I'm going to guess that this is the southwest corner of W Olympic and S La Brea. The 1960 CD has Pop's Hot Dog Stand at 1001 S La Brea Avenue, Brady's Appliance Co at 1009 S La Brea Avenue and Bud Seiger's La Mirror Olympic La Brea Florist at 5300 W Olympic Boulevard. I can't match any of the current buildings to the vintage shot.

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Just to clear things up, the building in Venice was the Hotel Antler (singular).

The card posted by odinthor if for the Hotel Antlers on the corner of 4th and Clay Streets.

Looks like White King on the billboard above the Hotel Antler.

We talked about this a few weeks ago.

From BifRayRock's secret source, I guess! :)

Just curious...care to elaborate on the subject of your pilot?

1994, just after the Northridge Earthquake.

http://scedc.caltech.edu/graphics/si...ridge1994m.jpgKen Fowler

I thought I'd be able to find a better photograph, but this is the only one that I located.

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We've seen this larger picture before.

I would like to thank the Frolic Room and my manager and the academy . . .

More alleged Frolic history: http://www.drunkenhistory.com/bar-tr...oom-travelogue :cheers:


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LA is a City of Secrets
 

Thanks for the reply, Martin. The network I am writing this for would murdalize me if I gave away the pilot details but suffice to say it's very noirish and set in the 1930s. I am also one of the producers of the new Robert Downey Jr. version of "Perry Mason" which is very, very noir and set in the 30s. It's being written by Nic Pizzolatto, who created "True Detective," one of the best detective series I have ever seen on television. NLA is a never ending font of information and I marvel at the ability of the folks on here who can pinpoint a location from a mere fragment of a building in a photograph. That's why we love this group and all of your august and arcane knowledge.

And I STILL want to know what pool I can dive in to see the totality of the Life photo collection.

Thank you bifrayrock
 

You, sir, are a gentleman and a scholar. I will follow your lead.

Thank you for the advice! :runaway:

Looking for a specific subject is not always that easy since few sources are perfectly catalogued and even the best descriptions can vary. This includes most if not all libraries and digital libraries. It helps if sources are listed too.



More from Life including a link in that post. http://forum.skyscraperpage.com/show...ostcount=35807 http://images.google.com/hosted/life...a7a59562d.html



On that score, can anyone shed some light on these interesting structures from :previous: source?

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Nice Cord.
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Today's Julius Shulman post comes from Lakewood. It's "Job 1437: Kanner and Mayer, Lakewood Building (Lakewood, Calif.), 1953". The larger May Co building is in the background.

http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...1.jpg~original

There was a Woolworth's at the other end of the block.

http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...2.jpg~original

A look around the back. The area on the right would get more stores shortly afterwards, but it's looking a bit untidy here.

http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...3.jpg~original

Due to the number of storefront shots, I decided to post them in a smaller size and in pairs. I left out the interior images. Here's Bond Clothes and Leed's QualiCraft Shoes.

http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...4.jpg~original

Hartfields appears to be another clothing store. I like the slogan of Kay Jewelers - "it's OK to owe KAY".

http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...5.jpg~original

The last indivual shots show Rhodes Jewelers, Choates Bakery, Curries Ice Cream and Lee's Department Store. Note the five skylights above the gap between the stores.

http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...6.jpg~original

All from Getty Research Institute

I also found this 1952 image of the opening ceremony.

"Another unit of specialty stores between Butler Brothers and the May Company opened on October 3, 1952. Shoppers thronged the 17 new stores that included Bond Clothes, Lee’s Department Store, Leed’s shoes, Harfield’s Jewelers, Woolworth’s, Sav-On Drugs, and Kay Jewelers. National chains were initially reluctant to open a new store so far from the traditional downtown streets where they had been located for decades. Lakewood Center’s instant popularity help change the face of retailing throughout California and the West."

http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...7.jpg~original
lakewood-ca.smugmug.com

I've studied the historic aerial photos, and I think that the original buildings are behind the more recent (and uglier) façades. The five skylights are still visible. The May Co building is now Macy's.

http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...8.jpg~original
Google Maps

Noirishers will like to linger on the thought that there was another branch of Clifton's Cafeteria at Lakewood Center. That place was very dear to me; and I was literally stunned when one day, after it chanced I hadn't been there for about a year, I parked to eat there and the familiar Clifton's sign wasn't where it should have been!!! Bah. The location had a somewhat dim basement "lounge"--basically a restroom foyer with pay phones and plastic plants. Probably the idea was to get people who wanted to have a phone conversation away from the clatter of the plates and glassware in the dining area (as well as to get the sound of flushing away from the diners). The wooden stairs would squeak as you trod on them; and, in the close atmosphere in the foyer, there was always a smell of vinyl from the upholstery of the couches along the wall. Upstairs, in the dining area, for a long time they'd have a live organist playing off and on to entertain the customers. My earliest memory of the place--when I was quite young indeed--was that my family brought me there on my birthday, for which such occasions they'd provide a free cake with the celebrant's name on it. They brought the cake, and . . . it had the name of some unknown girl on it. There's a good side to that incident, though, as my therapists have benefited from it for decades. :koko:

I'm sure we've seen this photo before:

http://i1381.photobucket.com/albums/...pslw0ruaph.jpg


Here's our girl ready for her close-up, from the avant-garde 1960 film "The Savage Eye":

http://i1381.photobucket.com/albums/...psubslkrjk.png


Another still from the same film. In this one you get a partial view of the pole signage for the Marquis restaurant (see my post on that building on pg. 1827). Also visible is the House of Jazz/The Body Shop building.

http://i1381.photobucket.com/albums/...psjynxzsff.jpg


In this shot the film's protagonist, played by Barbara Baxley, is leaving Hollywood for the airport:

http://i1381.photobucket.com/albums/...psqybtb4ib.jpg


The film was done in a semi-documentary style, with voice over "beat" type poetry recited by Gary Merrill...the entire picture is not online but here's a clip:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZcECPAdQ_fw


And the cowgirl as reimagined for the film version of Gore Vidal's "Myra Breckenridge"

http://i1381.photobucket.com/albums/...psxhlrjjuv.jpg

'mystery' location #1

"Franilla Ice Cream, Feb. 15, 1956"

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www.alamy.com

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This billboard pic is a mystery location, but it's interesting none-the-less.

"Forest Lawn billboard, Hollywood and Vine 1950s"

http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/128...924/B9qAVG.jpg
www.alamy.com

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Gads, I love the Cotton Exchange. Harrison Albright's work is always splendid, so refined and elegant; this building's 1984 demolition by the CRA underscores my pet theory that 1984 was the nadir of American culture.

Funny we should mention Foreman & Clark. I wouldn't necessarily say I "collect" hangers, but I always grab 'em when I see 'em. This one I picked up Friday night.

https://c1.staticflickr.com/1/751/33...d2bee6cb_b.jpg

The other F&C here:

http://jpg2.lapl.org/pics18/00018577.jpglapl

Just out of curiosity, when did the cocktail glass (shown in the shot above) go missing from the Frolic Room sign? It's on the drawing accompanying the 1948 permit for the sign.