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Wig-Wag Mar 14, 2017 5:20 AM

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Originally Posted by BifRayRock (Post 7738922)



No, it is not Long Beach, but rather the smoke created by a Long Beach refinery fire (date unk.) that is affecting the Los Angeles Basin (Park La Brea in center). (Either that or WigWag has fired up his backyard BBQ!)
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Ah yes. That was the day I discovered that creosoted railroad ties were not a good substitute for charcoal. . . :(

BDiH Mar 14, 2017 6:06 AM

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Originally Posted by ethereal_reality (Post 7739660)
:previous: It's great to see those arches again t2.



Original slide showing a rain soaked, mud filled Hollywood Blvd. in 1962. (does anyone remember a storm around that time?)

http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/128...924/oMqZej.jpg
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I saw Sergeants 3 at the Pix, but I don't recall a storm. Might have been a burst sewage line? I saw the first Rat Pack movie, Ocean's 11 at the Pix in 1960. I believe I saw 4 for Texas at the World in 1963 and Robin and the 7 Hoods at the Hollywood Theatre in 1964. The last, Cannonball Run II was unmemorable.

BDiH Mar 14, 2017 6:26 AM

You can see the interior of the Body Shop in the 1972 movie, Miss Melody Jones:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Er8QlTPdLc

HossC Mar 14, 2017 10:02 AM

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Originally Posted by BifRayRock (Post 7739356)

Discovered this interesting facade at 4959 York Blvd.
http://i357.photobucket.com/albums/o...a.jpg~originalGoogleSVU

It used to be a Safeway store, but I don't think we've ever seen a good vintage picture of the store front.

Quote:

Originally Posted by HossC (Post 6941659)

The seller dates this streetcar slide as early 1950s.

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

I was keen to see if the Safeway and Reynolds Pharmacy buildings were still around - luckily there are signs for Avenue 50 visible on both sides of the street, so that narrowed down my search. It's actually the intersection of Avenue 50 and York Boulevard, and both buildings are still standing, albeit with a few modifications. What a shame that the pharmacy has lost the top of its detailing. At least the palm trees are doing well.

http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...Ave50York2.jpg
GSV

Here's a closer look at the old Safeway building. Even though this side is hidden in the original slide, I'm quite sure it didn't have this ugly box on the front. A quick Google says that the building is now the MorYork Gallery, although their blogspot and Facebook page don't seem to have been updated since last June. I'm guessing that the building to the left, now the Pyong Kang Church, dates back to before the slide was taken.

http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...Ave50York3.jpg
GSV


MichaelRyerson Mar 14, 2017 10:39 AM

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Originally Posted by BifRayRock (Post 7738922)
No, it is not Long Beach, but rather the smoke created by a Long Beach refinery fire (date unk.) that is affecting the Los Angeles Basin (Park La Brea in center). (Either that or WigWag has fired up his backyard BBQ!)
http://www.gstatic.com/hostedimg/d96445931eef8bcd_largehttp://www.gstatic.com/hostedimg/d96445931eef8bcd_large



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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

HossC Mar 14, 2017 1:41 PM

I haven't seen a picture of a crowd scene this badly faked since <insert political joke here> ;).

If they had to change the picture, they could've at least corrected the spelling of "conceived" on the marquee!

oldstuff Mar 14, 2017 3:02 PM

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Originally Posted by BDiH (Post 7739721)
I saw Sergeants 3 at the Pix, but I don't recall a storm. Might have been a burst sewage line? I saw the first Rat Pack movie, Ocean's 11 at the Pix in 1960. I believe I saw 4 for Texas at the World in 1963 and Robin and the 7 Hoods at the Hollywood Theatre in 1964. The last, Cannonball Run II was unmemorable.

According to some old newspapers, there was some flooding in February of 1962 around Los Angeles

oldstuff Mar 14, 2017 3:05 PM

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Originally Posted by HossC (Post 7739845)
I haven't seen a picture of a crowd scene this badly faked since <insert political joke here> ;).

If they had to change the picture, they could've at least corrected the spelling of "conceived" on the marquee!

Whoever did the sign had not listed to their English teacher: "I before E, Except after c"

ethereal_reality Mar 14, 2017 4:14 PM

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Originally Posted by HossC (Post 7738182)
Today's Julius Shulman post comes from Lakewood. It's "Job 1437: Kanner and Mayer, Lakewood Building (Lakewood, Calif.), 1953". The larger May Co building is in the background.

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

Here's the same view on a busier day. (prob. a Saturday)

http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/102...924/bknGQB.jpg
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:previous: That is some red car!

ethereal_reality Mar 14, 2017 4:45 PM

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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BifRayRock Mar 14, 2017 5:44 PM

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Originally Posted by ethereal_reality (Post 4418354)





Neither could eye.:blink:


More of Gay's Lion Farm. :)


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Downtime
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Hmmm. Smells like catnip.
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WigWag's got treats!
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Aspiring lion tamers.
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Remember the Rules. All paws inside the bars, without WigWag's written approval.

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Quote:

Touch me it's so easy to leave me
All alone with my memory
Of my days in the sun
If you touch me
You'll understand what happiness is
Look a new day has begun

Memories
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Lion taming, lesson one.
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Lions failing to toe the mark or tow their line - may be sent packing or worse.
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Worse?


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A different kind of downtime.

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Keep still.
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Are you sure this is chicken?
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BifRayRock Mar 14, 2017 6:32 PM



The good life.

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Ooops
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Martin Pal Mar 14, 2017 6:34 PM

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Originally Posted by ethereal_reality (Post 7739673)
If you liked that video, you'll no doubt like this one as well.

It's 5:24 minutes. (there's a narrator so be sure to have your sound turned up)

Video Link


There's a brief glimpse of a Coffee Dan's and something called the 'Haunted House'. (among others)


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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.?

Martin Pal Mar 14, 2017 7:00 PM

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Originally Posted by ethereal_reality (Post 7739277)
I just happened upon this amazing King Kong photograph quite by accident.
https://www.tumblr.com/tagged/king-kong
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Speaking of Kong, I happened to be up on Hollywood Blvd. on May 26, 1983, when a 50th Anniversary screening of King Kong was going on. Hollywood Blvd. was blocked off in front of the Chinese Theatre and there was a red carpet from the theatre over to the Hollywood Roosevelt where the invitees would go to a private party after the screening, so I waited around to see them depart the theatre and walk the red capret to the Hotel. I got to see Fay Wray that night!

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:

Martin Pal Mar 14, 2017 7:07 PM

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Originally Posted by BifRayRock (Post 7740103)


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?

BifRayRock Mar 14, 2017 8:14 PM

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Originally Posted by Martin Pal (Post 7740199)
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! :)

By the way, you don't suppose LIFE Magazine visited Monkey Island, do you?




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.
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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!)

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Los Angeles Burlesque - (Main Street? 1936?)

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tovangar2 Mar 14, 2017 8:17 PM

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

HossC Mar 14, 2017 9:00 PM

Thanks for the follow-ups and memories of the Lakewood Center.


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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?

odinthor Mar 14, 2017 9:48 PM

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Originally Posted by HossC (Post 7740319)
Thanks for the follow-ups and memories of the Lakewood Center.


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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?

It's still at 1112 Ocean Drive. I can't seem to get a good full view in the Googlemobile; but here's a bit:

http://i1104.photobucket.com/albums/...pspa3yzofg.jpg
gsv

BifRayRock Mar 14, 2017 10:23 PM

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Originally Posted by gsjansen (Post 5267652)
i love a parade!


harry truman riding in a presidential motorcade down broadway between 5th and 6th 1948

http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5147/...05e35732_o.jpg
Source: Corbis Images






President Truman in LA with his retinue (1948) was understandably well documented.


Arriving by train and motorcade to the Biltmore.
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Tuman, Bacall and Jessel
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Reagan, Bogart and Bacall
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Bogie too.
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Margret Truman seems to enjoy the shadow of a nice gasometer.
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And a future president, Ronald Reagan (then president of SAG).
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No trip to LA would be complete without some controversy.
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"The VIP ramp"


Yes, it is a familiar NLA location.



1953 -A sobering Civil Defense display at or near Pershing Sq.

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Brubaker's Pillow Renovators (Later at 1014 N Highland)? A staging area?:shrug:
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Boos Bros.
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