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Hill indeed! Holy cats, what a great hill-tel image, which I'd never seen. I can tell you just where that is (or, was):
In the above late-50s image by Hylen, here's the Alta Vista Apts at 255 S Bunker Hill Avenue, which held a lofty perch above the Third Street Tunnel. If the window display truck shot is 1929 then it's four years before [he] makes his home there, and the grisly murder of Harriet Allen. On a cheerier note, look how those Washingtonia have grown!
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Nice save.
"Leafing" backward into the "seemingly" bizarre allegation that Leonard Slye, aka "King of the Cowboys", aka "Roy Rogers" was somehow indirectly connected with Spade Cooley's marital and criminal woes.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spade_Cooley This seems to have been debunked. Roy and Dale dismissed the allegations as "ridiculous."
http://www.crimelibrary.com/notoriou...cooley/11.html Spade and Roy were evidently friends. It had escaped me that Spade bore a likeness to Roy, although I think the Warren Oates image is pretty close too. No doubt capitalizing on the the SC-RR friendship and similarities, Spade even doubled for Roy at Republic Studios (recently "wide-pictured" on NLA).
http://www.crimelibrary.com/notoriou..._cooley/3.html
http://marcmyers.typepad.com/.a/6a00...6117970d-500wi
http://stevesomething.files.wordpres...ade-cooley.jpg
http://goldenbootawards.com/images/1986/Roy-Rogers.jpg
https://www.nationalcowboymuseum.org...203.3.0010.gif
Spade and Roy at the Santa Monica Ballroom where Spade performed.
http://www.westernclippings.com/imag..._roy_spade.jpg
Interesting read about Roy's early show business years, including a third-person take on the March '33 Long Beach Quake. The band in which Roy played had just taken stage at the "prestigious" Warner Bros. Theater.
http://davethompsonbooks.wordpress.c...ogers-in-love/ Can anyone confirm which theater that would have been? Warner's had numerous venues that would have felt the quake, e.g., Downtown LA, Hollywood, Wilshire and Western, and San Pedro.
1937
http://waterandpower.org/2%20Histori...ner_ca1937.jpg
Not being a student of RRs, it is unclear where Roy maintained a permanent SoCal residence during the '30s, although his sister reportedly lived in Lawndale.
Not aware of any CD listings for Leonard "Slye." Probably worth noting
again that Roy was a staple at the recently pictured Republic Studio.
http://www.ewillys.com/wp-content/up...lybelle-PR.jpg
Noticed a report that Roy discovered comedic sidekick, Pat Brady, in '35 when Brady was playing the bass fiddle at a club in
Sunset Beach, [CA].
http://news.google.com/newspapers?ni...g=7093,4343654 Inasmuch as the source, Brady's obit, mispells "Sly," its unclear whether this actually refers to a club in or near Sunset Beach, south of Long Beach, or a Sunset Beach Club that may have been located in or near Santa Monica. Guessing that some club names may have changed with the wind.
Not that there wasn't entertainment down the coast, south of Long Beach, (Deauville Club?) but I would guess it would have been an extremely long commute there from LA or Studio City. Maybe, despite the lack of freeways, there was a lack of traffic so the commute would have been comparable to today?
Various "Santa Monica" Beach Clubs?
http://i147.photobucket.com/albums/r...VLTD/SMPC1.jpg
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