noirish Los Angeles

[Blaster]

I'm pretty certain that's not Rosemary Clooney at Villa Capri trying to duck the camera. Even the comparison photo on the right doesn't look like her -- a publicity shot designed to make her more svelte and photogenic.

The real question... whose baby is Jayne Mansfield handling?

(Hungry babies were often attracted to Jayne. It went with the job.)

[ethereal_reality]

Could someone please explain to me what's going on in this photograph?



The tow-truck is just out of frame on the right------->

& I believe that's the tow-truck driver standing in the doorway.

http://www.ebay.com/itm/VINTAGE-ABST...sAAOSwUuhXcC6w

[Flyingwedge]

Originally Posted by Flyingwedge

Here is the heretofore pictorially obscure "Mission Cottage" at 2711 Wilshire Blvd., probably with
Mr. and Mrs. Ruddy standing at the front door:

July 5, 1902, The Capital @ Google Books

All of a sudden we're lousy with photos of 2711 Wilshire (now 222 S. Gramercy, as GW advised):


December 1908 Architectural Record @ HathiTrust

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1801 Orange Street (later 1801 Wilshire) was built in early 1902 by Dr. Francis Bartlett Kellogg (1855-1944), who was
an "oculist and aurist":

January 1902 Pacific Coast Journal of Homeopathy @ Google Books

It was on the NW corner of Orange and Burlington:

1906 Sanborn @ ProQuest via LAPL

You can just barely make out "Orange St" on the sign in front of 1801 Orange Street:

December 1908 Architectural Record @ HathiTrust

Although by December 21, 1917, Dr. Kellogg had moved, he still owned 1801 Orange and on that day got a building permit to
"make two flats on main floor." The work was also written up in the Southwest Builder and Contractor on December 28, 1917:

Google Books

We get a post-remodel glimpse of 1801 Wilshire at the top of this 1929 photo looking east on Wilshire. It looks like those
cool front porch columns are gone:


DW-1929-08-10-69 @ USCDL

We can see the corner of 1801 Wilshire's roof out the window in this shot posted by e_r: http://forum.skyscraperpage.com/show...ostcount=24234

Lorendoc ID'd 1801 Wilshire in e_r's photo: http://forum.skyscraperpage.com/show...ostcount=24259

I'm not quite sure when the building was torn down -- perhaps not until the 1960s -- but it was converted from flats into
offices in 1944. There's nothing there now:


GSV Aug 2015

[HossC]

Originally Posted by ethereal_reality

Could someone please explain to me what's going on in this photograph?

I'm guessing that the car ran away down the hill and got caught up on the cable tethering a utility pole. Luckily, the car hit the cable in a fairly central way, so it didn't get flipped over, and damage was probably restricted to the bumper. Why there's a man sitting on the roof of the car is another matter!

[MichaelRyerson]

Originally Posted by HossC

I'm guessing that the car ran away down the hill and got caught up on the cable tethering a utility pole. Luckily, the car hit the cable in a fairly central way, so it didn't get flipped over, and damage was probably restricted to the bumper. Why there's a man sitting on the roof of the car is another matter!

Just a guess but: Black guy's car starts to roll away from him, he instinctively jumps on the hood of the rapidly receding car (I know but we do weird things on the spur of the moment), the car, now rolling at something north of 30 mph, finds the guy-wire and decelerates rather abruptly sending the black guy across the hood, up the windshield and onto the roof whereupon he is heard to mutter 'Holy Sh*t!' By-passer offers hand, tow truck driver considers next move.

[Tourmaline]

Early thread postings picked from the LIFE files but quite a bit were overlooked. (To be sure, there is somewhat unavoidable redundancy, or apparent redundancy since some images are different frames from the same film roll or a/n image/s from reversed negatives.) Of particular focus is a March 1949-series exploring LA's rush-hour traffic. http://images.google.com/hosted/life...2f4bd846c.html

If the traffic weren't bad enough, the camera compresses the action, where buses, street cars, autos, pedestrians and lost pets politely compete for the same pavement. Fortunately, with the advent of "hands free smart phones," and "highway hypnosis" traffic is a distant memory.























































Pan Pacific ad on Figueroa








Pasadena by sun up?










Pasadena Fwy (Making good time.)



Warp drive








Cahuenga (Monkey Island adjacent) pass.







Cahunga 2

[Blaster]

[QUOTE=Tourmaline;7488203]

Pasadena by sun up?



What's the significance of the white "X" on the roof of the car in the lower right?

[ethereal_reality]

Originally Posted by Ed Workman

Looks like a mark for aerial photography- mapping, but very strange to put it on something movable- perhaps the car belongs to the survey outfit, and the mark is on top to prevent someone else from parking over the mark if it was on the pavements. Such temporary marks would have been carefully located by ground survey and thus would allow precise adjustment of the photomosaicss to convert to topo maps

Here's your answer blaster. I had the same question back in 2015.

http://skyscraperpage.com/forum/show...ostcount=26521

[ethereal_reality]

Man and young lad walk Great Dane in Los Angeles. (I believe that's the Hollywood Athletic Club building down the street)


eBay

I wonder if that's their car blocking the sidewalk? (maybe the dog had to take an emergency poo-poo & there was no place to park)
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Thanks Hoss & MichaelRyerson for the rather humorous explanations for the car vs. utility pole photo.
I like how the tow-truck driver was just standing there scratching his head.

[Tourmaline]

Originally Posted by CityBoyDoug

In the mood to post a noir scene from Sunset & Vine. Carpenters Sandwich Drive-In.

Have a strong suspicion this Carpenter's was actually located at Wilshire and Western. Looks like the Wilshire Professional bldg. in the background.


http://www.you-are-here.com/building/professional.jpg

HossC's post covers this location: http://forum.skyscraperpage.com/show...ostcount=17961




For CBD:

May feel like Summer but its still Spring at the Bowl. http://images.google.com/hosted/life...b914a0f8e.html



(Apprentice) Seaman Henry Fonda in his dress Blues, with some civilian named Tracy seated behind him. "May 1943"

Addressing the Hollywood Bowl Crowd in connection with appearance of Mme. Chiang Kai Shek

[ethereal_reality]

https://madamechiangproject.wordpres.../april-2-1943/

Friday banquet in the Fiesta Room at the Ambassador Hotel, April 2nd 1943.

"A gala banquet thrown in the Fiesta Room of the Ambassador Hotel in honor of the Madame’s visit. Officially slated to start at 8PM, over 500 guests showed up from all walks
of life; movie stars, community leaders, and assorted dignitaries and diplomats were all in attendance. The guest of honor herself arrived fashionably late, at 9:45 PM."

A hour and 45 minutes late! Mme. Chiang Kai-Chek or not, I'd be pissed.



That's director Frank Capra in the military uniform.





Beautiful Carole Landis (the name of the guy on the right has slipped off my tongue)





Walter Huston left, Edgar G. Robinson right.




All from
https://madamechiangproject.wordpres.../april-2-1943/

[ethereal_reality]

'mystery' location, ca.1958

Does anyone recognize this intersection?


eBay

If someone can figure out the word before 'Woods' on that billboard, we might be able to solve the mystery.



http://www.ebay.com/itm/Photo-ca-195...rkvIjcn_9xeFA_

[Tourmaline]

George Murphy. Also Walter Huston. Seznick on the dais.


Go here for even more IDs: http://www.cbi-theater.com/life041943/life041943.html

[HossC]

Here are a couple of Julius Shulman's photos of Mullen Bluett on Wilshire. They are "Job 902: Mullen Bluett, 1951".



Coulters can just be seen on the left of this rear view.



Both from Getty Research Institute

[oldstuff]

Originally Posted by ethereal_reality

Thanks oldstuff, I didn't see Warehouse No.1 until you pointed it out.

This is it, right? (red arrow)


eBay

Just for fun I thought I'd mess with this aerial with my very limited computer skills.

The BLUE curve is the 'Gaffey Bulge', and my arrow points to Warehouse No.1

google_earth

Looking at this, it appears the parade ground doesn't line up correctly with the B&W postcard image.

So perhaps the photographer wasn't located at the 'Gaffey Bulge' after all, but further north on Gaffey Street.




I believe these are the 'outlines' oldstuff is talking about. She has a good eye.


google_earth / old parade grounds

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Now that I look at it with your lines, I think that what I thought was Warehouse #1 is actually the Cannery Building since it is too far up the channel. Warehouse #1 would be further to the right, out of frame

[oldstuff]

Originally Posted by ethereal_reality

Okay, I know it's time to call it a night.


google_earth

I swear I see a buried minion.


http://durbannorthcoast.getitonline..../#.V2nkXrgrKhc

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It would have to be a very large minion

[HossC]

Originally Posted by ethereal_reality

'mystery' location, ca.1958

Does anyone recognize this intersection?


eBay

The Orange County Archives on Flickr identify the location as Chapman at Brookhurst, Garden Grove, circa 1959. A comment by 49er Badger says "Comparing this photo with the 1972 aerial shot on historicaerials.com seems to confirm the location: Chapman at Brookhurst, looking southwest." The 1963 image is closer to the date of the photo, but the 1972 image is clearer, and most of the buildings are the same. The Union 76 gas station is on the northwest corner of the intersection.


Historic Aerials

Just for fun, here's the same view in 1953.


Historic Aerials

This is how the instersection looks today, looking in roughly the same direction as the original picture.


GSV

[oldstuff]

Originally Posted by CityBoyDoug

Here is the Wrigley Mansion high above the city of Avalon, Catalina Island.

1919



Mr Wrigley owned the entire island except for the little resort town of Avalon.

photos from CDfile

"sugarloaf rock" is still there, before the Casino was built in 1928-1929

[oldstuff]

Originally Posted by Martin Pal

Photo of the building directly at bottom center right on Officer's Road in the above photograph.

QUOTE
Historic Officer's Quarters, Middle Reservation, Fort MacArthur:


Must have been taken before drought restrictions.

They found additional things that were at Stonehenge when there was a drought and the grass was dry, by the marks that were left

[Tourmaline]

Originally Posted by HossC

Here are a couple of Julius Shulman's photos of Mullen Bluett on Wilshire. They are "Job 902: Mullen Bluett, 1951".

Thanks for your continued efforts!



In the beginning.
http://forum.skyscraperpage.com/show...postcount=1080


1949-2006
https://miraclemilela.files.wordpres...uett.jpg?w=900