Idle Hour, Lankershim Blvd, North Hollywood
 

As we all know, it's a very rare thing when an old building in LA gets returned to its former glory and, I suspect (I haven't been inside yet) surpasses its former glory.

The old Idle Hour Cafe has just reopened as the Idle Hour

http://www.martinturnbull.com/wp-con...lly-McLain.jpg

http://www.martinturnbull.com/wp-con...m-bradford.jpg

This feature in the rear courtyard looks familiar. Makes me think of a Barkies Sandwich shop.

http://www.martinturnbull.com/wp-con...m-Bradford.jpg

More photos of the refurb can be found here: http://laist.com/2015/02/14/idle_hou..._hollywood.php

Did they get the Bulldog from the set of "The Rocketeer" or build a new one? And has anybody had Tamale Ice Cream?

Cheers,

Earl

:previous:

This one is a scaled down model from the Petersen Automotive Museum. I wrote about it back in December in post #25095. The post also includes a picture of the Bulldog Cafe under wraps in the back yard of Idle Hour, and a link to the story of how it was saved.

http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...APetersen2.jpg
GSV

Stop Sign
 

In the early days of transition from horses to automobiles their were no traffic signs. Out of the necessity for rule and order, signs were put up by whomever to warn or regulate auto traffic. The Automobile Club of So. Cal. (ACSC) spear headed good roads,rules and signs to solve problems with auto travel. The diamond shaped sign you refer to was an ACSC designed STOP sign just the same as you see today only the shape was different. The octagon stop came about in about 1930 but many diamond sign remained. You could go across the U.S. and find many different shapes, wording and colors of stop signs. Signs now are universal shape and color and regulated bu the U.S. government.

Mirriam-Webster defines boulevard stop as: " a traffic stop required of vehicles before entering or crossing a through street"


Cheers,
Jack

N I B B L E R S

I posted this photograph of the corner of Spring and First streets back in October 2012.

http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/128...661/7qI6KQ.jpg
http://forum.skyscraperpage.com/prin...pp=20&page=485



Godzilla in turn, found this screen-grab from the film noir "Illegal" (1955), that also shows Nibbler's.

http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/xq90/540/mU8nsU.jpg
http://lileks.com/bleats/archive/07/0907/091107.html



Well, I just came across this Kodachrome slide that captures Nibbler's in living color!

The slide is dated 1955....the same year as Godzilla's screen-grab from "Illegal".

http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/128...673/RP8jJ5.jpg

What in sam hell is depicted on their corner sign? I can't make heads or tails of it.*
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*OK, I just figured it out, but I'm not telling ;) -I want everyone to have a chance to figure it out on their own.





Here is the complete slide.

http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/128...903/HGr7MS.jpg
you may bid on it here:
http://www.ebay.com/itm/19-50s-1955-...item20f6408e9e
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Bulldog Cafe
 

AH! YES! That's where I recognized it from. I've been wracking my brains since I posted that. Thanks, HossC!

Bulldog Cafe
 

And/or maybe this:

http://www.martinturnbull.com/wp-con...3d3ac92d67.jpg

mystery thing.

-for the life of me I can't figure out what this is.


"Butcher Supply Co. Los Angeles"

http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/800...537/IwQ4ix.jpg
ebay



http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/800...661/Qt0fAc.jpg


tongs to rip the drumsticks off of chickens??


http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/800...909/7mkGOZ.jpg
ebay

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I can't seem to get anything right recently, but it looks like a chef bunny eating a sandwich.

Great for adults and maybe kids.....
 

Here is the old Griffith Park miniature train. I thought this was really cool at the time....and still do.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v4...psfz5vnzsv.jpg
LATimes
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v4...psaafpezn1.jpg
Self att.

:previous:

The Butcher Supply Co gadget is actually a mold for making chicken legs - City chicken legs (AKA. mock drumsticks, mock chicken or California chicken). You can read more on Wikipedia and Trkingmomoe's Blog.

:previous: I have never heard of molded chicken legs.

but I take comfort in knowing the metal tongs were not used to rip the legs off chickens. ;) lol



http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/102...661/7uapYU.jpg
http://www.bigmapblog.com/2011/los-a...-america-1934/


I recently came across several rare ads for the Club Airport Gardens (later the mob run Club Continental).


http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/128...631/e7IRmt.png
https://archive.org/details/hollywoodfilmogr14holl


http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/128...661/VDPYpo.png
https://archive.org/details/hollywoodfilmogr14holl




below: -mentions the floods.

http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/128...540/Mb0kP9.png





below: Even Edith and Virginia, the hat-check girls, get a mention. (they must have been awful purdy ;))

http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/128...537/VAuCsH.png
https://archive.org/details/hollywoodfilmogr14holl

But still no photographs!! ....and we've been looking since 2012.


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OK, looks like the Bulldog Cafe/Diner situation shapes up like this:

Original(s): Gone. At least one with pipe, one without (or modified?). Need a post with locations and dates :-)

Rocketeer replica: on Disney back lot for a time, then reported hauled to Orlando where it was allowed to disintegrate. Had pipe, jaw shaped like original.

Peterson Replica: Pipe, undershot jaw. Saved, now behind the Idle Hour.

Posted on behalf of the Bulldog Diner Historical Society (™) :-)

Cheers,

Earl

And you would be correct. :)

http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/xq90/537/8jzXPf.jpg

I think he's eating a club sandwich.

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"We Care What You Think"



Hollywood Boulevard, 1970s.
http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/128...661/KuHC7k.jpg
old file / ebay

Does anyone know what "The Research Experience" was?
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the site has been an empty lot since at least 2007.

http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/128...661/X1Ynvq.jpg
GSV

Playa del Rey streetcar
 

Thanks for confirming my suspicion, HEH. That photo looks like it was taken in the Playa del Rey/Surfridge area. I believe the cars atop the bluff in the photo are parked along Vista del Mar.

Ivalee Street is one of the streets lost to LAX; it was about three blocks north of that little park that's still on the east side of Vista del Mar. This 1940 photo (which I lightened up a bit) looks north from the foot of Ivalee. The KCET photo must have been taken from a little north of this spot; we see that stepped groin in both photos:
http://i1165.photobucket.com/albums/...f.jpg~original
USCDL -- http://digitallibrary.usc.edu/cdm/si...9/id/933/rec/2

Closer:
http://i1165.photobucket.com/albums/...6.jpg~original

The sign in the distance on the right side of this 1928 photo advertises Palisades del Rey, which was north of Surfridge in Playa del Rey. USC says this photo looks south on Vista del Mar from Hyperion Avenue; it actually looks north, perhaps from near the Hyperion Sewage Plant. You can just make out the mast arm for the wires on the first pole on the left:
http://i1165.photobucket.com/albums/...f.jpg~original
USCDL -- http://digitallibrary.usc.edu/cdm/si.../id/3953/rec/5

This aerial view looks north at the same area. LAPL dates the photo 1947, but it's a lot closer to 1927. You can see the streetcar tracks between the ocean and Vista del Mar:
http://i1165.photobucket.com/albums/...9.jpg~original
LAPL -- http://jpg3.lapl.org/pics48/00073809.jpg

:) Yes!!


It isn't a photograph, but I just found this postcard of the Club Airport Gardens.

http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/128...661/f7dTfs.jpg
http://airportjournals.com/a-journey...-air-terminal/

The first word to come to mind is swanky.
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While continuing my search for a photograph of the Club Airport Gardens, I came across this photograph on 'pinterest'.

http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/128...673/bAtCRH.jpg
https://www.pinterest.com/pin/344103227751159332/

What a fantastic sign! I really like that it advertises American Airlines Sleeper Flagships.


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:previous: Oh, well done e_r! What a treat to see a picture of the club :-)




Lorendoc, are you still there?


I meant this one, from the east side:
https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/-T...33001%2BPM.jpg