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ethereal_reality May 30, 2017 9:45 PM

re: Tivoli / New Vienna Buffet / Cineograph
 
This rare photograph of Court Street was originally found on ebay. [undated]

http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/128...923/8jUiOf.jpg
ebay / no longer listed

:previous:
"An undated view of 16 Court Street (later 114 Court Street*), here unused as a theater.
The photograph shows the south side of Court St. with 114 Court Street at the center.
The storefront is something called L.C. Steel's -- 114 and 116 are visible on two of its doors.
Upstairs are the "Corona Rooms."
Main is down at the left, Spring St. is around the corner to the right."
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The building began life October 18, 1890 as the Tivoli Theatre, but the Tivoli didn't last long.
By December 1890 it was closed and furniture sold to pay its debts. The Tivoli was operated
by the Perry brothers (E.H. and J. H).

info from Downtown Los Angeles Theaters




New life as the New Vienna Buffet

Sometime prior to 1894 the building reopened as the New Vienna Buffet and gained a reputation as a DEN of VICE.

We touched on some of the VICE earlier on NLA.
link > > >Den of Vice

the earlier post includes this photograph of the New Vienna Buffet (middle of pic)
http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/102...922/BXJOpP.jpg
detail / complete (colorize) pic here: rCarlton

HossC included this section in a panorama here: Panorama


In the 1894 city directory shows the site as "restaurant, wines, liquors, amusement hall, F. Kerkow, prop. 10-16 Court."
The 'Vienna was listed with the new 114-116 Court St. address in an 1895 Chamber of Commerce members list.

1894 Sanborn Map
http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/800...924/CCJssO.jpg
https://sites.google.com/site/downto...stheatres/Home




The Cineograph

The building that housed the defunct 'New Vienna Buffet' reopened as the Cineograph in September 1902 with a combination of movies and vaudeville
with the movie bill changing daily. It lasted as the Cineograph at least into 1910.

1910 Baist map
http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/102...922/TNTf6e.jpg
http://www.historicmapworks.com/


As far as I know, there are no photographs of the building when it was the Cineograph Theater.
I even checked Cinema Treasures. They have it listed...but no photographs :(

So get to work sleuths! :)






side-note:

The original Vienna Buffet was located in the basement of a new building at Main and Requena St.
as reported in the January 25, 1888 Los Angeles Herald. (Requena St. was later renamed Market St.)

:previous: Does anyone know what building was located at Requena & Main in 1888?

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HossC May 30, 2017 11:41 PM

:previous:

Quote:

Originally Posted by ethereal_reality (Post 7819900)

The original Vienna Buffet was located in the basement of a new building at Main and Requena St.
as reported in the January 25, 1888 Los Angeles Herald. (Requena St. was later renamed Market St.)

:previous: Does anyone know what building was located at Requena & Main in 1888?

The 1888 CD says the Vienna Buffet was on the NE corner of Requena and Main. Doesn't that put it in the Amestoy Building? The picture below is from 1955.


ethereal_reality May 30, 2017 11:57 PM

:previous: That would be very cool if it was located in the basement of the Amestoy.

& I had forgotten about the 'Stake Out'. (visible in Hoss' slide :previous:, to the right of the Rexall)
We discussed it many moons ago. It was a popular cop hang-out.
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If I remember correctly, the Amestoy was the first building in Los Angeles to have an elevator.

Paul C. Koehler May 31, 2017 12:45 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by ethereal_reality (Post 6910635)
The seller also had this slide for sale.

This location is more of a mystery. The best clue is probably the Safeway grocery store on the far right.---->

http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/128...661/h4DDbi.jpg
http://www.auctiva.com/hostedimages/...0,0,0&format=0



below: This view gives you a better view of the lumber co. on the left. (I think the name on the building might be 'Blanchard'.

http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/128...673/HhsOjH.jpg
http://www.auctiva.com/hostedimages/...0,0,0&format=0

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I believe this is the North Hollywood station. View is looking East, street in background would be Lankershim Blvd. Third track over has no trolly wires and is the SP Burbank/Chandler branch. West from here both the PE and SP shaired track.

Paul C. Koehler

ethereal_reality May 31, 2017 12:54 AM

:previous: Thanks for your help Paul, but I believe Wig Wag solved the mystery a few years ago.

It's good to see the slides again.

ethereal_reality May 31, 2017 1:02 AM

Has anyone heard of a Noah's Ark in Venice?

Feb. 25, 1925
http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/102...923/WPntQR.jpg
Jericl Cat flickr

http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/320...922/guqxn4.jpg

I'm surprised I've never heard of it before.

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Flyingwedge May 31, 2017 1:04 AM

New Vienna Buffet on Court Street
 
Quote:

Originally Posted by ethereal_reality (Post 7819900)
This rare photograph of Court Street was originally found on ebay. [undated]

http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/128...923/8jUiOf.jpg
ebay / no longer listed


New life as the New Vienna Buffet

Sometime prior to 1894 the building reopened as the New Vienna Buffet and gained a reputation as a DEN of VICE.

We touched on some of the VICE earlier on NLA.
link > > >Den of Vice

the earlier post includes this photograph of the New Vienna Buffet (middle of pic)
http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/102...922/BXJOpP.jpg
detail / complete (colorize) pic here: rCarlton

HossC included this section in a panorama here: Panorama

In the 1894 city directory shows the site as "restaurant, wines, liquors, amusement hall, F. Kerkow, prop. 10-16 Court."
The 'Vienna was listed with the new 114-116 Court St. address in an 1895 Chamber of Commerce members list.
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Hey, I really like that ebay pic of Court Street, e_r. I don't think I've ever seen a shot of that block from that angle.

Here's an ad for the New Vienna Buffet when it was on Court Street, c. 1894:

http://i1165.photobucket.com/albums/...n.png~original

GPF.2725 at Seaver Center


This is a close-up from the ad; the mezzanine ceiling looks a bit low:

http://i1165.photobucket.com/albums/...4.jpg~original

ethereal_reality May 31, 2017 1:15 AM

:previous: That's great....I ever thought I'd get to see inside. Thanks so much FW.

Quote:

Originally Posted by FlyingWedge
This is a close-up from the ad; the mezzanine ceiling looks a bit low:

http://i1165.photobucket.com/albums/...4.jpg~original

It shows the mezz/balcony btw. floors here. [1894 Sanborn]
http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/800...924/CCJssO.jpg

Notice there was another one, albeit shorter, on the opposite wall.

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rick m May 31, 2017 2:08 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by ethereal_reality (Post 7820122)
:previous: That's great....I ever thought I'd get to see inside. Thanks so much FW.


It shows the mezz/balcony btw. floors here. [1894 Sanborn]
http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/800...924/CCJssO.jpg

Notice there was another one, albeit shorter, on the opposite wall.

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Then below this mezzanine seating MIGHT be some of the private alcove booths made to good use in later dowdier times by Irish Annie and her cohorts to rob some swells ??

odinthor May 31, 2017 3:23 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by ethereal_reality (Post 7820032)
:previous: That would be very cool if it was located in the basement of the Amestoy.

& I had forgotten about the 'Stake Out'. (visible in Hoss' slide :previous:, to the right of the Rexall)
We discussed it many moons ago. It was a popular cop hang-out.
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If I remember correctly, the Amestoy was the first building in Los Angeles to have an elevator.

I think the Amestoy was 1883 . . . ? I have a note, deriving from Jackson Graves' My Seventy Years in California, crediting 1881 as bringing L.A. its first passenger elevator (i.e., as opposed to dumb-waiter), installed in the Nadeau Hotel.

Lorendoc May 31, 2017 3:58 AM

I recently found a minor but unexpected connection to Noirish LA.

In the course of doing some family history work, I tracked down a bunch of first cousins of my grandmother. Among these was a Frank Cox, for whom I found a 1944 California death certificate at Ancestry.com. The death happened in Los Angeles County, so I checked the LA Times hoping for an obituary. No luck. Instead I found this:

http://i.imgur.com/u1yhxjE.jpg
LAT 8/27/44

Things did not turn out well:

http://i.imgur.com/HClHyHe.jpg
LAT 9/7/44

http://i.imgur.com/gxzdUoI.jpg
LA EH&E 9/8/44

http://i.imgur.com/ub3avg5.jpg
LA DN 9/9/44

http://i.imgur.com/vA3ELzd.jpg
http://i.imgur.com/e5NfClx.jpg
LA Ex 9/9/44


The location of the murder was 339 S. Figueroa, the Hotel La Tosca (not 3395 S. Fig as the the Evening Herald and Express had it). Totally appropriate name for a stabbing venue, I'd say. The owner of the hotel evidently had enough pull to keep its name out of the papers.

Here is a view of the Hotel La Tosca. We are looking north, the intersection at the bottom is Figueroa and 4th. The hotel was demolished in the 60s.

http://i.imgur.com/LEwoO9j.jpg
USC Digital Library

And another, with reverse-color signage was posted by Godzilla back on page 1443.

http://i.imgur.com/3E7PwAL.jpg


My grandma was a very genteel Nashvillean, and I can't imagine her talking about her unfortunate cousin in polite company and certainly I never heard this story from family.

Paul C. Koehler May 31, 2017 5:16 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Handsome Stranger (Post 6923159)
Can't be LAX. I'm looking at the curved roadway. This curve would have to be somewhere between terminals 3 and 4. Before the early 1980s when the Tom Bradley International terminal was built, there was nothing but a flat wall between 3 and 4.

Sometime in my past I've been there, possibly SFO?

Paul C. Koehler

Joe Gillis May 31, 2017 6:16 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by ethereal_reality (Post 7820114)
Has anyone heard of a Noah's Ark in Venice?

Feb. 25, 1925
http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/102...923/WPntQR.jpg
Jericl Cat flickr

http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/320...922/guqxn4.jpg

I'm surprised I've never heard of it before.

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sure Ive seen that drunk mannequin before

https://media.giphy.com/media/tyJ5u9NFB8pNe/giphy.gif

From 'The Circus'

DViator May 31, 2017 3:54 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Lorendoc (Post 7820319)
The location of the murder was 339 S. Figueroa, the Hotel La Tosca (not 3395 S. Fig as the the Evening Herald and Express had it). Totally appropriate name for a stabbing venue, I'd say. The owner of the hotel evidently had enough pull to keep its name out of the papers.

Amazing how often information is inaccurate across news stories. Her age is given as 32, 33 and 38, while his is given as 36, 38 and 39. :hmmm:

Rustifer May 31, 2017 4:14 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by ethereal_reality (Post 7813511)
Los Angeles County
District Attorney
Bureau of Investigation
January 1977

http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/128...923/ylSs1C.jpg
http://www.ebay.com/itm/Rare-1977-LO...8AAOSwR5dXRE0T (you can see close-ups of some of the people with this link)

asking $75

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update: I just found 1968 too.

http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/128...923/gLkyIJ.jpg
http://www.ebay.com/itm/Rare-1968-LO...kAAOSwfY9XQbZB

asking $75

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detail with sign.

http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/800...924/wXyht0.jpg




and this one includes the names of everyone.

http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/102...922/kkquMK.jpg
1968 names


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I don't see the name Hamilton Burger anywhere...?:yes:

AlvaroLegido May 31, 2017 4:40 PM

Literary inaccuracy
 
Quote:

Originally Posted by ethereal_reality (Post 7819900)

In « The Big Sleep » (chapter 26), Raymond Chandler writes « She's in an apartment house at 28 Court Street, up on Bunker Hill. Apartment 301. » The action takes place by 1939 and this first section of the street has been cleared for a long time by then. The 28 was down Bunker Hill and they weren't modern apartment houses on that section. I guess he wrote thinking of a picturesque and attractive street of his youth in which he didn't return. This unlikely address is reiterated by Humphrey Bogart (Philip Marlowe) in the movie...

Flyingwedge May 31, 2017 6:32 PM

Chester Place Apartments, 2141 Estrella
 
This building is on the NW corner of Estrella and 23rd Street, just across from the north entrance to Chester Place.
It was built in 1912; the building permit is dated December 26, 1911, with the architect F. A. Noyes, Jr. Here's the
BP listed in the December 31, 1911, Los Angeles Times:

http://i1165.photobucket.com/albums/...c.jpg~original

ProQuest via LAPL


September 22, 1912, Los Angeles Times:

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

ProQuest via LAPL


The Chester Place Apartments is called the Chester Arms in the descriptions of the following undated LAPL photos.
The 23rd Street entrance is on the left:

http://i1165.photobucket.com/albums/...9.jpg~original

00026768 at LAPL


This is the entrance on Estrella:

http://i1165.photobucket.com/albums/...g.jpg~original

00026769 at LAPL


Here's the living room of one of the units. The electrical outlets seem to be up on the wall, judging from the lamp cords:

http://i1165.photobucket.com/albums/...z.jpg~original

00026766 at LAPL


This shows a dining room at the Chester Place Apartments (LAPL has two other interior shots, 00026764 and 00026765,
but I thought these were the best two). I hope whoever lived here liked wicker furniture:

http://i1165.photobucket.com/albums/...8.jpg~original

00026767 at LAPL


Estrella entrance, August 2016:

http://i1165.photobucket.com/albums/...d.jpg~original

GSV


These attractive tiles don't appear to be in the vintage photo:

http://i1165.photobucket.com/albums/...0.jpg~original

August 2016 GSV


The 23rd Street entrance also had its portico removed:

http://i1165.photobucket.com/albums/...z.jpg~original

August 2016 GSV


The blurry words are The and rather:

http://i1165.photobucket.com/albums/...n.jpg~original

August 2016 GSV

HossC May 31, 2017 7:00 PM

Thanks for yesterday's follow-up, GW. I had a feeling that you'd know more about the Wilshire Boulevard locations.


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Here's part 2 of Julius Shulman's "Job 4714: Krisel/Shapiro Associates, miscellaneous buildings, 1971". The first building has signs for Blue Shield and 3M Business Products Center.

http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...6.jpg~original

The second has a large RCA sign on the roof, and a Remington Rand sign nearer to street level.

http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...7.jpg~original

Both from Getty Research Institute

The first building is now Royal Plaza at 3407 W 6th Street. Its neighbor to the left can be added to our growing list of light-colored buildings which have recently received a much darker paint job - in this case, dark gray rather than black.

http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...8.jpg~original
GSV

The second building can be found at 1730 W Olympic Boulevard.

http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...9.jpg~original
GSV

In the picture above, it looked like there may be a couple of survivors beyond the parking garage on S Burlington Avenue, so I took the Googlemobile to find out. Have we seen these before? The house on the left is 1030 S Burlington Avenue, and the one on the right 1036. The property websites date them at 1923 and 1900 respectively.

http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...0.jpg~original
GSV

The next two houses, 1046 and 1050 S Burlington Avenue, are both dated at 1900 by the property sites (do they just say 1900 when they don't know?). 1046 (left) looks distinctly more original than 1050. Pictures at redfin.com show the inside of 1050 almost completely gutted.

http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...1.jpg~original
GSV

ethereal_reality May 31, 2017 7:27 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Joe Gillis (Post 7820393)
sure I've seen that drunk mannequin before

https://media.giphy.com/media/tyJ5u9NFB8pNe/giphy.gif

From 'The Circus'

:previous: This is great Joe. I didn't realize the ark was in Chaplin's 'The Circus' (I haven't seen the film in years)


Here's a bit of info:

Noah's Ark was designed and built by Leroy Raymond and installed at Venice Pier, California in 1919.

http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/800...922/WzuJ5g.jpg
www.cardcow.com


Raymond filed a Noah's Ark patent application on May 26, 1920.

patent illustration (?)
http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/102...923/5GKcca.jpg
http://www.latimes.com/travel/themep...505-story.html





Raymond's patent led to numerous Noah's Arks across the country. (and in England)

from Clementon Park, N.J.
http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/800...922/H392MC.jpg
http://www.gadvoutpost.com/index.php?topic=2340.0




Here's a great photographed of the Noah's Ark at Old Orchard Beach, Maine [c.1956]

http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/102...922/hWoYqc.jpg
http://www.alamy.com/stock-photo-noa...-24735834.html
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I believe there is only one ark still operating. It's located at Kennywood in West Mifflin, PA

http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/800...924/GyM7M6.jpg
https://www.kennywood.com/noahsark

note that the drunkard fishing from the deck is missing :previous:



His name was Ham at Playland amusement park in N.J..

http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/640...922/Bp4SL1.jpg
detail

I wonder if he had a name at Venice's Noah's Ark?

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Martin Pal May 31, 2017 8:07 PM

:previous:

In the first photo you originally posted, E_R, it says HAM underneath the mannequin.

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I came across this 1970 photo of the Hollywood Bowl I don't recall seeing before.

http://lh6.ggpht.com/_uiwmf0PUT14/S6...Theater%20.jpgHollywood Bowl

I thought it might be for some specific production, but apparently the Bowl hired someone to help fix the Bowl's
acoustic problems and this was the horrendous result.


And, of course, then I found out Frank Gehry was responsible.

http://www.hollywoodbowl.com/sites/d.../sonotubes.jpgHollywood Bowl

The Bowl history page says there was a "public outcry."

I don't doubt it.

Fortuantely there's also this handy warning guide:

Mapped: Every Building in Los Angeles Designed by Frank Gehry
https://la.curbed.com/2015/11/30/989...s-projects-map


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