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Nice work Lorendoc. :)

The block in the picture is a little east of your GSV.

The Gourmets Pantry, Dr. Komm's and Lou's Jewelers building has been replaced by one dating from 1978.

All the other buildings from 2401 to 2465 including the old Valley Theatre one are survivors from the 1912-15 period.


https://i.imgur.com/8RB3FGL.jpg
GSV

History repeats itself:

https://www.latimes.com/california/s...wn-on-speeding

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Another mystery location.


Chicago Cafe, Los Angeles 1937

https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/1...922/Dusgma.jpg
yesterdaysprints.tumblr



The "Chicago Cafe" is mentioned in only one directory. (shown below)

https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/6...921/g9Q8xQ.jpg
LAPL / 1930

But it's one of those circumstances where it's listed simply as a person's place of employment. .... . .so frustrating. :no:

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Although it doesn't show up in the search, the Chicago Cafe in the 1930 CD was at 517 E 10th Street (it's under Restaurants and Lunch Rooms at the back). I also found a Chicago Chop Suey Cafe at 1733 N Highland Avenue in the mid-1930s. The one in the picture above seems to have the number 209½ to the right of the door, and I can find any likely candidates at that address.

He didn't have far to walk to work. The Chicago Cafe, at 209 1/2 E. 5th street was one of many bars denied liquor licenses due to B girls, according to the LAT of 2/4/38.

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The 1937 CD just lists the restaurant at 209½ E 5th Street under the name Alex Cushner, and the 1938 CD lists it under the name Norman Ness. No wonder we couldn't find the Chicago Cafe in the CDs.

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Who should get into this but--mirabile dictu--Victor Ponet, whom NLA has discussed before ("Ponet Door," etc.)?


He obtained a license to build the structure the Chicago Cafe was at length in:

https://i.postimg.cc/3R2LgDT9/Chicago-LAT10-9-04.jpg
LA Times, 10/9/1904


In due course, he died and willed it:

https://i.postimg.cc/SRXTcZxs/Chicago-LAT2-19-14.jpg
LA Times 2/19/1914


Totally honest and upstanding transactions could take place at that address:

https://i.postimg.cc/CLRqXpZp/Chicago-Her8-6-1917.jpg
LA Herald, 8/6/1917


The address of the Chicago Cafe was, at least temporarily, a residence:

https://i.postimg.cc/GtrXzh3R/Chicago-LAT11-9-17.jpg
LA Times, 11/9/1917


Is part of Ponet's building still standing, masked by this? Maybe . . .

https://i.postimg.cc/fywvm25T/Chicago-GSV.jpg
gsv

Lowered, chopped and channeled and that thing could be pretty cool. As a salvage in 1950, it probably could have been had for pennies. I believe it's a 1949 Nash. At least it's a 2 door.

I'm searching the used cars lists right now. As a customized car it might be worth several hundred thousand dollars or much more!. I want to get one before people catch on and beat me to it.....wow. Thanks for the tip Bristolian....I will keep everyone informed with photos.

''Ernie'' at a local junk yard says he thinks he has several '49 Nash cars in his back lot in San Pedro [2000+ cars and old buses].

From Quora: Many years ago, like the 1940s, it was a thing the Sicillian mafia allegedly did to warn someone that if they did not stop what they were doing or leave town they would “sleep with the fishes”… as in they would be kidnapped, tortured, murdered, and their body would we weighted down and tossed off a boat. They have not done that in a VERY long time. Maybe they never did it and it was just a silly urban legend. But that is what some people *think* it means.

http://latimesphoto.files.wordpress....tsjapan970.jpg

Hope that this isn't straying too far from this forum's mission, but have narrowed my search down to one location for this photo.

I believe that the insignia on the "WELCOME" sign represent, in their respective order: Military Police Corps; Corps of Engineers; Signal Corps; Quartermaster Corps (?); and the Ordnance Corps.

While some of these units were also present at the Tokorozawa Ordnance Depot at Saitama (site of Japan's first air base, and where Mitsubishi built the Zero), they all were based at the US Army General Depot in Sagamihara, Japan (where Mitsubishi built tanks). (In 1966, all technical units and functions at Tokorozawa were transferred to Sagami Depot.)

Have been unable to locate a photo, circa 1960, to confirm my suspicions.

https://www.globalsecurity.org/milit...gami-depot.htm

https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/1...922/Dusgma.jpg

We have seen the location of the Chicago Cafe at NLA years ago in a mystery location post by e_r with a response by me and by HossC. Here is the location 25 years before the first photo (at bottom left):

http://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/62...912/UVmDzV.jpg

Per the LADBS, the Ponet building was demolished in 1970. The current crud structures date from 1989 according to the county assessor.

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'Mystery' saloon.

"Craps game inside a saloon, Los Angeles, 1898."

https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/1...921/iOk9dC.jpg
yesterdayprint

I love the sign: ..."These Dice Guaranteed To Be Square."


There are a few clues in this photograph. If you look beneath the 'dice' sign there is another, larger, sign that says Lemp's.

I was hoping Lemp's was the name of the bar but that would have been too easy.

Lemp's is a beer made in St. Louis.

According to past directories, there was only one bar that mentions Lemp's in their ad.

In 1883 - 1884 directory it was the Teutonia Saloon at 108 W. 1st St.

https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/6...922/l6D9KM.jpg
LAPL



In 1886 - 1887 it was a bar / saloon at 24 N. Main St. owned by Jacob Adloff.

https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/6...922/bLGRSY.jpg
LAPL



A stab in the dark:

I thought the owner of the mystery saloon might have also been a taxidermist. . .
so I checked to see if Jack Adloff was also a taxidermist. ...as far as I could tell, he wasn't.



Here's a closer look.

https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/1...924/y5wDiO.jpg

I'm puzzled by the taxidermied animals. To me they look like dogs with little heads but the long tail makes me think mountain lion.


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How about the New Vienna Buffet, e_r?


https://i.postimg.cc/k48VPskW/Vienna-Her10-10-1893.jpg
LA Herald, October 10, 1893


https://i.postimg.cc/0j0bbQ5Q/Vienna...Spring-p33.jpg
from p. 33 of book Eternal Spring Street: Los Angeles Architectural Reincarnation

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Excellent find(s) odinthor.

The name 'New Vienna Buffet' connotes a more wholesome environment (than say a bar or saloon) when in fact that is not the case.

The place was huge. If I'm comprehending the articles correctly the space was once a 1,200 seat theater. The room shown in the mystery photo
was probably one of the 'back rooms' (as mentioned in odinthor's article) hidden from the general public.
On the left in the photo you can see a transom or a window hidden behind a wooden partition. The built up area on the right, with the taxidermied animals,
is a complete mystery to me. Is the dark area behind the animals a window? :shrug:


From 1888.

https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/6...921/4YvNJe.jpg
los angeles herald dec. 17, 1888

A "family resort"

. . .or a front for illicit activities. (?)


Of course it's still just a theory that the room in the photo was at the Vienna Buffet.
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The Herald of April 11, 1914, considered it attractive. I'm not so sure. But could it still stand? Hoss? FW?


https://i.postimg.cc/vZJFS8yR/brentwood1-bmp.jpg

https://i.postimg.cc/3WMSKNxm/brentwood2-bmp.jpg

Not that I'm aware and I live nearby.

Here's an exterior:

https://i.postimg.cc/tTzFcPYq/Vienna-LAPL00068498.jpg
Detail from LAPL #00068498, southeast corner of Court and Spring, dated 1896.

Marion Davies
 

Fascinating insight into the challenges faced by Marion Davies, due in large part to her relationship with William Randolph Hearst, and the insinuation that her role in "Citizen Kane" was not portrayal, but reality.

https://allthatsinteresting.com/word...-palladium.jpg

https://allthatsinteresting.com/marion-davies

Hi jtown. Thanks for the post.

"and the insinuation that her role in "Citizen Kane" was not portrayal, but reality."

I'm a bit confused by how this is worded, jtown.

Ms. Davies wasn't in Citizen Kane. Dorothy Comingore played the part that was supposedly based on Marion Davies.


Citizen Kane spoiler below:

One of the more salacious rumors was that 'Rosebud', the name of young Mr. Kane's sled, was a pet name Hearst used to describe Marion's. . ummm. . This

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Does anyone know why Marion is wearing a uniform?

She was famous for her elaborate costume parties at San Simeon but in jtown's photo she's the only person dressed up
& it appears she and Mr. Hearst are entering a hotel or theater lobby.


And this is curious:

Ms. Davies also had studio portraits taken of her(self) in this uniform.

https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/1...922/rykv3c.jpg
historyforsale

By the way. . this photograph, with her signature, is for sale. Asking price: $595.00 dollars.


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