Originally Posted by HossC (Post 8193421)

It's not "deliberate damage". Some sites just prevent hotlinking of images because they're paying for the bandwidth to download them, and only want them to be viewed on the original site. I'm guessing that that's what's happened here. Often, the linked image is replaced by stock image saying something like "Hotlinking isn't cool", but in this case it just has a small advert for the site, instead of your intended poster for "The Brasher Doubloon".

Originally Posted by HossC (Post 8193421)

It's not "deliberate damage". Some sites just prevent hotlinking of images because they're paying for the bandwidth to download them, and only want them to be viewed on the original site. I'm guessing that that's what's happened here. Often, the linked image is replaced by stock image saying something like "Hotlinking isn't cool", but in this case it just has a small advert for the site, instead of your intended poster for "The Brasher Doubloon".

Originally Posted by CityBoyDoug (Post 8193566)

Sooooooo who pays for the stock image.???????

Originally Posted by John Maddox Roberts (Post 8193265)

Fun fact: the name for that arrangement of five squares is "quincunx."

Originally Posted by HossC (Post 8193583)

The site where you found the image still pays for you displaying the stock image, but the stock image is nearly always much smaller that the image you wanted, so it doesn't cost them as much. The "derangedcrimes" stock image is just over 20kb (it's actually called "hotlink.jpg"), while "The Brasher Doubloon" poster, though not huge, is over three times the size at over 65kb. If someone was hotlinking your images, which would you rather pay for?

Originally Posted by CityBoyDoug (Post 8193624)

I guess my days of posting photos on NLA are over. ......Or I may have to find a photo hosting site. I had photo bucket but they dropped me and millions of others like a bad habit. There are several members on this thread who would love to see me disappear.

If there are any other miscreants from the hotlink gang on here....you've been warned by Hoss. Your dark days are over.....

Originally Posted by CityBoyDoug (Post 8193624)

I guess the best thing for me to do is delete their ''hotlink jpg" before they call the cops on me. I don't want to spend several years in jail for this .. Will the Mueller get involved? I may have to testify in Congress. I guess my days of posting photos on NLA are over. ......Or I may have to find a photo hosting site. I had photo bucket but they dropped me and millions of others like a bad habit. There are several members on this thread who would love to see me disappear.


If there are any other miscreants from the hotlink gang on here....you've been warned by Hoss. Your dark days are over.....

Originally Posted by Martin Pal (Post 8193621)

The absolute(ly?) only reason I knew this is because it was the title of an IRONSIDE episode I saw back in 1970 (?). I was not a regular viewer of this series, but I believe I watched this episode because the title came on and I wondered what the heck that was. If I recall, this was the pattern on a map of some crimes being committed and Ironside explains what that pattern's called.

How did you come to know this, JMR?

Originally Posted by Noir_Noir (Post 8177343)

Back to those LA Punks . . . and the places some of them lived at the time the picture was taken in 1977. After gravitating to Hollywood as the scene took hold, feasible accommodation options were limited - cheap run down apartments or squats. The surprisingly welcoming down at heel cockroach infested Canterbury Apartments at 1746 N. Cherokee Ave was a godsend. It was soon home to a whole slew of notables from the scene. Alice Bag and Lorna Doom, from the picture, were among those who moved in, as did Belinda Carlisle and Jane Wiedlin from the Go-Go's. The Canterbury had the added bonus of being a short hop and pogo down Cherokee from the focal point club of LA Punk at that time, The Masque.

https://i.imgur.com/EXxHaC5.jpg
Calisphere


Alice Bag on the roof of the Canterbury in 1977 -

https://i.imgur.com/MuF7wDn.jpg
Red Bull Music Academy

Life at The Canterbury -

http://daily.redbullmusicacademy.com...erbury-feature

Built in 1929 and nowadays under the moniker of the Alexa Artiste Apartments -


https://i.imgur.com/4iO7Bdh.jpg
GSV

Originally Posted by ethereal_reality (Post 8193922)

Here are two amateur snapshots taken from a moving car on the Hollywood Freeway in 1977.




As for the 2nd photograph: I am pretty much LOST.

I don't see any of these buildings along the freeway. :shrug:

DETAIL of #2
https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/1...921/xNncvX.png

Help! me noirishers


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Originally Posted by ethereal_reality (Post 8193926)

I finally found a connection (a small one) that places the Sweet Sixteen Fountain in West Los Angeles.

https://imageshack.com/i/pnw58FXij

Originally Posted by ethereal_reality (Post 8193922)

I found the location of the #1 photograph. (thanks to the old apt building on the right)

https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/1...922/fwEPbR.jpg
GSV



...but I haven't been able to find the other buildings in the pic. (and they're quite LARGE buildings!)

DETAIL of #1
https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/1...924/v7TTzz.jpg
detail


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Originally Posted by BillinGlendaleCA (Post 8193942)

We're here to help, ER. The car has just passed over Glendale Blvd. The green area beside the freeway is now tennis courts and a baseball diamond at Temple and Glendale. The houses you see are on Temple and are still there!

ETA: Wow, the downtown skyline sure looks, eh, sparse.

Originally Posted by ethereal_reality (Post 8193922)

...but I haven't been able to find the other buildings in the pic. (and they're quite LARGE buildings!)

DETAIL of #1
https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/1...924/v7TTzz.jpg
detail

Originally Posted by Scott Charles (Post 8193959)

Number 3 is the Frostonya Apartments at 346 North Vermont Avenue...

I believe buildings 1 and 2 have been torn down. Building #2 may be the California Highway Patrol, but if so, the building has been replaced or heavily remodeled.