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http://i281.photobucket.com/albums/k...lle/5-7-54.jpg lat 5-7-54 Another high-turnover location, it's the one that before Dino's, before the Club Trocadero, was the Ruth St. Denis Asia Bazaar shop into the late 1930s. http://i281.photobucket.com/albums/k...e/00072114.jpg lapl David Tennant Galleries next door (the future Tiffany Theater) took over the space for its auction house by 1939. Tennant moved out as of June 1, 1945 http://i281.photobucket.com/albums/k...le/5-27-45.jpg lat 5-27-45 It became the Russian restaurant Charochka through 1947 http://i281.photobucket.com/albums/k...belle/1945.jpg 12-1945 lat As of September 1951 it had been Club Bayou and was already out of business: http://i281.photobucket.com/albums/k...lle/9-9-51.jpg 9-9-51 lat Then Gypsy Camp gave it a go, a Hungarian restaurant featuring Shandor & his magic violin and host Jerry Rothman of the Cal-Neva Lodge at Lake Tahoe. http://i281.photobucket.com/albums/k...e/12-29-51.jpg 12-29-51 As noted above when Club Trocadero opened in spring 1954, it had previously been operating as the 22 Club. Not sure what it was before Dino's opened (3-21-1958) http://i281.photobucket.com/albums/k...le/3-21-58.jpg lat |
:previous: NCD, excellent run-down of all the venues at that one location, 8524 Sunset Blvd.
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I found this photograph last night while I was researching for the Club Trocadero post. http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/800...922/hrpgZy.jpg http://www.angelfire.com/mn/coasters/robins.html I'm not sure, but I believe this is before your dad's time with the group. Look how young Tony Bennett looks! (not sure why one guy has pulled a gun ;)) __ |
re: 724 S. Genesee
I couldn't help but notice the five large lights along the roof-line aimed down toward the art deco facade. The building must be quite impressive at night, especially from S. Ogden Dr. (I've looked everywhere for a night view but I didn't have any luck) http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/128...922/BCbPsi.jpg gsv Lunch at Chasen's for anyone who can spot the person looking out the window. ;) scroll down for answer V V V V There she is! http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/800...922/m3qgv3.jpg detail I can't explain the green ball that appears to be on the outside of the window. __ |
We've visited the Auto Club on S. Figueroa Street numerous times on NLA, but what about the one on N. Hill Street?
http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/102...921/shTdxW.jpg eBay I wanted to include a photograph but I couldn't find one on short notice. I'm off to Illinois for Easter; see you all on Monday. Have fun everyone! __ |
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What's also going on in the neighborhood and city around this massive development are traffic nightmares, water main breaks, periodic power outages both planned and unplanned and regular road closures. https://cdn0.vox-cdn.com/thumbor/ye5...ennium-3.0.pngL.A. Curbed The scale of this thing is pretty unbelievable. I recently read that three hundred parking spaces out of around a 450 allotment in one area has been eliminated as has an underground walkway beneath La Cienega Blvd. (the center street between the buildings in the above rendering), so people would be able to traverse from one section to another without disrupting traffic, has been eliminated. This is the largest project, but there are several other of these monsters in various stages of development for the narrow winding streets of Sunset Blvd. and from most residents viewpoints it just seems too much. |
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L-R Bobby Nunn, Roy Richards, Ty Terrell, Tony, Billy Richards, and Carl Gardner. Carl and Bobby went on to form The Coasters when the lable they were signed to "Spark" got bought up by Atlantic Records. Originally all of the Robins we're to sign over but the Richard Brothers wanted to stay on the westcoast where Atlantic was on the east. The new Robins (Carl and Bobby)found a new name for the group, The Coasters (since they were from the west coast).Bobby got kicked out of The Coasters a few years later but started his own Coasters group with former Robins Billy Richards Jr.(Billy Richards nephew), Grady Chapman, and my dad Bobby Sheen....Dad's group had the west coast...and Carl's the east coast. |
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A note on a image of the woman in front of the reed house. While the house might be assumed to be a kizh (house,) it's probably not built in the style of the Kizh people at the time of initial contact with Europeans. The houses from then have been described as being intricately woven with pitch being used to water seal the roofs. However, Rios Bustamamante, Mexican Los Angeles, mentions that the Pobladores brought specialist, jacaleros to build jacales (huts) which are described as having wickerwork walls built around a framework of poles, covered with dried mud and roofed with tiles. However, based on her basketry skills, the woman is a local, not a Pobladora. If the image is a collodion process, the earliest date is the 1850s, and 1870s if it was a gelatin dry plate. http://www.califaztlan.org/LANoirPic...WarIndiana.jpg http://www.califaztlan.org/LANoirPic...manAtRiver.jpg |
Today's Julius Shulman post shows us another Stiles Oliver Clements design in the shape of the State Compensation Insurance Fund building. This is "Job 1620: Stiles Oliver Clements, State Compensation Insurance Fund of California (Los Angeles, Calif.),1953".
NB. The set also includes another image very similar to the first one seen here. http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...1.jpg~original http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...2.jpg~original And now the interior shots. http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...3.jpg~original http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...4.jpg~original http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...5.jpg~original All from Getty Research Institute Having the Bryson in the background of the first picture made the location easy to find. Located at 600 S La Fayette Park Place, it's now the Los Angeles Academy of Arts & Enterprises. http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...6.jpg~original GSV |
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Something interesting found while going through the Times, early drawings for the PNB from 16 May 1926 (and an image of the completed Walker & Eisen for comparison's sake). https://farm2.staticflickr.com/1470/...56fbe1aa_o.pnghttps://farm2.staticflickr.com/1467/...200d4dbd_o.pngusc The rendering is by Armand Monaco, about whom there are bits and pieces on the net, like here and here. |
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a) arguably, among those things Angelenic commonly revered and routinely fetishized nothing is so beloved as the fabled streetcar of yore—we have this collective Who Framed Roger Rabbit memory about our glorious streetcar past (which, in all honesty, did not really exist), however despite that, b) the streetcar is so indelibly part of our fabric, especially downtown, that one would think we should have some single remaining LARy or Red Car basically on a revolving platform with Klieg lights on it 24 hrs a day, which we kind of had, to wit: https://farm2.staticflickr.com/1675/...3613e569_c.jpgrrpicturearchives/Charles Freericks c) an actual car has been a favorite touchstone of those who knew it was there (since 1999), and had we hauled her out and put her on said aforementioned platform all would have been delighted, except for d), and here's where it gets weird: in the last few weeks we decided to take this St Louis Streetcar Company Class H-3 built in 1924, and destroy her, through neglect, stupid accidents, and cannibalism? There had to have been some better plan for the girl, considering that RPR Consulting "performed a condition survey of this streetcar prior to acquisition and shipment to Los Angeles for potential use as a display in the downtown area, and also served as a sub-contractor to California Waterproofing & Restoration, who developed a restoration proposal for static display of the car." I suppose it's not the most ignominious end. Like being an organ donor, she gave parts to worthy kin living in Perris. Still, I'm going to miss 1435, who gave a lot of pleasure to folk from there in her hideaway these last sixteen years, and who could have given downtown a real pride-laden boost if there had been the right combination of vision and guts to put her on display. |
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https://farm9.staticflickr.com/8174/...19774b07_b.jpgSunset Boulevard at Hill Street, 1925 In the archive as 'Sunset Boulevard looking south at Hill Place and Fort Moore Hill.' Strictly speaking, there was no 'Hill Place' in 1925. This would pre-date Hill Street moving over and assuming the roadbed of Castelar north of Sunset and what had been Hill Street where it angled down off of Fort Moore Hill crossed Sunset and continued to a terminus at Alpine Street. This section of Hill Street ultimately became Hill Place but not before Castelar had been renamed Hill Street. Certainly not in 1925. Immediately on the right we have is the apartment building at 560 N. Hill Street backing to Sunset Boulevard. Up there on Hill Street where it makes it's turn to run parallel to Sunset, sporting the Coca Cola adverts, is the old Auto Club Building at 546 N Hill Street (and just beyond it, to the right, is the back of Mary Hollister Banning's carriage house). The Auto Club occupied this building briefly starting in about 1918-19 and moving into their big headquarters building on S Figueroa by 1923. LAPL |
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Thanks for the welcome, MichaelRyerson. I've been avid follower of this forum for years, and when I saw the pic of 724 S. Genesee I was glad to finally have a bit of knowledge worth contributing! A friend used to live in that building, so it was cool to see it. One day I'll walk over and snap a nighttime pic.
I live near Fairfax/Olympic, and have learned so much about the neighborhood in this thread. Fantastic job by all! |
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JMR thanks so much, i try to keep up with you guys but its hard, so that means a great deal to me.
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