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May 23, 1958 https://c1.staticflickr.com/9/8536/2...8a00abfb_b.jpgHancock Oil fire on Signal Hill, 1958 23 May 1958. Hancock Oil Company fire at Signal Hill from air shortly before noon today". USC digital archive/Los Angeles Examiner Collection, 1920-1961 |
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http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/102...924/bknGQB.jpg ebay :previous: That is some red car! |
I thought of odinthor when I saw this hillside covered with wonderful plants.
http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/128...921/YHexru.jpg ebay "Original Slide, Highland Park in Los Angeles, 1954." I wish the description was more detailed; I'd really like to know where this is exactly. Does anyone familiar with Highland Park recognize this building in the distance on the left. http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/102...924/ZbE4oa.jpgdetail I think it might be an elementary school......or a library. (I believe that's a flagpole on top) __ |
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That was, indeed, fascinating. The first moments have objects that one assumes are reflected in the windshield, like the "Hollywood Palace" marquee, which was on Vine, but the car is travelling up Highland Ave. as Max Factor is on the left and the Security Bank building is up on the corner and in the distance is the church at Hollywood and Franklin Ave., so it's a montage of images. Later one can see all sorts of places we've covered on Hollywood Blvd., like McGoo's, Hollywood Inn, Hody's, Capitol Records, KFWB, Aldo's Restaurant neon, Security Pacific Bldg., Musso & Franks, Frederick's of Hollywood, Hollywood Walk of Fame, Chinese Theatre...and the Coffee Dan's E_R mentioned at Hollywood & Highland. (The Haunted House is seen on another of this guys video posts and is located next to, or near, the Admiral Theatre on Hollywood Blvd. near Vine.) On the Sunset Strip: Largo. Galaxy. Colonial West. The Classic Cat. Turner's. A billboard with Rex Harrison sitting on a giraffe advertising Doctor Dolittle and next to that a billboard, partially obscured, saying "Meet the President of the United States ...and his Cabinet" with a bearded figure on the right with a guitar? Anyone know what that was about? A billboard advertising In Cold Blood. Another with Joey Bishop, I believe, probably advertising his talk show...he's blowing out candles on a cake and it says "Many Happy Returns" and an 11:30 time indicated on it. Other clubs, billboards and Hotel/Motel locations I could only partially make out the signs. Looks like footage of a premiere for 2001: A Space Odyssey. There's over a minute of footage from outside the Santa Monica Civic Auditorium for an Oscar ceremony. I recognized Carol Channing on the red carpet. We've seen the Hollywood Ranch Market sign before that says "we never close" and there's a clock on the left side of it, but what I didn't know is that the clock hands don't actually keep time, but spin around in a circle very fast. The market is shown at night and during the day. The daylight footage, though, looks like a truck is delivering newspapers to it, but it definitely looks "closed" then. :shrug: In the first daylight footage on this clip, shortly after the three minute mark, we see a truck coming up N. Orange Drive (the Hollywood Roosevelt is on the right) and spraying water onto the street as it turns onto Hollywood Blvd. (I don't know if those trucks have a specific name, and I did not know trucks used to spray water onto the city streets every morning, or what the narrator here calls "the sobering light of dawn.") There is a close-up of the Sternberg Jeweler's clock, near the Warner aka Pacific Theatre. There is a pigeon perched on top of it and it reads 5:50--is the sobering light of dawn that bright at 5:50 a.m.? |
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In front of the Chinese Theatre they had a replica of King Kong sort of like the one in the post and you could stand in the hand and have your picture taken for a fee, so I did that! I believe the cardboard sleeve it was in said something like, "Happy Anniversary! Love, Kong." Apparently Fay Wray had one taken, too: http://media.gettyimages.com/photos/...re-id105411198Getty Images Getty has this photograph captioned: "Fay Wray and King Kong during 50th Anniversary of 'King Kong' at Mann's Chinese Theater in New York City, New York, United States." :shrug: |
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BRR, I liked your Gay's Lion Farm post, but I noticed that if someone wanted to search for it, "Gay's Lion Farm" isn't written in any part of your post! :) (Yes, it says that on a couple photos, but that wouldn't help!) By the way, you don't suppose LIFE Magazine visited Monkey Island, do you? |
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It is now (thank's to you)! Re: Cahuenga's almost forgotten island, I've looked but so far there seems no specific listing. Perhaps Fay Wray or Hollis Mulwray's stunt double has some information? Does anyone recognize this individual? Source offers no information. http://www.gstatic.com/hostedimg/305485c2228e9e1b_largehttp://www.gstatic.com/hostedimg/305485c2228e9e1b_large And on a slightly more mature note, aside from Ivar's bawdy entertainment and a few Sunset strip joints, I don't think we have seen much of the (presumably) downtown Burlesque houses. Here are a couple of interesting facades but there is not much available other than what you see. WigWag discretion advised. :) LA's Greatest Burlesque! (That's what's advertised!) http://www.gstatic.com/hostedimg/baf49b620de30592_largehttp://www.gstatic.com/hostedimg/baf49b620de30592_large Los Angeles Burlesque - (Main Street? 1936?) http://www.gstatic.com/hostedimg/c10d663795128b68_largehttp://www.gstatic.com/hostedimg/c10d663795128b68_large |
E_r, you mentioned the condition of the two-story brick building at 5233 Hollywood Blvd, next door to the Guardian Arms:
https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/hx...w=w264-h263-no lapl (detail) previously posted by e_r It's actually in better shape than the Guardian Arms was. The Stone Bar (reportedly trendy in a dive-y sort of way) has stuck rocks all over its facade, but the rest of the building is OK, and could be brought back. There's even enough of the wrought-iron grill-work left to restore it: https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/pp...g=w672-h263-no It was built in 1925 by Fossler & Pilcher who were the owners and developers as well as the architects. If someone made an effort with El Adobe and 5233, this trio, all built in three years from '25 to '28, would then make a nice anchor for this stretch of the Boulevard. And of course its got it's Black Dahlia history. Short stayed in room 726 of the Guardian Arms for a few days in October 1946: https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/Ih...Q=w812-h485-no omgivning The Guardian Arms went under another name for a few years: https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/Dj...A=w769-h485-no hollywoodphotographs The John A Larralde effort from 1931, across the street at No. 5222, retains some terrific, intact metalwork, even though its windows were unfortunately changed out. It's the Don Carlos Apartments, Historic-Cultural monument #714 (listed 2002): https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/p4...g=w945-h448-no gsv Six years earlier, in 1919, E Fossler was working on a studio project. I have an interest in the multiple West Hollywood studios (The Lot is the last of them), but I don't think this planned one ever got built: https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/CE...Q=w612-h338-no building&engineeringnews, 1919 P.S. BTW, William Douglas Lee did eventually get around to Streamline. His effort at 507 Wilshire in Santa Monica is listed by that city, but only the facade has been saved: https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/_M...=w1006-h467-no gsv |
Thanks for the follow-ups and memories of the Lakewood Center.
---------------- I going to need help with today's Julius Shulman post. A quick search gave me nothing more than links to this photoset. It's "Job 5412: Marshall Lewis, Franciscan Development Company Building (Manhattan Beach, Calif.), 1976". The full set includes a couple of other angles in color, and a similar range of images in black & white. http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...1.jpg~original A different angle showing the side alley. http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...2.jpg~original The entrance. http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...3.jpg~original A view down the corridor. http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...4.jpg~original All from Getty Research Institute Does anyone know if this 41-year-old building is still standing? |
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