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They also moved into an apartment together in 1932 at 1129 N. Sweetzer Ave. in West Hollywood. I've always liked this 1955 photograph of Cary Grant walking his cat in Beverly Hills. No mystery where he is here! https://www.kcet.org/sites/kl/files/...520Angeles.jpgKCET/Artbound There's alot of new-ish "dish" on Cary Grant: Ninety years ago, future screen legend Cary Grant shared a Greenwich Village love nest with an Australian man who went on to win three Oscars. That’s the provocative claim between Orry Kelly’s recently published, long-suppressed memoir “Women I’ve Undressed," and in “Women He’s Undressed,’’ a new documentary [2016] by Gillian Armstrong, about the celebrated costume designer, that adds a tantalizing new chapter to decades of speculation about Grant’s sexuality. http://nypost.com/2016/08/08/inside-...life-with-men/ |
Here's a little jewelers for today's Julius Shulman post. It's "Job 54: Davies and Keusder, Genser-Lee [sic] Store, 1947".
http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...1.jpg~original The building on the left was a Safeway store. http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...2.jpg~original Both from Getty Research Institute Although I can't back it up with proof from the CDs, the Gensler-Lee store was at 8805 S Broadway. That tree really screws up my comparison shot, but I think the horizontal lines are enough. It doesn't look like the sort of neighborhood where you'd find a jewelers today! http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...3.jpg~original GSV There aren't many of the original features of the front of the Safeway store remaining, but the side view from 88th Place is easily recognizable. http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...4.jpg~original GSV |
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You have to say « Coq au vin de la vieille France ». Besides, the word « Vieille » (which means « old ») has a typo. Mmmm... |
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Try to picture the Capitol Records Building nearby. http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/102...923/5EGnG4.jpg waterandpower |
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Wow, what's the year on that photo? Things had changed dramatically by 1914: https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/dR...A=w683-h513-no baist 1914 plate 40 And even more so by 1921: https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/1l...Q=w689-h507-no baist 1921 plate 40 Judging by the placement of the homes on Vista Del Mar, those bulky 1953 apartments facing on Yucca, were built on the actual home site https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/tK...w=w850-h514-no gsv .................................................................................. Quote:
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The Wilshire Christian Church was being finished at the time of the February 1927 flooding--it would be dedicated that April 3rd. The two houses with Wilshire frontage seen in these images are 647 S Mariposa (top view--more here) and 3555 Wilshire (second view, in the distance--with the undulating dragon on top--more here). |
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Here's the caption. (ca. 1905) - "Photograph of the residence of A.G. Bartlett on Hollywood Boulevard between Vine Street and Gower Street. A plowed field is separated from crop rows by a picket fence, behind which a mansion, next to which a windmill stands, is visible on a hill, overlooking the crops. To its left, steps with railing lead down the hill to a smaller house, possibly a barn." The 'barn' looks like a carriage house to me. __ |
Refresh my memory; have we seen this on NLA?
Pier Avenue bus turntable in Ocean Park, showing the Ocean Park Hotel and Jack Posner Jeweler. [c.1930] http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/102...922/9MAMD0.jpg Adelbert Bartlett (Carolyn Bartlett Farnham Collection) In Raymond Chandler's novel 'Farewell, My Lovely', the protagonist Philip Marlowe describes a scene in Bay City (Chandler's version of the City of Santa Monica) -wiki "Outside the narrow street fumed, the sidewalks swarmed with fat stomachs. Across the street a bingo parlor was going full blast and beside it a couple of sailors with girls were coming out of a photographer's shop where they had probably been having their photos taken riding on camels. The voice of the hot dog merchant split the dusk like an axe. A big blue bus blared down the street to the little circle where the street car used to turn on a turntable. I walked that way." -Philip Marlowe He mentions "big blue bus" (Santa Monica has blue buses to this day) but then switches to 'street car' turntable. :shrug: turntable photograph found at: http://www.oceanparkhx.com/1900-1950...e-pier-av.html Raymond Chandler quote found here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big_Blue_Bus __ |
I found this amazing photograph-postcard of a billiard emporium located at 640 S. Broadway called Morley's.
http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/128...923/ak8vm2.jpg ebay note the impressive art nouveau stenciling on the ceiling beams near the support pillars. (I believe there might be full length mirrors on each pillar) reverse. (postmark 1914) http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/800...923/bYY50I.jpg The pool hall in the photograph, with it's low ceiling, looks like it might have been in the basement, so I thought I'd try and find out using past directories. It was rather confusing. I found... Morley's Skating Rink at 920 S. Grand (1906 directory) Morley's Bowling Alley at 416 1/2 S. Broadway (1908 directory) Morley's Cellar at 110 S. Spring (1918 directory) but no Morley's Billiard Palace :( What I did find out...640 S. Broadway is the Forrester Building (still standing) http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/320...924/CV1OGR.jpg lapl _ |
Little Country Church of Hollywood
A curious aside: Has it come up before that the paving, steps and retaining walls at the Little Country Church of Hollywood were constructed from remnants of the sidewalks outside old City Hall?
Both of these articles mention it: LAT "The terracing and steps were constructed with pieces of sidewalk from the old City Hall, which had been torn down at the time of the church's construction. The paving was free to anyone who would haul it away, recalled Hogg. So her father put out a call on his broadcast for volunteers with trucks." Daily Mirror "Volunteers built the 250-seat chapel almost entirely from donated goods. Recycled stone from Los Angeles’ old City Hall sidewalk became terracing and steps." The demo permit specifically said to leave the foundation, etc alone. (Just a heads-up in case anyone ever gets around to redeveloping that site...don't let it end up in the dumpster people) https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/5c...A=w473-h587-no google maps |
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1314 Wilshire
Redevelopment is coming perilously close to the Victorian house at 1314 Wilshire Blvd (the oldest home left on Wilshire) with its Wilshire Special out front:
https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/iR...Q=w690-h498-no gsv https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/IS...g=w526-h507-no gsv Here's No. 1314 in the late 70s, when I first remember it. It was appreciated then and the Wilshire Special looks terrific too: https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/ok...Q=w607-h504-no via la conservancy The Isaac Lowmans (who may have been the original residents) entertained at home in April of 1900: https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/MW...A=w657-h227-no la herald 3 April 1900 In 1903 the Lowmans engaged Hudson and Munsell to build them a new home on the West side of Elden between 10th (Olympic) and 11th Streets on the Westmoreland Tract: https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/YJ...g=w368-h474-no Los Angeles Herald, Number 15, 16 October 1903 (:previous: A 1989 three-story apartment building is now at 1029 Elden) There was a pretty wedding at No. 1314 in 1904 when it was the Black home. Next, from 1905, up until the early 20s, The Los Angeles Herald carried many ads for furnished rooms, including the attic, to let at 1314 Orange. This is the first of those: https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/Qk...iQ=w510-h91-no la herald 8 jan 1905 Things got a bit fraught on the evening of 11 January 1908: https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/9I...g=w403-h510-no la herald I cannot tell from the curbed LA article if the apartment building at 1316 and the commercial building at 1330 are coming down too or just the false front masking two homes at 1324. Every since the developers named the "wrong" side of the Harbor "City West", there's been enormous pressure on Westlake. All these buildings were moved back in 1932 to widen what-once-had-been Orange St into Wilshire Blvd. The homes lost their front yards, steps and porches and the apartment building had to be rolled back 15 feet: https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/qM...w=w794-h326-no google maps 'Round the back: https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/uJ...w=w707-h504-no google maps :previous: La Parrilla at No. 1300 has been discussed here before, so I'm skipping it now. The scene in 1910: https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/sW...A=w712-h392-no baist 1910 plate 8 DTLA rolls ever westward. It did it before and is doing it again. A Wilshire Blvd address is still a huge selling point: https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/WG...=w1053-h605-no gsv Residential development a block west looks pricey (and uncaring about what happens beyond those trees): https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/e3...w=w947-h633-no wilshirevalencia |
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It's sad about the old Orange Street/Wilshire Blvd houses along this stretch, but redevelopment of the area is long overdue. As for 1314 Wilshire--it appears to have been built in 1899 by Isaac L. Lowman, a downtown clothier. His family was in residence by Feb 1900. Lowman built 3087 Wilshire six years later, employing Frederick Roehrig--perhaps he had also designed 1314. |
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Dear (Former Pal but ala[s] strangers now) I'm still on earth (sometimes) and would like a letter much. Love [.?.] Those parts I can't read are because of the watermark. The name at the close might be Lois or Doris or Boris...? |
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These two photographs remind me of a movie screening I'd gone to where a production designer was talking about the problems of location shooting for period films. While not everyone notices things in movies, a lot of people do. and the way sidewalk corners are constructed these days, with sloping and easier access for wheelchairs and the like, it poses problems if one wants to be accurate in a period film. He talked about one film where there was not time to do anything about it so the director just decided not to show the sidewalk corners, but he felt that was a distraction. Not pertaining to streets, but to props: Pet peeves of art directors--after this was pointed out to me once, you wouldn't believe how many times I've noticed it since. Often when you see a bedroom or dining room scene, they use new sheets or tablecloths on the tables. The proper thing to do is to iron out the folded creases in them, but you'd be surprised how often you might notice people getting into bed and the sheets all have those fold marks because this wasn't done. The worst case of that I recall is a film in which people were in a scene by a clothesline and the sheets or tablecloths on the clothesline had the fold marks still on them! |
Yes, the folds in the hanging laundry is ridiculous.
But in households where I have lived, the newly washed sheets are often ironed, then folded and put in the linen closet until a bed is changed - resulting in folds. |
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