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I don't know if interiors were actually filmed inside this place, but an exterior of this was in the recent Warren Beatty film Rules Don't Apply. Along with some archive footage of Hollywood, some other location shoots in L.A. were: --Northmere Apartments, 1840 North Berendo St. in Los Feliz. --Musso & Frank's Grill on Hollywood Blvd. --The Beverly Hills Hotel and also the Biltmore Hotel. Although the Beverly Hills Hotel doesn't usually allow filming, Warren Beatty said that because of his long relationship with the hotel they agreed to let him film some interior scenes there. ________ I just found this L.A. Weekly article about all of the places in SoCal where Rules Don't Apply were filmed. The interiors of the Hollywood Studio Club were indeed filmed in there. Also, it says that the last time a movie was allowed to film in the Beverly Hills Hotel was 1978's California Suite. http://www.laweekly.com/arts/your-ul...-apply-7611160 |
You have quite a family history, Scott Charles, thanks for posting about it.
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Well, nowadays, unfortunately, I can. I hear Shirley Bassey singing "History Repeating." |
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Well, it was ''re-purposed'' into something that is not approachable. Very brutal but appropriate for the LA of 2018. Its original fun and openness is gone...its now a fortress with heavy-handed bars and gates. Update:...My google street view was showing a different and older street view. Sorry for the error. |
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So this 'video' pre-dates the MTV era by about 7 years....interesting. (so where was it shown?) To be totally honest, it's all so...how do I put it mildly.....AWFUL :yuck: Here's Ringo wearing a bargain basement Ziggy Stardust outfit with star sunglasses. https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/6...922/MDs7Jm.jpg VIDEO LINK & inexplicably...Ringo appears with one of those Steve Martin arrows through his head. (symbolism...or simply a bad idea?) Starting at 3:00 (in the 3:25 video) the helicopter takes off and reveals not one, but two GIANT ROBOTS on the roof. https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/3...923/gtF9Xz.jpghttps://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/3...924/C6cOkG.jpghttps://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/3...921/DXVvAP.jpg VIDEO LINK The robots are MIA in the slides I posted earlier. :( __ |
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Here it is--1102 King St, San Gabriel https://s15.postimg.cc/5atmdwndn/1102king2.bmp.jpg https://s15.postimg.cc/hpgee8mln/1102king1.bmp.jpg GSV |
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It was all decorated like a mansion inside with Oriental rugs, marble & mahogany tables and lead crystal drinking glasses, etc.. Everything was very adult and in perfect order. They had a cook, a gardener and cleaning people. One cleaning lady/cook was named Garcia...she helped my mom and teacher arrange a birthday party for me [but at a different house in nearby San Marino...a brand new house]. My teacher, Miss Sandman and a few neighbor boys attended. It was a great day. |
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For example, the entire time I used to go there with my mom, the Sunset Blvd side of the building looked like this: https://i.imgur.com/kOoAgzu.jpgGSV Now it looks like this, all the bars and gates removed: https://i.imgur.com/1sLNiSh.jpgGSV As to the entrance on El Centro, the same thing applies... all of the gates, and the booth with the armed guard, are gone. Now you can walk right up to the doors, straight off the street. Then: https://i.imgur.com/veeBPaS.jpgGSV And now: https://i.imgur.com/GpMGrWk.jpg I haven't been to the building since my mom worked there, but from the outside at least, the building certainly seems more open and approachable now, no? |
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I found the same photograph again the other day....but in this description the nightclub is called "Bohemian Gardens"....NOT 'Bohemian Grove'. https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/1...923/cdYKgz.jpg https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/1...922/KU7bRw.jpg EBAY And what's this ravine they're talking about? The next photograph is new to NLA. (i THINK) If the building in this photograph is the club...it looks like a large shed-like building. (almost like a fort) https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/1...923/VuahBX.jpg https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/1...922/fA6c0T.jpgVINTAGETIMES But more importantly, now we have an address. 3890 Mission Road 3890 South Mission Road places the nightclub almost directly beneath the Sixth Street Bridge! (very noirish) https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/1...924/Vak7ny.jpg GSV AS MOST OF YOU KNOW; 6TH ST BRIDGE WAS WHERE YOU SEE WHITTIER BLVD. And the ravine that was mentioned in the first description must have been the Los Angeles River. (why call it a ravine :shrug:) so did two of the bar's patrons drown...or were they eventually found? ___ 3890 North Mission Road is just northeast of Lincoln Park HERE |
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The building complex looks fine now....I like it... plus I like all of Scott Charles' Posts.. Maybe President Trump will have me investigated for my many mistaken Posts. |
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I do think black and white photography can be highly evocative in ways color can't, which is part of the reason it's so essential to film noir. Black and white is particularly well suited to evoking a strong sense of dread, menace, malice, and clandestine misdeeds. Los Angeles just happens to provide an excellent backdrop for such imagery. https://bplusmovieblog.files.wordpre...ch-of-evil.png Frame grab from Orson Welles' Touch of Evil, 1958. Cinematography by Russell Metty. [source:bplusmovieblog.com] I'd love to see other Noirishers share their most evocative black and white photos of Los Angeles, even if they've been posted previously. Noirish or not. |
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https://i.imgur.com/yGwROUH.jpg lapl.org It looks like that the North Mission address would be in the drainage area of Montecito Heights, so ravines were likely to be in the area... Here is the LAT of 1/2/34, indicating that the club was north of the County Hospital, which can be seen in the map below: https://i.imgur.com/ylBCZIA.jpg newspapers.com https://i.imgur.com/v6srNBQ.jpg GSV The address is at the corner of Baldwin and N. Mission; looks industrial today: https://i.imgur.com/lb4gPYw.jpg |
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https://s26.postimg.cc/xgfmph395/Step1.jpg https://s26.postimg.cc/419ygh6fd/Step2.jpg https://s26.postimg.cc/ix8ho2pjt/Step3.jpg I find, so far, nothing further on young Mr. Steppler. |
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I don't find it odd, Scott Charles, I find it admirable. So much of the public discourse today is to look for offense and/or to be aggrieved. If one is able to, some good advice is: Take no offense. That which offends you only weakens you. Being offended creates the same destructive energy that offended you in the first place--so transcend your ego and stay in peace. |
I've spent a deal of time trying to follow the further careers of the interesting principals in the Steppler incident. The "fallen woman" with whom young Steppler took up, and who acquired quite a good handful of surnames from successive husbands, but whose birth name appears to have been Lena Junger, but most often known--at least by the Los Angeles Times--as "Spanish Beauty," is a good candidate for True L.A. Noirisher distinction, Turn of the Century Division, with varied, riotous, and sometimes violent behavior for several years. Oh, and we can't forget to mention her young daughter with a two-week marriage which faltered because of the shocked young husband's objections to her choice of entertainment.
But, beyond all that, I found the following two items very poignant (as usual, from the Los Angeles Times via ProQuest via CSULB Library), and thought I'd share them: First, her brother (article from 9/28/1895): https://s26.postimg.cc/yhkgskmjt/junger9-28-95.jpg Finally, herself (5/1/1902): https://s26.postimg.cc/cie25ddfd/junger2.jpg Sic transit gloria mundi! |
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Generally. I found Willie (William) and his mother Crezentia (also known as Crecencia, Crecenca , Criscerta and other variations) in the 1900 census along with Willie's sister Paulina (mentioned in the article) and younger brothers Charles and Henry. In that census, his mother was working as a laundress, which she apparently was before, according to the articles. They are living at that time in Hueneme, Ventura County, CA. William is listed as working as a barber. His sister was working as a house servant and two younger brothers as day laborers. Willie disappears after that census. The two younger brothers continued to live in Ventura county for a while and then Henry got a job apparently as a truck driver and moved back to Los Angeles. Henry registered for the WWI draft and is listed as living in Glendale and working at Pacific Mineral and Chemical Company. Their mother died in Los Angeles County at the age of 84 in 1927. In the death records her name is spelled "Creszent". Charles died in 1948 in Ventura County and is buried in Fillmore. Other searching had revealed that the elder Mr. Steppler was Crecencia's second husband and that she had at least four other children before she married him. He had been farming in Wisconsin prior to the family coming to California and had owned about 40 acres in Brown County, Wisconsin. He appears in voter registrations and is listed as being a bricklayer. In various records he appears as Ernst, Ernest and Louis. |
:previous: Thanks, oldstuff! I'm always interested in getting the full sweep of these characters' lives, when possible!
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