I have to agree with you Doug, at least for the Whittier C+P's. I wasn't that impressed and it reminded me of the let down i felt at Love's on Pico (it made Beverlywood/Beverly Hills/ Cheviot Hills smell great! but that was it).

I loved when my parents would shop at Alpha Beta, the smell of Loves would hit you as soon as you got out of the car.

Gypsy Boots used to give us blood oranges.

Gypsy knew all the Hollywood Sunday farmer's market vendors-- he got plenty freebies every time he prowled the lanes there---- The Jack Paar Show among others had him on as a guest too ----

Manuel Cuevas was a long time tailor and designer at Nudies and later set up his own business. It took a guy from Mexico and one from Russia to dress American C&W singers. Only in LA.

That building at La Tijera and Airport looks like it was formerly a Home Savings branch.

As to BBQs, anyone recall Harry's Open Pit at Sunset and Crescent Heights?

https://ca-times.brightspotcdn.com/d...w76-snap-photoArt Rogers/L.A. Times


From the Archives:
The Hareport Chronicles
Nov. 19, 1946: Early morning view of scores of jackrabbits watching activities at Los Angeles Municipal Airport, slated to open to major airlines on December 9, 1946.(Art Rogers / Los Angeles Times)

While taking this image, former Los Angeles Times staff photographer Art Rogers remembers “someone was using a jackhammer and suddenly stopped and all the rabbit ears went up.”

This photo ran the width of the page across the top of the daily L.A. Times picture page. It was well-received by editors and readers everywhere — except at City Hall.

Los Angeles Times columnist Gene Sherman explained Los Angeles Mayor Fletcher Bowron’s reaction in 1948:

About two years ago you may recall the startling picture taken by Times Photographer Art Rogers. It showed Los Angeles Airport framed above a row of bunnies alert along the east end, ears aloft. For some peculiar reason the picture created quite a stir…

… Setting some kind of precedent, Mayor Bowron categorically denied the photograph. When the picture later appeared in a national magazine, the mayor again challenged the integrity of photographic plate and flash bulb and informed the world that the idea of jackrabbits on the airport was pure poppycock…

.… From time to time passengers in giant air liners are amused when giant jacks race the plane on take-off. Until now, none of the rabbits has left the ground. … A week later Mayor Bowron capitulated and visited Sherman at The Times office. Bowron presented Sherman with a real airport bunny. Sherman named the rabbit “Poppycock.”

The rabbits were such a feature of the early days that they became nationally famous through the prize-winning picture made by Times photographer Art Rogers, who crept up on the airfield one day at dawn and caught hundred of them flocking around a couple of DC-3s.

Much to the consternation of former Mayor Bowron, the place thereafter was referred to as International Hareport.
The jackrabbit photo by Art Rogers was published as a double-page spread in the Dec. 2, 1946, edition of Life magazine.
[Which you can see HERE, pages 36-37.]

According to this Facebook post:

HARRY'S OPEN PIT BAR-B-Q RIBS was founded by Alan Phillips and located on Crescent Heights just south of Sunset Blvd, near Schwab's Pharmacy. Around 1983, the business moved across the street to the NW corner of Sunset & Crescent Heights. The venue began to showcase local bands on weekends, which also served liquor. By 1987, Harry's had turned into a full fledged club, so the BBQ business was moved to the recently vacant Famous Amos Cookies location at Sunset & Formosa. The club was renamed 'Coconut Teazser' after one of the house drinks. The club closed in 2004. Harry's went out of business in 1990.

https://scontent-lax3-1.xx.fbcdn.net...8b&oe=5FDA8A7CFacebook post

Other info here: Old LA Restaurants

Hello Neal. The Chris &Pitts BBQ I am talking about is located at 9839 Artesia, Bellflower. Its been there for many decades.

Welcome to NLA. I look forward to your cool comments and your photos.

Bob Wyan the Founder/owner of Bob's Big Boy Inc. used to waltz into my father's Law Office in the 1950s and try to get him to do unethical illegal things. My father said ''NO'' and that was the last time we went to Bob's restaurant.

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mystery street

I just happened upon this street scene on eBay

https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/1...924/SURpoC.jpg
eBay

Does this intersection look familiar to any of you noirishers?




There's an additional clue a bit further down the street.

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detail

Hotel or motel blade sign.

Sweet elderly lady. ...(or maybe she's mean. .I don't know)

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The old westerns often featured crooked bankers, greedy cattle barons and arrogant railroad bosses, all congenial figures to the old CP censors. There were plenty of lefty screenwriters in Hollywood, though they were not the sinister subversives alleged by the HUAC.

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TOP O' THE TAIL?



We've already seen 'Tail o' of the Cock' on NLA but what in the heck are these posters for 'Top o' the Tail' all about?

https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/1...924/qnFoUI.jpg
eBay

The year is 1966.






Here's a closer look in order to see the details.

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detail


If I were to guess, I'd say this was some sort of private or special party at the La Cienega location. .but whenever I see 'Top' I immediately think of a venue on top of a skyscraper
like the Top of the Mark in San Francisco & the Tip Top Tap on top of the Allerton Hotel in Chicago.











if interested:

McHenry's Tail o' the Cock in the San Fernando Valley, 1958.
Here. . . .and Here (thanks Hoss!)
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I remember the wonderful fried shrimp dinners with baked potatoes, impeccable service and warm, cozy atmosphere. Sad that so many steak houses have disappeared over time.

Ah, Harry's Open Pit: 1/2 a barbecued chicken and French fries for .55 cents. We used to duck in there while selling the Free Press across the street.

Old lady's crossing Jackson at Broadway in Glendale. The building on the right is still there and operating as a paint store.

Nathan "Beaudry" Marsak slings Bunker Hill lore with on Saturday's Esotouric webinar
 

Greetings noirists,

Please forgive the event plug, but I wanted to pull your sleeve to this Saturday's Esotouric webinar, “A Visit to Lost Bunker Hill with author Nathan Marsak.”

Nathan will be talking about the long research road that led to his new book, "Bunker Hill Los Angeles: Essence of Sunshine and Noir" (Angel City Press), and we'll be joined by Bunker Hill native son Gordon Pattison. And a new Cranky Preservationist video will be debuted during the show.

The webinar ends with a Q&A, so bring your nerdiest lost L.A. questions and let's see if you can stump these two time travelers. Tickets are $10, and the program can be watched live at noon on 11/21, or recorded for one week.

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EnR0fwiW...pg&name=medium

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mystery snapshot.

"MAGIC MIRROR in DOOR w REFLECTION TRIPOD CAMERA MAN & BOYS ~ 1960s VINTAGE PHOTO"


https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/1...923/buCH9Z.jpg
eBay

I faintly recall the exterior of this unique photography studio but the name Lemon Grove Studio doesn't ring a bell for me. . .
. .but if I were to make a guess I'd say this studio is somewhere along Sunset Blvd.





Here's the reverse.

https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/8...924/NVVsl4.jpg
not much help clue wise







Here's a closer look at the man and boys.

https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/1...923/8zRVDe.jpg

I wonder if the man with the tripod works at Lemon Grove Studio?








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My next door neighbor was the Head Maître D at the La Cienega location during the late 60's. In fact that location had a strict vehicle policy for employees, the cars had to either be black or of higher quality. We lived on the 1400 block of Spaulding, a middle class neighborhood, and so accordingly Mr. Lewis ordered a 1965 Ford Country Squire, painted black with the wood paneling removed as to not attract attention in the parking lot. He used the car strictly to travel the 3 miles to work and back. He retired in 1972 and the wagon was moved once a week until he was placed in a home in 1992. The wagon now has 30,982 miles on it. I was promised it about 20 years ago...Mrs. Lewis (98)is still alive and has finally decided to let me have it and its going to be a winter project.

https://i.postimg.cc/Rh56ZFH3/068.jpg
Photo by me 1442 Spaulding Demo

https://i.postimg.cc/QdHXvDFv/DSC03806.jpg
Photo by me 1442 Spaulding Demo

Im hoping to maybe find a few older pics of TTOTC with the wagon in the lot.

I doubt that wagon car had any wood on it. The ''wood'' was a vinyl glue-on.

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I happened upon this rppc this afternoon on eBay


3314 Thompson Street, Los Angeles - postmark 1915

https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/1...924/hFMGab.jpg
eBay



On the reverse the writer explains how the house is much larger than it looks.

https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/1...924/QOZnaq.jpg



But the only Thompson Street that shows up on Google-Earth is in Glendale & Chatsworth and neither location appears to be match.



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Look what I just found! ....Another snapshot taken in front of the Lemon Grove Studio building.

"BOY w SCHWINN BICYCLE LEVIS JEANS & CHUCK TAYLOR CONVERSE SHOES ~ 1965 PHOTO"

https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/1...923/AG2K7A.jpg
eBay

It appears that a couple of additional companies have moved into the building. ...ARICAL...&...The John Clair Pictures Company.




And if you look closer there is a street number.

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5348. :)

And, as you can see, the decorative mirror is missing. (shown below)






As a reminder, and so you don't have to scroll back, here is the first photo again.

https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/1...923/WJiPe4.jpg
eBay



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:previous:
Here's another photo from the same eBay seller. The sign has similar lettering to "Lemon Grove Studio", and on the back are stamps for Arical and John Clair.
https://i.postimg.cc/gjC6RqxY/Arical1.jpg
https://i.postimg.cc/CKcBJVRr/Arical2.jpg
https://i.postimg.cc/gjZxYXN1/Arical3.jpg
eBay


And another mystery arises: what is the photo being held by "Gabriel"?

Also, this one from the same seller just feels related somehow... "RESERVED PARKING JERRY LEWIS SHOW":
https://i.postimg.cc/SRzCRNyY/Jerry-Lewis-Parking.jpg
eBay

delete

I could not find anything on Arical or John Clair Pictures but I did take a flyover at 5348 Lemon Grove Avenue in Hollywood.


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


The "Lemon Grove Studio" was probably housed in this small building in the backyard.

https://i.imgur.com/BVU06pd.jpg
Google Maps


:shrug:

No need to waste a comment entry.

https://i.pinimg.com/564x/8a/ba/e6/8...22e29a9304.jpg
flickr

Mommy Dearest carves the bird. Another fun day for her daughter Christina and son.

:previous:

I'm pretty sure that's Kathleen Freeman, a little younger than we usually think of her.

Here she is in 1951:

https://i.postimg.cc/L8FZKwcy/Freeman.jpg
From: https://worldofwonder.net/bornthisda...hleen-freeman/

She was in many of Jerry Lewis' films (not always credited; sometimes just her voice), and was presumably a friend of his, so it makes sense that she would be spotted in the parking lot for his show. I saw her live in a performance of Bye Bye Birdie (also featuring Jerry Van Dyke and Shari Lewis) in Santa Monica. She played the character Albert's mother.

Recognizable character actress. Been in hundreds of things - but never knew her name. She passed in 2001.

That turkey looks like a sheep's head! Was this photo taken the night before the 3AM "no metal coat hangers!" meltdown? You gotta admire her, a real survivor. She parlayed her fading stardom into marrying the head of Pepsi and ended up practically running the company. If she were alive today she'd probably be richer than Bezos & Buffett & Gates combined. PEP the company has a huge market valuation today. I think she talked the board of Pepsi into buying Frito/Lay snack foods, which is very profitable. She had a good head for business. Probably would have run MGM better than L.B. Meyer.

Heddi Lamarr was another smart cookie. Came up with the idea for frequency hopping in wireless communications to make them secure.

Was she also Mrs. Olson, the Folger's coffee lady? And was she the housekeeper in the house atop Mt. Rushmore, who pulls a gun on Thornhill (Cary Grant) in NBNW?

The address is actually 2319.... Thompson Street north of Adams was renamed as a northerly extension of Portland Place circa 1925.

"F. L. W." would be Florence L. Warner, a bank stenographer; "mother" was Fannie Warner, a widow, who owned the house.

Flo married Verne R. Pentecost, an assistant cashier at Security National, around Feb 15 of 1915...so perhaps she was encouraging J.S. Mitchell to come west for the wedding.



https://i.postimg.cc/TwP40WgL/thomps...nd2314-bmp.jpg
2319 Portland née Thompson


https://i.postimg.cc/kg4skdDz/thompson2325-bmp.jpg
2325 Portland née Thompson

Congratulations, unihikid. Seems odd for someone to have ordered a Country Squire only to remove the Di-Noc within the fiberglass frame. Why not just order a black Country Sedan? Anyway, you'll have a good time with this one. First year of a new body, first year of the rear scoops to keep dust off the back window...hard to tell, but it looks like it could have the great 289 V8...or even the 240 Six, which would be a rare bird indeed (352, 390 and up V8s would have, at least originally, an emblem behind the front wheels). You can de-code the data plate here. I have a couple of old Ford wagons...the Squire framing was real wood around Di-Noc through '53 and into very early production '54, fiberglass after that.

Have fun.

I'm sorry Doug, most car people i talk to about it, remember that they stopped using real wood on cars around 1952. The wood paneling i was talking about is called Dinoc. My father grew up with a real wood wagon and loved it. My grandmother bought it new and kept it up until the late 60's, the roof leaked (wood and canvas) and it was too much up keep for her at the time.

https://i.postimg.cc/PxP0x1jz/033.jpg
Dad, with my aunts, 1947 Pontiac Woody and Lassie

https://i.postimg.cc/dVZBLnk0/043.jpg
Dad and my aunts (Uncle tony was cut out by my aunt)and Woody C1948

https://i.postimg.cc/SKTCdMzP/044.jpg
All Photos taken in LA 1947-48 at Sheen Residence on Kenwood

Thanks GW! I think Mr. Lewis had an "IN" at Ford (his nephew was an engineer at ford :shrug:). I've been eyeing this wagon most of my life, so i'm over the roof. It came from the factory with a 352, but had a rebuild at the local Montgomery Wards in 1981(with 21,000 miles. The receipt is in the glove box...i wanna know why the rebuild ?) and they have it being rebuilt as a 390! It doesn't have the jump seats, but is pretty much untouched.

Couldn't resist finding the house-- 2642 Kenwood, built in 1907. At one time the home of real estate man Roy C. Seeley and in 1948 the home of Dr. Herbert A. Sheen. A few recent GSVs:

Feb 2020
https://i.postimg.cc/CK5gL445/kenwoodnewer-bmp.jpg
https://i.postimg.cc/HLkp8mTp/kenwoodnewer2-bmp.jpg


March 2009
https://i.postimg.cc/sDzCZzJt/kenwoodolder-bmp.jpg

Kenwood!
 

Bingo GW! my Grandparents moved to Kenwood in 1945, and i think they sold it in the late 70's.

https://i.postimg.cc/xdyVDzmT/085.jpg
From L-R: Aunt Mildred, Aunt Eugenia, Granny, Aunt Delores cutting cake, Dad, Papa aka Dr. Sheen at Clifton's 1950


https://i.postimg.cc/sxqyTCkk/082.jpg
From top: Uncle Tony, Aunt Eugenia, Aunt Delores, Dad, and Aunt Mildred 1947
in front of Kenwood

Since you know your cars GW, check out the license plate topper. Dad evidently got into a few car incidents because he thought he could get away with speeding in Papa's Cadillac's (he bought a new one every other year)

https://i.postimg.cc/0NYYx8ZC/057.jpg
Aunt Mildred, Dad, Lassie and Medical License plate topper.

IIRC, the Country Squires with the faux wood paneling were of a higher trim spec. An all-black wagon might not have as nice an interior, or would have to be special-ordered to attempt at a better interior.

My folks had two Country Squires with the faux wood - 1968 and 1973 (to replace the '68). The 1968 had the 390 and the 1973 had the 351.

Thanks so much for your sleuthing, Noir Noir.

At first I highly doubted the little fancy studio was in the backyard . . .but they really do seem to match!

Amazing discovery. :)


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mystery location.


"Los Angeles Street, aerial photo, Novack Salvage Yard, 1957."


https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/1...923/hdl7FL.jpg
eBay

I don't think the salvage yard is actually on "Los Angeles Street". I believe the seller means the location is Los Angeles and the photograph shows a street.



Let's take a closer look at the photograph.

https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/1...923/ShdGgS.jpg
detail





And here's the salvage yard from a different angle.


https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/1...922/49k6He.jpg
eBay

This angle gives you a good look at the rail spur.



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:previous:

The Novack Salvage Yard was just north of Mission Boulevard at Milliken Avenue in Ontario. The top view below is from 1959.

https://hosting.photobucket.com/imag...ckSalvage1.jpg
Historic Aerials/Google Maps

Nice find! Looks like the Novack building was located where the curve of Philadelphia Street bends to reach the approach of the fly-over of the still-extant rail ROW.

Now what is an "Animal Removal" company?!? :eek:

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"3314 Thompson Street, Los Angeles - postmark 1915"

https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/8...924/hFMGab.jpg

House located by GaylordWilshire. (NOT at 3314 Thompson St.)

https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/8...922/gsXLKy.jpg
2319 Portland née Thompson


Thanks so much for finding the house, GW.....I don't know how you did it. :hmmm:


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Thanks for sharing the photographs of your beautiful family, unihikid.

https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/1...924/qoaUXp.jpg
unihikid

I'm curious. .did you ever have a chance to ask your dad what song he is performing for your aunts?


Was the family Collie really named Lassie? . . or are you joshing us. :)


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artsy.net bio.....

Vivian Maier was a photography hobbyist whose output would become an influential body of work in the 20th-century street photography. Maier was a nanny and caregiver with a hidden passion for photography that resulted in over 100,000 negatives—mostly discovered posthumously. She picked up a camera for the first time in 1947 and worked late into the 1990s capturing her favored subjects: fleeting moments and images from her urban surroundings in Chicago and New York, touching upon destitution, urban development, pedestrian culture, and the American identity. Her later works featured fewer figures and took more interest in found objects, graffiti, and detritus.  

She was out here on at least two occasions....


https://hosting.photobucket.com/imag...0aeef9d(3).jpg
1955



https://hosting.photobucket.com/imag...er/26_3(1).jpg
1959

Isn't anyone else interested why "Uncle tony" got cut out of the photograph?

I've seen people do this in movies or TV shows; characters cutting out people in photographs for one reason or another, but I've never known it to be done in actual practice!

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I was curious but I was afraid it might be too personal. ... So I asked about Lassie instead. :)


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Here's an interesting rppc. (real photo postcard)


https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/1...922/60nObM.jpg
ebay






Let's take a closer look at the photograph on the left.

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detail

Note the two workers.

Is that a ghost sign on the building next door?






The postcard was addressed to 'County Flood Control' at 8th and Figueroa.

https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/1...924/O9lpMt.jpg

It was postmarked at the Arcade Station in 1937....Hmmm. .but the Arcade Station was long gone by 1937. ....So what, exactly, is the Arcade Annex?
(I've seen the postmark many times but I've never specifically asked about the annex)





for search purposes: southwest equipment co. - 1928 e. 7th St. - L. A. - VA.8521 - sales - rentals

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We have probably seen the MissionVillage Auto Court but I don't remember seeing this excellent sepia rppc.


https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/1...924/9WEEsv.jpg
eBay

4 Acres....5675 W. Washington Blvd. ...Los Angeles

The reverse is blank.




Here's the area today.

https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/1...922/uTpRO2.jpg
GSV

'4 acres' is quite large. I imagine the Mission Village Auto Court was replaced by the United States Post Office on the southwest corner. (this is a guess)




There's something interesting down the street.

A large sign appears to say MAMMY. :shrug:

https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/1...922/sNqEoF.jpg
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If my coordinances are correct this would be the west side of S. La Brea just below Washington Blvd.


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The 1939 CD gives the following:

Mammy's Shack (Chas H Cole) Established 1923, Chicken, Steak and Squab Dinners, Cocktails, 5687 W Washington Blvd.

There are various pictures online, but none that I've found are an exact match for the sign above (one has a similar font with the colors reversed). I make the addresses near S Fairfax in Culver City.

You answered your own question back in April 2014, e_r:

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Speaking as a former Public Works manager, that piece of equipment looks dangerously off-balance, especially in the long boom configuration. I don't see any outrigger stabilizers or counterweights. With a full bucket, I can see it tipping over quite easily. :runaway: