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Great stuff, riichkay, and welcome to the forum. I contribute little except reminiscences of L.A./Pasadena in the '50s, but it's by far the most addictive forum I've ever found.
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Crown Hills, ca 1886-1887
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Pls see Flyingwedge's excellent post here for the newspaper accounts. LA Fire has a post on the Belmont Hotel fire, but they mis-locate it on Bunker Hill (they've promised to correct it, but haven't yet) |
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My guess is that the current Sushi Roku [at the right in photo] restaurant is the remnants of the old Johnny's. The location is the same. http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v4...psaakuvxnz.jpg GSV |
San Fernando Road Locations
Once upon a time along San Fernando Road.
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Then all those colonnades went away a few years later as part of its 1935 moderne makeover. http://i281.photobucket.com/albums/k...le/gilette.jpg usc http://i281.photobucket.com/albums/k...le/2-24-35.jpg 2024035 lat It reminded me that almost directly across the park at 415 W. 5th was another one-time Wal Wilson dance hall with open-air balconies and roof garden, a little building glimpsed in photos of the Philharmonic Auditorium and/or the California Club/Title Guarantee & Trust. Built c. 1906 and originally housed the Los Angeles Business College. http://i281.photobucket.com/albums/k...ssCollege1.jpg postcard of 415 W. 5th as LA Business College (files) Wal Wilson had it by 1920 thru 1926 for sure http://i281.photobucket.com/albums/k...-22-25_wal.jpg 1925 In 1931 State Mutual Building & Loan Association bought it and had William Richards give it a moderne facelift. It lost the balconies but still had the roof garden. http://i281.photobucket.com/albums/k...le/10-4-31.jpg 10-4-1931 lat http://i281.photobucket.com/albums/k...15w5th-csl.jpg csl close up of the entrance with its spectacular, deco fire-escapes: http://i281.photobucket.com/albums/k...mutent-csl.jpg csl The interior main floor: http://i281.photobucket.com/albums/k...t-lobbycsl.jpg csl |
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C. 1931 with the State Office Building under construction. The Nadeau Hotel seen here would be demolished in 1931 to make way for the new (1935) Times Building. http://i281.photobucket.com/albums/k...lle/1931_1.jpg The Larronde Blk (Juana Larronde) was demolished in January 1932 to make way for the approach/landscaping for the State Office Building. Mullen & Bluett had their first store in the Larronde. http://i281.photobucket.com/albums/k...20larronde.jpg State Office Building under construction c. 1931 The other 19th century buildings on the north side of this block hung on for several more years while the city, state and property owners duked out various disputes in court. |
Ellis College/Belmont Hotel
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GW posted photos of the Ellis Villa College/Belmont Hotel and the fire photo: http://forum.skyscraperpage.com/show...postcount=5408 And e_r posted an amazing photo looking west from that building: http://forum.skyscraperpage.com/show...ostcount=19458 Here's a little more background on Ellis Villa College. Its finances were apparently shaky from the start. The college was supposed to be financed from the sale of donated lots, but the lots were not donated (in the italicized text below, I believe "and lots" should be "land lots"): http://i1165.photobucket.com/albums/...pstp1eozkc.jpg Nov 4 1884 LA Times @ ProQuest via LAPL If Rev. Ellis could find someone to lease Ellis Villa College as a hotel, he would build a smaller, cheaper building next door and move his college there: http://i1165.photobucket.com/albums/...p.jpg~original Apr 9 1886 LA Times @ ProQuest via LAPL More on the conversion of the original college building into a hotel: http://i1165.photobucket.com/albums/...pspyfgqhl2.jpg http://i1165.photobucket.com/albums/...ps1eaxt90z.jpg http://i1165.photobucket.com/albums/...psjrrfhxkb.jpg Apr 17 1886 LA Herald @ LOC -- http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lc...17/ed-1/seq-6/ Architects William Boring and Sidney Haas designed the original Ellis Villa College, the expansion and conversion of the building into the Belmont Hotel, and also the second smaller, cheaper Ellis College building: http://i1165.photobucket.com/albums/...ps39xshkpb.jpg Apr 21 1886 LA Times @ ProQuest via LAPL Here's Rev. Ellis' second, smaller college building. I believe a sign on the front between the second and third floors says "The Ellis College." As t2 noted, it opened in September 1886 and burned down in July 1888: http://i1165.photobucket.com/albums/...psh4mxwiqf.jpg Los Angeles, Illustrated (1889) @ HathiTrust -- http://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?i...iew=1up;seq=13 |
Welcome to the thread, riichkay. Thanks for giving us the location of Johnnys and all your personal memories of the area. Armed with the address, I went looking for more information. The building seems to have been built in 1955. There's no digital copy of the building permit, but I did manage to find this December 1955 application for signage at Johnny's Restaurant. It looks like the signage in the Shulman pictures.
http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...1.jpg~original http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...2.jpg~original Online Building Records Johnnys doesn't appear in the City Directories. The 1960 and 1961 CDs list Jan's Restaurant at 8445 W 3rd Street. For 1962 and 1963, the name becomes Jon's Restaurant. Gottfried's first appears in the 1964 CD. The March 1964 planning application below shows the proposal to change the existing "JONS" sign to "GOTTFRIED'S". Gottfried's is still there in the 1987 CD. http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...3.jpg~original http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...4.jpg~original Online Building Records As mentioned by CityBoyDoug, GSV currently shows Sushi Roku at 8445 W 3rd Street, although The LA Times reported that it was closing in October 2015 after 18 years in business. http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...5.jpg~original GSV I accidentally found that GSV lets you walk around inside the building. I couldn't find any demolition permits, and showcase.com lists the build date as 1955. I think that the original Johnnys is still under there somewhere. http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...6.jpg~original http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...7.jpg~original GSV |
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How cool! I have a vintage 32oz bottle of Soil Off but never realized before it was a local product. http://i281.photobucket.com/albums/k...e/IMG_1817.jpg The cap says Nyman's Origianal Soil-Off. It has the same info about Glendale CA, est. 1932. It also says "If color fades, do not be alarmed. Atmospheric conditions often affect colors but do not affect cleaning properties of chemicals" Never fear, it's still very orange after all these years. http://i281.photobucket.com/albums/k...belle/1937.jpg 1937 :previous: Do you suppose that neon was orange? |
NCD, I kept referring to the giant Soil-Off sign as a blinking can. Now I see that it was a giant jug/jar.
And perhaps it was bright orange neon! ___ Welcome to the thread riichkay. Thanks for locating Johnnys for us. |
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screen-grab /Columbia Pictures, 1946. :previous:Wig-Wag wrote: "Although heavily altered, this building still stands at 5406 No San Fernando Road, just north of California Street." And here it is folks! http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/102...633/EJSoAI.jpggsv I wasn't expecting the terrific balconies. (well, they're not really balconies / what's the term?.....alcove?) http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/102...910/I8Wj61.jpggsv :previous: If you look closely, there's a man seated in the corner. (is that an easel?) Maybe he's a painter*. Thanks for your help on the locations Jack! It's much appreciated. __ *OK, maybe he's just using a folding chair as a table for his laptop. (I wanted him to be a painter ;)) |
Is it just me ?
The scroll of the latest pages of NLA became practically impossible on my computer so much it was slow-moving. Are the numerous (disabled) videos responsible ?
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They're not disabled videos, they're screengrabs of a paused video. I haven't noticed any slow-down on my computer. ------------------- On a separate issue, some of my recently uploaded images went missing yesterday, and Photobucket couldn't offer any explanation. I re-uploaded about 35 of them last night, and they seem to be fine now. If anyone spots any of my posts with missing images, please PM me. Thanks. |
Thanks for identifying my mystery post office, GW. I checked every search result for "post office" in the 1956 CD, but for some reason that one didn't show up, even though the listing is there.
Also, it was great to finally see the inside of the Cinderella Roof, e_r. Thanks. I also enjoyed NCD's follow-up - that Deco fire escape just blends into the building. Speaking of NCD's follow-ups, the 1931 aerial view of the State Building under construction really shows off the wedge-shaped design of the Larronde Block. ----------------- We've seen Sardi's before on NLA, but I think this Julius Shulman interior shot is new. It's "Job 0106: Sardi's Restaurant (Los Angeles, Calif.), 1940". http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...1.jpg~original The description for this set says "6313 Hollywood Boulevard", which is no surprise, but the other image was obviously taken somewhere else. Unfortunately, this one came with a large black border, so I couldn't zoom in as I usually would, and there's no sign of "Sardi's Wilshire" in the City Directories. It almost looks like a long railroad carriage with streetcar porthole windows on the right. GW, do you know where this was? http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...2.jpg~original Both from Getty Research Institute |
Sardi's Hollywood Blvd
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The stars are easier to name here (and fewer of them)! https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-v...7%252520PM.jpg PS I think the Wilshire address for the other Sardi's is 6594 (no permits). |
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From top / Left to right: Clark Gable Ginger Rogers Robert Taylor Greta Garbo Tyrone Power Myrna Loy William Powell Marlene Dietrich Adolph Menjou Alice Fay Charlie Chaplin Joan Crawford. How'd I do t2!? :) __ That art deco light fixture is amazing Hoss, but I am completely stumped by your second photograph. |
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Sardi's Wilshire was at 6594 San Vicente. BP appears to have been issued March 23, 1937. Looks like during the '40s it became--or at least the address became--the Wilshire Seacomber and then Jerry's Joynt.... |
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NCD, it shouldn't amaze me that somebody on NLA would have a bottle of The Very Stuff. But it does. Thanks so much for sharing in your post!
I'm not sure how wide distribution of Soil-Off was (although they apparently got to NorCal), so I can't guess if the blinking sign was the best use of their advertising budget. But as a sucker for art deco industrial buildings with neon signage, I'm really glad they did. |
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