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Interesting...I wondered how people selling things on eBay would react if one offered correct information. I'd rather some of them would say they don't really know, but that it might be...such and such. Of course, their main interest is in selling it. Maybe NLA could open a location detective service! ________ Love those gas station photos, HossC! |
OK, I've stared at this photograph for quite awhile.
What, pray-tell, is this horizontal square attached to the pole. http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/128...924/r92ahe.jpg Originally posted by HossC At first I thought it might it be where you stand to sign credit card receipts. Then I thought it might be a snack table. but now I'm not sure it's high enough off the ground. Does anyone know what it is? __ |
And while I'm asking questions.
What about the color-coordinated hoses. http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/102...923/vJvbGR.jpg detail edit: oops. I just realized Hoss said it was lubrication. __ |
I don't know why I never thought about it, as I know about a lot of things concerning the coast of California and WWII,
but I noticed an out of print book online called Santa Catalina Island Goes to War and in looking for photos from it, without much luck, I saw that the relatively new Catalina Island Museum also had an exhibit called "First Line of Defense," but it's gone and so is their webpage for the exhibit that was on their Museum site. I did, however, find a few items from some various news articles written about the exhibition, I don't recall seeing on NLA before. I am assuming the accompanying photos from the articles came from the exhibition. This was the exhibition's logo: http://ecatalina.com/images/1768/2654_1__medium.jpg When WWII began Catalina Island became "a training camp for OSS spies, commandoes, merchant marines, Coast Guard recruits, and other uniformed service members. Vacant hotels became barracks. Empty marinas, yacht clubs, and even the Cubs' spring training ballpark were transformed into simulated war zones. Between 1942 and 1945 four different branches of the Military were stationed on the Island. This is captioned "Soldiers march through Avalon." (You call them sailors don't you?) http://ecatalina.com/images/1768/2654_4__large.jpg ^^^ I noticed a sign for "Hotel Central" and one for a "Cafeteria" whose name possibly has two O's in it. GOOD? FOOD? At the Island villas. (Shooting craps? Shooting the breeze?) http://ecatalina.com/images/683/967_2__large.jpg United States Maritime Service (USMS) soldiers with anti-aircraft guns on Casino Point. http://ecatalina.com/images/1768/2654_2__large.jpg http://ecatalina.com/images/52/52_3__large.jpg The USMS soldiers during water training; learning to swim through oil and oil fires. http://ecatalina.com/images/1768/2654_3__large.jpg http://a.scpr.org/i/0c711fc4e4f5020e...58236-full.jpg Recruits running up the islands steep firebreaks. https://www.kcet.org/sites/kl/files/...ire-breaks.jpg Recruits training in Avalon Harbor. https://www.kcet.org/sites/kl/files/...-Harbor-sm.jpg Sixteen year old Norma Jean Baker (Marilyn Monroe) married Jim Dougherty. When he was sent to Catalina during WWII, he brought her along where she resided for a year. (1943) http://cdn.20m.es/img2/recortes/2011...82-557-550.jpg |
Speaking of WWII, the 75th anniversary of
The Great Los Angeles Air Raid is this weekend. http://www.redhotretro.com/wp-conten..._n-198x300.jpg Is anyone going? |
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Your labels really made things much more clearer. (I certainly don't remember a water tower at that spot!) __ |
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Ethelwyn Manor Heights/Mount Olivet/Franklin Hill
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Here's a rare collectible currently on ebay.
"Black-Foxe Military Academy belt buckle" http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/800...924/oMEkwe.jpg http://www.ebay.com/itm/RARE-Black-F...UAAOSwZQRYhpRo I like the fox head design. Quote:
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e_r, Did we talk about the surviving Black-Foxe buildings?:
"The men of the Black-Foxe Military Institute gathered at the school‘s last surviving buildings -- the erstwhile kindergarten and headmaster’s quarters -- of the long-closed academy on Wilcox Avenue just below Melrose. The Harry Hayden Whiteley--designed Mediterranean Revival structures are city-designated historical monuments and today form the home of David Aguirre. Aguirre, who hosted the reunion, is the Magic Castle maitre d‘ who bought the property five years ago and rehabilitated it from a homeless squat to its former glory." http://www.laweekly.com/news/men-of-...school-2133325 I can't find them. |
:previous: I can't remember offhand t2. I'll have to check it out.
Remember the ax murderer we most recently discussed back in January? Well here's the girl he took to the movies a few hours after he committed the murders. http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/xq90/923/wMPhuy.jpg ebay "Miss Mary Johnson, age 21, at the trial of Louis Rude Payne charged with hacking to death his mother and brother. Miss Johnson accompanied Payne to a picture show a few hours after the mother and brother were killed. She said she noticed nothing peculiar about the youth except that his clothes seemed disheveled when he called on her." 7/25/34 I think it was GW who pointed out the lack of blood in the bedroom-murder scene photographs. So are we to believe Payne didn't change his clothes (before going on his date) after hacking two people to death? Where's all the blood!! press release http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/102...924/GNKd4F.jpg |
Payne Murders.
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:previous: I didn't think of that t2.
So no blood splatter, but there'd still be blood. made me think of this..... http://imageshack.com/a/img922/8435/V4ty1h.gif where's the blood? ;) |
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I think corpses don't bleed much, if at all, just leak a bit, depending on how long they've been dead. Do we know how much damage Payne did to the bodies? Are there autopsy pix? ............................................................................................... On those Black-Foxe buildings, they're apparently the ones at 601 Wilcox (I was looking for something more institutional). That lot is within the old Black-Foxe footprint. https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/ri...A=w502-h494-no google maps https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/us...=w1024-h468-no gsv https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/cg...w=w820-h476-no google maps Harry Hayden Whiteley was the architect, but he didn't design the building and garage for the school. That was his own office at 520 S. Western Ave. The structures were moved to Wilcox for the headmasters residence and the kindergarten: https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/cM...Q=w675-h442-no https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/T9...g=w674-h448-no https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/8c...w=w673-h149-no ladbs This is what is at 520 S Western now: https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/Hb...w=w496-h437-no gsv |
'mystery' roster.
I had never heard of the 'Order of the Rainbow for Girls' until I came across this pamphlet. http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/xq90/923/mNUqZQ.jpg http://www.ebay.com/itm/RARE-1945-Or...UAAOSwa-dWosM3 http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/128...923/nJAQM4.jpg ebay Note that they're meeting at the Masonic Temple on Hollywood Blvd.....................................................:previous: Do you think the 'Order of Rainbow for Girls' was connected with the Masons, or were they just using the space? Dedication page. http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/128...923/cFr4GY.jpg ebay Sample roster page. G thru L http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/128...922/UtI99r.jpg ebay _ The Pin I'm thinking the cauldron might represent the 'pot of gold' at the end of the rainbow. (but the lid's on so I can't tell) ;) http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/800...924/2DrnwS.jpgdetail But what does B. F. G. L. stand for? (The R inside the triangle no doubt stands for Rainbow. __ |
It's the Mason organization for young women.
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ER I thought maybe the platform was a shelf to display cans of oil or other products with signage above and asymmetrical. Maybe the free 6 pack of Coke or dinnerware of the week. http://i.ebayimg.com/images/g/Y3EAAO...SjJ/s-l300.jpg |
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Could it be for cigarettes? Back in the day one could buy packs ($0.25) and cartons ($2.00) from the pump attendant. They were kept in a lock-up out on the apron. https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/zo...A=w529-h509-no |
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