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https://i.imgur.com/Z0nmZjA.jpg The caption says this was the Ships on Overland in Culver City. The Ships I went to was the one on Olympic and La Cienega. Then there was Damiano Mr. Pizza on Fairfax, across the street from Canter's. I spent many a (drunken) night there. One of my girlfriends was a waitress there, and one of my best friends was a waiter. https://i.imgur.com/t7mo548.jpg And then there was Victoria Station, up where Universal Studios is (and was). Didn't they have some kind of funicular railway there? I was just a little kid the only time I went there... https://i.imgur.com/Rkr5Thi.jpg |
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The formality of peoples' attire up through the 1930's intrigues me. I have a photo of my grandmother and great-aunts from the 1920's at Venice Beach fully decked out in fox furs--and it wasn't winter. |
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I went to that Victoria Station a good deal. It had the virtue of being affordable as a special-occasion place. The food was good! But the "funicular railway" was nothing more than an elevator operating along an incline. |
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His first wife, Hattie, who he married in New York, apparently tried to kill him. They divorced while still in New York. He was a "physician" although it is not clear whether or not he was actually an MD. He was a proponent of "medical devices" such as things that supposedly cured ailments with methods like electric light. Google him and there is a picture. He died in Los Angeles in 1956 after having lived in Banning for a period of time. Altogether a colorful character, with lots of drama in his life. Google his name and read some very strange stuff. |
:previous: Two attempted murders in one generation of family! ...Good undercover work, oldstuff.
What have the rest of you minions been doing today? :superwhip...*wink* |
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Mystery tanks.
"Original Kodak Transparency/Slide, E Olympic Blvd FOUR TRACKS 9th Hooper 1950s." https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/1...921/S6Bl4f.jpg Ebay I pinpointed the location for you. (I'm 99.9% sure this is correct) https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/1...922/s0dWYt.jpg Google_Earth Now let's do a lower altitude flyby. https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/1...924/IH0A5y.jpg DETAIL re: The tanks Unless I am mistaken, these two tanks are too far south to be the L.A. Gas tanks up by the old 102 Brewery. The nearer one is definitely a gas-o-meter. https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/1...921/wwQhje.jpg but I am confused by tank number 2) in the distance.... Is this a gas-o-meter as well? I ask because I don't see the lattice frame work. Have we seen these two, particular, tanks before? . . .or have I just forgotten about them. ________________________________________________________________________________________ I can't let this go without pointing out the excellent looking corner Mobil Gas Station. https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/1...924/259m4H.jpg DETAIL The taller buildings in the background still stand. . |
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E.R. - Taking a stab at it: Since we are pretty close to the produce market here, I am guessing that the gas-o-meter in the foreground is this one, which BillinGlendaleCA says was at 7th and Alameda. https://i.postimg.cc/zvKdmNKD/Capture2.jpg The Postman Always Rings Twice, MGM, 1946 https://i.postimg.cc/L41Qgtwd/postman.jpg The Postman Always Rings Twice, MGM, 1946 I'm thinking then, that the gas-o-meter in the background would be over by the Brew 102. |
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I was mistaken, the presence of the gas station clearly shows up at Hooper/Long Beach and Olympic; I live in shame. I don't think the gas-o-meter is the Brunswick building either, but I still think it's not far east enough to be the gas-o-meters east of the Brew 102 complex. ETA: I'm thinking it might be the LA Cold storage building. It's definitely a building, it's got stuff on top. ETA2: Here's the relevant portion of the aerial(April 1960) from FrameFinder, the photo was taken just out of the frame at the left by the black mark at the left. There's a tall building just east of Alameda and north of 1st(currently LA Fire Engine 4) that might be a possibility... https://i.postimg.cc/QdYtf3Dd/Annota...-21-113017.jpgvia FrameFinder |
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I've eaten at all three of these places! A couple of times each at Damiano's (but the last time I had food from there was a pizza delivery) and Victoria Station. Over the years I ate several times at the Ship's on La Cienega (where a film titled Into the Night filmed scenes there) and less rarely at the Westwood location, where the L.A. Weekly always would spotlight "the worst waitress in Los Angeles" who worked there. I worked in Culver City from 1977-83 and during all that time was a regular at that Ship's. (Diagonally across the street from M-G-M Studios.) I must've tried nearly everything on the menu. My favorite thing was the clam chowder they served on Friday's only...it wasn't New England or Manhattan, but some kind of mixture of the two with a Mexican tinge to it. I also loved the brisket of beef sandwich and the turkey burger. The toasters at all the tables and the counters were a noted feature of these locations. One of the waitresses told me they had a customer (they eventually discovered who it was) that would alter the toasters so the bread would pop out of them high into the air. Quote:
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https://www.itsfilmedthere.com/2011/03/into-night.html This still of SHIP'S from the movie INTO THE NIGHT from the above link, isn't that interesting, but I thought a comment on the blog was interesting enough to post it. https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-C85LIrppX...Restaurant.JPG Comment: I was in this film, in the photo you have of Ships Restaurant. That's me, the blond haired guy on the left, with the blond haired girl seen through the door. This crane shot was the last scene filmed after a full evening of scenes with Jeff (Goldblum) & Michelle (Pfeiffer). Almost 6am. cheers... Guy Guden ( guyguden.blogspot.com ) _______________ P.S.: It seems Photobucket is screwing around again. A lot of missing photos once more. EXAMPLE: http://forum.skyscraperpage.com/show...ostcount=29964 |
Thanks for your help FredH & BillinGlendale.
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You're saying gas-o-meter #1 is this one, correct? [see below] https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/1...921/6CbaMf.jpg;)...ha ha DETAIL / full photo HERE But I don't see the gas station at Hooper/Long Beach and Olympic. Is it out-of-frame on the left? (is that what you were trying to say earlier?) ...and you think tank #2 isn't a tank at all, right? https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/8...921/wwQhje.jpg DETAIL/ Complete photo HERE hmmmm.....I thought it was round. .... Does it appear round to anyone else? . |
I ran across this nifty image of the 'space-age' Thrifty sign.... (the one visible in the flood pics from a few days ago)
https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/xq90/923/wupQqP.jpg BALDWIN HILLS / found in one of my old files Do any of you an-gel-leen-ohs who grew up in the area, remember the little bridge at the sign's legs. https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/1...924/1nBoRQ.jpg DETAIL just wonderin' . |
I saw this photograph and was intrigued by the wooden crenellations lining the 'balcony' above the front porch.
https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/1...924/whpAIp.jpg LAPL Apparently, there is no longer a Joy St. in Vernon. ...but I found a JOY KNITS on E. 30th St. https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/1...924/4Vr3y3.jpg GSV Do you think E. 30th Street might have been Joy Street at one point in time? :shrug: (this is, what one would call, a Shot in the Dark) . |
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Kodak Transparency MTA PACIFIC ELECTRIC No. 1804 WATTS LINE OLYMPIC BLVD 1950s https://i809.photobucket.com/albums/...icAlameda1.jpg Ebay I think the original location of "E Olympic Blvd FOUR TRACKS 9th Hooper 1950s" (circled below) is correct (as e_r and BillinGlendaleCA said), which means that it probably is the gasometer near Brew 102 in the background. The aerial below is from 1956. https://i809.photobucket.com/albums/...icAlameda2.jpg mil.library.ucsb.edu |
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I'm going to stick with my original guess that #2 is a gas-o-meter near the 102 brewery. I don't think there was anything else that tall in the area. https://i.postimg.cc/7hCLxKGw/Capture1.png |
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On the 1909 map below, A = Alameda Street, S = Santa Fe Avenue (where Vernon Avenue still jogs), and R = the Los Angeles River. https://i1165.photobucket.com/albums...pshykudskz.jpg 2006-0252b @ CA State Library |
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