials

This is how the instersection looks today, looking in roughly the same direction as the original picture.

http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...rookhurst3.jpg
GSV

oldstuff Jun 28, 2016 7:54 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by CityBoyDoug (Post 7482899)
Here is the Wrigley Mansion high above the city of Avalon, Catalina Island.

1919
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v4...psmfzwyhuo.jpg


Mr Wrigley owned the entire island except for the little resort town of Avalon.
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v4...psf852i9ey.jpg
photos from CDfile

"sugarloaf rock" is still there, before the Casino was built in 1928-1929

oldstuff Jun 28, 2016 7:55 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Martin Pal (Post 7482740)
Photo of the building directly at bottom center right on Officer's Road in the above photograph.

QUOTE
Historic Officer's Quarters, Middle Reservation, Fort MacArthur:
http://www.fortwiki.com/images/thumb...rthur_-_12.jpg

Must have been taken before drought restrictions.

They found additional things that were at Stonehenge when there was a drought and the grass was dry, by the marks that were left

Tourmaline Jun 28, 2016 8:22 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by HossC (Post 7488598)
Here are a couple of Julius Shulman's photos of Mullen Bluett on Wilshire. They are "Job 902: Mullen Bluett, 1951".

http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...1.jpg~original



Thanks for your continued efforts!



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http://forum.skyscraperpage.com/show...postcount=1080


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