LARY A-Line Location
 

E.R., this photo can be found on the Pacific Electric Railway site under Los Angeles Railway.

http://www.pacificelectric.org/categ...ailway/a-line/

It is a Robert T. McVay photo from the Ralph Cantos Collection and the Sowbelly is crossing over Silver Lake Boulevard on Temple Street while in service on the A-Line. It was taken in 1946 and the A-Line was abandoned on June 30, 1946. As Ed Workman pointed out in his post the Sowbellies were retired in 1947.

A quick check of Google Maps reveals that the house was replaced by commercial buildings.

Cheers,
Jack

Glorious music !
 

On the pretext that Bix Beiderbecke – outstanding jazz trumpeter – played in the Paul Whiteman orchestra (Whiteman was commercially nicknamed the « King of Jazz ») by 1927 to 1929 and at the same time became a dreadful alcoholic, jazz critics (particularly Frenchs) have been unfairly severe to Paul Whiteman. Saying that wasn't jazz at all. They were true on that and that led a lot of musicians to dispise Whiteman without even listening to him. For sure, it is not jazz but it is a glorious popular music (perfectly played and recorded). To my French ears it is my popular american favorite. The orchestra stopped to be the best by the early Thirties.

I checked Historic Aerials, and the house on the hill can be seen on the 1948 and 1952 images. The long, low building currently occupied by the Western Terminator Company appears between those two dates on the Silver Lake Boulevard side of the house. On the view below, the house would have been directly behind the Western Terminator Company building in what is now the parking lot.

http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...Terminator.jpg
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MartinTurnbull posted a smaller version of this picture in post #23123 back in August, also looking for a location. It doesn't look like we found it then.

The presence of the Hollywoodland sign means the picture above is post-1923. I think I've found the large white house in this 1918 aerial view. It was on the south side of Yucca near N Las Palmas Avenue. The intersection near the bottom left corner is Hollywood Boulevard and N McCadden Place. I had a look on Historic Aerials, and the house seems to disappear between the 1952 and 1954 images.

http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...oodAerial1.jpg
Detail of picture in USC Digital Library

Here's the full picture showing a sparsely populated Hollywood Boulevard going left to right just above the center. The Hollywood Hotel is clearly visible, but the Chinese Theatre didn't open until four years later.

http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...oodAerial2.jpg
USC Digital Library

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You nailed it HossC...that's the house!
-the flat roofed structure behind the house also appears in the sepia photo (and maybe, the flat-topped building behind it).

but I'm a bit confused by the east west street situation.
-isn't that a street besides the white house in the sepia photo? (the one that divides the white house and the "ADDEN" building and 'parking lot'?
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*ok, I revisited the sepia photo and that isn't a street...and what we're looking at, is the side of the "ADDEN" building, not the back. DUH!
It takes me awhile sometimes. :)

and yes I know "ADDEN" is actually "McCADDEN"

I see you've updated your post while I was looking for the image below, but it might help to clarify things.

Here's a screengrab from a late-1940s aerial video of Hollywood Boulevard which I've used several times before (e.g. post #18124 where I just missed the house in question). This view is looking roughly south-east with Hollywood Boulevard in the top right corner and the large white house in the bottom left. It looks like there were two large yards/parking lots between the two

http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...BlvdAerial.jpg
archive.org

:previous: I appreciate the clarification Hoss. That aerial helps.



Thanks Wig Wag for digging up the information on the 1946 "sowbelly" street-car slide.

then
http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/102...631/SdLGnU.jpg
www.pacificelectric.org

now
http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/102...540/QwPNV2.jpg
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:previous: The iron "fencing" is still the same along Temple (on the left in both images)



A closer look at the hilltop reveals a building that looks more like a mad doctor's evil lair than an exterminator business.
(the old house would have been back by the large palms)

http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/102...540/U6we1A.jpg
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If you look across the street, there's still a massive hill in place.

http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/102...673/1ysjAm.jpg
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Hollywood Center Motel
 

Please note the third large house on the south side of Sunset Blvd, east of Highland, in the lower right-hand corner of the C. C. Pierce aerial. It appears to be the home at the Hollywood Center Motel, which has been much discussed on the thread.

http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/800...540/ZDnbGy.jpg
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6tMBJQM_GTE

Thanks for the information AlvaroLegido!

http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/xq90/661/Zidoaa.jpg
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6tMBJQM_GTE



below: I don't know if this was taken in Los Angeles, but I wanted to post it because of those extremely cool tires. (oh, and yes..that's Paul Whiteman)

http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/102...540/QQzjSn.jpg
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6tMBJQM_GTE




...and here's Mr. Whiteman with a different set of wheels.

http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/102...661/INHazB.jpg
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6tMBJQM_GTE


You can see the above images and hear his sound here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6tMBJQM_GTE
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originally posted by BifRayRock
http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/128...540/aHLAR6.jpg
Huntington archive

This is probably the most noirish photograph ever taken of El Segundo.


Below: So what is that huge industrial building at the end of the street? It looks monstrous.

http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/640...540/upAlcQ.jpg
detail
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:hi::previous: MacDonald-Dodson Tire Co. - 1317 S. Hope

http://forum.skyscraperpage.com/show...ostcount=10205


I would assume the structures in the El Segundo photo background are part of an oil refinery. Look closely at the daylight image. ;)

unkown stock footage film, Los Angeles vicinity.

I thought one of you "in house" rail-fans here on NLA might be able glean more clues from these three images than I am able to do.

http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/128...661/SbyYPr.jpg
old file of mine / collected 2010


http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/128...540/NDEQox.jpg
old file of mine


below: and then a train arrives.

http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/128...661/Debya9.jpg
old file of mine

And that's it. I wish I had more details. (the sign on the right, facing the opposite way, is probably the name of the town.....or junction)

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A precursor to Cinerama in 1930? I had no idea.

http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/128...537/Pr4qOj.jpg
http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/128...673/tG8L3z.jpg
https://archive.org/details/hollywoodfilmogr101holl
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"South Pasadena via Redondo c. 1904"

http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/128...901/MWcV7j.jpg
posted by BrerHair at http://www.jalopyjournal.com/forum/t...446547/page-57

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I am 99% sure that this is in Saugas in the Santa Clarita Valley, just north of the San Fernando Valley. The Milepost numbers on the signal mast seem to mesh with what was in effect back then. The screen grab is probably from a Frank Sinatra movie named "Suddenly". The Saugas Station would be at the photog's back.

To be fair, Abel Gance's 1927- "Napoleon" employing "Polyvision" may have beaten Fox's "Grandeur" to the punch by two or three years. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polyvision

Since "polyvision" would have likely necessitated additional projection equipment, it would be interesting to know whether the 1927-Napoleon contemporaneously appeared in NY or LA with its triple screen format intact. (In 1929, MGM evidently distributed the film in the US - http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0018192/...?ref_=tt_dt_co ) According to one source, the film was reedited to include only the center action.

To tie this topic closer to Los Angeles, I recall the film being screened at the Shrine Auditorium sometime in 1981(?). The poster below only advertises NY, but I am confident there was an LA version too.
http://s3.amazonaws.com/auteurs_prod...jpg?1331312065

I found this picture of Saugus Station on the scvhistory.com (Santa Clarita Valley) website. It shows the station in 1970, and the view of the mountains looks like a pretty good match to me. The trackside signals and utility poles are also similar. Click the link below the picture for the full-size image.

http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...n.jpg~original
scvhistory.com

I've mentioned this before in post #19919, but the reason I'm familiar with Saugus Station is that it appeared briefly as Hazzard Station in a season 2 episode of 'The Dukes of Hazzard'. The depot closed in 1978, the Dukes filming was probably done in 1979, and then there was a campaign to save the station. In 1980 it was moved a couple of miles down the road to its current location in the Heritage Junction Historic Park where it survives as the headquarters of the Santa Clarita Valley Historical Society.

Here's a current view from Drayton Street, a few yards north of the original station location (i.e. roughly where e_r's picture was probably taken from). Today it's very difficult to see the mountains for comparison.

http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...t.jpg~original
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LOL. I love joke pix. This is a cute one.