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The Cheetah was originally the Aragon Ballroom, where big band and swing dances were held in the '40s and '50s. Also, Western swing bands of Spade Cooley and Bob Wills and others played there too. There used to be a large country western and Western swing audience in the LA area, dances and clubs all over.
Good line up at the cheetah in that photo: Moby Grape, Spirit and Genesis. A great show. If I recall correctly, the building burned down in the early '70s. |
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I couldn't find a new construction permit for 706 Bernard Street in the building records (the earliest permit of any kind is from 1962, and there's nothing for 706 Bernardo), but three property websites I checked all give a build date of 1889. http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...d.jpg~original GSV |
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Here's an additional image that I really like. http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/128...922/xpQILQ.jpg http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/128...924/4y2mFD.jpg http://a2d-architecture.com/post/159...house-pasadena There are some interesting tidbits in this article. "Connie Perkins, an art professor and single lady, first met architect Richard Neutra in Los Angeles in 1948. She was familiar with his work from reading John Entenza’s influential Arts and Architecture Magazine. But it took a speech he gave on building great houses cheaply, and her challenge to that assertion, for them to collaborate on a 1,300 ft2 design in 1953. Neutra approached the project as he approached all his work, by first establishing the exact needs of the client. His wasn’t architecture a client had to fit into, but architecture designed specifically to a client’s needs. And this is where this project became interesting. Connie didn’t want the usual living room, kitchen, bathroom and bedrooms. Her idea was to have one large living space, where she could work, entertain, relax, and sleep; the one bedroom was only for guests use. Construction was stucco over wood post and beam, quite planar, with much floor to ceiling glass, of course . Plus, a slightly contentious “inside to outside” reflecting pool that ended up very much defining the house, along with one of Neutra’s trademark outrigger beams that dropped into it. All in all a small, beautifully designed, beautifully detailed house. Like most architectural projects the house went a little over budget, but not so that the client became aggrieved. Connie was delighted with her house, especially when you bear in mind that Neutra had created something totally unique for her, in a good location, for $17,000, a little over the average Los Angeles house price of 1955." -excerpt by Richard Woollen _______________________ I'm always amazed that the temperate climate of southern California allows an architect to design a continuous indoor-outdoor pool, that's only separated by a pane of glass (& the glass stops at the surface of the water!) Just last night on TCM, I watched a movie that took place in such a house in Los Angeles. A young Peter Fonda swims (nude) from the inside to the outside (under a pane of glass like I mentioned earlier). In this particular house there was also a small footbridge.* The movie was Roger Corman's "The Trip" (1967) Here are a few screen-grabs (there was no establishing shot, so I don't have a good photo of the house itself) *sidenote: this is no Neutra; the house is all kinds of 70s TACKY. I'll treat this as the establishing shot. co-star Bruce Dern http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/102...923/2QmHdt.jpg Outside the window there appears to be a look-out point where the two cars are parked. I wonder if this is the Lookout Mountain / Wonderland area? Here's Bruce Dern on the aforementioned footbridge. ewwww....it's carpeted....with Shag! (it seems everything was carpeted back in the 1970s; sometimes even the walls!) http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/102...924/48OVRd.jpg That squiggly thing in the water is Peter Fonda:previous: Peter swims under a wall (I only thought it was glass) and ends up on the outside. http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/102...923/0AgpaC.jpg Bruce pulls Peter out of the pool. Peter's having a bad trip. http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/102...923/VuEj5d.jpg I just noticed the ugly chain-link fence and gate. In this dramatic shot, you see a tiny bit of the residence on the left. There appears to be a slight curvature (on the house) http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/102...921/JanPka.jpg I wasn't going to post the screengrabs today, but when I saw the indoor/outdoor pool in Hoss's Schulman post, I thought that was too much of a coincidence to overlook. __ There's another, more intriguing house that's used as a location in "The Trip". I'll post about it later tonight. __ |
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Thanks for all the background information on the Perkins House, e_r. -------------------- We're back at USC for this Julius Shulman post. I've skipped over a few photosets of university buildings, but I liked the contrast in these shots. This is "Job 3589: William L. Pereira and Associates, University of Southern California, Olin Hall of Engineering (Los Angeles, Calif.), 1963". I've left out two images which are very similar to two below. It looks like I can at full size again tonight! http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...1.jpg~original http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...2.jpg~original http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...3.jpg~original This is the only interior shot. http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...4.jpg~original All from Getty Research Institute The building is still standing on the corner of Downey Way and McClintock Avenue. http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...5.jpg~original GSV I couldn't duplicate Mr Shulman's angles with GSV, so here's a view of one of the entrances. http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...6.jpg~original GSV |
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I noticed my image of the matchbook was missing. I was going to replace it, but I couldn't find it again (which is too bad since it had an illustration of the Toddle House). ...but I found a different matchbook. http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/640...924/jGUO1Z.jpg below: -not sure why the S's are backward. http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/640...921/BEhzsu.png https://www.pinterest.com/pin/521432463078057362/ inside the cover http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/640...921/gOj7mN.jpg Did anyone happen to save a copy of the matchbook with the illus. of the Toddle house? I'd like to replace it in my earlier post. __ |
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Nathan Masters/KCET Just ran across this story, out today--from "one of our own" (and not just any "one of our own"- a true L.A. history pro): https://www.kcet.org/shows/lost-la/h...-los-angeles-0 |
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While looking for a a photo of the building in the 1942 advert, I found this picture which is labeled "Architectural rendering of the Carter Hardware Co. located at 125 N. Los Angeles St., in Los Angeles, CA", yet the number on the front is 1137. http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...1.jpg~original Pasadena Digital History Collaboration The 1962 CD lists Carter Hardware at 1137 S Los Angeles Street, so I'm guessing that that's what we're looking at in the picture above. I don't know if it was ever built exactly like the rendering, but the current building has about the same proportions. http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...2.jpg~original GSV |
I had never heard of Townsendites until I happened across this photograph earlier today on eBay.
"The Third National Convention of the Townsendites at the Los Angeles Coliseum, 6/19/38. http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/102...923/8dpsIf.jpg http://www.ebay.com/itm/1938-Press-P...gAAOSwMr1XPQ6O detail http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/128...922/QnFwhm.jpg They look like elderly vikings. Truth be told, they're followers of Dr. Francis Townsend (below, looking rather central casting-ish) and his revolving old age pension proposal during the Great Depression. http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/102...923/P0kaZs.jpg "In September 1933, Townsend wrote a letter to the editor of the local newspaper (the Long Beach Press-Telegram) and launched his career as an old-age activist. Townsend employed the techniques of real estate salesmanship to gain support for the Townsend Plan. Soon there were organizers in almost every state seeking to create Townsend Plan programs." You can read more about the Townsend Plan here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francis_Townsend __ reverse of the top photo http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/640...924/zbIpVg.jpg |
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With the information you provided I was able to find this really clever poster. http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/102...923/zje0R1.jpg http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/102...922/GkpDBQ.jpg http://www.theoriginalglenbuxton.com...goncheetah.jpg snapshot 1967 http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/640...921/Afg4P0.jpg fans http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/102...923/Knqj5h.jpg http://www.westcoastfog.com/west-coast-branch/ http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/102...923/BCWP47.jpg http://www.westcoastfog.com/wp-conte...clubflickr.jpg Earlier days: Lining up to see Lawrence Welk. http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/102...921/0QOHhU.jpg Here's some history (some of this has been discussed in the earlier days of the thread) "The ballroom and the pier, named Lick's Pier, was erected in 1922. Lick's Pier was located at the foot of Navy Street adjoining the south side of the Pickering Pier. Lick's Pier was, in 1922, almost entirely in Venice. It was 800 feet long and 225 feet wide. At the opening of Lick's Pier and the Bon Ton Ballroom on Easter weekend 1922, the ballroom was 22,000 square feet, and the pier featured a Zip roller coaster, a Dodge'em, Caterpillar rides, and Captive Aeroplane rides. Development, costing $250,000, commenced in 1921 and was financed by Charles Jacob Lick (1882–1971), Austin Aloysius McFadden (1875–1960), and George William Leihy (1865–1940)." "Schooler, whose Swing Shift Dances had originally been held at the nearby Casino Gardens, signed a 10-year lease in 1942 for the old Ocean Park venue, which was said to have 1,500 electric lights and 14,000 square feet of floor space, from owner Charles Lick. Schooler renamed it the Aragon, then spent some $50,000 to refurbish it." "By August 1943, the 25-year-old Schooler was earning $55 a week as a toolmaker at Douglas Aircraft Co. in Santa Monica during the graveyard shift, a job which he later claimed he retained to protect himself from the wartime draft. But the balance of his reported $250,000-a-year gross income came from his several roles as dance hall impresario, bandleader and promoter, which by August 1943 included seven nights a week at the Aragon Ballroom, Friday and Saturday nights with the Swing Shift Dances (12:30 a.m. to 5 a.m.) at the nearby Casino Gardens, monthly dances for African-Americans at the Shrine Auditorium in Los Angeles and barn dancing in the Plantation Ballroom in Culver City." "Billboard magazine reported in July 1944 that "cowboy outfits" such as Spade Cooley and Bob Wills had been, and would continue to be, booked to play at the ballroom." "The Aragon was later known as the hall where Lawrence Welk and his big band, the "Champagne Music Makers," parlayed a scheduled four-week engagement in spring 1951 into a ten-year stint and a noted television show. Welk's orchestra played to crowds numbering as high as 7,000. Klaus Landsberg, the manager of Los Angeles television station KTLA, offered Welk the opportunity to appear on television, and on May 11, 1951, the station began broadcasting a weekly show live from the Aragon featuring Welk's band. The show evolved into The Lawrence Welk Show, broadcast each Saturday night on ABC." "Welk’s stint at the Aragon ended in 1955, when he moved The Lawrence Welk Show to a television studio in Hollywood. The Aragon soon went into decline. Around 1967 it became the Cheetah Club, where bands including The Doors, Alice Cooper (then called Nazz), and Pink Floyd played. It was destroyed by fire on May 26, 1970." after the fire. http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/102...923/JE8VPP.jpg The Bon Ton Ballroom: 1922–1942 1922–1924: Harry Baisden and His Bon Ton Orchestra 1924–1925: Ben Pollack and His Bon Ton Orchestra The Aragon Ballroom: 1942–1967 1944: Spade Cooley 1944: Bob Wills 1951–1955: Lawrence Welk Cheetah Club: 1967–1970 1969: Black Pearl Charles Wright & the Watts 103rd Street Rhythm Band The Grateful Dead The Standells The Doors The Leaves Iron Butterfly Pink Floyd Alice Cooper http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/640...922/txw1I1.jpg some info. from- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aragon...ca,_California) |
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A beautiful building that has its fair share of rumored hauntings is the Petroleum Securities Building 714 W. Tenth Ave. a.k.a. Olympic built in '25 by Ed Doheny, Sr.
Can't recall many, if any, interior shots. Very tasteful and in some respects (fit and finish) respects a chip off the old Bradbury. http://static1.squarespace.com/stati...g.+-+Lobby.jpg http://static1.squarespace.com/stati...g.+-+Lobby.jpg 1925 http://i357.photobucket.com/albums/o...h.jpg~originalhttp://digitallibrary.usc.edu/cdm/co...ll170/id/68032 http://i357.photobucket.com/albums/o...j.jpg~original http://i357.photobucket.com/albums/o...v.jpg~original Previously captured by HossC Quote:
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The learning curve is ill defined and littered with ever-changing links. Three year old reposts of Bullock's Wilshire construction, courtesy of CSL until the link is changed, again.;) http://catalog.library.ca.gov/F/H83Q...019&format=999 1 http://i357.photobucket.com/albums/o...n.jpg~original 2 http://i357.photobucket.com/albums/o...ps7x643q61.jpg 3 http://i357.photobucket.com/albums/o...pspc2plblp.jpg 4 http://i357.photobucket.com/albums/o...psnhm2hr0w.jpg 5 http://i357.photobucket.com/albums/o...pspzgq1qjy.jpg 6 http://i357.photobucket.com/albums/o...pstbmlcrle.jpg 7 http://i357.photobucket.com/albums/o...pszrkepktw.jpg 8 http://i357.photobucket.com/albums/o...pst8kcrlzn.jpg 9 http://i357.photobucket.com/albums/o...pshvujpqvx.jpg 10 http://i357.photobucket.com/albums/o...psezpzg0sd.jpg 11 http://i357.photobucket.com/albums/o...pshmdj3oxe.jpg 12 http://i357.photobucket.com/albums/o...pshmjnqblf.jpg 13 http://i357.photobucket.com/albums/o...psxxeqc9by.jpg 14 http://i357.photobucket.com/albums/o...pswswodntn.jpg 15 http://i357.photobucket.com/albums/o...psjxaqiedp.jpg 16 http://i357.photobucket.com/albums/o...pstejyjfiw.jpg |
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The title of this Julius shulman photoset intrigued me. It's "Job 5306: Fong, Jung, Nakaba and Associates, Wilshire Square Building, Pocket Garden (Los Angeles, Calif.),1976". Am I the only one who didn't know there was a pocket garden on Wilshire? Behind the circular Hamburger Hamlet sign is the Tishman Building at 3325 Wilshire Boulevard. The Shulman pictures I posted of that building show this area 20 years earlier, before the pocket garden and the building on the right were constructed.
http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...1.jpg~original This set contains a lot of duplication, but this is the best picture of the fountain. http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...2.jpg~original Here's a color shot to finish. It includes the Texaco Building from post #34832. http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...3.jpg~original All from Getty Research Institute The pocket garden is still there, but the fancy fountain seems to have stopped or been reduced in size. Does anyone know if it's still working? http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...4.jpg~original GSV |
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It was 1953 when the last Pacific Electric streetcars traveled between downtown Los Angeles and the Santa Monica shore. On Friday, that popular old route was reborn with the extension of the Expo Line across a territory whose major thoroughfares now are routinely jammed, bumper to bumper. Pacific Electric Car 1299 crossing Motor Avenue on the way to Santa Monica, September 27, 1953. https://c2.staticflickr.com/4/3246/2...61408534_z.jpg Metro Library and Archive / Photographer Alan Weeks The entire METRO Route with the seven new stops that opened yesterday. http://cdn.abclocal.go.com/content/k...60_630x354.jpg KABC7 A crowd of people gather at the Seventh Street Metro Station to await the arrival of the first Expo Line train to take passengers from downtown Los Angeles to Santa Monica since 1953. http://www.trbimg.com/img-573f74d0/t.../1000/1000x563 Luis Sinco / Los Angeles Times People wind their way through a huge line to board a Metro Expo Line train on its first day of service in Santa Monica. http://www.trbimg.com/img-573f74d0/t.../1000/1000x563 Genaro Molina / Los Angeles Times It is noted "surfboards" are allowed on the Metro Line, "if there is room." Los Angeles County Supervisor Sheila Kuehl, alluding to the Pacific Electric, called the opening “sort of back to the future.” Also alluding to the Pacific Electric in the platform designs: https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Ci7KqliUkAAgJQB.jpg Souvenir Tap Card: http://media.gettyimages.com/photos/...re-id533116176 P.E. Red Car arriving in Santa Monica on Ocean Blvd. c. 1950 http://www.martinturnbull.com/wp-con...arly-1950s.jpg Metro Library and Archive Rides were FREE yesterday and also all day today. |
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I read where the ride takes about 50 minutes from downtown to Santa Monica. Is that about right M P? __ I just happened across this fantastic original(!) negative on eBay. "Route 8 at Sunset Boulevard, Los Angeles California, May 31, 1948." http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/128...922/JFy1V8.jpg http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/128...921/UzFkIj.jpg http://www.ebay.com/itm/Los-Angeles-...EAAOSwYmZXNWkx Giovanni Piuma's Grocery Store was located at 608 N. Spring Street. (partially behind the streetcar) We've seen the Hotel Pacific (the Hotel Atlantic is next door) numerous times on NLA, but this view is one of a kind. _____________________________________________________ Here's a photograph from way back on page 600-something. My red arrow points to the Hotel Pacific. http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/128...922/fVqqfr.jpg Go here for street information relating to the above photograph. http://forum.skyscraperpage.com/show...ostcount=12517 __ |
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