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Let me throw these into the mix: https://oi445.photobucket.com/albums...kley/elks2.png http://www.tommyjones.org/salisburye...lksCon1921.jpg https://oi445.photobucket.com/albums...kley/elks1.png https://csl.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/...36891070005115 I think the Alhambra on the first photo may stand for the Alhambra loge float. One of the other photo seems to say Orange. Looks like the same handwriting on each photo The Hollywood Blvd. address may be the photographer's address? Found this note on one of the websites:"Elks held Convention in Los Angeles, July 1921. Festivities included several parades." Will this help? https://oi445.photobucket.com/albums...ley/parade.png Los Angeles Herald, July 14, 1921 |
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There is still a little house on the corner of 4582 Fountain Ave. at Lyman Place. Maybe it's the same house where the postcard was sent. |
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Here's an image of the El Rancho Santa Anita Shopping Center looking the other way, with the 1955 addition of Crawford's Valley National Bank to the south: https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/...cb703a07_o.pngold postcard https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/...092edbd2_b.jpg At least a bit of the rock facing on the '55 bank survives. You'll note the El Rancho Market in the distance in the postcard image. That was there first. El Rancho Supermarket opened in mid-1948, near the Santa Anita Racetrack, which Crawford had worked on in the early-1930s. Crawford was a master of the Late Moderne—dig the large sign pylon. Said the San Marino Tribune on June 1, 1948, "The market has two walls almost entirely of glass so that customers have a view of the mountains while they shop." Once the center had twenty stores and twenty-four offices, it was officially dedicated by Mayor Sullivan in May, 1950. These shots are by Shulman and the Getty says they're 1951 so LAPL's ca. 1955 date is off a few. https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/...b2b91de1_o.pnggetty https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/...b4c00b34_o.png The market is completely demolished; it's basically now the parking lot of a big ol' beige concrete thing with no glass. |
Here's another photo of the 1921 Elks parade. Again, I think this has the same handwriting. Luckily, this location is easier to find with United Shoe Stores at 133 S Broadway in the background.
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A few random photos out of the Life Magazine archives, apologies if any have been posted...
https://oi1381.photobucket.com/album...psoswbclif.jpg The queue outside the Union Rescue Mission, 1950's. https://oi1381.photobucket.com/album...psg1cpj0wt.jpg https://oi1381.photobucket.com/album...psdsabb7h3.jpg https://oi1381.photobucket.com/album...ps83cswzmi.jpg https://oi1381.photobucket.com/album...psveaivjr9.jpg Night driving in Hollywood, undated but likely mid-30's. https://oi1381.photobucket.com/album...psoikdwqxg.jpg Identified as an L.A. suburb, 1949. https://oi1381.photobucket.com/album...pstyudlig1.jpg A fashion show at a Bullock's store, about 1950...what's of interest here is the major construction in the background...my initial thought was that this could be the Westwood store (completed 1951), and this room is on the Le Conte Ave. side of the building....which would place the construction on the UCLA campus. https://oi1381.photobucket.com/album...psmpmyzsdn.jpg A party at Schwab's hosted by the columnist Sidney Skolsky (who filed his dispatches from a loft office in the building), 1946. https://oi1381.photobucket.com/album...psnzmwf4ll.jpg Just for fun....bottom left, there's a redhead at the counter with a black scarf tacked to the back of her hair....Lucille Ball? Midway up the counter a group of folks standing, including an attractive brunette....the 20 year-old Norma Jean Baker? To the left of Marilyn, a woman in profile seated at the counter, in a light colored suit...June Lockhart? At the near end of the 2nd center counter from bottom is a fair-haired fellow in profile, looking upward at something behind the counter....Dan Duryea? To the left and just below Duryea is a dark-haired woman with a smudge across her eyes, obscuring her features....now, that could be a random error in the photo processing, but it's placement is awfully strategic...and this was 1946, arguably the summit of the Noir city....so I want to believe that woman was celebrated, and did not want a certain someone aware that she had been at this affair (or, that she was having one)...so post-party she appeals to Life, requesting anonymity. https://oi1381.photobucket.com/album...psu8kc3re5.jpg No guesswork required here...Sidney Skolsky, Alan Ladd, and John Garfield. https://oi1381.photobucket.com/album...pseofxlzy1.jpg Undated, likely 1940's. |
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And on the right side, the man is wearing an interesting jacket, buttoned in a diamond shape. (Any one know what the medal pinned to it signifies?) |
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Now I'm reminded of that "I Love Lucy" episode where they're at the Brown Derby and Ethel taps a lady's shoulder and asks if one of the caricatures is either Shelley Winters or Judy Holliday, and the lady (who happens to be Eve Arden) turns around and says "Neither, it's uh, Eve Arden." :P |
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Hello Bill!
The LAT of 7/15/21 had pages and pages of Elks Parade coverage. In addition to the main parade, there were 3 others, including a night parade with special effects attributed to the movie studios.
The main parade kicked off from Pico and Hill, went north on Hill to make a right turn on Tenth, and then a left onto Broadway; the end was near the old city hall. The difficult to read word was indeed "Alhambra": ALHAMBRA PRAISED - Alhambra Elks did themselves proud in the turnout. Hundreds of the Alhambra Bills were in line, comprising an entire division. No.23, having their own band, and with the members in purple and white dress. A float, depicting an old mission scene also was entered in this division.- LAT 7/15/21 I can't unsee a Taco Bell on that float... The 1921 CD lists a dozen or more print shops along the parade route, but if I had to guess, I'd vote for the southern end as there seems to be residential housing visible in the distance. |
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Excellent sleuthing, everyone.
The Elks Parade mystery appears to have been SOLVED! :worship: now..about that man's umbrella. https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/3...923/Sa2TCw.jpg DETAIL . |
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