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This reminded me of the location right across the street (Van Ness Ave.) from KTLA that had a distinctive "icon" for many years. What I first knew as Metromedia Square/KTTV Channel 11 was located at 5746 Sunset Blvd. at Van Ness Ave. This is an aerial showing Metromedia Square (outlined) in 1994. To be honest, I didn't know it encompassed that large an area. To the left of Metromedia across Van Ness is KTLA where the tower is located. The triangle shaped area across the street to the north is a Denny's Restaurant. http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedi...QQ_outline.jpg Cropped from a 1998 USGS DOQQ scan of "Hollywood NW" The icon I am referring to is the art installation on the rooftop of the building, titled "Starsteps." You might recall this E_R. http://img3.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb2...Metromedia.JPG Mark Goodson This was lit up and bright white at night and could not be missed traveling up the Hollywood Freeway at night. You would always know where the Sunset Blvd. exit was located without needing to read any signs. What I did not know until recently was that this location started out as the Nassour Studios. They were built in 1946 and officially opened Jan. 1, 1947. http://www.movielocationsplus.com/nassour2.jpgEdward Nassour Nassour's son writes: My dad purchased the land on Sunset in the early forties. Originally, there were just the old, one story commercial structures and one of them was converted into a rather small shooting stage. My dad...had the old buildings demolished and went ahead with the new construction. A modern Art Deco-styled projection room and modern offices were located on the buildings fronting Sunset. http://www.movielocationsplus.com/nassour3.jpgEdward Nassour Dressing rooms were constructed adjacent to stages 1 and 2. An old converted two story apartment building located down the street on Van Ness housed producers and writers. Over 100 independent films were shot there while under my family's ownership, Orson Wells had offices at the studio as did Paul Henreid along with Pine-Thomas Productions. http://www.movielocationsplus.com/nassour1.jpgEdward Nassour Nassour Studios (1947–1950). In 1950 my dad sold the studio to Norman Chandler who owned The Los Angeles Times. He was looking for a facility to permanently house KTTV channel 11 and my dad's studio fit the bill perfectly. The sound stages had been built with television production in mind. Times-Mirror Company owned it from 1950–1963 and was known as KTTV Studios from 1950-1967. Metromedia owned it from 1963–2000. After a major renovation in 1967 it was known as Metromedia Square. It was also known as Fox Television Center from 1986 –1996. Many famous television series were filmed or taped at Metromedia such as Three's Company and almost all of Norman Lear's shows like All in the Family, Maude, Good Times and The Jeffersons. I saw several series taped here in the late 70's and early 80's. (I saw an All in the Family and I remember one called Apple Pie starring Rue McClanahan, Jack Gilford and Dabney Coleman.) Metromedia sold the land to the Los Angeles Unified School District in 2000. The building was demolished by the school district in 2003. Here's a photo, taken Saturday, April 19, 2003, to be exact, right before the studio was demolished, showing some of the ghost signage over the years. http://www.movielocationsplus.com/nassour5.jpgEdward Nassour Now, in the places where cultural touchstones like Walter and Maude argued, Archie and Edith disagreed, Jack, Janet and Chrissy invited us to knock on their door and the Jeffersons moved on up, students run track and play football and hopefully learn something at the Helen Bernstein High School, a campus which opened in 2008. (You can see the KTLA tower at the southwest corner of Sunset and Van Ness, near that tall bluish-green building, which must be relatively new. The Denny's Restaurant is still there, too.) http://www.perkinswill.com/files/pro...ial_main10.jpgHollywood Aerial Art Academy It looks like the site's filming days are not over, though. An article about the school being used as a major filming site for Glee, HERE! |
:previous: Very interesting post Martin_Pal. I had forgotten all about the 'Starsteps' sculpture on the roof. When I saw your photograph of it, it instantly came back to me.
And I had never heard of the Nassour Studios....until now. __ Thanks for the additional information on the Dinnerhorn oldstuff. Here's the platter you mentioned. http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/102...538/SjWOKn.png http://www.rubylane.com/item/192576-...fornia-platter ...now, if we can just find that photograph. :) __ |
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Now can you find one of the front of Coffee Dan's on Hollywood Blvd. near Highland! :haha: What year does anyone suppose the photo is from? It can't be 1962 as Capitol Records had moved by then. The cars look 1940's to me. By the way, in other photos of this area from afar, I've tried to make out what the store is on the right of Coffee Dan's...and close-up I still can't read it! :shrug: Thanks for finding this, E_R, I love it. http://waterandpower.org/5%20Histori..._St_ca1948.jpgDept. of Water & Power/DWP |
The newest car I see is the back of a 1949-50 Ford...
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Is this really special? Back in my bar days, I sat at many bars that seemed to be rotating. :cheers::D |
:previous: lol CBD.
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It's the shop of designer tailor Beni Gerson (which seems to match the signage). http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/102...538/M7KYN5.png LAPL __ |
Here's a token for the Dinnerhorn that I found on eBay.
"The greatest guy in the world - the man who takes his family out to dine" http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...rhornToken.jpg eBay I also came across a short article titled Things that aren’t here anymore on insidesocal.com. There was no information in the article itself, but among the comments I found the following post by Barbara Karady: "Our employee, Lucky White, built the Rotabar, the only rotating bar in Southern California, in the Dinnerhorn Restaurant on Azusa in Covina. Lucky also created the "star" that appeared on top of the Eastland Mall in Covina, CA. I have researched all that I am able, and have not found anything in the Covina Argus or from Google. Can you help me with any information about these 2 creations? Lucky White worked for Valencia Heights Water Company (VHWC) and the company is celebrating its 100th Anniversary. His wife (89 years old) still works for VHWC and I would love to honor her husband at a staff dinner at the old Dinnerhorn, now Clearman's Northwood's Inn, October 17, 2012. Can you help? I would appreciate any information that you could share. Thank you." This is Clearman's North Woods Inn. Looking at the old aerial pictures, the plot was still filled with trees in 1948. The 1954 image shows the plot cleared, but there are still plenty of trees nearby. The first structure on the site appears in the 1965 image, which also shows a large building and huge parking lot across the street to the north. The current restaurant building appears to be unchanged since around 1972. Incidentally, the 1972 image shows writing on the roof of the large building across the street, which identifies it as belonging to Conrac. The Conrac building was replaced by a gated housing development sometime between 1980 and 1995. http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...thWoodsInn.jpg GSV |
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They have free peanuts on the table and you throw the shells on the floor...lovely barn ambiance. :P:P:P http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v4...psef90e16d.jpg Clearman's franchise |
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I used to have a map of the studios, from the directory published in the late 80's, I doubt I have it any more. Also, the KTLA tower is featured extensively (although digitally altered with different call letters) in the Nightcrawler movie which is currently out |
:previous: Do you recommend Nightcrawler Arch2000? I heard the 'look' of the film is pretty impressive...very neo-noirish.
__ Still no Dinnerhorn bugle blowing boy, but I found a whole family atop an A&W in La Puente (just south of West Covina), circa 1965. http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/xq90/537/Ler0dX.png http://westcovinalapuentebaldwinpark...ente-1965.html __ |
I just came across this obscure postcard on ebay.
http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/xq90/540/B1hKfh.jpgebay (it's a bit hard to read) "Aviary No.1 of E.M. Grider's Birdland. 1301-1313 Central Avenue, Los Angeles Cal." *using Skyscraperpage's search function.......'Birdland' came up with nothing. __ |
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As Pee Wee Marquette once said, "Ladies and gentlemen, as you know, we have something special down here at Birdland this evening." (OK, so he was talking about the New York jazz club and not this attraction in Los Angeles). This article is from the December 25, 1910 edition of the Los Angeles Herald.
http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...d.jpg~original California Digital Newspaper Collection Here's Aviary No.3. http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...ABirdland2.jpg SDSU Library |
:previous: You work fast HossC. Bravo!
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Duration.... February-March 1938 Fatalities.... 113-115 Damages.... About US$40 million ($627 million in 2011 dollars) 5,601 buildings destroyed 1,500 buildings damaged several small towns completely destroyed Large portions of Riverside and Orange counties completely inundated. I can remember old-timers talking about it when I was young. |
In 1938 there was some flooding on New Year's Eve. My mother told a story about going to a New Year's party at the house that is just to the right of the gate to Miradero (Brand Castle/Library) in Glendale and having so much water come down the canyon and down Grandview Blvd. that they could not go home and had to stay the night. The house, which is still there, is on a slight rise and was not damaged. My parents lived in Burbank and my dad said that the street that they lived on was not paved then and there was a giant hole washed in front of their house and that they city's new police care practically disappeared into the water filled hole.
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http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/xq90/674/GXxoW3.png This is Woodbridge and Elmer today. Do you think this could be same house remodeled? (I haven't checked any of the other locations) http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/xq90/537/SDibLb.png GSV __ |
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