Oh my, Hollywood actors slumming it with real people. New York method acting was all the rage in those days.

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Talmadge Sisters in San Diego.
 

Thanks for the interesting information on Talmadge Street, Norma Place, the Norma Triangle, the old "Talmadge Studio," and the Tony Duquette building which has apparently been referred to in the past as once being The Talmadge Studio.
For some who may find it interesting, Norma Talmadge and her sisters Constance & Natalie, lent their names to an upscale residential subdivision in San Diego called "Talmadge" in 1925. The neighborhood's developer had received substantial financial assistance from Norma's husband, Joe Schenck, along with MGM's Louis B. Mayer and theatre owner Sid Grauman. The Talmadge sisters were at the dedicatory ceremony for the subdivision in January, 1926, along with Buster Keaton and William S. Hart.
Talmadge is still a very desirable, manicured neighborhood in eastern San Diego, near San Diego State University. Famed architect and "father of the California Ranch House," Cliff May, built his first houses in Talmadge in the early and mid-1930's. These early Cliff May homes were graceful & picturesque one-story "Mexican Hacienda/Ranch Houses" inspired by the 19th Century Mexican ranch houses that May had admired while growing up in San Diego, and looked very little like the classic shingle-roofed "Western-Style" ranch houses that May became so famous for in the 1940's and 50's.

Here is a photo of a large home in Talmadge that was originally the sales office for the subdivision in 1925/26.

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https://sduptownnews.com/storybook-stories/


Here is Cliff May's first house, built in San Diego's Talmadge neighborhood in 1932.

https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/1...921/6iAUpH.jpg

http://www.sandiegouniontribune.com/...htmlstory.html

Can't believe I've never seen these before! Bunch of incredible shots of some of my favorite part of the world. Couple quick notes about locations, though I think they're mostly pretty obvious—

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That's 4th St looking toward Broadway. There's a nifty then-and-now here.

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They're in front of the Ferguson Bldg, at Third and Hill. Angels Flight is tucked behind it. Here's a close up from one of the Nadel images at the Getty:
https://farm5.staticflickr.com/4861/...3a0152e1_o.pnggetty
...which we can compare to this shot:

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Nothing says noir like a couple of neon signs that read "Cocktails" and "Chop Suey."

The three images in Cooper's, that's at 316 E 5th St, which has been a parking lot since 1970.

http://i1381.photobucket.com/albums/...pssxzwzzbs.jpg

As for this, "In May of 1959, with laws against cross-dressing on the books, the police entered Cooper Do-Nuts to arrest anyone whose gender on their identification did not match their appearance. Arrests were made and patrons fought back, throwing doughnuts, cups and plates at the officers, who retreated and came back with a bigger army. The skirmish grew into a riot that closed down the street for a day. It was one of the first LGBT uprisings in American history" I still raise an eyebrow at that. It's said this is mentioned in John Rechy's 1963 novel City of Night but scanning it on Google Books doesn't reveal anything of the sort (of course GB doesn't provide everything in a preview, so I've ordered a copy of the book to see for myself) and, even if it did, it is after all in a novel, i.e. a fictionalized telling.

The first recounting of the Cooper Riot apparently is in a 2005 interview Rechy gave to the authors of Gay LA. He mentions that Cooper's was between the Waldorf and Harold's, placing it the mid-500 block of S Main. Trouble is, there's was no Cooper's there, or within three blocks in any direction. Also, a riot that shut down Main Street for a day would have made the papers (at least the Hearst papers!). No mention there, and I found nothing when I investigated the matter at LAPD archives. I don't want to be a killjoy, but it fascinates me that there's a whole Wiki page about an event based on questionable details from one 75 year-old's 45 year-old memory. Not to say it didn't happen, but this is not how history is done.

But I digress.

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The Gloria Café, 109 West Third:

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from ReelSF

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(as it appeared in The Exiles)

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Looking across 6th, at Spring, from the Hotel Hayward to the Los Angeles Trust & Savings Bank—
https://farm5.staticflickr.com/4917/...8bc20d8d_o.png

And what's this one? I know I recognize it but need to go run out and start my day, so I'll leave to another sleuth...
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Beaudry, after doing some research I agree that the Cooper riot story is apocryphal, and not based on any scholarship... the incident, as described by Rechy, would certainly have been a major story in all the papers.

I read "City of Night" maybe 30 years ago, recall it as an interesting novel.

Looking across 6th, at Spring, from the Hotel Hayward to the Los Angeles Trust & Savings Bank—
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Richkay & Beaudry



Why would the fire escape be missing from the building across the street? Scroll up to see the same building in Beaudry's post.
Its a small but odd detail.

I don't recall seeing these doohickey things on new buildings.

Looks like the 400 block of East 5th(5th and San Julian). You can see the 500 sign in the pic, so it's 5th Street, the buildings are more low rise so it's east of Los Angeles St.. You can see the Barber College sign and the hotel sign has a Pr... Here's the businesses on the 400 block of E 5th from the 1956 reverse City Directory:

https://i.postimg.cc/XYtmJcB3/Mystery2018111102.pngvia LAPL

and here's the current Google Street View, the Hotel Princeton had been replaced by the James Wood Community Center.
https://i.postimg.cc/NMBN9Nsh/Mystery2018111101.pngGSV

I'm pretty sure they're using stairways internal to the building for both aesthetics and security.

That's it for sure! Well done!

thank you FlyingWedge Martin Pal Hoss C !!

I'm going to dig further into this and report back! I'm really having fun with LAPL ResCarta -- but I'm not finding that particular Sanborn map. Would love to get a look at the streets, context, years surrounding.

I found a company called "ETHERA RADIO LABORATORIES" once inhabited the property... which is fascinating.

One way to tell if a building is "older" is to look for the plates with bolts at the roof-line on masonry structures.

I happened upon this charming photograph of Jean Harlow, reading a book, on the MGM lot (in her dressing room?)

I can't remember if Harlow dressing room was on the second floor. (perhaps she's visiting the writing dept.)
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Everyone at the Vickie Lester Blog, where I found the photo, have been trying to figure out the name of the book she's posing with reading....so far no one has figured it out.

I thought you fine sleuths, here on NLA, might be able to help solve the mystery.



Here's a close-up that I've lightened it a bit.

https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/1...923/8miwUo.jpg
DETAIL

Anyone?

(she looks adorable without the extreme make-up MGM had her wear in many of her films)

I hear she was a pretty nice gal too. :)



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VW DAY

Unknown woman sticking her head out of an orange VW Bug on Pacific Coast Highway. (1970s?)

https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/1...921/wWOdoT.jpg
EBAY (I think)





This next one we've seen (on NLA) years and years ago.

It was taken on the last day of street cars in Los Angeles, March 30, 1963.

https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/1...922/zyp8Zg.jpg
definitely from EBAY

The large sign says...."The Silverliners are treason." The sign (bumpersticker?) above the window says "Investigate the MTA."

If I remember correctly, someone [visiting NLA] contacted us and said they were actually inside this 'Protest Bug' when the photo was taken.









What?.....it's not VW Day? Ohhh...it's Veteran's Day..


In that case, here's a photograph of my grandfather, Lawrence Barr, in WWI.

https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/xq90/922/66e4fW.jpg
ethereal_reality collection

We called him Poppy.


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I found this better detail view (which I've also enlarged). It shows the book to be 'Red Headed Woman' by Katharine Brush.

http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...adedWoman1.jpg
i.pinimg.com

It's pretty pixellated when you enlarge it, but my guess is the license tags say 1967 and 1968.

Cheers,

Earl

It was Wig-Wag who gave us the inside information. Here's the original post and the reply from nearly four years ago.

Thanks for this aerial, HossC. Interesting that there was no housing on the Beverly Hills side of Doheny. Wonder why?


Thanks, I did not know that! (Or didn't recall it being mentioned.)

Good job Hoss! Now we know the date of the photograph as well. (1931 or 32)

because Jean Harlow starred in MGM's Red Headed Woman in 1932.

https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/8...921/fkV6ay.jpg
MGM


The film is in black and white, so it's a bit difficult to tell if Ms. Harlow is really red headed in the movie.

Her hair just looks light brown to me.
https://imageshack.com/a/img923/6511/dseZai.gif
MGM / Red Headed Woman 1932

I wish the studio had spent some extra moolah and had her hair tinted [red] on the film negs...leaving everything else B & W. (how cool would that have been)





As most everyone knows, Jean Harlow is famous for her platinum blonde hair.




Hoss, do you want to let them know ever at the Vickie Lester Blog?

Veteran's Day
 

Grateful tribute from France to Mr Lawrence Barr !

Nice find, riichkay, thanks for posting these!



The wiki entry notes that this incident lasted for a "night", not during the day.

The wiki entry also says:

Mark Thompson, a historian who lived in the same area as Rechy, wrote, “I would not describe it as a riot but more like an isolated patch of local social unrest that had lasting repercussions. I think less in its day, more as a lesson for us today.”



In 1959 I'm not sure a story like that would've been in all the papers. It certainly wouldn't have taken up much space and, more than likely, it would have been written in a tone of amusement.

But noting that the time it was to have specifically occurred, in May of 1959 if that is accurate, and that police were involved, indicates that there should be some record of it somewhere, I would think.

I happen to think that's a guy.


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Also, thank you for posting that photo of your Grandfather from WWI, celebrating the end of WWI 100 years ago yesterday!

Your family called him Poppy and poppies were also used as a symbol for the end of the war.