"Gooble, gobble, one of us, one of us."
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An object of Eddie Brandstatter's desire. http://jpg1.lapl.org/00092/00092908.jpg http://jpg1.lapl.org/00092/00092908.jpg And another http://jpg1.lapl.org/00092/00092910.jpghttp://jpg1.lapl.org/00092/00092910.jpg But Eddie clearly had proponents. http://digitallibrary.usc.edu/cdm/co...id/31782/rec/3 http://digitallibrary.usc.edu/utils/...ter&DMROTATE=0http://digitallibrary.usc.edu/utils/...ter&DMROTATE=0 http://digitallibrary.usc.edu/utils/...ter&DMROTATE=0http://digitallibrary.usc.edu/utils/...ter&DMROTATE=0 http://digitallibrary.usc.edu/utils/...ter&DMROTATE=0http://digitallibrary.usc.edu/utils/...ter&DMROTATE=0 |
The Academy Awards are in a few weeks.
So, for shits and giggles, I thought I'd post some pics of Miss Deanna Durbin, who received a miniature Oscar for Best Juvenile Performance of the Year (an honor she shared with Mickey Rooney who also got a Juvenile Oscar that year), when she was 17 years old. February 23, 1939. Deanna Durbin arrives with her parents at the Biltmore Bowl at the Biltmore Hotel in downtown Los Ángeles. https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-N...nnaOscar02.jpg amazingdeanna.blogspot Edgar Bergen sits with Deanna at her table. He will present her with her award later that evening. https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-6...nnaOscar04.jpg amazingdeanna.blogspot Look how small those juvenile Oscars were. They were honorary (non-competitive) awards presented off and on from the 1930s until 1961, when Hayley Mills received one for her work in "Pollyanna." https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-o...nnaOscar06.jpg amazingdeanna.blogspot https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-u...nnaOscar07.jpg amazingdeanna.blogspot |
Thanks for the 'It's a Mad Mad Mad Mad World' video, Krell58.
--------------- Jack O'Hara, a.k.a. Jack "the Enforcer" Whalen. I've done my best to remove most of the watermark. http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...ackWhalen1.jpg Ebay His death was the lead story in the LA Times: http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...ackWhalen2.jpg latimes.com For more info, see Larry Harnisch's article: Jack ‘the Enforcer’ Whalen Killed. |
This picture seems vaguely familiar, but I've searched the thread for "pigeon hole" and "pigeonhole", and found nothing. Is that a '53 Buick just going in? (Let the argument commence :)).
http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...1.jpg~original http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...2.jpg~original Ebay Some more pictures from LAPL with captions taken straight from that site: Pigeon Hole Garage. Under construction at Wilshire and Flower is a six-story garage in which an elevator will lift automobiles to the desired floor and park them in "pigeon hole" stalls. Blue Diamond Corp. is furnishing materials for the structure scheduled to open late next month. Photo dated: September 8, 1953. http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...igeonHole3.jpg LAPL Downtown Pigeon Hole Parking Garage dedicated. City councilman Ed Roybal (arrow) speaks during the dedication for the Pigeon Hole Parking Garage (background) located at 644 South Flower Street, at the intersection with Wilshire Blvd. The new type garage was built by Standard Stations, Inc. A hydraulic lift picks up a car and carries it to a parking space. Photo dated: November 5, 1953. http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...igeonHole4.jpg LAPL Parking garage, downtown. View of the fully-automated Pigeon Hole Parking Garage located at 644 S. Flower (at Wilshire). Photo dated: November 7, 1953. http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...igeonHole5.jpg LAPL Pigeon Hole Garage car elevator. A man controls the elevator that lift automobiles to the desired floor and parks them in "pigeon hole" stalls at the Pigeon Hole Parking Garage located at 644 South Flower St. Photo dated: November 7, 1953. http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...igeonHole6.jpg LAPL Is this one solution for the parking problem? The fully-automated Pigeon Hole Parking Garage at 644 S. Flower (at Wilshire) may be the answer for solving the parking shortage. Photo dated: July 13, 1965. http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...igeonHole7.jpg LAPL Further reading on la.curbed: Downtown Did Automated Parking Garages in the 20s and 50s |
Flower Shops of Los Angeles
The Sephardic Immigrants Who Brought Flowers to L.A. by Edmon Rodman.
Jewish Journal February 13, 2014 On Valentine’s Day, as you exit a freeway off-ramp or drive down the streets of Los Angeles, the people you see hawking red-and-white holiday bouquets on street corners may have more in common with you than you might ever imagine. In the early 20th century, Sephardic immigrants, many from the Mediterranean island of Rhodes, as well as from Turkey and Syria, got their first scent of success in America by selling flowers on L.A. street corners.... http://www.jewishjournal.com/article...flowers_to_l.a |
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Thanks, Martin. I think it's a mixture of that recent post and a similar garage located elsewhere that I read about last year that's giving me a false memory :). ----------------- Quote:
http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...Bublichki1.jpg Ebay The postmark dates the card at 1958. http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...Bublichki2.jpg I've just noticed that the color picture has a sign saying "SUPPER" in the place where e_r's picture says "RUSSIAN". |
Henry’s-Brass Rail and Sardi’s-Chi Chi's
By some personality defect/quirk, I apparently can’t spend 5 minutes to learn how to do screen grabs, or effectively search the online city directories, but I’ll happily spend hours researching a minor point about an LA or Hollywood building. For example, I had looked in to the Sardi’s and Henry’s thing not too long ago, having come across somewhere else online claiming Sardi’s was where Henry’s used to be; I knew that couldn’t be right. 6321 where Henry’s was, opened as the new location of Perry’s Brass Rail in March 1934. By Christmas eve 1936, it’s The Weiss Café.
Henry's http://i281.photobucket.com/albums/k...e/henrys-1.png https://sites.google.com/site/hollywoodtheatres/vine http://i281.photobucket.com/albums/k.../1-21-33-1.jpg LAT 1-21-33 http://i281.photobucket.com/albums/k...t3-13-34-1.jpg LAT 3-13-34 http://i281.photobucket.com/albums/k...12-24-36-1.jpg LAT 12-24-36 Then the former Henry's building seems to have been completely rebuilt (by S. Charles Lee) into a theater, and opened as The Admiral Theater (called the Vine in more recent days) in May 1940. http://i281.photobucket.com/albums/k...T5-17-40-1.jpgLAT 5-16-40 The Admiral Theater and Sardi's http://i281.photobucket.com/albums/k...dAdmiral-1.jpg https://sites.google.com/site/hollywoodtheatres/vine Sardi’s, at 6313- Eddie was planning it as of July 1932. Opened as of Jan, 1933. http://i281.photobucket.com/albums/k...displanned.jpg LAT 7-10-32 http://i281.photobucket.com/albums/k...open1-3-33.jpg LAT 1-3-33 I’m not sure when he sold it, but he and David Covey were co-owners at the time of the 1936 fire. I’ve seen another site that mentions Sardi’s burning down, but doesn’t mention it was rebuilt right away and reopened. http://i281.photobucket.com/albums/k.../10-2-36-1.jpg LAT 10-2-36 http://i281.photobucket.com/albums/k.../11-3-36-1.jpg LAT 11-3-36 The iron lung thing must be the “24 dish hors d’oeuvres wagon” http://i281.photobucket.com/albums/k...reswagon-1.jpg LAT 10-23-38 Tom Breneman broadcast his radio show from there, originally called “Breakfast at Sardi’s” until Mar 1945, when Tom got his own building around the corner in what had been the Tropics, and the new show was Breakfast in Hollywood. (that’s another story). Meanwhile back at 6313, there was a lawsuit about the name of the radio show, but Tom carried on with his thing and Sardi’s carried on without him for a little while. http://i281.photobucket.com/albums/k...s6-21-44-1.jpg LAT 6-21-44 http://i281.photobucket.com/albums/k...olawsuit-1.jpg LAT 3-14-45 Then August 1945 it reopened as Chi-Chi’s – part of a small chain, including the Palm Springs one. It was still Chi-Chi’s through 1946, then all of a sudden as of June 1947 it’s Sardi’s Chi-Chi’s, then in October, Sardi’s. Then they were denied a permit for some reason, and next thing you know, June 1948 "Sardi’s Chi Chi" fixtures are being auctioned off. In August 1948, a place called- fittingly enough- Eddie’s, is advertising at 6315. Probably no relation to the original Eddie, unless as a tribute, since he'd been gone for 8 years. I didn’t trace it any further than this. http://i281.photobucket.com/albums/k...i8-12-45-1.jpg LAT 8-12-45 http://i281.photobucket.com/albums/k...46chichi-1.jpg LAT 12-28-46 http://i281.photobucket.com/albums/k...s-chichi-1.jpg LAT 6-28-47 http://i281.photobucket.com/albums/k...47sadris-1.jpg LAT 10-25-47 http://i281.photobucket.com/albums/k...iauction-1.jpg LAT 6-20-48 http://i281.photobucket.com/albums/k...-chi-chi48.jpg LAT For people who DO know how to do those Google-map screen grabs, it’s interesting: in Eddie’s obituary of January 19, 1940 it says he was found at home, 4709 Norwich Ave., Sherman Oaks. Then I came across a classified ad for a home at 6313 Ivarene Ave., Hollywood, that says it was Eddie’s too. http://i281.photobucket.com/albums/k...-1-19-40-1.jpg http://i281.photobucket.com/albums/k...it-address.jpg LAT 1-19-40 http://i281.photobucket.com/albums/k...AT-5-12-40.jpg LAT 5-12-40 |
Irving Thalberg and Norma Shearer Santa Monica beach house.
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MGM's Irving Thalberg and Norma Shearer had a beach house in Santa Monica beach in the early 1930s. (Thalberg died in 1936.) As with his neighbors Louis B. Mayer and William Randolph Hearst, it sat right on the edge of the sand. But unlike his neighbors, Thalberg was an extremely light sleeper, so Norma had the entire house soundproofed so he couldn’t hear the ocean. Not a bad shack for a beach house, huh? I don't know enough about 1930s cars to know what model that is out front but considering it probably belonged to the #2 at MGM, I'd have expected his car to be fancier. |
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Here's something you don't see every day.....a Los Angeles lot for sale via ebay.
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http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/102...0/560/669v.jpg Chicago? How'd that happen-- __ This postcard is a repeat, but I thought I'd include it anyway. :) http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/xq90/811/6urg.jpg |
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:previous: ah ha...now I see. The tract map the seller posted shows Eldrid Street intersecting with Cross Avenue when in fact it doesn't.
http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/102...0/593/ly8l.jpg GSV __ The El Morera was located in the shadow of Pasadena's magnificent city hall. As far as I can tell, it's gone now. 1905 http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/xq90/62/1tm8.jpg ebay __ |
The search function for 'cordova' came up empty. (except for one mention of a film actor Arturo de Cordova)
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:previous: I didn't notice the Monkey Room when I first read NoirCityDame's excellent post. -thx for pointing that out MP.
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