noirish Los Angeles

[Martin Pal]

Marjorie Lord was best known as the wife in 227 episodes of Make Room for Daddy.

[ethereal_reality]

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re: Junkyard mystery solved!


This pretty much proves that the eBay phograph was taken at Universal Studios.

Originally Posted by Flyingwedge

Here's an article about Hollywood studios contributing to a scrap metal drive which
mentions Universal and the sign in the photo:



October 21, 1942, Daily News @ Newspapers.com

Thanks for your help, Flyingwedge, JeffDiego, corriganville and Matin Pal.





Here's a club I could never join.

The Southern California TALL Club.


eBay


You'd think they would have chosen a venue with a higher ceiling.

JOINT MEETING

Southern California Tall Clubs

Old Dixie - Los Angeles - feb. 10. 1951.


Hmm, Old Dixie? Where Dat?

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[odinthor]

e_r, it appears that the Old Dixie Barbeque was used for such events:


LA Times, 1/18/1952.

[ScottyB]

Originally Posted by odinthor

e_r, it appears that the Old Dixie Barbeque was used for such events:


LA Times, 1/18/1952.

My vote goes to Peanuts Lowrey. Great name, great player, local kid (born and buried in Culver City (1917-1986)) worked in Our Gang films etc. Decidedly not a member of the Tall Club at 5'8".

Sorry to digress- it's opening day you know

[Martin Pal]

Originally Posted by ScottyB

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Sorry to digress- it's opening day you know

Yay! So far so good!

[Martin Pal]

https://www.tall.org

Yes, the very first Tall Club was formed in...Los Angeles in 1938.

Los Angeles, California
Club Name: California Tip Toppers –“Earth’s first Tall Club!”

When you join a TCI affiliate Tall Club, you are automatically a member of Tall Clubs International, and therefore invited to attend various “TCI Weekends” throughout the year, and in many parts of the continent. This year the annual convention is in Dunedin, FL sponsored by the Tall'phins.

Focus: Awareness of height issues
There are Tall groups around the world.
On their website, the current issue is one I sympathize with: Can Airline Seating Get Any Worse?
They also spotlight the first "Tall Movie": The 2019 Netflix movie Tall Girl has a scene of parents hosting a meeting of the Tall group in their home for the benefit of their daughter, the titular tall girl.


I could belong to one as I am 6'5"! Although why haven't I heard of this group until...NOW?

[ethereal_reality]

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re: The venue used by the TALL Club.


detail





I don't believe I've ever had barbecue cooked over actual Hickory wood. (maybe I have & didn't realize it)
..In any case - color me deprived.

Thanks for finding the address, odinthor.

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[ethereal_reality]

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Here's another club I've never heard of before.

Seller's description:..Photograph 1920-30's Los Angeles Excursionist Group Meeting Dinner Banquet.

or simply

The Los Angeles Excursionists Club / Unknown Pool Hall. 1920s or 30s?


Currently listed on eBay




Let's take a closer look at the back wall and that chalk board.


detail

I toyed with the idea that this might be Los Angeles, Mexico but most of the guests appear to be nonhispanics.


2 minutes later.

OR - this just occured to me - the group has traveled to, say, Tiajuana?? (that's just my guess, mind you)

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[ethereal_reality]

Where's Waldo Mabel?

Surprise!..Here's another CLUB.


Estate sale find:.. Vintage Original Antique Los Angeles CA Photo DD Club Women Florence Ockerson, Mabel Griffith, others identified on back, 1911.


eBay


The first thing I thought of was D A R, Daughters of the Revoltion, but this is the D D Club. (it's probably something so obvious I'm going to be embarrassed when I find out)

Here's a close-up of the lower right corner.

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Again, from the seller:.."Estate sale find, vintage original Antique Los Angeles CA Photo DD Club Women Florence Ockerson, Mabel Griffith, others identified on back, 1911."

I was excited when I read this because I thought "Mabel Griffith" must be D.W. Griffith's wife. - but that's not the case. His wive's names were . .


wiki


And if you google "Mabel Griffith", the Mabel that comes up is the silent screen star, Mabel Normand.


Mabel Normand selfie.



And who the heck is Florence Ockerson?


Help!

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[Earl Boebert]

Newspapers.com has 8 entries for "D D Club" in 1911, none of which tell us what the initials stand for. One entry says it was an embroidery club.

Cheers,

Earl

Edit: There are mentions of the club clear to 1966. Later entries call it a book and travel club. It seems to have been centered in Monrovia, and its membership was "teachers and literary women." In 1906 it was described as "secret in name only."

[Noir_Noir]

Four of the DD Clubbers from the picture listed as Monrovia school teachers in 1910.



archive.org - The Los Angeles Times 1910-06-25


Also in the picture, Mrs. Charles H. Anson (top row, 3rd from left) was tried and punished by the club for being a very naughty girl in 1905.



cdnc.ucr.edu - Los Angeles Herald, 29 October 1905

[Martin Pal]

Maybe they all wear the same bra size.

[ethereal_reality]

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Oh my! I hadn't thought of that.



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[ethereal_reality]

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That's Ben Turpin by the way. lol




I happened upon these two photograph a year or so ago - and I'm pretty sure I forgot to post them here on NLA.






Let's take a closer look, shall we?



Holy Mackeral!.. I'd give anything to know where this was taken and who the people are.





Now let's take a closer look at the outdoor picnic.



At first glance Sycamore Grove crossed my mind but this look more like someone's farm. Besides I don't thing those scraggly trees are Sycamores... (odinthor, do you know what kind of trees those are?)



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[odinthor]

e_r, I'm thinking Live Oaks in the right half, with Eucalyptus on the left.

[Lwize]

OK, Noirish Sleuths.

Carol Burnett was on Conan O'Brien's podcast.
She was telling a story about living in a one room apartment in Hollywood as a teen with her grandmother, and she spilled the address:

6343 Yucca St.

There's businesses there now, but in the 1950's, was there an apartment building on the corner?

Now get cracking!

[HenryHuntington]

The 1956 PacTel Street Directory shows 6341 Yucca to be a dry cleaners and 6355 Yucca to be a florist shop with no 6343 listed at all. There are several apartment buildings listed in the 6300 block; so if Ms. Burnett was off on the street address or was misheard, did she say what her grandmother's last name was?

Update: Never mind, I found it: Mabel Eudora "Mae" Jones White, who passed in 1967 and so maybe still lived in Hollywood in 1956. No hits on Yucca that I could find, though.

[ethereal_reality]

Originally Posted by odinthor

e_r, I'm thinking Live Oaks in the right half, with Eucalyptus on the left.

Thanks, odinthor. ..I knew I could depend on your expertise.

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[Martin Pal]

Originally Posted by Lwize

OK, Noirish Sleuths.
Carol Burnett was on Conan O'Brien's podcast.
She was telling a story about living in a one room apartment in Hollywood as a teen with her grandmother, and she spilled the address:
6343 Yucca St.
There's businesses there now, but in the 1950's, was there an apartment building on the corner?
Now get cracking!
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According to this I Am No Stalker LINK, Carol's childhood home address was The Hollywood Arms at 6434 Yucca Street, Room 102.

Here's a recently posted (a year ago) youtube video:
Story Location Tour: Carol Burnett, where you'll be taken on a walking tour of Carol's neighborhood and residence and go inside the building as the guide reads some passages from Carol's book about the place and also we hear Carol's own voice at times. (I didn't watch the whole video as of yet.)


• Video Link

[riichkay]

Martin Pal, you beat me to it....1950 census....



The Hollywood Arms #102 is correct.