Several locations were intercut in the Stooges' short. Notice the non-appearance/appearance of street car tracks. FWIW, at 0:05 there is rear screen projection of "
the Modern Grocery." A listing for that name appears in the
1914CD as
846 E. 42nd Street, but the terrain seem flat. And from first impressions, that structure seems not destined for longevity, so it is difficult to say that that address was actually depicted in the short. It is not even clear in many shots whether we are seeing the stooges or their stunt triples.
It seems that most, if not all, studios borrowed from preexisting stock footage, when available. Recall a recent NLA discussion of the train wreck in one of Hal Roach's Our Gang adventures "possibly" near Culver City. Without confirmation, auto crashes were also staged using hilly streets adjacent to or in San Pedro and Long Beach.
While exploring the whereabouts of the Charles Ray's and Miles (Myles) Standish's Mayflower replica, I was reminded of another long-lost nautically-connected drama,
Theda Bara's 1917 Cleopatra. According to one source, some of Cleopatra was photographed on California's Nile aka The
Dominguez Slough. (Yes, there was another name.
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Has anyone seen any location stills/footage of this area with Cleo's barge?
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The picture was filmed on the Dominquez slough just outside Long Beach, California. The throne prop used in the film ended up, years later, in the possession of Leon Schlesinger Productions, the production company behind the Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies cartoons; its disposition after the acquisition of that company by Warner Bros. is unknown. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cleopatra_%281917_film%29
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More on the area?
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Due to the acres of berry farms, the city was nicknamed "Berryland" and there used to be an annual Strawberry Day Festival and Parade. Although the Laguna Dominguez slough and channel fed the area and gave it its green character, it was filled in in the 1920s. Nonetheless, Gardena today still boasts several nurseries and parks that reflect its past. Gardena [along with the neighboring communities of Strawberry Park (to the northwest) and Moneta (to the south)] was incorporated into the City of Gardena in 1930. http://www.amoeba.com/blog/2010/05/e...ortunity-.html
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More on Gardena Valley's strawberry fields here:
http://margaretandersen.com/thegrid/...wberry-fields/
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Before and after of
Herb Jeffer's grocery store at
825 Gardena Blvd.
http://margaretandersen.com/thegrid/...-gardena-blvd/ The source does not provide any background on Jeffers or the building's construction date. (Available permits only go back to '43.) Jeffers is listed in the 1914-15 GardenaCD as a Grain dlr with home at
165th Street. The 1919CD references H Jeffers as a co-proprietor for the
Compton-Gardena Milling Co (at a different location.)
http://margaretandersen.com/thegrid/...2/jefferse.png