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I'm pretty sure this is the same house on Temple. (and you get a glimpse of the neighborhood as well)
"Hung Sa Dan Meeting, Los Angeles Calif. 1918" http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/160...924/jlhTcn.jpg https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/F...ahnph-008).jpg Be sure to pan to the right-----------------> __ |
I hope everyone is OK with another Beverly Hills house from Julius Shulman. This is "Job 3671: David Fowler, Davis House (Beverly Hills, Calif.), 1964". As usual, I've picked a selection.
http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...1.jpg~original A closer look. http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...2.jpg~original This time they actually are carports! http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...3.jpg~original The circular courtyard had a pool and bridge. http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...4.jpg~original The impressive view was even visible from the courtyard. http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...5.jpg~original A reverse view of the shot above. http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...6.jpg~original I'll finish with this picture of the indoor/outdoor pool. http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...7.jpg~original All from Getty Research Institute From an article at obsidianarchitecture.com: The home was originally designed by architect David Lyle Fowler for Mr. & Mrs. M. Philip Davis (Mrs. Davis also happened to be Fowler's mom, Carolyn Fowler Davis). According to comments left on [iamnotastalker.com] and [city-data.com] by several of his relatives, The home was named "Ridgetop" and was sited on a promontory of just over six acres with an unobstructed 180 degree view of the city to the south. The house itself was 5,444 s.f. in size with 4 bedrooms and 6 baths and was completed in late 1962/early 1963. In addition to its circular shape, the home featured a distinctive elliptical motif which appeared on the metal entry gate, concrete blocks, scalloped eaves, glazing, partitions, and the shape of the pool. It even repeated on some of the furniture that was custom-designed for the residence.The house at 1261 Angelo Drive apparently featured in 'The Fast and the Furious'. You can see some screengrabs from that movie and another called 'Hanging Up' at iamnotastalker.com. Now for the sad news. The house was sold for $2.8m in 2000, and then promptly demolished to make way for "the second-largest house in all of Los Angeles". I'm not going to name the guilty party or show what the new house looks like - check the iamnotastalker article if you need to know. Instead, here's a 1980 aerial view. http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...8.jpg~original Historic Aerials |
[QUOTE=HossC;7751876]I hope everyone is OK with another Beverly Hills house from Julius Shulman. This is "Job 3671: David Fowler, Davis House (Beverly Hills, Calif.), 1964". As usual, I've picked a selection.
A closer look. http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...2.jpg~original ....this story doesn't have the happiest of endings. In 2002, after the Modern Committee of the L.A. Conservancy had tried to save the home. It was demolished and the promontory leveled so that a new home could be built. The new "home" is the 49,300 sq.f. residence of billionaire Hyatt hotel heir Anthony Pritzker. Here are color photos of the interior and the floor plan [it was used in a movie]:Tragic end for a unique home. :( https://www.pinterest.com/nvrella/mid-century/ Sorry this is not clear but its easy to figure out what's what. http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v4...ps8iqmzago.jpg ....the curving kitchen.... http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v4...psbwr3wwen.jpg iamnotastalker |
Japonism
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I was tempted to make an offer for that house until I saw that the Airwolf helicopter doesn't fly - that's a real deal-breaker :). |
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It's hideous, and I wouldn't choose it--not with the living room looking like an Emirates lounge, complete with velvet rope--but I'm not sure why it's an "abuse" of real estate. Aesthetically speaking, the same could be said for thousands of dumps in the flats. If the speculator thinks he can make money on the project, good luck to him. |
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Martin's post has many other images of the area. This one needs to be added to the list. ;) If the Caddy in the foreground isn't powered by Chevron Supreme, it should be. Hollywood and Vine, 1948 (?) http://theoldmotor.com/wp-content/up...circa-1948.jpghttp://theoldmotor.com/wp-content/up...circa-1948.jpg http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8467/8...e169793c_z.jpghttp://farm9.staticflickr.com/8467/8...e169793c_z.jpg |
112th Street and Vermont Avenue Malcom Nelson's Service Station Selling "Ping-Proof Petrol!"
http://freepages.history.rootsweb.an...ndo/nelson.jpghttp://freepages.history.rootsweb.an...ndo/nelson.jpg Adding interest to this image are "back stories" by folk from the "Berendo" neighborhood and photos to boot! Quote:
Photos: http://freepages.history.rootsweb.an.../berenfot.html Stories: http://freepages.history.rootsweb.an.../berenstr.html In no particular order::) Neighborhood checks out accident at 112th and Berendo. http://freepages.history.rootsweb.an...ndo/wreck1.jpghttp://freepages.history.rootsweb.an...ndo/wreck1.jpg Wayne and Ray. May '56. http://freepages.history.rootsweb.an...20may%2056.jpg http://freepages.history.rootsweb.an...0july%2057.jpg 1950 and today http://freepages.history.rootsweb.an...do/tedlara.jpg http://freepages.history.rootsweb.an.../laraporch.jpg http://freepages.history.rootsweb.an...endo/irish.jpghttp://freepages.history.rootsweb.an...endo/irish.jpg http://freepages.history.rootsweb.an...ndo/iceman.jpghttp://freepages.history.rootsweb.an...ndo/iceman.jpg http://freepages.history.rootsweb.an..._from_magd.jpghttp://freepages.history.rootsweb.an..._from_magd.jpg http://freepages.history.rootsweb.an...achine_gun.jpghttp://freepages.history.rootsweb.an...achine_gun.jpg Evidently the neighborhood was not spared from snow in January ,1949 http://freepages.history.rootsweb.an...snow_c1949.jpghttp://freepages.history.rootsweb.an...snow_c1949.jpg http://freepages.history.rootsweb.an...o2_nov1953.jpghttp://freepages.history.rootsweb.an...o2_nov1953.jpg Sailing by the seat of one's pants. Who needs a life preserver, paddle - or a helmet. Just grab the tiller and sail on. Push faster! http://freepages.history.rootsweb.an...on%20112th.jpg http://freepages.history.rootsweb.an...wn_project.jpghttp://freepages.history.rootsweb.an...wn_project.jpg |
:previous: Amazing photographs Tourmaline!
I like that boy's homemade 'machine gun'. http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/640...924/s9KT1b.jpgdetail It looks like something my friends and I would have made. (back when I blew up my models with firecrackers ;)) _ |
I don't believe we've seen this amateur slide from the 1950s.
Two ladies (tourists?) pose in front of Schwab's Pharmacy and Googie's Coffee Shop. http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/128...922/jGqX6K.jpg https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com...a6c2abe6a8.jpg The Schwab's was 'modernized' in 1956 (per Oviatt_Building_Fan) -link below pic. http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/800...924/XVSlB9.jpg http://forum.skyscraperpage.com/show...ostcount=15411 "The 1956 remodel included the complete removal of all marble panels and the mansard roof. The building's east and west wings were reshaped into two pink stucco boxes." note that Googie's is Pippy's Pizza at this point in time..........................................:previous: (1970s or early 80s?) __ |
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Noticed this purported original image that claims to depict Ormer Locklear's brother (James) and Ormer's manager at the location of Locklear's tragic accident. Something is obviously amiss. First, the image is identified as "Signal Hill." Death Certificate (below) identifies death situs as "La Brea Oil Field." Second, none of the images of Rogers/DeMille Field at Fairfax and Wilshire appear to have oil storage tanks. Of course, that does not mean they did not exist at the time of the accident (August, 1920).:shrug: Perhaps worth noting is that James Locklear's chance meeting with Houdini in 1916, led to Ormer performing stunts with the magicman. http://harryhoudinicircumstantialevidence.com/?p=1818 http://hometownbyhandlebar.com/?p=3663 "Wm L. Cross. Aeriel [sic] Photographer" address is "Crescent and Wilshire Blvd" which means his operating base was at the same Rogers/DeMille Airfield. Cross' 1920CD listing as a commercial photographer has him at 130 S Broadway, Rm 424. One presumes that Anita Locklear is related to Ormer and James. http://http://i357.photobucket.com/a...v.png~originalhttp://i357.photobucket.com/albums/o...u.png~original http://i357.photobucket.com/albums/o...v.png~originalhttps://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67...355174/m1/1/?q A scene from "Skywalkers." http://http://i357.photobucket.com/a...i.jpg~original http://hometownbyhandlebar.com/wp-co...r-UTD-Rich.jpg Death Certificate http://i357.photobucket.com/albums/o...j.jpg~original Another death defying stunt performed by Locklear in the Skywayman. http://i357.photobucket.com/albums/o...i.jpg~original Locklear on one of his wrecks http://libtreasures.utdallas.edu/xml...jpg?sequence=1http://libtreasures.utdallas.edu/xml...jpg?sequence=1 https://s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com/f...4583868790.jpghttps://s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com/f...4583868790.jpg |
Royal Viking Motel
In his posting about wonderful old buildings on Ocean View Avenue in the vicinity of 3rd and Alvarado, Flyingwedge re-posted a photo from David 3940dxer showing the old Mariposa Apartments (built 1914) and an adjacent neon sign pointing to the nearby Royal Viking Motel. Wedge explained that the 1950's-era Royal Viking is now called by the ungainly name of "The Pod Inn." The main entrance of the Royal Viking/Pod Inn is at 220 S. Alvarado, but there is a "back" entrance at 2025 3rd Street.
http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/128...923/Ji0plJ.jpg Mariposa Aparments and Royal Viking sign page 1187 3940dxer photos http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/128...924/dPHuhZ.jpg bookcdn.com/data/photos The Pod Inn is one of those residence buildings, often down-at-the-heels, with a sometimes surprising connection to personalities of old Hollywood; i.e. silent star Mae Murray at the shabby Garden Court Apartments circa 1964 (Mae previously lived at the Lido Apts. on Yucca Street and the "Ardmore Riviera" apts. on Ardmore Ave.), B-movie tough guy Frankie Darro at The Saint Francis Apts. on Hollywood Blvd. near Western, Universal's teenage soprano of the 40's, Susannah Foster, at "The Bell Motel" (when she wasn't living in her car or sharing a fleabag apartment), singer Sam Cooke shot to death at the Hacienda Motel in Southwest Los Angeles/El Segundo. At the Royal Viking in 1963, the night manager was Hal LeSueur, Joan Crawford's brother. http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/128...923/OBQkWO.jpg Mae Murray http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/160...921/i4ZOcD.jpg Hal LeSeur and his sister Joan Crawford (formerly Lucille LeSeuur) find-a-grave When he was employed by the Royal Viking, Hal died in the hospital of a ruptured appendix at age 59, at a time when the Alvarado Street motel would've been fairly new and the neighborhood much less dicey than it is today. He lived - and was switchboard operator - at the Parkway Motel, now the "Casa Bella Inn Motel" at 1212 S. Alvarado. http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/128...923/5QWaGb.jpg Casa Bella Inn Motel, formerly Parkway Motel, 1212 S Alvarado, last home of Hal leSueur aff.bstatic.com/images/hotel http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/128...922/uD5fx1.jpg side entrance of Pod Inn/ Royal Viking Motel bookcdn.com/data/photos Good-looking Hal came to Los Angeles in the early 1930's, appeared in some 20 uncredited movie bit parts, did makeup at MGM for awhile, eventually worked at a sporting good store, then settled into "motel work." He was married twice and had a daughter named Joan Crawford Le Sueur, who had apparently "vanished," age approximately thirty, at the time of Hal's death. A touching 1963 article in The Los Angeles Times described his life: https://www.joancrawfordbest.com/hallatimesobit63.htm In 1954, Hal told an interviewer that it was not an appropriate time to explain why he and his sister had nothing to do with one another. There is a fascinating 1980 book called "Conversations with Joan Crawford" by Roy Newquist, in which Joan called her brother "an out-and-out bastard," and said that she "hated him." There is an author of books about classic Hollywood named Mark Vieira who claims that the book is a phony collection of bogus interviews, and since Crawford and the book's author are long gone, we'll never know. However, LeSueur's obituary says that Joan helped him financially for 32 years, sent telegrams to him in the hospital, had his belongings picked up at the Parkway Motel by a chauffered car - and presumably she paid for his burial at Forest lawn. http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/128...923/VLidN8.jpg Joan Crawford, 1947 The best of everything - Joan Crawford encyclopedia http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/128...924/XCgnXF.jpg Joan Crawford, 1946/47 the best of everything - Joan Crawford Encyclopedia |
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Hoover Street ends at 32nd St. and Kingsley St. (later renamed Severance). One block east of Kingsley is Key West (later renamed University). The green dot marks what is now Royal St. and 30th St. (seen in the 3 photos below): http://i1165.photobucket.com/albums/...j.jpg~original Historic Mapworks This c. 1900 aerial shows some of the same area as the 1910 map. Hoover ends at 32nd and Kingsley at the red dot. Jefferson runs horizontally across the center. The green dot again marks today's intersection of Royal St. and 30th St. (You can see Engine Co. No. 15 at the left margin of the full photo): http://i1165.photobucket.com/albums/...i.jpg~original CHS-9923 at USCDL By the time of this c. 1940 aerial, Hoover had been blasted through south of Jefferson, with the buildings on both the NE and NW corners of Hoover and Jefferson having been shaved as a result. The triangular intersection of Hoover/Kingsley (Severance)/32nd is in the upper left corner. The Shrine Auditorium sits on the north side of Jefferson, and the green dot is again Royal and 30th: http://i1165.photobucket.com/albums/...m.jpg~original CHS-32883 at USCDL (just posted by Hoss C) Here's what the area looks like today, with Hoover ending at Jefferson: http://i1165.photobucket.com/albums/...s.jpg~original Google Earth |
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:previous: Picture wasn't posting.;) '47 Cadillac Sedanette Hood Ornament http://tomstrongman.com/wp-content/u...d-ornament.jpghttp://tomstrongman.com/wp-content/u...d-ornament.jpg http://topclassiccarsforsale.com/upl...base-57l-2.JPGhttp://topclassiccarsforsale.com/upl...base-57l-2.JPG |
47 Cadillac
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The building on the right in the background, by the way, is the historic Southern Pacific train depot in North Hollywood. It's from the 19th century and informally known as the Chandler Station or Lankershim Station (at the corner of Lankershim and Chandler). In the 1970’s and ’80’s, when the trains were no longer in service, it became a lumberyard operated by the Hendricks Builders Supply Company. It is nowadays owned by the Metropolitan Transportation Authority of Los Angeles and was beautifully restored in 2014-15. |
I'm sticking with privates homes for today's Julius Shulman post, but moving out to Pasadena. This one is "Job 4404: Carl Maston, Chiat House (Pasadena, Calif.), 1968". There are 24 images in this set, and, although there's some duplication between color and black & white, I could have easily posted four or five more.
http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...1.jpg~original The entrance is roughly in the center of the view above. http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...2.jpg~original Just over the wall to the right of the entrance is the kitchen and an outdoor eating area. One of the omitted images shows that the kitchen cabinets were yellow. http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...3.jpg~original I originally mistook the fireplace for a flatscreen TV until I remembered the year! http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...4.jpg~original This is almost a reverse view of the shot above. http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...5.jpg~original And this sunken area is off to the left. http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...6.jpg~original I can't complain about the view from the bedroom. http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...7.jpg~original I'll finish with this view of the rear of the house. http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...8.jpg~original All from Getty Research Institute The house is still standing at 612 Camino Verde, although you could easily miss it as you drive by. As far as I can tell, the exterior looks pretty original. http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...9.jpg~original GSV While looking for the address, I found this Western Home Awards announcement from 1969. It even includes Julius Shulman's details. http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...0.jpg~original USC Digital Library |
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Obviously the death certificate would have the correct location of the accident. That said, I love that original photograph captioned 'Signal Hill'. Like Bif asked, did the La Brea Oil Field have tanks as shown in the sepia photo? (near a row of eucalyptus trees) The simplest answer would be that the penciled in location on the back of the photograph is incorrect. (but I don't think that's the case in this instance) Here's Ormer Locklear's death certificate again. Originally posted by BRR http://i357.photobucket.com/albums/o...j.jpg~original |
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Of course Jay Chiat was kind of an advertising legend... https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/ZF...g=w600-h319-no NYT obit: http://www.nytimes.com/2002/04/24/bu...ead-at-70.html |
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