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ethereal_reality Jun 8, 2019 8:26 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by GaylordWilshire (Post 8599357)

Are we sure those are RR tracks?

Yes.

https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/1...922/ouCQfs.jpg


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GaylordWilshire Jun 8, 2019 8:44 PM

:previous:

I like their Victorian Revival taste in depots, but there is no mention of it in this interesting history of the property--a good number of pics:

https://patch.com/california/northri...woodda41391a4a

Have we seen this house before on NLA??

There are loads of other pics via google


https://i.postimg.cc/qgV9ptV4/NRMAPNEW1-bmp.jpg
https://i.postimg.cc/VNZsmF7w/nrmapinside-UT-bmp.jpg

https://i.postimg.cc/XJ5RmKmQ/nrnewm...LUTTTT-bmp.jpg

ethereal_reality Jun 8, 2019 11:22 PM

:previous:




What a picnic!


https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/1...922/ol7ih5.jpg


Taylor and Stanwyck, Zeppo and Marion and Gable and Lombard. ....I don't know who the mystery woman is. ....Her 'other half' must be taking the photograph.

Thanksgiving 1936.

barbara-stanwyck / a visit to marwyck

riichkay Jun 9, 2019 12:59 AM

Peter Stackpole (1913-1997) was one of four staff photographers hired on at Life Magazine when publication began in 1936...based in Los Angeles, he was responsible for 26 Life covers, most of these were of film stars....a representative sampling of his L.A. work....


https://i1381.photobucket.com/albums...sykao45vs.jpeg

Rita Hayworth and friends at her home, 201 Veteran Ave. in Westwood....1940.



https://i1381.photobucket.com/albums...psr040wkwo.png
GSV




https://i1381.photobucket.com/albums...psvsdr62o7.jpg

Alfred Hitchcock in his rooms at the Wilshire Palms Apts., 10331 Wilshire Blvd., 1940....Hitch is facing east here, the cross street is Comstock Ave....the tall trees are obscuring the north course at Los Angeles Country Club.



https://i1381.photobucket.com/albums...psbgcu8otp.jpg

"There is a man, a certain man....What is his name?....it's Charlie Kane!"....Welles rehearsing his dance number at RKO Studios, 1940.



https://i1381.photobucket.com/albums...pscqwzo4we.jpg

Dona (pronounced "dough-nuh") Drake, an actress, at her home in 1942...I'd never heard of her, turns out '42 was her big year as she appeared in the Hope/Crosby vehicle "Road to Morroco" (apparently, she hooked up with Bob during the shoot)...she had to hide her African-American heritage to preserve her viability in the industry.



https://i1381.photobucket.com/albums...psmandbbby.jpg

Swim team at UCLA, 1940's.



https://i1381.photobucket.com/albums...psrjhkstz6.jpg

For a 1946 feature on the post-war housing shortage Stackpole photographed this improvised home site above P.C.H.




Stackpole was apparently taken with the colorful real estate sales offices springing up in the Valley, 1946....


https://i1381.photobucket.com/albums...psvrt3kkxz.jpg



https://i1381.photobucket.com/albums...psrz8puihi.jpg



https://i1381.photobucket.com/albums...pswt2v7tes.jpg

One of the blackboard listings refers to a lot in a "restricted" tract, this was a reference to the so-called "race restrictions", common to subdivisions of the time, which limited sales to Caucasians...such restrictions where found to be unconstitutional by the U.S. Supreme Court in 1948.



https://i1381.photobucket.com/albums...pst88cwqrs.jpg

Macconnell House, La Jolla, 1947....designed by William P. Kesling, who claimed to have briefly worked as Rudolf Schindler's draftsman before opening his own office at 1639 Silverlake Blvd. in 1935....Kesling designed numerous L.A. commercial buildings and residences (including the Wallace Beery house on Martel Ave. and the Beery duplex on Waring Ave.) before relocating to San Diego.



https://i1381.photobucket.com/albums...pskrav4zno.jpg



https://i1381.photobucket.com/albums...psaqpoxbfl.jpg



https://i1381.photobucket.com/albums...pst51kvjmx.jpg



https://i1381.photobucket.com/albums...pssmffaxix.jpg

From an article on the training of female deputies at the L.A. County Sheriff's Office....November 1950.

Godzilla Jun 9, 2019 2:14 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by GaylordWilshire (Post 8599525)
:previous:

I like their Victorian Revival taste in depots, but there is no mention of it in this interesting history of the property--a good number of pics:

https://patch.com/california/northri...woodda41391a4a

Have we seen this house before on NLA??


:previous:http://www.skyscraperpage.com/forum/...ostcount=35730




https://patch.com/img/cdn/users/1524....jpg?width=705https://patch.com/img/cdn/users/1524....jpg?width=705




http://www.gstatic.com/hostedimg/a7cd0e7f43df03d1_largehttp://www.gstatic.com/hostedimg/a7cd0e7f43df03d1_large

FredH Jun 9, 2019 2:19 AM

[QUOTE=riichkay;8599692]Peter Stackpole (1913-1997) was one of four staff photographers hired on at Life Magazine when publication began in 1936...based in Los Angeles, he was responsible for 26 Life covers, most of these were of film stars....a representative sampling of his L.A. work....




https://i1381.photobucket.com/albums...psrjhkstz6.jpg

For a 1946 feature on the post-war housing shortage Stackpole photographed this improvised home site above P.C.H.




Wow! Looks like a few WW2 vets hit the jackpot here. Good for them.

CityBoyDoug Jun 9, 2019 4:58 AM

https://66.media.tumblr.com/cc7d25d5...px5vo1_500.gif
r. walsh

High Sierra 1941, Warner Bros...Starts in the city and ends in the high sierras

https://66.media.tumblr.com/e338854c...px5vo1_500.gif
walsh Warner Bros

https://66.media.tumblr.com/66891f51...px5vo1_500.gif
Warner Bros.

Los Angeles Star newspaper.....

ScottyB Jun 9, 2019 5:22 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by ethereal_reality (Post 8599517)

Great, uh, sleuthing, e_r! :tup:

ethereal_reality Jun 9, 2019 6:29 AM

'mystery' barn / 'mystery' people

https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/1...924/8dUgTO.jpg
EBAY

I don't believe the building is an actual barn but I don't know how else to describe it. It almost looks like a crib..but it isn't that either. :shrug:
I have NO idea why there are barrels on the roof...and I'm especially intrigued by the flag.


I'm hoping one of you sleuths can make out what it says on the flag.
https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/6...923/5PbWG7.jpg
DETAIL


REVERSE
https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/8...922/4zKBiv.jpg

for search purposes: Howland & Chadwick, 211 South Main St. Opposite Cathedral, Los Angeles California


and this was penciled on the reverse.

https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/6...921/Ty3S25.jpg

Noir_Noir Jun 9, 2019 6:30 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by ScottyB (Post 8599842)
Great, uh, sleuthing, e_r! :tup:



Brilliant sleuthing indeed ... really ethereal. :worship:



But that sure was a long old walk to their front doors from Minnesota for Barbara and Zeppo when they hopped off the train. :D

CaliNative Jun 9, 2019 8:42 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Martin Pal (Post 8598461)
:previous:

I fixed the last line!

"More than 100 brews did we brew,
Perfecting the new finer Brew 102.
In the East and West,
Maier Beer is the best.
At least until 1972."

Martin, you are the noirish poet laureate.

GaylordWilshire Jun 9, 2019 11:09 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by ethereal_reality (Post 8599858)
'mystery' barn / 'mystery' people

https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/1...924/8dUgTO.jpg
EBAY

I don't believe the building is an actual barn but I don't know how else to describe it. It almost looks like a crib..but it isn't that either. :shrug:
I have NO idea why there are barrels on the roof...and I'm especially intrigued by the flag.
and this was penciled on the reverse.

https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/6...921/Ty3S25.jpg


A sampler has to with mining-- where ore was inspected for quality and a price determined. So I think the flag might say "Free Ore [testing]" or something like that. I guess the barrels store water for washing down the samples??

CityBoyDoug Jun 9, 2019 2:02 PM

Interesting but where exactly was this located?

https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/1...922/ouCQfs.jpg

I do not see it in any old photos. Maybe I missed it.

ethereal_reality Jun 9, 2019 6:45 PM

It's a joke.

ethereal_reality Jun 9, 2019 7:39 PM

Here's an interesting Los Angeles snapshot from the 'flapper' era. [1928]

https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/1...922/Fftv2i.jpg
Ebay

"DORTHY DEAN. A young flame of mine."....note the O was left out of Dorothy.




I located a couple of clues.

UCLA Register 1928-1929
https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/6...921/9wWNLH.jpg
UCLA


and in the 1937 city directory.
https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/6...921/ooNw6j.jpg
lapl




SIDENOTE:.... LLoyd Bridges married a Dorothy Dean that appeared in the 1921 film 'Finders Keepers'. ....IMDB
Could she be the Dorothy Dean that appears in the snapshot? :shrug:

odinthor Jun 9, 2019 8:14 PM

:previous:

e_r, here is a Dorothy Dean, if perhaps not the Dorothy Dean...

https://i.postimg.cc/3wjZNpHQ/Dorothy.jpg
LA Times of 4/8/1914 via ProQuest via CULB Library, much edited

badrunner Jun 9, 2019 10:04 PM

1936 Northridge sure looks nice. Like heaven on earth. Today not so much.

CityBoyDoug Jun 9, 2019 11:12 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by ethereal_reality (Post 8599517)


https://media0.giphy.com/media/CabyN...&rid=giphy.gif...https://media0.giphy.com/media/a3AmT...&rid=giphy.gif

Lomara Jun 9, 2019 11:34 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by ethereal_reality (Post 8600141)
Here's an interesting Los Angeles snapshot from the 'flapper' era. [1928]

https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/1...922/Fftv2i.jpg
Ebay

"DORTHY DEAN. A young flame of mine."....note the O was left out of Dorothy.




I located a couple of clues.

UCLA Register 1928-1929
https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/6...921/9wWNLH.jpg
UCLA


and in the 1937 city directory.
https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/6...921/ooNw6j.jpg
lapl




SIDENOTE:.... LLoyd Bridges married a Dorothy Dean that appeared in the 1921 film 'Finders Keepers'. ....IMDB
Could she be the Dorothy Dean that appears in the snapshot? :shrug:

According to Wikipedia, Dorothy Dean (real name: Dorothy Simpson, before she married Lloyd Bridges) was born in 1915, so in 1928 she would be only 13 years old. And only a child of 6 at the time of Finders Keepers.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dorothy_Bridges

FredH Jun 10, 2019 12:41 AM

Brew 102
 
No...they didn't just brew crappy beer. They also brewed crappy malt liquor and crappy draft beer.

https://i.postimg.cc/HstD8Tfq/IMG-20190609-173025.jpg
My Photo


And note (for all you Stoned Age fans) these are "Talls".

https://i.postimg.cc/CKBQ70QL/talls.png

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=12zmH-wR9JA


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