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"That house must be 30 to 35 years old".... While working on other things, I ran across a photo online of a house high on cribs in the process of being moved "from Hollywood to East 90th Street." Apparently looking for diversion, I decided to "drive" east on 90th from Main to see if the house, with a distinctive roofline, could be found. To make a short story long, I was enjoying the ride through some of the most fascinating but unsung districts of LA. Then when the powerline towers came into view I felt a sense of déjà vu... I realize I'd looked for this same house before, after CBD posted a picture of it two years ago. So now that they're available online, I thought I'd dig out the permits for the move etc ...but I didn't realize that the property is outside of the city limits, which apparently is not covered by the LADBS. (BPs for 1022 N. Genesee and the name "Tortaglio" are elusive, too.) I'm not sure why I never looked for anything in the Times two years ago, but here's the full story on the mobile home from Sept 1, 1958... seems it was raised UP AND OVER the streetside house at 1623 East 90th.
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"Last Remaining Seats" presentation of Double Indemnity. The blade sign is 8 stories tall! https://c2.staticflickr.com/4/3280/2...62403c88_b.jpg Steve & Michelle Gerdes / Flickr One of the gargoyles is operating a movie camera: https://c2.staticflickr.com/4/3295/2...9ff2beed_b.jpg Steve & Michelle Gerdes / Flickr Now called The Theatre at Ace Hotel 929 S.Broadway http://cdn.archinect.net/images/1010...q93ln8yi6k.jpg The street in 1947: https://macrochef.files.wordpress.co...d-r1-e0791.jpgDTLA Theatres It's noted: Sharp sleuths figured out that the film in the photo above was "Smash Up: The Story of a Woman" starring Susan Hayward and Lee Bowman, 1947. DOUBLE INDEMNITY South Olive & West 5th St., Los Angeles, CA 1944 & Today https://i.imgur.com/EodEbp7h.jpg |
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Not sure I'd want to eat at a place called Pupi's. When I was looking for information about The Raincheck, I posted this little item. Is Jack in these photos? Quote:
June Allyson and Louella Parsons might be spotted stopping by for pastries, but Jack's crowd were serious habitues, anchored there. They had long-drawn-out debates at Pupi's, interrupted by hi-jinks—Charles Eastman, Carole's brother, a massive balding giant, cracking them all up by standing and executing a Sonja Henie imitation. Pupi's is where Jack flew into one of his storied rages one night, quarreling with a waitress and threatening to kick in a pastry cart. That is the incident Carole Eastman said she drew on when she wrote the famous "no substitutions" scene for Bobby Dupea (Jack's character) in Five Easy Pieces: Bobby (Nicholson): You've got bread and a toaster of some kind? Waitress: I don't make the rules. Bobby: Okay, I'll make it as easy for you as I can. I'd like an omelette, plain, and a chicken salad sandwich on wheat toast, no mayonnaise, no butter, no lettuce, and a cup of coffee. Waitress: A number two, chicken sal san, hold the butter, the lettuce, and the mayonnaise, and a cup of coffee. Anything else? Bobby: Yeah. Now all you have to do is hold the chicken, bring me the toast, give me a check for the chicken salad sandwich, and you haven't broken any rules. Waitress: You want me to hold the chicken, huh? Bobby: I want you to hold it between your knees... [Bobby sweeps the table clean and storms out the door.] |
This Julius Shulman photo was another job for Wailes-Bageman. It's "Job 116: Winning-Peplow Inc., 1947".
http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...1.jpg~original Getty Research Institute Although there's no information with the image, I was able to find Winning-Peplow Inc in the City Directories. The address was 2501 San Fernando Road. The building permit is dated February 1947, with the sign below coming along five months later. http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...2.jpg~original Online Building Records The building is still standing, and was looking pretty intact in 2014. http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...3.jpg~original GSV Sadly, by the end of 2015, the building received a makeover that blocked in every opening. :( http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...4.jpg~original GSV |
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Awesome! Shepperd Strudwick, #8 in the first 2 photos, is my Grandfather! |
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#29 is Robert Stack.
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'mystery' location.
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We've seen this gsv view a few times on NLA.
http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/102...922/Qysn5I.jpg Looking west across Barham Blvd. bridge toward Cahuenga blvd. W. I happened across this photograph that shows the same location in the 1960s. http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/xq90/922/snuPdV.jpg eBay So, is anyone familiar with this Joe Shell dude? __________ Okay, I just found this second photograph. http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/xq90/924/9XMD13.jpg http://www.ebay.com/itm/LA14-1962-Jo...cAAOSwepJXZzEg (I just realized this is near where I used to live.) Here's the building with the 'Bernice' sign today. (home to 'Book Soup') http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/102...922/MO8aGz.jpg Looking at Sunset Blvd. from (near) Horn Avenue. detail / 1960s view http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/640...921/h1tSiF.jpg __ |
This photograph is downright amazing!
http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/128...924/LiEs25.jpg eBay On reverse: "First Elect. Car Line in L.A. 1886" http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/800...924/Wt1YVo.jpg for search purposes: Electric R.R. Maple Av. & Pico St. http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/128...923/lKu7lC.jpg detail right side of the photo, with a residence at the end of the street. http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/128...923/JjDe5p.jpg detail I wonder what this dark shape is between the end of the track and the house? (it's a bit clearer in the photograph above:previous:) http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/800...921/Z3IdrT.jpg It might be open in the middle. because a small portion of the picket fence is visible through it.....unless I'm seeing things. __ |
Before I sign off for the night, I have one more thing I'd like to have.......errrr......I mean post. ;)
It looks like someone carried this 1937 'coin' around as a good luck token. (note the wear) http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/640...922/6uu7UJ.jpghttp://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/640...921/Ln37IV.jpg 21 hours left in the auction: http://www.ebay.com/itm/6-or-12-MEDA...QAAOSwbYZXdHJM __ |
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Shell represented District 58 (West Los Angeles - the Wilshire area) in the California State Assembly from 1953-1963 and was the Assembly Republican Minority Leader. Nixon won the primary, but he famously lost the election to Pat Brown in the fall and then gave his famous, "You won't have Dick Nixon to kick around any more" speech in the Beverly Hilton Hotel. Campaign intrigue: During the gubernatorial primary campaign, Shell's plane was sabotaged: somehow, barium was placed in the second fuel tank. Had the pilot not discovered the problem, the plane would have crashed. ________________ By the way, I just noticed in the picture above, is something going on there? Was there an accident? There's the guy standing in front of that yellow van and the doors are open; is the hood on the white car to the right of the van supposed to look like that? I'm guessing that isn't Rlaph Nader in the Corvair? |
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Monastery of the Angels/Giroux Estate
The address of this property is 1977 Carmen Avenue, between Vista Del Mar Avenue and Gower Street, north of Franklin.
The land was purchased in early 1910 by Joseph L. Giroux, whose career was in mining, especially copper: http://i1165.photobucket.com/albums/...c.jpg~original February 24, 1910, LA Herald @ CDNC via UC Riverside Giroux had architect Frederick Roehrig design his home, which was completed in early 1912: http://i1165.photobucket.com/albums/...1.jpg~original http://i1165.photobucket.com/albums/...s.jpg~original January 14, 1912, LA Times @ ProQuest via LAPL From the same article, here is a drawing of the house and grounds: http://i1165.photobucket.com/albums/...n.jpg~original The Giroux Estate (undated): http://i1165.photobucket.com/albums/...l.jpg~original 00043054 @ LAPL Here is a clearer shot, also undated: http://i1165.photobucket.com/albums/...r.jpg~original 00043052 @ LAPL "Everything in the place was copper, right down to the doorknobs and bathtub," recalled a later resident: http://i1165.photobucket.com/albums/...e.jpg~original June 1912 The Architect and Engineer of California @ HathiTrust Here is the pergola visible at the left side of the above photo: http://i1165.photobucket.com/albums/...n.jpg~original 00043051 @ LAPL The loggia: http://i1165.photobucket.com/albums/...5.jpg~original 00043053 @ LAPL Some of the gardens on the west side of the house: http://i1165.photobucket.com/albums/...v.jpg~original 00043055 @ LAPL The landscaping had matured by the time of this c. 1925 photo: http://i1165.photobucket.com/albums/...4.jpg~original 00043049 @ LAPL The 1913 LA City Directory was the first to show Giroux at 1977 Carmen: http://i1165.photobucket.com/albums/...d.jpg~original fold3.com In the home's first few years, Giroux made some minor additions and changes, such as the addition in 1913 of a one-room "summer house" with a dirt floor on the west side of the property, described on the building permit as "bamboo house covered with shingle + grass over same / 4 bamboo post + bracing for support" Giroux had some trouble with a maid in 1914: http://i1165.photobucket.com/albums/...i.jpg~original http://i1165.photobucket.com/albums/...v.jpg~original October 5, 1914, LA Times @ ProQuest via LAPL Tragically, Giroux had more serious trouble with his eldest son, George. It is even more sad considering Giroux had to take his ex-wife to court to get physical custody of his son when he was a child: http://i1165.photobucket.com/albums/...h.jpg~original January 29, 1920, LA Times @ ProQuest via LAPL Giroux was exonerated in the shooting of his son. George had come at his father with a loaded revolver. As the two struggled over a second revolver, George was shot. His son's widow sued Giroux for $1,000,000, but she lost: http://i1165.photobucket.com/albums/...o.jpg~original May 27, 1921, LA Times @ ProQuest via LAPL Giroux experienced another heartbreak in 1929 when Joseph, one of his three sons from his second marriage, died at age 34. Giroux died at age 78 on June 25, 1933. The following year, his Hollywood estate was sold: http://i1165.photobucket.com/albums/...l.jpg~original September 23, 1934, LA Times @ ProQuest via LAPL The Giroux Mansion is visible in this 1972 aerial photo, below the undeveloped area in the upper right corner and the directly below the word MATERIAL: http://i1165.photobucket.com/albums/...q.jpg~original Historic Aerials The Giroux Mansion was torn down in 1973; the demo permit is dated August 2. The convent almost closed in 2009, but the nuns are famous for their pumpkin bread, the sale of which helps keep the place open. It's really good bread! This is what the property looks like now. The pink star marks the site of the former Giroux Mansion. Some of the original stairs and retaining walls appear to still be in place: http://i1165.photobucket.com/albums/...1.jpg~original Google Earth 2016 |
:previous: Fantastic post on the Giroux Mansion Flyingwedge! I wasn't aware it ever existed.
Why the decision to tear it down? I mean, it wasn't replaced with anything and they kept the mansion grounds pretty much intact. It seems such a shame. __ http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/102...924/sYYMqL.jpg http://hollywoodwalker.blogspot.com/...20the%20Angels There's a rather intense art deco statue of a soldier/angel guarding the parking lot. (circled in red below) http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/102...921/Gcz7F2.jpg google_earth here he is! http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/102...924/XvNzNL.jpg http://hollywoodwalker.blogspot.com/...20the%20Angels from within. http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/102...921/SUuF2H.jpg http://www.op.org/en/content/monastery-among-stars If anyone can find out more about this statue I'd really appreciate it. & last but not least, here's the pumpkin bread FW mentioned. http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/800...921/9ZPPqG.jpg http://www.yelp.com/biz/monastery-of...ls-los-angeles from Suzanne G. on Yelp. The Monastery gave their recipe to the LA Times back in the 1970's and I've been making it ever since. I still have the newspaper clipping on my inside kitchen cabinet because I make it so often. Here's the original recipe: Monastery of the Angels Pumpkin Bread: Preheat over to 350 degrees 3 1/2 flour 3 cups sugar 2 teas. baking soda 1 teas. cinnamon 1 teas. ground nutmeg 1 1/2 teas. salt 4 eggs beaten (I use Jumbo) 1 cup veg. oil 2/3 cup water 2 cups pure canned pumpkin (I use Libby's) 1 cup walnuts (optional) 1 cup golden raisins (optional) Mix eggs, oil, water and pumpkin & set aside. Mix all dry ingredients Add dry mixture to wet ingredients a cup at a time until smooth with either a whisk or mixer. This will make (3) 5X9 loaves. __ |
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My eye keeps returning to that black foreign looking car on the right. (circled below) http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/102...923/IlseoD.jpg detail It looks British to me, but the steering wheel is on the left side. Anyone know what it is? _ |
Thanks for the information on Joe Shell M P.
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eBay Here's some additional information: Joe Shell was the captain of the USC's 1939 national championship football team. http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/640...924/yUzK2J.jpg http://www.usctrojans.com/sports/m-f...040808aaa.html class pic. http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/640...924/PJLJgk.jpg Later he was an independent oil producer, drilling in Kern County while living in Los Angeles. (I wonder if he had any connection with the Shell Oil Company, or was his last name just a coincidence?) Quote:
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