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http://i281.photobucket.com/albums/k...e/IMG_1701.jpg http://i281.photobucket.com/albums/k...e/IMG_1703.jpg dining room and living room http://i281.photobucket.com/albums/k...e/IMG_1704.jpg http://i281.photobucket.com/albums/k...e/IMG_1706.jpg http://i281.photobucket.com/albums/k...e/IMG_1702.jpg the seawall The main house got turned in to a hotel after Marion sold it; it didn’t do well and was demolished/ The property was a beach club for a long time. The pool is still there and open to the public in summer for swimming. http://i281.photobucket.com/albums/k...marions30s.jpg in Marion's day http://i281.photobucket.com/albums/k...le/marions.jpg as the hotel, with the mansion still extant. You can see the ex-Gables garage up the highway too. http://i281.photobucket.com/albums/k...RION1-4-48.jpg ad for Marion's stuff, 1-4-48 LAT |
https://farm8.staticflickr.com/7124/...15164777_o.jpgLooking south on Roosevelt Highway with the Sorrento Beach Club on the left, Santa Monica, 1936
California Incline is visible just ahead of the car, beyond the beach club building, also on the left. 1936 USC Digital Archive/Dick Whittington |
Carl's Sunspot
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Memorable as "Mildred's" in Mildred Pierce (1945): https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/-G...81053%2BPM.jpg overdrive In 1991 LAT detailed the hopes for the Sunspot ...and in 1994 the inevitable end --------------------------------------------------------- Great posts NCD! |
:previous: :previous: Thank you Martin Pal for the information about the Marias. I think my grandfather liked being in the navy.
:previous: I like that 1936 photo of the Sorrento, Michael Ryerson Since we're already at the beach and you all were talking about the Thalberg Building earlier, how about cocktails at Norma & Irving's? 707 Pacific Coast Hwy (or Palisades Beach Rd.) http://i281.photobucket.com/albums/k...rercsl-bar.jpg the beach house bar. Cal State Lib. Built in 1927; John Byers was the architect. Irving died here in 1936. http://i281.photobucket.com/albums/k...shearercsl.jpg The highway side courtyard. CSL http://i281.photobucket.com/albums/k...8LEEM2VS7Q.jpg The ocean side view, then. The Gables/Sorrento garage can be glimpsed on the right. CSL Now http://i281.photobucket.com/albums/k...e/IMG_1685.jpg my photo http://i281.photobucket.com/albums/k...e/Picture1.jpg old file |
Excellent pictures of the Sorrento Beach Club garage, Noircitydame and Michael Ryerson. It looks like some of the structure survived until at least 1972. Note the absence of the bridge.
http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...desGarage1.jpg Detail of image from www.californiacoastline.org By 1979, there wasn't much of the old garage left. http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...desGarage2.jpg Detail of image from www.californiacoastline.org |
Thanks so much for identifying the mystery 'ruins' as the Sorrento Club parking garage and rooftop pool NoirCity Dame. You're a treasure!
Here are a few more images from 1952 (I couldn't get them to enlarge for some reason). http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/800...661/jBBUpA.jpg ucla The pool was pretty impressive to say the least. http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/800...661/VSLbTZ.jpg ucla from 1952 ____________________ Now the mystery deepens (literally). http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/xq90/673/U8f0Lv.jpg ucla from 1952 "P.H. Philbin, of Chicago, a former owner of the Sorrento Beach building, had planned a 12-story apartment building on the site 1953. The project included utilizing the massive concrete Sorrento Beach Club structure which had been abandoned in an unfinished state. The project was controversial, as some property owners felt that it would mar the beauty of the Santa Monica Palisades Park." The image is of three children standing in a tunnel, looking toward the archway in the background. This tunnel is likely part of the Sorrento Beach Club." :previous: I think everyone loves a mystery involving a tunnel! ;) Do you think it's possible that remnants of this tunnel still exists beneath P.C.H.? __ |
for a chuckle.
http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/128...901/ebwCkB.jpg Groucho_Marx/Kodachrome at http://hollywood-kodachrome.skyrock.com/ lol :) It's like he's smoking a piñata. __ I loved the Norma Shearer beach house NoirCityDame. I think it looks great in the 'now' photograph. There's a playhouse and a trampoline in the yard so the current family must have kids (or grandkids). |
Family portrait, Pasadena Calif. 1910s?
http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/128...537/AkrGOL.jpg eBay "Uranium Photo Co. 12 West Dayton St. Pasadena, - - Calif. Phone: Colorado 7611" http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/640...661/Fb9zqN.jpg photographer's stamp :previous: Any idea why a photographer would name his business the Uranium Photo Co.? Here's the complete photograph http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/102...538/j4NScK.jpg eBay :previous: How tall would you say that grass is? |
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http://unblinkingeye.com/Articles/Uranium/uranium.html Cheers, Earl |
:previous: Very interesting Earl. -so the date of the photograph might be pre-1899.
or perhaps the photographer just didn't change the name of his business (even though he wasn't using uranium paper after 1899) |
It definitely has the coloring of a uranium print.
Cheers, Earl |
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Going? Gone. From a Los Angeles Magazine article I just read: 18 of Your Favorite Classic L.A. Places That Are About to Disappear by Chris Nichols July 30, 2015 Folks were surprised recently when their neighborhood Albertson’s became a Haggen market and the local Radio Shack started morphing into a Sprint store, but that’s nothing compared to the epochal transformation happening to Los Angeles – especially for those that love those distinctive unusual joints that make the fabric of the city so special. Most of the following are not designated landmark buildings and most of them are not as well known as the handful of buildings that get saved each year but they play a big part in the unique culture of Southern California. Major change is upon us in 2015 as new topples old and local favorites disappear. Summer isn’t even over and these classic places are heading for extreme remodels, complete demolition, or have already passed into history. Goodbye special places, hello blandness. http://www.lamag.com/wp-content/uplo...rmosa_Cafe.jpgL.A. Magazine article Formosa Café: Interior 7156 Santa Monica Blvd, West Hollywood, CA 90046 This 90-year-old restaurant enjoys city landmark status, which protects the building, but not the ancient booths, lanterns, and funk inside that made this a favorite of film location scouts and fans of old Hollywood noir. A remodeling in July stripped the interior and replaced it with less. A commenter (Scott Frank) says: The Formosa renovation is absolutely horrible - it's like they removed all traces of personality and made it as bland as possible. It's doesn't even look like a McBar, it looks like whoever renovated it couldn't be bothered to do any decorating at all, it's almost blank inside. The situation is weird, since the personalityof the interior was really the only reason you went. Now...no reason to go at all. Article link: HERE. If anyone wants to research any of the others on the list, here they are: El Dorado Lanes 8731 Lincoln Blvd, Westchester, CA 90045 House of Blues 8430 Sunset Blvd, West Hollywood, CA 90069 French Market Place 7985 Santa Monica Blvd, West Hollywood, CA 90046 Jan’s Coffee Shop 8424 Beverly Blvd, West Hollywood, CA 90048 Figueroa Tower Sky Lobby 660 S. Figueroa St Los Angeles, CA 90017 La Palma Chicken Pie Shop 928 N Euclid St, Anaheim, CA 92801 Belvedere Fireman’s Recreation Club Record Ave., East Los Angeles Arby’s neon sign 6833 Van Nuys Blvd, Van Nuys, CA 91405 Beckham Grill 77 W Walnut St, Pasadena, CA 91103 Billy’s Deli 216 N Orange St Glendale, CA 91203 Jewel’s Catch One 4067 W Pico Blvd, Los Angeles, CA 90019 Frederick’s of Hollywood 6751 Hollywood Blvd Los Angeles, CA 90028 Aidikoff Screening Room 150 S Rodeo Dr #140, Beverly Hills, CA 90212 Phil’s Diner neon sign 5230 Lakershim Blvd. Los Angeles, CA 91601 Figueroa Hotel 939 South Figueroa Street, Los Angeles, CA 90015 San Pedro Waterfront Red Car 600 Sampson Way, San Pedro, CA 90731 Family Fair 810 Meridian Ave, South Pasadena, CA 91030 |
I have an additional photograph to add to the four I posted yesterday. (it has the same date as the others, 10-4-'22)
http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/xq90/538/PgAvq7.jpg http://www.ebay.com/itm/VINTAGE-1922...item5b15bc1aba http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/128...673/sJ8UAl.jpg http://www.ebay.com/itm/VINTAGE-1922...item5b15bc1aba The previous four photographs are here: http://forum.skyscraperpage.com/show...ostcount=30099 |
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:previous: Yep, it's a gasometer M_P. It was located in Venice CA.
http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/102...538/rym93w.jpg http://forum.skyscraperpage.com/show...ostcount=19231 A very helpful grid by HossC http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/800...538/bUEdNn.jpg http://forum.skyscraperpage.com/show...ostcount=19231 |
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http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/128...673/ekhbUR.jpg I just found this at...http://www.ebay.com/itm/Santa-Monica...item4881bff7fa http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/800...905/q2Kb4u.jpg |
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Thank you e_r. Here is Carl's sea Air Lodge and Restaurant / Sunspot and environs in 1958: https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-b...62555%2BPM.jpg Today (I think, but I may still be lost): https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/-c...63446%2BPM.jpg ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Quote:
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American country music singer Gene Autry (1907 - 1998), of the CBS radio program 'Melody Ranch,' selects a record to play on a Wurlitzer jukebox, Los Angeles, California, May 17, 1940. Known as 'The Singing Cowboy,' Autry gained fame working in radio, movies and television and is best known for his signature song 'Back in the Saddle Again.
No bar in the Noir Age would be without one of these wonders. http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v4...pstbosy16q.jpghttp://img.photobucket.com/albums/v4...psjp3qvbz7.jpg Getty Img.,,,radio museum |
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http://skyscraperpage.com/forum/showthread.php?t=207723 I hope you'll add that section when you drop by & certainly post to ssp.com. I hope you also don't mind that I've re-posted in that thread your post from this thread that describes your being a resident of dtla. |
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I have been searching for pictures of the corner of West Pico Blvd and Overlands from the 1950s. The site is currently occupied by the CitiBank that from what i can find was build in the early 1960s (1961-3). I have search the LA library and emailed anyone who comes up on the internet who might have a clue where to look but with limited success. Then randomly I found the above post with a 1930s picture slightly further up the street. One of the plots now taken by CitiBank in the 1951 phone book was a liquor store. The same address in a 1956 phone book is a florist (different to the one above), there only appears to be one business running at that area . The florist is still there in 1960. Does anyone have any picture of the florist/liquor store from the 1950s or know where I could look for some?:shrug: I am in the UK so physical searches of documents are impossible:help: |
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