noirish Los Angeles

[Martin Pal]

Originally Posted by GaylordWilshire

Variety, July 13, 1971


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The address of the Wrightwood Inn was 11100 Ventura Blvd. in Studio City, near Vineland Ave., but I can't locate a photo of it.

It's the same address as the Zulu Hut, formerly covered on NLA. Here's one post:
http://forum.skyscraperpage.com/show...ostcount=21511

Currently that address is The Fox and Hounds Pub, across the street from The Bollywood Cafe.

[Earl Boebert]

Originally Posted by John Maddox Roberts

I suspect that the real weapon was a .32 automatic, which was very popular at the time, as opposed to the W-F, which was exceedingly rare. The reporter may have made the common mistake of thinking that any handgun was some sort of "revolver."

Well, we'll never know, but Brasselle seems like the kind of guy who would hunt up an exotic weapon (not that exotic, I once saw three at a gun show in Albuquerque -- they evidently were popular among target shooters) with a movie connection.

Cheers,

Earl

[Ed Workman]

Originally Posted by Flyingwedge

This Los Angeles Cold Storage Company facility is on the NE corner of Central Avenue and E. 4th Street:




Just to the north, on the east side of Central Avenue, was the U. S. Post Office Arcade Annex:




This undated aerial view looks north at both buildings. The cold storage building is just below center on the NE corner
of Central and 4th. On the same block, up Central Avenue a bit, is the Arcade Annex Post Office. Alameda Street is
parallel to and one block east of Central:



00047225 at LAPL


This is a contemporary aerial view looking south. The post office building appears to be gone, but

This is "Alameda Street from Arcade Post Office" on June 25, 1926. We're looking south from the rear of the post office.
You can see the corner of the cold storage building at far right. At left center is 400 S. Alameda. The sign on the square
brick structure in the foreground says NO DUMPING:




LADBS

LA Cold Storage was at the north end of the Arcade Station grounds that lay just out of the frame 's bottom right corner -undated aerial view
The new Central Station was built on the site of Arcade, the Arcade being a large arched train shed over the tracks/platforms. The new platforms were low , of the "umbrella" type and were built of Unit Construction, now we call it precast concrete. Very similar platform canopies were built at 3rd & Townsend St SP depot, Denver Union Depot, and the Santa Fe Depot in Emporia KS. AFAIK the Denver canopies survive.

[Lwize]

Originally Posted by Tourmaline

Downs' Market, San Fernando - Late '70s (Paraquat Kelley?)

Clearly, a typical/average day at the Texaco Station. Presence of what appears to be a light-colored first-generation-Mazda RX7 parked in front of Downs, leads to a conclusion that the date is approximately 1978 or later.

Based on the gas prices on the left, I want to say 1980.
But I don't see any cars newer than the RX7.

[ethereal_reality]

That girl's legs are amazing. (hope it's ok to say that)

If it was a guy I'd say it.

[CityBoyDoug]

Originally Posted by ethereal_reality

That girl's legs are amazing! (is it sexist if I say that?)

If it was a guy I'd say it.

It all depends on your political views. Or it might depend on who you say it to. These days
there is no clear-cut answer to many questions. A type of national insanity has emerged recently/

[ethereal_reality]

Anyway you look at it, her legs are impressive.

I'm thinking she ran track in high school....or played tennis
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speaking of...


Thelner Lewis for modern screen 1931

Los Angeles Tennis Club

At the moment I can't remember where this club was exactly. I posted some snapshots taken at the club several years ago on thread.
I'll see if I can find them again.






update:

I've decided to add the whole page.


http://www.archive.org/stream/modern...tennis+club%22




I wonder why the price differential between the west and east stands (the sun perhaps )


detail

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[tovangar2]

Originally Posted by ethereal_reality

Los Angeles Tennis Club

At the moment I can't remember where this club was exactly. I believe I posted some snapshots taken at the club several years ago on thread.

It still there, 5851 Clinton St, Los Angeles, CA 90004, opened in 1920.

Originally Posted by ethereal_reality

LAPL

"Children participate in a Spanish dance on the playground at Fremont Avenue School." [1949]

I have great memories of the school day devoted to Cinco de Mayo and May Day. Mexican dancing and a May Pole (not at the same time). By the time my kids were in school, neither was featured :-(

[ethereal_reality]

Thanks t2. it's coming back to me now. (our previous discussion)


photoplay 1933

[Flyingwedge]

Originally Posted by Ed Workman

LA Cold Storage was at the north end of the Arcade Station grounds that lay just out of the frame 's bottom right corner -undated aerial view
The new Central Station was built on the site of Arcade, the Arcade being a large arched train shed over the tracks/platforms. The new platforms were low , of the "umbrella" type and were built of Unit Construction, now we call it precast concrete.

These platforms, right?



HathiTrust


The top of the cold storage building at the NE corner of Central Avenue and E. 4th Street can be seen in the distance
just below top center, above the platform sheds:



HathiTrust


After you got off your train, you left the platforms via side subways:



HathiTrust


The side subways connected to the main subway:



HathiTrust


Here is where you came out from the main subway into the interior of the depot:



HathiTrust


All of the above photos are from the Report on Railroad Grade Crossing Elimination and Passenger and Freight
Terminals in Los Angeles (California Railroad Commission, 1920) @ HathiTrust


This photo looks east at the exterior of Central Station on May 11, 1959 (the cold storage building at the NE corner
of Central and E. 4th is at the left edge):



EXM-P-S-LOS-ANG-CIT-BUI-264 at USCDL

[Bristolian]

Originally Posted by ethereal_reality

That girl's legs are amazing. (hope it's ok to say that)

If it was a guy I'd say it.

And I'd like to think she knows what she's doing tinkering with the blown Camaro's twin carbs. My kind of woman all around.

[tovangar2]

e_r,


LATC is west of Rossmore, east of the Wilshire Country Club, south of Melrose and a block north of Lynn Bracken's house:


google maps

[ethereal_reality]

Thanks again t2


l.a. confidential

[ethereal_reality]

Originally Posted by HenryHuntington

Set your mind at ease, e-r. PE's subway tunnel ran pretty deep below the surface through that area, so I doubt that any remains were disturbed. Freeway grading and related excavations were done from the surface, which is why those construction forces encountered graves.

HH, I knew that the tunnel would be below the burials, but I thought they may have used the 'cut and cover' method back in 1901.

More importantly HH, did they find any of those lizard people

[ethereal_reality]

re: looking down Fremont from 3rd Street.

Originally Posted by HossC

usc

Did anyone notice the Atlas Hotel at 124 N. Fremont Ave?



detail



Los Angeles Herald, October 14 1920



california digital newspaper archive

So is this the same place?

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[ethereal_reality]

...because in 1904 there appears to have been an Atlas Hotel at 124 N. Spring Street.

Los Angeles Herald, December 2 1904







Read the entire article Here.
california digital newspaper archive

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and Randsburg?


gsv

here's how it looks today.
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[Ed Workman]

Originally Posted by Flyingwedge

These platforms, right?



HathiTrust


The top of the cold storage building at the NE corner of Central Avenue and E. 4th Street can be seen in the distance
just below top center, above the platform sheds:



HathiTrust






All of the above photos are from the Report on Railroad Grade Crossing Elimination and Passenger and Freight
Terminals in Los Angeles (California Railroad Commission, 1920) @ HathiTrust


This photo looks east at the exterior of Central Station on May 11, 1959 (the cold storage building at the NE corner
of Central and E. 4th is at the left edge):



EXM-P-S-LOS-ANG-CIT-BUI-264 at USCDL

Yes that's them
Look hard at fig 82 and you wiil see freightcars, specifically loaded Blackburn beetracks in the station tracks. I surmise from amixed freight/passnger train. One is shown in the Employee Timetable in the early '30s, but I don't have one for the 1918 era when much of the survey work was done for the cited report
I forgot to note about the undated aerial, that the building bottom center was that of Railway Express where mail and express was transferred to the Pacific Electric . Roofs of the PE cars are seen on the east side.
As to the 1959 pic. The depot was occupied by Pacific Motor Trucking, which stated as Pacific Electric Motor Trucking, and continued as an SP subsidiary PMT. The station was of coursed replaced by Los Angeles Union Passenger Terminal near Alameda and Aliso . Central was demolished a year or two after the 1959 pic

[MichaelRyerson]

Originally Posted by CityBoyDoug

Nice to meet you Sun Belt and welcome to noir town.

I don't believe we've seen this home on NLA before. Anyone here remember it?

This is a lovely home at 1105 Attica Street, Southern California, 1925. Is this the new home of Mr. Hammond W. Dwight or he's the agent. I bet a few friends
called him Ham.

I don't know what later went on inside but it could have been very much a scandal. You never know what's behind those lace curtains or roller shades and neatly
trimmed bushes. They're so neatly trimmed they aren't even there yet. Anyway it could be guns, blood, bigamy, a stabbing....could be anything in NLA.

I wonder if its still there?

I'm sure some of his friends must have called him Ham(m) and by extension you raise an interesting question I had as a kid concerning the old Perry Mason TV show where his chief nemesis, the William Talman character, District Attorney Hamilton Burger must have surely been known by his friends as Ham Burger, right? And yet, I've never seen anyone point out this outrageous and unfortunate inevitability. A meaner man than Perry Mason would have made life even more miserable for arguably the least capable district attorney of all time. What could Gardner have been thinking?

[JimCraig]

Originally Posted by MichaelRyerson

I'm sure some of his friends must have called him Ham(m) and by extension you raise an interesting question I had as a kid concerning the old Perry Mason TV show where his chief nemesis, the William Talman character, District Attorney Hamilton Burger must have surely been known by his friends as Ham Burger, right? And yet, I've never seen anyone point out this outrageous and unfortunate inevitability. A meaner man than Perry Mason would have made life even more miserable for arguably the least capable district attorney of all time. What could Gardner have been thinking?

Erle Stanley Gardner used to include a "Cast of Characters" at the beginning of his Perry Mason books. In these he often referred to "Ham" Burger. I think he knew exactly what he was doing.

[MichaelRyerson]

Originally Posted by JimCraig

Erle Stanley Gardner used to include a "Cast of Characters" at the beginning of his Perry Mason books. In these he often referred to "Ham" Burger. I think he knew exactly what he was doing.

Thanks. Never read any of the books although my mother surely did. They really should have worked the improbable name into the TV scripts from time to time to defuse the adolescent tension. Say, didn't you used to play some hockey?