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Can anyone fill in the background to this story? The car appears to be a 1950 Cadillac. The full photoset has six images, but I think these capture the important angles. No location is given - the images come from the Los Angeles Examiner Negatives Collection.
Car over cliff in police chase, 25 October 1951. http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...rashedCar1.jpg The incident drew a small crowd. http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...rashedCar2.jpg A close-up of the car. http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...rashedCar3.jpg All from USC Digital Library |
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Geez... they didn't even note her mom's real name (Lee Toy Wong). |
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Yes, thanks for leaving the photos, they are quite good! ___ Come to think of it, in the Mona Freeman photos...I noticed the machine in this photo has an Iowa license plate... Quote:
Maybe Mona Freeman wasn't at the Chinese Theatre. I just looked up on wikipedia a list by decade of Chinese Theatre Handprint Ceremonies and Mona Freeman is not listed. ??? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_o...int_ceremonies |
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Eddie Fisher made an "appearance" at my high school assembly in 1959 [Alhambra, CA] and got a very chilly reception. He was involved in several marital scandals at the time. I think he was even booed while on stage. I remember the girls were whispering and their eyes were rolling. [Actually there was no stage...he was just standing at one side of the lunch patio.] He was always a sleazy second rate personality. Greatness eluded him. |
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Also, the license plate in that photo is dated 1956, not when the seller says her Dad was in California. (1951-1953.) ___ HossC, the car over the cliff photos reminded me of the scene in The Postman Always Rings Twice when they try pushing the car down the cliff. I thought I could find a youtube video of that, but I haven't. It's one of the best scenes like that ever, the way the car slides down and tumbles with it's lights on. Quote:
I was watching am early first season Laugh-In episode with Cher in it a day ago and in the party segment she had a joke something like: "Who says Hollywood marriages don't last, there are a lot of them...Eddie Fisher and Liz Taylor. Eddie Fisher and Debbie Reynolds. Eddie Fisher and Connie Stevens... If you don't know who he is, here's an Oct 19, 1952, episode of What's My Line? where he is the "mystery guest" at 13:30. He signs in as PFC Eddie FIsher as he was in the military at the time. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CxOQpAd-YTw If you search youtube he was also on What's My Line? as the mystery guest with Debbie Reynolds on April 15, 1956, and by himself on March 25, 1962, and December 6, 1964. |
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Fascinating memory, but...greatness didn't elude him earlier in the decade.... "Mr. Fisher's clear dramatic singing voice brought him a devoted following of teenage girls in the early 1950s. He sold millions of records with 32 hit songs including "Thinking of You," "Any Time," "Oh, My Pa-Pa," "I'm Yours," "Wish You Were Here," "Lady of Spain" and "Count Your Blessings." --SFGate Those must have been some kinda uptight girls you were in school with-- that instead of being fascinated they rolled their eyes at the man who was marrying Elizabeth Taylor that year...was this a Catholic school? I guess not--what Catholic school would have invited such a notorious libertine, all that sex, divorcing Lil' Debbie, etc, on to its campus anyway? But maybe you were at some sort of western Putney. Anyway, I'd say Fisher must have been hard-up for gigs if his bookings were down to high schools...in Alhambra...but he would be doing ok for the next five years or so...at least until RB came along. Double dipping https://i.postimg.cc/7hK6sg4m/fisherlizdeb.jpgNYTimes And at Chasens the same year he slummed it in Alhambra.... https://i.postimg.cc/W1vNGW0T/fisherlizchasens.bmp.jpgUCLADL |
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[source: Warner Home Video] By the way...in another appearance on What's My Line, Debbie Reynolds as the "Mystery Guest" pretending to be Zsa Zsa Gabor is one of the funniest things I've ever seen. |
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Cheers, Earl |
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Okay, I'll try one more time with these ^#*?!% "Father on leave from Camp Pendleson" slides. 1951 - 1953. HOLLYWOOD, CALIFORNIA EBAY asking $249.99 https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/1...924/Kxl5uD.jpgEBAY NOT Iowa. The seller's father? https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/1...921/JPykDT.jpg EBAY (sold?) https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/1...922/9XxkIS.jpg EBAY asking $199.99 His buddy? https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/1...923/HO2496.jpg EBAY (sold?) same buddy https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/1...921/VegfK9.jpg EBAY (sold?) https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/1...922/vNtMK6.jpg EBAY asking $149.99 https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/1...922/g1vKJG.jpg EBAY (sold?) There's one more of the gate I'll post when I return to Lafayette. __ |
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EBAY asking $124.99 https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/1...922/lvOL3n.jpg Wilshire Theater, How to Marry A Millionaire [1953] |
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What I'm really waiting for is ER's comment on your efforts. Thanks again for the attention and deep thinking. Yeah, that bubble gum crooner was quite the lecher. |
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As Eddie sang it, Doug, "Thinking of You," "Any Time," "I'm Yours," "Wish You Were Here," and.... "Count Your Blessings." :love: |
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1928 - 2010 Looking for a port in any storm. Very much a fizzled and fading star. |
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My best guess is we're seeing an incident that happened at (or very near) Sacred Cove, just a bit south of Portuguese Bend. The road there is always very rough because the land is slowly but steadily sliding toward the ocean. Palos Verdes Drive is continually being patched in that area; if you check the satellite view of Google Maps you can see numerous patches made to the road. If there was a car chase happening, the Cadillac was likely driving much too fast to handle that very rough road, and the driver lost control. I've driven through there several times and I know how drastically one must slow down. Incidentally, Sacred Cove offered the only nude beach in Los Angeles County for many years. |
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No images were found with matching captionsIt never occurred to me to use the site to search for nude beaches, and I can't image the results would be that rewarding (I haven't checked), but each to their own! |
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