:previous: Welton Becket's Capitol Records Building is in the wrong place.
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:previous: You're absolutely correct. It is a composite by the postcard company.
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It has a great old sign on the south side of the building. http://imageshack.us/a/img209/3037/aabroxysigngsv.jpg gsv http://imageshack.us/a/img46/5792/aa...7salvarado.jpg Corey Miller at http://www.flickr.com/photos/toomuch...57624741661471 __ |
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I was only aware of Mack Sennett's studio in Echo Park when I came across these fascinating photographs from 1927.
It turns out, there was also a Mack Sennett Studio in the San Fernando Valley. The future site of Mack Sennett's studio at 4024 N. Radford Avenue in the San Fernando Valley. http://imageshack.us/a/img547/5076/a...ennetstudi.jpg http://museumsanfernandovalley.blogs...1_archive.html above: This view is looking east toward Mount Hollywood and the Cahuenga Pass into Hollywood. This photograph was taken from Radford Avenue, just east of Laurel Canyon on Ventura Boulevard. Construction at the Mack Sennett Studio on Radford Avenue in 1927. http://imageshack.us/a/img824/5076/a...ennetstudi.jpg __ The land was owned by Harry Merrick of the 'Central Motion Picture District' land syndicate (formerly of the Chicago Assn. of Commerce). Financed by the Guarantee Building Loan & Assn., the syndicate acquired over 500 acres of former Lankershim Ranch land stretching from Tujunga Avenue and Pacoima Avenue (now Laurel Canyon Boulevard), Ventura Boulevard to Chandler Way in 1926, envisioning it's own little city (eventually 'Studio City'). Sennett later explained that "a group of enterprising real estate operators offered me a gift of 20 acres near the trickle known as the Los Angeles River." Merritt's company would construct the studio from plans drawn by architect Harold Cass. http://imageshack.us/a/img515/5363/a...ennettinva.jpg http://studiocity.patch.com/groups/a...ed-studio-city http://imageshack.us/a/img546/5363/a...ennettinva.jpg http://studiocity.patch.com/groups/a...ed-studio-city Newspapers announced on June 11, 1927 that the Sennett Studio of over 12 buildings would feature California Renaissance design. Workers began picking fruit from 275 acres of plum, peach, and apricot orchards (an area obviously larger than Mack Sennett's allocated 20 acres) that would soon be destroyed by Merritt's 'Central Motion Picture District'. Later, 60 acres of walnuts, five acres of pecans, and 25 acres of grapevines would be harvested before they too were decimated. The birth of Studio City. http://imageshack.us/a/img51/5363/aa...ennettinva.jpg http://studiocity.patch.com/groups/a...ed-studio-city above: Notice that Merrick's ' Central Motion Picture District' is referenced on the billboard. below: The Mack Sennett Studio today (now known as the CBS Studio Center) http://imageshack.us/a/img402/9730/a...ennettaeri.jpg google earth The old Mack Sennett/CBS Studio Center in relation to Hollywood. http://imageshack.us/a/img692/9241/a...nnettaeriv.jpg google earth __ |
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Your order , please....
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We once went to this place in the 1950s. There were long communal tables and everyone was served 'family' style. There were big bowls of bread, salad and soup on each communal table. It was truly unusual if you were used to your own private table. I thought it was noisy and stark. The location in this photo is Commercial Street in the area that used to be called 'French Town' http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v4...psf1d5b27e.jpg LAPL |
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From 1935 to 1959 it was Republic Pictures, an amalgamation of six Poverty Row companies (Monogram Pictures, Mascot Pictures, Liberty Pictures, Majestic Pictures, Chesterfield Pictures and Invincible Pictures), although Monogram later broke away to re-establish itself as an independent. John Wayne, Gene Autry, Rex Allen and Roy Rogers all became famous at Republic. https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-c...22021%2BPM.jpg http://www.republicpictures75th.com/release2.html A river runs through it: https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/-u...21528%2BPM.jpg http://www.retroweb.com/tv_studios_and_ranches.html |
:previous: That's the first time I've seen a layout of the CBS Studio Center lot. -thx for posting T2.
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https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-P...70739%2BPM.jpg http://athome.kimvallee.com/2008/12/...ristmas-trees/ LOL BB, did you have the rotating color wheel to go with it? Some of our neighbors had those. Just bizarre... |
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http://i1292.photobucket.com/albums/...ps7e3fd7e7.jpg Which is correct? Here’s the answer, courtesy of a pal at Building and Safety who got hold of the 1935-’36 building permits. The corner building (below) at 5401-5405 Wilshire Blvd. was designed by Norstrom & Anderson, and was constructed between January and April, 1936. Owned by the Sontag Drug Co., which had purchased the undeveloped land from the Neuhoff family (canned fruit distributors). http://i1292.photobucket.com/albums/...ps710d0f27.jpg The building below, which is to Sontag’s immediate left (at 5405-5409 Wilshire Blvd.) was designed by Marcus P. Miller, and was constructed between April and June, 1936. This building, which was owned by the Santa Inez Co., held several small stores. As you can see, those stores' entrances are now completely walled-off. http://i1292.photobucket.com/albums/...ps6cedd91f.jpg |
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-and- e_r posting the Hody's clown made me remember to search for a pic of Bargain Circus, which we were talking about a few pages back. Here's a night shot: https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/-A...20514%2BPM.jpg miramax - Playing by Heart La Brea & Willoughby, now a 99 cent store Thank you Oviatt! Mystery solved. |
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My mother and I used to go there when I was a kid. Right outside the front entrance was a life-sized mechanical clown mannequin which moved around and laughed. After years of being exposed to the sun, the "clown" had seen better days: it was cracked, grimy and tattered ... truly frightening. |
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*whispers back* Photoshop. ;)
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Did a search and didn't find this one posted yet. Gerald Desmond Bridge 1967. (Construction has begun on the replacement bridge.)
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THAT was yours? I didn't have to go there, one could see it from Hermosa Beach! Aluminum trees! I still have trouble getting my head around that, but thx to F3, I'm trying to develop an appreciation :) I did visit one of the purple ALCOA aluminum houses once on a trip to the Midwest. I thought it was pretty swell. |
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