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https://i.imgur.com/xf1z5CS.jpgLINK You can just barely make out the statue from Google Street View: https://i.imgur.com/Kf4QZX3.gif It seems(?) that the white Aspiration is the original statue, and the bronze (now black) statue is a reproduction. The following article makes it sound like the bronze statue (or perhaps just the monument?) was created post-mortem: https://i.imgur.com/ffOThRJ.pngallaboutrudy.org The original statue seems(?) to be in storage... "Baby Georgia and Aspiration, 1979": https://i.imgur.com/QpD3w5E.jpgmaybellinebook.com Quote:
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This is post number 46,003 after 2300 pages and over 22 million views. Absolutely amazing thread guys. I only learned about this thread yesterday when I saw the view count and did a double take. I have since gone through many pages and not even scratched the surface.
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For example, the house shown below is the same house as the one above (6776 Whitley Terrace) -it's still hard to believe. NEW PIC FROM MAYBELLINE BLOG https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/1...924/ve93fX.jpg MAYBELLINE BLOG "Tom Lyle, Arnold and Emery with two of Tom Lyle's neices in front of Villa Valentine." I didn't believe it....until I saw 'Villa Valentine 6776' inlaid on the front step. (see below) FROM THE PREVIOUS POST https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/1...922/KLVrOO.jpg MAYBELLINE BLOG ___ Of the two houses, Falcon Lair is far and away the most famous. (in the public's imagination anyway) I had a metal piece of the Falcon Lair fence that I abscombed in the 1980s. (that is...until my sister decided to clean out our family garage in Illinois :hell: it was one of these curvy things (red arrow below) https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/6...922/E2Fy0u.jpg IAMNOTASTALKER The fence was all rusty and the piece practically fell off in my hands. :whistle: |
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Thanks, Scott Charles. I'd like to point out/add that in the first frames of the video, in the background you can see the CBS "eye" and a sign for Perry Mason. The buildings there are the old Charlie Chaplin Studios on La Brea and is where Perry Mason was filmed. This was posted by BifRayRock. Quote:
As the car crosses Sunset Blvd. to the left we see a Standard gas station on the corner followed by a Coffee Shop. The coffee shop is the Carolina Pines. Here's a photo of that area looking north, from a different post also by BifRayRock. Quote:
I happened to notice, just now, when the video ended there's a link to another video that is traveling up La Brea and ends just as it gets to the Chaplin Studios. They are both labeled Part 1, but the above one should be Part 2. There's a lot of signage that can be read in this video, but I haven't had time to do it yet. As you can see in the youtube photo that comes up, while traveling up La Brea, at about the 30 second spot, you can see the skeleton of a gasometer, the one that I presume was located near the Goldwyn Studios on Santa Monica Blvd.! You'll see the whole thing if you watch the video. And since it's the same year, 1965, here's another video: The Hollywood Dream: 1965 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1rhpoEzu59c |
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The remnants of the Villa Valentino lie just on the other side of that sound barrier/wall on Wedgewood Place. And guess what folks. There's a DOOR! pretty much right at that spot. https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/1...923/KBka32.jpg GSV https://imageshack.com/a/img924/5517/4WZkVH.gif Anyone have a crowbar? |
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___ UPDATE: I didn't realize that I was posting PART #2 last night. Here is part #1 (yes, I'm ass-backward) "Vehicles traveling north on La Brea in 1965 Part 1" oops! (I didn't see Martin Pal's post) Special thanks to Alison Martino who posted these videos on youtube. __ |
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I attended one of the Valentino commemoratories in the 1960's at the Hollywood Memorial Park when singer Rudy Vallée spoke. He told how people confused him with Valentino and thought he was the actor who, "sang in silent movies." |
Oh man BDiH, I wish I could have been with you on one of your excursions to the Villa Valentino site.
I've always wanted a fragment of the True Cross ;) |
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I'm 99% sure that the man brandishing the pick axe is Thomas Lyle Williams. https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/8...923/tWOE9K.jpg MAYBELLINE BLOG Why would he pose destoying his own house? He loved Villa Valentino. PART TWO: Quote:
here's a blow up / detail https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/1...922/dun4Bi.jpg DETAIL What/Who I thought was Emery in my earlier post....is actually a potted bush. lol I thought it was Emery bending over. (until I enlarged the pic) __ |
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Hi, Phil, I noticed that, too, and it amused me. Doesn't seem like there would be a restaurant in that particular location, does it? :shrug: ___ Thanks for the Sullivan's Lounge ID, HossC. |
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the river at the bottom. It looks like there could be houses just west of the gas tanks. Marked with a red dot on the east side of the river is the intersection of Kearney and Anderson (today, Anderson is Mission and Kearney doesn't go that far west): http://i1165.photobucket.com/albums/...7.jpg~original Flight c-300, Frame k-209 @ UCSB This February 12, 1933, photo is described as "Kearney Street west of Anderson Street, east side." The homes and their front yard fences look similar to those in the movie stills: http://i1165.photobucket.com/albums/...3.jpg~original PC17_v3_E046 at California Historical Society Here you can see Kearney and Anderson just below and left of center on the 1921 Baist Map: http://i1165.photobucket.com/albums/...7.jpg~original USCDL |
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Edit add: More seriously, sometimes when something dear to one is to be destroyed, no choice, it makes one feel better to have a hand in it one's self, even in a "ceremonial" way, and so gain a feeling of control; otherwise, one feels victimized and weak. This episode of Armchair Psychology On the Air brought to you by Acme Rubber Wall Company. Remember our motto: "We put the bounce into Life!" |
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Welcome to NLA Phil McAvity....glad you found the thread. :) Enjoy!
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