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I wonder why I can never seem to locate the building permits? I'll have to try it again. |
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The only clue I can offer is that at the top center of the photo there are two blade signs. The one on the right has the word AMERICA in it. Possibly a Bank of America? |
JeffDiego, thanks for the further details in the saga of Charles Orin Dorsett aka Paul Ivar Wharton or even Ivandorf Moransky!
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LILY: "The ads would say: It's not a cream. It's not a lotion. It's not a spray. I used to wonder, what is it?" So Aileen said, "There was no shooting. There was no love triangle. So now I wonder, what was it?" :) |
As you can see, the job title of this Julius Shulman photoset calls the subject the "Huggine-Burton Building". I'm wondering if that should be the "Huggins-Burton Building". This is "Job 1529: Huggine-Burton Building, 1953". Try as I might, I can't read the name over CARROUSEL on the left, although, given the title, the second word could be "Burton".
http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...1.jpg~original A view of the rear. http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...2.jpg~original All from Getty Research Institute Huggins Shoes was at 400 South Lake Avenue in Pasadena. According to an article at sgvtribune.com, Huggins Shoes became Rangoni Firenze Shoes in 1985. The article also indicates that the store was closing at the end of 2014, and even includes a picture of everything in boxes, but the GSV images appear to show it open in 2015. http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...3.jpg~original GSV The rear of the shoe store has been extended (the other side of the building looks like the Shulman picture), so I was surprised to see the Huggins name still facing Shoppers Lane. http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...4.jpg~original GSV |
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Some snooping around on the internet tells me that Gene Burton's Carrousel was credited at times for supplying clothes to Harriet Nelson for "The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet." According to a year 2000 California Historical Resources look into whether this location deserved National Historic Register status, these things were noted: Though this building appears ineligible for the National Register, it does appear eligible for local designation, due to its unaltered "late" International Style design and for its association with the post World War II commercialization of South Lake Avenue. The building was erected in 1950 as a retail store for Jo Henderson, who also acted as his own builder. The Henderson family still owns the building. Higgins Shoes was the first tenant of 400 South Lake Avenue and has remained there for almost 50 years. As of 1953, the tenant of 396 South Lake Avenue was The Carrousel (now Drapers), a women's clothing store owned by Gene Burton (a well known Pasadena retail entrepreneur from the 1950's through the 1980's). According to the Pasadena Star-News, January 28, 1951, the architect, H. Roy Kelley, felt that the shopping experience began on the street and that a storefront should entice the shopper inside by creating a lobby-like effect that permitted browsing before one actually entered the store. Hence, the use of "floating" display cases in the front. Further, the surviving scripted font signage on the building, HUGGINS and Drapers, is characteristic of early 1950's commercial uses. The exterior of the building has not changed since it was constructed. This was from a PDF file I downloaded that came up when I Googled "Gene Burton Carrousel." Note: Wondering about this line--According to the Pasadena Star-News, January 28, 1951, the architect, H. Roy Kelley, felt that the shopping experience began on the street and that a storefront should entice the shopper inside by creating a lobby-like effect that permitted browsing before one actually entered the store. Hence, the use of "floating" display cases in the front--these noted display cases are in HossC's current GSV image, but they aren't in Shulman's 1953 photos, even though the architect had talked about them in 1951. __________ Why the two R's in Carrousel, I don't know, but I do find it annoying! Heh! http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/carrousel On the Merriam-Webster site it says that "carrousel" is a variant of carousel and also--Popularity: Bottom 40% of words. (No doubt!) |
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I wonder when these elements were added to the facade?* They should have left well enough alone. (see Hoss's Shulman photo) (especially if the original panels are marble) __ *I just realized the window boxes are the "floating display cases". (mentioned in the description Martin Pal found) -so now I'm confused too. I thought they were talking about the four street level cases in the entrance way. To be honest, I thought the two glass boxes embedded into the facade were probably added back in the 1990s. |
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I thought I had pretty much seen all of Rev. Aimee Semple McPherson's photographs, until I happened upon this one late last night.
http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/xq90/921/acZDqg.jpg http://www.npr.org/templates/story/s...toryId=9248328 Here she is dressed as a motorcycle cop for a sermon entitled "Arrested for Speeding." -International Church of the Foursquare Gospel _____________________________________ So many outfits!! ....with all the role playing....I think she might have had a kinky streak. |
Aimee as a Dutch girl.
http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/102...922/PXPfwq.jpg http://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-30148022 Like I said.......... __ |
Lon McAllister & Wm. Eythe
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Thanks again, Ethereal, for digging up these photos. Richard Lamparski says that when he socialized with McAllister in the 70's and later years, Lon occasionally mentioned things he and "Bill" had done but didn't share personal information about their relationship - or about his feelings when Eythe "impulsively" married "Fox starlet and model Buff Cobb" in 1947, the same year the "difficult" Eythe was let go by Fox. The marriage lasted less than a year and Cobb stated that Eythe had hit her. McAllister was also a Fox contract player, although he was loaned out to United Artists in 1947 to make the atmospheric cult noir "The Red House." As an example of movie magazine silliness, here's a quote from 1947 about that handsome " All-American boy next door:" "If you yearn silently for Lon McAllister, here's your chance, girls; seems Lon's looking for a lassie to call his own. But there's a catch to it, he tells us. 'She must be willing to stay home every night except Saturday. I work all week and that's the only night I can make whoopie.'" No doubt similar quotes were attributed to Van Johnson, Raymond Burr, Tom Drake et al. Upon Eythe's death in 1957, The Associated Press obituary stated "With him when he died was his close friend, former movie actor Lon McAllister, with whom he had been producing travel films." |
:previous: Thanks....very interesting details JeffDiego.
__ I happened across this fine example of an art deco building quite by accident. http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/128...921/wsmfnw.jpg gsv It's the former Whittier Ice Cream Company (detail below) http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/102...924/HBCBMI.jpg The building is located on the corner of Hadley St & Hoover Ave near an old railway line (the diagonal swath next door ) http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/102...923/ej1w1f.jpg google_aerial I'm unsure what railway this would have been. Here's the state of the building back in 2009.....looking quite neglected. http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/102...921/2BSbX1.jpg gsv Frustratingly, I was unable to find any vintage photographs. (when the ice cream company was thriving) __ |
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:previous: Not included in this "related" collection, but worth a look see.;) https://www.flickr.com/photos/ozfan2...57615083323640 E.g., Greenleaf Ave. http://oac.cdlib.org/ark:/13030/kt2000230b/d3e10975http://oac.cdlib.org/ark:/13030/kt2000230b/d3e10975 Greenleaf Ave. http://oac.cdlib.org/ark:/13030/kt938nd6rr/d3e4083http://oac.cdlib.org/ark:/13030/kt938nd6rr/d3e4083 and Whittier Sanitary Dairy http://oac.cdlib.org/ark:/13030/kt6w1029ch/d3e10776http://oac.cdlib.org/ark:/13030/kt6w1029ch/d3e10776 |
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William Eythe at the Beverly Wilshire Hotel.
http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/128...922/bD0EUu.jpg https://www.flickr.com/photos/276104...in/dateposted/ Richard at flickr wrote: "This is a really interesting photo of the Opening Night at the old Beverly Wilshire Hotel's luxurious new restaurant / drugstore, called Milton F. Kreiss. (We always called it just plain "MFK"). I believe that's the owner / operator at left. The memories that come-back of the times we hung-out there as kids! All we kids from Beverly Hills High would go there on the weekends, and you saw EVERYBODY from Warren Beatty to Woody Allen to "Swifty" Lazzar in there -- but I never saw William Eythe! This is from the mid-40's -- and Bill is just the shining image of "celebrity" here, isn't he? The lady with Bill is unknown -- but would it be safe to say she's a bit "Theatrical"? ______________ I have no idea who that woman is either. .....but is this 'Mel Cooley" in the background? http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/800...921/EwyRaZ.jpg detail Beside trying to figure out who the woman is, I was also curious about that torso shaped bottle. (a viewer on flickr says it's "a gigantic bottle of Schiaparelli's "Shocking"!) which led me to this..... http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/102...924/XzI8Af.jpg http://thriftfabulous.typepad.com/.a...1e1c959970b-pi The guy in the ad looks a bit like William Eythe:previous:;) __ For some reason it's difficult to find any photographs of the Milton F. Kreis that was located in the Beverly Wilshire Hotel. I'm hoping one of you will have better luck in finding one. |
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http://i1104.photobucket.com/albums/...psegouqvyu.jpg gsv Which in turn puts me in mind of its interesting and quietly handsome neighbor to the north (which has on one side an old wall-sign "Bay Hotel"). http://i1104.photobucket.com/albums/...ps8xludqet.jpg gsv That row of continuous windows fascinates me, and I've parked across the street studying it for twenty minutes at a time, long enough that I would get furtive and wary glances from the people inside. I wonder how it was accoutered when new...? [Edit, to add some historical data:] Built 1924, architects Dedrick & Bobbe. |
Thanks for digging out the information on Gene Burton's Carrousel, Martin Pal.
------------- We're only going back 31 years for today's Julius Shulman post. This is "Job 6315: Patriotic Hall, 1985". http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...1.jpg~original The set includes these two interior pictures. http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...2.jpg~original http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...3.jpg~original All from Getty Research Institute I was going to say that the building still looks the same, but there have been a couple of minor changes at the front. Bob Hope's name has been added above "Patriotic Hall", and the street number now appears on the wall next to the entrance. While looking through the historic GSV images, I found this one of construction workers hard at it in 2012 :). http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...4.jpg~original GSV |
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