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This may be of interest!
https://s26.postimg.cc/nbj38dde1/Llew_Art.jpg Los Angeles Times via ProQuest via CSULB Library |
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https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-DG_id8YSm...17xUSETHIS.jpg Where the Llewellyns lived: 7 Berkeley Square Even Ann Miller makes an appearance. |
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While I'm newly registered, I've been going through the 2400+ pages since I found this amazing site doing research for a 'noirish' novel set in 1972. I never lived in LA, brief visits only - see my username where in SoCal I did live in the mid 1950s to mid 1960s, but I've had a special fondness for LA. I continue to be stunned at the depth and breadth of knowledge on display here. This is a great site and thanks for everyone sharing their incredible knowledge.:cheers: |
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The building was the offices of the Hollywood News newspaper for about five years from 1922. Here's a movie crew on location in front of it, next door to the Security Trust and Savings Bank building. https://i.imgur.com/2eDKcuF.jpg waterandpower.org |
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Hollywood Maryland Grill
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https://farm1.staticflickr.com/850/4...7c584ff8_c.jpg 6379 Hollywood by Kimberly, on Flickr |
Scum and Villiany Cafe?
Where the heck did they come up with that name? Am I missing something :shrug: |
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You're no doubt familiar with the movie 'The Long Goodbye' from 1973. If not, make sure you see it. It's a neo-noir based on the Raymond Chandler novel of the same name. |
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http://i1381.photobucket.com/albums/...psp6odfmas.jpg 1953 Great photo and I remember all the shops and businesses in it. Andrew Castle's Camera, the Spotlight, before it moved to Cahuenga, the Santa Fe ticket office, which had an "O" Gauge Super Chief electric train in the window, the Plaza Hotel and coffee shop, the Broadway and more, not visible in the picture. The bank at Selma and Vine had a plaque commemorating The Squaw Man, and inside there was a display of Carl "Alfalfa" Switzer's belongings, shortly after his murder in 1959. Across the street, on the southeast corner, was the old RCA building. In 1953, the area shown was still referred to as Radio City, even though television was booming. Many radio stars still strolled Vine Street, on their way to perform or on their way to lunch. William Frawley, Jack Bailey, Bob Barker, Steve Allen, Red Skelton, Percy Kilbride (Pa Kettle), Slapsy Maxie, Willard Watterman (the Great Gildersleeve) and many more could be seen daily. By the late 1950s and through 1960s, the area was overtaken by television production. A new generation of celebrities filled the booths at the Brown Derby, Hody's and the Westerner. ABC had a host of daily TV shows, from Steve Allen to Dinah Shore and Pat Boone. Buses outside the Vine Street studio would take people off the street to the Prospect location to watch programs such as Soupy Sales. Lawrence Welk took over the Palladium. Queen for a Day was at the Moulin Rouge and Bing Crosby hosted the Hollywood Palace at the old El Capitan. |
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I realize we've discussed Llewelyn in the past...but
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I ask...because I don't know how large the Main St. location was when it closed and moved to Torrance. (was it 6 acres or 12 acres?) from 1905 (6 acres) https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/6...924/9qhMdx.jpg california newspaper archive I also don't know the date that Llewellyn moved to Torrance. (we probably have covered this before...but I can't recall) So is everyone in agreement that this is a very early photograph of the Main St. location? (remember it said "Iiewellyn Iron Works Los Angeles" on the back of the photo) https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/1...922/BN1HGv.jpg EBAY [unlisted now] If so, then that would be the Los Angeles River in the foreground. If that's the case, the photographer would have been....(see below in red) https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/1...922/o2GSV2.jpg amoeba Does that spot even come close to working? Is this area as hilly as what we see in the photograph? Remember...it's possible the photograph was taken 15 years before this map was illustrated. __ |
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I didn't realize that building used to be home to the Hollywood News Noir Noir. and the little building is still there! thx Lomara. :) ______ update: There's an issue of the 'Hollywood News' on EBAY This ad is in it. (from 1947) https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/1...923/hr2eYF.jpg Separate performances for Men and Women. What's that all about? :shrug: |
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https://i.imgur.com/tj3NhNq.jpg imdb.com "The Worlds's ONLY NEW Educational Hygiene Show" It must have been part of a drive aimed at getting teenagers to wash behind their ears. |
Scum and Villainy is now my second favorite business name ever. (First place still goes to a hair salon named Curl Up and Dye.)
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Continuing our look at the Llewellyn Iron Works (I'll continue researching), and entering into Noirish territory indeed at this point, we see that it, like the Los Angeles Times, was dynamited, blamed on Unionist agitators.
All pix Los Angeles Times via ProQuest via CSULB Library, resized, compacted, and (in the "continued" part) with only selected paragraphs from the article. https://s26.postimg.cc/hx712l595/LlewDyn1.jpg https://s26.postimg.cc/n8lxnbeh5/LlewDyn2a.jpg https://s26.postimg.cc/9roz4grax/LlewDyn2b.jpg https://s26.postimg.cc/hkfmwgkfd/LlewDyn2c.jpg |
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Select articles pertaining to the Llewellyn Iron Works and its efforts in Torrance (where its new quarters were reported on May 14, 1913 to be "nearing readiness" to commence work); as always, Los Angeles Times via ProQuest via CSULB Library:
https://s26.postimg.cc/bolp93fex/LlewTor1.jpg https://s26.postimg.cc/6py6ukjbt/LlewTor2.jpg https://s26.postimg.cc/xb0pq4tex/LlewTor3.jpg Reported 2/17/1929: Merger of Llewellyn Iron Works, Baker Iron Works, and Union Iron Works into a firm to be known as Consolidated Steel Corporation. And so we take leave of the Llewellyn Iron Works! But meanwhile have I answered e_r's question about acreage at the Main St. site? Um . . . no . . . :shrug: |
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