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__________________ Just for fun, here's a fan visiting the famous steps in SilverLake. Thump! Thump! Thump! Thump! Thump! Thump! Thump! http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/102...923/8Xdd87.png http://www.catsafterme.com/blog/archives/3504 lol...here's another. http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/102...921/Kb4g3c.png http://www.catsafterme.com/blog/archives/3504 and doing silly impersonations. http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/800...921/HR76Gl.jpg http://pasqualemurena.com/laurel-and...ic-box-stairs/ __________________________ I initially posted this photograph. "Yoo Hoo, Up Here Boys!" http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/102...923/mVC82j.jpg http://www.hyundaiforkliftsocal.com/...ads/image5.jpg Until I realized I had the wrong movie! This is from the Three Stooges' "An Ache In Every Stake" (shouldn't it be "An Ache In Every Step"?) ....unless I'm mistaken these are a different set of steps, right? (I haven't seen this movie yet) |
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https://pbs.twimg.com/media/BeCY21NCcAAQ6jd.jpg http://www.oldtvtickets.com/2008/01/...ully-show-the/ I didn't know he had a talk show at one time! That photo might also have been from a game show he hosted in 1969-1970 that I remember watching when I was home for a couple weeks from school for Easter break. It was called IT TAKES TWO. Wikipedia says that NBC erased the show in their videotape purge back then, but that two episodes are known to exist with collectors. I don't know if this is one of those two, but there is one posted on youtube, in two parts. This next week at Dodger Stadium, the last homestand this season, is all dedicated to Vin Scully, starting with a Vin Scully bobblehead night and ending up this year with--not FAN Appreciation Day, but Vin Scully Appreciation Day! For those of us who like baseball and who have listened to him for so many of his 67 years broadcasting the games, it's a very ________ time. |
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I wasn't sure where this was taken until I saw the tourist tram in the background.
1966 http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/128...921/OqyMN3.png http://prova275.tumblr.com/ I'm guessing this is one of the employee parking at Universal Studios. movie props....or cars of poorly paid employees? ;) http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/102...923/E71dpX.png detail I wonder if we could figure out where this employee parking lot was located if we looked at some vintage aerials? yes I'm looking at you Hoss ;)] |
I took a gamble on these Julius Shulman pictures being from Los Angeles, because there's no information in the description. This is "Job 2307: Convent of the Good Shepherd, gymnasium and pool, 1956".
http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...1.jpg~original Here's a different angle. http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...2.jpg~original This is the gymnasium from the title. http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...3.jpg~original A look inside. One of the shots I omitted shows a game of basketball here. http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...4.jpg~original There were two very similar pictures of the pool - one with people and one without. That's the gym on the right. http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...5.jpg~original All from Getty Research Institute Convent of the Good Shepherd isn't exactly a unique name, but the 1956 CD has a listing for one at 1500 Arlington Avenue. I've marked what I thought were the buildings from the Shulman pictures on the 1972 view on the left below. The 1980 view shows virtually an empty lot, and the current view (below, right) has two middle schools there. http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...6.jpg~original Historic Aerials/Google Maps I was only able to confirm the location when I got in the Googlemobile and found the gym still standing near the north of the block. The covered walkway has been shortened, but it's otherwise intact. http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...7.jpg~original GSV The pool has gone, but the houses in the background of the pool picture are still there. http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...8.jpg~original GSV There are various building permits for additions to the convent, but no demo permit. Does anyone know exactly when and why it was knocked down? |
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:previous: I think you nailed it Hoss.
Everything seems to be in the right place.....and even one of the 3 car trams is visible! I love that. Good job! |
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Nice pics, Hoss. From what Tovangar2 wrote, it seems like the property was sold to the LA Unified School District around 1977. |
Here's another photograph I found on the same site as the 1966 Universal parking lot photograph.
The only information available was "Bank Parking...Los Angeles" http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/128...923/h0NgrY.jpg Jim & Chester's Garage blog at http://prova275.tumblr.com/ At first glance I thought it was the Lttyon Savings & Loan Bank up on Sunset Blvd (because of the 'accordion' zig-zag roofline) but after comparing the two, this is definitely an entirely different bank. __ |
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In 1964, I was working in the mail room at Universal Pictures. This parking lot--as Hoss's aerial shows--was around the middle of the lot. The Universal Studio Tour with its red and white striped trams had started around a year before I got there, so I'd say it's a 63-64 photo. All those doorways and buildings you see had meaning for me. There were about eight of us in the mailroom. We had to deliver incoming mail, pick up outgoing mail, and distribute company stuff--call sheets, cast lists, scripts, budgets, interoffice mail--four times a day. We divided up the lot into routes, circuits of certain offices and outlying buildings. The Black Tower was a route in itself, but there were maybe five other routes covering the lot, the Casting department, the Production department, Props, Lights, Construction, Vehicles, on and on. Out weapons of choice were either those three wheel mailman carts for close in work--the mailroom was in the basement of the Black Tower--but for the outlying routes to distant departments, we used old-fashioned heavy cruiser bikes with a big wire basket mounted to the handlebars. If I remember right, that road in the picture the tram is descending came from some of the old permanent sets further up on the hill, including the Psycho house, always a crowd favorite. But there were departments up there as well. If memory serves, one was the Staff Department--staff is a movie term for phony walls of brick or stucco or marble for sets, made, I think, from plaster and straw. Sweating the noontime delivery up that hill to Staff with the two-ton bike heavy with scripts and call-sheets in mid-August in the Valley was not considered a plum job. The one story grey building on the right holds a row of was what was categorized as a "bungalow", meaning a single inner-outer office suite with a bathroom. Contract producers and contract actors--stars--got those. Some were much more lavish than what you see, decked out as charming little stand-alone houses. As I remember, that most-right hand black door was where I delivered mail to Alfred Hitchcock Productions, although it might have been an identical black door a few feet out of the frame to the right. The two story grey building behind it, if I remember right, housed Pennebaker Productions, Marlon Brando's company. We mail boys saw Hitchcock often, enough to say hello to him and get a nod back. We never saw Brando. |
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If your wonderful old photo shows opening day, e_r, this photo may have been taken at Pico and Main, where the tracks appear to end, even though the sign on the car says "Maple Av": http://i1165.photobucket.com/albums/...w.jpg~original http://i1165.photobucket.com/albums/...i.jpg~original http://i1165.photobucket.com/albums/...3.jpg~original CDNC (on the last page, column 2) There is an ad on page 3 of the June 13, 1886, LA Herald regarding the coming of the electric railroad, whose western end was at the Electric Railway Homestead Tract. The tract consisted of 280 acres between 9th and Pico, and west of Vermont. This electric railway was not a success. You can read about that here, and also here, and even a little bit here. |
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That was back when you could actually afford to take the young'uns to Disneyland. This is an old ticket book I kept from the 1970's: http://i129.photobucket.com/albums/p...psavm0nm4h.jpg http://i129.photobucket.com/albums/p...psmoflz6rt.jpg You're looking at over $100 a head these days. |
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__ Hey guess what, I just visited eBay and the seller has added a few more 'Florencita Park' photographs. I'm pretty certain these are the same three women that were pretending to 'pray' in that earlier photo. http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/102...923/UxFWl2.jpg http://www.ebay.com/itm/VINTAGE-1920...EAAOSwOdpXzKrK I especially like this one, because we get to see inside the bungalow. http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/102...922/WmGmgl.jpg http://www.ebay.com/itm/VINTAGE-1920...kAAOSw3xJXn9tA Do you think that's her suitor? ;) note the pennant on the wall (I wonder which college).....and I believe that's a kewpie doll standing on the shelf behind the handsome young man. This one appears to show an entirely different bungalow. (this might be an entirely different woman too) http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/128...924/obpTrK.jpg http://www.ebay.com/itm/VINTAGE-1920...4AAOSwRoxXn9X7 Oh, and her name is Minnie. __ This last photograph doesn't say 'Florencita Park' (& the annotation is written instead of typed) yet this bungalow looks similar to the earlier bungalow. http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/102...924/7RWw6P.jpg http://www.ebay.com/itm/VINTAGE-1920...UAAOSwvzRXzKyZ So is this one of the three ladies? Artistically this is probably the best photograph of the bunch. _ |
LAX in WW2
This is Los Angeles Municipal Airport, c. 1942-43. I'm pretty sure we're looking SW with Hangar No. 1 (still standing)
on the left and the original Control Tower cut off at the right edge (the small building in between is a cafe). Both of the hangars appear to be painted in camouflage design, and there's a barrage balloon in the upper left corner. I believe the plane in the foreground is a Douglas SBD Dauntless, probably built in nearby El Segundo (the crowd could be factory workers), but I imagine someone here knows for sure. http://i1165.photobucket.com/albums/...r.jpg~original 487967 @ Huntington Digital Library, Ernest Marquez Collection |
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http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...nerCarLot1.jpg Warner Bros Here's a closer look at some of the old cars and a couple of grass huts. I think there's even the corner of a crashed General Lee visible on the right. http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...nerCarLot2.jpg Warner Bros Before it was a parking/storage lot, this area was originally the location of the Mexican Street set. It has now become another office building. In the top-right corner you can still see the tower and church, as well as the back of a new façade which didn't exist in 1980. The new façade stands at the end of an area that used to be one of the old Western sets. It was the one where a lot of 'Blazing Saddles' was filmed. The surrounding backlot can be seen at the end of the movie when the camera rises and pulls back. http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...nerCarLot3.jpg Google Maps |
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