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I don't know the ingredients in Orange Bang, as it was an inferior Orange Julius ripoff that I tried a few times and never accepted. #OrangeJulius4Life |
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I returned to the sequence with the attractive blonde woman and she appears to be coming out of a home on the west side of Duquesne Blvd. (looking north toward Culver Blvd.) If I'm not mistaken, the building in the top right corner of Bristolian's screengrab is the back of the Culver Theater. (the theater faces Washington Blvd.) https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/6...921/e9ovMQ.jpg..https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/6...924/9j7Y7Q.jpg https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/1...922/zpMx4n.jpg GSV (note the 1960s - 70s police sign still in use hanging from the street llght) https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/6...922/UfLrNr.jpg..https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/6...922/xUz9JF.jpg You can clearly see the Culver Theater in the distance with its towering art- deco pylon. The other large building on the right, if I'm not mistaken, is the old Culver City City Hall. Let's have a closer look as Mr. Sporty McSportscar come barrelling down Duquesne. LOOK OUT, LADY! https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/1...924/JZe5Qq.jpg SCREEEEEECH! https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/1...921/VJrW0g.jpg Don't worry, she's fine. ...Baldwin Hills in the distance. . |
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As I was snooping around Culver City I happened upon, quite by accident, The Backstage Cocktail lounge! https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/1...924/wVEZGD.jpg Culver Blvd. and Motor Ave. If you remember - the Backstage was mentioned a few days ago. Quote:
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When did the "noir" era end?
I see few pics here after 1960, so maybe the 1950s? Most would agree the 1940s & 1950s are "noirish", the heyday of "noir" films. Fortunately many noirish buildings remain in L.A. Just walking down Broadway or Spring is a time journey to the 1920s.
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Drysdale's Dugout
When I was a kid in the Valley in the mid 1960s I remember a little dive sports bar owned by Dodger pitching great Don Drysdale--I think it was called Drysdale's Dugout or maybe Don's Dugout. Might have been in Van Nuys, perhaps on Oxnard St. Anybody have any pics or remember the place? I never went in because I was a kid & it looked like a bar. Maybe I should have. Maybe Don was behind the counter serving drinks, or so I imagined. Could have got his autograph--or maybe he would have told me to come back when I was 21. Big Don was a very good pitcher who didn't hesitate to brush back batters who crowded the plate. Don also was a pretty good batter, who sometimes was among the top home run hitters on the weak batting Dodger teams of the mid 1960s. They even used him as a pinch hitter a few times. The Dodgers of that era prospered by their one two three punch of Koufax-Drysdale-Osteen (Sutton was still learning). Their hitting was weak, although they did have base stealing legend Maury Wills who would bunt to first, steal second and third, and then get home on a fly ball. A run or two was usually good enough for Koufax and Drysdale. Koufax was the better pitcher, but the batters probably feared Drysdale more.
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I found the image below at upinthevalley.org. "It was not uncommon for players to take second jobs in the winter. Stars like Drysdale opened businesses. The Dugout, on Oxnard St., lasted until 1982." https://i809.photobucket.com/albums/...lesDugout1.jpg upinthevalley.org I also found matchbooks and menus giving an address of 14032 Oxnard St, Van Nuys, which is now Mariscos La Sirenita Mexican restaurant. I didn't find any images of the original restaurant. It looks like Don Drysdale also owned Don’s Dugout at 1701 E McFadden in Santa Ana. The references to that location seem to date from the '70s. BTW. The image above originates from the LAPL website, which dates it at May 25, 1962. You can see the original here. |
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My Trip to the Dugout
Back in the late 70s when I was working after school at an auto repair place, we were invited to a seminar put on by Champion Spark Plugs. It was followed by a prime rib dinner at DDD, held in a banquet room type of setting. I can't remember if the seminar was also held at the restaurant or if we went over there afterwards. As I recall, the dinner was very good and gratis to us. I wouldn't have remembered that it was in Van Nuys until now.
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Here's some additional information: "There's a reason Dear John's was Frank Sinatra's favorite steak house. The former actor, Johnny Harlowe opened Dear John's in 1962 with the financial backing from his pal, Frank Sinatra." "Johnny Harlowe was a Hollywood actor during the city’s golden age. He graced the big screen with the likes of Marilyn Monroe, Marlon Brando and Katharine Hepburn." KCET "In 1962, Johnny Harlowe made the jump from the silver screen to chef and owner of Dear John’s. Convinced by his pal Frank Sinatra, Johnny opened the iconic spot just a ways down from Sony Studios on Culver Blvd. It became the watering-hole for the Hollywood elite with Sinatra often in the corner playing the piano against the dark brick walls once lined with portraits of famous John’s."....DEARJOHN'S ________________________________________________________________________________________________ :previous: Frustratingly, I haven't been able to locate any additional information on Johnny Harlowe. . . .He isn't even listed at IMDB I thought he might have acted under a different name. but 'Johnny Harlowe' sure sounds like a screen name to me. And finally there's this. The restaurant was recently remodeled but there's a big. .sad, BUT attached. "Chefs Hans Rockenwagner and Josiah Citrin have restored the Culver City, California, restaurant to its glory days, but with a catch: The building is slated for demolition on April 1, 2021, to make way for new development.":gaah: Remodeled interior photographs at LA.EATER Additional article at BLOOMBERG And this ....CONSIDERABLE |
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Here's the Mexican restaurant that's there now (this is actually the 2016 view as the lighting is better). https://i809.photobucket.com/albums/...lesDugout2.jpg GSV The property websites give a build date of 1962, so it looks like it is the same building as Don Drysdale's Dugout. |
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Don's Dugout was indeed small(er) for it's first fifteen years. It had a sizeable slice added to it's left hand side in 1977 to increase the capacity. https://i.imgur.com/VNB0LRQ.jpg ladbsdoc.lacity.org |
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That must be the banquet room that I remember. The timing lines up. I know some know this already but what hasn't been mentioned here is that Don Drysdale was born in Van Nuys and attended Van Nuys High School where he happened to be a classmate of Robert Redford. He was staying close to home when he opened his establishment |
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Mystery location.
I happened upon this interesting photograph of Mishkon Tephilo members posing by the foundation of their future synagogue in Venice, California. https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/1...923/kFE07O.jpg jewishjournal This lettering appears when the mouse traveling over the pic.. https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/1...923/IqZmny.jpg Off in the distance, there is a sign that appears to say LICK PIER #1, a good sized apartment building named AD_HR _ _ I or D #2, and a railroad crossing #3. https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/1...923/nsDkh5.jpg detail I found two different addresses for Temple Mishkon Tephilo. 201 Main Street. (Front) HERE 201 Hampton Drive. (Back) HERE I thought I had solved the mystery using the Hampton Dr. address but as I was posting my findings my theory fell apart. :( . |
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Maybe the Admiral Apartments at 29 Navy Street in Venice? https://i.imgur.com/V2uOoFd.jpg GSV |
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The synagogue's architecture is Spartan Functional Military in style. "In 1940, the growing congregation raised funds and began excavating to build a bigger facility. But as World War II intensified, construction materials were diverted to the war effort, and the project halted. The hole in the ground yawned open for years. When the war ended, congregants were keen to resume building, but hiring an architect would be costly. So the synagogue’s then‐president asked his stepson, a returning Navy veteran, to take over the job. The young engineer had been a Seabee in the South Pacific, part of a construction battalion charged with building military bases to house the U.S. invasion forces. Could building a synagogue be so diff- erent? Turns out not — the Seabee dug through his old blueprints from the war and, with a few modifications, drew up a Spartan but functional plan. Mishkon’s downstairs social hall is easily recognizable as a standard mess hall and the sanctuary above it as a military base theater." https://www.mishkon.org/history |
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Might be time for a cautionary tale about judging straight-ahead distances when cruising about town in the Googlemobile. The lenses they employ are necessarily wide-angle, and that exaggerates apparent distances relative to most standard focal length camera lenses. Some of my searches here at NLA and also at the railway museum have forced me to learn (and re-learn and re-re-learn) this lesson the hard way. Please feel free to profit from my inexperience. |
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My memorable NoHoHS teachers from the late 1960s: Lyle Wolfe, history. Very funny but a very good teacher. Retired a few years later and opened a bed & breakfast in Vermont with his wife, just like that Newhart show! Looked like Jonathan Winters and did a pretty good imitation of him. Mr. Corbin, physics. His experiments were always fun. Mr. Kazanznak & Mr. Lerner, math (Lerner was a part timer who taught calculus and made it easy). Mr. Kennedy, biology Mr. Doucette, English. When you gave the right answer or said something clever he would shout "Good man!". As funny as Mr. Wolfe, made literature fun. Like Robin Williams' Mr. Keating in "Dead Poet's Society". He actually said "Carpe diem!" often, 20 years before DPS was released in 1989. Maybe he was the model for Mr. Keating, although the film was set in a northeastern prep school. Did you also go to Walter Reed Jr. HS? Lots of famous alum there. Great Middle School. |
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I'll admit, I came to be not particularly fond of him. He had a previous student named Kirk, who apparently was a real troublemaker. I guess I physically resembled Kirk, as it quickly became apparent that Mr. Kazanznak actually thought that I was Kirk. From the very first day I entered his classroom, Mr. Kazanznak would make it a point to harass and embarrass me in front of the entire homeroom class - all because he thought I was some guy named Kirk. He'd say things to me like “How are you going to screw up my class today, Kirk?” Sometimes he would greet me with “I know it's asking a lot, but try not to be a total jackass today, Kirk!” And when he'd give us a stack of papers to take one and pass the others back, he'd say “You think your simple mind can handle such a complex task, Kirk?” And then the entire class would laugh at me. I told him over and over again that I was NOT Kirk, but it never stuck. He'd mumble “oh yeah, sorry” - and three days later he'd start up with the “Kirk” insults again. I was a shy, quiet student who never made a peep, so I could never understand how Mr. Kazanznak could repeatedly mistake me for some loud rabble rouser/class disrupter. I complained about this to my counselor so many times that she finally switched me to another homeroom. Believe me, I rejoiced at her decision - it's not easy being in a class where the teacher routinely makes a public mockery out of you because he thinks you're somebody else. :no: My apologies for not having a more pleasant memory of the man, CaliNative. I know it sounds like I'm carrying a chip on my shoulder but honestly, I haven't even thought of this stuff for ten or twenty years. Quote:
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Mystery of "What's under the tent?"
I know that we have previously seen THIS photograph of the old RCA Victor Studios [1510 Vine Street] on NLA. But this photograph, taken around the same period of time (late 1950s?), shows a temporary tent set up on the front lawn. https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/1...923/2QU6yl.jpg rockandrollroadmap If you look closely, there are a group of boys men admiring, what appears to be, a futuristic airplane. (it might be a BELL X-1) https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/8...921/qcNwh7.jpg detail And, in front of the tent, there is a yellow banner advertising the radio show, Truth or Consequences. (1940 - 1957) I've been trying to figure out the connection between the mystery airplane and the radio show but I need some help. We can't ask this dude because he was on his cell phone and didn't notice the tent. ;) https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/8...924/WTeegn.jpg I tried to find the old post but the search word "victor" gave me over five pages of results. To narrow it down, I tried "rca victor" and received ZERO results. |
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Looks very much like the silhouette of one of those old school land speed record cars like the Blue Flame to me
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Two snippets from the Plane in a Bottle Mystery front. The Truth or Consequences banner in the picture has Jack Bailey as the host. His stint in that role ran from May 18, 1954, to Sept. 28, 1956. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Truth_or_Consequences Alison Martino in a post featuring the picture on Facebook, says the model plane in the bottle is a "Douglas D-558 early experimental supersonic test aircraft". Facebook - Vintage Los Angeles :shrug: |
Looks right for a D-558-II Skyrocket:
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I don't recall seeing this photo dated 1966 before:
https://hosting.photobucket.com/imag...080&fit=bounds www.reddit.com / VLA Facebook The Warner Theater is playing a film I'm not familiar with: An American Dream, based on a Norman Mailer novel. It starred Stuart Whitman and Janet Leigh, with Eleanor Parker, Barry Sullivan, Lloyd Nolan, Murray Hamilton and George Takei. It was apparently a huge flop, so much so that distributors re-titled the film See You in Hell, Darling. It was, however, nominated for a Best Song Oscar for "A Time for Love." Tony Bennett sings it on Andy Williams' show, 1966: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o1WX_LcATSw (And the winner was: Born Free.) I love the array of cars parked along the street. What is the red sporty one in front of Coffee Dan's? The banner hanging across the road (above KFWB and Aldo's) I can't read, except the top two words: National Treasures. |
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