HossC, I just realized the Collection Building was the Brack Shops building.
1913 by Austin & Pennell.

Two of the teas rooms are listed in the directory, but not Mary Louise. She must have gone on to greener pastures. :)

http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/800...0/841/vz48.jpg
Horthos at http://forum.skyscraperpage.com/show...postcount=6121




Interior of the Collection/Brack Shops Building from yelp
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http://www.yelp.com/biz/the-collecti...ng-los-angeles



Amazingly, there's still an elevator operator in the building.

I have to include this charming story.
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http://www.yelp.com/biz/the-collecti...ng-los-angeles





...and don't forget this interesting bit of trivia.

Joan Crawford walks past the Brack Shops in the opening credits of 'Possessed' (1947).
http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/800...0/203/1zi1.jpg
http://dearoldhollywood.blogspot.com...locations.html

also seen before at http://forum.skyscraperpage.com/show...postcount=6135

just for fun...
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Miss Jim Dandy won
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I don't believe we've seen this 15 acre tourist attraction before.

http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/102...0/822/qs3d.jpgebay



http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/102...0/856/jk16.jpg

Not really desiring to be argumentative but I have been unable to find any supporting evidence that anything but the mosaic was saved from the 1932 Long Beach Municipal Auditorium. Sad if true.

http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-n0vNoaYexb...0/longbch4.jpg http://historylosangeles.blogspot.co...1_archive.html


Looks like pretty much a total demolition underway to me and the only reference that I can find to anything having been saved has to do with the mosaic created in 1938 by the WPA.

http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-_q_VWAkTvP...ach_mosaic.jpg http://historylosangeles.blogspot.co...1_archive.html

Too much interesting stuff lately to comment on everything; this thread has been zooming along, but i wanted to say I love this color photo of the neon.

Here is the part of the auditorium that was saved and incorporated into the new theater. [outlined in orange] How do I know this? I used to live 5 blocks from this site and watched the entire process. I kept wondering why they did not demo the entire structure. As the months went by I could see they were using the old stage and theatrical fly structure for the new building. This saved them a lot of money. The yellow arrow shows the old fly structure as it appears today being incorporated into the new structure.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v4...ps8ec0e5e5.jpgSChttp://img.photobucket.com/albums/v4...psf41f4e0a.jpg
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1940's
 

[QUOTE=BifRayRock;6499809]

Source dates this image to 1940. Autos appear to be from much earlier date. Presently unable to peg date to Musical Premier. Anyone have tickets?

1940(?)
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All the cars look early 1930's but the bus on the right looks 1940's. So it has to be 1940's. Maybe those drivers couldn't afford new models...

[QUOTE=AlvaroLegido;6501661]Those are 1933 California license plates. And no vehicle in this photo is post 1933.

[QUOTE=AlvaroLegido;6501661]I wonder if this is the British play that came out in 1940?

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0033158/

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v4...ps182e7126.jpgIMBD

Thanks for digging out the Brack Shops info, e_r. I saw the name in the City Directories but failed the remember that they'd come up before on NLA.


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While I was looking for pictures of the Cowards Wildly Edwards & Wildey Building yesterday, I came across the one below. It's a little blurrier than the others, but does show the blade sign which started the discussion. Of course, I didn't need to look any further than NLA for a picture of the Edwards & Wildey Building - e_r posted one back in post #4851! What caught my attention with this picture was the building on the right.

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

After a bit of Googling I found it was the University Club of Los Angeles at 614-622 South Hope. A quick search of NLA yielded no previous mentions, so I don't think this is a repeat (I won't be surprised if someone else finds it!). According to an article on www.csulb.edu, the building had its formal opening July 6, 1922.

http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...2.jpg~original
Ebay

I can't find too much more about the building after that, although the History of the Zamorano Club says they moved into the building in 1934 and stayed until it was razed in 1967. LAPL dates the William Reagh picture below as 1970, but they also have a different framing of exactly the same shot dated as 1965.

http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...rsityClub3.jpg
LAPL

The earliest picture that LAPL have is dated 1925. It shows a parking lot and another building to the right.

http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...rsityClub4.jpg
LAPL

By 1938, the parking lot has made way for Wilshire Boulevard.

http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...rsityClub5.jpg
LAPL

I also found this picture at LAPL. The caption says "The University Club was founded in this building at 913 South Broadway on March 27, 1898, in the home of Russ Avery. This corner is seen in 1892, when the first Eastern stores were founded by Adolph Sieroty, later the location of the Eastern new height-limit home." Is this the same University Club?

http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...rsityClub6.jpg
LAPL

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:previous:



Borrowing from HGraham's '33 or '39 empirical observation, I am inclined to agree with the '33 crowd.

The prime indicator of date (for me) might be a contemporaneous newspaper ad, review or playbill of the "world premier." It may be far from common for a live performance to be one show only, but it has been known to happen on Broadway and plenty of High Schools, so why not Ocean Ave? For all we know, the show was preempted when the Navy unexpectedly canceled all shore leave. Come to think of it, Long Beach's world premier could have had a loose but novel plot line involving three sailors on 24 hour shore leave. With just the right musical numbers and a different Port City, it might have inspired . . . ? Well never mind.

Respecting license plate dates, I assume the conclusion is based on shape rather than issuing numbers and possibly color, since previous Long Beach imagery has included many out-of-State plates. Bus shapes are not necessarily determinative of date.

If the image is from '33, there is no obvious earthquake damage. Either it has been quickly swept up or this area escaped with easily remedied damage. It is also possible that the photo was taken pre-March 10, even though this includes a world premier banner for an event many weeks in the future.

Another observation concerning one photo's caption of the Bank being open. For those keeping score, the '33 LBQuake struck on a Friday at approximately 5:55 PM. That date was also part of a 3-day bank Holiday declared by the Gov. It has been said that the bank Holiday may have spared a few Long Beach'ers who might have been conducting banking or spending their money at other businesses - from serious injury or worse. We will never know. http://ladailymirror.com/2011/08/26/...ch-quake-1933/


If anyone's interested, "Of Mice and Men" was released in - 1939
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A few more fascinating Long Beach images. http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_f8eLZxxJyM...0/Slide101.JPG http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_f8eLZxxJyM...0/Slide101.JPG

http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_f8eLZxxJyM...0/Slide124.JPGhttp://1.bp.blogspot.com/_f8eLZxxJyM...0/Slide124.JPG

http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_f8eLZxxJyM...0/Slide177.JPGhttp://4.bp.blogspot.com/_f8eLZxxJyM...0/Slide177.JPG

:previous: That last photo is fascinating indeed Chuckaluck.


I came across this photograph of the 1933 earthquake earlier today.
http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/102...0/843/gd89.jpg
ebay

You may recall, we discussed Carolina Pines a week or so ago.
I had mislabeled a photograph as being on Melrose Avenue, when it was actually on La Brea & Sunset.

I just came across this matchbook with that same elusive 7315 Melrose address.
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ebay

...more dynamite in noirish Los Angeles.
http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/102...0/841/iotz.jpg
http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/102...0/600/pxxg.jpgebay

Mentioned here too. http://books.google.com/books?id=c6m...rolina&f=false

From what I can tell, there were earlier attempts to form University clubs—but the organization that built the Hope Street building was indeed formed in 1898 in Mr. Avery's parlor (Avery was later a distinguished judge):

https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/-A...2520PM.bmp.jpghttps://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-G...2520PM.bmp.jpg
LAT May 5, 1898/Dec 31, 1922


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https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/-l...2520PM.bmp.jpgLAT Sept 19, 1921/July 9, 1967

It sounds like the University Club remained in the building until the end. The Zamorano Club was a group interested in the history/art of printing who met in the building... an August Zamorano apparently being California's first printer.

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A few more glimpses of this impressive presence.


1891
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In the shadow of the magnificent court building, Chinatown living space, 739-742 N. Alameda.

http://content.cdlib.org/ark:/13030/tf7199p5kv/hi-reshttp://content.cdlib.org/ark:/13030/tf7199p5kv/hi-res

https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-E...buscdl.bmp.jpgUSCDL

An earlier home of the University Club, 349 S. Hill. It appears to still be under construction. The USC dates this pic as 1905--the Times reported on Aug 7, 1904, that John Parkinson had designed a new building for the club.

:previous: Excellent find GW! That photograph is fantastic.

Those are some very cool finds on the University Club on Hope Street. I can't say it's very good-looking to me but it sure was noirish.

Good thing you were there to witness what took place. I still find it interesting there is no mention of saving what they did anywhere on the Internet. Admittedly I didn't get into doing a search of newspaper archives.

When looking at what they did it's really difficult to imagine parts of the old structure were incorporated into the new, especially since they literally enveloped the old with new and totally changed the exterior appearance of what can be seen of the old.

301 S. Olive and 137-39 S. Broadway
 

Earl Millar lived at 301 S. Olive and built an office block at 37/39 S. Fort Street, later 137/39 S. Broadway.

He moved into his home -- which he was to occupy for a third of a century -- at the SW corner of 3rd and Olive in November 1883:
http://i1165.photobucket.com/albums/...6.jpg~original
November 7 1883 LA Times

This zoomed photo looks SW from the Nadeau Hotel, which was completed in August 1883. At the SE corner of 3rd and Olive, where in 1886 the Crocker Mansion will be built, is a small house
(to the left of the turreted barn). The Millar home may be hidden behind the two homes at the top of the hill near the center of the photo (the darker, two-story house with the porches,
and the house above and behind it):
http://i1165.photobucket.com/albums/...9.jpg~original
USCDL -- http://digitallibrary.usc.edu/cdm/si...d/1761/rec/196

SW corner 3rd and Olive, 1888 Sanborn:
http://i1165.photobucket.com/albums/...1.jpg~original
LAPL

Once the Crocker Mansion was built, plenty of photos of the era looked up at it or down from it! But zooming in on this 1898 photo from 3rd and Spring is the best view I could get of the
Millar home, behind and to the left of the Crocker. As in the previous photo, we see the turreted barn, and to the right of the Crocker the dark, two-story patioed home -- apparently
renovated -- plus the house above it:
http://i1165.photobucket.com/albums/...7.jpg~original
USCDL -- http://digitallibrary.usc.edu/cdm/singleitem/collection/p15799coll65/id/3480/rec/18[/url]

In this c. 1905 zoomed view from the Court House, the Millar home is right of center -- opposite the Crocker Mansion -- and seemingly with a white pole sticking out of the middle of it (but
not really of course; it's probably one of the early light masts):
http://i1165.photobucket.com/albums/...8.jpg~original
USCDL -- http://digitallibrary.usc.edu/cdm/co.../id/1227/rec/7

We've seen many photos here showing the top of Angel's Flight, but, again, not the SW corner of 3rd and Olive just across the street! The Millar home appears on the 1921 Baist map,
but zooming in on this February 20, 1963 photo suggests that the home didn't last much longer after 1921 and was replaced by a modest commercial building (we see the rear end of
a green-and-white car parked in front of it):
http://i1165.photobucket.com/albums/...e.jpg~original
Huntington Digital Library -- http://hdl.huntington.org/cdm/single...id/7647/rec/40

The Millar Block will be built just north of the NW corner of 2nd and Fort (later Broadway), perhaps starting in late 1885. Here's that intersection in the right foreground, c. 1883-84.
The church in the foreground is the First Presbyterian, completed in April 1883 on the SE corner of 2nd and Fort. Its pastor at this time was J. W. Ellis, of Ellis Vista College:
http://i1165.photobucket.com/albums/...2.jpg~original
USCDL -- http://digitallibrary.usc.edu/cdm/si...d/1759/rec/185

The Millar Block was completed in early 1886:
http://i1165.photobucket.com/albums/...ps0e7b2e79.jpg
July 2 1886 LA Times

http://i1165.photobucket.com/albums/...c.jpg~original
1887 LA City Directory @ Fold3.com

This photo of the two-story Millar Block shows the west/rear side (stepped wall at top with wooden porch attached) and north side, looking SE from 1st and Hill c. 1886-7. In the upper
right corner, below "Organs," is LA's first synagogue, completed on Fort St. in 1873:
http://i1165.photobucket.com/albums/...8.jpg~original
USCDL -- http://digitallibrary.usc.edu/cdm/co...id/898/rec/264

Another c. 1886-87 photo, looking SW from the Nadeau, showing the front of the Millar Block, which I guess is technically three stories if you count the little room in the turret. The building
being built on the SW corner of 2nd and Fort, the California Bank Building, will have a big "1887" high up on the 2nd Street side.
http://i1165.photobucket.com/albums/...0.jpg~original
USCDL -- http://digitallibrary.usc.edu/cdm/si...d/1762/rec/188

But Millar wasn't satisfied with his building:
http://i1165.photobucket.com/albums/...1.jpg~original
August 7 1887 LA Times

Here is 37-39 S. Fort with four stories (plus an addition in the rear, replacing the wooden porch), taken from City Hall c. 1888-90
(the city ordinance eliminating street numbers below 100 was signed by Mayor Hazard on December 21, 1889). The 1887 California
Bank Building dominates the foreground. See the name on the building at top right? Was "Seymour Johnson" a double-entendre
back then, too?:
http://i1165.photobucket.com/albums/...6.jpg~original
USCDL -- http://digitallibrary.usc.edu/cdm/si.../17808/rec/515

Sadly, it was around this time that Mrs. Millar passed away:
http://i1165.photobucket.com/albums/...a.jpg~original
February 20, 1888 LA Herald @ LOC -- http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lc...arRange&page=1

Mrs. Millar's brother George D. Rowan went into business with Mr. Millar (and apparently was not the stereotypical lunkhead brother-in-law, given his biographies, which refer to his
father as James, not George B. as in his sister's obit above). George D. Rowan's son, Robert A. Rowan, was Rowan of the Rowan-Bilicke Fireproof Building Company, which built
fireproof buildings that were absolutely fireproof, like the Alexandria Hotel, shown here in 1906:
http://i1165.photobucket.com/albums/...6.jpg~original
CA State Library -- http://catalog.library.ca.gov/exlibr...I4ED2JCXUE.jpg

Info:
http://books.google.com/books?id=YMU...ngeles&f=false
http://books.google.com/books?id=j-I...eproof&f=false
http://books.google.com/books?id=j-I...ngeles&f=false
http://www.rmslusitania.info/people/...lbert-bilicke/

Mr. Millar remarried -- to a Lily -- but in time, Death came for him, too:
http://i1165.photobucket.com/albums/...ps4ce147fa.jpg
Simmon's Spice Mill, December 1916 (Spice Mill Publishing Company, New York) @ http://books.google.com/books?id=l-s...epage&q&f=true

Here are the Millar Block and its neighbors, c. 1904-5. The C. H. Frost Building would later become the Haig M. Prince Building:
http://i1165.photobucket.com/albums/...e.jpg~original
USCDL -- http://digitallibrary.usc.edu/cdm/si...d/1745/rec/330

By 1906 the Millar Block had been renamed the Roanoke Building:
http://i1165.photobucket.com/albums/...8.jpg~original
1906 Sanborn @ LAPL

You can see the top two stories of 137-139 S. Broadway in this February 23, 1909, photo looking west from 2nd and Spring:
http://i1165.photobucket.com/albums/...0.jpg~original
LOC -- http://www.loc.gov/pictures/resource...a18032/?co=pan (previously posted by gsjansen: http://forum.skyscraperpage.com/show...postcount=1337)

We have to fast-forward to February 24, 1952, for the next good -- and one of the best -- shots of the Millar Block:
http://i1165.photobucket.com/albums/...e.jpg~original
Indiana University Archives -- http://webapp1.dlib.indiana.edu/cush...se&pnum=P05738

But, as you may have already surmised, even with those two lions roaring defiantly out of the facade, time was running out for 137-39 S. Broadway. This photo is dated 1963; note the
lamp post in front of the building:
http://i1165.photobucket.com/albums/...ps77acbb2b.jpg
CA State Library -- http://catalog.library.ca.gov/exlibr...IER3EUP79J.jpg

This photo is dated June 1961 and looks at the NW corner of 2nd and Broadway -- so either it or the previous photo is misdated. At any rate, the Millar Block would have been across
the street from the green flag, behind the lamp post:
http://i1165.photobucket.com/albums/...a.jpg~original
Huntington Digital Library -- http://hdl.huntington.org/cdm/single...d/6280/rec/186

And 50 years later, what does the NW corner of 2nd and Broadway look like?
http://i1165.photobucket.com/albums/...9.jpg~original
GSV

The old and the new....
 

As I watched this bizarre building episode unfold, it appeared that they took most of the exterior cladding off of the tower and replaced it with a new metal facade. The original 1932 steel frames remained firmly in place. Then they added the new north-side auditorium and the new in-the-round theater on the south-side.....of course leaving the original theatrical rigging tower and original stage in the middle. The new theaters occupy the exact same footprint that they did in 1932.

This process is common in Los Angeles. The builders will remove the original brick and stone exterior. This exposes the original steel framing. Next, they attach steel panels to the old framing and now we have a ''new'' building.
:cool::tup::cool:

FlyingW/Millar :previous: :tup:










Hotel Schuyler, Long Beach

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11-11-1922 Armistice Day. - http://hdl.huntington.org/cdm/ref/co...0coll2/id/4382

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Lord & Taylor having an unannounced sale?
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Buffums and Football
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Olive Court and the view from the Melrose, 1914
 

http://farm4.staticflickr.com/3704/1...e1c4a29c_o.jpg
Looking east from the Melrose, 1914

Stitched together two nice C.C. Pierce negatives shot from the roof (or upper floor) of The Melrose (at about 128 S. Grand in the ugly new building). County Courthouse tower visible over the top of the new Hall of Records, crenelated tower of the Los Angeles Times building at 1st and Broadway. Row of buildings at the bottom of the image all address on Olive street. Far left bottom is the St. Mark Hotel (originally the Cecil and soon to be the Gladden, in three years it will become the home address of a local oil company accountant and soon to be struggling writer named Raymond Chandler) at 100 S. Olive. Next to the St. Mark/Cecil/Gladden is the northern entrance to Olive Court, albeit hidden by that tree, over to the right you can see the southern entrance to Olive Court and at the far right (bottom corner) is the Argyle. You will notice that by 1914 The Annex (133 S. Hill Street) has been torn down, leaving the Hotel Locke (behind the Argyle and directly behind that star pine) at 139 S. Hill Street (NW corner of 2nd) out on the point overlooking 2nd and Hill street all alone. Now we have a clear view of the Moore Cliff Apartment/Hotel (center, stark white, drab, featureless multi-story) and to the left the smaller, more architecturally interesting El Moro Hotel. Both the El Moro and the Moore Cliff address on Hill Street (109 and 121 respectively) yet are served by entrances here on Olive Court.

USC digital archive/Title Insurance and Trust, and C.C. Pierce Photography Collection, 1860-1960 (chs-5711, 5712)

The Beach Boys also made their first paid appearance here on December 31, 1961. They opened for Ike and Tina Turner at the "Richie Valens Memorial Dance and Show" and recieved $60. I saw Brian Wilson do a show at the current venue at this location about 5 years ago but didn't know it was the same actual stage area.

Thoroughly enjoyed your post on the Millar/Roanoke building Flyingwedge.


I didn't notice the lions heads until you pointed them out.
http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/102...0/812/m71t.jpg


...and I had to chuckle at the haphazard way they boarded up the front door.
http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/800...0/837/m368.jpg
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and...
Excellent photographs & postcards of the Hotel Schuyler BifRayRock. :)
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It's always fun to find some obscure postcard and look up the address to see if the building still stands or to see what changes
have been made over the years.


Mme. Portier's French Restaurant

http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/102...0/838/ld2l.jpgebay



and today
http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/102...0/829/4st8.jpg
GSV



one more look
http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/102...0/811/03lw.jpg
GSV



While I was in the area I couldn't help but notice how this one street divides into two.
http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/102...90/22/edbs.jpg
google aerial


and a bit further south another street does a squiggly-like maneuver.
http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/102...90/22/9hxf.jpg
google aerial


but I got a bigger surprise when I zoomed out.

Further east there's some truly elaborate street planning going on.
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google_earth

Does anyone know the history of this particular area and when it was initially laid out? (maybe we've talked about it, but I don't think so)
The layout is really impressive.
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Last but not least, here's some further info. on Mme. Portier's French Restaurant.

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Closed on Saturdays?? That's a first.
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Thanks for the pics HossC - I especially love the 1939 shot.

e_r, I had never noticed the building before either. Its details were really interesting to me. They're almost exaggerated somehow, the shapes of the windows, the finials on the roof, etc.

I like those shots - I know you said it wasn't on purpose, but the way the film was developed, the photos look like they could have been taken in the 60's or 70's.

Thanks Tetsu. And thanks GW for the update, I took the picture of the house because it looked very similar to the way the South Seas house looked(condition wise),and because cats we're everywhere.:runaway:

Does anyone know where this radio station was located in Glendale? I looked on Google Maps, but couldn't find anything that looked like the right spot.


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L.A. Times

1929 radio weather broadcasts help pilots
Posted By: Scott Harrison
Posted On: 12:16 a.m. | March 20, 2014
August 1929: New $20,000 Federal Airway radio station in Glendale with one of its 128-foot towers. Hourly weather reports are broadcast to pilots and airports.

This photo accompanied an article by Terrel DeLapp in the Aug. 4, 1929, Los Angeles Times reporting:

Like ships at sea plowing their way safely through fogged seas, guided by radio flashes from Federal short stations, airplanes winging their way above Southern California now are kept informed of weather conditions for 500 miles around by the cracking messages shot from the new mountain-side Glendale airway radio station of the United States Department of Commerce.

Every hour, night and day, as the minute hand of the clock points straight up, a giant 2000-watt generator whines in the Glendale radio lighthouse, one of four operators adjusts a 900-meter broadcasting set and sends his voice to planes and airdromes in this typical message:

“This is Airways Communication Station, Glendale, broadcasting Los Angeles to San Francisco airway weather information. It is now 1 p.m., local standard time.

“General conditions, Glendale, hazy; Saugus, clear; Lebec, clear; Livingstone, clear and light haze; Livermore, broken high clouds; Oakland, overcast; Mills Field, broken strata cumulus; Concord, broken overcast and haze.

“Ceilings unlimited at all stations except Oakland, 1200; Mills Field, 1400; Concord, 4000. Visibility unlimited at all stations except Glendale, three miles; Saugus and Bakersfield, five miles; Livingstone, six miles and Concord, eight miles.”

Thus the Pacific Coast flyer, either already in the air with his radio headset adjusted, or on the ground preparing to hop off on a cross-country flight, knows exactly what to expect in the way of weather and where to expect it. …

The local station has been on the air only a few days, and is the latest link in the chain of broadcasting points down the Pacific Coast from Seattle, with intermediate stations at Medford Or., and Oakland. These stations form the top of a “T” on the west coast, the main stem of the system spanning the nation from San Francisco to New York.

Thirty-five stations now are operating on the national hook-up to make the airways safe at a cost to the Department of Commerce of $700,000. …

Miles Field is now San Francisco International Airport.

That street grid layout is in my neck of the woods Montebello,and is bordered by Whittier Blvd to the north and Olympic Blvd to the south. I always wanted to know more on this development. I know at The Wells Brgo Bank on Whittier/Montebello Blvds they have a large mural deplicting The History of this area.

The third Women from the Right looks a little like "Anne Toth" of Black Dahlia fame she appeared in three films and disappeared into obscurity gone like the wind.
http://www.theblackdahliainhollywood...ctures/123.jpg
Anne Toth is far left! The Third Women is Susan Hayworth.

The third Women from the Right looks a little like "Anne Toth" of Black Dahlia fame she appeared in three films and disappeared into obscurity gone like the wind.

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Dusty Anderson

[QUOTE=FredH;6504927]Does anyone know where this radio station was located in Glendale? I looked on Google Maps, but couldn't find anything that looked like the right spot.


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L.A. Times

Fred, I think I may have found your site (no guarantees expressed or implied here!). It appears to be home to two antennas now. The location is on the north side of East Glenoaks Boulevard above the Scholl Canyon Golf Course.

Cheers,
Jack

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Here is Part II :) http://westcoastarch.blogspot.com/20...n-part-ii.html

The color photo was taken at Columbia Pictures between June and October 1943 and includes some of the New York models hired in support of Rita Hayworth for COVER GIRL, released in 1944.

Easily recognized are Betty Jane Hoss, Peggy Lloyd, Dusty Anderson, Susan Shaw, Anita Colby and Cecilia Meager among the group.

Thankfully demolished....
 

Here is the interior of the old 1932 Long Beach Municipal Auditorium [demolished in 1975]. As one can see its totally useless as a venue for today's theater. Note the folding chairs on the floor. It might have been useful for a political convention but its been many times replaced by more suitable sites.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v4...ps85b88433.jpgCD File

This is how it looks today. The new design seems to be more people friendly...but some might disagree. At least the seating is facing the correct direction....the stage.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v4...psf7cabe2c.jpg CD file

Entire post with additional photos is here:

http://forum.skyscraperpage.com/show...5763&postcount
=12074

This is the only post I’ve seen about La Fontaine. I don’t know any good stories about it, but among its share of Hollywood residents were Bette Midler and Steve Martin, according to Roy Rogers Oldenkamp, who’s done walking tours of the area.

I do know that you can see this building in the Judy Garland version of A STAR IS BORN. I believe it was included in the version that was restored with footage excised from the roadshow version. There is a scene where James Mason comes to visit Judy Garland in her apartment on Crescent Heights across the street from the La Fontaine. As he exits her building he gets into his roadster parked on Crescent Heights and drives up the street. You can clearly see the La Fontaine as he drives by, through the intersection of Crescent Heights and Fountain and then up Crescent Heights toward Sunset Blvd.

I’ve been searching for something else in this area. During World War II a woman named Anne Lehr lived at 1284 N. Crescent Heights in what used to be the home of silent film star Dustin Farnham. She began to notice that servicemen were spending the nights in parks or bus benches and the like, either because of a lack of available rooms or they couldn’t afford them. There were places that catered to servicemen, but not places that were available to sleep/spend the night. With that in mind, she converted her place into the Hollywood Guild & Canteen, a place where servicemen could get a free meal and a clean bed and it opened in May of 1942. (Not to be confused with the Hollywood Canteen.) Servicemen called the place “Mom Lehr’s.” On average about 800 servicemen spent the night there and up to 1200 on the weekends. (It’s said the scenes where Gene Kelly and Frank Sinatra spend the night in Hollywood in the film Anchors Aweigh were based on this place.

I first heard of this place in the book Hollywood: The First Hundred Years by Bruce Torrence. The only photos I’ve found of it are from his sources. There’s a vague “entrance” photo and some interior shots, dated 1943. Here are two of them.

http://hollywoodphotographs.com/photos/lrg/HGC-001.jpg

http://hollywoodphotographs.com/photos/lrg/HGC-004.jpg

I wondered exactly where this location is. Currently there is no 1284 address. Google maps indicates 1284 would be at the southeast corner of Crescent Heights and Fountain Ave. which is now addressed 1274 and that’s the probable location. The northeast corner across the street is a parking lot, at present, that by its appearance looks to have been built where another structure/building used to be.

The corner address (1274) is currently occupied by an apartment complex called The Crescent which is listed as built in 1985. It’s the same location as the Oleander Arms, where Judy Garland lived in the film, A Star is Born, that I mentioned above. I recall around the time the film had been restored and shown again (in 1983) that people were trying to save this building because of this significance. The Crescent was subsequently built here, but I recall that the Oleander Arms was not demolished, but “moved” to another location.

So far, I have not been able to find anything written about that “move” online. I also cannot find any source that tells me the Oleander Arms was built on the site of Mom Lehr’s/Dustin Farnham’s mansion. (Not to be confused with another Oleander Arms that was located in Hollywood.) The Bruce Torrence book, from 1978, indicates that the then current site of the mansion was occupied by a singles apartment building (Oleander Arms?).

Since I walk by this area often enough, I always keep wondering exactly where this was. My guess is that it’s the southeast corner of Crescent Heights and Fountain, but not sure that it isn’t across the street at the northeast corner.

I haven’t discovered any aerials of this area, which is a block or two below Sunset and Crescent Heights which is where the Garden of Allah and Schwab’s Drugstore are located. The postcard photo I found recently of Dustin Farnham’s mansion (from the 1920’s) doesn’t give me a clue as to which side of the street it was on, but if you compare it to the entrance photo of the Hollywood Guild and Canteen, above, you can see the sidewalks line up perfectly.

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Link about Dustin Farnham:
http://silenthollywood.com/dustinfarnum.html
Link to Bruce Torrence’s photo site:
http://hollywoodphotographs.com/cate...d-and-canteen/
Link to a short article about a West Hollywood walking tour with one or two dozen notable buildings in the area I’ve been talking about:
http://www.visitwesthollywood.com/bl...lden-era-walk/

I can't help with the Oleander Arms, but here's an aerial from 1948 which shows the Dustin Farnum/Farnham house on the southeast corner of the intersection.

http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...escent1948.jpg
Historic Aerials

The house had already gone by 1952, but that aerial image is pretty blurry. This 1972 aerial shows the same replacement building(s).

http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...escent1972.jpg
Historic Aerials

Just for comparison, here's an up-to-date picture of the intersection. Most of the buildings from 1948 have been replaced by rectangular blocks with pools in the center, but a few survive.

http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...rescentNow.jpg
Google Maps


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Before I forget: GW, thanks for all the LAT articles and follow-up picture about the University Club of Los Angeles.

1939 - Slightly improved glimpse of deco Texaco Station.





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Thanks Bif for the post. That store was surely a palace of elegant merchandising. I like the uniformed elevator men. Today, its all automated and DIY. Its very hard to find any class these days. My local Target store has a men's room but no marble fixtures. :(:(

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v4...psba6fd904.jpgHLSan Marino