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Here's an intriguing page out of a family photograph album. https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/xq90/922/FGjiJ4.jpg eBay Far right column: The home of cousin Maggie and George Young overlooking Hollywood, Los Angeles Calif. If you look closely at the top right photograph there appears to be three street numbers on the porch (to Maggie's right / our left) https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/6...924/sf6MCm.jpg detail In the next photograph George is thinking, "I really need to fix that porch step." https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/8...923/4JaZa2.jpg detail Now let's move our attention to the photographs on the left side of the album page. If you look closely at the top home(?) there is an intriguing sign to the right of the house that appears to say HEAL. . .or MEAL? https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/8...923/5LWIin.jpg detail Now let's look at the remaining two photographs that show another home. There is writing on both photographs. (refer back to the album page) To ease any eye discomfort here is a closer look at the writing. https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/8...924/SDzElY.jpg detail As you can see, the top says Dunel's or Dukel's(?) Plaza. The writing below is more difficult to read. The Pa. made me think Pennsylvania. . .so what's up with that? :shrug: Good luck! . |
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Cousin Maggie and George Young's house. https://i.imgur.com/0RoVagt.jpg rescarta.lapl.org 803 Hyperion Avenue these days - https://i.imgur.com/I7dQnBv.jpg Google Maps |
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Excellent finding that house Noir_Noir!
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Anybody know where this is?....
https://hosting.photobucket.com/imag...080&fit=bounds From an episode of "Burke's Law" broadcast 12/27/63....this expanse of lawn serves as a croquet training facility for comely young women.... This really does not add much to our location i.d. effort, just wanted to spice up the thread with a leggy brunette.... https://hosting.photobucket.com/imag...080&fit=bounds The instructor is Ken Murray, he of the "Blackouts" show that occupied the El Capitan Theatre for over 10 years.... https://hosting.photobucket.com/imag...080&fit=bounds Murray gets a little behind in his work....there's a Texaco nearby... https://hosting.photobucket.com/imag...080&fit=bounds Gene Barry.....maybe "used cars" below the Texaco sign?..... https://hosting.photobucket.com/imag...080&fit=bounds The complete show is here....https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GJgB...nsHollyMartins |
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Ken Murray probably couldn't get away with that amount of contact today. He would be banished and never seen again. As far as where the photos were taken, I believe I recognize the rounded top hill in the top picture. It is in Santa Monica Mountains (Hollywood Hills) south of Ventura Blvd. in the Valley, perhaps near Laurel Canyon/Ventura Blvd. I think CBS used to have a production lot around there near Ventura Blvd. Was Burke's Law a CBS show? Gene Barry has a "what am I doing here?... I should have been a big film star by now" look in the lower pic. He did a pretty good job in 1953's classic "War of the Worlds" playing a scientist as L.A. faced the wrath of the Martians. |
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As CaliNative says it's Laurel Canyon/Ventura Blvd - CBS Studio Center in Studio City. The rigorous croquet training is happening on the lawn that was in front of the offices on Radford Avenue. Seen here to the left in 1960. https://i.imgur.com/imhIhxj.jpg tessa.lapl.org |
Well the orchid corsage does add some poignancy....
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The site of that crash is now on the runway at Long Beach Airport. Lakewood Blvd/Spring St. in 1956. https://i.imgur.com/ZdhEFoA.jpg mil.library.ucsb.edu https://i.imgur.com/8yE3VKR.jpg Google Maps |
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As Noir_Noir points out it's CBS's primary location in "Hollywood" now after they moved out of Columbia Square on Sunset and have sold CBS Television City. CBS2 and sister station KCAL9 currently reside there. It was formerly Republic Pictures and Mack Sennett built the studio in 1928. FWIW: Burke's Law was from Four Star Productions and used the lot for its three seasons. (1963-1966.) The 3rd year the series was called Amos Burke Secret Agent. You'll often see Amos being chauffeured around on Ventura Blvd., as well as Sunset Blvd. Four Star also produced the Honey West series there, 1965-66, spun off from an episode of Burke's Law.They both aired on ABC. Both of these series have episodes that used the Gilligan's Island lagoon. When Get Smart was moved to CBS for its final season they moved production to this lot from Paramount Studios. Combat, on ABC, moved it's final season there, 1966-67, too, from MGM. |
"The Graduate" houses....where?
The Graduate is always an entertaining film to watch, more than 50 years after it was filmed. I always assumed Ben's house and the Robinson's house was somewhere in an affluent section of west L.A. or maybe Bev. Hills, or perhaps an affluent section of the Valley near Ventura. But a friend said the fictional setting of the The Graduate and possible actual setting of the houses was in an affluent section of Pasadena or the San Gabriel Valley. I also read somewhere that the "Santa Barbara" Church on "Allen St." at the end was actually a church in the San Gabriel valley. can anybody shed light on the actual fiming and fictional setting of "The Graduate"? P.S....the "U.C. Berkeley" scenes were actually filmed at USC!
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My cousin, an actor in films, is listed as deceased in a ''road accident in CA". In fact, his parents, whom I knew, were very embarrassed that he actually died of AIDS in New York city....therefore they changed his IMDb bio. |
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It's interesting that the outside staircase is missing in the Google street view of the church. It was there in the Wayne's World 2 homage to The Graduate, so I surmise that was added for both movies; in the first case to drive the plot (is there really a need for both indoor and outdoor stairs, except for the unlikely event that the main doors are closed at a wedding, and you want to get your hero in the balcony?) and in the second for verisimilitude. The freeway exit here is different from the original, but they did choose a spot where mountains, rather than the beach, are on the left. Wayne's World 2 clip (sorry 'bout the sorta-nudity): |
The History Los Angeles Has Lost to the Pandemic
https://larry.wizegallery.com/VWV/pandemic.jpg (Ted Soqui is a Los Angeles-based photographer. http://www.tedsoquiphoto.com Resized and hosted by me) Article: https://capitalandmain.com/the-histo...o-the-pandemic |
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Ben was & is a hero to aimless college students and graduates, but as I age I root more for Mrs. Robinson. Ben was a spoiled n'er do well floating in his parent's pool. But Ben still holds the record for most car trips on the 101 between L.A. and SF/Berkeley in the shortest time. I guess Interstate 5 hadn't opened yet. I think I once made the trip in less than 5 hours. P.S.--the hotel where they meet seems like the Hollywood Roosevelt to me, although they call it something different. Never fails to amuse: "Ben, are you listening? ....Plastics". Typifies the '60s. Today it would be "Ben, are you listening? ...Bitcoin". |
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