noirish Los Angeles

[MartinTurnbull]

As we all know, it's a very rare thing when an old building in LA gets returned to its former glory and, I suspect (I haven't been inside yet) surpasses its former glory.

The old Idle Hour Cafe has just reopened as the Idle Hour





This feature in the rear courtyard looks familiar. Makes me think of a Barkies Sandwich shop.



More photos of the refurb can be found here: http://laist.com/2015/02/14/idle_hou..._hollywood.php

[Earl Boebert]

Originally Posted by MartinTurnbull

As we all know, it's a very rare thing when an old building in LA gets returned to its former glory and, I suspect (I haven't been inside yet) surpasses its former glory.

The old Idle Hour Cafe has just reopened as the Idle Hour

[Snip]

This feature in the rear courtyard looks familiar. Makes me think of a Barkies Sandwich shop.



More photos of the refurb can be found here: http://laist.com/2015/02/14/idle_hou..._hollywood.php

Did they get the Bulldog from the set of "The Rocketeer" or build a new one? And has anybody had Tamale Ice Cream?

Cheers,

Earl

[HossC]

This one is a scaled down model from the Petersen Automotive Museum. I wrote about it back in December in post #25095. The post also includes a picture of the Bulldog Cafe under wraps in the back yard of Idle Hour, and a link to the story of how it was saved.


GSV

[Hollywood Graham]

Originally Posted by JeffDiego

Perhaps this has already been covered, but what exactly were "Boulevard Stops?" Signs saying Boulevard Stop have appeared here in numerous street photos from the 1920's through 40's. In the movie "Hollywood Canteen," (1944) a soldier new to Los Angeles is driving a woman home, and she says "Watch for the Boulevard Stops."

In the early days of transition from horses to automobiles their were no traffic signs. Out of the necessity for rule and order, signs were put up by whomever to warn or regulate auto traffic. The Automobile Club of So. Cal. (ACSC) spear headed good roads,rules and signs to solve problems with auto travel. The diamond shaped sign you refer to was an ACSC designed STOP sign just the same as you see today only the shape was different. The octagon stop came about in about 1930 but many diamond sign remained. You could go across the U.S. and find many different shapes, wording and colors of stop signs. Signs now are universal shape and color and regulated bu the U.S. government.

[Wig-Wag]

Mirriam-Webster defines boulevard stop as: " a traffic stop required of vehicles before entering or crossing a through street"


Cheers,
Jack

[ethereal_reality]

N I B B L E R S

I posted this photograph of the corner of Spring and First streets back in October 2012.


http://forum.skyscraperpage.com/prin...pp=20&page=485



Godzilla in turn, found this screen-grab from the film noir "Illegal" (1955), that also shows Nibbler's.


http://lileks.com/bleats/archive/07/0907/091107.html



Well, I just came across this Kodachrome slide that captures Nibbler's in living color!

The slide is dated 1955....the same year as Godzilla's screen-grab from "Illegal".



What in sam hell is depicted on their corner sign? I can't make heads or tails of it.*
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*OK, I just figured it out, but I'm not telling -I want everyone to have a chance to figure it out on their own.





Here is the complete slide.


you may bid on it here:
http://www.ebay.com/itm/19-50s-1955-...item20f6408e9e
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[MartinTurnbull]

AH! YES! That's where I recognized it from. I've been wracking my brains since I posted that. Thanks, HossC!

Originally Posted by HossC

This one is a scaled down model from the Petersen Automotive Museum. I wrote about it back in December in post #25095. The post also includes a picture of the Bulldog Cafe under wraps in the back yard of Idle Hour, and a link to the story of how it was saved.


GSV

[MartinTurnbull]

And/or maybe this:

Originally Posted by MartinTurnbull

AH! YES! That's where I recognized it from. I've been wracking my brains since I posted that. Thanks, HossC!

[ethereal_reality]

mystery thing.

-for the life of me I can't figure out what this is.


"Butcher Supply Co. Los Angeles"


ebay






tongs to rip the drumsticks off of chickens??



ebay

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[tovangar2]

Originally Posted by ethereal_reality

What in sam hell is depicted on their corner sign? I can't make heads or tails of it.*

*OK, I just figured it out, but I'm not telling -I want everyone to have a chance to figure it out on their own.

I can't seem to get anything right recently, but it looks like a chef bunny eating a sandwich.

[CityBoyDoug]

Here is the old Griffith Park miniature train. I thought this was really cool at the time....and still do.


LATimes

Self att.

[HossC]

The Butcher Supply Co gadget is actually a mold for making chicken legs - City chicken legs (AKA. mock drumsticks, mock chicken or California chicken). You can read more on Wikipedia and Trkingmomoe's Blog.

[ethereal_reality]

I have never heard of molded chicken legs.

but I take comfort in knowing the metal tongs were not used to rip the legs off chickens. lol




http://www.bigmapblog.com/2011/los-a...-america-1934/


I recently came across several rare ads for the Club Airport Gardens (later the mob run Club Continental).



https://archive.org/details/hollywoodfilmogr14holl



https://archive.org/details/hollywoodfilmogr14holl




below: -mentions the floods.







below: Even Edith and Virginia, the hat-check girls, get a mention. (they must have been awful purdy )


https://archive.org/details/hollywoodfilmogr14holl

Originally Posted by tovangar2

Club Airport Gardens & Club Continental have come up before:

http://forum.skyscraperpage.com/show...postcount=5154

http://forum.skyscraperpage.com/show...postcount=5160

http://forum.skyscraperpage.com/show...postcount=5155

But still no photographs!! ....and we've been looking since 2012.


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[Earl Boebert]

Originally Posted by MartinTurnbull

And/or maybe this:

OK, looks like the Bulldog Cafe/Diner situation shapes up like this:

Original(s): Gone. At least one with pipe, one without (or modified?). Need a post with locations and dates :-)

Rocketeer replica: on Disney back lot for a time, then reported hauled to Orlando where it was allowed to disintegrate. Had pipe, jaw shaped like original.

Peterson Replica: Pipe, undershot jaw. Saved, now behind the Idle Hour.

Posted on behalf of the Bulldog Diner Historical Society (™) :-)

Cheers,

Earl

[ethereal_reality]

Originally Posted by tovangar2

it looks like a chef bunny eating a sandwich.

And you would be correct.



I think he's eating a club sandwich.

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[ethereal_reality]

"We Care What You Think"



Hollywood Boulevard, 1970s.

old file / ebay

Does anyone know what "The Research Experience" was?
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the site has been an empty lot since at least 2007.


GSV

[Flyingwedge]

Originally Posted by Handsome Stranger

[source: kcet.org]

KCET says this photo was taken in Redondo Beach in 1939. I see so many oil derricks in the distance that I question whether that's accurate.

Originally Posted by HenryHuntington

I'm not precisely sure where this photo was taken, but it's definitely the Redondo via Del Rey line. Each bracket arm that carries the trolley wire is hung from one pole but spans both tracks, and this arrangement was unique to this line.

The Newport-Balboa line did have some beachfront right-of-way on a "shelf" adjacent to Pacific Coast Highway in Huntington Beach (now a bike path), but the trolley wire was suspended conventionally. -- HEH

Thanks for confirming my suspicion, HEH. That photo looks like it was taken in the Playa del Rey/Surfridge area. I believe the cars atop the bluff in the photo are parked along Vista del Mar.

Ivalee Street is one of the streets lost to LAX; it was about three blocks north of that little park that's still on the east side of Vista del Mar. This 1940 photo (which I lightened up a bit) looks north from the foot of Ivalee. The KCET photo must have been taken from a little north of this spot; we see that stepped groin in both photos:

USCDL -- http://digitallibrary.usc.edu/cdm/si...9/id/933/rec/2

Closer:


The sign in the distance on the right side of this 1928 photo advertises Palisades del Rey, which was north of Surfridge in Playa del Rey. USC says this photo looks south on Vista del Mar from Hyperion Avenue; it actually looks north, perhaps from near the Hyperion Sewage Plant. You can just make out the mast arm for the wires on the first pole on the left:

USCDL -- http://digitallibrary.usc.edu/cdm/si.../id/3953/rec/5

This aerial view looks north at the same area. LAPL dates the photo 1947, but it's a lot closer to 1927. You can see the streetcar tracks between the ocean and Vista del Mar:

LAPL -- http://jpg3.lapl.org/pics48/00073809.jpg

[ethereal_reality]

Yes!!


It isn't a photograph, but I just found this postcard of the Club Airport Gardens.


http://airportjournals.com/a-journey...-air-terminal/

The first word to come to mind is swanky.
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[ethereal_reality]

While continuing my search for a photograph of the Club Airport Gardens, I came across this photograph on 'pinterest'.


https://www.pinterest.com/pin/344103227751159332/

What a fantastic sign! I really like that it advertises American Airlines Sleeper Flagships.


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[tovangar2]

Oh, well done e_r! What a treat to see a picture of the club :-)




Lorendoc, are you still there?

Originally Posted by Lorendoc

Here is a picture I took late this Valentine's Day afternoon with my cell phone - any guesses where it was taken from ?

Originally Posted by tovangar2

I think it's the building behind the station.

I meant this one, from the east side: