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A must-read--a brilliant writer on the 1986 fire:


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News for Flickr users:

https://gizmodo.com/flickr-is-going-...you-1830177165

Earl

The man in the light(er) colored hat instantly brought to mind Will Rogers to me.

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NLA has become so big that who can remember all of the things posted on here!? (This is a good problem.)
Someone should go through the forum and make an index of all the places and photos. :haha:

I know that's :koko: but I thought I'd say it anyway!

On the other hand, I guess some duplication isn't necessarily a bad thing depending on where the photos are sourced:

I'm sorry your brain hurts. sad

but that was some mighty fine sleuthing you did on that first cabinet card. (even if you were wrong off by a tiny bit.

As always, I appreciate your help.
Amazing find FW! If the house burned down in 1891...that means the cabinet card must be from the late 1880s. ( they don't call me a sleuth for nuttin' ;))




The windmill is huge!

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Unless it's a lot closer to the camera. (but it looks fairly close to the house)




This is a bridge, right? Is it just going over a road...or is there a stream as well?

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I am surprised by how wide it is...especially for the late 1880s.

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Does anyone know where silent film star Louise Brooks lived?

I came across several photographs of her- that were taken at her home, and in her backyard, in 1925.


I'll start with this one. (they get more interesting as I go along) note the wrought iron lamp

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Louise having tea with her younger sister, June.

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I find the next two photos especially intriguing becase of the ornamental 'garden', that was constructed around a small group of trees in her backyard.
I don't believe I have ever seen anything quite like it.

It's almost like a little stage.
https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/1...923/cRhX1F.jpg
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If you ask me (and you didn't), the poor trees seem a bit confined. I wonder if something like this is detrimental to the trees? (Yoo Hoo, odinthor)







This one is my favorite. A regal spot for a photograph.

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If we're able to figure out where she lived [at least in 1925], I thought it'd be fun to to snoop around the property [via google_earth] and see if this strange garden feature is still intact.

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Louise Brooks, as LuLu, in her most famous film, Pandora's Box. [1929]

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Gotta' love LuLu.



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Thanks for your help Noir Noir.

R. M. Widney [attorney] is listed, with scant details, in the 1875 Southern California Directory.

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By 1887-88 he has become a judge, the president of the University Bank of Los Angeles, and a real estate dealer living at 310 S. Olive Street.

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There are quite a few more Widneys listed in the 1894 L.A. Directory.

R. M. is still the president of the bank, but has moved to 416 S. Olive St.

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I didn't find any indication that he owned a street car 'railroad'. I'll keep looking.


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Louise Brooks, Helen Twelvetrees, Laurel Canyon
 

A google search led me to the "Louise Brooks Society" blog which says Louise Brooks lived in Helen Twelvetrees old Laurel Canyon home. It didn't provide an address anywhere, though. But there are many photos of Louise around the property with current photos of the inside and outside. It also identifies the photos as from 1927, not 1925. The trees may or may not be the same ones, but the "stone throne" is no more.

https://farm5.staticflickr.com/4871/...fee17b0a_c.jpg
Louise Brooks Stone Throne by Kimberly, on Flickr

There are tons more photos on the blog. It's broken down in 4 parts. Unfortunately all of the text is small and embedded in images.

Part 1: http://louisebrookssociety.blogspot....n-home-of.html

Part 2: http://louisebrookssociety.blogspot....ome-of_12.html

Part 3: http://louisebrookssociety.blogspot....ome-of_13.html

Part 4: http://louisebrookssociety.blogspot....ome-of_14.html

More googling led me to an undated page for a property in Laurel Canyon named "Twelvetrees", also without an address. It appears to be the same place judging by the staircase photo within. It has been painted but appears to be the same one. This property page says they restored the home, and the photos appear to be quite a few years old.

http://www.jamanproperties.com/twelvetrees.html

So, I have found the house, but not the address! I know the sleuths here will find it.

Just to back up what Lomara wrote...the photos must be from 1927 or later. Louise Brooks' whereabouts in 1925/1926 are discussed in her book Lulu in Hollywood. She was in New York City then, and it wasn't until 1927 that she moved to Hollywood.

Is this it?

https://i.imgur.com/Bfu0GeE.jpg

GOOGLE MAPS LINK

No. I found that earlier too but it's tiny. No pool. Look at the property link I posted earlier for the description of the property. It's HUGE.

http://www.jamanproperties.com/twelvetrees.html

I just found this page regarding the documentary film about Louise Brooks. More photos of the house exterior here.

http://www.documentaryofalostgirl.co...of-a-lost-girl

And then I found Movieland directory that says at one time Louise lived at 366 Laurel Canyon. If you read the Louise Brooks Society blog entries, it mentions the street was renumbered. If we dig up older maps maybe the renumbered address can be found.

http://movielanddirectory.com/star.cfm?star=26953

Found it - it's 8110 Gould Avenue:

https://i.imgur.com/r0ybA7b.jpg

Link to house on Google Maps

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The Brooks house is just a few doors down from the house I posted in my previous post...

https://i.imgur.com/uqxBXEV.jpg

The real estate link in my other post (LINK) claims that the house with the green border is the Twelvetrees house... they must be mistaken. Either that, or Helen Twelvetrees owned houses on both sides of the same street.

Well done Scott! I found it too and was going to post the address only you beat me to it. Besides, your images are so much nicer than what I had.

Sorry if I beat you to the punch, Lomara! I'm just glad we were both able to find it! :)

While checking real estate sites, I'm seeing the property with the address 1881 Laurel Canyon as well as 8100 Gould. However, each real estate site I check has varying details on build date and number of bedrooms. I wonder what state the public records are in. One has last sold 1990, one shows last sold 2005.

I also wondered about the other site allegedly owned by Helen Twelvetrees. Redfin puts it at 8125 Gould with a build date of 1959. She passed in 1958, so maybe this is on the right location but was torn down and rebuilt?

As with Flickr monkeying around with their policies...


...in searching things on NLA I've recently discovered photos, like the one below, with new watermarks on them
that were not there when originally posted:

http://i281.photobucket.com/albums/k...e/newberry.jpg


A search shows photobucket is up to some new tricks:

Also, E_R, in the first part of a post you made, do you know why the picture is NOT what you are describing? Just noticing a lot of weird things today.