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A snapshot of the 77 Sunset Strip strip club on Sunset Blvd. in 1975. https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/1...922/GsUncr.jpg I'm surprised this place avoided litigation over using the name. I don't think they'd get away with it now days. ^^^^ Pretty clever name for a strip joint on Sunset. Maybe the producers of the TV show thought it was clever so they didn't sue (the early '60s show may have been in reruns), or maybe they did sue and that's why the club closed. Honorary sleuth award for any person who finds out why the strip joint closed, or if they were sued. I bet Kookie was a regular at the strip joint. Maybe he was the parking lot attendant in the lot behind. |
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There are three 4 x 5 negatives for sale on eBay of the De Ville Motel and the surrounding area on 7th Street. This is the negative I happened upon first. ...We're looking west on 7th Street. https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/1...922/hwYqhH.jpg eBay I was peasantly surprised when I came across this 2nd negative looking east towards the Statler Hotel. https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/1...922/wSZAt6.jpg eBay The policeman must be in al's enjoying a cup of coffee....hmm. . .I wonder if al's is lower case because de Ville is? (lower case) note the map store down the block. And lastly, the 3rd negative was taken from the De Ville parking ramp looking south towards the fine old building across the street. https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/1...922/dCoAxz.jpg eBay Sadly, the building across the street is gone. :( ...Does anyone know the name of the building or its purpose? (and when it was demolished) I thought it was an apartment building but then I noticed it doesn't have a front entrance. The de Villa Motel is still in business as the City Center Hotel. 1123 W. 7th Street . |
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The club's former name was Rogue's Gallery - seen here in 1973. https://i.imgur.com/l0UH1X8.jpg getty.edu Roger Smith, one of 77 Sunset Strip's stars, last screen role was in the 1968 film Rogue's Gallery. :???: :shrug: |
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A little color: https://i.postimg.cc/cCBrVnFy/deville-LApc-bmp.jpg Sounding ritzy like the Cadillac, there were probably Motel de Villes all over the country. I'm reminded of a contemporanous Motel de Ville in my hometown of New Orleans...along a long strip of humping academies out toward the airport there. (This De Ville is gone.) https://i.postimg.cc/RV0SMyFn/devillenola-bmp.jpg |
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That's an amazing photo! Do you know the history of the building? Mystery location from eBay: https://i.imgur.com/LudU97Y.png?1 https://www.ebay.com/itm/sl09-Origin...7f3a%7Ciid%3A1 The title says Gardena but I'm not sure about that. The area looks a little too hilly. The streetlights are cool but I don't think Gardena ever had that style. The location could be just outside city limits though. |
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If only we could turn those two street/traffic signs around! If it's the same location as the phone number on the sign, OV-60791, the OV exchange is in Montebello. (OV = Overbrook) Per: Old Telephone Exchange Names / Los Angeles County http://www.laalmanac.com/communications/cm01e.php |
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Getty/Ed Ruscha Ruscha caught the black coupe turning right onto Sunset Blvd. from N. McCadden Pl. in 1966. I consider myself a fair-to-middling car guy but this one has got me stumped.... https://hosting.photobucket.com/imag...shot_(915).png |
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:previous: Very cool car, riichkay. Here's an interesting photograph that just turned up on eBay "Original photo, Bernardine Blackburn diving in Los Angeles/Hotel Ambassador 1922." https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/1...923/Rk8gmc.jpg eBay I found it difficult to believe that this shoddy looking pool is the pool at the renowned Ambassador Hotel. . . . . .that is, until I spotted the same lamps and hanging lights in this postcard. (below) https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/8...923/r8VG7s.jpg Bizarrelosangeles I found some scraps of information that pointed to a Water Carnival held in Los Angeles in 1922. https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/6...922/mbcurG.jpg but I don't have a subscription to the L.A. Times :( Let's take a closer look at little Bernardine. https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/8...924/86ClEP.jpg detail Hmmm. . .I wonder if she was related to notorious cult leader, May Otis Blackburn? Blackburn Cult. homesteadmuseum skyscraperpage skyscraperpage . |
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Negative for sale. Here's an original photograph of a man walking down Hollywood Blvd. with his grandson (or son) and, on the right, a young girl stands waiting for the bus. https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/1...923/gM6ypR.jpg eBay search purposes:...Hollywood Boulevard...The Hitching Post Theater...Eagle Cafe...Barber of Seville . |
If only we could turn those two street/traffic signs around!
If it's the same location as the phone number on the sign, OV-60791, the OV exchange is in Montebello. (OV = Overbrook) Per: Old Telephone Exchange Names / Los Angeles County http://www.laalmanac.com/communications/cm01e.php Montebello does have the Montebello hills so that wouldn't surprise me if this was in fact Montebello. |
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Negative #2 for sale. A TWA Intercontinental Ticket Office located in the Palladium building on the corner of Sunset Blvd. & El Centro. https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/1...923/golCU7.jpg eBay And here's the same corner, today. https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/1...923/9keSzp.jpg GSV Tom Breneman's coming up later tonight or tomorrow. . |
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Thank you for your warm welcome. I've been on Noirish Los Angeles 2 years now. I am frequently amazed by the breath and depth of knowledge of the posters here including you. Noirishers have an incredible ability to see the smallest details in a photo. Amazing. I remember you said Wyan wanted your dad to draw up a quit claim against Wyan's own mother. Wyan was a great marketer, though. Lots of good "gimmicks". My family would rarely go there in the mid 1960's when Marriott owned Big Boy. |
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Negatives #3 and #4 for sale on eBay. (these two are being sold together) Here's Tom Breneman's as promised! :) https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/1...923/LW4A5V.jpg eBay https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/1...924/VxmRgk.jpg eBay Home of Tom Breneman's Breakfast in Hollywood. "Breakfast in Hollywood was a morning radio show with host, the amicable, Tom Breneman and performed in Breneman Restaurant on Vine and Sunset. It was sponsored fittingly by Ivory Flakes, Kellogg's Pep, Kellogg's Shredded Wheat. The show is an entertaining laugh a minute type of show as the host interviews the regular people in the audience and notable guest stars. One of the most amusing part of the show is the unexpected way that he interjected the sponsors of the show when speaking to the audience." Old Time Radio Downloads Breneman's at night from an Aug. 2009 post. (a mere two months after the start of the thread) skyscraperpage Merry Christmas, Everyone! . |
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Merry (waning hours of) Christmas in return, e-r! Intertoobz say that Thunder Mountain was released in June 1947. I'm guessing that the young lady is waiting for the PE Hollywood Blvd. streetcar in the center of the frame to get a bit closer before she steps into the dreaded safety zone to board. But there also were bus lines on the boulevard, so I can't say for sure. |
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Mr Wyan [Founder of Bob's restaurants.] wanted to appropriate his mother's home. My dad refused to help him do that. We never went to Bob's again after that. |
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This original slide from the 1940s was recently listed on eBay The seller doesn't name the location (other than Los Angeles). . .but I'm pretty sure this is the oil well that once stood in the middle of La Cienega Blvd. https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/1...923/gL0hOM.jpg eBay Whatta' ya think? Is this the La Cienega oil well? :shrug: As a reminder: The oil well on La Cienega. HERE If you're like me, you would like to see the billboard close-up. https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/1...924/TnsJg1.jpg ..TWA "Fastest Flights East".. . |
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I tried searching online for any other color photo of this oil well and I haven't found one! The seller may have something worth more than the two bids on it currently show! |
The following may contain photos/info previously posted, the search terms for oil wells, La Cienega, middle of the road, aren't exactly fruitful, so...
Some things of interest about the oil well that were put online the last 1-3 years: The L.A. Times did a "from the archives" story on it: https://ca-times.brightspotcdn.com/d...vxm-snap-photo From 1927 through 1945, La Cienega Boulevard had an oil well in its center divider. The slight detour became a Los Angeles icon — drawn above in a 1938 illustration by Los Angeles Times staff artist Charles H. Owens. In the 1930s, Owens and columnist Joe Seewerker produced the Nuestro Pueblo column for The Times. For their Sep. 21, 1938, Nuestro Pueblo column, Seewerker wrote: Drilled in 1906, the well has been pumping steadily and faithfully ever since. The owners donated the land for La Cienega Boulevard to the city in 1927 with the provision that the well remain and the street be built around it. This was done and ever since autos have whizzed by it on either side. It is said to be the only oil well in the middle of a major boulevard in the world. Two whisky signs, one on the north and the other on the south, add to the revenue of Old Faithful. Incidentally, the well has settled down to a steady gait of eighty barrels a day. With crude oil bringing around 80 cents a barrel, that makes an income of $64 day, which is enough to keep a cafe full of monkeys in peanuts for many a moon. Quote:
They sawed a landmark through the middle and pulled it down into kindling wood yesterday in the center of La Cienega Blvd. A world-famous oil well, it had been chugging away since 1907 – in later years with autos whizzing about it on both sides – until a zoning variance and advance of building [the new Rexall Drug Stores headquarters] finally stopped the 10-foot hand wheel that revolved more than 204,000,000 times. This circa 1931 photo shows another well nearby: https://i0.wp.com/martinturnbull.com...pg?w=520&ssl=1 In the following photo, notice a round sign near the bottom of the well to the right... https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-g65fY2P_m...0/00088656.jpg ...this is the Tail o’ the Cock restaurant, seen here in this 1945 postcard view: https://jhgrahambooks.files.wordpres...pg?w=615&h=382 In the color view it looks like that Tail o' the Cock sign is seen above the "SLOW" traffic sign on the oil well island: Quote:
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I had no idea Tail o' the Cock was anywhere near the well. Excellent sleuthing, Martin_Pal.... :worship: Thanks to everyone for the follow-ups....It's much appreciated. . |
E_R, I'm having some doubts about the Tail o' the Cock restaurant being there, though that sign in that photo is definitely a Tail o' the Cock sign on the side of the road. Though I wonder why a neon sign would be there for advertising without any location info. The street numberings on La Cienega have often been confusing to me.
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We have seen a gazillion images of the forecourt at Grauman's Chinese Theater but this slide from eBay has something I would like to ask about. https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/1...924/T1OoPq.jpg eBay At far right a young boy appears to be. .umm. .manipulating a cut-out of a man of Asian descent. Is it a 'kiosk'(for lack of a better word) that dispenses brochures for 10 cents? Here's a closer look. (sorry for the blurriness) https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/8...924/8UTYPQ.jpg detail "Footprints of the Stars", 10 Cents. note that it doesn't say "in the gift shop". This kid's mom was obviously thinking ahead when she purchased his jeans. lol :) https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/6...923/j5QDyq.jpg detail Is this something moms normally did back in the 1950s? . |
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The woman is posing in front of a guardian lion(also called a foo dog), that's the male version(paw on top of a globe), the female version has a cub under it's paw. The female guardian lion at Amboy: https://i.postimg.cc/wjZLMhCK/809-Li...G-glendale.jpgfree photo upload |
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I'm wondering if the posters on this thread know about whatwasthere.com? I just discovered it yesterday. It's a google map site that allows users to upload photos of historical/vanished structures to their original location so they appear on google streetview.
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mystery street, downtown Los Angeles. https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/1...924/JyZYT5.jpg micky moore collection / 2nd assistant director (center right in filigree shirt) Shooting William Holden (far left) in a scene in downtown Los Angeles for "The Turning Point" (1952). Can any of you fine noirishers put a name to this street? also:...note the block of wood the 'gangster-like' dude is standing on. . .the director obviously wanted him to appear a bit taller. Right out of central casting. https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/1...924/1FJ9Jf.jpg detail More 'Turning Point' (1952) images coming tomorrow. . |
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What the scene looked like on screen. https://i.imgur.com/0vfX6ep.jpg Youtube - The Turning Point They are outside 157 South Main Street. To the right you can see parts of the signs for the liquor store and White Star Hotel at 151/151½ South Main St. South Main Street 1952 - https://i.imgur.com/ioo5yQr.jpg i.pinimg.com |
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I would think whatwasthere.com would benefit a great deal from the pictures posted on this site. I have been impressed by the responses I have gotten here to my questions about various LA sites. A lot of great LA historians here.
I posted the photo above of to whatwasthere. I'll try to display it here as it appears in the streetview. Not sure if I'm doing it right, but here goes. Well, I can't get it to post, so I'll just insert the link and hope it will take others there. http://www.whatwasthere.com/browse.a...nfo/sv/zoom/14 |
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As promised here's another photograph from the making of The Turning Point (1952). Pollinger's Market, Los Angeles https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/1...924/pktUBm.jpg mickey moore collection / 2nd assistant director At first I thought the curb was exceptionally tall but now I see that it's an optical illusion. The red magic marker at the top appears to say, "This is dynamite." 1951(?) I'll go ahead and post this one as well because I believe it's same location but from a different angle. https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/1...922/ldUruQ.jpg mikey moore / 2nd assistant director The same street address can be seen in the top photograph. Detail from the top photograph. https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/8...924/ecWwYk.jpg detail / top photo 501 W. First St. . |
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At first I thought the car accident was from the movie. :haha: Thanks for the reminder, Hoss. |
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