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https://i.postimg.cc/ZqyvxCZb/7901-Santa-Mon-GSV.jpg gsv This location was Standard Camera in 1955: https://i.postimg.cc/t4cV6FKv/7901-S...-1955-5-15.jpg LA Times, 5/15/1955. |
odinthor, I think you may have it, the profile of the hills seem to line up.
Here's the Ed Ruscha image of the corner from 1974.... https://hosting.photobucket.com/imag...720&fit=bounds |
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Western Camera Supply appears in the directories for two years, 1961 & 1962, at 7901 Santa Monica Blvd. https://i.imgur.com/78eH2x2.jpg rescarta.lapl.org By 1963 they had moved a little east and across the boulevard to 7856. |
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Look at the three palms in the distance: https://i.postimg.cc/ncj1PcnW/Palms-Santa-Monica.jpg They're still there!: https://i.postimg.cc/c15mh8GY/Santa-Monica-Palms1.jpg gsv They're at 1719 Beloit. https://i.postimg.cc/0j30yh0Z/Palms-...719-Beloit.jpg gsv |
Great work accorn8332....
https://hosting.photobucket.com/imag...720&fit=bounds Santa Monica & Sepulveda it is.....I lived in Westwood/Brentwood for 30 years (starting in 1979 when I was just up the street at Sepulveda/Ohio), I went through this intersection a thousand times, and just did not see it....suffice to say the corner changed mightily from the late '60's to the late '70's. The light standard protruding on the foreground right is for the Mobil station that still stands....the photographer would have been perched on the rooftop of the building to the right, there's the light fixture...from the 1974 Ed Ruscha images... https://hosting.photobucket.com/imag...720&fit=bounds More '74 Ruscha.... Here's the San Diego Fwy. sign.... https://hosting.photobucket.com/imag...720&fit=bounds The Shell station at the s.e. corner was a Texaco before its demise.... https://hosting.photobucket.com/imag...720&fit=bounds Here's the karate studio on the s.w. corner... https://hosting.photobucket.com/imag...720&fit=bounds And the fast food place.... https://hosting.photobucket.com/imag...720&fit=bounds The Westwood Gateway office towers have occupied the s.w. corner since about 1980. |
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WHAT WAS THERE: Before commerce, there were houses on Wilshire, such as 641 S Vermont Avenue. It occupied the future site of Carpenter's at the nwc corner of Wilshire and Vermont and is seen here as it was being demolished. More on the house here. https://i.postimg.cc/jqQ1wGMf/641-SV...ky-TALL-FB.jpg |
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. .a mystery location. Skippy's Bar..Los Angeles...1933 https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/xq90/923/niohLP.jpg eBay I love this fun little drinking establishment. ..I take it that's Skippy behind the bar. The details on the back are priceless. . https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/1...923/QvwjJR.jpg . .but he forgot to include the street address and the name of the bar. (Skippy's?) Some details. Skippy https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/8...922/zOpE1V.jpg the men in the mirror. https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/8...924/2KdiEZ.jpg The drawings on the wall. https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/1...922/KPT4C9.jpg FDR! What dis? https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/3...923/nrrm4Z.jpg UPDATE I just found a photograph of Skippy's larger establishment! I'll post it this afternoon or later tonight. :) . |
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A 1901 image looking north up Fairfax Ave. from Santa Monica Blvd. now West Hollywood. https://www.hollywoodphotographs.com...ISC-1901-1.jpg |
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As promised, here is Skippy's larger bar that unfortunately broke his bank. https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/1...924/2f34KP.jpg This time we have the name of the bar and the address!.. Globe Cocktail Lounge...1317 East seventh St....Los Angeles, Calif. Jack Skippy . . To Greet You :previous: Skippy is his last name! I certainly wasn't expecting that. Let's take a closer look. https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/xq90/922/VdEgFb.jpg eBay Obviously, a more serious drinking establishment. No cartoons on the wall. ...I prefer his smaller bar. Reverse. https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/8...924/eXO9Gy.jpg I feel bad that Skippy lost his dream. . |
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I don't think the Globe Cocktail Lounge would have been Jack's business. :shrug: 1317 E. 7th was owned by the Globe Dairy Lunch Company who operated a number of bars, cafes and a bakery. https://i.imgur.com/Ra6DMBx.jpg ladbsdoc.lacity.org Today it houses the offices of the Skid Row Housing Trust. https://i.imgur.com/Kib1t83.jpg GSV I think the "work" he refers to on the back of the first beer parlor picture includes his barman job at the Globe Cocktail Lounge. The two bars he owned were back around 1933 but I can only find a listing for him in 1937. https://i.imgur.com/9ZQUzLO.jpg rescarta.lapl.org This is the Produce Hotel and is just yards around the corner from the Globe Cocktail Lounge site. https://i.imgur.com/S1u0jml.jpg GSV |
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Noir Noir, this Globe menu from July 7, 1938 says the owner and operator is George Barraclough. . .and yet, much to my surprise, Jack Skippy signed the menu for someone named Lena. :shrug: Where to begin? How 'bout here. https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/1...922/MTYrax.jpg eBay Now for the men's names. (Barraclough and Skippy) https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/6...924/yLTJDG.jpg eBay I figured (wrongful, perhaps) that when Jack Skippy found himself in financial difficulties he sold his bar to George Barraclough. . . .and here's Skippy's appearance on the menu. https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/8...922/mxo6eT.jpg eBay I can't figure out why Jack Skippy would have signed the menu if he had nothing to do with place. Just for fun let's take a closer look at the interior photograph. https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/1...924/86kGsz.jpg Note that the address is 613 South Hill Street and not 1317 East Seventh Street. . .and here's an example of the dinner choices. https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/xq90/924/wLN8vp.jpg . .and additional drink choices. https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/xq90/922/CD5LnR.jpg https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/xq90/922/dhFE7p.jpg :drunk: . |
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I'm really trying to wrap my head around the prices; are those really all in cents? Which is fine, but then, for example, you can get a bonded Old Fashioned for 35 cents, but then for only 20 cents more, you can get a whole roast sirloin? These menus from the past really baffle me with the prices. |
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[Globe] Dairy Lunch Co (G A Barraclough) office 613 S Hill restrs 629 S Olive, 1232 Produce ct, 418, 532 and 746½ S Spring, 248 Werdin pl, 116 W 3d, 118 W 4th and 1319 E 7th.I think that the handwritten text above the interior picture says "Picture of one of our Bars Down town". |
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I just had a flashback to a post from almost 10 years ago. (2013) Barraclough's name is written in parenthesis after "Globe Coffee Shop". At the time I didn't know what it meant. Quote:
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More on our Mr. Barraclough:
https://i.postimg.cc/N0wznZ9q/Barrac...-1963-1-27.jpg LA Times, 1/27/1963. And his wife Gretchen: https://i.postimg.cc/k4TYB4jq/Barrac...1962-11-12.jpg LA Times, 1/27/1963. Mrs. Barraclough, and likely George as well, seems to have been fun-loving. She did a fan dance at one social event, and here she is "attired as Cleopatra" for another event: https://i.postimg.cc/pXHkRKVz/Barrac...-1916-4-27.jpg LA Herald, 4/27/1916. Other hijinks of the Barracloughs were a few tickets for speeding; and once Mr. Barraclough caught an employee red-handed, embezzling out of the till at an eatery, by . . . Barraclough's getting into a large box, with holes, which he had delivered to the premises in question, and from which he could observe the employee he suspected. |
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Still more Barraclough: https://i.postimg.cc/xC59v5F2/WSQSIr...t1-USETHIS.jpg https://i.postimg.cc/CKy8XMMK/WSQsir...2ndcard640.jpg George Barrclough lived at 525 S Irving Blvd in Windsor Square for over 30 years. More here. https://i.postimg.cc/SNhNBXC3/wsqsir...54-NLA-bmp.jpg |
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