^^^
Liz was still quite hot in '67--hard to believe this is the same woman who made "Who's Afraid of Virginia Wolf" a year earlier. Brando pulled himself together and made "The Godfather" a few years after this pic, reviving his career. Some would say it went downhill again with "Last Tango in Paris", but others say that was a good film too. "A Streetcar Named Desire" & "The Godfather" were the early and late peaks though.

ER writes on Mar 19:I suspect Napoleon Complex.......... Don't get angry (again) with me CBD. Remember, I'm only 5' 6".

What was that all about ER? Why did you throw a ''fire bomb'' at me, eight days ago on Mar 19? I had no idea how tall you are until your strange comment on Mar 19. What was I supposedly angry about?

:previous:


I couldn't decide on just one:

https://giphy.com/explore/vintage-eye-roll


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Moving along to actual content--can anyone i.d. this house?

It's from Fast and Furious with Reginald Denny and Barbara Worth, 1927

HossC? FW?


https://i.postimg.cc/gjDBKVkP/Fast-Furioushouse2.jpg



It seems to belong to a Mr Smithfield (Claude Gillingwater)-- "525 Canyon Drive, Los Angeles"

https://i.postimg.cc/QNvC7C6V/fastfuriouscard-bmp.jpg



https://vimeo.com/390458385

Hmmmm, e_r . . . I see what I think are two different subspecies or varieties of Agave americana (or maybe they're two different species of Agave), a thin-stemmed cluster-flowering climbing rose which is most likely 'Dorothy Perkins', and a li'l palm tree which is likely Chaemarops humilis. A very characteristic heterogeneous So Cal garden of the time . . .

My Mom had polio as a child. She was a strong woman. She had a hard life.

http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/102...923/DFgMc0.jpg
I meant to thank you earlier, Bill.

If any newcomers are interested in the fascinating story of the 'Arcade Palm' (it's still alive!) go HERE ...(an excellent post by Flyingwedge)





P.S. Bill, your answer, Exposition Park, also tells us where this rppc was taken. (posted back in August of 2019)

http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/102...921/1488oJ.jpg
skyscraperpage #52456

These trains were no doubt in the parade shown at the top of this post.



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Hello friends! I hope everyone is keeping safe during these times. Anyone want to take a gander at trying to find the intersection of this photograph?

http://https://tessa.lapl.org/utils/...XT=&DMROTATE=0

https://tessa.lapl.org/cdm/ref/colle...otos/id/123277

https://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/6_foot_zone_2x.png

https://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/6_foot_zone_2x.png

Now "40 & 8" becomes "1 & 8"?

(Apropos of the American Legion pictures above)

Earl

The Woodward, 421 W. Eighth

We've had several NLA postings on The Woodward over the years; but I think most of the following is new...


https://i.postimg.cc/R03v0S5M/WoodwardHer10-5-07.jpg
LA Herald, 10/5/1907


https://i.postimg.cc/SsmC3HbW/WoodDinRm001.jpg
odinthor collection


https://i.postimg.cc/Pxfv2Z1y/WoodwardLAT2-28-12.jpg
LA Times, 2/28/1912


https://i.postimg.cc/nh8sNNvC/WoodwardLAT11-29-14.jpg
LA Times, 11/29/1914


https://i.postimg.cc/4xFmw4zc/Woodward-LAT11-14-26.jpg
LA Times, 11/14/1926

I mention a few old bricked-up windows and ER goes off on me. Meanwhile darling NLA members are talking about Covid-19, Polio, Spanish flu and ER says nothing. I guess past Pandemics are OK.

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When I happened upon these images of a 1960s car show in Los Angeles I immediately thought of the Pan Pacific Auditorium but now I'm not so sure.


https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/6...921/JTUNOg.jpg
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What do you do think?

#1
https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/1...924/eFomTb.jpg

It looks like KRLA is preparing to broadcast a show.

mmmm (licks lips) a snack bar.









This is the image that made me question my Pan-Pacific Auditorium theory. (note the letters 'ries' on the large building)

#2
https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/1...924/NQi9ba.jpg

Like the recent show room negatives I recently posted some of the images focus on Ramblers.





#3
https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/1...922/4JdKKX.jpg

Interesting models in this show. This attractive young lady looks rather beatnik-esque.










More Ramblers.

#4
https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/1...922/jItoHG.jpg

note the amusement ride on the far right side. - - - - >







One more glimpse inside.

#5
https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/1...923/Y8FWOE.jpg

Most definitely not a Rambler.

Does anyone recognize the logo with the marlin over a target? It seems vaguely familiar but then again, maybe not.

Not to sound sexist but the swimsuit girl is really cute.




[Update:...I just noticed this car also appears in the top photol.
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It is indeed a Rambler--a hot mess called the Marlin--hence the logo. Produced '65-'67 model years I think. (Some of these Ramblers look customized to some degree for the car show.)

What's with the sauna box?

:previous:

Friendly Rambler, whose wares are on display, was at 410 N Long Beach Boulevard in Compton. They used to offer customized cars "to your individual taste at no extra cost". The cars were known as Jim Fisk Specials after Friendly Rambler's owner.

A little more info in The Metropolitan Story.

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:previous:....Thanks guys.



And guess what. . .I just figured out the location!

https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/1...921/RGTZkb.jpg

...................................................................................................................................................PALLADIUMBURGERS!


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https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/8...924/Faj3on.jpg
https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/8...922/lK0pIa.jpg

Does anyone know Korean? :shrug:

Thanks for your help, Bill and FW. I appreciate it.

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The sign is partially blocked so it's difficult to read, I know a bit of Korean. I'll have my wife look at it, she's a native speaker. She might be able to figure it out.

ETA: She says it says "Welcome".

ETA2: The sign in the first pic above the door says "O.B. Saloon".

! I was rushing to put the location, but shoot, you beat me to it!

The picture is from the 4th Teenage Fair at the Hollywood Palladium which ran for a week from April 9th 1965.


The band on stage are The Challengers. They were the house band for the Fair.


Some other pictures from their stint at the Palladium that year.

https://i.imgur.com/Szym1h6.jpg
voxac100.org.uk


https://i.imgur.com/kyTnFRR.jpg
Facebook - Randy Nauert



You can actually go right back and listen to what they sounded like at the Teenage Fair in 1965.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IY0WGraraoY


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I found this...the caption reads in part "Photograph caption dated April 3, 1964...John Burroughs High School students compete at the Teen-Age Fair Cook-Off... tent-like pavilion.... The 1964 Teen-Age Fair was held at the Hollywood Palladium." An ad for The Broadway that ran in the LAT on March 27, 1964, referred to the '64 event as the third annual fair....

The canopies appear to be the same--the car show pics include a banner advertising '65 Ramblers, so (obvs) the car show was sometime during that model year.


https://i.postimg.cc/JnY20RZD/palladium-bmp.jpgLAPL

You've given me an earworm there, Noir_Noir. I knew the intro sounded familiar, but had to google the reason why. The original version of 'Count Me In' by Gary Lewis And The Playboys was sampled by Swedish singer Miss Li in her song 'Bourgeois Shangri-La'. It was used in the 2009 advertising campaign for the iPod Nano (how technology has changed).

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uA92YHrAR5o

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"Teen-Age Fair at the Hollywood Palladium in Los Angeles, 1966"

https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/1...921/O2cJ7h.jpg
ucla-islandia repository

If I'm not mistaken, the crazy girl without any shoes is the actress Catherine O'Hare. (Waiting For Guffman)





Let's take a closer look to see if it's her.

https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/1...924/vGDHrt.jpg
detail

LOL, if it's her. :lmao:







How about a game

Can anyone find the mom hiding in the shadows?

https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/6...922/EB5RXA.jpg
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. . .or the boy wearing a German helmet.

https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/xq90/924/jvdLXl.jpg
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LINK
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Sooooooooo y'all need to click this link right now

because

https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-_S7S7sOpC...uf2qn26408.jpg

https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-QYTEuRdzK...uf2qn26382.jpg

https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-eAsj_oWXe...uf2qn26363.jpg

https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-hRnQEofxH...uf2qn26384.jpg

and so on and so on and so on

4904 Huntington Drive South
 

Wow what a great trove of photos those are, Beaudry!

I picked one at random:

https://i.imgur.com/qes0wo6.jpg
(from Beaudry's link above)

What are the odds of this, 65+ years later?

https://i.imgur.com/s0wmGrw.jpg
GSV

Great find Beaudry! This one looks like an Edward Hopper painting.
Some interesting shots, and, oh, the smog!

https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/...366162ca_h.jpg

Great find, Prudent.


My favorite, complete with Country Squire--see also HossC's post 19585 of 2014

https://i.postimg.cc/T1BFJzNQ/pigeonholeimage.jpg



From the LAT--May 24, 1953
https://i.postimg.cc/x1jswTrh/pigeonlat1-bmp.jpghttps://i.postimg.cc/v8VHnbNJ/pigeon2-bmp.jpg



LAT--Nov 6, 1953
https://i.postimg.cc/3xnGdmSr/pigeon3-bmp.jpghttps://i.postimg.cc/XNdQX1wV/pigeon4-bmp.jpghttps://i.postimg.cc/wMRvTstv/pigeon5-UTTTT-bmp.jpg


Apparently demolished 1971

I like this one:

The hamburger stand with police car and red Ford (?) truck nearby...can't make out what the sign atop the place says.

The building behind is The Monterey and to the left, I believe a hardware store. Then the winding road into the hills.

https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-oBAfnwm8F...uf2qn26400.jpg

It's the Bark N Bite! Another sign for the Monterey Club is over to the left above the hardware store.

https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/...150235c7_o.png

trove
 

A bunch of those pictures were taken on or near Huntington Drive, e.g. the Cozy Corner which was at 3501 Monterey. Earl's Bark 'n' Bite was at 4592 Huntington Drive N.

Here's one I really like, back in DTLA. It's looking east on Winston from Los Angeles St. A hotel over a sheet metal factory. Zoning only in LA.

https://i.imgur.com/r160zq4.jpg

And the ominous kitteh photograph:

https://i.imgur.com/i56NqEp.jpg
was also at the Huntington Drive N/S area. The CDs have a Don Ballarini real estate business at 4834 Huntington Drive S.

As Beaudry says, the hamburger joint is called 'Bark n Bite'. This shot with the lumber yard shows the area to the left of the image above (compare the houses in the background).

https://i809.photobucket.com/albums/...tereyCafe1.jpg
serendipitism.blogspot.com

And this one shows the sign for the Monterey Cafe as well as the lumber yard. The sign is behind the pole on the right in the picture above.

https://i809.photobucket.com/albums/...tereyCafe2.jpg
serendipitism.blogspot.com

There are signs for 'Huntington Dr N' in several images (and I see that Lorendoc has given the addresses of two). This aerial from 1956 ties together the locations of the views above as well as a couple of the others. The street that passes Cozy Corner and Atlas Tires is Monterey Road, and the winding road is Edloft Avenue.

https://i809.photobucket.com/albums/...tereyCafe3.jpg
mil.library.ucsb.edu

more trove
 

ScottyB's Edward Hopper photo:

https://i.imgur.com/3ARTNVp.jpg
Beaudry's link above

amazingly still has the same font on the building's awning on S. Spring:

https://i.imgur.com/Cm4lljB.jpg
GSV

Once a parking lot, pretty much always a parking lot in DTLA.

:previous:

Same light-string too, except they moved it from the parking lot to the building frontage.

Thanks for the follow-up Lorendoc! Great to see the letters are still there, and I think you're right about the lights, odinthor.....what a lovely relic.

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First of all, I'd like to thank Beaudry for bringing our attention to this treasure trove of remarkable photographs.



I have a couple areas in this photograph that intrique me.

https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/1...921/PP4VkG.jpg


#1

https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/1...924/zjIvni.jpg
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I initially thought the sign was over the road (like a gate) but now I see that it's actually next to the road. Any idea what the sign says?
I'm also intrigued by the steps on the slope. Why do you think this spot was chosen for the steps. Is it a bus stop?

(there's a sign or a very LARGE mailbox at the top of the steps.





#2.....What, pray tell, is the tower with the [white] rounded top? To me it looks like a RADAR DOME.
If you look closely you can see the metal structure that holds it up. . but I can't decide if it's on top of the white building or behind it.

https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/1...923/I8QloJ.jpg
detail


I don't see it on the map that Hoss kindly labeled for us.

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A phone booth, with a phone and a handset?!

How old is this image? ;)

I’d like to guess that the thing that looks like a radar dome is a sign on the roof of the white building. It looks like it has an image of a person with a white apron. Sorry for my lack of ability to make a circle on the aerial, but I believe the white building with the sign is visible near the right center edge of the aerial. It looks like a building with lots of parking spaces around it, and you can see the semi-circular shadow of the sign. I’m unable to see the stairs in the aerial, but there is an abandoned railroad bed between lumber yard and Huntington Drive, so maybe it was freight and public transit at one time. Since the right of way is named after Huntington, that would make sense. For the period, it does seem odd that they would have discontinued that railroad, but I don’t see any tracks.

Thanks Beaudry and HossC for all that additional information!

Bark n Bite...LoL! I love the close up...you can see a customer or two in the joint. The aerial pinpointing the locations is great.

ScottyB, you are right about the photo's comparison to a Hopper painting. I love Hopper's work. FYI: Two of his paintings are recreated in the film Pennies from Heaven. One is the Nighthawks painting most people know, the other is this one which I saw in person once:

https://johngrecoblog.files.wordpres...pg?w=372&h=300

That's McDonnell's Restaurant at 4700 Huntington Dr South.

https://i809.photobucket.com/albums/...cDonnells1.jpg
serendipitism.blogspot.com

Here's a sugar wrapper (dated 1930).

https://i809.photobucket.com/albums/...cDonnells2.jpg
www.icollect247.com

And part of a menu.

https://i809.photobucket.com/albums/...cDonnells3.jpg
toliveanddinela.com

The restaurant is visible on the far right of the aerial I posted yesterday. It's at the center of the detail on the right below. I believe that the 1927 detail on the left below shows the "Old Bridge" mentioned on the menu above.

https://i809.photobucket.com/albums/...cDonnells4.jpg
mil.library.ucsb.edu/mil.library.ucsb.edu

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Oh my. . . :duh

What was I thinking?

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Nadeau, you've pretty much nailed #1. The abandoned railroad right-of-way (also quite visible in Hoss's aerial photo) was the trunk line that carried PE's Nothern District lines to Pasadena, Sierra Madre and Glendora. Rail passenger service here was discontinued 1951 due to the conversion of Aliso St. (where these lines entered DTLA) to full freeway standards. These photos were taken about four years later, so the rails and wire had been removed but the right-of-way was still intact. Much of it eventually was paved over to widen traffic lanes on Huntington Dr.

P.S., While I'm here, thanks to Beaudry for sharing a great find!

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mystery location.

I recently happened upon this snapshot on eBay.

It shows a lonely bus stop at the Los Angeles City Limit.

https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/1...922/AhPWb3.jpg
eBay

I've been trying to make out the name of the motor lodge but it's next to impossible.


Here's a closer look at the sign and, what looks like, a gas station.

https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/8...923/7KtoPm.jpg
detail

and there's no name of the mail box. (clues are sparse)





The fairly nice building on the right [top photo] might possibly be the main building to the motor lodge.

https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/1...921/0onRfi.jpg
detail

And as you can clearly see. . . the photograph was taken when the population of Los Angeles was only 1,808,579.

Does this area look familiar to anyone?

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:previous:

Well, I can't tell you where this was taken...but the population of the city in the 1950 US census was 1,970,358...so it may have been shot not long before that figure was arrived at (or until the sign was updated). Anyway, the car is a Mercury, either a '49 (intro in April 1948), a '50, or a '51, all of which used the same hood ornament. Here's one on a '51:

https://i.postimg.cc/65Rx45yV/51hood.jpg

:previous: Thanks GW. That's a start.





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When I first came across this amazing photograph I thought it was a hotel in Terre Haute, Indiana - when it fact - it is a photograph of the 'Terra Haute Hotel' in Los Angeles!

https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/1...923/HMgill.jpg
eBay

The long horizontal sign appears to have been white washed and it looks like the last word was "House" and not hotel. :shrug:

It also appears the hotel is for sale.




The seller included this. . .

https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/1...922/q45qKG.jpg
eBay

"Old Terra Haute Hotel on E. 1st St. in Los Angeles. Owned by my uncle Oscar & Grubb in the 1880s & 90s.
My youngest brother and cousins Florence & Oscar were all born there.

Ed, 1887

Florence, 1888

Oscar, 1890"


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:previous:


https://i.postimg.cc/MGsyWFK1/Terre-HLAT9-9-85.jpg
LA Times, 9/9/1885


https://i.postimg.cc/Njk6n03J/Terre-HLAT3-29-87e.jpg
LA Times, 3/29/1887


https://i.postimg.cc/T2BJLFj9/Terre-Hlacd1888.jpg
LA CD 1888


https://i.postimg.cc/hvQhRCf4/Terre-HHer3-20-05.jpg
LA Herald, 3/20/1905


This walk down First Street is interesting, and mentions the Terre Haute House in passing (sorry about the fragmentariness of the following):


https://i.postimg.cc/MZfyStkj/1st-St-Her3-1-89a.jpg

https://i.postimg.cc/bwgnTBn4/1st-St-Her3-1-89b.jpg

https://i.postimg.cc/mrrH6yNk/1st-St-Her3-1-89c.jpg

https://i.postimg.cc/zfPgmH0j/1st-St-Her3-1-89d.jpg
All the above fragments, LA Herald 3/1/1889

As to the Armstrong family mentioned in the above, methinks the writer got the given name of the pater familias wrong. According to my notes, there had indeed been a James Armstrong in old L.A.; but he was the commander of the Savannah out in San Pedro Bay during the Yankee onslaught in 1846. The head of the household with Pinky and Kate etc. however was Edward R. Armstrong, saloon keeper in L.A. in 1870 etc., born in New York ca. 1817.

:previous:

The 1886-1887 CD lists B H Harbert as proprietor of Terra Haute House at 125 & 127 E 1st Street. By 1888, Oscar E Grubb had taken over. He's still there in 1891, but the name has changed to Terra Haute Hotel and the address has become 227 E First Street. The last listing I found was 1895, when the name had reverted to Terra Haute House.

The 1887-1888 CD also lists the Terra Haute Dining Room (prop. E L Grubb) at 125 E First Street.

"Terre Haute House"

That explains the horizontal sign mystery. Mighty fine sleuthing, odinthor. :)

and thanks for the additional information, Hoss

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Golly! I thought the address 127 E. 1st seemed familiar! That was in due course the location of the other Poodle Dog restaurant, discussed in message 53180. A number of unsavory incidents (thefts, shopgirl being beaten by employer because she dared to ask for her pay, structure found unsafe) happened at that address over the years.

I carried on looking through the CDs, and found extra entries for Terra Haute House up until 1899 (for some reason they didn't show up in the search). Oscar E Grubb continues to be listed at 227 E 1st Street until 1906, but only as furnished rooms or lodgings - Terra Haute House is not mentioned.

In 1907, the Greater Los Angeles Hotel is listed at 227½ E 1st, while Oscar E Grubb has furnished rooms at 103 E 2nd Street.

I didn't search many CDs after this, but Oscar E Grubb turns up in the 1910 CD as an assembler at the Industrial Electric Co (815 S Spring Street) whilst residing in Ocean Park.

Would the elevation of 320 ft. be any sort of a clue to finding the location? I'm assuming it's feet.

I think this one

https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-AYO5rnrgS...uf2qn26377.jpg

is pretty cool, it's the Hotel Southland neon with the fins of the General Petroleum across the street.

https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-Ol9jdJluG...uf2qn26372.jpg

]https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/...260ede46_o.png

6th and St Paul

https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-jkX4vhdm8...uf2qn26358.jpg

See the neon sign behind Mike's Body and Fender? It says Pacific Dining Car.

https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/...67d93629_b.jpg

https://i.ebayimg.com/images/g/a6sAA...UWM/s-l400.jpg

:previous:

There's even a picture of the Teris Drug Co in the collection.

https://i809.photobucket.com/albums/...risDrugCo1.jpg
serendipitism.blogspot.com

My 2013 post on the Hotel Teris can be found here.