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We've seen various hillside houses on NLA, but I can't find any previous mentions of this one under any of its names. In the description, the architect is listed as Richard Spencer, and the house is called Space Retreat. I'll cover the alternate names below. This is Julius Shulman's "Job 974: Richard Spencer, Space Retreat (Los Angeles, Calif.), 1951".
http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...1.jpg~original Here's a view from the side. http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...2.jpg~original The supporting arch is an integral part of the interior. http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...3.jpg~original http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...4.jpg~original http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...5.jpg~original I thought the Wolf's Lair had a good view, but this takes some beating. http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...6.jpg~original The view's still pretty good at night. http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...7.jpg~original There are two color shots in the photoset. The second is obviously the area in the side view above, but I'm having trouble working out where the first might have been taken. http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...8.jpg~original http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...9.jpg~original All from Getty Research Institute I found the color shot below at ncmodernist.org. They only credit their top photo to Julius Shulman, but the magazines on the table are the same here as in the black and white pictures above. It's not in the Getty Collection. The article is about Richard Spencer, and this house appears about 1/3 of the way down the page. From the article: "1950 - The Leslie (Les) C. Guthrie, Jr. House, aka Hillside House, aka Space Retreat, aka Spencer House II, 8600 Hillside Avenue, Los Angeles CA. Guthrie, one of the first engineering graduates from UCLA, designed this with Spencer and did most of the construction. The house was cantilevered out from the hill with a 60-foot arch made of laminated Douglas fir, electronically glued.NB. I've adjusted the colors and removed some of the dirt from this image. http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...0.jpg~original www.ncmodernist.org The article also includes a link to a 40-second British Pathé film about the house. As noted in the article above, the house is still there, although it's been expanded several times over the years. I'm sure it's a lovely place to live, but I miss the precarious hanging nature of the original design. http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...1.jpg~original Google Maps I did a quick check to see if any of the property websites had more recent pictures, but the house was last sold in 1996 for $780,000. The description at redfin.com includes the line "Nearby coffee shops include Starbucks, Shred Cafe and Starbucks." The house is now valued at over $2m - is this really the type of information that potential buyers of this type of house want to know these days? |
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:previous: I have a few photographs of the Space Retreat house (including the first in your post with the man in the window), and the living room.
--but had no idea there were also amazing color photographs! http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/102...903/yDNh4k.jpg originally posted by HossC I love how the couch matches the fireplace and the legs of the coffee table. but I can't figure out what color it is exactly. http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/320...905/dfArOk.jpg https://www.pinterest.com |
noirish view of Sunset Blvd. Exit, Hollywood Freeway [c.1955]
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I happened across this photograph this past July on eBay.
"Fairy Tale House, Los Angeles" http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/128...903/HgDNNx.jpg We have visited numerous fairy tale/storybook houses on NLA, but I don't recall this one. (but then again, I don't recall a lot of things;)) Is that an airplane on the weather-vane? __ |
Hey all! General announcement that I think may be of interest to the group. This Thursday evening—November 5th—is a swell fundraiser to benefit Angels Flight:
https://farm6.staticflickr.com/5787/...c6411f45_b.jpg I'm sure you're all familiar with Fritz Lang's 1931 German Expressionist masterpiece M, replete with darkness and shadow; when it came time for Nebenzal to remake the picture in America, what was more noir than Weimar Berlin? Sunlit postwar Los Angeles is what. I might add that a certain noirish contributor (ahem!) will be on stage presenting a little song & dance about Bunker Hill, and screening a compilation of some of AF's cinema appearances. It isn't every day you get to see clips from All Jazzed Up (1920) and 1966 Perry Mason episodes on the big screen at the Million Dollar! More information here. To wet the collective NLA whistle, here are a few screengrabs from the film. There's a lot of Old LA to love. For example, they hang out by the gasometers: https://farm1.staticflickr.com/775/2...77ecc0ea_b.jpg (And remember, this is a brand-new print struck by the Library of Congress, it's going to look amazing up there...plus that's Raymond Burr in the fedora.) They run around the OPP: https://farm6.staticflickr.com/5768/...2801100c_b.jpg https://farm6.staticflickr.com/5736/...e1d24a44_b.jpg ...but it's the Bunker Hill location shooting that stands out. As in, rare interior shots of former-home-of-John-Fante the Alta Vista: https://farm1.staticflickr.com/603/2...2b88f0a6_b.jpg And this young lass is roller skating in front of 314-16 S Grand: https://farm6.staticflickr.com/5725/...a0177370_b.jpg https://farm1.staticflickr.com/720/2...1c8ed93e_c.jpgpc She falls and hurts her foot, and nice man helps her up, but this lady, gripped by child-killer fever, runs off to the garage next door to fetch help...no good deed goes unpunished. https://farm6.staticflickr.com/5694/...6f842a6d_b.jpg https://farm6.staticflickr.com/5736/...667de7ec_c.jpgpc (Didn't somebody on this thread once say their parents, or grandparents, ran this garage? Looked for but couldn't find that post.) This one I wondered about quite a bit when I had my crummy DVD someone ripped off a third-generation Beta tape...but with some higher resolution and a little ingenuity... https://farm1.staticflickr.com/618/2...2fc85903_b.jpg Turn the window around to reveal... https://farm6.staticflickr.com/5740/...11abf124_b.jpg AHA! https://farm1.staticflickr.com/707/2...2b11a441_c.jpg The 800 block of W 3rd, which we've seen before. And on and on...David Wayne lives in the Foss-Heindel; he hangs out on the Third & BHA benches; much of the final third of the picture is set in the Bradbury, where they go about destroying everything, which has to be seen to be believed. More pix here. But I'll leave y'all with this stumper: https://farm1.staticflickr.com/758/2...09845c1e_b.jpg Didn't have any luck with my last mystery location, perhaps better luck with this one. A nightclub with "NGOV" (?) in its name? Where Clyde Hurley apparently blew his trumpet. |
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:previous: And the shingles are a work of art!
__ I searched the thread for "Earl's" & "Litehouse" with no result. -so I believe this is new to NLA. "Fast food restaurant in Hollywood" (no specific address) http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/128...908/bBgsAy.jpg http://www.alamy.com/stock-photo-fas...-48389383.html :previous: If you look closely, there appears to be a sign behind the mutant coffee pot for an Angelus Hotel (the only Angelus Hotel I know of was located downtown) |
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:previous: Thanks NoirCityDame! I am surprised to see that there were two Angelus Hotels in the Wilmington/San Pedro area.
Now lets try to dig up some photographs. :) __ |
Beacon Cocktails, Bakerfield CA. (no specific address)
http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/800...908/Rcgebs.jpg flickriver While searching for additional information I came across Beacon Liquor at 6495 S. Union Avenue at Panama Lane in Bakersfield. http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/102...633/32Plmm.jpg gsv I wonder if this is the old Beacon Cocktail Lounge? (and the obvious question is, was it named after a nearby Richfield beacon?) __ I know Bakersfield is quite aways north of Los Angeles, but it's a "L.A. memory" for me because of the many times my friends and I drove through it on our way to Yosemite. |
While we're in the area.
Here's the Bakerfield Richfield Service Station in 1931. (with the foot of the beacon on the right) MichaelRyerson http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/102...633/ewUtYo.jpg https://www.flickr.com/photos/michae...on/18651902334 ...and a noirish story to go along with it. http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/800...908/ifqfko.jpg http://richfieldbeacons.weebly.com/california.html |
:previous: Here's the Beardsley School mentioned in the above article.
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Here's Julius Shulman's "Job 500: Warren Williams, Red Snapper Restaurant (Los Angeles County, Calif.),1949". The description tells us that the Red Snapper Restaurant was in Burbank.
http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...1.jpg~original The interior shots were really dark, so I've lightened them all to try and reveal a little more detail. I wish Mr Shulman had captured some of these in color. http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...2.jpg~original http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...3.jpg~original http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...4.jpg~original http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...5.jpg~original http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...6.jpg~original All from Getty Research Institute There was no address in the description, so I went Googling. I found this matchbook which calls the restaurant "Clif Herd's Red Snapper" at 826 N La Cienega. The seller dates it as 1950s. NB. I pieced this together from two separate images. http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...7.jpg~original eBay The La Cienega address isn't in Burbank, and the location didn't look right in GSV, so I kept looking. This matchbook is also dated as 1950s, so I don't know if it comes before or after the one above. It lists a second address at 4100 Riverside Drive, Toluca Lake, Burbank. This one was made from three separate images. http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...8.jpg~original eBay Here's the FedEx Office you'll find at 4100 Riverside Drive today. There's no trace of the Red Snapper building, but the curved corner is consistent with the exterior shot above. I was going to check with Historic Aerials, but every search is currently showing the message "Address seem to be invalid" [sic]. http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...9.jpg~original GSV |
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"Longshoremen walked off their jobs, tieing up shipping in the Los Angeles Harbor. Photo shows them filing into the Wilmington Bowl for a Union meeting and report on negotiations." http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...1.jpg~original LAPL The walls have lost a little height, but the building still stands on Mahar Avenue. http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...2.jpg~original GSV You'll now find the Right Step Hotel at 813 Watson Avenue. I think this is the first hotel I've seen with a basketball hoop on the front. It currently gets 2.3 stars on Google, and the reviews aren't great. http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...3.jpg~original GSV |
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