noirish Los Angeles - Page 2675

ethereal_reality · #**53481** Posted **Jan 8, 2020, 11:04 PM**

Quote:

Originally Posted by Mstimc

LOL! I can't remember my handle, but I'm sure it was something horrendous and disco-related!

ha ha. ..... . .something like, DiscoStud perhaps?

It's hard to believe the cb radio craze inspired several big studio motion pictures in the late 1970s.
.....(like Smokey and the Bandit [1977]...and Convoy [1978]

ethereal_reality · #**53482** Posted **Jan 8, 2020, 11:13 PM**

Here's another mystery location. (perhaps this one will be more difficult than the Blue Cross/Sunset Blvd. photograph from earlier today)

Seller's description:...."Vintage Photo 3x5 - Los Angeles Street Corner Stein's Police Car 1954"

LINK

The car doesn't look like a LAPD pollce car but the streetlight tells me it's possibly Los Angeles. (the seller seems to think it's Los Angeles)

.

Martin Pal · #**53483** Posted **Jan 9, 2020, 12:57 AM**

The street name signs are white so possibly Beverly Hills.

HenryHuntington · #**53484** Posted **Jan 9, 2020, 1:36 AM**

Calling all cars... or at least SHERIFF PAUL's: even under high magnification, I can't quite make out the city name on the driver's door, nor get any detail on the seal. I can read "City of ________ (all one word?) Police Department" and "RADIO PATROL". I'd also note that monochrome police cars seemed to be the exception. Any thoughts, SP?

Also noting the street furniture: the traffic signal mounted to the lamppost on the corner is smallish, has only two lights and makes no provision for cross traffic. If it's a streetcar signal (are/were those rails toward the bottom of the frame?), that might explain the unusual nature. But I don't remember seeing those employed at intersections in/around Los Angeles.

A quick check of the L.A. City Directories showed a Stein's Coffee Shop on Melrose Ave., but that's all.

Lwize · #**53485** Posted **Jan 9, 2020, 1:43 AM**

Quote:

Originally Posted by ethereal_reality

Here's another mystery location. (perhaps this one will be slightly more difficult than the Blue Cross/Sunset Blvd. photograph from earlier today)

Seller's description:...."Vintage Photo 3x5 - Los Angeles Street Corner Stein's Police Car 1954"

LINK

The car doesn't look like a LAPD pollce car but the streetlight tells me it's possibly Los Angeles. (the seller seems to think it's Los Angeles)

.

The AI in my brain is telling me the cop car says City of La Verne Police Dept.

Was the a Stein's Clothiers in La Verne in 1954?

(I'm probably way off base...)

EDIT: La Mesa, maybe?

Scott Charles · #**53486** Posted **Jan 9, 2020, 2:02 AM**

Quote:

Originally Posted by ethereal_reality

Here's another mystery location.

I was looking through that's seller's auctions, and came across this (unlabeled) photo of the intersection of Hollywood Blvd, N. Vermont, and Prospect. You can see Sardo's Sarno's in the background.

odinthor · #**53487** Posted **Jan 9, 2020, 6:46 AM**

For what it's worth, the Stein's in L.A.--which obviously is not the corner one in the photo--was at 632 S. Broadway, at least in 1938:

LA Times, via ProQuest, via CSULB Library

CityBoyDoug · #**53488** Posted **Jan 9, 2020, 8:13 AM**

giffy

Always share your smokes with fellow noirishers. 10-4 good buddy.

CityBoyDoug · #**53489** Posted **Jan 9, 2020, 3:16 PM**

Quote:

Originally Posted by ethereal_reality

Okay, let's shift gears.

There appears to be some Hi-Jinx going on in the top photo.(shown below)

I see the letter HAR written on the gas tank of the motorcycle. So. . . . .Harley?

Here's how the two photographs are displayed on eBay.

]

HD company files

sadykadie2 · #**53490** Posted **Jan 9, 2020, 6:23 PM**

Quote:

Originally Posted by ScottyB

came across this photo from the 700 block of S Hill.

https://digital.hagley.org/PC20110308_509

This block has been visited here at least a few times
post 34340
post 25702
post 25687

thanks to HossC and Martin Turnbull

Lots of interesting details, including a window washer upstairs above Sanfords Cafeteria (listed in CD at 720 S Hill); glass block fans take note! Also, a billiards sign (behind those two wise guys- I believe that's Karl Malden on the right), a woman wearing a nose visor (I hope), glimpses of the Bankers Building, Subway Terminal, and a sign prohibiting turning left into alley.

My gaze went right to that woman. My lord, is that her real nose?

BDiH · #**53491** Posted **Jan 9, 2020, 6:54 PM**

Quote:

Originally Posted by Scott Charles

You can see Sardo's in the background.

Do you mean Sarno's? Or, are you referring to Frankie Sardo, who performed at the Winter Dance Party with Buddy Holly, Ritchie Valens and the Big Bopper?

Scott Charles · #**53492** Posted **Jan 9, 2020, 7:23 PM**

Quote:

Originally Posted by BDiH

Do you mean Sarno's? Or, are you referring to Frankie Sardo, who performed at the Winter Dance Party with Buddy Holly, Ritchie Valens and the Big Bopper?

You are correct, BDiH, I meant Sarno's. I always confuse the name with Sardo's, which was a bar just a few blocks away from me in Burbank. They opened in 1968, but closed in 2017.

https://www.yelp.com/biz/sardos-burbank

ethereal_reality · #**53493** Posted **Jan 10, 2020, 1:22 AM**

detail

Quote:

Originally Posted by sadykadie2

My gaze went right to that woman. My lord, is that her real nose?

I think I solved the mystery!

pinterest [no date]

And it says it was designed by a Los Angeles inventor!

.

ethereal_reality · #**53494** Posted **Jan 10, 2020, 1:58 AM**

.

Here is a wonderful RPPC that is currently on eBay

eBay

I thought I recognized this apartment building but the one I was thinking of is located on an east - west street. (the name of the street has slipped from my memory)

The Arlington Grand was located at 2825 South Grand Ave.

I checked past posts using "Arlington". There are numerous Arlington's mentioned on NLA, like Arlington Manor. HERE . . .but I didn't find any mention of an 'Arlington Grand'.

.

ScottyB · #**53495** Posted **Jan 10, 2020, 7:09 AM**

Quote:

Originally Posted by ethereal_reality

detail

I think I solved the mystery!

pinterest [no date]

And it says it was designed by a Los Angeles inventor!

.

You've hit the nail right on the ....er, nose! That looks exactly like the pic. (different color maybe)

GaylordWilshire · #**53496** Posted **Jan 10, 2020, 12:23 PM**

Quote:

Originally Posted by ethereal_reality

.

Here is a wonderful RPPC that is currently on eBay

eBay

I thought I recognized this apartment building but the one I was thinking of is located on an east - west street. (the name of the street has slipped from my memory)

The Arlington Grand was located at 2825 South Grand Ave.

The Arlington Grand still stands...at 1920 West 25th St, just south of the Rindge house. Relocated in 1951. Note the fire escape...

ethereal_reality · #**53497** Posted **Jan 10, 2020, 5:38 PM**

Oh my, that hurts my heart....It is an abomination.

Did the owner(s) over the years let the columns rot until they finally had to be removed? or were the columns removed to 'modernize' the look of the apartment bldg?
(

And to cover up the pediment and cornice . . .oh, never mind. .....I hate it.

update:

The columns were probably lost when the building was moved.

.

Bristolian · #**53498** Posted **Jan 10, 2020, 9:58 PM**

Quote:

Originally Posted by GaylordWilshire

The Arlington Grand still stands...at 1920 West 25th St, just south of the Rindge house. Relocated in 1951. Note the fire escape...

Do you want the good news or the bad news?

I'll take the good news.

The Arlington Grand still stands.

What's the bad news?

Here are some current photos.

JimCraig · #**53499** Posted **Jan 10, 2020, 10:00 PM**

Quote:

Originally Posted by ethereal_reality

Oh my, that hurts my heart....What an abomination.

Did the owner(s) over the years let the columns rot until they finally had to be removed? or were the columns removed to 'modernize' the look of the apartment bldg?

And to cover up the pediment and cornice . . .oh, never mind. .....I hate it.

.

This isn't something I say often, but it would have been better if they had torn it down.

BillinGlendaleCA · #**53500** Posted **Jan 10, 2020, 10:02 PM**

Quote:

Originally Posted by ethereal_reality

Oh my, that hurts my heart....What an abomination.

Did the owner(s) over the years let the columns rot until they finally had to be removed? or were the columns removed to 'modernize' the look of the apartment bldg?

And to cover up the pediment and cornice . . .oh, never mind. .....I hate it.

.

I was going to say it looks a bit less "Grand".