Yes, I've come to that conclusion.

London Britches and Jambi's the same year 1979.

https://i.imgur.com/tjOKF4F.jpg
hollywoodphotographs.com


Six years earlier those Britches had caught fire.

https://i.imgur.com/ZnHtS2u.jpg
hollywoodphotographs.com

I thought it might've been Elton John.

Thank you Noir Noir. That's such a great photo.


BELOW: for a minimum purchase you received this poster at ea. London Britches location.

from Los Angeles Times WEST magazine. December 13, 1970.
https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/1...921/NeBCoH.jpg
ADSAUSAGE

I had no idea there were so many locations!


"with Fortrel" :shrug:

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http://hollywoodphotographs.com/photos/lrg/HB-527.jpg
hollywopodphotographs.com

c.1978-79 it was Ernesto's Pizza House Italian restaurant.

(Two movies on the marquee were released in 1978 and one in 1979.)

Also pictured: Chic Look, Hollywood Barber College and The Gold Cup.

I noticed that, too.

1940s Photo Album Pacifc Palisades, Santa Monica WWII

#1
https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/1...924/HoT4mz.jpg
EBAY (no longer listed)

This might show the top of the stairs that used to go down to Roosevelt Highway.

What ya'll think? :shrug:







#2
https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/1...924/oa5Pc3.jpg

Is that a sandbar in the distance, or am I seeing things?
I thought the dark structure in the center of the photograph was some sort of defensive installation.

but on closer inspection I see that there's writing on a three-sided banner.
https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/8...921/WeSxsf.jpg

Now I'm thinking 'SNACK BAR'








#3
https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/1...924/jEdHma.jpg

There's that 'sandbar' again. (hmmm..are those fake boats?) Were sandbars installed along the west coast as defensive measures during WWII?

I believe the small writing on the right says BATH House (I'm certain about BATH, but not sure of the second)

https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/8...924/JXGaYA.png
DETAIL







#4
https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/1...924/moj5Ug.jpg

The large tudor-esque home is either L.B. Mayer's home or Irving Thalburg & Norma Shearer's home. (I mix them up all the time)






#5
https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/xq90/922/TMxRnQ.jpg

I wonder if the photographer(s) stayed at the Shangri-La Hotel? :photographer:snap!








#6
https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/xq90/923/nLvrc8.jpg


Here we have three military men posing at Sunset and Vine.







Last, but not least.....a mystery highway.

#7
https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/1...924/PgngT4.jpg

I have no idea where this might be. -on the far right you can see a water tower.
and it appears the convoy just drove under a R.R. bridge.





THE END
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All are from this
https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/6...922/0WWRRt.jpg
https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/6...924/x19Rb0.jpg

I didn't see one photograph from Beverly Hills

Thanks Martin. :)



Ernesto's showed up in an episode of the The Rockford Files' in 1978.

https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/1...921/kj8gkw.jpg
episode: DWARF IN A HELIUM HAY [1978]

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Photo looks inbound (compass WNW) on the Arroyo Seco Parkway from Ave. 64. The railroad bridge then carried the ATSF mainline from Union Station into South Pasadena and points east. In somewhat reconstructed form, it's now the Metro Gold Line to Azusa.

Definitely not Beverly Hills, e-r!

Agree 100%.

Yeah; the sign says World Famous Egyptian but apparently not famous enough to stop from defacing the front of it. Just my thought. I'm glad it looks better now.

:previous: You're right Tikiman! Ernesto's storefront looks so different I didn't realize it was part of the theater.

After completing this post. I've decided I'm......WRONG. *sad*

Ernesto's Pizzaeria was located in the part of the theater that forms the left side of the Egyptian courtyard. (it had slipped my mind)

https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/1...923/luC2xB.jpg
google earth

hmmm...or was Ernesto's the storefront to the left of the arrow?



Let's look at this photo from the Rockford Files more time.

https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/6...921/kj8gkw.jpg
ROCKFORD FILES

In this 1966 pic you can see space between the buildings.

https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/6...921/UPowfN.png

So maybe that isn't the Ernesto's sign :shrug:

This post is a mess. Can you tell I haven't had my coffee?










I'll be right back.
https://imageshack.com/a/img922/4359/srLfH9.gif
giphy

*wipes coffee from mouth*

Here's an amazing photoograph of a very young Mary Astor posing in a field of dahlias.

https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/xq90/921/tcrxbA.jpg
old file / date unknown

I wonder if the publicity department found this field near Hollywood or someplace in the San Fernendo Valley? (I sure do wonder alot ;))

Oh, and young Mary looks just like a 2nd cousin of mine.



p.s. I checked with odinthor to make sure the flowers were dahlias.

Heh, E_R, I was just quoting your post above that you altered as I was quoting it and the photo I was going to mention something about has disappeared!

:previous: (e_r's post)

We work hard to make NLA the most botanically responsible L.A. blog! :cheers:

Sorry about that Martin. I changed my post about 4 times!. I was confused. (still am)

Here's another photo of WWII servicemen at NBC I saw not too long ago...

https://farm5.static.flickr.com/4524...ae4c775d_b.jpgFlickr


I also came across some pages of a WWII photo album recently, although it's inaccurately titled as WWI at the source.

Johnny & Wesley's Leave in Hollywood...

Here are 4 of the album pages:

"A DAY IN HOLLYWOOD CALIFORNIA"
"Mrs. Darrell (sic) Zanuck, movie producer's wife, invited the boys to her home.
(I wonder how you got an invitation?)

In these photos are Johnny & Wesley with Mrs. Zanuck at their home which was located at 546 Palisades Beach Road Santa Monica, CA (90402).
Per the caption, Darryl Zanuck was in London at the time.

https://c1.staticflickr.com/5/4189/3...6bdd6666_b.jpg


In these photos, Johnny and Wesley are with Norma Shearer.

https://c1.staticflickr.com/5/4173/3...59081b37_b.jpg


These three photos show Wesley at the Chinese Theatre (talking!), with a tank and a group waiting for a train at Union Station.

https://c1.staticflickr.com/5/4175/3...bee47e37_b.jpg

(Another photo in the album shows the film playing at the Chinese Theatre at the time to be the Abbott & Costello movie Rio Rita, released in April of 1942.)


This last group has the boys at the Zanuck's with some "girls who work as movie extras", Earl Carroll's nightclub and we end up back at NBC Radio City where we started.

https://c1.staticflickr.com/5/4188/3...90130783_b.jpg

The 4 photo album pages (12 photos) I didn't picture are of the two boys in various areas in and around the
Zanuck's house and two of the Chinese Theatre forecourt.

Link HERE.

Martin Pal:

"A DAY IN HOLLYWOOD CALIFORNIA"
"Mrs. Darrell (sic) Zanuck, movie producer's wife, invited the boys to her home.
(I wonder how you got an invitation?)

In these photos are Johnny & Wesley with Mrs. Zanuck at their home which was located at 546 Palisades Beach Road Santa Monica, CA (90402).
Per the caption, Darryl Zanuck was in London at the time.

+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++


Darryl Zanuck is overseas on military duty in 1942.

His bored, lonely wife invites a squad of Marines to their Santa Monica home for a pool party.

Interesting.

:previous:

LOL!

"Uh, Mrs. Zanuck, your husband's on the phone..." :runaway:

The beach photo with boats looks like the area just north of the Santa Monica pier. A lot of those houses have been replaced with modern ones but in the background, there was a breakwater/pier where small boats docked. You can still see the remnants at low tide.