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Golden-era Hollywood versus Disney’s Hollywood Studios – a side-by-side comparison
I don't know if anybody's done this before but I've just returned from a trip to Walt Disney World and was so struck by the recreation of iconic LA buildings at Disney's Hollywood Studios that I worked up a blog with side-by-side comparisons like this:
https://martinturnbull.com/wp-conten...2018/09/12.jpg and this https://martinturnbull.com/wp-conten...2018/09/13.jpg There are 14 side-by-sides in all and you can see them here https://martinturnbull.wordpress.com...de-comparison/ |
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It was certainly well prepared and presented as was the spectacular view. The new towers, as this one was, were supposed to be in the south of the City Hall but that did not happen....they were built north and west of Civic Center. |
Hah! Proof! Proof, I tells ya, that the old steamer pier at Avalon had a rail system at one time:
https://i.postimg.cc/pybNKhjB/Cat_Rails.jpg From book Chicago Cubs Baseball on Catalina Island, by Jim Vitti, 2010. https://i.postimg.cc/CK0YCSm8/Steamer-Pier.jpg odinthor collection |
:previous: Good find odinthor!
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And here is the Seibu rooftop restaurant/cafe that I mentioned earlier today. https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/1...924/m8CMuR.jpg As you can see...the restaurant appears to be 'floating' above a Japanese pond. If anyone is interested, you can see more images of Seibu at NLA post #6277 from Jan. 31, 2012. _ |
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odinthor's photo of the baggage rails on the pier in Avalon reminded me of a few more Catalina pics I uploaded on imageshack.
https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/1...921/dcjzyj.jpgebay I'm almost certain that I've never seen this place before. (note the fish-shaped boats lined up) So was this odd looking place located? from the inside cover of this souvenir foto-folder. [date unknown] https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/6...921/1Yj4lH.jpghttps://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/6...923/PPHOOE.jpg ARNO'S SEAFOOD GROTTO / CATALINA ISLAND _ |
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https://farm2.staticflickr.com/1910/...e0c55356_b.jpger_mystery_20180927_01 by BillinGlendaleCA, on Flickr https://farm2.staticflickr.com/1965/...2be58158_b.jpger_mystery_20180927_02 by BillinGlendaleCA, on Flickr ETA: And here's the aerial view from 1952, you can see the building in the center of the pic. https://farm2.staticflickr.com/1927/...c4230e19_b.jpger_mystery_20180927_03 by BillinGlendaleCA, on Flickr |
One of the cops says the killer lives in Chavez ravine toward the end of the movie, 1 hr 9-10 min. |
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http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...aCarlotta1.jpg I think the Disney one is based on the Baine Building at the corner of Hollywood Boulevard and Whitney Avenue. Quote:
http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...eBuilding1.jpg GSV |
1922 Santa Catalina Island
Vintage Snapshot Avalon 1922 Santa Catalina Island
https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com...aae8b7337f.jpg |
Happy 99th Anniversary to Musso and Frank Grill, originally named Frank’s Café when it first opened on September 27, 1919.
https://robertarood.files.wordpress....rank-bb-lg.jpg I wonder when they dropped the S from Frank? |
As promised, here are some more images from Julius Shulman's 1965 photoset "Job 3876: William L. Pereira and Associates, Occidental Center". The set includes some great shots of the exterior, but they don't add much new to the thread. I wonder how many of these features remain. I'll start with this large theater.
http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...5.jpg~original I'm guessing that this is a dining area, although I can't see a food counter. http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...6.jpg~original Here's a very fancy-looking boardroom. http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...7.jpg~original And a more modest meeting room. http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...8.jpg~original There are a couple of pictures of this garden taken from level with the base which made me think it might be the Japanese garden, but then I found this elevated view. http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...9.jpg~original A lower angle shows the three pools flowing into each other. http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...0.jpg~original The garden continued along this tiled area. http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...1.jpg~original These are the walkways above. http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...2.jpg~original The elevator lobby looks quite plain when compared to examples like the Richfield Building. Of course, the Richfield was torn down three years after these photos were taken. http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...3.jpg~original I'll finish with this one which appears to show the bar area leading to the restaurant which started the recent discussion of this building. http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...4.jpg~original All from Getty Research Institute |
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The 'shed' is the engine house, the frame thingy is a turntable. The common description of that type was "Gallows" The LA&I was absorbed by the SP LA&I built a pier, about where the present pier is. SP built up the coast and then built tits "Mammoth Wharf' around 4200 ft out into the ocean along side a submarine ridge and canyon. As there was almost no coal in California, SP imported coal for Southern California operations from Australia and Vancouver Island. SP had essentially built and equipped the Esquimalt and Nanaimo for Mr Dunsmuir to ship coal. Oil development in the late 1890s doomed SP's use of coal for locomotive fuel in So CA before 1905 [ um, or so] SP lost the Harbor Fight to San Pedro and turned the former LA&I line to Los Angeles Pacific for electric operation. The outer end of the wharf was lopped off, SP stopped accepting freight ca 1910. The route became known as the PE 'Airline' much of which is now an LRT route |
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I don't mind that the park(s) copy those buildings, but they sure are a nuisance when you're trying to picture search the originals! |
. In the top photo below you can see two people walking on those white rectangles in the fountain. Did they want people to do that?Quote:
In the above photo, the second white rectangle in the fountain seems to have an indented square shape in the center. (?) Nice post, HossC! |
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I don't know what the indented square is/was, but the two people also show up on this color photo that I omitted earlier. Note that there also seems to be an indented square in the white rectangle in the top pool. Is it just me, or do the top two pools look like massive cell phones (ignoring the fountains)? http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...5.jpg~original Getty Research Institute |
:previous: I had no idea the Occidental Center was such a masterpiece of mid-century architecture. Thank you for the Shulman photographs Hoss.
How much of this was lost in the most recent renovation? Did they, at least, keep this stunning 'atrium'? p.s. the fountains look like strategically placed iphones. |
Occidental Center neighbor
This caught my eye.
https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/8...922/FiPptH.jpg detail from this Shulman photograph Is it a support for a large sign (now gone) or a remnant of an old radio tower? :shrug: __ |
Here are a group of slides taken from a moving car back in 1958.
"5 orig 1958 35mm Anscochrome slides - Car driving on freeway in los Angeles" #1 (this is my favorite) https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/1...921/dACrnD.jpg EBAY/sold The car straight ahead appears to have several dead bodies in the trunk. [wink ;)] #2 https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/1...923/tRyzzb.jpg EBAY/sold #3 https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/1...923/63jQaz.jpg #4 https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/1...921/Hn4MKw.jpg :previous: Gas-O-Meter sighting! #5 https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/xq90/922/vgV3zK.jpg EBAY dead bodies car again] A CLOSER LOOK #5 https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/xq90/922/5CeebT.jpg |
Arno's Fish Grotto
https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/8...921/dcjzyj.jpg
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I happened upon another photograph (very similar to the first). -but LARGER :) https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/1...923/rIF16a.jpg flickr All the little fish-shaped boats are missing. __ |
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