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http://i281.photobucket.com/albums/k...mototglide.jpg lapl, Ansel Admas photo. I have in my notes that it had become the Rotisserie by Dec 1946 http://i281.photobucket.com/albums/k...e/12-14-46.jpg 12-14-46 lat It lasted through the end of 1947 at least In August 1948 it reopned at Kitty Davis' "world famous" restuarant (even Kitty put it in quotes). http://i281.photobucket.com/albums/k...lle/8-1-48.jpg 8-1-48 LAT Kitty was there through September for sure but gone by Jan 1, 1949 when it became the Cafe Mart. http://i281.photobucket.com/albums/k...lle/1-1-49.jpg 1-1-49 lat Then in summer 1949 it opened as the Cafe Italia http://i281.photobucket.com/albums/k...belle/ital.jpg http://i281.photobucket.com/albums/k...le/7-30-49.jpg 7-30-49 But neighbors objected to the live outdoor opera and a lone Beverly Hills cop was dispatched the place and they shut down. In Oct 1950 it was sold in a bankruptcy auction. After that it reverted to auto use again. In 1955 it was the HQ of the AFL auto works union. http://i281.photobucket.com/albums/k...le/3-27-55.jpg 3-27-55 |
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:previous: Thanks for the info Graybeard. It's much appreciated.
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:previous: NCD, I wonder if this is the same 'Kitty Davis'? Do you know if she was from Miami? http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/800...540/Tg1jbH.jpg http://www.pbase.com/image/102541578 *oops. I just noticed it says "New York-Chicago-Miami Beach" at the top of the Wilshire ad. -so yes, this is probably her. |
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:previous: Juicy information NCD. Sounds like there's a 'noirish' storyline to be unearthed.
re: her 'Co-Ed' bar in CHICAGO. http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/640...538/0zGtDH.jpg http://archives.chicagotribune.com/1...o-ed-bar-queen :previous: They left out police scanner. ;) http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/640...673/nuowdk.jpg http://archives.chicagotribune.com/1...o-ed-bar-queen :previous: Graduates of the eighth grade. lol. Now I'm dying to know more about her establishment on Wilshire Blvd! __ |
Still on Wilshire, this is the Bank of America on the northwest corner of Crescent Heights Boulevard. If it looks familiar, it's because we visited it last month in post #30685 after unihikid tipped me off about the ship logo on the front. At the time I said I'd keep an eye out for it in the Julius Shulman photos, and here it is. The building to the right of the bank is also still standing. These pictures are from "Job 1167: Bank of America (Los Angeles, Calif.),1951".
http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...6.jpg~original Here's a reminder of the ship logo. The building immediately to the left of the bank originally housed three separate businesses. http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...7.jpg~original I really think that the Metropolitan Life Insurance Co could have found a better way to space their sign on this side of the bank. http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...8.jpg~original Here's a wider view looking roughly west. The "MWM" on the building to the left of the Bank of America sign stands for Mid-Wilshire Medical. http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...9.jpg~original This little collection of buildings has now gone, so I thought that a close-up was in order. From left to right we have: Modern House furniture and interiors, the Dollar Investment Company, Jane Gibson millinery and dresses, Pauline of Wilshire beauty salon, and Barrett-Kardell accountants and auditors. http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...0.jpg~original It looks like 6399 Wilshire was still under construction in 1952. In the distance is the Fox Wilshire Theater at 8440 Wilshire Boulevard. It's now the Saban Theatre. http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...1.jpg~original All from Getty Research Institute The bank is now a branch of Wells Fargo - check out the link at the top of this post for a "now" picture. The building to the left of the bank is still standing, but is crying out for someone to tidy it up. http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...2.jpg~original GSV The old Mid-Wilshire Medical building is now a boutique hotel called the Hotel Wilshire. If you look closely, the "MWM" logo is still visible on the west side of the building. Next to it at 6333 Wilshire is the Wilshire Carthay Medical Center. http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...3.jpg~original GSV |
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Real unusual. So she and her hubby ran from city to city opening up ''theme'' bars. I think she was really a frustrated cat house madame. The hostesses at her Chicago saloon were ''college graduates"...so funny. So their parents put them through college so that they could sell lots of drinks to guys in bars? Hilarious! |
I just came across this route salesman postcard for Adohr Creamery Co. The building in the background was located at 1801 La Cienega.
http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/102...913/ruJBf8.jpg http://www.ebay.com/itm/Postcard-CA-...item1a061655ac reverse http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/102...673/SC9Dt3.jpg For comparison here is the same building many years earlier. (before the rooftop sign) http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/128...537/gbcDh1.jpg http://forum.skyscraperpage.com/show...postcount=7940 also note that the name has changed on the front of the building from "Adohr Creamery Co." to "Adohr Milk Farms". I'm not sure when the building was destroyed (or what happened to the statue) For a closer look at the statue go here: http://forum.skyscraperpage.com/show...postcount=7940 __ |
Arthur and Nina Zwebell
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Courtyard Housing in Los Angeles (more pix at link above, go to pg 82 for La Ronda) La Ronda/Mi Casa is next door to Leland Bryant's The Colonial House: https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-k...3%252520PM.jpg google maps Speaking of La Ronda/Mi Casa, I don't think Arthur B. Zwebell (1891-1973) and Nina L. Zwebell (1895-1976) efforts have been too much covered here. They built at least eight gorgeous, mostly Spanish-Moorish, apartment complexes, all in the 1920s. I only know of seven. Does anyone have info on the 8th one? If you have the time, please click the links below for more info and many, many pix (and one video): El Cabrillo (1928), 1832-1850 N. Grace Ave., Hollywood http://la.curbed.com/archives/2015/0..._tour.php#more The Andalusia (1926–27), 1471-1475 Havenhurst Drive West Hollywood http://la.curbed.com/archives/2014/1...sks_1295mm.php La Ronda, renamed "Mi Casa" (1927), 1400 Havenhurst Drive, West Hollywood http://la.curbed.com/archives/2011/0...ll_complex.php Patio del Moro (1925), 8225 Fountain Avenue, West Hollywood https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HcVt2kPk9KA Casa Laguna (1929), 5200 Franklin Ave, Los Feliz http://la.curbed.com/archives/2013/0...s_for_sale.php Villa Primavera (1925) 1300 N Harper at Fountain, West Hollywood http://www.lahomeandstyle.com/inside...rd-apartments/ the so-called "Chaplin Court", 1330 North Formosa Avenue, Hollywood. http://www.iamnotastalker.com/2011/1...tment-complex/ Patio del Moro and the Andalusia are both shown in this 10-minute, mid-1920s architecture tour of Hollywood, previously posted by srk1941. It also includes "Egyptian"-style buildings (I'd forgotten that the Egyptian Theater had a "tomb" in its courtyard), roadside delights and etc, including, believe it or not, 15 or 20 secs of the elusive Normandie Village at about the 3:15 mark Don't miss it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uuCjQrGKPpU#t=16 e_r previously posted about "Chaplin Court": http://forum.skyscraperpage.com/show...postcount=6901 http://forum.skyscraperpage.com/show...postcount=6902 la.curbed's archive on the Zwebells is here: http://la.curbed.com/tags/arthur-and-nina-zwebell And again, Courtyard Housing in Los Angeles by By Stefanos Polyzoides, Roger Sherwood, James Tice, photography by Julius Schulman (start on pg 70 for the Zwebell preview pages) google books preview https://books.google.com/books?id=cu...mavera&f=false A friend lived at Casa Laguna for 20 years, but I'm actually more fond of the Andalusia: https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-I...8%252520AM.jpg gvs https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-a...5%252520PM.jpg youtube The painted signage has been retained: https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-K...6%252520PM.jpg youtube __ |
^^^^^^ what a beautiful garage door!
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Garage doors at The Andalusia & Patio del Moro
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https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-d...0%252520PM.jpg gsv The doors at Patio del Moro are very similar: https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-L...4%252520AM.jpg patiodelmoro.net __ |
Stiles O. Clements / Adohr Milkmaid
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https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-r...0%252520PM.jpg calarts And come to think about it, the Los Angeles Brewery Company offices at 1910 N Main look awfully similar too: Quote:
UPDATE: Oh, wait. Here's the latest (the sculpture was an edition of 25): 2014: https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-S...5%252520PM.jpg tulare voice <--- (story at link) Lookin' good: https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-x...6%252520PM.jpg roadarch 605 North J Street, Tulare in 2012. Stop by when you're out that way. (Pfft, another name change. They shoulda stuck with "Adohr"): https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-A...9%252520PM.jpg gsv __ |
:previous: You found the Adohr statue! Good sleuthing t2.
Wait, there were 25 of them?!?! __ I didn't realize Arthur and Nina Zwebell were so prolific. Thx for your fine post tovanger. Here are a couple more images of The Andalusia. http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/102...537/pgnKSx.png http://tdclassicist.blogspot.com/201...partments.html Andalusia ground floor plans and roof plans http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/102...540/KPsm3u.jpg http://tdclassicist.blogspot.com/201...partments.html "Each apartment had a unique floor plan with the Zwebell's unit having a two-story living room and three fireplaces. Zina had an infamous built-in pipe organ; the bellows were located in the basement with the pipes installed at opposite ends of the living room." :previous: I bet her neighbors wanted to clobber her whenever she played her pipe-organ. ___ |
Risque Night Club Advertising Imagery
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If Jim Heimann hasn't done a book over at Taschen on risque vintage night club imagery, he should. There's plenty of material to work with, from the rather wholesome (above) to the decidedly noir: https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-s...6%252520PM.jpg Martin Turnbull "Meet Me at Pico and Western" . |
:previous: That graphic is beautiful t2.
To be honest, I don't like the Sugie's Tropics graphic.....they look fake. __ |
I don't recall seeing this extraordinary photograph on NLA.
"Three engineering students and a professor from USC surveying Fourth Street in downtown Los Angeles, 1912." http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/xq90/538/CCdt1t.jpg https://www.pinterest.com/pin/155303887124316948/ :previous: I almost feel like I am there with them! reverse http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/800...540/2tocig.jpg November 10th, 1912 to be exact. __ |
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Fremont Hotel / Mid-Wilshire Medical
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Blimey, they needn't have bothered: W 4th at Olive, 2015 https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-C...8%252520PM.jpg gsv That big piece of the Fremont's wall is still there: https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-_...4%252520PM.jpg gsv https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-M...3%252520PM.jpg wiki And yes, e-r, that's a real 'time-travel' photo. We're there. Thank you so much. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Thank you HossC for highlighting Victor Gruen's Mid-Wilshire Medical building (1950-51). I thought it was going to get torn down for sure. The distinctive "MWM" lettering on the side made it such a landmark in a sea of change. I'm glad that was kept, although I'm not thrilled by some of the changes made to rehab the building into the Hotel Wilshire (the entrance in particular). Those big south-facing windows are nice though: 6317 Wilshire, 1952-2011: https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-K...6%252520PM.jpg https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-r...9%252520PM.jpg urban diachrony KFA did the redesign. They did the Hotel Barbizon makeover too. KFA also did the Ace Hotel and a bunch of others. Now they're working on the Commercial Exchange Building. The Hotel Wilshire/MWM rooftop: https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-_...4%252520PM.jpg KFA |
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