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What a find Scott Charles! I'm assuming that's an actual signature? __________ About "The Garden of Eden." Since the High Hopes song (which won the Best Song Oscar for 1959, by the way) was just released around this time, by Capitol Records, and the movie was to come out about three weeks later, and the fact that Sinatra mentions "Capitol Records" in this letter, I'm thinking this was a promotion party that Capitol Records arranged for the song or the movie or both, and The Garden of Eden isn't an actual place in Los Angeles, but just what they called the promotional party as it was the name of the Hotel they were trying to save in the film. It was a promotional thing. The location probably kept a secret, hence transportation provided from the Puccini location in Beverly Hills. It might've been something arranged at the Capitol Records building Just a guess. Also, and I have no idea, but maybe the stationery that was written on was also used in the movie as a prop? :shrug: I haven't seen the movie since VHS was in vogue. |
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A drive-through polio vaccine clinic held six decades ago in Glendale, California. https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/1...923/2MJkwe.jpg LIFE via THE WASHINGTON POST This could be us in the near future. Does anyone recall the Cutter Incident. It's a very interesting story and cautionary tale. . |
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Here's a mad suggestion for the secret party location. If you search the RSVP phone number (HO 2 - 0580) on the invitation letter, it's only listed once, in 1960 for 583½ N. Windsor Blvd. In the same building at 583 lives a woman named Eden Ryl. https://i.imgur.com/tnKivhk.jpg rescarta.lapl.org So the guests can mingle out in Eden's garden - The Garden Of Eden. :D ....... :runaway: |
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583 N. Windsor (kind of near Melrose and Van Ness; a block away from Paramount): https://i.postimg.cc/28JCfXgy/583-North-Windsor.jpg gsv |
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One, both of my parents were Hollywood beat reporters, and while they both were acquainted with a number of stars, they only referred to a few of them as “my friend”. My dad always used this appellation for Sinatra. And whenever Gilda would come on TV my dad would always say “there's my old friend, Glenn Ford”. He only used the title “friend” for a handful of actors. Two, as both my parents were Hollywood reporters, I truly doubt my dad would have saved anything as banal as a form letter. In addition to that, the signature is clearly done in fountain pen; it's not a stamp, or anything like that. Here's my mom (the Japanese lady) at one of these events with Groucho: https://i.imgur.com/BdR8J0D.jpg Quote:
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The coincidence with the phone number is too great! Seriously though, how odd! |
After getting released from Manzanar during WWII, my mother returned to Los Angeles. She started working at the Los Angeles Tribune, a black-owned newspaper. The following photos are from a beach outing with the staff of the newspaper, and are from approximately the mid-1940s.
Top row: Unknown, my mother (Mary Kitano), civil rights activist and editor of the Tribune, Almena Lomax, and author (and my mom's best friend) Hisaye Yamamoto. Bottom row: unknown, unknown https://i.imgur.com/dzXjHe9.jpg While the above photo can be found online, here are two more from my personal collection that I've never seen published before: https://i.imgur.com/XXUF3fg.jpg https://i.imgur.com/XFaGwiA.jpg I was going to ask the experts here if they could help me locate this beach... but then I noticed the following sign in the background of the above photo... and I think I found the location all by myself! https://i.imgur.com/SwXhzu0.jpg This building appears to be Carl's At The Beach in Pacific Palisades, across the street from the former location of the Long Wharf. https://i.imgur.com/LEyf4ws.jpgLINK Here's the matching view of one of my photos: https://i.imgur.com/fuNdHfp.jpg https://www.google.com/maps/@34.0324...4!8i8192?hl=en And this retaining wall still exists: https://i.imgur.com/U7yrpVp.jpg https://www.google.com/maps/@34.0324...4!8i8192?hl=en I've had these photos for years, and have always wondered where they were shot. Thanks to the tips I've learned here I was able to determine the location... and for that, I thank all of you!!! :worship: :worship: :worship: |
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I remember when I lived in L.A. back in the 1980s the area along Santa Monica Blvd. from Century City, west, to the San Diego Freeway (405) was. .umm. . .a special kind of ugly. This is how I remember it. https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/1...923/Mgj1X6.jpg old file/1970s? The highlines, utility poles and the neverending line of billboards. :yuck: The cars at lower left - - - > appear to be stuck in traffic but they're actual parked along the road! And a bit further in the distance there is a small group of cars parked perpendicularly in what appears to be a mini-lot. Can anyone make sense of this strange parking configuration? . |
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Here's an aerial from 1971, but the layout looks pretty similar. The intersection with the bridge is S Beverly Glen Boulevard. The perpendicular parked cars are about a block west of the intersection, followed by the parallel parked ones. Four billboards can be seen to the north of the tracks, with another two visible to the east on the full image. https://hosting.photobucket.com/imag...onicaBlvd3.jpg mil.library.ucsb.edu Roughly the same view today. https://hosting.photobucket.com/imag...onicaBlvd4.jpg Google Maps |
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Lwize, "x" years ago...20-30 right? E_R, I'm glad you posted that photo. I saw it while I was looking up things about Century City the last two days and was going to post it, but I couldn't find it again and then forgot about it. |
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In the 1950's and 60's, with cars being so huge, how difficult was it to drive them through these, what look really narrow to me, porte cochères? |
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High Hopes and Garden of Eden
The letterhead probably was used in Frank Capra's "Hole in the Head". Sinatra played the manager of the "Garden of Eden" hotel. "High Hopes" was written for the film.
Here's a wikipedia article on the movie: A Hole in the Head (1959) is a DeLuxe Color comedy film, in CinemaScope, directed by Frank Capra, featuring Frank Sinatra, Edward G. Robinson, Eleanor Parker, Keenan Wynn, Carolyn Jones, Thelma Ritter, Dub Taylor, Ruby Dandridge, Eddie Hodges, and Joi Lansing, and released by United Artists.[2][3] It was based upon the play of the same name by Arnold Schulman. The film introduced the song "High Hopes" by Sammy Cahn and Jimmy Van Heusen, a Sinatra standard used as a campaign song by John F. Kennedy during the presidential election the following year.[4] Wynn plays a wealthy former friend of Sinatra's character who expresses interest in his plan to build a Disneyland in Florida (the film predates Disney World)—until he notices that Sinatra seems too desperate as he cheers for a dog upon which he'd bet heavily. The movie ends with Tony, Eloise and Ally singing "High Hopes" on the beach. Sinatra sings "All My Tomorrows," another Cahn/Van Heusen song, under the opening titles. The screenplay was adapted by playwright Arnold Schulman, whose father was the operator of a Miami, Florida hotel. The protagonist of A Hole in the Head is a Miami hotel operator of "The Garden of Eden." The actual hotel used for the exterior shots was the Cardozo Hotel, located on Miami Beach's Ocean Drive. Shot over 40 days from 10 November 1958 to 9 January 1959, the film did not enjoy the smoothest of productions, especially during the location filming at Miami Beach. Sinatra's relations with the press were problematic, the media seizing on every anti-Sinatra rumor they could find.[5] Aided by William Daniels, Capra completed the film a full 80 days ahead of schedule, its final production cost of $1.89 million well under the allotted budget. The film opened on June 17, 1959. Although having some positive reviews, the film was a modest box-office success, grossing $4 million in America.[5] Sammy Cahn and Jimmy Van Heusen won the Academy Award for Best Original Song for "High Hopes". |
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Had a rough day today. Lost my cat Maya, sweetest & smartest cat ever. Maya was very brave at the end and even purred and didn't complain. I hope I am as brave at my end. If there is a heaven I can't imagine a good God leaving the dogs and cats outside. Rest in peace sweet Maya. I will miss you dearly. |
Sincere condolences...
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