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as most of you know, we've seen "The Hangover" several times on NLA.
Key #4 http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/800...673/AVW8a8.jpg ebay "The Hangover" on Vine Street. (1961) http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/102...540/mgzaRL.jpg posted by Martin_Pal at http://forum.skyscraperpage.com/show...ostcount=21277 and a 'noirish' view. (1957) http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/102...538/6WICWS.jpg sopas_ej at http://forum.skyscraperpage.com/show...postcount=3061 I have a business card somewhere, but I can't locate it at the moment. __ |
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http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...6.jpg~original Getty Research Institute Historic Aerials has an image from 1952 (below). Hopefully I've labeled the stores correctly: "GFS" is Glendale Federal Savings, and "Loans" represents the loans store and the Asia Rug Company. Access to the parking lot behind was between the Loans store and the Bank of America. http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...7.jpg~original Historic Aerials The latest Historic Aerials image is 2012, and it's not very clear. Here's the 2004 image which is pretty much the same. The general layout doesn't seem to have changed. http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...8.jpg~original Historic Aerials |
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I just came across this eye-catching matchbook for Larry Potter's 'Orchid Room'.
http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/800...673/zDHcrj.jpg http://www.ebay.com/itm/GIRLIE-ORCHI...item51d7c7072e http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/800...538/kf1pOe.jpg http://www.ebay.com/itm/GIRLIE-ORCHI...item51d7c7072e Much to my surprise, 1931 W. 6th Street places the 'Orchid Room' inside the Hotel Barbizon. http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/102...661/7ZzBVo.jpg 2015 / gsv Just look at the sad condition the Hotel Barbizon was in back in 2007. We're lucky it's still standing. http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/102...907/lLmPZQ.jpg gsv |
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Hotel Barbizon
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The Barbizon was looking so terrible in 2007 because KFA was rehabbing it. Their page on the work is here. It was finished in 2008. __ |
so that's why the windows were missing. I should have known. thx t2.
__ Attractive couples enjoying a night out in S. Central L.A. http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/xq90/540/OUa85Q.jpg http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/800...673/1m7CgM.jpg It's frustrating that we'll probably never know where on Central Avenue this was taken (or who the people are) If only the name of the nightclub had been written on the back. __ |
"The Last Word" Jazz Club
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"Couples partying at a jazz club known as "The Last Word" in the 1940s (my guess). It's address was 4206 S. Central Ave., close to the historic Dunbar Hotel. The building no longer stands." "The neighborhood was also the home of other famous jazz clubs, including Club Alabam (next door), the Last Word (across the street), and the Downbeat (nearby)." -Hotel Dunbar's wiki page https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-v...1%252520PM.jpg Martin Turnbull "A table at The Last Word nightclub...Edward on the left": https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-T...5%252520PM.jpg lapl |
:previous: Thanks so much tovanger2!
below: Here's 4206 S. Central today....the former site of "The Last Word" jazz club. http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/102...913/nrWZVY.jpg gsv :previous: Could the two Ionic columns be remnants from the old jazz club? __ |
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Club Alabam
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Interior and exterior shots of the Club Alabam (next door to the Dunbar) may be found here "The Club Alabam was the epitome of Central Avenue. It was right off Forty-second Street across from Ivy Anderson's Chicken Shack. There were a lot of other clubs, but the Club Alabam was really one of the old-time show-time places, a huge room with beautiful drapes and silks and sparklers and colored lights turning and flashing. The bandstand was plush and gorgeous with curtains that glistened. The waitresses were dressed in scanty costumes, and they were all smiling and wiggling and walking around, and everwhere you looked you saw teeth, people laughing, and everybody was decked out. It was a sea of opulence, big hats and white fluffy fur. And the cars out front were real long Cadillacs with little mudguards, little flappy little things, shiny things." -- Art Pepper from his autobiography, "Straight Life." -nightlife https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-w...1%252520PM.jpg la mag More info on Club Apex/Alabam here "A table at Club Alabam" circa 1941: https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-U...8%252520PM.jpg lapl And just for fun, Drag Contest at Club Alabam, hosted by Bill Hefflin, ca. 1945: https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-z...2%252520PM.jpg lapl |
Hotel Barbizon Lobby 'Then & Now'
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"The Downbeat" Jazz Club
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I remember Richlor's when it was Ed Debevic's. I loved the entrance under the porte cochere. Glamorous architecture :-) What was left of it :-( GWTW now. https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-s...4%252520PM.jpg hiddenla Quote:
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I've been meaning to post these images of the Club Alabam for about a month, so now seems as good a time as any. The captions are the decriptions which appear with the pictures at LAPL.
"An advertisement for New Club Alabam, a nightclub at 42nd and Central Avenue in Los Angeles. It reads, 'Finest Harlem Cafe in America!' and promotes two shows nightly with host Curtis Mosby. 1941" http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...lubAlabam2.jpg LAPL "Interior of Club Alabam, seating area and balcony. ca. 1945" http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...lubAlabam1.jpg LAPL "Audience watching a performance at Club Alabam, located at S. Central Avenue and 42nd Street in Los Angeles. Identified are: actress Lillian Randolph (right of center), dancer Prince Spencer, Clarence Moore, Tillie Culison, Clehue McGee. ca. 1945" http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...lubAlabam3.jpg LAPL "Lional Hampton, at far left, rides in a Cadillac convertible in front of Club Alabam on Central Avenue, a busy thoroughfare of businesses, nightclubs, and homes in Los Angeles. ca. 1953" http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...lubAlabam4.jpg LAPL I originally searched out these photos after rewatching the 2004 Ray Charles biopic, 'Ray'. Here's the movie's recreation of the Club Alabam. http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...bAlabamRay.jpg Universal Pictures, Bristol Bay Productions, Anvil Films The Wikipedia page about the Dunbar Hotel is here. The Dunbar Hotel and Club Alabam both get mentioned in an article called 'Central Avenue History', which can be found here. |
Johnson Foundry and Machine Works at 1009 South Main. Circa '24
The Johnson Foundry and Machine Works, along with Llewellen foundry and the Steams Gas Engine works, all located on Main street, were damaged by an explosion in 1910 that was thought to have been the result of dynamite. An article in the Los Angeles Herald from Christmas Day 1910 details the damage. An earlier article, from 1907, in the same newspaper mentions that Johnson, along with LLewellen and other businesses were pledging to open later than usual in order to allow their employees to vote for the "Owens River Project". This was a bond issue to raise funds for the aqueduct project. |
re: The Richlor's ad in the Key brochure.
http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/320...673/StMkab.jpg I just found this on eBay, it's the same postcard in Those Who Squirm's link (I adjusted the colors a tad) http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/102...537/Xy3fa7.jpg http://www.ebay.com/itm/BEVERLY-HILL...item48837f6dbd early matchbook / I love the "Dick Tracy" car. http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/128...913/sm55JK.jpg http://www.ebay.com/itm/1950s-Matchb...item2eaefbc796 __ And now, for my FAVORITE image. The beautiful curvaceous bar at Richlor's! ("Shanghai Lil & The Scarlet Fez" is a watermark) http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/102...537/7ZyYCu.jpg http://shanghaililandthescarletfez.b...1_archive.html What I wouldn't give to see that interior space in color! I wonder what that is on top of the stand-alone bar/counter in the center of the photo.....a fancy napkin holder? ...and we've all seen a linoleum floor like that. :previous: http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/640...911/9Fmf7O.jpg __ |
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San Pedro viewscape.
http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/128...537/phFw1C.jpg http://www.ebay.com/itm/San-Pedro-Ca...3D311443811773 I have never heard of Miraleste before. writing on the reverse (I can't read what comes after "San Pedro California") http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/800...909/sxCfW3.jpg is it German? __ |
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