:previous: Your suggestion was a perfectly good one JMR. She does resemble Dolores Del Rio.

Not to be missed: "The Wrecking Crew," the brilliant documentary about the brilliant studio musicians working in Los Angeles in the 60's and 70's. Now streaming on Netflix. Some terrific street scenes from the era, and the soundtrack ... wonderful.

Cheers,

Earl

What the heck is going on with this "Yum Burger" caricature?

http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/800...661/T3Yuzq.jpg
detail / eBay

:previous: Is this a cross between Joe E. Brown and a Native-American? (the feather; where did that come from?)

"Heap Good Steer".....say whaaaat!?


The "Yum Burger" location today.
http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/102...538/oXsvFX.jpg
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...complete matchbook.
http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/102...905/wpaYHZ.jpghttp://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/102...537/Rmct0B.jpg
eBay

Does anyone on NLA remember the 'Yum-Burger'?
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MGM group photo updates
 

If anyone wants to cut and paste the list, in order to add updates, please do. I am in way over my head with this:

01. Steve Forrest
02. Pier Angeli
03. Debbie Reynolds
04. Louis Calhern
05. George Murphy
06. Cyd Charisse
07. Van Johnson
08. Vic Damone
09. Paul Douglas
10. Howard Keel
11. John Ericson
12. Lauren Bacall
13. Jose Ferrer
14. Leslie Caron
15. James Donald
16. Eva Gabor
17. Merle Oberon
18. Ann Francis
19. Walter Pidgeon
20. Stewart Granger
21. Jane Powell
22. Delores del Rio
23. Russ Tamblyn
24. Edward Purdom/Donald Woods
25. Robert Taylor
26. Elizabeth Taylor
27. Kurt Kasznar
28. George Raft
29. Janet Leigh
30. Grace Kelly
31. Fernando Lamas
32. Ann Miller
33. Lionel Barrymore
34. Donna Reed
35. Ann Blyth
36. Michael Wilding
37. Jeff Richards
38. Spring Byington
39. Joan Fontaine
40. George Sanders
41. Esther Williams

-------------------------------------------------------

Thank you e_r for the Cinnabar ad.

I came across this intriguing photograph earlier this evening on eBay.

1920s Los Angeles, outdoor stand labeled 'Japanese'.

http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/xq90/537/ukaAx1.jpg
check it out here: http://www.ebay.com/itm/1920S-PHOTO-...item2ee5006237

Any idea what's going on here? The one woman whos face is visible (in the stand) appears to be Caucasian.


here's the photographer's stamp on the reverse.
http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/102...907/wfHmVY.jpg

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"Youth Arisen" Leo Katz Frank Wiggins Trade School
 

Remember this? (or maybe everyone's trying to forget)

https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/-L...75522%2BPM.jpg

https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-N...80029%2BPM.jpg

http://lit250v.library.ucla.edu/isla...ilyNews%3A5540


I seem to have struck out.


This is the reply I got from the National Archives:

"This is in response to your request for information about the records of the Work Projects Administration (WPA). Specifically, you are seeking information on a mural created by Leo Katz that was installed at the Frank Wiggins Trade School in Los Angeles, California.

In Record Group (RG) 69, Records of the WPA, we took a look through the project indexes for California for the years 1935 and 1936 and could not find any mention of WPA involvement with the Frank Wiggins Trade School. If the mural was created under the WPA's Projects Control Division, it would have become the property of the school or the city agency in charge of the school and not eligible for return We noted that one of your sources mentions the one panel being returned to the Public Works Administration (PWA) in 1935, We think this is unlikely as the PWA only directly commissioned artwork for buildings they constructed themselves. We believe that the Public Works of Art Project (PWAP) is a much more likely candidate. The PWAP was originally a Treasury Department project undertaken by the Public Buildings Service (PBS). PWAP was directly commissioning artworks to be placed various non-federal building. However, PWAP only operated between 1933 and 1934. In 1935, it was succeeded by the Treasury Relief Art Project (TRAP), which received funding from the WPA in July of 1935. TRAP was mainly interested in working in Federal buildings, but some of the old PWAP, non-federal, work continued. We took a looks through the PWAP and TRAP materials RG 121, Records of the PBS. However, we could not find any mention of Leo Katz or the Youth Arisen mural in the files. We still strongly believe this mural was installed in the trad school as part of a PWAP/TRAP project and that the panels were returned to TRAP in 1939. Technically, artworks created by PWAP/TRAP are the property of the United States Government and as such fall under the jurisdiction of the General Services Administration (GSA). See: http://www.gsa.gov/portal/content/160315 and http://www.gsa.gov/fa/. GSA's Fine Arts Program may know where the panels are now. If not, they have been tracking down missing artworks created by the artists employed by federal agencies.

It is possible the mural panels were commissioned by the Federal Art Project (FAP), a division of the WPA which also began operations in 1935. We do have FAP records as well, but they are very poorly organized. FAP specific files for California are in RG 69, A1 Entries 1023 and 1024 (See: https://catalog.archives.gov/id/1948897?q=1948897). We also have California specific FAP records in Record Group (RG) 69, PC 37 Entry 12-6, WPA Central File, Administrative Correspondence for California. This series of records are arranged by a decimal classification system. FAP records are file classes 651.315 through 651.3159 and 651.3115. These files are too much for us to for us to go through on you behalf an someone would have to come in and go through them. We can make these records available to you should you choose to visit our College Park, Maryland, facility. For more about College Park, see: http://www.archives.gov/dc-metro/col...ark/index.html If you cannot travel to College Park, you may wish to consider hiring a professional researcher. You can find a list of researchers on our webpage at http://www.archives.gov/research/hire-help/

We regret that we could not be of more assistance to you."



The Leo Katz Foundation sent the photo below with no info or explanation. It does not seem to match the description given with the photo above (?):

https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/-j...71901%2BPM.jpg

Gabriel over the First Presbyterian Church
 

I happened to glance at an article entitled, "Sanitation of Dwellings, Public Buildings, and Thoroughfares" from the
Thirteenth Biennial Report of the State Board of Health of California (1892-94) and noticed this:
http://i1165.photobucket.com/albums/...e.jpg~original
Hathitrust -- http://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?i...ew=1up;seq=270

That's the First Presbyterian Church on the SE corner of Second and Fort/Broadway, which opened in April 1883.
I decided to compare some photos of the church.

This one looks north on Broadway from Third c. 1884:
http://i1165.photobucket.com/albums/...l.jpg~original
USCDL -- http://digitallibrary.usc.edu/cdm/re...coll65/id/1764

Also c. 1884, and we're looking east. There was definitely something at the very top:
http://i1165.photobucket.com/albums/...q.jpg~original
USCDL -- http://digitallibrary.usc.edu/cdm/re...coll65/id/1759

But in this c. 1890 view looking east, that something is gone:
http://i1165.photobucket.com/albums/...c.jpg~original
USCDL -- http://digitallibrary.usc.edu/cdm/re...coll65/id/5583

Also c. 1890, but looking southeast at just a cross at the very top:
http://i1165.photobucket.com/albums/...r.jpg~original
USCDL -- http://digitallibrary.usc.edu/cdm/re...coll65/id/5581

Apparently there really was some ridicule:
http://i1165.photobucket.com/albums/...s.jpg~original
January 26, 1887, Los Angeles Times @ LAPL

Gabriel was removed:
http://i1165.photobucket.com/albums/...s.jpg~original
January 27, 1887, Los Angeles Times @ LAPL

So if you ever have trouble putting an exact date to a photo of Second and Fort, check the
top of the First Presbyterian Church's steeple!

Thx :-)

:previous: Curious why they would send this with no explanation? Did they include it because this was another Katz mural that was also located in Los Angeles?
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The newspaper articles about the 'impaled' Gabriel were pretty humorous Flyingwedge. (one even said it looked like a grasshopper. lol)




reminded me of this:
http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/640...538/6uGZN8.jpg


Scene from "The Horn Blows At Midnight" ( love the Paradise Coffee commercial)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HMQCIDI_68k

http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/320...537/VTUmze.jpg

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http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/102...537/ST8Dn6.jpg
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I had no idea there was a sunken garden behind the fence (below). I wonder if the wishing well, the bubbly brook and footbridge are still in place?

http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/102...910/xJEVAr.jpg
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I really liked your 'before and afters' from yesterday Hoss.

especially this building.
http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/800...538/7YByMn.jpg

http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/800...909/2zkbHU.jpg
gsv

Here's another souvenir folder photo that I recently found on eBay.

http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/102...910/P0m6ce.jpg
http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/102...537/MxZbwX.jpg

:previous: That man in the background has a really long face. (character actor perhaps?)

reverse
http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/800...661/h8Csf1.jpg


This reminded me. Thanks for deciphering the sentiments and figuring out 'who was who' in that Slapsy Maxie's folder-foto Martin_Pal.

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:previous:

Mon plaisir, mon ami.


As an homage to the previous establishment, maybe the orthodontist could use that caricature! :haha:

You may not have gotten a definitive answer to the question we've been pondering,
but you sure got a lengthy and informative reply from them and for that I am impressed!
Even got some leads to check if one was so inclined. How many times have I inquired
about something to various places and got either no reply or a generic brush off?

I'd reply to them with a very nice thank you for that response! :cheers:

Of course I did!

"Youth Arisen" / Leo Katz / Frank Wiggins Trade School
 

I've totally lost track of what's going on. "Youth Arisen" is described in the record as being a large central panel (the one we've all seen in the photos) with two smaller side panels (one of which we've seen).

I just got this follow-up email from Katz' granddaughter at the Leo Katz Foundation which I find perplexing. I do not think we are talking about the same mural:

"...Leo took photos extensively of this mural and this slide is one depicting a classroom. I sent this on purpose to give you a feel for how extensive this mural is. Please be patient as we need some time to go through the archives and be sure all the photos first are for this mural and not another mural -and then get them digitized. Then at some point we can find a sketch of the building and figure out where the photos were taken. We also have Leos notes describing the different sections of the mural and their meaning. We also have every newspaper clipping and appeal letter sent to the school board to try and save it.
Right now the foundation is finishing up a project where we cataloged the 26 prints Leo did ( which I will share with you soon! ) and our curators are just starting on the 5 murals research. We have completed our 501c3 and we are all volunteers. We are seeking out grants to assist us in our research projects and perhaps there are some grants you can guide us to that would be mural related.
I appreciate any efforts you can assist us with in our researching of Leos place in the mural world and to document his important work in this area. Leo did many things in his career but murals were his favorite. His work ended in murals because he was unable to find commissions, the work was physically difficult/expensive and he was heartbroken that this mural was destroyed. Leo enjoyed painting at this large scale and making a statement with his work.

we will start following up on the leads that you gave us to see if the panels are in a governmental archive / warehouse somewhere and we look forward to discussing the murals with you more!
thank you again"

Wild Animal Farm, Los Angeles 1910s

http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/102...673/mwIvJD.jpg
http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/102...901/lQRKKD.jpg
eBay

What are looking at here....a stage?
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I've had a quick look through some of the property websites, and here's what I've found. As far as I can tell, the garden at the Chateau des Fleurs still contains the well, brook and bridge.

http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...DesFleurs1.jpg
hotpads.com

http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...DesFleurs2.jpg
http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...DesFleurs3.jpg
www.kittywallaceteam.com (PDF file)

And here are a couple of other details.

http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...4.jpg~original
www.zillow.com

:previous: Oh that's great! Good sleuthing Hoss.

I expected all the garden amenities to be long gone.
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http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/102...911/na7Ntj.jpg
http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/102...540/K7PjAb.jpg
eBay

reverse
http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/800...538/Hv6nlU.jpg


below: Another well dressed trio at Swing Club.

http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/102...537/q5uabJ.jpg
http://laheyday.blogspot.com/2009/02...as-palmas.html

Interesting history of Swing Club here:
http://laheyday.blogspot.com/2009/02...as-palmas.html

To see what the Swing Club location looks like today go here:
http://forum.skyscraperpage.com/show...ostcount=25353

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Great post! Highly amusing reporting there. :D Loved discovering this wonderful panorama of c.1890 Downtown, too. Particularly nice rear view of the probably very recently-completed 4-storey Millar Block on Fort. :)

http://otters.net/img/lanoir/CHS-2839_sky.jpg
"Panoramic view looking southeast from First Street and Hill Street toward Broadway, ca.1882-1895" (detail: cropped, rotated), C.C. Pierce & Co., USC Digital Library.

Where do you think might have been the vantage point? The Highland Villa, perhaps?

http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/102...905/VdMIiH.jpg
https://archive.org/details/hollywoodfilmogr91holl


Character actor Eddie Borden.

http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/102...901/dGbPht.jpg
http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/102...538/7HTHLX.jpg
https://archive.org/details/hollywoodfilmogr91holl





In bold print! (at the Hillstreet Theater)

http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/102...661/rROwpa.jpg
http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/102...538/D840BI.jpg
https://archive.org/details/hollywoodfilmogr91holl






http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/xq90/911/FaYdjn.png
https://archive.org/details/hollywoodfilmogr91holl

:previous:....why is he is NAKED!?

For a list of Eddie Borden's cinematic roles. (from "Foppish Nobleman" to "Berserk Victim" to "Guest Eating Sandwich") go here:
http://www.rottentomatoes.com/celebrity/eddie_borden/


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Two 1950s slides, Catalina Island ballroom.

http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/xq90/903/8GPbB5.jpg
eBay


http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/xq90/673/OJ0Gye.jpg
eBay

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Why naked? My guess is that photo was used to attract patrons...a gimmick. Don't you love the clown shoes he's wearing!!! Nice touch.

If you want to know more about Eddie, go here:
http://www.lordheath.com/index.php?p=1_529_Eddie-Borden

I would say that he was a bit part actor with much experience in many movies but most of his work in film is uncredited.

Hey thanks JS. I would bet dollars to doughnuts that the photo was taken from just above and behind 1 S. Hill Street, which
later became 104 S. Olive Street (And, yes, I do have a soft spot for the Millar Block).

At the right edge of the photo above, we see the corner of the porch of 1 S. Hill Street, which we see a little more of here.
The landscaping in front of the house in this photo matches what's in the next photo:
http://i1165.photobucket.com/albums/...w.jpg~original
CHS-2842 @ USCDL -- http://digitallibrary.usc.edu/cdm/re...coll65/id/3464

Here we are looking back at 1 S. Hill St., which is at the left. The hillside just behind/north of the house is where the above
two photos must have been taken. To the right of the house is the three-story Highland Villa, with First Street running
between it and the house. Above and between 1 S. Hill St. and the Highland Villa is the home of Mrs. Shepherd, subject of my
post on the First Street cut (http://forum.skyscraperpage.com/show...tcount=26829):
http://i1165.photobucket.com/albums/...6.jpg~original
CHS-6717 @ USCDL -- http://digitallibrary.usc.edu/cdm/re...oll65/id/17808

Now we're looking SW at 1 S. Hill Street, just above the roof of the Highland Villa. This is a little better view of the hill just
behind the house where the first two photos were taken:
http://i1165.photobucket.com/albums/...b.jpg~original
USCDL -- http://digitallibrary.usc.edu/cdm/re...coll65/id/1740

In August 1893, due to work on the 1st Street cut, that home was moved west and turned around to become 104 S. Olive.
Here it is in a c. 1953 shot I recently came across, with the Gladden next door to the left:
http://i1165.photobucket.com/albums/...m.jpg~original
LAPL -- http://jpg1.lapl.org/00091/00091573.jpg

That's gotta be it! :tup:

This is really a great doc! It took them years to get this off the ground,most of the musicians who are interviewed have passed on. So please please check it out!
This is the "Wrecking Crew" (see the little kid annoying drummer Hal Blaine)
http://i292.photobucket.com/albums/m...ps7ru7cmzh.jpg
photo spectorpop

This was taken at the same studio as the above but a few years later, My dad is rehearsing with the Johnny Otis Band for an oldies but goodies tour (this was around 1972, back in the late 50s dad was lead singer of The Robins and Johnny produced some of the later stuff for them)

http://i292.photobucket.com/albums/m...psohcq9xvd.jpg
photo me

http://i292.photobucket.com/albums/m...ps8bxherov.jpg
photo me

Sorry if i have shared these before.
Charlie

:previous:

Thank you! Fantastic post.

And thank you Earl for "The Wrecking Crew".

From an impaled Gabriel to the Miller Block to Chateau des Fleurs and so much more, this has been a great week on the thread :-)

(Bio and discography of the Robins is here)

The Wrecking Crew is a great doc, an incredible take on LA culture and music industry history. The breadth and depth of sessions the LA musicians played on is amazing. Pop, surf, movies, Rn'B, Motown, country, big band, etc. Wichita Lineman by Glen Campbell is a perfect example of the beauty, sensitivity, and quality these folks could put out on a daily basis.

Unihikid, cool that your father was in the Robins. Great Rn'B and Doo-Wop came out of LA.

And Johnny Otis - producer, performer, singer, club owner, band leader, pianist, drummer, vibes player, raconteur, television show host, radio DJ...one of my heroes. The hippest Greek ever. He had an unbroken stream of Rn'B hits in the early '50s. Unique use of vibes, his trademark, as texture on records. I watched his LA television show - and remember The Mixtures, a mixed race band. My parents went to Otis's Club Alabam and Barrelhouse - in the good times after WWII and before I was born....

Continuing Julius Shulman's 1952 tour of Bank of America branches, here's one near Roscoe Boulevard on Van Nuys Boulevard. This is "Job 1385: Bank of America (Los Angeles, Calif.), 1952".

http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...1.jpg~original

Looking north on Van Nuys Boulevard from just south of Roscoe Boulevard. Under the palm trees is Panorama Real Estate.

http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...2.jpg~original

On the left, it looks like there's a funfair in the distance.

http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...a.jpg~original

The third picture is looking south. The flags/banners across the street are advertising the grand opening of Kay's Children's Store at 8434 Van Nuys Boulevard.

http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...3.jpg~original

All from Getty Research Institute

When I first parked the Googlemobile on Van Nuys Boulevard, I didn't think there was much left from the scenes above. Then I spotted a Bank of America sign and went to investigate. It's lost its pylon over the years, but looks virtually unchanged apart from that.

http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...4.jpg~original
GSV

The Paramount Market building is a now part of a parking lot for Paramount Plaza, but I believe the old Thrifty sign now belongs to Rite Aid.

http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...5.jpg~original
GSV

Looking for the funfair, I decided to visit Historic Aerials. The 1947 view shows no buildings at all on this section of Van Nuys Boulevard.

http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...6.jpg~original
Historic Aerials

Luckily, there's a 1952 view to coincide with the Shulman photos. I've arrowed the bank. That might be the funfair just below Chase Street on the left.

http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...7.jpg~original
Historic Aerials

The 1964 and 1967 views show nearly the same buildings, so I've gone for the 1967 image because it's clearer.

http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...8.jpg~original
Historic Aerials

I'll finish with a current view which shows the large gap between Rite Aid and the Bank of America where Paramount Market once stood. As far as I can tell, it was demolished between 1989 and 1995.

http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...9.jpg~original
Google Maps

Clifton's Cafeteria renovation photos
 

Everyone,
The Los Angeles Times has posted some sneak preview photos of the renovated Clifton's Cafeteria. The link is below...

http://www.latimes.com/food/la-dd-cl...togallery.html

I love that word -- lagoon. It conjures up so many different moods.
(It was on the "Wild Animal Farm" postcard you posted yesterday, E_R.
I also love those nightclub photos you find and post.)

Speaking of that:

As an aisde to this photo, a friend and I were discussing documentaries yesterday and he told me he'd just seen a new documentary
called "The Outrageous Sophie Tucker." I mentioned seeing this photo and he laughed, saying that this was discussed in the documentary.

Apparently, Sophie was one of the first to promote her own book in any way possible. She would sing the song, which is the title of her
book, "Some of These Days" and then she'd run out to the lobby and sell copies of it to people and autograph them for them however
they wished. She also would never give anyone change. If they handed her a ten or twenty or fifty she'd just keep it and say the change
"is for Israel...it's going to Israel."

After she'd sing the song, she might have someone else come out to say something or whatever on stage, to keep people in their
seats a bit, while she would run out to the lobby and be ready for anyone to come out and there'd she would be promoting and selling
her book. Her force of personality would probably make you feel you HAD to have the book and/or feel guilty if you didn't! By all
accounts, she was a character!

Thanks for the Clifton's Cafeteria link, knites. For anyone who doesn't click on the links, here are a few of the pictures. All images are courtesy of Rick Loomis / Los Angeles Times.

A giant fake redwood tree sprouts from the ground floor up four stories.

http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...1.jpg~original

A stuffed lion stands guard. I hope Walter Palmer had nothing to do with it!

http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...2.jpg~original

Walls are painted with gorgeous murals of California nature scenes.

http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...3.jpg~original

A meteorite encased in bronze, an old church's interior elements -- all part of the decor at one bar.

http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...4.jpg~original

There's even an image of the old file cabinet that contains every recipe from Clifton's history!

Here's Sophie Tucker on What's My Line 1957....

Watch here:....https://youtu.be/DKKmlBJnmbI

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v4...pstiowymye.jpg
YouTube

For those who missed it, there's also last year's Collector's Weekly article on Clifton's:

http://www.collectorsweekly.com/arti...ale-cafeteria/

Cheers,

Earl

Adding my two cents to the fine-tuning of the MGM group photo from 1954.

The young woman #12 looks to me like Julie Newmar, who was one of the "Seven Brides" of the movie of that year. However she was very tall (the two men flanking here could be on risers), and was a minor starlet. It indeed could also be Doe Avedon, who was in the long-forgotten musical "Deep in My Heart," of which this photo is practically a publicity shot for, since so many of the people here were in that film. However, to my eyes, the young woman here doesn't resemble any of the photos of Doe Avedon at google images. I agree there is a slight resemblance to Lauren Bacall, but none of her dramatic demeanor or facial angularity.


No. 13 is indeed Jose Ferrer. Marge and Gower Champion are not in the photo.

No. 22 is indeed Tamara Toumanova, not Dolores Del Rio.

No. 24 is indeed Edmund (not Edward) Purdom, and not Donald Woods.

No. 38 is not Spring Byington. It is likely 55-year-old Wagnerian Opera star Helen Traubel, who had a prominent role in "Deep in my Heart." Since the photo is fuzzy, there is also a resemblance to character actress Isobel Elsom, the "epitome of the haughty British Dowager," who was also in the movie, although the hearty and darker-haired Traubel was the much bigger name at the time.


Other MGM group photos of the 1940's and early 1950's included starlets and lesser lights among the big names. The studio was on a downward trajectory when this picture was taken, and many of the people here, like Jane Powell and Esther Williams, to name just two, would soon be gone.

A good safety zone is hard to find,:shrug:


1931 - Venice Boulevard meets Seventh Avenue
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Ten hut!


California Military Academy, 4001 Venice Blvd. This institution seems to have moved quite a bit during its 58 year existence from 1906-1964. (Prior addresses include (1913) 1940 Lovelace. Looks like it eventually moved to 5300 Angeles Vista Blvd., (1936.)
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F. Stairway to?
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H. Ouch
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California Military Academy's impressive Santa Monica Campus
http://www.usgwarchives.net/ca/losan...ards/calma.jpghttp://www.usgwarchives.net/ca/losan...ards/calma.jpg

See also https://books.google.com/books?id=5F...monica&f=false







http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/515OgFoFHUL.jpghttp://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/515OgFoFHUL.jpg

http://skyscraperpage.com/forum/show...postcount=5516

http://skyscraperpage.com/forum/show...postcount=5516

http://skyscraperpage.com/forum/show...38#post5518138





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:previous: It's really too bad the bank building lost the brick pylon that matched and fit so perfectly with the building's design.




I came across the following two photograph while searching for additional images of the BofA with it's original brick pylon.
The photo below show three of the buildings HossC spoke of in his earlier post....The Thrifty....the Panorama Market (now a Food Giant)....and the Bank of America

and KKK members. :(

http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/128...540/R9iGQv.jpg
http://digital-library.csun.edu/cdm/.../id/2531/rec/5






Here are the complete photographs. (both are dated Sept. 15, 1966)


http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/102...905/A3CTSg.jpg
http://digital-library.csun.edu/cdm/.../id/2531/rec/5


http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/102...910/7zb0C2.jpg
http://digital-library.csun.edu/cdm/.../id/2531/rec/5

:previous: note the business man throwing some sort of liquid at the racists in the bed of the pickup truck.
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detail / Panorama Market (with the huge pylon under construction)....or perhaps being refitted into the less graceful Food Giant sign/pylon (see below)
http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/800...911/pyniys.jpg
http://forum.skyscraperpage.com/show...ostcount=30534


...and as a Food Giant Supermarket. (viewed from the opposite direction)

http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/102...661/0kvp8P.jpg
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HossC's earlier post is here:
http://forum.skyscraperpage.com/show...ostcount=30534

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There's never a sousaphone player around when you need one ;).

For anyone who missed the recent viral video, you can see it here. Ironically, the YouTube viewing code for this video contains three Ks together!

:previous: I didn't know what you meant until I watched the video.

What a perfect response to their rally! -the incidental music made them look like lumbering idiots.
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More Hotel St. Angelo
 

The branching flues were not original, but they were installed early in the building's existence. Here is an ad that appeared in the June 1895 Land of Sunshine:
http://i1165.photobucket.com/albums/...h.jpg~original
Hathitrust -- http://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?i...iew=1up;seq=80

Thanks Slauson!
I knew Johnny or "Unca John" as he told me to call him. Its funny how so many of the LA musicians were connected in some way or another. One of my best childhood memories is riding my bike and hearing a neighbor from down the street saying "Charles you better get home,your dad is lookin for you" ..so i rush home, and we had a slight slope to our drive and i would skid in around the corner..well this time i skidded in and almost hit these two 1954 Mercedes Benz! I was thinking to my 12 year old self who the hell would park these old cars in my way...Well i go upstairs and sitting in our living room is Etta James and James Ingram..Etta acted like she knew me (she had known my dad since the 50s) and i got a big wet kiss from her, James was my dad piano player and he was over all the time so it wasnt a big to do..but the reason why my dad was looking for me was to show me the cars..both had been restored and Etta and James were just comparing each car...I got to sit in them both. But i never forgave them for almost making me scratch their cars!

Since HossC's post on the Panorama City BofA on Van Nuys I've been driving the google-mobile around in area. I was just about to give up (on finding anything interesting)
when I came across this building a block south of the BofA, also on Van Nuys Blvd.



http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/102...661/SmLRD6.jpg
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http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/102...673/IuJgao.jpg
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side view / facing Titus street
http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/102...537/LLcgvY.jpg
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I've been trying to picture it painted mid-century white. ;) It would look sooo much better.
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Using the street address I found out the building was designed by architect W.A. Sarmiento in an 'Organic Modern' style to house the Great Western Savings bank.
It was completed in 1957, to provide banking services to the Kaiser Community Homes' postwar Panorama City development.

"Sarmiento's design for the Panorama bank reflects his belief that art and architecture should be intertwined, looking as much like sculpture as a building.
Two gently arching beams criss-cross the top of the dome shaped building and return to anchor it to earth with low piers of scored concrete."

"Narrow vertical elements divide the large windows of one façade into columns of glass, while the other main façade (facing Van Nuys Blvd) is fully glazed.
An amazing stainless steel staircase curves through the building's interior, with floating steps cantilevered from a single main beam."

:previous: Note to self: find photograph of the interior.

https://www.laconservancy.org/locations/panorama-bank
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After numerous google searches, I finally found a vintage photograph of the building in 1957. (although the sign says Van Nuys Savings instead of Great Western Savings)

http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/102...538/r6cC6W.jpg
http://www.charlesphoenix.com/

:previous: Note the fantastical front entrance/awning and supports. They are missing now :(
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When I first came across Mr. Sarmiento's bank building my google-street-view was accidentally set on 2011.
Much to my dismay, in the more recent (2014) street view the building has been repainted with garish circus colors. aargh!

http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/102...537/lqAzx2.jpg
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http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/102...537/0T9VsV.jpg
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here's the back.
http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/102...540/OvLtZJ.jpg
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And finally, an aerial showing the criss-crossed beams.

http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/102...912/XF94X0.jpg
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:previous:

The old bank was painted in the more pleasing white color scheme in 2002, as can be seen in this screengrab I found from a movie called Stealing Harvard. I've never seen the movie, so I don't know if the interior was featured.

http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...ingHarvard.jpg
filming.90210locations.info

A fabulous bit of mid-century modern architecture. Thanks. You never know what treasures are lying around the next corner.

Sarmiento Great Western Savings, Panorama City
 

https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/-8...44331%2BPM.jpg
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Check out that porch awning. I wonder if it was actually built?