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re: La Brea Social Club In the same time period as Kon-Kre-Kota, Cohen also operated a gambling establishment on North LaBrea Avenue called "The La Brea Social Club". https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/1...924/dsp6SM.jpg https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/1...922/RNLuV1.jpg excerpts book I've searched all morning and I haven't had any luck finding a photograph of "The La Brea Social Club". Does anyone have a pic in their possesion? The closest I came was an image of La Brea Social Club membership cards. https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/1...922/E9h4WW.jpg pinterest / non-working link hmm. . .I also see a card from a place called the "Cloverdale Social Club". I've never heard of that one. It must have been over in Santa Monica area. (near the Cloverdale Airport, perhaps) :shrug: . |
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This slide is from the same group of slides that included the Hollywood Blvd. photograph shown above. I believe it was taken by the same phootgrapher as he was about to leave Los Angeles. (the seller notes the image was taken at LAX) The date is 1965. (same as the Hollywood Blvd. slides) https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/1...922/NWi1UU.jpg eBay Bye. Bye. . |
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Gee, you may be right! A story I accepted as gospel. So much for being an Anna May Wong Super Expert. Related... we've seen aerial and long distance photos of the Wong's Figueroa laundry. I refuse to believe there aren't better pics out there somewhere. Newspapers, magazines, fans knew of the place. NO ONE took a clear, up close shot?? Quote:
https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/...e693ce04_o.png Sam Kee was at 241 N Fig, midway between Diamond and Temple on the west side: https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/...1c300548_o.png According to DBS, it was built as a "store, work and living room" by Aurelia Corker in 1907. It was converted to Sam Kee Laundry in the summer of 1915. Not sure when Lee left but it was advertised as possible repair/machine shop in 1935, and owned by a Frank Lew in 1941. It became the site of a George Novikoff Engineers-designed County Health Dept building in 1951. |
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https://i.imgur.com/XYZsPd0.jpg Google Earth Pro The cards shown in e_r's photo were found on the body of Paulie Gibbons, a Cohen flunky who was murdered on N. Gale Drive in Beverly Hills on May 2, 1946 by persons unknown. |
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I'd like to see a plaque placed at the site. If Bruce Lee can have a statue in Chinatown, why not honor Anna (a Los Angeles native)?? There's a little park-ish(?) area to the immediate north of the Health building that would be a nice area for some tribute. |
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Thanks for figuring out where the gas-o-meters slide was taken. Here's a slide of the Tishman Building at 615 Flower Street. It was taken a year earlier than the gas-o-meters slide. 1965................................................... https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/1...922/27zW4U.jpgeBay / original slide I've tried to figure out where the photographer was positioned (when he took this image) but so far I haven't been able to figure it out. . |
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Well, I've learned one thing. It's almost impossible to find any additional information on the 'Cloverdale Social Club'. *wipes brow* It just dawn on me. - perhaps the other name on Gibbon's membership card might yield some clues. https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/8...923/caPjci.jpg The last name is clearly "Ross", but I can't make out the first. (except for the B) . |
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Here's an exceptional photograph showing workers posed in front of a large piece of machinery owned by the C. E. Green Eng. Construction Co. Los Angeles. https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/1...923/mKiZ3d.jpg eBay The seller doesn't included a date but there are horses and wagons on the left. ........... .so 1900s(?) . . .1910s(?) Enlargement for your viewing pleasure. https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/1...923/HL4bHG.jpg eBay LARGER, you say. https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/1...923/HL4bHG.jpg I'm pretty sure the large mechanical-thingy is an excavator. ..... |
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My guess for the location is across the Harbor Freeway to the west, perhaps in the old Sinclair Oil or Unocal Buildings??? You can see a bit of the beloved old Richfield tower in the pic, the once with the gold and black/brown color on the left. Black gold. I do miss the Richfield, ttorn down in the late 1960s to make way for the ARCO/BA twins. The Tishman was only 250' tall, but was considered a skyscraper back then. Built soon after LA lifted the 150' height limit. The Richfield with its "oil derrick" spire towered over it, a magnificent 380' high. In the backround on Spring street you can see the top of the United California Bank building, also one of the first "skyscrapers" built after the height limit was removed. Also about 250'. The Statler Hilton on the right was of course replaced with a real scraper, the 1100' Wilshire Grand. |
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https://i.postimg.cc/630nBw8q/Ross-LAT-11-6-45.jpg LA Times, 11/6/1945 The friend Ross was helping eventually perished in an auto accident. edit add: Here's a pic of the boxer's signature: https://i.postimg.cc/BnBKT4Cg/Ross-Sig-JOSports-Inc.jpg Jo Sports Inc. |
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It's very likely the same Barney Ross. https://i.imgur.com/LBIAiAV.jpg "Barney Ross (born Dov-Ber "Beryl" David Rosofsky; December 23, 1909 – January 17, 1967) was an American professional boxer. Ross became a world champion in three weight divisions and was a decorated veteran of World War II. During his recovery at the hospital from his wounds suffered in that battle, Ross developed a habit for the morphine administered for pain. Back in the States, the morphine became heroin. This habit became so bad he would sometimes spend $500 a day on the drug. Ross went to a recovery center and beat his addiction. Ross spent his last days using his celebrity status in promotional work for casinos and other businesses." wikipedia.org - Barney Ross He was a lifelong friend of Jack Ruby. He testified as a character witness on Ruby's behalf at his trial for killing Lee Harvey Oswald. Another old friend of Ruby was one Maurice "Frenchy" Medlevine. He was interviewed for the Warren Commission Report regarding his links to Ruby. I wonder what Maurice was up to in the mid 1940's. From an FBI General Crime Survey in 1945. https://i.imgur.com/Z1MsimV.jpg archives.gov |
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The Bank/Ripley's is glimpsed below the Highland street sign 1977, looking east on Hollywood Blvd. Joan Jett https://i.pinimg.com/originals/37/3e...1a8f39723e.jpghttps://i.pinimg.com/originals/37/3e...1a8f39723e.jpg |
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sports collection According to wiki he was able to go 15 Rounds in boxing matches and never suffered a knockout. This alone mean one thing. He's fit and very tough. :tup::notacrook::tup: |
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https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/...00a9b978_b.jpg lapl https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/...789800e4_b.jpgparadiseleasedlapl Check out this guy (Statler exec Arthur F. Douglas), he's literally saying "so if you stood over there on the roof, you could get a nice shot of the windows over here—" https://paradiseleased.files.wordpre...pg?w=640&h=491 The Tishman was a pretty wild looking building, once. Kind of an aquatic blue/robin's egg. Now: http://you-are-here.com/los_angeles/wilshire_tower.jpgyou-are-here |
Check out this guy (Statler exec Arthur F. Douglas), he's literally saying "so if you stood over there on the roof, you could get a nice shot of the windows over here—"
https://paradiseleased.files.wordpre...pg?w=640&h=491 The Statler was certainly one of the grand hotels of Los Angeles in it's day. I first visited when Prince Bernhard of the Netherlands held a press conference there in 1963. Manny Aguirre, beloved Musso & Frank bartender, served James Dean coffee during a break in the filming of the banquet scene in Giant. |
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I found some interesting information on Irving "Ruff" Goldenberg (mentioned, above, with Medlevine) and with a TYPO. https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/1...924/L4On5H.jpg https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/1...924/xKQ5qS.jpg California Organized Crime Report 1957 This is where it gets real weird, folks. After piecing together bits of information I believe that, there is a slight possibility, Irving Goldberg is the father of. . .are you ready for this?. . . .Frank Gehry!....(don't laugh) You see:....Frank Gehry's last name, before he changed it, was Goldberg. . .and Gehry's father's first name was Irving. below: note the mention of slot machines. https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/1...924/le3lF0.jpg encyclopediaofworldbiograhies Here's a 2nd source that also mentions slot machines. https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/8...922/uaVyq3.jpg They had relatives with connections to mobsters. https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/8...923/IcRSc1.jpg And this is very strange. Irving Goldberg was buried as Irving Gehry. https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/6...922/aQW9GR.jpg Why would they do that? :shrug: . |
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Before I sign off I have a favor to ask. I happened upon this (see below) but google doesn't allow me to see Page 90. https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/8...923/rGjjEE.jpg link I really want to find out more about the Culver Auto Dealers' Club. Help! . |
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