Is this another '80s TV reboot?

http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...Odinthorpi.jpg

Sorry, odinthor, I know it's the wrong island, but the mustache, the shirt, the glasses - all you're missing is the Ferrari ;).

:previous: odinthor looks tall in that photo.

If I were a betting man I'd say he's around 6' 3.5" :shrug:

am I close?

blush Thanks, Hoss! :cheers:

Golly, e_r--you must have a crystal ball! ;)

...or what I call a GIANT!

I'm one of the wee people.

I'm one of the wee people too BillinGlendale.


A little over 5' 6"

A few minutes ago I happened upon this photograph on Ebay.

I was surprised by how clearly you can see the 3rd Street Tunnel. (it is the 3rd Street Tunnel, right?)

https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/1...923/jMQyLG.jpg
Ebay






Let's take a closer look.

https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/1...922/iuO155.jpg
DETAIL





There's our old friend, the Edison Building. :)

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DETAIL



sorry if this image is a repeat

1308 S. Hill Street
 

According to the April 2018 Google Street View, the Portsmouth Hotel doesn't seem to have changed much since you
showed it to us in June 2013, e_r.


This GSV is from June 2017, looking east on Pico from just west of Hill. The Portsmouth Hotel is on the southeast corner
of Pico and Hill:

http://i1165.photobucket.com/albums/...psi1tcxgsb.jpg

GSV


This is appoximately the same view in December 1937, when the Portsmouth Hotel was the Hotel Latour:

http://i1165.photobucket.com/albums/...psdn6zecbu.jpg

Islandora/UCLA/LA Daily News Negatives


Here is a slightly closer look at the hotel:

http://i1165.photobucket.com/albums/...pszqcbh7oi.jpg



The buildng permit for the hotel is dated August 9, 1913, and it opened on February 3, 1914, as the Hotel Corola:

http://i1165.photobucket.com/albums/...pstkj2nsnw.jpg

February 6, 1914, Los Angeles Herald @ CDNC

I wonder if Pamela Greyson is still stealing other people's copyrighted photos and sharing them without permission.

I'm several pages behind as usual
 

The W. C. Fields film It's A Gift features a pulley-driven clothesline across an alley as part of the plot. Fields has been driven outside near dawn to get some sleep by his termagant wife, and he keeps getting awakened by annoying sounds. One of these sounds is the squeaking of a pulley as a woman from across the alley is putting fresh laundry out on the line. It is the most annoying squeak ever devised by man.

I was born about a generation and a half too late.

The Ford Model A years are baffling, because they had so many different body styles in that classification. I'm still trying to figure out the precise description of the Model A Kookie drove around on 77 Sunset Strip in seasons 2 and 3.

In 1908, in Pitesti, Romania , Harlamb Gerogescu was born. He was one of the most important architects in the interwar Romania after his plans were built cinemas, factories, apartment and office buildings and shopping centers, all in the art deco or modernist style. In 1947 he runs from soviet occupied Romania to the United States where he changes his name to Harlan Georgesco. After 3 years as a professor at the Nebraska University he moves to L.A. and starts an architecture firm in partnership with James Larson.

In 1959 he starts his own architecture company. Some of his projects in and around LA:

-Apartment building at 691 Levering Avenue, Westwood, Los Angeles, California.
-Apartment building on Dorothy Avenue in West Los Angeles, California.
-Pasinetti Residence, 1421 Summitridge Drive, Beverly Hills, California.
-Georgesco Residence, 420 S. Westgate Avenue, Brentwood, California.
-Residence on Crescent Avenue, Beverly Hills, California.
-Residence on Kearsarge Street, Brentwood, California.
-California Home for the Aged in Reseda, California
-Several residences, restaurants and other projects in and around Palm Springs, California


In the 60s he did the redesign plan for the famous Chi Chi Club in Palm Springs , CA, the club hosted many celebrities like : Jerry Lewis, Sophie Tucker, Louis Armstrong, Edgar Bergen, Nat King Cole, Dorothy Dandridge and Bill Alexander.

https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-6F0nI14c1...As/s1600/1.jpg

https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-cgOKIr2nv...As/s1600/2.jpg

Photo courtesy of Palm Springs Historical Society

https://4.bp.blogspot.com/-fgbUugSxF...08410112_n.jpg

Jerry Lewis and Chi Chi owner Irwin Schuman inside the club.

http://www.georgescoart.com/cgs6/00.JPG

"Pasinetti Residence" 1421 Summitridge Drive, Beverly Hills CA. Vintage 1958 Photo's by Robert C. Cleveland

Here's part of a 1953 LIFE Magazine photo posted by gsjansen in post #3670. From the image above, I've marked the light-colored Stanley Apartments and the brick Winton Apartments immediately below. I've also marked what could be the palm tree from the far left of the image above. The palm tree would be near 3rd, so I'll stick with my original location guess. Despite the tanker looking familiar, I haven't found the color photo anywhere else.

http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...orFreeway1.jpg
No source given

So you're about 2" taller than I am.

I am the reverse of this.

You're 6" 5" Martin !

Bill and I would look quite short next to you.

https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/3...924/Fxcdg4.jpg

https://66.media.tumblr.com/0b1918d1...i7mo1_1280.jpg
ocean-liners

A quick trip down to Long Beach for Feb. 11, 1982 The Spruce Goose arrives at Long Beach. The huge Hughes plane [1947]was about to squeeze into the Dome .

I'm sure most of you know that's the old Queen Mary [1936] at the right. Notice that her aft decks are crowded with onlookers. She's still there but the Goose is long gone.

Here's an amazing snapshot of Los Angeles Street decorated for the 1932 Olympics.

Found on Ebay $69.99


https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/1...924/CgjsBb.jpg
Ebay



back
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I can't resist a closer look.

https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/1...924/eNipBv.jpg

WOW!


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Yeah that's one of mine. Looks like she pulled the pic from the eBay listing where it was reversed. I do believe we discussed it at the time but I'm not finding it now. I seem to remember someone wondered what was printed on the side of the shed, which is

https://farm8.staticflickr.com/7809/...86969ffa_o.png
...Anthony C. Meehleis Reinforcing Steel

It's a pretty neat shot. I think Hoss is spot-on with his estimation of the location.

I wish I knew more about color correction to get it looking really top-notch. Here's the Berke at Second and SBHA, across from the (back of the) JP Miller house at 201.

https://farm5.staticflickr.com/4832/...babcec6f_o.png

As long as we're on the subject of storms, here's something I just screengrabbed off the LA Times, 16 Feb 1937:

https://farm8.staticflickr.com/7868/...a2834185_o.png

Unusual view of the stairs adjacent the B'way tunnel.

Coincidentally I was looking at this film last night- Circus performers arriving by airplane (possible at the recently discussed mid-town airfield?).
https://farm8.staticflickr.com/7908/...1a0b0f4d_h.jpg

The Loves and Adventures of an LA Steel Contractor


In 1940 Anthony C. Meehleis is married to Dorothy.

https://i.imgur.com/dwBWhhb.jpg

In 1942 he's left Dorothy and is married to Betty.

https://i.imgur.com/ZkEzLJD.jpg


By 1944 he has divorced Betty and already married, and about to be divorced, from Constance ... and is still thinking of Betty.


https://i.imgur.com/htibcCt.jpg
cdn.shopify.com

https://i.imgur.com/wCjHrsZ.jpg


That was a busy four years. :)


Thirteen years on ...

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cdnc.ucr.edu - San Bernardino Sun - 24 October 1957

1938, interesting protest in L.A.

https://i.imgur.com/gxnfFtW.png

While we're on the west side of Bunker Hill, have we seen this January 1955 photo of the 4th Street cut before?

http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...StreetCut1.jpg
Huntington Digital Library

Zooming in, there's another of those red tankers in almost the same place. The company in the background doesn't appear in the 1956 CD, but the Industrial Sanitary Supply Co is at 400 S Boylston in 1960.

http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...StreetCut2.jpg
Detail of photo above

Harry's Place :previous:

https://i.postimg.cc/bw75yN5c/Strike1.jpg

https://i.postimg.cc/tCfSk4pZ/Strike2.jpg

Both images, L.A. Times via ProQuest via CSULB Library.

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https://i.imgur.com/iKFQpMZ.jpg
Google Books - LIFE 2 Jan 1939

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https://i.postimg.cc/QtY8nT6Z/1417Geo.jpg

You have a way with words Noir Noir. :)

Whenever I see a location 'find' like this, I always wonder if the current homeowners know anything about the history of their home.
Aware or not, I bet they would love to see that photograph of Lena Melena, taken so many year ago, at their front door. (I know I would)




Here's another photo of of Lena, in heavy makeup.
Later

There you have the Martz Flats, which go back on NLA all the way to your post 1203 of May 6, 2010...except that the pic is missing. Here's one from Beaudry's 3790 of a year later:

http://jpg2.lapl.org/pics19/00019017.jpg


More on Mr. Martz and his house and his Flats here

Here is the missing photograph that GW mentioned.


Martz Flats, taken on July 1, 1965. (shortly before demolition)

https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/1...924/NE8F4L.jpg
ucla archives

I fixed my 2010 post as well.

Thanks for the heads up GW.

I've forgotten, why isn't the Goose there any more?
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I guess this got settled somehow, I believe the club opened on it's planned date.

:previous:

From Wikipedia:

In 1980, the Hercules aircraft was acquired by the Aero Club of Southern California, which later put the aircraft on display in a very large geodesic dome next to the Queen Mary ship exhibit in Long Beach, California. The large dome facility became known as the Spruce Goose Dome. The very large enclosed indoor dome area around the Spruce Goose consisted of meeting and special event space, elaborate audio visual displays about Howard Hughes and the Spruce Goose aircraft, and dining areas for tourists. Many convention groups held large dinners, sales meetings, and even concerts under the wings of the aircraft at night when the Spruce Goose Dome was closed to tourists. In 1988, The Walt Disney Company acquired both Long Beach attractions and the associated Long Beach real estate by Pier J. In 1991, Disney informed the Aero Club of Southern California that it no longer wished to display the Hercules aircraft after its highly ambitious Port Disney plan was scrapped.

After a long search for a suitable host, the Aero Club of Southern California arranged for the Hughes Hercules flying boat to be given to Evergreen Aviation Museum in exchange for payments and a percentage of the museum's profits. The aircraft was transported by barge, train, and truck to its current home in McMinnville, Oregon (about 40 miles (60 km) southwest of Portland), where it was reassembled by Contractors Cargo Company and is currently on display. The aircraft arrived in McMinnville on February 27, 1993, after a 138-day, 1,055-mile (1,698 km) trip from Long Beach. The Spruce Goose geodesic dome is now used by Carnival Cruise Lines as its Long Beach terminal.

My wife and I went to a Highlands festival in early 2017 at the Queen Mary. They're using the Goose's dome as exhibition space now. A tour of the Queen was included with the festival ticket. She's definitely seen better days; rust coming up through peeling paint, the wooden decks are worn and unsealed, etc. I recall an article in the LAT that Long Beach City Audit said it requires repairs in the tens of millions and revenue cant even come close. Such a shame for a beautiful piece of Art Deco design.

We have all seen the photographs of the Hercules, later known as theSpruce Goose, being transported down to Los Angeles Harbor from Hughs Corp. in Playa Vista.

I think the following photograph(s) is new to NLA...because I would have remembered the blimp overhead advertising Hughes' film, 'The Outlaw'.

June 16, 1946
https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/1...922/VxlYm9.jpg
UNLA archives



a closer look
https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/6...922/YFhwMX.jpg

If you look closely, I believe it also says JANE RUSSELL.



I'm surprised Hughes didn't hire two blimps to fly in tandem. ;) (if you catch my drift)

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:haha::haha:

:previous:
I remember when I was a teenager in the '70s, Jane Russell was doing brassiere commercials on television. At that age, I didn't know who she was or why she would be doing those commercials. Then one day I saw a photo of her from her starlet days and realized "Oh, that's why"

https://i1.wp.com/longbeachlocalnews...size=800%2C543
long beach local news

How it all looks in 2018.

Jane and the Blimp -


https://i.imgur.com/iCKLWSa.jpg
houstonchronicle.com



The Blimp with different ad copy -


https://i.imgur.com/yzWNSHD.jpg
hometheaterforum.com

Somewhere in the 30's. Shootings between George Farley and the police. G.F. age 48 was evicted from the house, he refused and killed the eviction officer and a police officer.

https://i.imgur.com/AVfjYPW.png

Given the British slang definition of the word "bristols", I now wonder how you acquired your screen name, Bristolian ;).

While looking for pictures of Wilshire the other day, I stumbled upon this sad picture. Does anyone know the background to this story?

Suicide victim, 26 February 1958. John J. Vandenburgh Junior -- 39 years (jumped from sixth floor of Prudential Building).; Caption slip reads: "Photographer: Paegel. Date: 1958-02-26. Reporter: Thackrey. Assignment: Leaper. These are the mortal remains of John J. Vandenburgh, Jr., 39, who was a statistical analyst for Wilton Becket & Assoc. From sixth floor of Prudential Buliding, 5657 Wilshire."

http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...ndenburgh1.jpg
USC Digital Library

For search purposes: Mullen Bluett and Coulters.

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This seemed familiar, so I dug a little--it was mentioned in this 2012 post, though the picture (which might be the same as yours, Hoss, is missing).

Welton Becket was at 5657 Wilshire, a building we've seen before. It's confusing because the caption to the image says "from the sixth floor of the Prudential Building"--but this wasn't the familiar tall landmark Prudential Building we're all familiar with--it was up the street at 5757--but 5657 did have Prudential offices in it, according to the 56CD. Below is a pic of 5657 from your own post 33294 (2016). The LAPL picture below that is one from a 2011 post of mine.

It's really only 5 floors--I guess poor Vandenburgh jumped off the roof.


http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...1.jpg~original
http://jpg1.lapl.org/pics28/00033889.jpg

https://i.postimg.cc/3RnsjvBL/vandenburgh-bmp.jpg
LAT Feb 27, 1958

:previous:

Thanks, GW. I see the original post you linked to omitted the man's name, which explains why it didn't show up in my search. Here's another one:

Janitor found dead at University of California, Los Angeles (Poison) suicide, 22 April 1952. Sergeant John Layman; Lieutenant Nick Janice; Body of James Holub of 1133 4th Street, Santa Monica.; Caption slip reads: "Photographer: Sandusky. Date: 04-22. Assignment: Poison death at UCLA. D13/14: L/R: Sgt. John Layman, West LA Det.; Lt. Nick Janise, UCLA police. D15: Dep. Coroner and Sgt. John Layman, WLA dets.".

http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...amesHolub1.jpg
USC Digital Library

Los Angeles Times, via ProQuest, via CSULB Library.

https://i.postimg.cc/tg0JsG06/Farley1.jpg

https://i.postimg.cc/3Jdx9xYp/Farley2.jpg

IMDB page on victim Mr. Crittenden: https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0188248/?ref_=fn_nm_nm_1

Mr. Farley was at length convicted of manslaughter.

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Most of the 1700 block of E 23rd Street is now industrial, but the 1905 house across the road from George Farley is still standing at 1740 E 23rd Street.

http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...40E23rdSt1.jpg
GSV

This is the 1921 bungalow court at 4428 Lockwood Street which Leon Romer managed with his wife (NB. Lockwood Street is now Lockwood Avenue). This image is from 2011, because the hedge is now much higher.

http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...ockwoodAv1.jpg
GSV

The current building at 11911 Gorham Avenue (former home of T Dwight Crittenden) was only built in 1965.

In re: Georgia Street Receiving Hospital.

https://i.postimg.cc/xCkQDY37/Georgi...hoto-Night.jpg
LAPL

https://i.postimg.cc/SRNWNTjw/Georgia-St-Rec-Photo2.jpg
LAPL

https://i.postimg.cc/Zn2CtVNP/Georgi...g-Hospital.jpg
Los Angeles Times via ProQuest via CSULB Library

Jane Russell's sagging breasts were giving Mr. Hughes a headache during production of the film. His solution was to have his aircraft engineers design a bra that would fix the problem.

The solution was a bra that contained steel wires and pieces of metal that would lift her breasts to the proper altitude. Upon inspection approval, Mr. Hughes declared that production could continue.

Here's a daytime shot of the receiving hospital at 1337 Georgia Street from 1956. The text across the top says "Georgia Street Police Station Division No 5". The site is now roughly under the middle of the Los Angeles Convention Center.

http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...gHospital1.jpg
USC Digital Library

The photoset also includes a picture of its replacement, the Central Receiving Hospital at 500 Loma Drive. We've seen this before in post #34915. In the picture below, Dr. Charles Sebastian, head of the hospital, is standing outside.

http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...gHospital1.jpg
USC Digital Library

The tower and chimneys on the left once belonged to the Mary Andrews Clark building which e_r reminded us of just a few days ago. The building survives, but the tower and chimneys are long gone.

Very much enjoying the posts of Harry's Place, he is a welcome addition to the thread.

Some months back this forum did a wonderful job in locating the Garry Winogrand sailor-in-the-mist walking over the bridge photo as Los Angeles, and not NYC as it is commonly misidentified...here's another Winogrand L.A. picture, dated Jan. 1960.


https://i1381.photobucket.com/albums...pshijybjgl.jpg

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Looks like the entrance to J J Newberry Co at 5th and Broadway. This is a slightly different angle from 1973, but I think the fire phone box on the left is the one being used by the police officer in the image above. The phone box is no longer there.

http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...hBroadway3.jpg
LAPL