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ethereal_reality · #**61421** Posted **Mar 19, 2024, 9:14 PM**

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Did anyone know that Jane Powell's dad owned a couple of malt shops in the area? ..(I sure didn't)

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I recently saw Marshall Thompson in a fairly good film noir, Mystery Street. (1950)

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The leading man is Richardo Montalban and he's surprisingly good in it.

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Earl Boebert · #**61422** Posted **Mar 19, 2024, 9:33 PM**

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I saw this on eBay the other day under 'Los Angeles photographs'.

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I searched the thread for the word 'Crillon' and nothing came up.

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LA Times Personal ads for Nov. 23, 1935 has two line ad: ANNOUNCE the Crillon Cafe Cocktail Lounge Smart Intimate 6517 Hollywood

And another:

Bob: I need you tonight 10:30 Crillon Cocktail Lounge 6517 Hollywood. Mary

Cheers,

Earl

Edit: Also a tombstone ad announcing its opening on Nov. 14, 1935. "Under management by Paul Davis." and "Managed by Fritz, formerly with Henry's and Knickerbocker."

Mackerm · #**61423** Posted **Mar 20, 2024, 4:17 AM**

This commercial photo shows The Crillion beside Mocambo. Mocambo has been well covered here, but not so much the spot just to it's right.

(I don't like to post images from commercial photo sites. Makes me nervous.)

Ahh. This one will do nicely. And in color no less (Oops. Seems to be a screengrab from the game LA Noire.)

JeffDiego · #**61424** Posted **Mar 20, 2024, 7:46 AM**

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This commercial photo shows The Crillion beside Mocambo. Mocambo has been well covered here, but not so much the spot just to it's right.

(I don't like to post images from commercial photo sites. Makes me nervous.)

Ahh. This one will do nicely. And in color no less (Oops. Seems to be a screengrab from the game LA Noire.)

Mackerm: Thanks for the nice B&W photo of The Mocambo & adjoining Crillon.
Knowing nothing about video games, I don't understand why the game would describe the real details (opening date & designer) about the Mocambo, then make it look very different from the original exterior & locate it on Hollywood Blvd. Poetic license, I guess.

John Maddox Roberts · #**61425** Posted **Mar 20, 2024, 3:34 PM**

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Originally Posted by ethereal_reality

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Did anyone know that Jane Powell's dad owned a couple of malt shops in the area? ..(I sure didn't)

ebay

I recently saw Marshall Thompson in a fairly good film noir, Mystery Street. (1950)

IMDB

The leading man is Richardo Montalban and he's surprisingly good in it.

TCM

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Just yesterday on an Albuquerque history site I dated a photo of Albuquerque from 1950 because Mystery Street was playing at one of the cinemas. I had never heard of this movie before. I love synchronicity.

ethereal_reality · #**61426** Posted **Mar 20, 2024, 4:58 PM**

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I love when that happens.

Perhaps the noirish Gods are telling you, you should watch Mystery Street.

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ethereal_reality · #**61427** Posted **Mar 20, 2024, 5:36 PM**

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Speaking of street.

Here are two red border (Kodachrome) slides OOAK (One Of A Kind) of the Bunker Hill area in the 1950s - They are currently on eBay.

If the slides are truly one of a kind photographs they are worth their weight in gold.

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Let's take a closer look at that store on the corner.

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I thought the sign might say Cathy's Shoes but then I realized the seller had a second slide.

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A pensioner!

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Eureka! I'm pretty sure the sign says McCarthy's Shoes. ..

Now all we have to do is figure out what street corner it was located on.

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Martin Pal · #**61428** Posted **Mar 20, 2024, 7:08 PM**

This c.1945 photo from Sunset Plaza shows the Mocambo and The Grillon in the distance.

J.H. Graham

Also this ad:

J.H. Graham

odinthor · #**61429** Posted **Mar 20, 2024, 8:50 PM**

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Originally Posted by ethereal_reality

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Speaking of street.

Here are two red border (Kodachrome) slides OOAK (One Of A Kind) of the Bunker Hill area in the 1950s - They are currently on eBay.

If the slides are truly one of a kind photographs they are worth their weight in gold.

#1

eBay

Let's take a closer look at that store on the corner.

Detail

I thought the sign might say Cathy's Shoes but then I realized the seller had a second slide.

#2

eBay

A pensioner!

Detail

Detail

Eureka! I'm pretty sure the sign says McCarthy's Shoes. ..

Now all we have to do is figure out what street corner it was located on.

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In the photo we also have Al's Shoe Shine Parlor and, at far right, a doctor, "W. Something, M.D." (MASON?):

I played with it in Photoshop; but this is the clearest I can get it . . . which isn't clear enough.

rick m · #**61430** Posted **Mar 20, 2024, 11:28 PM**

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Originally Posted by odinthor

In the photo we also have Al's Shoe Shine Parlor and, at far right, a doctor, "W. Something, M.D." (MASON?):

I played with it in Photoshop; but this is the clearest I can get it . . . which isn't clear enough.

Hmmm Could this be elsewhere in downtown-??

Retail was of a limited nature on the hill-- certainly a shoe store is unrecorded anywhere-- That rooftop with windows -- now that's an outlier too--

Noir_Noir · #**61431** Posted **Mar 21, 2024, 2:24 AM**

Google Earth

Bristolian · #**61432** Posted **Mar 21, 2024, 3:18 PM**

How on earth did you figure that one out?

ethereal_reality · #**61433** Posted **Mar 21, 2024, 7:23 PM**

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Boston!!?? #X&@&@*..I hate when that happens.

Good sleuthing anyway, Noir Noir. . .and thanks to odinthor, RichM and Bristolian...I certainly didn't mean lead you all astray.

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Oh, and thanks for the follow-ups to The Crillon snapshot everyone.

note the same address for both the Crillon and the Mocambo.

This explains the same address for both

Originally posted by Martin Pal.

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ethereal_reality · #**61434** Posted **Mar 21, 2024, 9:38 PM**

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I was curious about what name they decided on for their baby.

I wish I hadn't found this.

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ethereal_reality · #**61435** Posted **Mar 21, 2024, 10:05 PM**

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I've had this negative dated 1950 in one of my files for a loooong time & I can't remember if I have posted it.

Here goes anyway.

It shows a vendor sitting on a box of newspapers outside the entrance to a business located at Sunset Blvd. and Main Street.

I see that it is still on eBay

I've always wondered what the business is/was at the corner of Sunset and Main.

If this has been answered before I apologize in advance.

Mackerm · #**61436** Posted **Mar 22, 2024, 7:08 AM**

LAPL

Soochow Restaurant at the corner of Sunset Boulevard and Main Street

Discussed previously on NLA of course.

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It's still there, technically. It's the building at the Southwest end of Olvera Street

GaylordWilshire · #**61437** Posted **Mar 22, 2024, 11:23 AM**

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Originally Posted by ethereal_reality

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I was curious about what name they decided on for their baby.

I wish I hadn't found this.

wikipedia

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Quote:

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Originally posted by Martin Pal.

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Bud Milner was a drunken creep of the first order. He threw Ann down the stairs of their house in Holmby Hills; his mess of a family had only recently moved out of 7 Berkeley Square after 32 years. Oh and then there was his arrest in 1941 for a hit-and-run on the PCH.

More on Bud Milner's family is here.

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JeffDiego · #**61438** Posted **Mar 22, 2024, 8:18 PM**

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Originally Posted by ethereal_reality

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Boston!!?? #X&@&@*..I hate when that happens.

Good sleuthing anyway, Noir Noir. . .and thanks to odinthor, RichM and Bristolian...I certainly didn't mean lead you all astray.

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Oh, and thanks for the follow-ups to The Crillon snapshot everyone.

note the same address for both the Crillon and the Mocambo.

This explains the same address for both

Originally posted by Martin Pal.

eBay

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Good Lord, what can have motivated Ann Miller to marry that creep? Guess I'd have to re-read her autobiography, Miller's High Life, to get educated. (Read it ages ago). Interesting commentary on Reese Milner & his family in the Wilshire Boulevard chronicles...and Reese's sister was "MRS. CHEESEWRIGHT?" ...that name sounds like something out The Three Stooges..."your attendance requested for gala luncheon at the Cheesewright residence." Chaos ensues.
Even though the Kodachrome disappointingly turned out to be Boston, it's a gorgeous photo.
Thanks also for the wonderful pic of teenagers Jane Powell, Liz Taylor and Marshall Thompson, circa 1947. Liz was only 15 or 16 there, already incredible-looking. I knew Jane's parents had an "ice cream parlor," but didn't recall they had two.

ethereal_reality · #**61439** Posted **Mar 22, 2024, 9:00 PM**

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Interesting comment, Jeff Diego - & thanks for the additional information on the Milner family at your fascinating Berkeley Square website, GW.

JeffDiego mentioned the two slides that ended up being of Boston.

Here's another slide from the same eBay seller but this time I'm pretty sure this is Los Angeles because of the palm trees, the hills in the distance and the smog.

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Does anyone recognize this area?

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ethereal_reality · #**61440** Posted **Mar 22, 2024, 9:11 PM**

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Here's yet another slide from the same eBay seller.

I'm a bit embarrassed to admit that this one gave me a woody.

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Would anyone like to wager a guess on this location? I haven't a clue.

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