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So, kid, you've heard about the Winter Garden, and want to know something, eh?
https://i.postimg.cc/2ScH57vz/Winter-Garden001.jpg odinthor collection In 1921-1922, the owners evidently had offices at 111 W. 3rd; but the venue itself was at 518- (in due course) 522 S. Spring (including an associated cigar store and barber's). Here's that stretch of Spring: https://i.postimg.cc/J05xCNMC/SpSE5.jpg odinthor collection A beginning (1920): https://i.postimg.cc/CLJ7vscj/Winter-A12-3-20.jpg This, and the following, all from LA Times, via ProQuest, via CSULB Library, date as indicated; this one, 12/3/1920 https://i.postimg.cc/9FXtqqcz/Winter-B11-16-21.jpg 11/16/1921 https://i.postimg.cc/Pr6bbrqy/Winter-C7-25-22.jpg 7/25/1922 https://i.postimg.cc/CK8jVGsr/Winter-D8-12-22.jpg 8/12/1922 Thanking e_r for his assistance! To be continued . . . |
Continuing with the Winter Garden . . .
https://i.postimg.cc/0yMSpYF5/Winter-E7-19-23.jpg 7/19/1923 https://i.postimg.cc/YCW44pLh/Winter-F8-21-23.jpg 8/21/1923 https://i.postimg.cc/hvYjjwSL/Winter-G9-18-23.jpg 9/18/1923 https://i.postimg.cc/25Y5VnfK/Winter-H9-19-23.jpg 9/19/1923 To be continued . . . |
And to end . . .
https://i.postimg.cc/pdkPr7Cm/Winter-I1-21-23.jpg 11/21/1923 https://i.postimg.cc/4dSZb9rZ/Winter-J5-29-24.jpg 5/29/1924 https://i.postimg.cc/T15xkP6b/Winter-K5-30-24.jpg 5/29/1924 An end . . . https://i.postimg.cc/kgmVt0Qs/Winter-L6-1-24.jpg 6/1/1924 :cheers: |
:previous: Fantastic research odinthor!
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odinthor, here is a photograph of the Winter Garden location when it was still McKee's Cafe. [c.1915] https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/1...924/OOMfFe.jpg usc digital archive ORIGINALLY POSTED BY ODINTHOR https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/6...923/4cyL1T.jpg Besides the cigar store and barber (as mentioned by odinthor) it looks like McKee also had a taxicab service! https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/1...923/o2trPT.jpg See the complete photograph HERE |
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Yes, there's about 19 links to Vampira on You Tube. There were also several other local LA spook TV shows that always featured old movies of the Frankenstein, Dracula genre. :cheers: https://the-vampira-show.tumblr.com/ My favorite old TV show was an afternoon one that played British films from the 1930s & 1940s. These films were very sophisticated and were loaded with atmosphere. Its no wonder that Hollywood studios of the Golden Age were filled with British technicians. My neighbor's father was an actor from England. He thought of himself as a new Cary Grant. He didn't even come close. https://66.media.tumblr.com/b7ef8e7c...9i1ao1_500.jpg LAPD |
Once more...
RARE POSTCARD / Nottingham 'Castle' Robin Hood [1922] ... The Thief of Baghdad [1924] https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/1...922/tMlheg.jpg Quote:
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:previous: Thanks for your help, HossC and FredH!...I really appreciate it. I've gone back and looked at numerous aerials that were taken above the Pickford-Fairbanks Studios around the time of Robin Hood [1922]. So far I haven't been about to pick out the Nottingham Town set. https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/1...924/sj1ZSO.jpg periodpaper The castle is easy to find. ...Nottingham Town, not so much. :shrug: Here's another. https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/1...921/FNjk0p.jpg medium Extra Info: "ROBIN HOOD was one of the most expensive films of the silent era, apparently costing something in the area of $930,000 dollars. In 1922! That’s almost $14 million in today’s dollars. Nevertheless, the movie made around $2.5 million in North America, solidifying the Fairbanks swashbuckling success." Update: I just found this view at an auction house. https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/1...921/BaLmRR.png rmyauctions REVERSE https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/1...921/6GeLkF.jpg rmyauctions I wonder if the Nottingham Town set was built off site (for lack of room. . |
We have visited Rodger Young Village on NLA..
But I'm drawing a blank on this Rodger Young Auditorium. https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/xq90/924/pSw6TJ.jpg eBay (no longer listed) Have we seen, or discussed, this auditorium? . |
mystery DTLA building
This Huntington Library photograph is mislabeled as "Baltimore Hotel" on E. 5th Street. Anyone recognize this?
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(Here's a slightly sneaky link to the same photo, sans watermark.) |
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It's difficult to be sure due to the low resolution and different angle, but the building I've linked to the inset view appears to be a match. https://i809.photobucket.com/albums/...RobinHood2.jpg Douglas Fairbanks Pictures/United Artists/Hollywood Photographs |
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A 1978 demo permit lists Mr Rosenbloom of Rodger Young Inc as the building's owner. The work is for "Demolition handwreck 2 story brick apt". Schilling's Flowers, on the corner at 942 W Washington, appears in the CDs of 1956 and 1960 (and possibly others). In the 1930s, the flowers shop was just down the street at 701 W Washington. |
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The character looks like Speedee from McDonalds
https://vignette.wikia.nocookie.net/...20120727220213
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View of Fifth Street looking east from Spring Street in Los Angeles, ca.1918 https://i809.photobucket.com/albums/...5thSpring1.jpg USC Digital Library And today. https://i809.photobucket.com/albums/...5thSpring2.jpg GSV |
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In any event it looks like the work I did, or someone having dug up the same information, made it onto the PCAD site The Turnverein Germania Club on Washington Boulevard was set amidst many mortuaries by the 1930s; the club lost the property in 1940; the building was renamed the "Los Angeles Turners Club" during the height of anti-German feeling in 1943; in 1945, Kalman Loeb, Sr., purchased the building and renamed it after Rodger Young, a 25 year-old Los Angeles resident and World War II hero, who died in the Solomon Islands in 1943; Loeb bought the Krempel building and a miniature golf course that existed next door for $150,000; the golf course was later removed for a parking lot; the Loeb family sold the building for $700,000 in 1978, and its contents were auctioned off; the interior of the auditorium accommodated a bar 60 feet long with 50 stools, making it one of the longest in the city; Storefronts facing Washington Boulevard were eliminated after WW II to create more room for Loeb's auditorium business; It was demolished after 1978; a warehouse was erected on the property thereafter; |
SHERIFFPAUL, I also thought the Union Station neon mascot looked a lot like Speedee from McDonald's!
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According to the 1941 Los Angeles Directory there were five Union Oil stations on Wilshire. 2607 is close to MacArthur Park but not directly across the street from it. https://i.postimg.cc/dVsKH6KL/Union.jpg I've been thinking about the topography since there are no other clues in the photo. Those street lights on the opposite side of Wilshire suggest there's a small hill ahead, as the lights vanish behind the crest of the hill. But after investigating those addresses, I'm stumped as to which one might be the correct location. |
Rodger Young Auditorium
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Rodger Young Auditorium and Pacific Isle Cocktail Lounge. https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/6...922/kVtFVx.jpg...https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/6...924/85o7cJ.jpg eBay I'd love to go back in time and have a drink at the Pacific Isle Lounge. ...It sounds exotic (and noirish) |
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https://i809.photobucket.com/albums/...uditorium1.jpg mil.library.ucsb.edu |
Thanks for comments odinthor and HossC. Here's another one, taken from very close to the Huntington photo I posted last night:
https://i.imgur.com/ezm4rhV.jpg calisphere.org Things haven't changed much, apart from a trolley metamorphosing into a bus: https://i.imgur.com/GzXSJpK.jpg GSV, 2008 |
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