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The Van De Kamp's Bakery was at 5552 Pasadena Ave. (nowadays N. Figueroa Street). Good guess on the real estate office - Vernon Lee at 5550. https://i.imgur.com/IvljOr1.jpg rescarta.lapl.org |
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https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/1...921/jPeEe5.jpg eBay Bill, are these the three buildings you mentioned? ...If so, I agree. The only possible survivor is #1. https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/1...921/6ApNbc.jpg GSV If you look closely, there appears to be something white at the top of that tree on the left. Let's take a closer look. It's Chicken Boy! https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/8...923/Bn2juf.jpg DETAIL He's standing on top of building #1. (the 'survivor' building in the 1920s snapshot) . |
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I don't think Building # 1 with Chicken Boy atop is in the 1920's snapshot. 5558 N. Figueroa has a build date of 1937. Here's the block in 1931 with the empty lot where 5558 would go. https://i.imgur.com/xscyulK.jpg mil.library.ucsb.edu - c-1394_z-72 Building # 1 is to the left of Chicken Boy and comprises 5560-62-64 N. Figueroa. It was built in 1924. https://i.imgur.com/Hxm4tac.jpg GSV Building # 3 (Lee Real Estate) had gone by the time of the 1931 aerial - moved to Eagle Rock Blvd. in 1928. https://i.imgur.com/4QH47Jn.jpg ladbsdoc.lacity.org Can't find what happened to it but building # 2 (Van De Kamp's) also looks to be gone by then. By 1931 they had an outlet not far along the street at 5819 Pasadena Ave. My best guess from the aerial. :shrug: https://i.imgur.com/QHNDJkp.jpg mil.library.ucsb.edu - c-1394_z-72 One Mack Sennett reference book suggests 5819 Pasadena Ave. could possibly be the Van De Kamp's that appears in a 1927 comedy Smith's Candy Shop. It first shows up at the twelve minute mark. https://i.imgur.com/5AjodiU.jpg archive.org - Smith's Candy Shop |
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https://i809.photobucket.com/albums/...sPlumbing1.jpg GSV The view above is from 2017, which is currently the latest GSV image available. Since early 2018, the corner of the building has been Walt's Bar, complete with a retro-style pinball arcade. You can see interior and exterior images of Walt's Bar at www.timeout.com. |
Mid-century mayhem in the Noir city, courtesy of the L.A. Examiner collection....
https://i1381.photobucket.com/albums...psujkc8lkc.jpg Roslyn Hotel, 10/27/51....George Miller, 34, killed in a fight over a song playing on the jukebox....the tune in question was "The Song is Ended (But the Melody Lingers On)"... https://i1381.photobucket.com/albums...psmrv8bsxp.jpg Murder, 3/6/52, location unidentified....Mrs. Orpha Helen Zimmerman (victim) https://i1381.photobucket.com/albums...psnjdptbbq.jpg Photo set titled "Hitch Hike to Death", 7/5/51....I could not find the story, but apparently 4 poor souls climbed into an open-air A.T. & S.F. freight car, and somewhere down the line a load of what appears to be steel piping was dumped in... https://i1381.photobucket.com/albums...pssexxciqv.jpg https://i1381.photobucket.com/albums...ps5lanr3vr.jpg https://i1381.photobucket.com/albums...pskdrv9d9c.jpg https://i1381.photobucket.com/albums...psqren4px3.jpg Attempt suicide in bar at 1100 West 7th Street, 21 March 1952. Lying on the floor of bar, where he shot himself is victim tentatively identified as Charles Anderson... Standing over him are two Police Officers... 25 Caliber Automatic pistol in foreground of picture. https://i1381.photobucket.com/albums...psae0wpm4k.jpg Jealous wife shoots husband...West Fifth Street, 13 October 1951. Jeffrey Allan Goodwill -- 24 years (victim) Kathleen Goodwill -- 23 years (wife) https://i1381.photobucket.com/albums...psdsmskrbr.jpg Patricia Steele found dead at 610 Bonnie Brae Ave. (N/S not specified but I believe this is S. Bonnie Brae), 5-27-52. https://i1381.photobucket.com/albums...ps3e1avett.jpg https://i1381.photobucket.com/albums...ps0o40jzje.jpg https://i1381.photobucket.com/albums...psez5kg8jq.jpg https://i1381.photobucket.com/albums...ps05lpdjgj.jpg Suicide (Coliseum and La Brea), 31 July 1951. John Severson (body) victim; Dean Holt (found body). https://i1381.photobucket.com/albums...ps8fwjqe4t.jpg Clemons bigamy preliminary, 30 January 1952. Mrs Alta Clemons -- 18 years (wife number 1); Mrs Beverly Ann Clemons -- 17 years (wife number 2); Kenneth E Clemons -- 21 years (defendant) https://i1381.photobucket.com/albums...ps2usjeyg6.jpg Overturned auto, 02 March 1952. General view of overturned car after truck collision at 9th Street and San Pedro Street. https://i1381.photobucket.com/albums...pshxwm5wqr.jpg Phantom shooting...Norwalk, 30 August 1951. Mrs Nina Marie Bice -- 25 years (victim) https://i1381.photobucket.com/albums...psx2kdjgrn.jpg Attack suspects, 07 April 1952. Daniel Arzaga Briones -- 26 years; Frank F Rodriguez -- 25 years...no other details provided |
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I stand corrected. Excellent research Noir Noir.
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At the 16:23 mark a street car goes by. . . https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/8...924/VLOUWI.jpg . . .revealing a 'mystery' drug store. https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/8...923/JxaaW9.jpg As the little girl offers the policeman a piece of candy you can see a street number on the drug store's awning. https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/8...922/DWsV9S.jpg hmmm...possibly 3267....:shrug: Do ya'll think we can figure out where this drug store was located. (or is located) ____________________________________________________________________________________ I've decided to go ahead and add this frame. Here is the policeman, from a different angle, eating the candy with several buildings behind him. https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/8...921/AIkscO.jpg Of course this doesn't necessarily mean the buildings are across the store from the drug store. (although that's what the shot implies) The shot might have been taken at another time (or location) and edited into the sequence. |
A 'mystery' car parked on a Los Angeles sidestreet. [1962 Kodachrome slide]
https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/1...922/p1i7ug.jpg eBay Does anyone recognize the make of this car? It's unfamiliar to me. Here's an expanded view. https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/1...921/8cMrAb.jpg It's relatively small in comparison with the car behind it. The street sign says Crown Ave. but I can't make out the other street. . |
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Have we seen the interior of the Hollenbeck Hotel Cafe?
https://i.postimg.cc/SKvnrTSx/Hol-Ho-Cafe001.jpg odinthor collection I was looking for articles about lurid happenings there, and failing in my mission. Here's a reminiscence though: https://i.postimg.cc/P5fNksNq/HolHoCafe3-29-40.jpg LA Times 3/29/1940, via ProQuest, via CSULB Library And here's an interesting if un-lurid happening: https://i.postimg.cc/mgdkLXFy/HolHoCafe8-27-1912Her.jpg LA Herald, 8/27/1912 Special Bonus! In my searching, ran across this, about an artistic occurrence in an apartment house brought about by someone who had recently stayed at the Hollenbeck Hotel: https://i.postimg.cc/mrtDtYYf/HolHoPaint1-21-1907.jpg LA Times 1/21/1907, via ProQuest, via CSULB Library |
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Hudson. Hooda Thunkit :) Cheers, Earl |
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https://i.imgur.com/RM95oya.jpg rescarta.lapl.org The building is still standing. It's rooms were listed as the Fleming Apartments (764 Normandie) from 1927 to the 1940's. https://i.imgur.com/2KoqLi8.jpg GSV |
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Hmmmm... I believe there were Disney illustrators living in the area. Maybe it's one of their cars. (wild guess) Click HERE to see the slide on eBay. ..(I'm going through the seller's other slides in search of clues) . |
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1954 Hudson Italia Coupe by Carrozzeria Touring $265,000...Result : sold at auction in 2012 |
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My wild guess. Apparently all of the Hudson Italias originally had "Italian Cream" exterior paintwork. Any variations from this would be the work of subsequent car dealers or owners. Seeing as there's so few of these cars in the first place, the differing colors should also be pretty individual and rare. This one auctioned in 2015 matches the color of the one in the 1962 picture. https://i.imgur.com/lsJ4fMy.jpg It was owned by a guy named Trevor Constable back around the early 1960's. He was also a friend of the car's designer Frank Spring. Here he is pictured with his car. https://i.imgur.com/oKiORMD.jpg classicdriver.com - Hudson Italia The auctioned car is missing the original wheels but seemingly stood on jack stands with the engine also gone for about three decades. So by the laws of chance and color, I'm guessing that's Trevor Constable's car parked up on Crown Avenue in 1962. :D |
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