Originally Posted by CityBoyDoug (Post 7334919)

In 2016 that $2470 would be about $24,000.

Originally Posted by Earl Boebert (Post 7335097)

OK, what was the sports car in the Sabrina shot. Driving me nuts :-)

Cheers,

Earl

Originally Posted by CityBoyDoug (Post 7334919)

In 2016 that $2470 would be about $24,000.

These ships were actually troop transports that morphed into civilian liners.

SS President Wilson was an American passenger ship originally ordered by the Maritime Commission (MC hull 687) during World War II, as one of the Admiral W. S. Benson-class Type P2-SE2-R1 transport ships, and intended to be named USS Admiral F.B. Upham (AP-128).
The ship was laid down on 27 November 1944 at the Bethlehem Steel shipyard in Alameda, California, but was cancelled on 16 December 1944. The ship was finally launched on 24 November 1947, completed and delivered to the Maritime Commission on 27 April 1948. Under the name SS President Wilson, she was bareboat chartered by the Maritime Commission to American President Lines.
She was sold to Oceanic Cruise Development, Inc. (C.Y. Tung Group) on 27 April 1973, and renamed Oriental Empress. Laid up at Hong Kong, the ship was eventually scrapped at Kaohsiung, Taiwan, in 1984.

Originally Posted by Mstimc (Post 7335187)

Interesting, CBD. Before reading your post, I was looking at the brochure thinking it doesn't look like a typical passenger ship of the day. Those foremasts look more fit for a freighter, and passenger ships have a more pronounced rake bow to stern. The Pres. Wilson looks bulky for a cruise ship, nor very large. And you explained why!:worship:

Originally Posted by ethereal_reality (Post 7334874)

I'm not sure, but it looks like this 1950s 'bus slide' was taken on the roof of a parking garage.


http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/128...923/k8l1Ql.jpg
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:previous: I spy the top of the Eastern Building.



Do you see the garage anywhere? ;)
http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/102...921/NbfiA9.jpg
http://footage.framepool.com/en/shot...city-city-view



http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/102...921/nhYDGz.jpg
http://footage.framepool.com/en/shot...er-los-angeles

:previous: I don't believe I've ever seen this angle before. What a strange pinnacle. I'm surprised no one has filmed a movie scene in that mysterious open space.

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Originally Posted by ethereal_reality (Post 7334874)

I'm not sure, but it looks like this 1950s 'bus slide' was taken on the roof of a parking garage.

http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/128...923/k8l1Ql.jpg
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:previous: I spy the top of the Eastern Building.

Originally Posted by HenryHuntington (Post 7335329)

Work with me here, I might well have made a mistake in triangulation...

Our other clue is that the Norton Building (601-07 S. Broadway) appears at the left of the first photo, so I think we'd have to be looking due east on 6th St. (from the north side of the street) to get the Eastern Columbia building to be on our right. We have to be on the north side of 6th St. to get the viewing angle of the Norton Building to expose the west wall with the signage, presumably facing Lindley Pl. and the rear of the Los Angeles Theater.

Except that...

- The west wall of the Norton Building doesn't look to me as though it has the correct height or window placement to accommodate the signage we see; and

- I think our viewpoint would have to be the top of the Pacific Mutual Building, because Pershing Square takes up the block between Hill and Olive Sts.; and

- A quick check on Google Earth suggests that the only rooftop parking in the neighborhood is at 625 S. Hill St., but the garage is much too new and the viewing angle is toward St. Vincent Ct. instead of 6th St.; and

- Finally, the extant buildings on the south side of 6th St. (between us and the Norton Building signs) don't seem to resemble the ones in the photograph.

Not sure what I'm missing, but it must be a lot!

Originally Posted by ethereal_reality (Post 7327561)

And here's the downtown bus station.

[1970s?]
http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/128...921/jSOCJv.jpg
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