Art Deco was such a cool period.

Yeah, and since people still love art deco buildings, why don't designers just go back to designing some new art deco buildings and stop with the blank they are designing now.

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riichkay, I somehow missed your post the first time around. . .luckily, I saw it today. :)

I looked to see if the building to the right of the home (and on the north side of Franklin) is still standing but I'm 99% sure it's gone.

Edit. I just realized the building is the back of the garage at 7406 and it's still there! (circled below)

https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/6...922/ZijwVf.jpg
google-earth

I edited riichkay's excellent post. To see his complete post go Here.

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Someone on eBay is selling negatives in groups of 10 or 11.

Here are two of the them. (as positives)



This first one is a mystery location.

#1
https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/1...924/BMomie.jpg
eBay

The car (in motion) saves the photo from being mundane.







The seller posted this next one backwards, so I flipped it.

#2
https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/1...922/rvh2ez.jpg
eBay

I think I know the area where this one was taken but I don't recognize the road with the white, wooden side-rail. (far left)


. . .more coming.

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I think were looking northeast across Sunset, with the road on the right being N Broadway. The building in the foreground is the Colima Restaurant and Bozzani Motors is behind. The white side-rail is on Fort Moore Place.

Unsurpringly, Bozzani and Colima have appeared on NLA before. This image is from ER's post 650 from December 2009.

http://img264.imageshack.us/img264/5...yhall1952d.jpg

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Here's a closer look at Neg. #2.


https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/1...922/4wcTrC.jpg

You can clearly see Blozzani but what's Zani's. (far left)


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And here are negatives 3 and 4. (both mystery locations)



Well, I guess the first one isn't much of a mystery. As you can see, it's the 2500 block of west 7th Street.

#3
https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/1...924/HITFtv.jpg
ebay

The Louvre...... . .an interesting looking place. I'd say it's an art gallery or an artist supply store. Waddya' think?





#4
https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/1...922/Q4tYGH.jpg

This one is a bit confusing. I'd say it's either a photo-shoot. . . or the attractive lady is simply adjusting her shoe while waiting to cross the street.

And what kind of pole is she leaning on? It looks like a sawed-off street-light.

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#1 I'm almost certain we've seen this place on NLA before. #3 has a street sign 2500 block of W 7th, cross street Carondelet. Squinting at The Louvre, it looks like it has a street number: 24 _ _.

I found a website where someone's looking for an appraisal of some artwork from The Louvre:

I have an original abstract painting that I inherited from my aunt's estate. The artist's name is***** and the date on the painting is 1953. On the back frame of the painting is the address of the gallery where it was purchased: The Louvre, 2451 W. 7th Street,Los Angeles, CA.

By 1956, the CD lists the Plumbers Local Union No 78 at 2451 W 7th Street. A demo permit was issued in 1976.

The building to the left of The Louvre (above the head of the man on the hydrant) is the back of the extant Park Wilshire Apartments.

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Here's an aerial photograph that captures The Louvre!

https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/1...922/wesfZZ.jpg
historichouses

It's from GaylordWilshire's blog. . .in a post about the Feuerborn-Murray house. (visible to the left of The Louvre in the aerial above)

It appears that 'The Louvre' building was built in front of the Feuerborn-Murray garage. (shown below)


https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/1...923/wGAMoI.jpg
historichouses

I hope you don't mind that I posted these images, GW. :)

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Absolutely. Would love to see a 50 or 60 story Richfield-inspired tower with the spire. It would be amazing.

This is the era of architecture a la mundane. One could call it abstract architecture....the architecture of the insane. 99% explanation and 1% inspiration. It takes no talent to be an architect....just know how to breathe and sharpen a pencil.

:???::yuck:

Los Angeles has been wet this month.

The wettest Decembers in Los Angeles since records began in 1871:

1889: 15.8 inches
2010: 10.23 inches
2021: 9.72 inches

Normal average December rainfall: 2.23 inches

Days we had measurable rain this month:
Dec. 7, 9, 13, 14, 16, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30.

The National Weather Service tweeted this out yesterday afternoon: "Not surprisingly, we have broken the daily rainfall record at Downtown LA with 2.34" as of 300 PM this afternoon. This record total will increase as light rain will continue through this evening."

The old record was 1.85" set in 1936. (I don't know if they mean daily record for December or just in general.)

I wonder what the consecutive days rainfall record is; we had rain 9 days in a row!

This page has a video of rain flooding Union Station yesterday:
https://ca.news.yahoo.com/video/reco...014053695.html

I've been loving the rain, here's hoping there's more to come (apologies to Union Station travelers)! I believe "daily record" refers to that particular calendar date.

Happy Noirish 2022!

Yes, HAPPY NEW YEAR!

I don't know what I'd do without you all. :)

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The Mystery of the Stolen Police Motorcycle.



https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/6...922/QeUHMv.jpg

#1
https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/1...922/WAjz1d.jpg
eBay (no longer listed)



#2
https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/1...923/pTnbGH.jpg
eBay (no longer listed)





#3
https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/1...924/nsrIdS.jpg
eBay (no longer listed)


Are there enough clues to figure out where the motorcycle was abandoned? :shrug:




This may help.

Here's a closer look at the factory in neg. #1

https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/xq90/924/yZuQVA.jpg



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Here's an excellent original snapshot of a McDonnel's that was listed a few days ago on eBay.


https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/1...924/MqssZM.jpg

I was surprised to see that it was already gone. (from eBay)






I can't help myself. Here it is LARGER.

https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/xq90/924/3FwQTR.jpg

I see that there is a street number on the building next door.

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Nla
 

The spirit of NLA is inexplicable to those who ask me "aren't you tired of that noirish Los Angeles stuff ?"

Stolen Police Motocycle
 

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Note that "McDonnel's" is spelled with a double "L" on the vertical signage and seemingly most of the other images.






https://playingintheworldgame.files....atdo1_1280.jpghttps://playingintheworldgame.files....atdo1_1280.jpg

https://playingintheworldgame.files....12/o9v5vts.jpghttps://playingintheworldgame.files....12/o9v5vts.jpg

Living on the West side and often transiting across town to cross the Orange Curtain, I enjoy matching some of the locations I see here to the ones out in the real world. And I enjoy peppering my out-of-town friends with historical tidbits picked up here and from a lifetime spent in So Cal.

I am curious about the usage of the word "original" signifies in your comment above? Original what?

This place appears to be a different snack shop than the famous McDonald's we all know.

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Here's an interesting slide listed on eBay.

"Original 35mm Slide - Antique Car Lot Burbank CA 1950s"

https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/1...923/oa7mQ7.jpg
Link

I did a google & found this. . ."The Mayfield Car Co. was on Hollywood Way and Riverside Drive in Burbank, and it specialized in classics and oddballs, ca. 1950."


Which led me to this. . . . .

https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/1...922/VxdBtM.jpg
facebook

The three-wheeler in the foreground is a Davis Divan. (I had to look it up)


"The Davis Motorcar Company was an automobile manufacturer based in Van Nuys, which produced three-wheeled automobiles from 1947 to 1948.
In total the company produced 13 vehicles. Soon after the Davis plant shut down, Gary Davis, the owner, was convicted on 20 of 28 counts of theft
and was sentenced to 8 months to two years in jail." (the theft was not paying his employees)



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Bandleaders Tiny Hill and Freddie Martin at the Cocoanut Grove in the Ambassador Hotel.

https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/1...922/xU5VDl.jpg
eBay

hmm. . .has anyone ever seen Minnesota Fats and Tiny Hill in the same room?




I just have to point out the very cool tropical panels.

detail
https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/1...923/j4v4V7.jpg


I wonder if miscellaneous items like this panel were saved when the Cocoanut Grove closed?

If it was saved it's probably in someone's garage somewhere. :(





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https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/8...924/WZCX86.jpg

Dear CityBoyDoug,

McDonnell's was a chain of drive-in restaurants run by "Rusty" McDonnell in the 1930s and 40s. There's a menu on eBay right now with locations on the back.

https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/...dd819258_b.jpg
Ebay

The chain had a wide variety of sizes and styles, some cooked up by architect Wayne McAllister.

https://64.media.tumblr.com/1d7c57fa...mb9o1_1280.jpg
LAPL Menu Collection

McDonald's (no relation) was founded 60 miles east of Los Angeles in San Bernardino. Dick and Mac McDonald opened there in 1940 as a drive-in, and then reinvented the operation in 1948 as a self-service stand.

Also:

https://i.postimg.cc/131qxQB2/Original-Photo.jpg
http://www.cycleback.com/photoguide/importantconcepts.html

Snix: thank you for addressing my question to ER.

This misspelled, at least initially, McDonnel's, was located at the NW corner of Beverly Blvd. and La Brea Ave.
The intersection is 7100 Beverly Blvd. There's a gas station there now.

https://waterandpower.org/8%20Histor..._in_ca1937.jpgCalisphere

It's dated circa 1937. Note the advertisement for Eastside Ale, and in the distance, the sign for Waikiki restaurant, at 335 N. La Brea Avenue, is visible.

The Waikiki restaurant was only open for 7 months, at the most, having opened October 8, 1937. This NoirCityDame post HERE, covers ten establishments at this location over a twenty year period, including a photo for the Waikiki. (Or one without a watermark in this post HERE.)

In NCD's post about Hollywood Drive-In's she had this:


Later:


DWP also has this photo with a palm tree in it of the Sunset/La Brea McDonnell's c. 1930's.

https://waterandpower.org/Historical...McDonnalds.jpgDWP


So this COLOR! photo must also be the same location:

http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-G_QfKfAyVG...15ce751c82.jpg

Original...as in...'Not A Reprint'.

I didn't see your question earlier.
Sorry for the delay, CBD.

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The Davis Divan reminds me of the fabulous DALE. One of America's great cars (only 2 or 3 were made, one was operational).... it was partly made of plywood (the doors).
The inventor Liz Carmichael (Jerry Dean Michael
1927-2004 ) was actually a man. She would fit in perfectly in the current transsexual world.
She ended up in prison for misusing customer's down payment deposit money.

https://drivetribe.imgix.net/J95PHVD...dpr=2&q=50jpeg
Image is from Drivetribe...historical only.

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There is an amazing documentary about Carmichael — THE LADY AND THE DALE

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'Liz' was quite imposing. . .
"Elizabeth “Liz” Carmichael. Liz was not your typical California girl. Standing at over 6 feet tall and weighing around 200 pounds."


Here's an earlier mugshot.
https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/6...924/dyIFLF.jpg

Although it doesn't have much of a Los Angeles connection (that I could find) it's an amazing story.

You can read about it Here.

https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/6...923/zAN4Wf.jpg
or here.

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Here are several tourist snapshots taken in my old neck of the woods.

They are all dated 1973 (I arrived 10 years later). . . and they were all recently found on eBay.



Looking west on Sunset near Larrabee Street.

https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/1...924/krd2t6.jpg

I spy Filthy McNasty's. ...& I'm trying to figure out - what looks like - an upside-down a Currie's Ice Cream Parlor (when they were shaped like giant ice-cream cones)
to the right of the Shell sign.






The famous Tower Videos on the northwest corner of Sunset and Horn Ave.

https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/1...923/mgDeMr.jpg

I'm completely stumped by the. . .um. . .what looks like. . .a smokestack with a top hat on top.

sidenote:

A friend of mine in college drove a Pinto. .but not just an ordinary pinto. .it was a Bicentennial Edition Pinto. :slob:





This one needs no explanation. (but here's one anyway)... It's the iconic Whiskey-A-Go-Go (formerly a Bank of America) on the northwest corner of Sunset and N. Clark Street.


https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/1...922/YfacoU.jpg








I love this one....It appears to be a psychedelic head-shop named. .um. .Conspiracy(?).

https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/1...923/5rk05O.jpg

And there is a pool room next door that, if I'm reading it correctly, is named the Corner Pocket.

hmm. . .I think I see the street number, 3300 (?) I hope we can figure out the location (other than on Sunset Blvd.)


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Lastly, let's return to the Tower Records photograph

Here's a closer look at the mystery thingy on the roof.

https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/8...924/G0gXze.jpg
detail

As you can see there's writing but I can't quite make it out. :shrug:

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I think it says "NOW ON POLYDOR", but I don't know why.

https://i.postimg.cc/qB1PMYgw/PC1969.jpg

Psychedelic Conspiracy. This is how it looked in 1969.

Polydor is a still-active record label dating all the way back to 1913...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polydor_Records

From the LAT 1/28/68:
https://i.imgur.com/eC3Iuqo.jpg
newspapers.com

"In 1974, Carmichael, based out of Burbank, California, ...." this is a quote from one of ER's links.

The car making "plant" was in Burbank which was certainly in LA County. I would say that the DALE was smokin and steamin the Los Angeles vibe all the way.

Here's another LA associated whoop-dee-doo......Disney Studio, 500 S Buena Vista St, Burbank, CA 91521.

https://hosting.photobucket.com/imag...720&fit=bounds

Rather than a smokestack/top hat I think this thing is supposed to represent a lighthouse....and the promotion was for the Canadian group of that name,
who moved over to the Polydor label and released an album in '73....from Wiki....

"Lighthouse is a Canadian rock band formed in 1968 in Toronto, Ontario, whose repertoire included elements of rock music, jazz, classical music, and swing and featured horns, string instruments, and vibraphone. They won Juno Awards for Best Canadian Group of the Year in 1972, 1973,[2] and 1974."


The bands biggest U.S. hit was 1971's "One Fine Morning", which peaked at Billboard #24....

https://hosting.photobucket.com/imag...370&fit=bounds

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RLdq...nel=LarryHinze

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Nice work riichkay. :tup:


https://i.imgur.com/PzfFvXr.jpg
worldradiohistory.com - Billboard, Sept 08 1973

https://hosting.photobucket.com/imag...080&fit=bounds


Here's another Tower Records rooftop promotion, also from 1973, courtesy of Ed Ruscha....puzzling at first but after zoom in I saw the, ah, light....


https://hosting.photobucket.com/imag...720&fit=bounds




https://hosting.photobucket.com/imag...720&fit=bounds



It's a promo for the Electric Light Orchestra.....

https://hosting.photobucket.com/imag...720&fit=bounds

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:previous: Good eye, riichkay. :)



Here's another.

Can anyone figure out the promotional-thingy in this slide dated 1973 (without looking up the answer) ..Don't cheat!

https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/1...922/v3bDx1.jpg
from Alison Martino's slide collection.






Here's a closer look.

https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/8...923/qMmWyC.jpg

If you ask me it's a most unlikely sight.





Good luck minions! :whip:


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My first thought was "Fiddler on the Roof." :)
(But the movie was out in 1971.)

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And you would be CORRECT, Martin Pal....Good job!

https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/8...924/UmMLxf.jpg
vintagelosangeles

Allison says the Fiddler on the Roof Soundtrack was on the charts for 90 weeks! .If that's the case, the fiddler dude might have been up on the roof for quite some time.
That might explain the discrepancy between 1971 and 1973.

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A fiddler on the roof. Sounds crazy, no?

Does 90 weeks make it a tradition?

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"a most unlikely sight" was my not-so-subtle clue....:whistle:
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