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Old Posted May 9, 2016, 11:56 PM
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Thanks Lwise. I thought it was something that started with an M, but all I could think of was Mazda.

My roommate in college had a bicentennial edition 1976 Maverick that was red white & blue. I still razz him about it.
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Old Posted May 10, 2016, 12:12 AM
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'mystery' location.

Street view showing the North Hollywood Health Club. 1970s


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The health club building is really unique......quite theatrical.
Some of the other buildings are interesting as well.
5126 Lankershim Boulevard. The front is painted red in the latest GSV image, but the sun is spoiling the view. The rest of the block looks fairly intact too.


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Old Posted May 10, 2016, 12:15 AM
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You found it....& it survives! Thanks Hoss.



originally posted by Martin Pal

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Has anyone noticed Sherry's has the exact same lettering style as the earlier infamous Sherry's? (possible connection)



usc/ first posted in 2009

Sherry's, 9039 Sunset Boulevard [July 20, 1949] & yes, that is Mickey Cohen's Cadillac.

OK, so maybe the S is different.




...from back in 2009
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usc

The would be assassins hid behind this billboard across the street from Sherry's.


usc

above: stray bullet holes.
close-ups of Mickey Cohen's Cadillac that show the 3-inch thick windows!
http://forum.skyscraperpage.com/show...2&postcount=47
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Old Posted May 10, 2016, 12:24 AM
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http://themobmuseum.org/blog/mickey-...ut-mob-mobile/

I don't believe we've seen this newspaper clipping before on NLA. (but I could very well be wrong)

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Old Posted May 10, 2016, 12:33 AM
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Here's a 'noirish'-looking cocktail lounge that we haven't seen on NLA.

The Loma, 1507 W. 6th St. Los Angeles, Calif.


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I hope someone can dig up a photograph of the place.

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A blast from the past :-)

In 1978 I was working computer security for Honeywell Information Systems and an employee of one of our subsidiaries took that very office of that bank for $10.8 million dollars, which at that time was the largest bank heist in history. It was billed as a computer crime but it wasn't, as I found out as the techie on the team that was trying to stay ahead of the press and keep Honeywell's name out of it.

The perp is litigious as hell so you'll have to find out his name on your own. He was installing a network in the Security Pacific wire room and noticed that the wire transfer clerks wrote the password of the day on a post-it and stuck it on a bulletin board. Our perp did some research and discovered that the most compact and liquid form of money (then) was uncut diamonds. A big source of diamonds was the Soviet Union, with whom trade was embargoed, and who sold uncut diamonds on the black market to get hard currency.

Our perp made the necessary arrangements (not hard, given the enthusiasm the Soviets had for a sale) and one fine day he memorized the password of the day, walked out of the wire room, into the street, around the corner, and from a pay phone called the wire room masquerading as a trader and had $10.8 mil wire transferred to a Swiss account of the Soviets.

He then flew to Zurich to collect. And this is part I loved: after identifying himself, the Soviets gave him a Swissair ticket (I can't remember where to) and a baggage claim check. At his destination he picked up a checked attache case with the diamonds in it. Those were indeed simpler times.

Anyhow, our perp sort of went to pieces, made some desultory attempts to sell the diamonds and finally went home to L.A. and confessed to his lawyer, who dropped the dime on him. What an idiot. I often thought that if I found myself in Europe with a valid passport and $10.8 mil in diamonds I could think of a hell of a lot more options than flying back to the scene of the crime and bragging to my lawyer.

After the legal kerfuffle was over, it turned out the diamond market had gone up, so when they were handed over to Security Pacific they were worth a little over $12 mil. So everybody but the our perp won: Security Pacific turned a quick profit and the Soviets got a hard currency windfall. Our perp did his time and got an IT job with a major government agency, with a side activity of suing anybody who questioned his hireability.

And that, ladies and gentleman, was the strange, terrible and noirish story of what went on in the bowels of that building (and a nearby pay phone) one fine day in 1978.

Cheers,

Earl

...what a great story....love it. I was reminded of the film...Diamonds Are Forever and this great modern style LA noir home.

Willard Whyte’s house is the fantastic Elrod House 1968 by John Lautner


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Old Posted May 10, 2016, 1:14 AM
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...what a great story....love it. I was reminded of the film...Diamonds Are Forever and this great modern style LA noir home.

Willard Whyte’s house is the fantastic Elrod House 1968 by John Lautner


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Was this interior used for Iron Man as well?
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Old Posted May 10, 2016, 1:37 AM
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The northeast corner of Sepulveda & Stagg in Van Nuys. [no date]


https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com...b72de87539.jpg

At left is the Western Bagel Company, in the same location since 1947! (note the 'bagel cowboy' on the building)




Today, the fast-food place on the corner is gone, but Western Bagel is lookin' good.


gsv




Despite being painted white, the 'bagel cowboy' is still visible on the two tanks.


gsv / detail
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noirish tid bit.....

A man was run over by a car (more than once!) in front of the bagel store.


http://www.gettyimages.com/detail/ne...hoto/567294709

There's a trail of bagels.


from getty:
This is the scene outside of a Western Bagel store on Sepulveda Blvd. at Stagg St. in Van Nuys where a man was run over by a car and the woman driver arrested.
Witnesses said the man was struck more than one time (please CQ this with cops who were not talking at scene). ^^^/LA Times DIGITAL
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Old Posted May 10, 2016, 2:09 AM
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Was this interior used for Iron Man as well?
No....the Elrod home was not used in Iron Man movie.
Is the house in Iron Man real?
Tony Stark's mansion, as depicted in Iron Man (2008 movie)...in real life, the house does not exist.

Maybe someone has more information?
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...what a great story....love it. I was reminded of the film...Diamonds Are Forever and this great modern style LA noir home.

Willard Whyte’s house is the fantastic Elrod House 1968 by John Lautner


tnplh
Glad you enjoyed it. I forgot to add that like all security types we loved a well-conceived heist (as Seneca said, "There is a great deal of difference between a person who chooses not to sin and one who doesn't know how") and so as the facts came out I and the other security guy on the response/spin team were doing ROTFLMAO routines to the point where Security Pacific officially complained to Honeywell. Got us called on the carpet before a VP.

So the two of us spelled each other, one would cover the meeting while the other hit the head and let the laughter out, then switched off.

As the CFO of Honeywell told me in another context, when I observed that the bankers we were trying to sell to didn't appear to be very smart, "Bankers aren't supposed to be smart. The last time bankers were smart they crashed the whole country." Alas, we now have smart bankers :-(

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'mystery' location.

Street view showing the North Hollywood Health Club. 1970s


eBay

The health club building is really unique......quite theatrical.




Here it is a bit larger.



I thought that was a yellow pinto...but now I'm not so sure.

Some of the other buildings are interesting as well.

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Judging from the side trim it is a 1974 or possibly a 1975 Ford Maverick.

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Picture posting

I hate to ask because I thought I could figure this out myself, but...I'm having trouble posting pictures. I'm on a Mac and I have Photobucket, could someone please give me some pointers?
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Old Posted May 10, 2016, 5:26 AM
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City Hall South Pictures

Plaque in lobby Lobby facing West Lobby facing East Third floor patio Another view from third floor patio Northwest facing corner office, third floor Southwest facing corner office, third floor

I kinda figured it out; hopefully I'll get better at this with time!
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Old Posted May 10, 2016, 5:24 PM
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Most people have a hard time when they first try to posts pictures on this forum.

From the looks of it, you've done a swell job LA Kitty Kat.
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I'll have to check out google-earth to figure out where that 3rd floor patio is located.

and that marble plaque is much more impressive than I had imagined.

Thanks for sharing your photographs!

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I just noticed something else.

What the heck is this thing?


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I don't recall seeing this nice color photo posted here previously,
though the view, or similar, has been posted many times before.
Looks like it's from a brochure or magazine of some sort.

Retropotamus

Source only indicates it's Hollywood, 1947.

Search purposes: Vine Street, The Plaza, Tom Breneman's, CBS.
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Looks like that second car has a rusty bumper. Isn't that somewhat odd in southern California's dry climate?

(maybe they're Iowans visiting the sunshine state )
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City Hall South Current Views

Thanks, e_r, I should have mentioned that these were in response to HossC's request.
The pointy metal top is one of three metal gazeboes down on the sidewalk; my sister will photo them for me.
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Here's a 'noirish'-looking cocktail lounge that we haven't seen on NLA.

The Loma, 1507 W. 6th St. Los Angeles, Calif.


eBay

I hope someone can dig up a photograph of the place.
I haven't found any vintage pictures of the Loma Cafe yet, but I did check the building records. I can't see a demo permit for 1507 W 6th Street, so I guessing that the Loma Cafe is now the pawn shop seen here.


GSV

There's a closer picture of the Carlton Apartments in rcarlton's post #9884. You can see the Morgan, Walls & Clements designed building opposite the pawn shop in GW's post #7289.


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It doesn't look like Photobucket have fixed their site yet (their Facebook page tells me that I'm not alone with my problems), so, for the time being, I can't post anything bigger than 1024 pixels wide (or high). I've also noticed that some of my previous images are currently missing. Hopefully, they'll reappear when Photobucket sort themselves out!
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Looks like that second car has a rusty bumper. Isn't that somewhat odd in southern California's dry climate?
(maybe they're Iowans visiting the sunshine state )
Wasn't Rusty Bumpers the name of a stripper?
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I've seen almost no color photographs of the Hollywood Canteen, interior or exterior.
There's this common one used for a postcard of the place, seen in both color and b&w,
but I don't know if it was taken in color or "colorized."




And there's this interior shot I included in a previous post about the canteen.

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Here’s Betty Hutton performing at the Hollywood Canteen:

Betty Hutton Estate

But here's a new one to me! A color snapshot with four soldiers being escorted around by a lady (?) driver.

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I did not know the rope style signage for the canteen's name was painted red.

Note: In the postcard view, the Hollywood Canteen sign has blue stars accenting it that are absent from the
color snapshot. (The red awning is absent in the postcard shot, too.)
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