https://i.imgur.com/iwI8o20.jpg

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https://i.postimg.cc/B6113NYc/Blue-D...AT-48-7-30.jpg
LA Times, 7/30/1948

https://i.postimg.cc/nrFZ2hDj/Blue-Diamond-Prices.jpg
From Cost of Living, by George Meany and R.J. Thomas, p. 96, 1944.

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Thanks Noir Noir and odinthor. I appreciate your help :)


I'm intrigued by the overgrown bushes. I'm guessing the photographer is standing in an empty lot. perhaps

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Martin Turnbull is going to ask him if he can find a color photograph of the 25 x 40 ft. Edward Trumbull mural that was in the lobby of the NBC Building on Sunset and Vine.
Something I keep looking into from time to time. The title of it has been referred to in various places as "The Power of Radio" or "The Genie of Radio."

https://westmb.org/images/Spirit%20o...20adjusted.jpg

This is the building which once housed the Blue Diamond Grill. The diamond motif was also used by Ogee's restaurant, seen here in 1956.

https://hosting.photobucket.com/imag...tBroadway1.jpg
Huntington Digital Library

The other side can be spotted in a 1950 LAPL image - it's the one with the Seagram's 7 advert on the side.

I believe the photographer in the original picture was standing in the grounds of the California State Building.

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https://i.postimg.cc/d3fs0Khh/Ca-State-Bldg-Det.jpg
detail from below

https://i.postimg.cc/4yjGgb0t/Ca-Sta...PL00018368.jpg
LAPL No. 00018368

Art in L.A.’s Union Station Has Been Hidden for Decades. Now It Prepares for an Oscar Debut
https://www.latimes.com/entertainmen...ng-renovations

The now-gleaming train station will get its close-up this Sunday when the 93rd Academy Awards ceremony is broadcast live from throughout its historic halls.
On April 29, the restored spaces will open to the public, its big reveal.


Can't wait to go see it!

Thx for the prompt. I tried to replace the two images from that post, but I couldn't make it work, so the captions are still orphans.

I took my photo group down there at the end of last month. Before we got run off by the rent-a-cops(telling us we couldn't photograph the building from the sidewalk on Alameda), I got this shot of the old ticketing area.

https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/...9e51dc71_b.jpg_3280066-Edit.jpg by BillinGlendaleCA, on Flickr

Thought I'd add one for the front of the station:
https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/...6670315d_b.jpg_3280137.jpg by BillinGlendaleCA, on Flickr

I just dropped in to see what condition my condition was in.
 

*sigh*
I was just browsing the list of new construction projects in Hollywood, and I am rather disappointed in what passes for architectural style these days, or since the late 40's really. It all looks like everything else that's been built in the past 20 years or so. Cheap, bland, and ugly.
I really don't understand how people are apparently pleased with these eyesores. One looks like an unfinished wire frame. W.T.F.? S.M.H.
I suppose I shouldn't be surprised, in this day and age it's apparently acceptable to go out in your pajamas with uncombed hair and flip-flops, so I suppose I shouldn't expect more from any other aspect of our society.

*deep breath*
Moving on, it would seem that I'm not the only one who's had to have some shall we say "heated arguments" with obtuse security guards over photographing a building from a public sidewalk.
I really don't understand their version of reality where they think it's illegal to take a picture of the building they're paid to watch. But what do you expect from a glorified hall monitor? :shrug:
Not to worry, from what I've seen with the recent advances in robotic security they'll soon be replaced by a parking meter on wheels.

Here's a not-so-mystery location.

Original Slide, no date.

https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/1...924/PnTPMe.jpg
eBay no longer listed


Unless I'm mistaken (I'm not) this is the old Misses Janes School for Girls before it was moved several hundred feet away from Hollywood Blvd. to the back of the lot.


1907 Sanborn / before the move (pinkish dot)
https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/6...922/0u2EZN.jpg
Prospect is now Hollywood Blvd.




Previously seen HERE courtesy 3940dxer.

If you'd like to see a 1905 photograph of the house along Prospect Ave. go HERE.




The Misses Janes School is still standing and is currently the _____________. (I can't find the website) Did it close?


Today, the old Janes School is practically hidden from view in all directions.

https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/8...923/ztBXDa.jpg
That's Hollywood Blvd. at the bottom. / Google-Earth
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Jane says.
 

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That's exactly what it is.
Here's another view, (sorry, I'm posting from my cellphone so it's not easy to paste an image, so here's the link):
https://calisphere.org/item/ark:/21198/zz0002vddc/

The Janes House has been a nightclub called No Vacancy since 2013. They have some great vintage and current photos on their Instagram that give you an idea of what the place looks like today. I can't figure out how to directly embed the Insta pictures, so here's a preview. Maybe someone can make it look nicer.

https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/...353e0994_z.jpg
https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/...6e2f6da7_z.jpg

OLD
https://www.instagram.com/p/Buuy7R0Bhiu/
https://www.instagram.com/p/B7XUYhghGxi/
https://www.instagram.com/p/ByWbdknhreY/
https://www.instagram.com/p/Bsenw8fB9B_/
https://www.instagram.com/p/BgIGX4HDQGC/
https://www.instagram.com/p/BcoFtEhH-2w/
https://www.instagram.com/p/BZSXI3qHVyf/
https://www.instagram.com/p/BMaQjd_BMDJ/
https://www.instagram.com/p/BC01EecR2vx/



NEW


https://www.instagram.com/p/4dOvwQR2rY/
https://www.instagram.com/p/-VJnzOx2n4/
https://www.instagram.com/p/BEcb5ndR2nB/
https://www.instagram.com/p/B7r6AgmB4Sc/
https://www.instagram.com/p/B4gf8KwhnV6/
https://www.instagram.com/p/B3cpNp7BEY6/
https://www.instagram.com/p/BuKxS08B1oR/
https://www.instagram.com/p/BsMnvpWBIQb/
https://www.instagram.com/p/Br_vZqOB-PD/
https://www.instagram.com/p/Bnpg8x5huQy/
https://www.instagram.com/p/BlWxVqnjULR/
https://www.instagram.com/p/BiQf7T6BhuN/
https://www.instagram.com/p/BgaImirjx44/
https://www.instagram.com/p/BX_68XtnF2U/
https://www.instagram.com/p/BVn9EHpFOwx/
https://www.instagram.com/p/BfPb9LynW0M/

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This is intriguing:

Down a back alley off Hollywood Boulevard, past the old-fashioned hotel entryway beneath a flickering ‘No Vacancy’ sign and up an eerie staircase, three doors await you in a lushly decorated hallway—behind one of them lies the secret entrance to Hollywood’s most spectacular speakeasy-style cocktail bar.

Inside, you’ll find antique bookshelves, tightrope walkers, fire-breathing dancers, live music, handmade cigars, a photo booth inside a phone booth, a variety of hidden corners and staircases, and the best cocktails in town, in true speakeasy style.

You must be on "the list" to enter. Arrive early if you’re not on the list, dress to impress, and best of luck getting in.
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This has been open quite a long time! Not that I've been out clubbing in Hollywood the last decade. Those pictures inside are a trip. I'd not heard of this being turned into a nightclub. It made me wonder what the place was used for all these years before it. Then I saw one old photo that says it was the Starline Tours headquarters and visitor information center. (People would go all the way back there to find visitor information? :shrug:

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Dated 1967.

https://calisphere.org/clip/800x800/...d710e363907094


The below photo was in the bottom feed of the one above and I had to post it, too: dated 1975; two dudes at Fairfax High School.

https://calisphere.org/clip/800x800/...a70a0701069fca

Thanks for the great photos of Union Station, BillinGlendale.
And for risking arrest! :tup:

I believe this is her, BDiH

https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/6...924/yIqnLM.jpg

I wonder if that's her car.


https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/6...922/kNpiCm.jpg

This one is disorienting to me. One car in the lot.




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In the photograph below you can see the old gas station ("Janes Auto Service") and some sort of outdoor stand on the left. (I see a scale so perhaps he's selling fruit and vegetables)

https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/1...924/eTytqj.jpg
1930s?



In the next photograph a photo studio has been set up in front of the defunct service station.

https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/1...924/hw3xID.jpg

The girls are wondering if the house is haunted.



No Vacancy

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Now for something more recent.

mystery location, Hollywood California 1970s

Is anyone familiar with the Golden West Broadcasters?

https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/1...924/LUhd3g.jpg
eBay

The seller states "Car at KTLA "so perhaps Golden West Broadcasting is a subsiduary of KTLA. :shrug:


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Wow! I am almost certain that is Miss Janes.

Thanks for the correction: Janes' Auto Service, not Jane's Auto Supply.

The building in the background is still on Whitley Avenue, I believe. It is next to the Re-Tan Hotel. The Fontenoy is also seen in the background.

https://i.postimg.cc/tgDMRDfk/KTLA-B...-Mt-Wilson.png
Bing Maps

KTLA building on Mt. Wilson. Look up if you dare. (Bing has better streetviews here)

Golden West Broadcasters was the parent company of KTLA for many years. I'd say KTLA was then the best independent television station in Los Angeles.

KTLA Channel 5 spawned my love of old movies, first through their frequent airing of Marx Brothers and W. C. Fields films made at Paramount (in prime time no less!) and later through "Movies 'til Dawn" which featured lots of obscure gems of every genre.

https://i.postimg.cc/kgp59rGB/KTLA.gif

The $100 flivver (Model T or A?) for sale catches my eye. I wonder what it would sell for today? I wonder if somebody turned it into a "hot rod"?

Some more Janes House.


I don't know if this is a fanciful notion based on coincidence or not. :shrug:


https://i.imgur.com/hjIlXke.jpg
Google Books - Hollywood Remembered by Paul Zollo



A 1982 article on Carrie Janes Collier and the house.

https://i.imgur.com/9ksaTRE.jpg
newspapers.com - Los Angeles Times 03 Oct 1982


Mentioned at the end of the article, here's Guy Miller in 1956 setting up his scale model of the Manhattan skyline.

https://i.imgur.com/EkelAtD.jpg
gothamist.com

Yoink!
 

Thanks, we were pretty much done shooting by the time we were approached. Use a tripod, go to jail.

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GWB also owned radio stations in a number of states. Three that come to mind on the west coast:

- KMPC (now KSPN) Los Angeles
- KSFO San Francisco
- KVI Seattle

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Noir Noir, thanks for posting the 1982 Los Angeles Times article on Carrie Janes Collier and her caretaker, Guy Miller.

Unbeknownst to me, a photograph that I once considered for my avatar shows two of Guy Miller's skyscraper creations!

https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/8...923/AD3j6n.jpg
gettyimages


"A young visitor at Guy Miller's Miniature City display in Coney Island. On the left is the Chrysler Building, and the right the Empire State Building. circa 1955."


The caption is incorrect. The building model on the right is a building in downtown Manhattan.



..........................This one in the middle.
https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/6...922/vanStv.jpg

I used to know all the building's names - but not anymore.
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Guy Miller was a friend of mine for many years, I met him in San Diego in 1967. He made a model of Manhattan with all of the buildings. He took a year off of school to make the models. A certain person in NY paid him to make it. Guy later had a tiny store on Hollywood Blvd. back in the 1970s. He sold his placemats [called...Vocabumats, he gave me several of them] there, which were done as a foreign language tutorial. I never saw any of his model buildings at this location. The little store was owned and on the property of Carrie Collier. He lived for a time in one of her home's rooms. In Guy's later life went to live with his sister until his passing. I have several photos of Guy and will post if I can find them.

When he was in Los Angeles he made latex molds of a few of the buildings and then made plaster casts for sale. When he lived in Hollywood he mainly worked at a local printing company as a typesetter.

That's the Cities Service Building--70 Pine Street. Apartments now.

:previous: That's it! Thanks GW. :)



Now back to Los Angeles.

Here's a slide - taken in Nov. 1974 - of 'Don the Beachcomber' in Hollywood.


https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/1...924/Mcv9Ug.jpg
recently found on eBay / no longer listed

If you look beneath all the flora I believe you would find an apartment building.

I know that we have discussed this D of B location on NLA and if I'm not mistaken one of the posts included a black n white photograph. (but I wasn't able to find it. :(

In this view we're looking at the northwest corner of Mc Cadden Place and. . .! need to check google-earth / be right back!
If you look in the distance you can see the tower of the Methodist Church on Highland Ave.



I decided to add this.
https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/6...924/LMpfE9.jpg
LAPL
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Is this the one you were looking for? It was part of one of Martin Pal's posts from 2013.

:previous: Yep, that's it. (but it looks waaay different than how I remembered it) Thanks Hoss.


I happened upon this amazing photograph of Joan Blondell in her Hollywood home yesterday on eBay. (although I can't find it again)

I was particularly struck by her enormous picture window!

https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/1...923/Uuv4Y8.png
eBay

I see she's about to play Twister.




Here's the information on the reverse.

https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/1...922/8VwNcn.jpg


Does anyone know Ms. Blondell's address in 1932? I'd like to check out the home on Google-Earth and see if I can spot the huge picture window. :)



joshing about twister

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Flyingwedge found this zoomable version a few years later. I'll keep looking for a different view.

:previous: Excellent Hoss. (and FlyingWedge)



Let's briefly return to Gene Autry's Golden West Broadcasters' redoubt in La Canada.

https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/1...924/LUhd3g.jpg
This is a very interesting 'before and after', Mackerm.

The building without Golden West Broadcasters' bold colors now looks strickly utilitarian.....It's amazing what a little color can do.

& the supports to carry the weight of, what must be, a large antenna tower barely left enough room to allow the building to stay in place. ( i.e.. not torn down)



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Try here. :)


https://i.imgur.com/YcJmswL.jpg
rescarta.lapl.org


https://i.imgur.com/0O5st4D.jpg
Google Maps

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Thanks for the address Noir Noir!


If you look at the 1932 photograph again you will see that there is also a large window behind Ms. Blondell and, judging by the natural light on the right side of the photograph,
there is also a large window directly across from her.


So I'd say Ms. Blondell is sitting in the smallish 'room' that projects out from the house which would give us the three windows.


https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/1...924/ius4x8.jpg

What do'ya think? :shrug:

It's also facing south and I'm pretty sure I see the Baldwin Hills in the 1932 photograph. (unless that dark area on the horizon is smog)



EDIT:

I've already changed my mind.

What I circled above is an awning leading leading out to a deck.


Now I believe Joan's 'studio' with the large window(s) is to the right of the awning. . .ummm

This room
https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/1...924/w2S8fm.jpg

............:runaway:




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A bungalow section of the property is listed on airbnb. You should book and check out all the windows you can. :D



They have these old pictures of the house in the listing gallery.


Construction in 1925.

https://i.imgur.com/EYObEnQ.jpg
airbnb.com


And sometime later.

https://i.imgur.com/0Mn4fS7.jpg
airbnb.com

:previous: Oh man, those are beautiful photographs. You always know where to look, Noir Noir....Thanks

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Add re: Joan Blondell, she wasn't up on Appian Way very long...in '36 she married Dick Powell, and moved in with his brood at 7919 Selma Ave....1940 census...


https://hosting.photobucket.com/imag...720&fit=bounds


other side of the census ledger....


https://hosting.photobucket.com/imag...720&fit=bounds


Presumably this was the Selma Ave. house....


https://hosting.photobucket.com/imag...080&fit=bounds

Here's a similar b&w view dated 1976.

https://m.psecn.photoshelter.com/img...gr4Bv0bGQ4.jpg


Dated 1971: The Villa Capri at the end of the street.

https://m.psecn.photoshelter.com/img...Wqc63s5s14.jpg


Dated 1955:

https://m.psecn.photoshelter.com/img...lEIXPQ.4L0.jpg


Dated 1943:

https://m.psecn.photoshelter.com/img...HxLqCEVMgU.jpg


Two interiors dated 1957:

https://m.psecn.photoshelter.com/img...qUGpEw9h4w.jpg

https://m.psecn.photoshelter.com/img...KBfB9WEpCk.jpg

https://media.gettyimages.com/photos...26?s=2048x2048


Guy Miller, Jan. 1955

Here is the model of NYC, set up in a New Jersey park, 1956. I believe this was the day that LIFE
magazine came to take photos. In the upper left we can see the many boxes where they were stored [long time
storage was in a garage.] For many years it was on display in a NYC Port building. From what I remember he lost track of it in his later life.

https://cms.prod.nypr.digital/images/257109/width-1200/
NYC views

Not so fast, e_r.

Thanks to Wikipedia, we learn that the entrances to 70 Pine St. on Pine and Cedar incorporate 14-foot limestone models of the building itself.

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikiped...rvicemodel.jpg

Wikipedia (hotlinked)

Parking Lot Next To Don's
 

The 1971 photo of DTB shows a parking lot next to it, I worked for Grant Parking in '71 and operated that lot during the day. Mostly lot was for the Hollywood Medical Center, lots of older movie people had a Dr. there. Carlotta Monte, W.C. Fields girl friend was a regular, nice person. Many others. '71 was my last year then I went to work for City of L.A..

^^^
Some may recall that Carlotta wrote a memoir of her time with Fields, and a film ("W.C. Fields and Me") was made starring Valerie Perrine as Carlotta and Rod Steiger as W.C. back in the 1970s or early '80s. One touching scene I remember from the film--when he lived in L.A., Fields missed the sound of rain on the roof at night that helped him get to sleep. Carlotta went out one night when W.C. was dying and sprinkled the roof with a garden hose to help Fields get to sleep. Ah yess...Carlotta had a sweet heart.

W. C. Fields is one of my favorite comedians. However I was somewhat disappointed in the movie W. C. Fields and Me because it was almost nothing like her book.
From what I've read he used to be something of a regular at Boardner's in Hollywood, had an office near by in the old Warner Theater building, and for a time lived in a house in Whitley Heights. Finally I grew up about a mile from the "sanitarium" where he spent his final days.

One of several places around Los Angeles where Fields lived. I've heard he never actually owned a home, preferring to rent instead. I don't know the address of this house and I wonder if it's still standing.

https://i.postimg.cc/TPPLV2Qc/Fields.jpg