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I had forgotten Forest Lawn Memorial Park used to be spelled out on a hillside.
http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/128...921/trLXNM.jpg detail from this http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/102...924/XGiT1n.jpg ebay Does anyone remember when it was like this? I believe that long line of trees at far right is the property line. __ |
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Nah, nothing about the photo. The building info given is: Biedler-Heuer Building 2701-2705 Main St 1922 Joseph F Rhodes, architect Designated 2012 Joseph F Rhodes seems to have mostly built houses, from modest bungalows to homes on large lots in historic styles. P.S. Excellent, informative article from the Santa Monica Mirror is here SM Conservancy's bit on the Biedler-Heuer Building is here: https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/rL...PrQ=w1366-h768 sm conservancy What is the blue street furniture? I get the bus stop w/ the hat, but what's w/ the single chair? (Wolfgang Puck’s Chinois on Main banquet facility is in the two southern bays w/ the restaurant next door to the south): https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/2j...qRQ=w1366-h768 gsv .................................................................. A couple of the gents in one of your Iowa picnic pics are sporting spectator shoes :-) . |
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https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/Hl...jqU=w1366-h768 wildflower.org There's a patch of Agave attenuata over the road from me, but I've never seen them bloom in the more than 20 years I've been here: https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/aV...ToY=w1366-h768 gsv |
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The old codger (who looks like the actor who played the angel Clarence in "A Wonderful Life", but probably isn't) is probably thinking one of 2 things (or maybe both)--"Oh you are so young and beautiful--I wish I were young again so I could make a pass at you" or "You are so young and beautiful now, but old age approaches even you. One day you will be old like me". And the long departed old coot was right--now she is old, if she is still with us. A challange to the detectives here--who was she and what became of her? If someone can find out, I'd be very impressed. H.L. Mencken right before his stroke--"I am rusting rapidly now". Mencken thought aging was basically oxidation (or "rusting") or failure to repair oxidation damage, and as it turns out, he was probably right. Hence the current vogue for "anti-oxidants". "Age and treachery (and oxidation) defeat youth and talent" "In the end, we're all food for worms"--Zorba "Gather yee rosebuds why yee may.." Shakespeare? I'm not sure. Or was it Mr. Keating in "Dead Poet's Society"? |
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It's been a while since we've had a Carl Maston design from Julius Shulman. This is "Job 4329: Carl Maston, Interstate Electronics (Anaheim, Calif.), 1968". There was a slightly closer view of the building, but I left it out because this one shows the landscaping too.
http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...1.jpg~original Here are the external steps seen in the image above. http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...2.jpg~original I'm not sure why all these seats are facing the parking garage. http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...3.jpg~original I think that this is the top of the atrium. I've omitted a couple of similar images. http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...4.jpg~original All from Getty Research Institute The building is difficult to see from the road, but it's still part of the L-3 Interstate Electronics complex at 602 E Vermont Avenue, Anaheim. http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...5.jpg~original Google Maps |
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I like Agaves, and I've grown a good number of species of Agaves from seed to bloom, all the way from miniature species to pretty big 'uns. If the plants are coddled--good ground, a nice amount of water, intelligent conversation on subjects of interest--they'll bloom within a dozen years; but if they're in challenging conditions as they'd see in the wild, they'd pout and not bloom until they get a sufficiency of what they crave, making it seem as if one has to wait a century until they bloom. Is it poignant that they're once-bloomers (monocarpic)? After they bloom and set seed, the specific plant that bloomed dies (though some form offsets [you can call 'em "pups" if you like] and so the offsets endure). And this is what makes them something to consider carefully before putting in the garden: You might end up having to dig out a dead clump of prickly, tough Agave leaves with a 25-foot bloom stalk . . . which ain't fun, lemme tell you. |
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Actually, the McBurney house is seen through-out the film "Angel's Flight: (and maybe even some interiors). I'm going to keep my screenshots small/medium because the print of the film on YouTube is abysmal (grainy...blurry...fuzzy... Towards the beginning of the film the landlady sees a murder victim on one of the benches down below and screams from an upper window in the McBurney house. http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/640...921/jDxWfO.jpg victim http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/640...921/ylAkcF.jpg Lodger "Liz" sneaks in the back-way of the McBurney house (actual interior?) http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/640...922/rfkpEg.jpg # # # Later in the film, lodger Liz stares out her bedroom window in the McBurney house. http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/640...923/6Gahnp.jpg Here's what she sees (I'm not sure if this is actually what she would have seen from that vantage point) -we're looking west here, right? http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/800...924/ZjAT98.png And then the view fades to NIGHT. http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/800...924/9PWnOF.jpg :previous: The bright horizontal building in the distance caught my eye.(the first floor appears to blink) Anyone know what building that would be?? If you want to watch this cool fade-to-black scene on the video, it occurs at 26:26) # # # I believe this might be the interior of the McBurney house as well. http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/640...923/WSKtId.jpg front porch McBurney / man comes running out http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/640...921/lljOx2.jpg # # # I believe they also filmed inside the old B.P.O.E. (Elks) building at the top of Angels Flight.(at Olive & Third) http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/640...922/d2z4QT.png http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/640...921/a6JNDp.jpg out the front door http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/640...924/smEO6w.jpg advertising various amenities in the old BPOE. http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/640...922/xUcx9F.jpg Later in the film, he sees 'Liz' out of his upstairs window in the BPOE. (he's looking for his lighter ;), then he sees her) http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/640...922/LCrUpv.jpg (that's Liz in the white dress in front of Angels Flight Cafe............................:previous: then the film cuts to Liz. -his window in the BPOE is visible behind her (I've circled the one I think he's in) http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/640...924/5VVqP3.jpg He comes running out to help Liz http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/800...923/yRsLKl.jpg I've avoided giving away spoilers. _ You can watch the complete film here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=81HvMHetMJg It has a catchy theme song too! _ |
One more tid-bit about Angel's Flight (1965)
There's a great scene with Rhue McClanahan playing a very fiesty floozie. http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/800...924/VThrqz.jpg the brawl pours into the street (in front of an unnamed bar) http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/800...924/Eazmdx.jpg here's her credit http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/640...922/xNucah.jpg Rhue's scene is 44:44 __ |
Thanks for that. Now I have to watch it. Interesting that a film from as late as 1965 has such a thoroughly late-40s look to it.
Edit: Just checked IMDB and apparently this is the only movie where her name is spelled "Rhue"(probably just a mistake). |
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Paramount Studio - Melrose Ave., Hollywood.
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:previous: Thanks so much Beaudry. I wouldn't have figured it out in a hundred years. ;)
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Thanks again Beaudry. One more quick question if you don't mind.
Towards the end of the movie the two leads park near the bottom of Angels Flight. The word ELEVATOR is painted on the cement wall. http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/640...923/G4RuQB.jpg What elevator would this be?? __ |
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