All there but the bird... #1 Chester Place, on the west side of the 23rd Street entrance to CP.
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All too brief compilation of "noirish" footage including Santa Monica, post sundown Hollywood and daylight view of the same. Clearly different dates. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YYTLT7yVSWA |
:previous: Tourmaline, I posted the sepia photograph because it was so highly scanned. -more so than the earlier photo that was posted.
The (extra-huge) ebay photograph of Hollywood & Highland made me feel as if I was there. (and NOT in Indiana ;)) __ |
LAAC Fencing Club Redux
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There's a nice photo by "David from L.A." at the Experiencing L.A. blog: http://www.experiencingla.com/2011/1...park-rose.html |
LAAC Fencing Club Redux
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There's a nice photo by "David from L.A." at the Experiencing L.A. blog: http://www.experiencingla.com/2011/1...park-rose.html |
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Crescent Heights & Sunset http://hollywoodhistoricphotos.ipowe...01959%20WM.jpg http://hollywoodhistoricphotos.com90_103 The white building under the "H" in the watermark is the Chateau Marmont. |
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Love this pic e_r, I happened to be right there yesterday! Notice the sign on the left for the Cafe Montmartre. There is a Hollywood Historical marker on the street now citing the location. It was a club where Bing Crosby used to sing when he arrived in Hollywood in the early 30's. The space is still there and used as a theatrical venue. The space below it where the awnings are now houses the Hollywood Wax Museum and the Snow White Cafe. Since Madame Tussaud's opened a few years ago next to the Chinese Theatre I don't know how it stays in business. It was always really kind of cheesy, especially compared to the Madame's. (They filmed an episode of Beverly Hillbillies in there if I'm not mistaken.) The Snow White Cafe proudly states it's been there "Since 1946." The next street you come to is McCadden place. On the east corner where it says "Billiards" is where the Pickwick Bookstore opened, a year after this photo was taken, and remained there for nearly 60 years. It is now partially a Starbuck's. I date the photo as 1937 as Captains Courageous is playing at the Hollywood Theater across the street. My Hollywood history book (the place, not the industry) says the Hollywood Theater is the oldest theater in Hollywood. It says it was the first theater to angle the theatre marquees to appeal to car drivers on the road. The theater and marquee are still there, but the space now houses the Guiness Book of World Records museum. If you took a photo from this exact location today it would look remarkably the same. (There's a lot more trees now.) By the way, if you turn left on McCadden and go up a building or two you'd see the famous Don the Beachcomber's restaurant. It was first a bar on the east side of McCadden and then a restaurant and bar opened across the street in 1937. A famous "studio publicized date" took place there with Montgomery Clift and Marilyn Monroe. I ate there a few times in the 80's and they had a booth with a picture of Joan Crawford above it. She apparently used to take lunch there on occasion and sign autographed pictures for the publicity department. The bar contained photos of celebrities and military men of the 1940's making up drinks that became famous, like the Zombie and Navy Grog. It is said the first pu pu platter was served there. http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-3jips15I7b...cCaddenHwd.jpg http://travilla.blogspot.com.html Alas, it's one of those places that in 1985, like the Wilshire Brown Derby, was closed for remodeling, which meant they tore it down after no one was looking. |
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Here's the area in a 1940 aerial photo: http://i1165.photobucket.com/albums/...8.jpg~original USC Digital Library -- http://digitallibrary.usc.edu/cdm/si...d/21939/rec/64 As Lorendoc pointed out, the top direction sign shows: <- Los Angeles [left on Adams] Beverly Hills 4 -> [right on Adams] West Hollywood 6 -> Hollywood 7 -> So this sign must be facing east on Washington. If you turn left, Adams heads back east toward Los Angeles. If you turn right, you go northwest two blocks on Adams to La Cienega and then north from there to Beverly Hills and Hollywood. And the lower sign seems to show, at least at the top and bottom, <- Culver City [left on Washington] Los Angeles -> [right on Washington] So it must face southeast on Adams. Here's the area on a 1929 map: http://i1165.photobucket.com/albums/...ps8c450838.jpg Historic MapWorks: -- http://www.historicmapworks.com/Map/...+District+Map/ |
Another landmark for this thread was reached today, so I thought I'd celebrate it by hijacking a familiar DTLA sign :):
http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...LA4Million.jpg Thanks to e_r and all the other contributors for continuing to give me so much interesting material to read. |
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According to info in the Culver City Times link, the new ones will be "Baseline City Standard Marbelite poles"--which, to tell you the truth, I like a lot better than the Disney version of the Hollywood Blvd standard (and the chimney inside is plain ridiculous). After this long (what, 60 years?) the Marbelite gooseneck style now has more vintage character than those fakes.... IMHO. |
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I always prefer the larger, more-detailed photos. :) Previous post merely illuminated some areas depicted in photo, e.g., Cafe Montmartre. ;) Possibly more significant, is the linked video (toward end) containing Hollywood Blvd. snippets. |
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I can't get it to copy but it is located at : http://digitallibrary.usc.edu/cdm/re...coll59/id/1090 |
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http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...o.jpg~original USC Digital Library |
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Another USC shot, with camera turned to the right.... https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-A...2520PM.bmp.jpgUSCDLhttps://lh5.googleusercontent.com/-O...uniontoday.jpgGSV https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-Q...tailcircle.jpg As of January 2011, in addition to the Doria at right, the house in the distance still stands... http://img850.imageshack.us/img850/7899/6fzl.jpgflickr A little wiki info: "The Doria Apartments building at 1600-1604 West Pico Boulevard was designed by Gotfred Hanson and built around 1905 for Doria Jones"-- interesting woman & family: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Jo...Deighton-Jones http://img607.imageshack.us/img607/6308/c6ps.jpg Ad in the Times, March 18, 1906 |
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You did such a great job with this HossC! -thank you. http://imageshack.us/a/img819/1196/w5an.jpg created by Hossc __ |
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It would be interesting to discuss your photographs here on noirish. http://imageshack.us/a/img31/112/6wu7.jpg http://instagram.com/p/fy5r81zb31/ For example, where is this building? (you labeled it Broadway district) __ |
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http://imageshack.us/a/img585/1885/2phz.jpg old cd of mine __ Something's been bothering me about the fencing photograph. See the girl leaning against the balustrade...where's her head? http://imageshack.us/a/img826/4339/1zg3.jpg __ |
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