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Prompted by Mackerm's recent post, I was looking through various materials which turn out to be not much to the point; but perhaps some effluvia from my search will be of some stray interest:
Here's a detail from an 1852 sketch by William Rich Hutton (now in the Huntington Library) showing the area (but from a different direction) of the early photograph mentioned in the earlier post. https://i.postimg.cc/gJS7Qfkr/Hutton...214-32-det.jpg from Huntington Library item number HM-43214-32, sharpened and with enhanced contrast For those who might want to locate very precisely the location of the Bath Street School (not that it was in question), here's notice (as "2nd") of its availability for purchase: https://i.postimg.cc/GmSjyNxx/Bath-S...LAT-83-4-8.jpg LA Times, 4/8/1883 I don't have a precise date on which it was originally built--I've run across a "ca. 1854" somewhere, say my hasty notes--but after its service as a school, it was bought by the interesting Andre Briswalter in 1883, only to be demolished with the widening of Bath St. in 1884. |
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Disaster on the Coastliner is the name of that movie, I just looked it up! IMDB says it aired on October 29, 1979. My memory is that this trip was not that late in the year, but if that's when the movie was on...but October 29 was a Monday and I came back on a Sunday. :shrug: Okay, wikipedia says the movie aired on ABC on Sunday, October 28, 1979. It's about a disgruntled employee who tries to make two trains heading toward one another from Los Angeles and San Francisco crash into one another. Reading further, none of this was filmed in California, but rather Connecticut...? So never mind, except that if one wants to see it, apparently Amazon has it available for streaming. In 2018, I visited Union Station several times to take the Gold Line to City of Hope and was pleased to see the station so busy. That December I was invited on a tour of the station (I don't recall if it was an L.A. Conservancy tour or which one it was), but it was grand. There's some parts of it that are not used except for filming purposes, they said, that we got to go into and we also stood in locations where various movies were filmed and then shown the photos, or video segments from tablets. Among lots of other historical info. It was also Christmas time and the place was beautifully decorated. Meanwhile, here's a photo I like from the Union Station's website, but no info about it as to what year. https://www.unionstationla.com/user/...torical/01.jpgUnionStationLA |
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on the right in the upper photo, dated 1860 at the Autry. We may have seen this image before, but since we're talking about the old Sisters of Charity building, I believe this is it in its final days, looking west at its "back" side, with the 1891 LA High School tower in the distance at the right edge: https://hosting.photobucket.com/imag...080&fit=bounds Catalog Number SCWHR-P-002.2-1708R at Seaver Center |
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Here's a real treat. Amateur slide showing the Olympic Stadium in 1965. ...(perhaps I should say the back of the Olympic Stadium) https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/1...924/redv9z.jpg eBay At first glance I thought the word Olympic was placed on the image as a watermark but it's actually painted on the stadium's back wall. I don't recall seeing this before. Oh, and that's my Aunt Tessie. ;) . |
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Here are the W.A.M.P.A.S. Baby Stars of 1928 posing in front of First National Studios (later Warner Bros.) https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/1...923/I7cFy1.jpg eBay I thought the young lady on top of the car was pointing a gun. ("offer me a studio contract or else. . . ") https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/1...922/yjKfYB.jpg The seller didn't mention First National I just noticed this sign https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/1...923/kY9R5l.jpg detail but I'm unable to decipher "8 Miles" ..and...."Hour" ......(studio tour?) . |
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"The bus area was just outside the south gardens." Is this the south garden, BDiH? (see below) . . .Whatever it is, this is how it appeared in 1979. (same year as the two previous slides I posted Here) https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/1...923/QVmdHf.jpg eBay I believe the lights are a nod to nearby Chinatown. https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/6...922/XnAhMQ.jpg detail https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/8...922/cvH6u6.jpg BDiH, any idea where this 'mystery' door leads to? If you look at the complete slide it looks like you could just walk around the end of the wall - several feet to the right. . |
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ETA: Looking at the Framefinder photos, it looks like there used to be a parking lot there. |
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I recognize a few of the girls' names--Sally Eilers, June Collyer (who turns out to have been the sister of "To Tell the Truth"'s Bud Collyer), and the future Mrs. Alan Ladd, Sue Carol, second from left. Seems she was only 5'3", so a good match for Ladd, who I always heard had to stand on a soapbox in some scenes.... https://i.postimg.cc/7Zd7HSk2/laddcarol-bmp.jpgebay I wonder if that's their Eldorado? https://i.postimg.cc/zDQqP7SK/56eldorado-bmp.jpg https://i.postimg.cc/L6fBJyxV/cadillacad-bmp.jpg 1955 |
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There is a brief scene in True Confessions that shows the baggage area similar to the way it was originally. |
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mysterysades. This photograph showed up on eBay a few days ago. "Birdseye View 1930s PACIFIC PALISADES - Church - Early Homes - LOS ANGELES" I haven't been able to figure out where, exactly, this photograph was taken. https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/1...922/KYu46P.jpg eBay Does anyone recognize this large gully? :shrug: Also, what are those diagonal lines running down the sides of the hillside. . . fences? . . . pathways? . . . pipes? .... . |
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Take a look at this amazing amateur slide of Circo's c.1950s https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/1...922/b2U7jU.jpg eBay What in heaven's name is going on with the lot next door? ...If you hold your hand over Circo's you'd think this was some poor rural area . . . not the Sunset Strip. By the looks of the weeds and worn wood remnants it appears that the lot had been empty for quite some time when this photograph was taken. . |
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No wonder all the photos of Ciro's usually cut that area off! Heh! We've seen this 1949 photo before: https://waterandpower.org/C%20Histor...Strip_1949.jpgCalisphere I've been trying to identify the names on the marquee, besides Rose Marie...but there are ROSEMARIE's, too. ? LLAN and ? HTON or ? NTON. Since Ciro's has appeared, I'll post this photo taken in the opposite direction as the one above, that I saw on a Facebook page recently. There was no date or info about it, or who the guy is in the Corvette. It looks like the exterior is being painted. Someone did comment that: "Shirley Claire still performs in Palm Springs!!!!" And another wrote "Open to Public" was one of my favorite acts. :) For search purposes as well: Slim Gaillard, Mac Niles. https://scontent-lax3-2.xx.fbcdn.net...fa&oe=5F39A603 Also on there was this interesting post from about a year ago: The Belly Room (of The comedy Store), is being repaired and the old walls are getting replaced. At the top of the waitress' back stairs, is a short wall that used to have all the gay comics headshots on it. Well, the photos have been removed, and last night I realized there was some old wallpaper behind it. https://scontent-lax3-1.xx.fbcdn.net...de&oe=5F39A6EA Then I noticed the board covering the bottom half of the wall was loose, and once removed, what was behind it? A full panel of vintage Ciro's wallpaper, circa 1939. https://scontent-lax3-1.xx.fbcdn.net...d4&oe=5F3D144B Besides these two photos, six more shots of the wallpaper HERE. |
Rose Marie played Ciro's with Bebe Allen and Barry Ashton for six weeks in August and September of 1952.
The Dick Stabile orchestra and the Bobby Ramos orchestra were also on the bill. Variety 9/3/52 and Variety 10/15/52 LAT 29 Oct 1952 Quote:
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Here is an aerial of the same area on April 2, 1937 https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/1...924/mSi9Sr.jpg eBay below: In this cropped view of the aerial I've circled the church(es) that are visible in the photograph I posted yesterday. https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/1...923/92j0nq.jpg detail And here's a cropped view from the other photo (from yesterday) https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/1...922/s1jlJv.jpg detail Oh, I almost forgot. This is the back of the aerial photograph. https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/6...922/pnsakR.jpg hmmm. . .Huntington Palisades? ......:shrug: . |
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If I were to wager a guess that this was building a little real estate office. https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/1...923/JTYtry.jpg detail Does anyone know for sure what was in this little white building? M P, I loved the wallpaper discovery! I wasn't aware that Ciro's had a basement. Here's a bit of folk lore. Why was/is one area of the club named 'The Belly Room'? "The Comedy Store has multiple showrooms, including the main stage and a space known as the Belly Room. Though nothing online explains the name for the upstairs area, general manager Jody Barton said it may have something to do with the back-alley abortions performed on pregnant prostitutes during the building’s time as a club." The basement. "A popular stand-up comedy club on Sunset Boulevard, the establishment is haunted by a grim history. Before becoming The Comedy Store in the 1970s, the building was a Mafia-controlled nightclub called Ciro’s. The basement, which has since been renovated, was supposedly used to torture and kill those who posed a threat to the secrecy of the Mafia." Both quotes from the Daily Bruin Rediscovered wallpaper. https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/3...923/TpGW5p.jpg M P, your link to the other wallpaper photos doesn't work. . |
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