It looks like you just posted a link to the Flickr page where you wanted the photo to appear. In Flickr, you need to click the "Share Photo" arrow (between the "Fave this photo" and "Download this photo" icons), select "BBCode" and the size you want, and then copy and paste the link code. PM me if you need more help.

Here's the photo with "the back of the star barely visible at the 11 o'clock position.":

https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/...2f977c66_o.jpg
67738165_2517283721682153_287364983191240704_n by Glen Norman, on Flickr

E.R - I looked through Eagle Rock and couldn't find the house.

Then i took a close-up of your close-up and noticed that the Ridgewood development was in Pasadena,

https://i.postimg.cc/wBPb18cy/ridgewood.png


I did find a Ridgewood Lane, but no house.

Could that be Brookside Park in the background behind the house? :shrug:

I'm pretty sure there are some Pasadena experts around here.

QT is such a stickler for detail, but failed to change the LED traffic light.

That green light is not incandescent.

I will not see this movie as a result. :maddown:

Thanks! I didn't have to do that previously; it looks like something in Flicker has changed of late. Much appreciated, Hoss C.

.................................................................................Ah-Ha! Excellent eye FredH!

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...........................................................................I missed the Pasadena clue, completely.
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Keuffel & Esser
 

I have a Keuffel & Esser measuring tape, handed down from my father, that I cherish, and a K+E Log Log slide rule that I barely learned to use just before electronic calculators rendered it obsolete.

K+E products had a wonderful air of class to them.

The company had offices in Pasadena at Union and De Lacey that are now occupied by a Forever 21 store.

Well that's a fire station in the background with its hose-drying tower, but beyond that I am no help.

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With ProphetM's clue, I think we're looking at Engine Company No 10 at South Hill Street near Sixteenth Street. That would make the large builing behind it in e_r's picture the Sixteenth Street School at 220 W 16th. This photo is dated 1899.

https://i809.photobucket.com/albums/...ompany10_1.jpg
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This 1914 photo shows the back of the advertising boards. The Portola Cafe, advertised in the original picture, is listed at 110 S Spring Street in the CDs of 1915, 1916 and 1917.

https://i809.photobucket.com/albums/...ompany10_2.jpg
www.lafire.com

https://i.postimg.cc/sx07MBfB/Screen...0-55-05-AM.png

1501 Poppy Peak Drive, Pasadena, CA 91105

William C Carr was a realtor in Pasadena and champion of the Japanese American Community after WWII

Heh! But it's a fairytale so everything, I'm guessing, doesn't need to be so accurate. :cowboy:

I searched, but don't think this image of the Hollywood Palladium under construction in 1940 has been posted on NLA previously.

"New Million Dollar Palladium Ballroom Cafe"

https://4.bp.blogspot.com/-c648fsxcd...Times-1940.jpgL.A. Times

Click photo for larger size.

Nice find! The house still looks good too.:notacrook:

I thought that this underpass picture looked familiar, but I can't see any previous postings. Maybe it just looks like other underpasses built around the same time. The crossing was previously at grade.

Photograph article dated September 7, 1948 partially reads, "State engineers working on the Valley's $2,000,000 continuation of the Hollywood freeway turned to paving work today after opening the Lankershim boulevard underpass in time for Labor Day traffic....Opening of the underpass marks the first time automobiles have passed over a part of the Hollywood freeway extension which will eventually provide a highspeed route from Cahuenga pass to Valley points. Pacific Electric trains have been crossing over the grade separation bridge for weeks, while workmen paved lanes of Lankershim boulevard into Cahuenga boulevard. Eventually the freeway traffic heading to and from the Valley will pass over the heads of motorist on Lankershim boulevard on divided lanes bordering the P. E. tracks."

https://i809.photobucket.com/albums/...Underpass1.jpg
LAPL

The original design was still in place until at least 2011...

https://i809.photobucket.com/albums/...Underpass2.jpg
GSV

...but 2014 saw the parapet being rebuilt.

https://i809.photobucket.com/albums/...Underpass3.jpg
GSV

By the end of 2014 we were left with the current, filled-in design.

https://i809.photobucket.com/albums/...Underpass4.jpg
GSV

I originally assumed that the parapet had just been made blander for no reason, but then I saw that the wall on the northern side was being held together with sections of barrier for years before the works in 2014 (see below - by 2014, the lane was even closed off with K-rail). With that said, I still wish they'd repaired the damage with the original design (or at least retained elements of it).

https://i809.photobucket.com/albums/...Underpass5.jpg
GSV

Well done for finding the house, UphillDonkey. I thought I'd looked all the way along Poppy Peak Drive, but must've missed that branch.

I think that the back of 1501 is the house on the left in the other photo, which was taken from the corner of La Loma Road. The other two houses on the hill also appear to still be standing, but the trees make it difficult to compare.

https://i809.photobucket.com/albums/...PeakDrive1.jpg
Google Maps

Thanks for solving the sign mystery, HenryHuntington.

Otis, you piqued my curiousity so I googled Keuffel & Esser items.


This cast iron pencil sharpener isn't the most impressive Keuffel & Esser item but it certainly brought back memories of drafting class.

..........If I remember correctly, you stuck your pencil in the hole and moved the top part in circles. (I believe there was sandpaper inside

https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/6...924/aiFbGy.jpg
etsy

It was made of cast iron so it wouldn't fly off the table.

Does anyone else remember using one of these things to sharpen a pencil?

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I used similar sharpeners in my 7th grade drafting class, but those looked more like this:

https://i.imgur.com/uEVLSMO.jpg

Mine didn't use sandpaper, there was a bit of angled razor blade in mine.

Here's the view looking in the opposite direction...


https://live.staticflickr.com/3745/1...3ae86345_o.jpgLooking south on Lankershim Boulevard, 1949

Looking south down Lankershim Boulevard towards the Lankershim Bridge and Tunnel, just north of where Cahuenga and Ventura Boulevards meet. Some homes are seen above a Foster and Kleiser billboard advertising the 1949 Ford automobile (left of center), and a few storefronts are present along Lankershim (right). Photograph dated June 23, 1949.

LAPL


And just for fun, another shot of the same intersection (before the overpass)...


https://live.staticflickr.com/7367/1...1dfb03b2_o.jpgEddie Albert at the intersection of Cahuenga and Lankershim Boulevards, 1946

A shirtless Eddie Albert out for a spin on his (or more likely a studio owned) bike at the intersection of Lankershim Boulevard and Cahuenga/Ventura Boulevard. During WWII, at Tarawa, as a Bosun's Mate piloting a landing craft, he repeatedly took his boat back into the shoals, into the continuing gunfire, to retrieve Marines in the chest deep water. Some reports credit him with saving perhaps as many as fifty men. For all his good-natured screen persona, in real life a stud.

I used to use one of those in school.....but never owned one. I preferred the sandpaper pads on a wood stick. Yes, they were heavy cast iron. Nothing wrong with them....they still work fine.

I happened upon this fascinating rppc last night on eBay

https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/xq90/922/4F0Itv.jpgeBay

Does anyone know what set this event in motion? :shrug: ...

Unless I'm mistaken, Nazi Germany didn't invade Poland until September 1, 1939. (a month and a half later)



sidenote:

Whoever designed the lighting was no doubt aware of the rallies at Nuremberg. I wonder if this was meant as a poke in the eye.

Oh, and one more thing:
The Nazi sympathizers in Rustic Canyon (Murphy Ranch) would have been close enough to see the searchlights from their redoubt.

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