Originally Posted by ethereal_reality (Post 10062174)

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Here's a rare cabinet card from Sunbeam Studio of Chinese-American children....Dated Feb. 20, 1898.

https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/1...923/FbgICp.jpg
eBay

Thankfully there is writing on the back.

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


hmm. . ."Puck's Children" ...Does anyone have any idea who Puck is? I looked through some old city directories and didn't find much.

And if they are Pucks children why do they have different last names? :shrug:


Do I ask too many question?

Originally Posted by ethereal_reality (Post 10062174)

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Here's a rare cabinet card from Sunbeam Studio of Chinese-American children....Dated Feb. 20, 1898.

https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/1...923/FbgICp.jpg
eBay

Thankfully there is writing on the back.

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


hmm. . ."Puck's Children" ...Does anyone have any idea who Puck is? I looked through some old city directories and didn't find much.

And if they are Pucks children why do they have different last names? :shrug:


Do I ask too many question?

Originally Posted by Scott Charles (Post 10062519)

In Chinese names, the surname comes first, to show respect for one's ancestors. As such, names are formatted like this:

Mr. Jagger Mick
Mr. Bowie David
Mr. Lennon John

So with Mr. Chen Puck, Chen is quite likely the surname.

Also, Chinese names tend to have three parts, such as:

Chow Yun-fat
Chan Kong-sang (Jackie Chan)
Lee Jun-fan (Bruce Lee)

... so it's possible that the kids' two-part names on the back of the photo are simply leaving off the surname (meaning they all share the surname of Chen).

To be clear, this is all just speculation on my part...

Originally Posted by Scott Charles (Post 10062519)

... so it's possible that the kids' two-part names on the back of the photo are simply leaving off the surname (meaning they all share the surname of Chen).
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Originally Posted by rick m (Post 10062632)

Charles Puck's Los Angeles photos are held in Huntington's collections-- a contemporary of Chas. Pierce--- Many Fort Hills and Chinatown images---

Originally Posted by Noircitydame (Post 7339885)

The Sunset Inn in your ad of 1921 E-R must be the one on the pier that had been Nat Goodwin's cafe, opened May 30, 1913. Lawyer Paul W. Schneck (partner of Baron Long) took it over,
keeping the Goodwin name.

http://i281.photobucket.com/albums/k...obelle/nat.jpg file

http://i281.photobucket.com/albums/k...atinterior.jpg file

http://i281.photobucket.com/albums/k...mar%201917.jpg reference to Santa Monica's new no-dancing-in-cafes-that-serve-alcohol ordinance, Mar 1917. lat


Baron Long had a cafe called Sunset Inn in Santa Monica at the same time; it lost it's liquor license in Apr 1917, then he went in with Schneck and Nat's was renamed Sunset Inn. It closed for good after the summer season 1923 and the Fotoplayer's Frolic frolicking was transfered to the Plantation in Culver City. As a side note, Paul was the layer in the Madelynne Obenchin murder case, defended D.A. Asa Keyes in his bribery trial and represented Winnie Ruth Judd in her trunk murder trial. The old Nat Goodwin's/Sunset Inn was demolished in 1926.

Originally Posted by ethereal_reality (Post 10064079)

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Thanks for your help nealburke, Scott Charles and rick m.




I haven't been able to find Charles Puck's photographs at the Huntington Library. Do you have a specific link, rick m?



But I did find other photographs that we've seen on NLA in the past.

Like this 1888 view of Chinatown, Los Angeles.

https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/1...923/GYeApD.jpg
Link

Holy Moly. Amazing!

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Originally Posted by ethereal_reality (Post 10064648)

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:previous:...Thanks for answering my question, rick m. ..I never thought about going to the library and seeing the photographs in person.




Refresh my memory, noirishers. ..Have we seen Judge Silent's home on NLA?

I ask because I just happened upon this amazing photograph on eBay.


https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/1...922/i1oRsg.jpg
eBay Link


Would I be correct if I said the house was located at the corner of Adams and Figueroa?

https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/6...922/jVDTd4.jpg
LAPL / 1886-7

No mention of a judge.


Thanks for the juicy information on Nat Goodwin's home, odinthor and GaylordWilshire.
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Originally Posted by BDiH (Post 10061808)

Originally Posted by ethereal_reality (Post 10058174)

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While I was scoping out the area around the Russian Orthodox Church at 5433 Fountain Ave. I couldn't help but notice this mysterious area a block or so northwest of the church.


As you can see it is bordered by Fernwood Ave., St. Andrews Pl and De Longpre Ave. That's Western Ave. on the right - - - - - >

https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/1...924/sgii7l.jpg
GSV aerial

Does anyone know what we're looking at? :shrug:

If he works for the church I wonder why they don't let him park in the parking lot?
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Originally Posted by HossC (Post 10057390)

I think it says something like:

I WORK FOR CHURCH
NO MONEY
NO GAS
NO JOB
NO FOOD
NO TICKET
PLEASE
KNOCK
ON DOOR

Originally Posted by jhuxld (Post 10064711)

Hey there! Well, I have already been in every nook and cranny there is over the years. All the way up to the roof of the fly gallery, the Fly grid, and yes (in reply to another poster about the basement) — I have been to the basement not much to see there. The basement is only just below the Palms. So storage and old offices.

If you have been there in recent years, I am the one responsible for much of the decor from the remodel 12 years ago. The Hieronymus Bosch wallpaper, and the Lobby lighting (I'm very proud of how that turned out) You can blame that all on me ( ͡~ ͜ʖ ͡°)

Originally Posted by nealberke (Post 10065610)

If it were me, I would have added this to the list on the motor home windshield:
NO PHONE
NO POOL
NO PETS
I AIN'T GOT NO CIGARETTES