Originally Posted by ethereal_reality (Post 6918014)

"Original Slide, Richfield Gas Station, Los Angeles, early 1950s."

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http://www.ebay.com/itm/Original-Sli...item5d556f695c

Does anyone recognize this corner? It's got me stumped.
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Originally Posted by Martin Pal (Post 6918726)

In looking something up about Robert Young, I happened to notice and read about this television series I knew nothing about. Does anyone else know anything about it?

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Title Card for TV series "City of Angels," February through May, 1976.

Synopsis: Set in Los Angeles in the 1930's, this period detective series was patterned after the hit motion picture Chinatown. It concerned the exploits of Jake Axminster, an often broke but always free-wheeling private investigator who was not above stretching the law and his ethics to get the information he wanted. He keeps his office in downtown L.A.’s historic Bradbury Building, phone number OXford-8704. The office was run by a beautiful but daffy secretary who also ran a switchboard for call girls. A mid-season replacement, it was known more for it's period production design and vintage cars and fashions than for dramatic involvement and it was soon cancelled after one season.

(13 episodes. One of the episodes is titled "The House on Orange Grove Avenue.")
It starred Wayne Rogers and Elaine Joyce. --TVRage

Originally Posted by WS1911 (Post 6914782)

Such a great photo, ER!

Does anyone know the exact year when the three bells were reinstalled at the top of the Plaza Church, replacing the gazebo? And also what year was the gazebo installed. I've always been curious about this and thought maybe the bells were put in around 1900.

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Originally Posted by Handsome Stranger (Post 6916073)

I'll have to disagree. The distance along the coast between Venice and Redondo Beach would be at least ten miles, and those oil derricks appear to be much closer than that.

Originally Posted by Beaudry (Post 6918845)

Oh...City of Angels. I once said My obsession with old LA began with a 1976 TV show about 30s Los Angeles called "City of Angels." in this 2005 interview. Then about five years ago I bought the works on DVD. They say you can't go home again; it wasn't quite what I remembered, but still worth a look. If you've got a spare thirteen dollars and thirteen hours of your life, buy it now. You won't regret it.

Originally Posted by Beaudry (Post 6918845)

Oh...City of Angels. I once said My obsession with old LA began with a 1976 TV show about 30s Los Angeles called "City of Angels." in this 2005 interview. Then about five years ago I bought the works on DVD. They say you can't go home again; it wasn't quite what I remembered, but still worth a look. If you've got a spare thirteen dollars and thirteen hours of your life, buy it now. You won't regret it.

Originally Posted by Slauson Slim (Post 6918435)

Thanks for the nice welcome folks.

Soon I will post some pictures. My grandfather owned the Royal Cafe in Downtown LA in the 1920s - mom told me that it was torn down to make room for City Hall.

Originally Posted by Slauson Slim (Post 6918435)

Thanks for the nice welcome folks.

Soon I will post some pictures. My grandfather owned the Royal Cafe in Downtown LA in the 1920s - mom told me that it was torn down to make room for City Hall.

In the late '50s and early' 60s the 54 Ballroom at 54th and South Broadway hosted the best and biggest name African American/R&B/Soul acts. The tour buses - Motortown Revue, James Brown, Bobby Bland, BB King, Ike and Tina Turner Revue, etc. - would be parked in front.

I would walk home from school past the 54 - this would be about 1959 to about 1964. A few times, I could hear the singers and musicians rehearsing, and I would go halfway up the stairs to hear better. Once or twice I was allowed to go upstairs after a musician saw me sitting on the stairs. The big polished dance floor, the stage, booths along the wall, the bar. Seeing the musicians and singers in their day clothes while they worked out an arrangement and got familiar with the room. And me in the white shirt/cords school uniform with my books.

I was too young to go to the shows in the evening.

On the ground floor was the 54 Bar, which featured Billy Preston on the Hammond organ......this would have been about '63 or '64. Also on the ground floor was a shoe repair shop and a liquor store. The liquor store had an old - even then - black and white patterned tile floor and nice interior architectural decorations.

The 54 closed when the neighborhood changed, and the building deteriorated.

Originally Posted by Beaudry (Post 6918935)

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Ok brethren, especially those with an keen eye for early residential, here's a mystery (to me at least). An RPPC postmarked from Station B, from Sarah to Dorothy Van Vleck ("This is a picture of our house. With Love.") of Baltimore.

I looked in the '09 directory for a Young who's also a physician and found a couple, one down at 42nd near Fig where the houses tend toward the bungalows there in the flats, and one lived at 427 S Alvarado, where now there's an early-20s apartment...fairly raised from the street which I don't see here so I'm not feeling it for Alvarado. Was thinking one of y'all might immediately recognize this big bracketed-Italianate with the large square cupola right off the bat or can puzzle out where it might have been.

Originally Posted by ethereal_reality (Post 6917407)

'mystery' location of the day.

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eBay
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Originally Posted by knites (Post 6919342)

I know exactly where that is. I work in that building now.
1201 North Broadway

Originally Posted by Beaudry (Post 6918935)

Originally Posted by HossC (Post 6917472)

The De Soto/Plymouth dealer was Domenich Basso Inc at 1201 N Broadway. The end of the long wooden bridge over the rail yard is just visible of the right. Here's roughly the same view today.

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GSV

Originally Posted by oldstuff (Post 6918862)

I believe I have seen a picture which is almost the same shot and the caption said "Huntington Beach"

Originally Posted by ethereal_reality (Post 6912969)

http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/128...673/qAzlYn.jpg
http://digitallibrary.usc.edu/cdm/fu.../rv/singleitem

Anyone know what the large building is just to the right of this tower? It's pretty impressive.
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