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UphillDonkey Jul 16, 2019 6:39 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by ethereal_reality (Post 8633774)
Is this (see below) about right, UphillDonkey?

https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/6...922/LQWQnP.jpg
abandoned airfields

I am judging by the curve in the river. (shown in the 1940 aerial)

No, it is a few miles away downstream near Frogtown and Atwater Village and wouldn't show on that aerial photograph

BillinGlendaleCA Jul 16, 2019 7:27 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by ethereal_reality (Post 8633754)
We've come to the conclusion that Fletcher Field never came to fruition. I wasn't clear on my annotated aerial photo. I should gave included "proposed site for" Fletcher Field.
But as the eBay aerial show....there were no houses at that exact spot in 1940.

https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/1...922/4ZfDz3.jpg

Taken on Dec. 07, 1940. (DATE: Upper left corner)

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ER, that bend in the river is about 4 to 5 miles south of the site by where Grand Central Airport would be. That's down near the intersection of the 5 and the 2. The other location is by the intersection of the 5 and 134.

ETA: What UphillDonkey said.

Noir_Noir Jul 16, 2019 11:10 PM

:previous:

The area where "landing area" is written on the original picture is not built on at present. A large business unit for Nelson-Miller Inc. built in 1999 occupies another portion of the "Fletcher Field" site.


https://i.imgur.com/PQalas3.jpg
Google Maps

https://i.imgur.com/iD57Hkh.jpg

ethereal_reality Jul 17, 2019 3:39 AM

Oh man, I'm sorry I steered everyone in the wrong direction. I was so sure of the location I failed to check other possibilities.

BillinGlendaleCA Jul 17, 2019 5:54 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by ethereal_reality (Post 8634238)
Oh man, I'm sorry I steered everyone in the wrong direction. I was so sure of the location I failed to check other possibilities.

It's pretty easy for those of us "who live in a van down by the river".

ethereal_reality Jul 17, 2019 10:25 PM

mystery theater.

I always associated the widescreen process Cinerama with the Cinerama Dome.

This Kodachrome slide shows a second Cinerama Theater in Hollywood (or downtown Los Angeles)

https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/1...921/FftD4Y.jpg
eBay / found a long time ago.

Does anyone recognize this theater? (I have an idea..but I'll keep mum)

The studio(?) went to a lot of trouble...and spent alot of money...to cover up the theater's name. (the name is hidden underneath the tall blade sign, as well as on the marquee)

Was all this done just for the showing of South Seas Adventures? :shrug:


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ethereal_reality Jul 17, 2019 11:48 PM

mystery location.

Photograph from the Los Angeles Community Redevelopment Agency program. 1948 - ? ....(I apologize if we have already seen this photo on NLA)

https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/1...923/1L3ymT.jpg
Getty Negative #2

I was hoping there would be a street sign somewhere in all this mess.



I wonder what bureaucratic agency this cigar-chomping guy belongs to?

https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/xq90/921/hqZZ06.jpg
DETAIL

He looks like one of Mickey Cohen's henchmen.






Getty / Leonard Nadel There are more photographs at the link if anyone would like to work their way through them.

GaylordWilshire Jul 17, 2019 11:49 PM

A few obscure silent outtakes...does anyone recognize this gate in Mary Pickford’s Stella Maris? Or the house glimpsed in the Our Gang short Ten Years Old?


https://i.postimg.cc/d0fQ1ykT/silent1-bmp.jpg

https://i.postimg.cc/Y06tbDX1/silent2-bmp.jpg

https://i.postimg.cc/XY7nk89C/silent3-bmp.jpg

Noir_Noir Jul 18, 2019 1:36 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by ethereal_reality (Post 8635021)
mystery theater.

I always associated the widescreen process Cinerama with the Cinerama Dome.

This Kodachrome slide shows a second Cinerama Theater in Hollywood (or downtown Los Angeles)

https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/1...921/FftD4Y.jpg
eBay / found a long time ago.

Does anyone recognize this theater? (I have an idea..but I'll keep mum)

The studio(?) went to a lot of trouble...and spent alot of money...to cover up the theater's name. (the name is hidden underneath the tall blade sign, as well as on the marquee)

Was all this done just for the showing of South Seas Adventures? :shrug:


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Warner Hollywood Theater on Hollywood Blvd.


https://i.imgur.com/lea6J1N.jpg
steemit.com


"After renovations, it reopened on April 29, 1953, as the Warner Cinerama showing This is Cinerama. The new screen was 28 feet by
76 feet with a 146 degree arc, and seating was reduced to approximately 1,500 to accommodate the new screen size. This is Cinerama
played for 115 weeks, grossing an L.A. record of $3,845,200. It closed 132 weeks after it opened and on November 15, 1955, Cinerama
Holiday opened (after two premieres on the 7th and 14th) and played for 81 weeks, grossing $2,212,600.[5] It was followed by the third
Cinerama film, Seven Wonders of the World, which played for 67 weeks, grossing $1,659,361.

In 1961, the theater was equipped to run 70mm films and showed both 70 and 35mm films. The last of the three-strip Cinerama presentations
was the American premiere run of How the West Was Won for 93 weeks in 1963 and 1964."


Wikipedia

MartinTurnbull Jul 18, 2019 2:37 AM

Garden of Allah Hotel, Sunset Blvd, circa 1940s(?)
 
Quote:

Originally Posted by BillinGlendaleCA (Post 8630887)
There are a couple of ways to get photos without people or cars: one is to take multiple photos and combine them together (though this would have been much more difficult pre-Photoshop), the other is to take a really long exposure (usually with a neutral density filter) so the moving objects just blur out to be non-noticeable.

Thanks, BillinGlendaleCA. I've never heard of a "a neutral density filter" but I figured the chances were low that there would be NO cars and NO people on the streets of LA, even really early on a Sunday morning, so what you say makes sense.

odinthor Jul 18, 2019 3:41 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Noir_Noir (Post 8635196)
Warner Hollywood Theater on Hollywood Blvd.


https://i.imgur.com/lea6J1N.jpg
steemit.com

[...]

In 1961, the theater was equipped to run 70mm films and showed both 70 and 35mm films. The last of the three-strip Cinerama presentations
was the American premiere run of How the West Was Won for 93 weeks in 1963 and 1964."[/I]

Wikipedia

NLA's own li'l odinthor was there at the premiere engagement of HtWWW in its first few weeks (my parental family did a lot of that in those days) . . . but I had forgotten what theater it was at (I knew it wasn't at the C-Dome). It was just a couple of weeks ago I was asking my (elder) brother what theater it was, and he couldn't remember either.

BillinGlendaleCA Jul 18, 2019 4:29 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by MartinTurnbull (Post 8635226)
Thanks, BillinGlendaleCA. I've never heard of a "a neutral density filter" but I figured the chances were low that there would be NO cars and NO people on the streets of LA, even really early on a Sunday morning, so what you say makes sense.

A neutral density filter is just a dark filter you put over the lens to allow for a longer exposure. They come in various levels of darkness.

John Maddox Roberts Jul 18, 2019 12:26 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by odinthor (Post 8635271)
NLA's own li'l odinthor was there at the premiere engagement of HtWWW in its first few weeks (my parental family did a lot of that in those days) . . . but I had forgotten what theater it was at (I knew it wasn't at the C-Dome). It was just a couple of weeks ago I was asking my (elder) brother what theater it was, and he couldn't remember either.

I saw "This is Cinerama" at the Warner Hollywood in June 1954. I had just turned 7 years old. I still remember the roller coaster.

GaylordWilshire Jul 18, 2019 1:07 PM

Mystery walls


Anyone recognize these walls?

From Chaplin's "The Count" (I feel like we've seen this wall on NLA not all that long ago...?):
https://i.postimg.cc/wvN6jh1b/chapli...ntwall-bmp.jpg


William Desmond Taylor posing with his car next to what may be the same wall...
https://i.postimg.cc/vTPSRKQR/Wm-Des...ndwall-bmp.jpg


from the Our Gang short “Baby Brother”"
https://i.postimg.cc/wB6JJjXV/ourgan...rother-bmp.jpg

CityBoyDoug Jul 18, 2019 4:33 PM

http://tomellard.com/wp/wp-content/u...ama.1952a.jpeg
tome

It was a sensation at the time but many thought it was a bit quirky. It was also very costly to make a cinerama film.

Martin Pal Jul 18, 2019 7:14 PM

http://incinerama.com/warnerhollywood2001.jpgIn Cinerama (Great link for Cinerama Info at the Warner Pacific Theatre.)
http://incinerama.com/2001addome.jpgIn Cinerama


To include the 50th Anniversary of the moon landing this week on NLA: Something you may not know?
The Hollywood Walk of Fame has this star:

https://live.staticflickr.com/8388/8...4b33561d_b.jpgWalk of Fame

Well, it's not a star, it's a moon! And there are 4 of them!

According to the Walk of Fame website:

On the four sidewalk corners at the intersection of Hollywood and Vine, four similar commemorative dedications mark the Apollo XI Mission within moon-like circular plaques. Each plaque contains the names of Commander Neil A. Armstrong, Lunar Module Pilot Edwin E. Aldrin Jr., Command Module Pilot Michael Collins – the astronauts who were aboard the spaceflight that landed the first two people who walked on the Moon. The circular plaques include the date of the first Moon landing 7/20/69, and name of the mission Apollo XI. On the plaques, the moons are in silver and grey terrazzo circles rimmed in brass on a square pink terrazzo background, with the television emblem inlaid at the top of each circle.

“The telecast from the moon was the single most-important live TV broadcast ever!” said Ana Martinez, Producer of the Hollywood Walk of Fame. “The bronze markers were set in all four corners of the intersection within the terrazzo sidewalks to represent their reach to the four corners of the world,” Martinez said.


In looking up information, I found a discrepancy. The Official Walk of Fame website (HERE) says the star ceremony was held July 20, 1973. This Los Angeles Times article (HERE) seems to indicate it was January 14, 1993. The Walk of Fame website does have a star ceremony listed for Michael Collins, one of the astronauts of Apollo 11 on the 1993 date. (?) But they have no separate entries for Armstrong or Aldrin?

:shrug: So I'm confused.

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BDiH Jul 19, 2019 12:51 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by ethereal_reality (Post 8635021)
mystery theater.

I always associated the widescreen process Cinerama with the Cinerama Dome.

This Kodachrome slide shows a second Cinerama Theater in Hollywood (or downtown Los Angeles)

https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/1...921/FftD4Y.jpg
eBay / found a long time ago.

Does anyone recognize this theater? (I have an idea..but I'll keep mum)

The studio(?) went to a lot of trouble...and spent alot of money...to cover up the theater's name. (the name is hidden underneath the tall blade sign, as well as on the marquee)

Was all this done just for the showing of South Seas Adventures? :shrug:


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Great to see a photo of the old Cinerama Theatre again.

Our neighbor on Grace Avenue was the manager and gave us tickets to all the original Cinerama movies. In the beginning, the movies were presented as travelogues, with introductions by Lowell Thomas.

The first film produced as a drama was How the West was Won in 1962. In those days, first run movies played at the Chinese, the Egyptian, Warner's and the Pantages.

West Side Story and Gold Finger played at the Chinese; Back Street and Imitation of Life played at Warner's; Spartacus, The Apartment, Cleopatra and Gypsy played at the Pantages; The Unsinkable Molly Brown and The Poseidon Adventure played at the Egyptian. I almost forgot the Paramount Theatre, which showed The Pleasure of His Company and The Young Philadelphians.

As a foot note, you can see William Stromberg's Jewelry Store and Mitchell's Men's Wear to the left of the theater. George, a salesman, later bought Mitchell's and changed the name to By George.

Mr. Stromberg, a true gentleman of his time, also had the Stromberg clock outside. It is still there, but has suffered the ravages of time. Mr. Stromberg gave cloisonné pins to every graduate of every class at Hollywood High School in those years as a graduation gift.

ethereal_reality Jul 19, 2019 2:09 AM

I just found this very interesting photograph on eBay


It's a rare look inside the Twin Barrels Drive In in Los Angeles.

https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/1...923/gguKFq.jpg
eBay


The Back
https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/1...923/RGPk2V.jpg









As a reminder. (I believe this has been posted before)

https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/6...921/ZFrxrL.jpg
old file

Twin Barrels 1010 East Slauson





And here's an exterior view, that we might have already seen, from gettyimages

" The Twin Barrels drive-in restaurant near Los Angeles - 1939 - Photographer: Ewing Galloway."

https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/1...924/DGfwbg.jpg
gettyimages





BUT...and it's a big but ;), if you look closely...this doesn't appear to be the 1010 East Slauson location.

Take a look at this.
https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/1...921/SAZw8Z.jpg
DETAIL

To the right of the car you can clearly see that the street address is 1227*...and not 1010 East Slauson.


It's a mystery!
.........................Get busy minions! :superwhip


* The street number is 7227 not 1227. (thanks GW)

FredH Jul 19, 2019 2:31 AM

:previous:

Drink Triple XXX Creamy Root beer!

https://i.postimg.cc/260hYDNj/Capture.png


:cheers:

Oh it's "root" beer. Never mind.

BillinGlendaleCA Jul 19, 2019 3:09 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by FredH (Post 8636181)
:previous:

Drink Triple XXX Creamy Root beer!


Oh it's "root" beer. Never mind.

Yeah, in the Valley XXX has a slightly different meaning.


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