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From Census and other info, it does not appear that she lived in Los Angeles in 1925. She would have been 19 at the time and appears with her parents in Kansas in 1920 and in the Kansas State Census, also with her parents in 1925. There is a passport application in 1924 which lists her residence as the Wentworth Hotel in NYC. She married an Albert Sutherland in 1926 in New York. Sometime before 1928 she had gone on trip to France and returned in 1928 when there are travel documents found. Her passport application, dated September 18, 1924, is signed and attested to by Barbara Bennett, sister of actresses Constance and Joan Bennett. She had apparently divorced Mr. Sutherland and then at some point married a Deering Davis. All of this apparently occurred in New York. The only reference there is to her living in Los Angeles was in the 1940 Census when she is listed as working as a copy writer for a magazine ( according to articles, she did this work for a short time, before returning to New York) In that Census she was living at 1317-3 North Fairfax Ave in Beverly Hills. This building may be still there, although that number no longer appears in the Tax Assessor records. There are U-shaped apartments located in this area which are from the right era but there are no yards to speak of. An aerial view on Google street view, shows an area at the back of one of the buildings between the garages, which has some foliage. It is that annoying "cartoon" sort of stuff, through which you can't actually see anything. Looking at the photos, it appears that there are hills in the background, so it probably isn't at the North Fairfax address, but in someone else's backyard. Also, there do not appear to be those French doors on the buildings on Fairfax. She died in New York in 1985. |
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Dead in auto, 11 July 1955. Frank Hanf (found dead in auto at 6th and Lafayette).;Caption slip reads: 'Photographer: Wyman. Date: 1955-07-11. Reporter: Coart. Assignment: Dead in Auto. 19-20: Coroner's deputies remove body of Frank Hanf found dead in auto at 6th & Lafayette Park Pl.'6th Street & South La Fayette Park Place; Los Angeles, California. (Photo by Los Angeles Examiner/USC Libraries/Corbis via Getty Images) Quote:
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Sorry for my skimpy presence on NLA lately, I'm kind of busy these days, horticulturally in particular (but other stuff too): November-December are heavy gardening months for me, odd as that might seem... Cheers! :cheers: |
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See the Joseph B. Lippincott collection for LA Aqueduct construction photos. https://calisphere.org/collections/13109/ Andys |
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1955-56 directory https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/6...921/EjZBo9.jpg LAPL In one of the bungalows shown below. (in the RED) https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/1...921/nzr4p7.jpg google_earth street view https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/1...922/D3LIFP.jpg GSV Far left row. (I think) Which means Frank wasn't too far from home when he met his demise. https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/1...923/LjgwVy.jpg google_earth _ |
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ER: Here's your first post on these Monopoly houses--from almost 5 years ago: http://forum.skyscraperpage.com/show...ostcount=17630 and a follow-up: http://forum.skyscraperpage.com/show...ostcount=17647 |
:previous: Thanks for the links GW.
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I like that Those Who Squirm mentioned 'It Happened One Night'. https://imageshack.com/a/img921/3820/1P0wMq.gif giphy https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/6...923/bCMhvK.jpg but I don't recall how the 'wall of jericho' came down in IHON. ...did Clark blow a trumpet? ...did a semi roll by? ...earthquake? (no, I would have remembered an earthquake ;)) _ |
re: Bonaventure Hotel, downtown Los Angeles.
I wasn't aware, until this morning, that the Bonaventure Hotel originally had a cabaret. Los Angeles, California 1974-76 https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/8...922/VJ2mx5.jpg mltshp So where was this cabaret located? Did it revolve like the bar at the top? __ |
Let's stick with the same time period [1976 in this cae] and travel over to the Los Angeles Hilton. (the Statler)
proto-alexa / aug. 23, 1976 https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/1...921/9HB18p.jpg los angeles times archive "Mike Grady looked at his computer and asked it if it knew any songs. After a momentary pause, the machine obliged with “Mary Had a Little Lamb.” The Logicon Corp. computer, displayed at the Los Angeles Hilton just prior to the Torrance company’s annual meeting Monday, won’t be a contender for the Top 40. It’s tone deaf and sounds like it has a stuffed-up nose. But it’s a hit at what it’s designed to do, which is to allow humans to enter data into the computer simply by talking to it, and to get data out of the computer by having it talk back to them. The system used by Logicon and many other firms involves 60 sounds called “phonems.” These 60 phonems are stored in the computer’s memory. When it needs to “speak” a word, it searches its memory for the sounds that make up the word, puts them together and “speaks.” The 60 can make virtually any word in the English language." ________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ That's a lot of mixed patterns for one room...octagonal carpeting, chequerboard ceiling pattern and a floral pattern on the wall. :yeech: |
Excellent information on the Widneys Bristolian. Thank you.
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J.P.'s second wife was Mary Bray, born in April 1844 [married J.P. in 1882] She died in March 1903 in Los Angeles. [aged: 58 years old] J.P. died at 10:50 am on July 4, 1938 in his home in Highland Park, Los Angeles, California, aged 96. Do we know J.P.'s Highland Park address? I wonder if the house is still there. info. from geneanet |
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He owned the parcel of land where the Los Angeles City Hall now stands, as well as much of Mt. Washington, Los Angeles, California, where his last home (a Victorian mansion at 3901 Marmion Way) stood.It looks like there's apartments there now. |
:previous: Thanks for checking it out Hoss.
'mystery' cliff accident(?) Here's a trio of getty images without the getty imprint over the pics. (and without information] The year is 1955. https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/1...921/kmMocd.jpg getty_images Here's a larger view of the image on the left. https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/xq90/922/Ca8AXm.jpg It's rather difficult to see what [exactly] is at the bottom of the cliff. To me, the wrecks look like they're been down there for awhile. Maybe the policeman is taking inventory of the number of wrecks. If we could only read what he's writing down on the tablet. https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/1...924/kHKrW4.jpg Detail He's probably writing..."Screw this, I'm not going down there." __ |
Here's another 1955 'mystery'
As you can see, it's some sort of ground fire, no doubt, from spilled gasoline or some other flammable liquid. #1 https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/1...921/gMyjwR.jpg getty_images Does anyone recognize this area? #2 https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/1...921/yM4F4H.jpg #3 and #4 https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/6...924/9wpa6D.jpghttps://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/6...921/1KXHda.jpg This last one is my favorite #5 https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/1...921/nEBXFY.jpg but I'm not entirely sure what's going on. All Getty Images |
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Laundra Maid was at 8700 Santa Monica Blvd, corner of Westbourne Dr. in West Hollywood. https://i.imgur.com/j6Gwz0H.jpg rescarta.lapl.org https://i.imgur.com/iB77HXn.jpg GSV |
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This happened in the 1980s and has happened many times since 1900. |
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