Good to see you GW!

Agreed - it's great to hear from you again, GW.

I've just had a quick read through your post about #61 Fremont Place (top-right in the image above). I posted some more recent photos of it in post #19436, but other than finding the "same single source" that mentions Myron Hunt, I didn't delve much into its history. Thanks for providing the interesting background details. Now I'll have to read your posts about the other 18 houses!

Actually . . . it may have been a Sanders System Drive In.

Per source, Sanders Chain Store, circa 1930 (Looking for listings.)





Sanders 1

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Sanders 2
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Sanders System Interior 1

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Sanders System Interior 2
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I found this slide on eBay earlier today. We've seen Ken Clark's Pontiac dealership at 3740 Crenshaw before on NLA (see below), but not this one.

http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...AKenClark1.jpg
eBay

The seller dates the picture above as 1940s, and the Crenshaw site was still an empty lot until at least 1952, so I had to look elsewhere. I Googled Ken Clark Pontiac, but all the first hits I got were for the Crenshaw address. Then I found a 2010 newsletter on encasedcollectorsinternational.org which has a "Guest Article" by "John C Clark (youngest of 3 sons of Kenneth DeLoss Clark)". Here's an extract:

"My father was Ken Clark. His first dealership was in Los Angeles at an address on Jefferson Blvd. Then, he expanded to what I believe was 4242 Crenshaw Blvd. (not sure - would have to research to double verify).

In the 50's, his last dealership before he sold it out in about 1960 to Majestic Pontiac was Ken Clark Pontiac at 3740 Crenshaw Blvd., at the corner of Crenshaw and Coliseum. That dealership stayed in business until around 2000, as the community then deteriorated and the dealers left Crenshaw Row, one by one."

The picture above has a prominent gasometer, and I didn't have to go far from the Crenshaw site before I spotted one between Exposition Boulevard and 36th Street. As I looked along Jefferson Boulevard, I saw there was an L-shaped building on the corner of 11th Avenue. It's just below Jefferson in the top-right corner of the 1948 aerial below.

http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...AKenClark2.jpg
Historic Aerials

Here's a shot of that building today.

http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...AKenClark3.jpg
GSV

This is Ken Clark Pontiac at 3740 Crenshaw Boulevard in either 1959 or 1960, depending on which source you believe. BifRayRock posted a smaller version of this image in post #13390.

http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...4.jpg~original
Alden Jewell on Flickr

As John C Clark mentioned, the dealership became Majestic Pontiac around 1960. Here's a picture I found that's titled "The former Majestic Pontiac dealership stands silent next door to the Holiday Bowl."

http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...AKenClark5.jpg
www.synthetrix.com

The dealership is now long gone ...

http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...AKenClark6.jpg
GSV

... but the original sign, complete with neon Indian, is still there.

http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...AKenClark7.jpg
GSV

More here: http://skyscraperpage.com/forum/show...&postcount=734




The Show must go on. (After a short delay?)


Repairs, while you wait!



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March 5, 1929 Auto Show melt down
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Anna May Wong at home. (Source suggests 1930s)



Anna May tre chic
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Anna May Wong 2
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Anna May Wong 3
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Anna May Wong 4
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Anna May Wong 5
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Anna May Wong 6
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Anna May Wong 7
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Anna May Wong 8 "Dear WigWag,"
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Anna May Wong 9
http://catalog.library.ca.gov/exlibr...QLAPVKJ65N.jpghttp://catalog.library.ca.gov/exlibr...QLAPVKJ65N.jpg


Anna May Wong 10 "Good appetite"
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GW, you're looking well. Always nice to see you. Is that a new jacket? It's a good color for you. I believe you've shed some weight.

Anyone care to join me at the Ivar Tea House?

1920s? (per source)
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1920s ? "A garden in the heart of Hollywood."
http://catalog.library.ca.gov/exlibr...CKR4USS5NR.jpghttp://catalog.library.ca.gov/exlibr...CKR4USS5NR.jpg

1938
http://jpg1.lapl.org/00098/00098968.jpghttp://jpg1.lapl.org/00098/00098968.jpg



1938 - The Ivar House backyard Tea Room.
http://jpg1.lapl.org/00098/00098967.jpghttp://jpg1.lapl.org/00098/00098967.jpg



1920s - According to source this is one of the attractive servers
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1920s Ivar House garden
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Ivar House in living tint. Date unk
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Ivar House Flower Shop
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1949 Ivar
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Could this be the street front? Somewhat doubtful :no:


Circa 1937 - "A house on Ivar"
http://jpg1.lapl.org/00097/00097991.jpghttp://jpg1.lapl.org/00097/00097991.jpg



And further up the hill at 2026 Ivar Ave, is an even less likely candidate.



1926 - 2026 Ivar Ave
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2026 Ivar Ave
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Next time call for reservations.
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Skyways Airport Hotel (9250 Airport Blvd 670-2900 ?)




Undated Skyways Airport Hotel Coffee Shop - Cafe
http://imgzoom.cdlib.org/Converter?i...0&w=1200&h=516
http://imgzoom.cdlib.org/Converter?i...6&w=1200&h=516


http://hdl.huntington.org/cdm/compou...id/18241/rec/1



Not to be confused with Snaps formerly on Western Ave.
http://jpg1.lapl.org/00008/00008761.jpghttp://jpg1.lapl.org/00008/00008761.jpg
Mid '60s "Snaps"
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Snaps Interior
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Snaps interior
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snaps interior 3
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Snaps interior 4
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Position filled?

1924 Airplane Cafe - Ready for Chili and takeoff.
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That's 6405 Bryn Mawr Drive. According to the property websites, it was built in 1926, and has four bedrooms and three bathrooms. It was last sold in February 2001 for $847,500, and is now valued at around $1.5m.

http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...nMawrDrive.jpg
Google Maps

Here's a detail from a panorama of Hollywood. It shows the house above just under the right side of the "BRYN MAWR" sign. LAboomer52 posted a couple of pictures of Bryn Mawr in post #3495. BTW. I don't think it's been mentioned that "bryn mawr" is Welsh for "big hill"!

http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...MawrDrive2.jpg
Detail of picture in USC Digital Library

I suppose I should have added "per source."

http://digitallibrary.usc.edu/cdm/co...id/72119/rec/2 :shrug:

1930 (per source) - Toonerville Trolley Cafe
http://jpg3.lapl.org/pics38/00068638.jpghttp://jpg3.lapl.org/pics38/00068638.jpg

Trolley Cafe
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;)

1937 - Sailors eating hot dogs at the Pike

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When the coffee could have been extra strong.


1941 -
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1940 - Wilshire - Fairfax looking North
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Biff and Tourmaline

I always enjoy the photos of the vintage drive-in restaurants.

Here's a photo of my stepdad's 1947 Buick [left] at a Burbank drive-in in 1948. I once asked him where he got the car. He said he took it from some of his gangster clients because they did not pay their legal fee to him. That's my mom with her head on the passenger side window. She was living in Glendale at that time and working in his jewelry store on Brand Blvd., Glendale.
My brother and I were living in San Bernardino with Mary Ellen who was the daughter of her father's 3rd wife and her husband John Dobson [right photo]. We were hiding out from my bio father who was wanted for assault and battery on my grandfather. That's myself, brother and the Dobsons. No one was supposed to know where my brother and I were. The photo [right] was taken at night as we had just arrived at the Dobson's home in San Bernardino. My bio father had already burned all of our furniture, baby photos and clothes.


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cd-

Thanks for sharing this interesting photo. That Buick is a beaut. In the background is one of Kevin McEldowney's Flower Shops.



1935 - Store Opening - Kevin McEldowney and unidentified female, possibly Ms. McEldowney? Looks like a teletype machine.
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Obit from Jan. 16, 2004:

Thank you Godzilla for the gorgeous post

That house is also addressed 6412 Quebec Drive. It looks very modest from this angle:
https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/-o...54229%2BPM.jpg
gsv

The slope above it seems to be doing its best to reverse the grading efforts:
https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/-M...54436%2BPM.jpg
gsv

I was wondering if the homeowner was Geo. W Hill (1895-1934), the film director. He was at his Venice Beach house at the time of his death. However, he suffered a very serious car accident (the injuries might have been the reason he committed suicide sometime later) which would have necessitated a move from the Bryn Mawr/Quebec house.

It's hard to tell from the 1926 photo, but Hill did tend to cock his head to the side, at least in photos (pretty slim evidence, plus I cannot tell if the kinda big rangey guy in the house photo is 31 or 61) This one of Hill is from 1928 when he was 33:
https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/-9...70757%2BPM.jpg
http://silverscenesblog.blogspot.com...of-golden.html

https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/-l...74219%2BPM.jpg
(detail) uscdl

Maybe another noirisher knows

Info on Hill and his brilliant career:
Wiki
IMDB

Hill was married to (also) brilliant Frances Marion (1888-1973) from 1930 to 1933. They had been very successful professional partners, but the marriage did not work out.

(Thank you HossC for the Quebec Drive address correction)

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CBD-- Interesting that this same picture with your family car etc was on ebay a few years ago (or at least that ER posted it here then)--

http://forum.skyscraperpage.com/show...ostcount=13054

http://forum.skyscraperpage.com/show...ostcount=13057


PS Hello unihikid, HossC, Michael Ryerson & all--

Los Angeles, Catch of the Day?


LA Rabbits and some happy and some not-so-happy endings?


1959 - Al Shotwell's 4th Birthday
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http://jpg3.lapl.org/pics30/00064553.jpghttp://jpg3.lapl.org/pics30/00064553.jpg


Undated, ad for Monrovia Rabbit Show?
http://jpg2.lapl.org/pics27/00048473.jpghttp://jpg2.lapl.org/pics27/00048473.jpg



Rabbit Fur Exhibition
http://jpg2.lapl.org/pics27/00048474.jpghttp://jpg2.lapl.org/pics27/00048474.jpg



1920http://jpg2.lapl.org/pics05/00012178.jpghttp://jpg2.lapl.org/pics05/00012178.jpg


1892 - San Fernando Rabbit kill. Yippee, Let the fun begin. (Bakersfield had its own fun too.)
http://jpg2.lapl.org/pics24/00046853.jpghttp://jpg2.lapl.org/pics24/00046853.jpg


July 1932 - At or near Florence and Hoover St intersection. Bon appétit!
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