:previous: Very interesting post Flyingwedge. Thanks for your research.






A bit more about Kathy Marlowe.

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detail / originally posted by MichaelRyerson

She was born Kathy Maslowski in 1934. Throughout the 1950s Marlowe modeled for many local promotional campaigns. At one time or another she was.....

“Miss Be Our Guest at the Movies”

“Miss Chinchilla”

“Miss Get the Dent Out of Your Fenders”

“Miss Lawnseed”

“Queen of Western Linens”

“Miss Nightmare”

“Miss Traveling Saleslady”

“Miss Green Stamps”

“Miss Golf Brand”

“Miss Hollywood Stars”

“Miss Date of the Month”

“Meet Me at the Fair Queen”

“Miss Hot Tomato”

“Miss Long White Potato”

and appropriately, "Miss Everything."




In 1957 she appeared as an uncredited model in The Garment Jungle.

http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/102...924/wMltc9.jpg
http://www.ebay.com/itm/Kathy-Marlow...8AAOSwj85YNjwS

:previous:The eBay seller says that's her in the middle. (I agree)



In this scene from 'The Garment Jungle', I believe that's Kathy Marlowe (or it might be Joanne Barnes, another uncredited model) on the right.

http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/800...923/ma4BGw.jpg
https://sharethefiles.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=76452

For some reason the view outside the window made me think of Los Angeles, so I checked IMDB.

Although 'The Garment Jungle' takes place in New York City some scenes were, in fact, filmed in the garment district of Los Angeles.

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IMDB

Does anyone remember this film? (To be honest I've never seen it)

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In 1958 Marlowe FINALLY starred in a film. It was an “Adults Only” exploitation film noir called Girl with an Itch'.

http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/102...922/i176Vh.jpg
https://bizarrela.com/2016/09/kathy-marlowe/

I wasn't sure this photo was from 'Girl with an Itch', until I noticed she's wearing the same dress on the poster.

http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/102...922/AiCbcF.jpg
http://www.ebay.ca/itm/Girl-With-an-...QAAOSwvihY~eqm


Ad for the uncensored "Adults Only" version.
http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/640...923/HNFnLv.jpg


scene from 'Girl with an Itch'
http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/800...924/aDwy1m.jpg

I'd itch too, look at all that straw. ;)



Link to an article (2014) on Kathy's life in Newport Beach. (she's been married for 52 years!)
http://www.newportbeachmagazine.com/...ts-grand-dame/

List of "Miss" titles from...
https://bizarrela.com/2016/09/kathy-marlowe/

Mystery Drive-In
 

Here is another from the LA Daily News archive at UCLA. The caption says: "Two drive-in restaurant waitresses leaving work, Los Angeles, 1937"

http://i.imgur.com/1JjQKGV.jpg

OK, but what drive-in?

I think this is looking east across Western Ave. at Olympic. The city directories aren't very helpful, but there is the following 1956 building permit:

http://i.imgur.com/rwLNIsx.jpg
www.ladbs.org

BRR posted a list of McDonnell's Drive-Ins back in 2013, but 1001 S. Western wasn't on it. MartinTurnbull earlier this year posted the following:

https://martinturnbull.com/wp-conten...collection.jpg
...which shows the manager and a car hop for the McDonnell's at Wilshire and Robertson. The women's hats in both pictures look a little different, but they are both worn at a jaunty, borderline precarious angle. I wonder if that was the style for McDonnell's.

Here are the aerial views from 1964 and 1972. I believe that the 1964 view shows the pool. The area appears to be covered by a roof by 1972, but I have no idea if the pool is underneath. The 1954 view just shows a parking lot, which is consistent with groundbreaking in 1955.

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

https://c1.staticflickr.com/5/4181/3...4003e786_o.pngKnickerbocker's new facilities opening, 1956


"Southern California dignitaries and beauties helped open the Knickerbocker's new facilities Thursday afternoon, including the new outdoor swimming pool. Left to right are: Lorne Pratt, executive secretary of the Hollywood Chamber of Commerce; Lois Cole, Allyn Parsons wearing Cole of California swim suits (with head dresses!); and L. Ray Dieterich, General Manager of the Knickerbocker Hotel". Frankly, I prefer my mid-50s 'starlets' with a bit more meat on the bone. But that's just me. Do my eyes deceive me but is that the back of a bill board looming over the new 'Sun and Cabana Club' pool area? For that matter, looking at these four I'm struck with how perfectly they all capture the un-ironic dorkdom of 50s advertising photo ops. Where's Jack Carson when you need him? All in all a great shot.

Dino's
 

Yes, that's the image.
Would love for you to instruct me how to post these things. I've read the instructions but still can't seem to pull it off.:uhh:

Really wanted to find the actual awning from the show. Looked all over EBay, Warner Bros. Website, etc. No such luck. I don't know what I'd do with it if I found it, but I waaaaant it....

Thanks for the vintage aerials Hoss! I'm relieved I had the correct spot for the pool area.

I almost changed my initial post to place the pool further back on the parking lot (closer to the old Palace Theater)

The reason I thought this...is because of the wall on the right side of MR's photograph. (shown below, right of red arrow)

Isn't this the back corner of the Palace Theater?

http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/102...924/L1oaJH.jpg
originally posted by MichaelRyerson

If it is the Palace Theater they're breaking ground in the wrong spot, right?

They should be 60 or 70 feet due west...closer to Ivar.
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Here's a trailer for GIRL WITH AN ITCH starring Kathy Marlowe. The older man is played by Robert Armstrong aka Carl Denham from KING KONG.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vD5suRxD-a4

Well since we're going to go this direction here's
 

Bonnie Logan picking her way through traffic at Sunset and Vine...


https://c1.staticflickr.com/3/2888/3...77896169_o.jpgBonnie Logan crossing Sunset at Vine Street, ca.1961


Bonnie Logan southbound crossing Sunset Boulevard at Vine Street in about 1961

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Here's Bonnie two years earlier in 1959.

http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/128...924/WBfliA.jpg
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Is that Julius Shulman lying on the sidewalk? ;)

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I've got a small office photoset from Julius Shulman to finish the week (and he wasn't lying on the sidewalk to take these ;)). It's "Job 1346: Holmes & Narver, Holmes & Narver Office Building, 1952".

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

I think this is a reverse view looking back towards the door.

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

Both from Getty Research Institute

The 1956 CD lists Holmes & Narver Inc, Engineers at 828 S Figueroa Street (as well as the 5th floor of 751 S Figueroa Street). The building is long gone, but I've drawn a blank trying to work out which building it was.

Here's a glimpse of one of their designs:

Mike Ortega and Bob Ward had been washing windows on the 21st floor of One Park Plaza, an building located at 3250 Wilshire Boulevard, when a steel side cable on their scaffold slipped, causing it to drop to a 45-degree angle. Luckily both men were attached by a safety line to the roof of the building and only fell a short distance. City firemen rescued the men by knocking out a tempered glass window, pulling them to safety. Though visibly shaken, neither man was hurt. Photograph dated May 31, 1984. One Park Plaza was designed by Holmes & Narver and completed in 1972.

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LAPL

Diamond Bob and the Palms at the Plaza Hotel, Hollywood
 

I updated that post e_r. Diamond Bob's palms look great:
(These aren't Diamond Bob's only famous palms)

MR, I couldn't help notice the 'diamond'-like designs on the wall behind the diving board.

http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/102...922/U8xicf.jpg
detail/ full photo here: http://forum.skyscraperpage.com/show...ostcount=41485


It turns out, the same abstract-'diamond' design was also on the outside of the pool wall facing Ivar.


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Here's the complete postcard. [early 1960s]

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Okay, one more Knickerbocker post and I'll call it an evening.

Ten years after Houdini's death, a seance was held on the roof of the Knickerbocker Hotel by his wife Bess. [1936]

Here's a spooky pic of the event (I don't see Bess :shrug:)

http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/102...924/1QdVEi.jpg
UPI photo http://www.wildabouthoudini.com/2014...ni-seance.html

"The location shifted from the proposed mountaintop to the roof of the Hollywood Knickerbocker Hotel on Ivar Street.
There was also talk of a national radio hookup to broadcast the seance live, but it's unclear if this happened."



The preparations

http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/102...923/4CSRH8.jpg
http://www.wildabouthoudini.com/2014...ni-seance.html


The invite.

http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/640...924/JQHpCE.jpg

"Golden invitations were sent to some 300 guests and reporters."

On October 31, 1936....

"Bess checked into a suite at the Knickerbocker. The night was uncommonly cold -- "most of the invited guests were as numb as though they'd been dead
as long as Houdini" -- and some of the attendees "had the foresight to prepare for the occasion by stopping in at the Knickerbocker cocktail bar."

"The rooftop had been carpeted for the event and bleachers set-up for the public and reporters. The seance table was set near the edge of the roof with the HOLLYWOODLAND sign visible behind Bess and her manager, Ed Saint, who sat side by side in two large chairs. On the table before them were the famous Mirror Handcuffs interlocked with another pair of cuffs, a bell, and a spirit trumpet. Between them sat "The Houdini Shrine" with a light bulb that burned red above a portrait
of the great magician. All lights on the roof were then extinguished except the ruby light over the shrine.

waiting.......waiting.........w a i t i n g...............
http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/800...924/XFps9p.jpg
http://www.wildabouthoudini.com/2014...ni-seance.html


alas, Houdini didn't show up. (he was dead)

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"It was then that it began to rain. The rain lasted just long enough to drench those left on the rooftop."

No doubt they all bee-lined it back to the bar! lol :)



the Knickerbocker bar around the time of the seance
http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/640...924/YYONpE.jpg
just picture it full of wet people.






The Houdini seance was mentioned once before on NLA (no seance pics), back on page 13 in 2009.
http://skyscraperpage.com/forum/show...&postcount=253

Excerpts from 'Wild About Harry" http://www.wildabouthoudini.com/2014...ni-seance.html

:previous:


Don't even get me started on the Westerner. I would have loved to have seen the Cinnabar in that space:

I did not know the Lido ever was a hotel

At the Roosevelt bar Lido you could always get their famous "Skip & Go Naked" drink. Here's the recipe....make it any way you like,,,,even as a non-alcohol punch.
A similar drink is often called a "Shandy".


Ingredients....
2 cans frozen lemonade concentrate (pink or raspberry is best!)
1 (750 ml) bottle of vodka
5-6 light beers [or near-beer], depending on taste
Instructions
Combine all ingredients in a large pitcher or drink dispenser and stir. Serve over ice. Enjoy!

Oh BTW, I don't drink...[used to though].;) What with my drinking-bar posts I'not advocating drinking....most all drinks can be made Roy Rogers style.




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eisforeat

It is not noirish and decidedly not part of the traditional noir era, but the Roosevelt's pool has a little something extra: a David Hockney attention grabber. ;)



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Ann Margrock and Stoney Curtis (According to Honorary Mayor, the late Johnny Grant, If they didn't go swimming at the Roosevelt, they should have.)
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FrAjx4jNwXo





Here is Hockney with the BMW 850, he decorated. The former May Co. on Wilshire is in the background, suggesting that the location was east of the no longer existent May Co Parking structure.

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http://forum.skyscraperpage.com/show...ostcount=31170

I am referring to the pool at the Lido on Wilcox. It is now a parking lot.