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Originally Posted by ethereal_reality
Hockey on Roller-Skates, 1926.
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Originally Posted by ethereal_reality
I believe our lovely ladies were playing roller-hockey (and tennis) on the roof that I've outlined in red.
That means the background in the vintage photos is the Los Angeles Athletics Club across the street.
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Originally Posted by HossC
In 1926, the ladies would have been on the roof of the Ville de Paris department store.
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It looks like these ladies weren't the first to film on the roof of the Ville de Paris. While I was looking for pictures of the "Little Giant" Garage and Casa Grande Hotel recently, I came
an article on silentlocations.wordpress.com which included the picture below.
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Harold Lloyd's 1921 short 'Never Weaken' has come up a couple of times before on NLA, but all the images seem to be missing. Luckily, it's on
YouTube, so I took a look. All the following screengrabs are from the YouTube video.
The movie opens with this view of the Pantages (later Warner) Theatre at 7th and Hill, with the Los Angeles Athletic Club behind. The theatre only opened a year before 'Never Weaken' was released.
The basic plot is that Harold is in love with the girl (Mildred Davis) in the office next door, but she is about to lose her job because her osteopath boss doesn't have enough patients. Harold decides to go out and drum up business, and one of his ruses is dropping soap flakes on the street just before a water wagon passes. The scene was filmed by the Angel's Flight Pharmacy on S Grand Avenue.
When Harold returns to see if his efforts have paid off, he mistakenly believes that his girl has agreed to marry another man. During an attempt to commit suicide, Harold finds himself on a girder swinging through the air. He's soon lands on a building under construction, which is actually a set on the roof of the Ville de Paris. Here's a view of Bullocks Seventh Street Building.
The store below Harold's feet is Dan Clemmons' men's furnishings at 332 W 7th Street.
Finally, we get a closer look at the Los Angeles Athletic Club.
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Besides, some clothes can quickly go out of style and once it caught on, there was bound to be a new and improved Healthbouy! Just guessing that goat gland treatments were not inexpensive. 
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