:cheers::shrug:

http://fineartamerica.com/images/art...er-tellone.jpg
antelope valley

http://www.boebertandblossom.com/LANoir/Cars.jpg

Here's a diagram, say after the car carrier arrived and we unloaded it. One row against the shop wall. If two car carriers showed up at the same time there would be two rows. The cars would be "unparked" and pulled into the shop for final assembly and then onto the lot and the showroom floor. Outside row first then inside. If for some reason you had to get out a car from the inside row it was a real PITA because you'd have to pull two outside cars to give room to get it out. We got our exercise.

Cheers,

Earl

:shrug::shrug:

https://www.tripsavvy.com/thmb/kys71...6e02b57665.jpg
antelope valley

They like to slum it, that is, they prefer poorer soils, especially the sandy stuff. If the dirt is too rich and wet, they won’t thrive. Well, they do like moist conditions at first, but once they get going leave them alone — they can handle droughts.

They don’t like to be transplanted. And they don’t like it hot. They’re a cool-season annual, showing their color early in the growing season and fading in the heat of summer.

The petals close at night and when the weather is too cold, windy, or cloudy, but they open again in the morning sun.

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Here's a great photograph currently on eBay.

It shows the employees of the Charles Schonlaw Chevrolet Dealership posed in front of a fine looking building in Hollywood, California. [date: June 16, 1937]

https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/1...922/Ld6Bfl.jpg
Link

The street number is 7601 but I'm not sure of the street.



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Compare this to 7601 Sunset Blvd.

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I concur with the 7601 Sunset Boulevard location. Here's a different angle dated "1960s". One of the comments pinpoints it at 1962. It looks like present tennant Bonhams are using the same roof sign frame.

https://i809.photobucket.com/albums/...nlawChevy1.jpg
Alden Jewell on Flickr

I was trying to figure out the extremely long car (stretch limo?) next to building but then it dawned on me it's a regular car in motion.

I imagine Bonhams would like to have the old eBay photograph.

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KWICKORN


Here's another interesting photograph currently on eBay.

It shows Quick Foods Inc. at 2060 Santa Fe Avenue, Los Angeles, California


https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/1...923/jmioCb.jpg
Link

As you can see - three delivery trucks with Kwickorn ads are parked in front of the rather unique building.






Kwickorn ads can also be seen in the image below. I'm not quite sure what is going on in the photo. Photo taken at a Dog & Pony Show.

https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/1...924/UaHBSI.jpg
cardcow

Uncle Bill Sharples, the Grocer. Sharplesville Cal.




https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/8...924/5q0PQM.jpg

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The Art Deco detailing is definitely interesting; it was built in 1931 for real estate investor Eva A. Lynn and survived until 1998 when it made way for the widening of Santa Fe Avenue. The late '20s–early '30s trucks in front indicate that the photo was probably taken soon after completion.

Random item from the 1900 LACD

https://i.postimg.cc/PJXF9h47/flowerad00-LACD-bmp.jpg

California Poppies?
https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/...da236782_b.jpg2019-04-07 20-13-42 (B,Radius8,Smoothing4)-Edit.jpg by BillinGlendaleCA, on Flickr

From last year's superbloom.

Oops. Never mind. :rolleyes:

I don't think I've ever seen "Brown" as a telephone exchange name before. Most I've seen are two syllables. Several years ago I read the names were chosen for their unique sounds so they could be easily heard and understood by long distance operators.

I don't believe NLA has had the Mona Lisa Cafe at 2534 W. 7th before (there was also one on Wilshire):

https://i.postimg.cc/J40y4cFp/MonaL001.jpg
odinthor collection

Unlike its sibling establishment on Wilshire (which was subject to hold-ups), the Westlake location's existence--after a bumpy start (fire)--seems to have been relatively calm.

https://i.postimg.cc/sxq32SBL/Mona-L-LAT-11-11-25.jpg
LA Times, 11/11/1925

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I agree, odinthor. We have only discussed the Mona Lisa on Wilshire Blvd.

https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/1...922/GpFk32.jpg
eBay




RE: Westlake Shopping Arcade.

The complex, and concept, seems to have been ahead of its time.

https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/1...922/QHxueO.jpg

Good find, odinthor.

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I don't believe we have seen Jackson's either.
..............................................(I searched & found no results) yet it seems vaguely familiar.

https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/1...924/JYw8sb.jpg
BABARR FILE

No address.




Let's take a closer look at the front entrance to the bar.

https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/1...923/dad2Dj.jpg
detail

Look at that front door. It looks like you're about to enter a pirate's den.




On the side, and towards the back, there is a liquor store named The Bottle Shop.

https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/1...924/Wod4WS.jpg

And there appears to be a real estate office in the home behind the building - - - - >






One more thing.

I don't believe I have ever seen a TAXI sign like this one.

https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/8...923/lhhXmF.jpg



If we have already seen Jackson's on NLA. . .pretend we haven't. ;)
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And wehaven't seen this haberdasher on NLA.


https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/1...922/ZPaPdm.jpg

Vincent Simeone, Custom Tailors - Haberdashers
3256 Wilshire Boulevard, Los Angeles - California
"Just West of Vermont"

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That is the northeast of corner of Fremont and Huntington in South Pasadena. That business is now the Barkley, which I've eaten at once (or twice?), many years ago now.

I can't get the Google Mobile at a good position...
https://www.google.com/maps/@34.1041...4!8i8192?hl=en

Close up revealed the street.
 

https://i.postimg.cc/FKvpywD4/CD7803...7-DAFA80-F.pnghttps://postimg.cc/PC61h3g3 1400 Huntington Drive from Google Maps

One of a series of ads in the LAT during 1959:

https://i.postimg.cc/1R27wt6K/simeonead-bmp.jpg


Vincent Simeone's shop had been in the Wilshire Central Building at the nec of Oxford for years before it moved to the Switzer's building, where it remained until the late '60s. The Switzer building lasted from 1931-1970--for more on it and the Wilshire Central building, see this story of early commercial Wilshire Blvd (& scroll down). Switzer's was built on the site of Henry O'Melveny's house, which he moved to Windsor Square in 1930.

https://i.postimg.cc/1RHcRdtZ/switzerssimeone-bmp.jpg



The O'Melveny house today:

https://i.postimg.cc/pTd8mWyb/omelvenyhouse.jpg

The photo of Jackson's/The Bottle Shop is dated in a few places online as May, 1957. FYI.

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Do you remember when we discussed the stand-alone ice machines.

The discussion began when I posted this snapshot taken by a Russian visitor to Los Angeles.

https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/1...923/pIRi1I.jpg
Post #51722

At the time I asked if neighborhoods had their own ice machines.


Scott Charles answered back "They sure did!" and included this photograph from the 1970s.

https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/8...924/gxO2Oz.jpg
Post #51719



A couple of weeks ago I posted screengrabs from a short film found in the Huntley Archives. (Nutburgers)


Another film in the archive includes a segment that shows a person using one of these neighborhood ice machines. (identical to the one in the Russian eBay photo)

This is where it gets interesting:

Much to my surprise, the person who walks up and purchases a block of ice (and lugs it away!) is none other than Jean Harlow!

Here is the sequence:

https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/6...924/8s3r8m.jpg


Jean walks into the frame.

https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/6...923/egHZxM.jpg



She places the coins in the slot. .

https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/6...924/YN2V0D.jpg



And glances down to where the ice somes out.

https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/6...923/LW24UL.jpg



Kerplunk!

https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/6...924/7lEbqI.jpg



Jean bends down to retrieve the block of ice. .

https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/6...922/7X8alP.jpg



and walks away mumbling something about killing her agent.

https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/6...922/zlcDMK.jpg



You can watch the 8:47 minute film. HERE. (the riveting Harlow Ice Machine segment begins at 3:26)


There are also several mystery locations in the film. Watch for the posts.


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Here is the first mystery location from the same film

The old Horseshoe Tavern.

https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/6...923/QG2aq9.jpg



https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/6...924/vGMnCK.jpg



https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/6...923/KSBU5K.jpg



https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/6...924/wpMi3t.jpg

Anyone? :superwhip





Link
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The 1937 CD lists the Old Horseshoe Tavern at 6110 Wilshire Boulevard. That's just west of Fairfax. The intersection has many well-photographed buildings, so I'll see if I can turn up any pictures.

ETA:

LAPL has three detail views of the building by Anne Laskey taken in 1978. They're titled "Former tavern, Wilshire Boulevard". The description says:

Exterior of a Tudor revival style building, once the home of the Old Horseshoe Tavern and Thoroughbred Club, which moved to 840 S.Fairfax Avenue in 1949 and was renamed "Tom Bergin's Horseshoe Tavern. Located at 6110 Wilshire Boulevard, this structure is no longer standing.

https://i809.photobucket.com/albums/...Horseshoe1.jpg

I believe I have a photo of the sign that can be seen on the wooden post in the middle of this image. In later years it was mounted on a light post a few feet away, but given its age I think it's probably the same one. You can see the holes at the corners that were used for rear straps as seen in the old photo. The sign survived at this location until some time between April and December 2017.

https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/pw...-no?authuser=0

As I recall each block of ice was carefully wrapped in brown paper...so lovely.

I used to buy cubed ice for our electric ice cream machine. Add rock salt to the ice and it got real cold. Run the machine for a few minutes and you have homemade ice cream.

http://s7d2.scene7.com/is/image/BedB...8089211p?$478$
bing image

http://www.michaelbarrier.com/Essays...Studio0001.jpg..https://s1.dmcdn.net/v/3KJ_E1Lzc57A8wTub/x480
Barrier

Walter Lantz (April 27, 1899 – March 22, 1994)....Hollywood cartoon studio.....who supplied material to Universal Studios.

Link: some of his iconic music for his cartoons of 1940s.>>>>> [the cartoon is a bit iffy by 2020 standards but the music is top notch.] 7 minutes

https://www.dailymotion.com/video/xx4wr2

https://bcdbimages.s3.amazonaws.com/...lantz_logo.jpg
universal

^^^
Lantz, of course best known for Woody Woodpecker. Trying to figure out that women's behind on the left. Is she bowlegged? Not unshapely, but different. Maybe she was the inspiration for the cartoon ladies above right.

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Ethereal, any more old stories of the "Spanish" Flu in L.A. a 100 years ago? Appreciated the one you had a few weeks ago. Knowing how they got through that could help us now. Press is reporting on a big outbreak at the Farmer John meatpacking plant in Vernon.

https://i.postimg.cc/28FJq2Ds/nlanewhousemay20-UT.jpg
LAH, Oct 20, 1907


https://i.postimg.cc/QxH9Cn1t/nlahousemay20-GSV-bmp.jpg



A second interesting house also appearing in the Herald on 10-20-07 (maybe someone can find this one....)

https://i.postimg.cc/jSh4QF3b/nla2ndnewhouse-bmp.jpg

We've had many NLA postings on the Mary Andrews Clark Home; but I didn't spot one showing its Dining Hall:

https://i.postimg.cc/BQgX3KzN/Mary-And-Clar-L001.jpg
odinthor collection

Automobile Patrol plan to fight Spanish Influenza in Los Angeles.


https://i.imgur.com/j8E3njR.jpg
Los Angeles Herald - 6 December 1918


Some other approaches.


Lemons!

https://i.imgur.com/vBB8gaM.jpg
Los Angeles Herald - 23 October 1918



No kissing!


https://i.imgur.com/4w9DILU.jpg
Los Angeles Herald - 31 October 1918



And lots of laxative!


https://i.imgur.com/xrkAMr3.jpg
Los Angeles Herald - 5 November 1918

For the longest time I was trying to figure out what the sign said on the Walter Lantz building...studios, pictures...?

Finally realized it's Walter Lantz Cartunes!

The photo is c. 1946 and is on Lankershim Blvd. along the perimeter of Universal Studios. According to a commenter on CartoonResearch.com:

This photo is the only known one to exist of this location and is attributed to Dick Lundy, the director of "Wild and Woody". And it’s useful to look at to understand my description of how the building was actually connected to the outer studio wall of Universal, with a front door that opened right on to the sidewalk of Lankershim.

"Wild and Woody" is a W. Woodpecker entry where Woody plays a western Sheriff whose nemesis is named Buzz Buzzard.

Woody and Buzz? Hmmm...

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https://i.postimg.cc/k4fHN9Xx/WWHunt...-8-17-1908.jpg
LA Times 8/17/1908

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Maybe Huntington Drive was renumbered, because my guess is 1611 Huntington Drive, which is just east of the old Oneonta Park station. The property websites give a build date of 1908, which is only a year after GW's Herald picture. The image below is from 2009 as trees now hide half the house.

https://i809.photobucket.com/albums/...tingtonDr1.jpg
GSV

More on 1611 Huntington Drive (items re-formed for your viewing pleasure):

https://i.postimg.cc/Dfshk4ZD/1611-H...10-30-1925.jpg
LA Times, 10/30/1925

https://i.postimg.cc/HkSD4QZJ/1611-H...1925-Bones.jpg
LA Times, 10/30/1925

Proximity of the article's date to Hallowe'en made me wonder at first if this might just be a fun holiday fiction; but the referred-to murder in Venice at least was certainly true, and at length there was much ado in court about it.

Quicklime is always used if you want human or animal remains to disappear.
We used to use it on the dog kennel droppings.

Thanks Martin for your added info on the old Lantz building.

Great articles from the past, noir-noir.

[mod edit: clean-up]

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Here is an original hand-tinted photograph of a line of tourist bungalows facing one of the canals in Venice California. [1924]

https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/1...924/StFAnu.jpg
eBay

It was taken by a photographer visiting from Michigan. Note the two children watching him take the photograph on the porch. - - - >



too green hand-tinting man.
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Here's a more recent photograph of Venice showing a burnt out house. [1964]

https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/1...923/Nm1J1G.jpg
eBay

The 4 story Cadillac Hotel can be seen in the background.

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Thanks for finding the house odinthor and HossC--


Here's another item related to 1611 Huntington Drive, though one not nearly as "grewsome" as the bones story....

https://i.postimg.cc/wv2J9xF1/1611-4-bmp.jpg
LAT July 27, 1929

I looked at Google Street View at the streets that used to be canals, and many are still there. Here's some on the current canals:
https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/...796d4247_b.jpg_5190034-Edit.jpg by BillinGlendaleCA, on Flickr

Lemons have lots of Vit. C....can't hurt. No handshakes...how modern. "Bromo Quinine" and hydroxycloroquin. Hmmm. Excellent articles. They seemed more intent on enforcing quartentines. In some ways, they did it better even though their medical knowledge of viruses was tiny. The microscopes couldn't even see them. That would take electron microscopes in the 1930s. They DID know that it was a tiny infectious agent that could pass through a filter. The term "filterable virus" came into use by researchers. The 1918 pandemic was a historic event, a dark "nourish" event that we got through and maybe we can learn some things about what worked at didn't to help us get through our nourish pandemic. This will pass like it did in 1918-20. The Roaring Twenties just around the corner. That will be fun. Bring back the Charleston and flappers. L.A. was a fun place in the 1920s except for prohibition. Maybe the 2020s will be similar once the pandemic ends and the economy gets back on its feet. Things should be just fine by the Olympics. Nourish L.A. history, not politics. Agreed. I'm bummed that the Farmer John plant has an outbreak. I need my Dodger Dogs. I chowed down on 2 or 3 with beer at the stadium back when they actually had baseball. Beer, hot dogs and baseball, the good old days.

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Currently on eBay.



Three intriguing images taken in downtown Los Angeles. [1947]


https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/1...922/LtHYbc.jpg
eBay

Parker House.




https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/1...923/seK5uI.jpg
eBay

Tattoos & B-B-Que.





https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/1...922/2fKwml.jpg
eBay


I am not entirely sure of the exact locations but I'm pretty sure the passed out man is on Main Street.

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I almost forgot the two horizontal photographs from this same group. (also 1947)



https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/1...924/VFgz3b.jpg
eBay

That movie advertisement on the billboard appears to have left off the title of the movie. Does anyone recognize the squarish art-deco building behind the billboards?





https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/1...923/Mqd0q7.png
eBay

...............Busy................Busy. Busy.


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The movie title is there: "The Wicked Lady". It appears to be in red to the right of James Mason. Doesn't come out good in the photo.

That's the old Los Angeles Branch of the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco at Olive and Olympic. They moved to the corner of Grand and Olympic and the old building is now The Reserve Lofts.

https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/...30c9d848_b.jpg_B030031.jpg by BillinGlendaleCA, on Flickr
https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/...ab347ef0_b.jpg_B030030.jpg by BillinGlendaleCA, on Flickr

ETA: The second photo was taken at 7th and Broadway looking north.

I thought you might've posted this "mystery location", e_r.

https://i809.photobucket.com/albums/...ellsBooks1.jpg
www.huntleyarchives.com

Just after the ice machine sequence, this blonde girl crosses the street toward Campbell's Book Store. I think it must be Campbell's Book Store at 856 N Vermont Avenue. It opened in 1924 opposite the UCLA campus. An LAT article says the store moved to 10918 LeConte Ave in Westword Village when UCLA moved in 1929. I'm guessing they ran two stores for a short while as e_r's video is dated as "1930's".

Believe it or not, 856 N Vermont Avenue is the building we saw last week as Burleigh's. It may even be that the girl operated the same stop signal that's drawn onto the picture below.

Oh yeah, Main St in all its glory. The Hotel Royal was 416 S Main, in the good ol' Alcazar at Main and Winston, which I'm sure we've seen here before. Became a parking lot in August/September 1950.

https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/...96236698_o.png CalStateLibrary

The Parker House was at 409 East Fifth St.

https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/...40999841_o.jpgLAPL

Wrecked in late '55 for an auto park.

A couple days ago SAG-AFTRA posted this on their Twitter page...

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EYkqbUZV...jpg&name=smallSAG-Aftra/Twitter

Cinematographer, #oscar winner and restauranteur James Wong Howe's ad for his Chinese restaurant from the September 1941 issue of Screen Actor magazine. Howe broke barriers as one of the most sought after cinematographers in Hollywood.

My goal was to find a photograph of the place...but the following is what I did find out.

In a Google search, a book called Chinese in Hollywood, had this information:

Cinematographer James Wong Howe operated Ching How restaurant at 11386 Ventura Blvd. in North Hollywood [Now known as Studio City]. Nominated for ten Academy Awards and winning twice [for The Rose Tattoo and Hud], Howe is one of the most successful Chinese Americans in the film industry. His wife, Sonora Babb, managed the restaurant; her sister handled the accounting; and actor Albert Wong worked as a waiter. Ching How's celebrity patrons included Marilyn Monroe Clark Gable, Greta Garbo, Kirk Douglas, Lucille Ball and Desi Arnaz, Sessue Hayakawa and more.

In the Chinese American Eyes blog, HERE, there is this ad from the February 1, 1940 edition of the Hollywood Reporter:

http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-9M7yI7ghs2...+Hollywood.jpg

In an interview with character actor Marvin Kaplan on Classic Showbiz blogspot, HERE, he talks about a 1951 film he was in, Behave Yourself, and says:

Marvin Kaplan: The picture was directed by the man who wrote it - George Beck. It was photographed by James Wong Howe. He was magnificent. Great. Great. They tell a funny story about him. He had a restaurant. Chinese restaurant. Someone was photographing something by the restaurant. Howe came out and told them [the proper way] to use their camera. The guy said to Howe, "Listen, buddy, you stick to making your noodles.

The site also had this image...http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-TMF_uipxil...1.47.47+AM.png...after the paragraph, but nothing about it.

The Felix in Hollywood Facebook page has this photo: "John Garfield (left) and Claude Rains (right)...https://scontent-lax3-2.xx.fbcdn.net...45&oe=5EF52292...make like cooks in the kitchen of Ching How restaurant, owned by brilliant cinematographer, James Wong Howe.

And I found a matchbook cover:
https://live.staticflickr.com/8192/8...fd09d609_b.jpgFrankKelsey/Flickr

Looking up various info, one place said it was around for ten years, around 1940-1950, but there were a couple instances of people talking about the place where they seemed to think it was near the Ventura Freeway. Wondering if he bought another place later on?

The 11386 Ventura Blvd. address is in Studio City where Tujunga Ave. t-bones Ventura Blvd. GSV Link. When I looked up the address on GSV I realized this is the address of one of the stores in the small chain of video stores I used to work for. So this address is now a strip mall and has been since at least the mid-80's when this video store location opened. (It is now a marijuana dispensary called Urban Treez.)

c.2011:
https://patch.com/img/cdn/users/2111....jpg?width=705Patch/Studio City