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What is that stand.
How about a street evangelist or a shoeshine stand?
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...and I obviously forgot our discussion about the diamond sidewalk shapes. I'm red-faced. At least the photographs were larger this time around. ;) |
OK, let me try this one.
"Historic Los Angeles Hollywood Cyanotype Photograph, Dwire Home Sunset Blvd. 1890." http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/xq90/540/W6A2dc.jpg http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/640...633/ZrpCPz.jpgeBay Here's the information on the reverse: http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/102...673/rx7Kp4.jpg I tried to find a Dwire (I checked Dwyer too) with a Sunset address in several L.A. directories. I came up with nil. (would Hollywood be included in L.A. directories back in the 1890s?) __ |
Moon Over Miami Club, 13333 1/2 Ventura Blvd
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I've only ever seen telephone numbers like this: CRestview and HOllywood. From the looks of it, I guess SFV phone number were listed differently than LA County...? Unfortunately, I don't have any more info on this club than what I've already included in my original post. The query came from someone who is trying to piece together her grandmother's life on very few details. Although I'd never heard of this "Moon Over Miami" place, but had dining and swimming and dancing and riding going on, so I figured it must have been fairly sizable, and was surprised I hadn't come across it before, especially as I live in the area. She also sent me an item from a Louella Parsons column, so this place must have been popular enough to blip on her horizon. I also posted in San Fernando Relics page on FB but nobody had anything to contribute either. |
Thanks very much to Martin Pal, fhammon and HossC, and anyone else that contributed titles of films or television shows shot on the Sunset Strip. I had a few of them already, but many were new to me. A huge help, thanks.
A more specific request: Has the original Googies Coffee Shop (the namesake of the architectural form, which was located at 8100 Sunset Blvd, next to Schwab's) ever appeared on film? A car drives by it in Barfly, but that's the closest I've come to seeing it represented on celluloid. Thanks in advance. |
Sunset and Harvard?
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The 1895 photo below looks north from that hill. There's a large house in the distance between the two men (the guy on the left seems to be pointing to it). Look at the ridgeline from above that house over to the right edge of the photo. Compare that with the ridgeline in er's photo from the left edge to above the barn behind the Dwire house. The angle is different, but the two ridgelines match. http://i1165.photobucket.com/albums/...o.jpg~original USCDL -- http://digitallibrary.usc.edu/cdm/si.../id/1289/rec/3 So I checked the north side of Sunset west several blocks from Olive Hill/Barnsdall Park on the earliest Sanborn to show the area (1919). One lot west of the NW corner of Sunset and Harvard is a 2-1/2 story house with porches on the SW corner and a 1-1/2 story garage/barn in back, just like in er's photo. Maybe it's the same house: http://i1165.photobucket.com/albums/...q.jpg~original LAPL The area on Googlemap: https://www.google.com/maps/place/52...50ed82f5?hl=en The 1906 Hollywood City Directory has a whole family of Dwires on Sunset: http://i1165.photobucket.com/albums/...v.jpg~original LAPL -- http://rescarta.lapl.org/ResCarta-We...40507/00000026 P.S. Interesting post on Crossroads of the World, T2! |
Moon Over Miami Club, 13333 1/2 Ventura Blvd
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To the best of my calculations, the very end of the 1920s (maybe), through the 1930s(almost completely positive) and perhaps continuing into the early 1940s (moderately likely) Back in the 20s and 30s, there wouldn’t have been much around that part of Ventura Blvd. Most of that land was orchards, right? So I’d have thought that a club - really, it sounds more like a resort - would have really stood out. |
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Excellent find! http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aline_Barnsdall Interior of the Barnsdall home - Hollyhock on Olive Hill http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v4...psjd37vzdl.jpghttp://img.photobucket.com/albums/v4...psurciqsbr.jpg Mcnees |
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We've had various restaurant menus posted here; I don't recall seeing one from Googies before though. I could only find a photo of the menu cover: http://blogs.smithsonianmag.com/pale...es-menu-sm.jpg c. 1958, from Smithsonian Magazine blog: HERE. |
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Close-up of the Dwire Home.
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Great sleuthing FlyingWedge! That could very well be the house. Thanks for all your help buddy. :) __ |
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-4srqZsN6pM In this ten minute Red Cross film from the 1930s, there is a brief scene filmed at Echo Park Lake, around the 7:15 minute mark. http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/800...673/lVfrQa.jpg Everything is fine and dandy until their canoe tips over... http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/800...901/yWofPF.jpg and the girl sinks like a sack of potatoes. http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/800...540/2Cfayy.jpg Once she settles on the bottom, her Tarzan comes to the rescue... http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/800...913/9bEqvz.jpg and pulls her up by the ears. http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/800...538/tswtkX.jpg Wet, but safe and sound. http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/800...538/J12Bs0.jpg _____________ This is the only scene I could honestly say was filmed in Los Angeles. There are several scenes in hilly terrain that resembles California, until you realize all the trees are bare, having lost their leaves for the winter. That said, some of the staged accidents are rather exciting. (see below) http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/800...673/h1GYA0.jpg If interested, you can watch the short film here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-4srqZsN6pM __ |
"The Ritz Hotel, W. Colorado Boulevard, Pasadena, 1977."
http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/102...633/Z57mB1.jpg http://pasadenadigitalhistory.com/ ...and today. http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/128...538/5IdNmc.jpg gsv After a google or two on the internets ;), I discovered the building was built in 1888 and was originally known as the Arcade Block. It began as a furniture store, then also served as a café, Safeway Grocery, "Ritz" hotel, Victoria's Secret, and now Sephora. "The façade was redesigned in 1915 to commemorate British soldiers and aviators fighting in WW1." http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/xq90/673/UEYUGQ.jpg http://studentreader.com/old-town-pasadena/ __ |
The Macy Street Bridge photographed on August 30, 1948.
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I found this great postcard at a garage sale here in Costa Mesa just this morning. Any dates for this great building? Any history? |
Apropos of this map from the e_r's post, Savoy Street near the right margin definitely merits a look-in, the next time you're in the area--or even using Bing or Google Maps if you're not. This midget street still boasts a number of houses from before 1900, along with others that aren't all that much more recent in origin. Here are a few of them:
https://farm9.staticflickr.com/8777/...02352a_o_d.png (ETA: Bing Maps, which is obvious to everyone but I want to observe the rule about photo citations. Unfortunately, I don't have the full URL.) It really does seem like stepping into a truly forgotten corner of the city. It's amazing to think that people lived around here 120 years ago, in some of these same houses, and had to decide whether to walk downtown, get out the horse and gig, or maybe take the streetcar. Not visible here, but just about even with where the camera would be, and to the right, is a house with a high front porch which, when I drove it some time past, had several ancient lounge chairs lined up on it. I couldn't help but think of old fashioned "rest homes" and such, as they are portrayed in films like The Curious Case Of Benjamin Button. However, I should mention that the house in question seems much too small for that, unless it's like a board and care facility. Quote:
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That's the Cudahy Packing Company which was north of Macy and west of the river meaning we're looking west. The gas-o-meter is a problem for me, I have no memory of a gas-o-meter north of Macy in this area. Also the billboard to the left seems to be advertising Life with Father (1947) starring William Powell and Irene Dunne which would put the date of the image somewhat earlier than 1948. Hard to believe they'd still be doing billboard adverts on a film a year after initial release. But maybe. |
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:previous: More on Cudahy and the nearby "Gaso-meat-er" ;) http://forum.skyscraperpage.com/show...ostcount=11813
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