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Could Madam at left be Mrs. Cooper's mother? I see a family resemblance, and a generational-length difference of age. And so perhaps this is a three-generations pic. Just guessin'! :hmmm: |
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I think it is her mother, Veronica Gibbons Balfe. She died in 1958. Her brother was the famed art director/production designer Cedric Gibbons who designed the Oscar statuette and proceeded to win eleven of them. This link has a list of projects that John Woolf's practice was involved with. Online Archive of California He designed a house for the photograph's taker Jean Howard and one for Mrs. "Rocky" Cooper's second husband John Converse. Promising I thought ... the mystery house is bound to be in there somewhere. I checked out the LA area projects from the 1950's but could not turn up the house in e_r's pictures. :( Someone might have better luck than I did if they give it a shot. :) |
Maybe the house was not in Los Angeles.
At least we're homing in on a date pre-1958. Cheers, Earl |
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https://i.redd.it/k3oth6h5yn631.jpg Here's a picture of Maria Cooper on the set of High Noon in 1952. Later photos have her with a longer hair style so I would guess the photos of the house are from the earlier part of the 1950s. Which may narrow the search a bit. Cheers, Earl |
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whoisdatingwho Maria Cooper on a hot date with Tab Hunter....wow, was she the lucky girl. Her next date was with Tony Perkins. How does she manage it? |
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http://www.boebertandblossom.com/LAN...ophetHouse.jpg Hmmm, Jean Howard photograph, and the dates are right. Fred Prophet was evidently a vending machine mogul in Los Angeles. The current house on the property was built in 2012. FWIW, as always. Cheers, Earl |
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Well done! Cheers, Earl |
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My Grandmother lived on Franklin Place near Highland & Franklin and drove an Austin America when I was young... I saw much of the Hollywood area through it’s windows but, it also spent much of it’s time at the Richfield station on Cahuenga near Barham waiting for parts to arrive from England! Onward we go!!! |
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I think you've got it EB. :tup: The colored arrows say yes. :D https://i.imgur.com/FlTYs6T.jpg mil.library.ucsb.edu |
Team effort; always the best kind. Couldn't have done it without the other postings.
Cheers, Earl |
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What became of the handsome hound that sat guard at the gates of 1011 N. Crescent Drive in 1953? Replaced by a pale imposter of indeterminate breed in the intervening years before demolition in 2009. :shrug: https://i.imgur.com/loQ1qnq.jpg GSV - 2009 |
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Excellent work EVERYONE!!! I looked nearly everywhere for that damn house. And welcome to NLA, Hookster. :) . |
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Many Thanks for the welcome E_R!!! I am honored to be aboard! Also CBD... Many Thanks on the Bonanza YT URL!!! Onward we go!!! |
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Smoke still rising from the rubble--May 2009: https://i.postimg.cc/g0gfSLpc/woolfemptylot-UT.jpg https://i.postimg.cc/6qssNsmy/woolfclassif-bmp.jpg It looks like this was built by Prophet for a profit...the ad above appeared in the LAT from April 30, 1953, through the summer, until it was reported sold on October 18: https://i.postimg.cc/SRXKgpzR/woolf1-bmp.jpg But the house wasn't getting its due love yet...it was on the market again by March 14, 1954: https://i.postimg.cc/s20ZVKzk/woolfclassif2-bmp.jpg Fred and June Prophet also had a house in Palm Springs at 417 Hermosa Place...which, per the LAT on October 18, 1953, they had just sold to Leo Spitz, head of production at Universal. PLUS, A NEW CHALLENGE...if it was ever built. It looks like the Prophets were looking for something more over-the-top. From a book I have here on my shelf--Glitter Stucco & Dumpster Diving: Reflections on Building Production in the Vernacular City by John Chase: https://i.postimg.cc/ZKMQkzvZ/woolfb...hetpic-bmp.jpg |
I passed our findings on to the University of Wyoming so they can update their listing.
Cheers, Earl |
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How to turn a nice little house in West Hollywood into a Hollywood Regency wanna-be. https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/8...923/v5f9xr.jpg knocking off the knockoffs / JOHN CHASE https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/8...921/IswjOe.jpg knocking off the knockoffs / JOHN CHASE Voila! https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/8...923/k2XfTH.jpg knocking off the knockoffs / JOHN CHASE Complete with a bust of Caesar on the roof. "A mania for transforming Spanish Colonial Revival mutts into French Regency pedigreed poodles swept West Hollywood. The Regency style craze of the Camelot years of the early 1960s saw the height of the box-in-the-old and tack-on-the new movement; in its wake were left miles of garlands, a forest of pop-up mansards and enough carriage lamps to render the street lights redundant."....John Chase And today. https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/1...921/IBWfsK.jpg GSV...................................................................................................WHERE'S CAESAR? In all honesty I'd be a bit embarrassed to live there.... It's way too ostentatious for the neighborhood..... I much prefer the house next door. search purposes:....larry limotti....ross worsley....8937 Ashcroft Avenue....West Hollywood . |
Hookster, I'm also English but don't spend any time in the shop waiting for parts to arrive from England!
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https://i809.photobucket.com/albums/...oxbury%201.jpg vanityfair.com Here's the John Elgin Woolf designed house in 2011. https://i809.photobucket.com/albums/...oxbury%202.jpg GSV It was replaced by the current house (below) around 2015. https://i809.photobucket.com/albums/...oxbury%203.jpg GSV There are more pictures of the original house and its demolition in an LAT slideshow. Rosemary Clooney lived next door at 1019 N Roxbury for almost 50 years. That house was demolished in 2005, just three years after Rosemary's death. |
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