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There have naturally been dozens of posts about the Garden of Allah (née the Garden of Alla). But before there was the West Hollywood incarnation--there seems to have been a couple of others. On Sept 4, 1921, the Times ran a item about an elaborate "novel café" by that name to be built on Western Avenue between Marathon and Melrose, pic & article below.... I didn't dig into whether it ever got built. But my big question has to do with the Garden of Allah Hotel that occupied the Hook-Holliday house at 1386 W Adams at the sec corner of Vermont from 1921 or so until 1926--the year Alla Nazimova began putting together her G of Alla, which had its opening in Jan 1927. The Adams Street G of A became the Adams Hotel for a few years before the house was demolished by Cecil B. De Mille--he bought the corner as an investment and built a very good-looking store building on the site that lasted until 1985 (see below).
Dinner for 100 of your closest friends at Romanoffs or Perinos and a lifetime pass to Mocambo if anyone can find an image of the house that traction magnate William S. Hook and his wife Mary built at 1386 W Adams 1900-02. Locke & Munsell (predecessor of Hudson & Munsell) may have been the architects. It wasn't a small or inconspicuous house--but I've looked high and low for something, anything, photo, drawing, but no luck. HossC? Flyingwedge? The Hook-Hollidayhouse/Garden of Allah Hotel is on the lower right corner near center image from 1928): https://i.postimg.cc/bwZQdvKg/WAD138...ialsmaller.jpg UCSB aerials The De Mille store building sec Adams & Vermont January 1932: https://i.postimg.cc/3xtwvCHQ/WAD138...ams-Vt-bmp.jpg USCDL Times, Sept 4, 1921 re the possible Western Ave G of A: https://i.postimg.cc/sD4Tr15N/Garden...1921-1-bmp.jpg https://i.postimg.cc/NM8HH2Gh/Garden...mplarticle.jpg |
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Is this what you're looking for (the Hook house on W. Adams)? https://i.postimg.cc/T2gMMqGB/Hook8-23-25.jpg LA Times 8/23/1925, via ProQuest, via CSULB Library |
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Well, no, but thank you odinthor. That is Wm. S. Hook Jr.'s house. He bought 2155 West Adams and moved it a block east to become 2055 West Adams at St. Andrews--remodeling the building extensively. His parents lived at 1386 West Adams, which is my quarry.
My stories on 2155 and 2055, in the process of being updated: 2155: https://adamsboulevardlosangeles.blo...ease-also.html 2055--the one in your picture: https://adamsboulevardlosangeles.blo...ease-also.html Quote:
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Looks like the Edward Hopper painting "Nighthawks", but set in an L.A. drive-in instead of a lonely diner in some unidentified eastern U.S. city. |
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Have we had another angle on the building in the background of the above postcard? https://i.postimg.cc/mgV2QJwG/1319-S...Her-3-1-15.jpg LA Herald 3/1/1915 https://i.postimg.cc/WzMstH3C/1319-S...Her-3-1-15.jpg LA Herald 3/1/1915 |
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Here's another snapshot taken that same day in March of 1952. ...........................................................................................Note the man pretending to be a hood ornament. (I didn't notice him at first) https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/1...924/8mBEF3.jpg . . .from the LINK Noir Noir provided us. "My dad, Alwin Twitchell, is the 'hood ornament' in the this photograph. The story was that 'Madman Muntz' had the car painted and the car was about to be returned to his used car lot. Price was like $1995 or so. photos are dated march 1952. No idea what number car it is... or its color." from mrspeedyyt Here's all I've got, folks. Could the Safeway in this photograph [below] be the same Safeway in the Tucker pics? https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/1...924/SEPA8p.jpg old post / ethereal_reality North Hollywood Station....Safeway on Lankershim.....Looking East (?) I guess it would depend on ....a couple things. umm... like...when Red Car service stopped. and..umm ...I forgot the second thing. The photos make me wonder how many Safeway stores were/are located in North Hollywood. Could this have been the only Safeway location within North Hollywood. :shrug: . |
A mystery.
rppc Los Angeles house. ...Postmark 1939. https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/1...924/yk8Udc.jpg ebay I thought someone here on NLA might recognize this Los Angeles home because of its highly unusual full circle porch opening. I really don't like it....It reminds me of a giant gloryhole. :uhh:...(Did I just say that out loud?) . |
This snapshot might not compared with Aunt Dorothy's Tucker but it's interesting, nonetheless.
https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/1...924/NM6Wp7.jpg old file / found on eBay. "Alicia and beautiful Ethereal (aw shucks :coolugh: . . .Its first Trip." (somewhere in Los Angeles) . |
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Yes, looking east. You can see the Verdugo Mountains above Burbank through the haze/smog. This pic location might have been along Chandler St. (the crossing diagonal street might be Lankershim), where one of the the rail lines was. Now used for the Orange line busway. The redline subway now ends near here, in the NoHo "arts district". Safeways were pretty common in the Valley & elsewhere in SoCal through the 1960s. I remember several locations in the Valley when I was growing up. Sometime in the 1970s, the brand went away in SoCal. I believe some were converted to Vons. Luckys stores were also starting to appear in the 1970s (later coverted to Albertson's). Ralphs stores (now owned by Kroger) were also common. Does anybody know if L.A. ever had Piggly Wiggly stores? Common in the southeast. Piggly Wiggly was the first supermarket chain I believe. Proto-Costco type stores were also present in the 1960s--things like Fedmart. Akron stores were also around in the 1960s. Sold a lot of cheap imported stuff. Woolworth and Grant dime stores were still around, but getting a bit dated. Thrifty drugstores and Thriftymart general stores were everywhere too. Sears was still the #1 department store back then. Now look at it. How times change. VW beetles started to be commonly seen around 1960. By the late 1960s, the beetle was probably the most common car in So Cal., or at least in the top 5. In the 1970s, Japanese compacts replaced beetles as the popular imports, and fewer beetles were seen after 1980. |
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exciting day in old LA
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aiiaiiyo Santa Fe diesel passenger locomotive hangs over Aliso St. after running off the end of its track at Union Station. Jan. 25, 1948. |
A quick check doesn't seem to turn up this image of the Gentleman's Grill at the Hotel Alexandria, which I recently acquired (I acquired the image, not the hotel).
https://i.postimg.cc/9XZgyv9n/Alex-Gent-Grill001.jpg recto; odinthor collection https://i.postimg.cc/YSNj62pS/Alex-Gent-Grillb001.jpg verso; odinthor collection Text: Gentlemen! This is a swell Hotel & I don't mind the price; feels funny not to have to go into saloons for business. Hoping you are busy[.] I am yours[,] Max" |
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Do you think they fired the engineer? Must have been drinking or sleeping. Or maybe the brakes went out? |
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or perhaps they're stacked up in a dark corner of the Alexander's basement. As most of you know, we have visited the 'world famous' Alexandria Hotel numerous times in the early days of NLA. In fact, I'm sure we have seen odinthor's postcard of the Gentleman's Grill. (it's great to see it again, odinthor) By sheer coincidence, I happened upon a photograph of the Alexandria lobby that I don't believe we have seen. It shows the Alexander's remodeled lobby in 1941. I can't tell you how much I love this photograph................................ https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/1...924/NvDWo2.jpgbizarrelosangeles "This photograph was taken back when the Alexandria was a mid-priced hotel for businessman...after it had been stripped of its chandeliers, marble and other luxuries from the 1910s." ...from author Two things that I find especially 'noirish' is the addition of the fluorescent(?) lights on the ceiling and the NEON signs advertising the various nightspots and watering holes within the hotel. The Pompeian Room sign, which also advertises television, appears to point downstairs to a rough looking, utility door. (perhaps this entrance was added during the makeover of the lobby) Hmmm.... "Television" in 1941? :shrug: Sure enough, I dug up an old postcard of The Pompeian Room and it, too, advertises the 'Television'. https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/6...924/3KCsXG.jpg..................................................... Do you see it? https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/1...924/YFPVmy.jpg ebay / REPEAT for nla. This is like the Where's Waldo? of televisions. ..It's hilariously small, especially for a cocktail lounge. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ The neon sign at the far end of the lobby advertises another cocktali lounge located inside the hotel. https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/1...924/vc5ikx.jpg detail The Masque Room, cocktails............................................................................................ ...............................................https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/6...924/upc1ip.jpg https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/1...924/ZsC5Ah.jpg ebay / a repeat for nla. The diagonial rail/banister makes me think the Masque Room might have been located downtairs as well. :shrug: Does anyone know if the Alexander lobby was at street level or up a floor? I can't quite figure out how all different venues fit together. . |
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https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/8...922/8ZMtXu.jpg patch.com From what I read, it was fancier than a normal Piggly Wiggly. I imagine that's why Continental added to the name. https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/1...924/mwGcNf.jpg You can read what made the 'Piggly Wiggly Continental' store special, HERE..."The Cheese Cave"..."Buttercup Bakery" (you can see the Buttercup Bakery sign in the photo above) . |
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Rail passenger service through North Hollywood ended on December 28, 1952. Also, the service station building to the right of the Tucker would be occupying the location of PE's North Hollywood depot, which still stands (and was recently restored). |
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Paramount This is ''Feet First" 1930. Much of this was filmed in Los Angeles. |
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You want another mystery?...
This one is a doozy. https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/8...924/BPnJzr.jpg eBay SOLD Well that about says it all. Let's take a closer look. https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/1...921/eBX0hR.jpg I'd like to add one thing....If you look closely at the the top left-hand corner you can see a tower with an almost-onion dome and two tall chimneys. Good Luck!...:whip2 . |
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https://i.postimg.cc/BQysdkSs/Poodle-Dog-PCrecto001.jpg recto; odinthor collection https://i.postimg.cc/YSRPwL6g/Poodle-Dog-PCverso001.jpg verso; odinthor collection There's a penciled "X" on the figure second from left, who going by his clothing would seem to be the manager. Text (with some guesses): Where the cross is, that [sic] him. April 17th. This is where Papa and I had dinner after the luins [??? maybe trying to make an abbreviation for "business," and writing an "l" instead of a "b"?]. The man's place that has the lots next to Papa. M. Address: Mary Frank. Mrs. Maurice Behan/306 - 2nd Ave./San Francisco/Cal. The establishment seems to have opened for business about the last week of 1910 (as I'll indicate further in some clippings I'll post in due course...). |
On Poodle-Dog Restaurants, and/or their locations:
136 N. Spring was the well-known grocer Jevne's original location: https://i.postimg.cc/qB249jtC/PoodleLAT5-12-07.jpg LA Times 5/12/1907, via ProQuest, via CSULB Library A little about the building: https://i.postimg.cc/FzN8tbqj/PoodleHer11-16-04.jpg LA Herald 11/16/1904 There seems to have been a Poodle Dog eatery on E. 1st St., the cook of which had a canine adventure: https://i.postimg.cc/m2Jxk9FG/PoodleLAT8-28-10.jpg LA Times 8/28/1910, via ProQuest, via CSULB Library The New Poodle Dog Restaurant opened just in time for New Year's 1911 . . . https://i.postimg.cc/wM4VWhdx/PoodleHer12-31-10.jpg LA Herald 12/31/1910 But the rival Poodle Dog eatery continued on E. 1st. St., as this severely edited item indicates: https://i.postimg.cc/zvvwRVHs/PoodleLAT12-30-13.jpg LA Times 12/20/1913, via ProQuest, via CSULB Library More adventures with Mr. Dunn of the 1st St. Poodle Dog: https://i.postimg.cc/Bv8B68DR/PoodleLAT2-24-15.jpg LA Times 2/24/1915, via ProQuest, via CSULB Library But Justice pursued. ("A year ago" in the second story is not quite right.) The 1st St. business seems to have been considered a "lunch counter": https://i.postimg.cc/15GqvGc9/Poodle-LAT8-18-15.jpg LA Times 8/18/1915, via ProQuest, via CSULB Library https://i.postimg.cc/tRDZKqn6/PoodleLAT8-24-15.jpg LA Times 8/24/1915, via ProQuest, via CSULB Library Meantime, all was not well at the N. Spring St. Poodle Dog: https://i.postimg.cc/Bv123rf0/PoodleHer7-29-15.jpg LA Herald, 7/29/1915 |
[QUOTE=odinthor;8767850]On Poodle-Dog Restaurants, and/or their locations:
136 N. Spring was the well-known grocer Jevne's original location: https://i.postimg.cc/qB249jtC/PoodleLAT5-12-07.jpg LA Times 5/12/1907, via ProQuest, via CSULB Library A little about the building: https://i.postimg.cc/FzN8tbqj/PoodleHer11-16-04.jpg LA Herald 11/16/1904 There seems to have been a Poodle Dog eatery on E. 1st St., the cook of which had a canine adventure: https://i.postimg.cc/m2Jxk9FG/PoodleLAT8-28-10.jpg LA Times 8/28/1910, via ProQuest, via CSULB Library The New Poodle Dog Restaurant opened just in time for New Year's 1911 . . . ^^^ Naming a restaurant "Poodle Dog" might have been part of the problem. The French don't eat dogs (some cultures do), but still... Even worse, if they named if after a horse. Some French & Belgians do eat equines. |
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ScottyB: The Tucker was supposedly brought in for a paint job (don't do it) from Madman Muntz's car lot. From reading up on Muntz (interesting guy), it seems that his car lot was located in Glendale. Does anywhere around Glendale fit the bill for this photo? |
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Marineland & P.O.P.
Any old pics of Marineland & Pacific Ocean Park ("POP")? Went to those places a lot as a kid, especially POP. Going over the hill from the sweltering Valley where I lived to the cool, sometimes cold Santa Monica/Venice summer air was my initiation into the microclimates of the L.A. area. POP had a really old fashioned Coney Island feel. I liked POP better than Marineland. The porpoise & whale shows got tiresome after a while. The rides and arcade games at POP were more fun to a kid under 10. I also remember riding in a bubble tram ride over to an "island" they built a fair distance from the pier. Once after going to POP we made the fairly short walk over to "Muscle Beach" where the male & female athletes put on quite a show of strength & acrobatics. Another time we walked over to the Venice canals which back in the early 1960s were pretty run down but still kind of fun to walk.
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In my mystery post from yesterday, I should have included an image that shows the strip along the bottom.
https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/1...921/AruLxC.jpg eBay https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/8...924/skiSTe.jpg Putnam Photo.,....223 N. Spring, Cor. Temple St. And here's a closer look at the tower (and two tall chimeys) in the distance....As you can see the tower appears to have an open-air cupola. https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/8...921/Vbz3l9.jpg detail / top left corner I'd wager a guess that the building is a school. (even though I don't see a BELL in the cupola) And here is that large house on the hill on the opposite side of the photograph. https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/8...922/3AbWGf.jpg detail / top right Is the vertical line directly above (and behind) the house one of those tall electrical masts that were placed around the city? ..or is it simply an error in the print? :shrug: . |
More mid-century mayhem, as before these are from the L.A. Examiner archives....
https://i1381.photobucket.com/albums...pslqmuasjb.jpg Man trapped under a Pacific Electric freight car in Gardena 8-7-51....John C. Heldt Jr., victim. https://i1381.photobucket.com/albums...psqslqilqw.jpg https://i1381.photobucket.com/albums...psglfdj85j.jpg https://i1381.photobucket.com/albums...ps2k5nmwtl.jpg Dr. (Chiropractor) Emilio Abitia (left), of 675 S. Vermont at the San Pedro Detective Bureau on 9/15/51....Abitia was questioned in the abortion death of Patricia Colbert, 22....the procedure allegedly conducted by Abitia in his offices at 1245 S. Avalon Blvd., Wilmington. https://i1381.photobucket.com/albums...pstzt1czbr.jpg Stabbing (motel at 2683 W. 9th St.), 11/27/53....fight between Mr. & Mrs. William Walker.... https://i1381.photobucket.com/albums...psw5u9aeur.jpg Mrs. Walker https://i1381.photobucket.com/albums...psysjzenxt.jpg Felony bookmaking, April 12, 1951. Ann Gardella (alias Ann Stark) https://i1381.photobucket.com/albums...pszip8wlch.jpg Carbon Monoxide suicide (in the alley behind 8161 W. 3rd Street), 02 October 1951. Body of E.B Dubain. https://i1381.photobucket.com/albums...psildsl8x1.jpg Venice Beach Death, 14 May 1954. Unidentified body pulled from surf.; Caption slip reads: "Photographer: Gaze. Date: 1954-05-14. Reporter: Sandusky. Assignment: Venice Beach death. Investigators and others stand beside body of man (not yet identified) pulled from the surf behind the breakwater of the old Venice Pier by a passerby (Nathaniel Smith, visiting from Sacramento). Detective Stewart Jones said the man appeared to have been shot through the head. Suicide question -- or...." https://i1381.photobucket.com/albums...ps0dyhwjra.jpg Accident, July 17, 1951. Accident at Gateway and Barrington; Ruth Frabasillio. https://i1381.photobucket.com/albums...pstqsko4gp.jpg https://i1381.photobucket.com/albums...pshkfrzyh6.jpg GSV https://i1381.photobucket.com/albums...psx62jou1g.jpg Burglar shot at 15th and Los Angeles, May 30, 1951. Unidentified burglar being taken from building where cops shot him. https://i1381.photobucket.com/albums...pswf4da4cp.jpg Church yard murder, 11 May 1961....body of unidentified person found in parking lot at 48th and McKinley. https://i1381.photobucket.com/albums...ps6jzbi9mi.jpg https://i1381.photobucket.com/albums...psodwuv3iv.jpg GSV https://i1381.photobucket.com/albums...psoatwugsl.jpg Walter Wanger, film producer, checking into jail following conviction 6/4/52.... atty Jerry Giesler to his left.... The following is extracted from the book On Sunset Boulevard (1998, p. 431) by Ed Sikov: In 1951, producer Walter Wanger discovered that his wife, Joan Bennett, was having an affair with the agent Jennings Lang. Their encounters were brief and frequent. When Lang and Bennett weren't meeting clandestinely at vacation spots like New Orleans and the West Indies, they were back in L.A. enjoying weekday quickies at a Beverly Hills apartment otherwise occupied by one of Lang's underlings at the agency. When Wanger found proof of the affair, he did what any crazed cuckold would do: he shot Lang in the balls. |
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We covered the Wanger - Bennett - Jennings 'love triangle' in the early days of NLA. "As for Walter Wanger shooting Jennings Lang in the balls and in the process pretty much killing Joan Bennett's career." ..GM Quote:
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That fine line that rises above the house on the hill is an early electric light mast! https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/6...922/3AbWGf.jpg detail from HERE The house (and mast) are visible in a photograph taken at The Plaza in the 1890s. [link to the complete photo is below image] https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/1...923/TLqNVH.jpg detail / USC I know that we have discussed this mast on NLA. (but I wasn't able to locate the old posts) The lighting mast is even illustrated on this 1889 map. https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/8...923/5a3CXq.jpg waterandpower...............................................................................................for search purposes: William Workman property and vineyard, Boyle Height Of course this doesn't solve the location of my 'mystery' eBay photograph. You can see the mystery photo (again) ...HERE . |
Just so you don't think I'm beating just one dead horse, here's another mystery.
The date is 1954 and the place is Cathedral Films. https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/1...921/gw9d57.jpg eBay oops.I was wrong. There is an address. 140 Hollywood Way, Burbank I've never heard of Cathedral Films before..... It sounds all religiousy. :diablo: . |
Here's one more slide for tonight.
Original Slide, "Walt Disney Productions" Studio Building - Burbank CA - 1954 http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/128...922/Tnh1eE.jpg eBay I don't recall seeing this particular Disney gate before. Do you think it's a side gate or a film crew entrance? :shrug: . |
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Don't have the answer to your question, but I found this other photo of the same building. It's not dated. The car could be a clue as to the date. https://farm2.static.flickr.com/1940...f264f074_b.jpgWilliam Bird/Flickr |
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I think this is the Disney building. It's still standing on the western side of the Disney Studios block on S Buena Vista Street. https://i809.photobucket.com/albums/...yBuilding1.jpg GSV The entrance is now about 40 yards to the south, but you can see where it used to be in this 1944 aerial. I've arrowed the building. https://i809.photobucket.com/albums/...yBuilding2.jpg mil.library.ucsb.edu |
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Thanks for locating the building Martin Pal and HossC. ...I'm a bit surprise it's still there. Look at the size of Warner Bros. Studios, and then compare it to the size of Walt Disney Studios. https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/1...921/CjdNie.jpg It looks like it would take six (or more) Walt Disney Studios to fill up the same area as Warner Bros. I had no idea there was such a difference. (in 1944) . |
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The humongous sound stages at Warner's take up 3/4th of their space. Here's the Warner Bros.' sign in 1954. https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/1...923/SN2vV5.jpg eBay By the way, this slide was taken by the same person that took the photograph of the gate building. "Combining Good Citizenship With Good Picture Making." ....Well that's a mouthful....No doubt to placate McCarthyism. :no: . |
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Correct me if I am wrong, but didn't the Wanger/Bennett/Lang story, especially the part about the junior exec at the agency loaning Lang the key to his flat lead Billy Wilder to write "The Apartment?"
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