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as of right now, this thread is listed as having 29,206,377 replies. The next closest thread in the current main list shows only about 1,000,000 replies. Is there something about old LA....including noirish LA....that makes for a topic that grabs ppl's interest in a way that other places don't? If so, is it the hollywood connection? The weather? Nostalgia for a place that changes more dramatically than certain other cities like in europe or in the US like chicago, SF, DC, boston do? or is it the town's wacky cultural trends going back generations? Like bldgs shaped like food or furniture? Or maybe the OP is more committed to his thread than other OPs of other threads are? . |
Telephone Exchange Trivia
I believe this is pretty obvious but who remembers what was on the other end of the line when you dialed Richmond 9-5171?
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Our phone number in Ohio was Spring 7-0215. I believe, sometime in the mid-1960's, it was converted over to just 777-0215. I remember that there was some grousing at the time, but as things became digital a few years later, it was a necessary change. I believe you could call the mission of this site as : The resurrection of L.A.'s lost history and memories. |
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The term urban archeologist found some usage about 30 years ago, though it was applied to researchers looking at other cities, too. I like it because it retains focus on our subject and doesn't limit us practitioners to any specific body of evidence or investigative method. The field is interdisciplinary and thrives on collaboration. As for the relative degree of sanity accorded to us, we happy few, vs. the rest of humankind, I do feel a degree of pity for those who've never adopted or considered or even heard of our quest. Poor blighters! |
Beachwood 4-5789 you can call me up any old time, she told me.
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This is a screen grab from the 1970 Kris Kristofferson video Sunday Morning Coming Down.
https://i.postimg.cc/sDd50tdM/Capture.png I thought I could find this intersection in five minutes. However, it seems as though La Maida is one of those streets in the Valley that are chopped into a bunch of little pieces. Translation: I can't find the damn thing. |
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Looks like it's been a liquor store since at least 1946--the ad below is from 1966-- https://i.postimg.cc/ryQzFk60/emersonsad-bmp.jpg https://i.postimg.cc/sXmqSKym/emersons1-bmp.jpg https://i.postimg.cc/vmdNNCZX/emersons2-bmp.jpg The building is now painted red. |
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I believe he meant "views" currently at 29,213,726! Yes, replies are 52,144. The next closest thread in replies is 2,020, which is a thread titled Aerial Photos. See HERE. |
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I think all of those reasons are a factor, particularly: "...maybe the OP is more committed to his thread than other OPs of other threads are?" E_R's personal interest in this thread keeps it going, IMO, and also his willingness to let us stray from the "noirish" theme that he started it with. That, in itself, the name of the thread, is also a factor in why people have gravitated to it. Example: One summer I attended a film at AMPAS's Goldwyn Theatre. They showed a double feature of Hitchcock Films, Lifeboat and Shadow of a Doubt. They also had an exhibition of Hitchcock memorabilia in their gallery. The screening was sparsely attended; the theatre was half-full if that. The following summer they had a Film Noir Series. The selections were one film from each year, 1940 - 1949, and all of them had their screenplays nominated for an Academy Award. The 1943 selection was Shadow of a Doubt. When I attended that screening I was really surprised at the full house. I asked the host of this series in the lobby at some point why he thought there was such a big turnout for Shadow of a Doubt? After all, it's not one of his most famous or best loved films that people might want to see in a theatre, and it also had been shown the year before with one of his better known films and it drew a tepid showing. His reply, "Just put 'Film Noir' in the advertising and you'll drawn a big audience!" TRUE! The annual Film Noir series at the American Cinematheque at the Egyptian Theatre is always a huge attraction. E_R's inclination to name the thread Noirish Los Angeles, was a very good one. P.S.: Thank you, E_R! |
How about calling ourselves "Cityologists" or "Metroligists?"
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The Noirish Spelunkers. That sounds like a bowling league team. Let's all meet up at Highland Bowl and toss a few rocks sometime, eh? |
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YouTube Thanks BillinGlendaleCA and GaylordWilshire. I was about 3 1/2 miles off (over by Notre Dame High School) and moving in the wrong direction. By the way - Does anyone know why so many streets in the Valley are chopped up into little pieces? |
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your using the example of what you were told at the goldwyn theater is a good explanation....ethereal_reality's keeping the thread alive is another good explanation. speaking of which, I believe he lives in the chicago area. I saw a vid of two major movie critics based there, the late siskel & ebert, reviewing a classic "LA" film, chinatown.....one of the two of them said something about LA having a certain vibe or odd charm. that to me is a major reason I've found this thread interesting through the yrs. It makes me think of the nostalgic mood & melancholy theme music occurring at the end of Chinatown.... |
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