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The famous Zamboni Ice machine is made just a few blocks from my house. |
No CBD. I only ice skated once and I was terrible.
I happened upon this strange and intriguing photograph while snooping around on calisphere. https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/1...922/SLshK3.jpg calisphere / rancho cucamonga library "Photograph of a group of woman in white gowns on a slope. If you know any details from this image please contact the Rancho Cucamonga Public Library at (909) 477-2720 or reference@cityofrc.us" Anyone care to wager a guess: social sorority?....secret society?....religious cult? :shrug: _ |
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We folk from Westwood generally refer to the stadium as "The Mausoleum". |
'mystery' milk bottle in Topanga Canyon.
https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/8...922/zOsjp0.jpg san fernando valley history Photographer: A. Les Haines "This water tank built by T. W. (Bill) Kneen in the shape of a milk bottle. It was built in the 1930's out of masonry. Located at Red Rock Road, Old Topanga Canyon." _____ This is, no doubt, the same Bill Kneen that owned Kneen's Kamp (which I thought we had covered / but I can't locate the posts) here's a look at that property. https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/1...923/0BL8wo.jpg topanga digital history "Main house of Kneen's Kamp in Topanga built by T.W. Kneen." [circa 1920] Below: "Cabins stud the hillside at Kneen's Kamp with T.W.'s daughter, Katherine Kneen, standing in the photograph." [dated 1920] https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/1...923/k3ZTjl.jpg topanga digital history Information on the cabins and means of transportation. https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/xq90/923/qx4ZQu.jpg san fernando valley history digital archive [no date] The actual address is 772 N. Topanga Boulevard. The main house is still standing. (although I wasn't able to spot any of the cabins because of the trees) -obviously the tent-cabins are long gone. https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/1...923/5s4FMc.jpg GSV Did you notice the unique shape of the pillars? before/after https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/6...924/hrdTpH.jpghttps://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/6...922/2KiuuT.jpghmm..the one on the right looks thinner. details :previous: One or more of the pillars have been covered up by the addition. (hopefully they're still intact inside) All that said and done; Kneen's 'milk bottle' was located somewhere on Red Rock Road which is quite some distance from the former Keene's Kamp. So after all that; I'm still not sure where on Red Rock Road Kneen's 'milk bottle' was located. :shrug: I'd like to think some of it's crumbled remains might still be up on red rock road. __ Folks, I just reread my post, and had an extreme case of deja-vu....I think I might have already posted about this. Oh well, it was fun way to spend a snowy night. __ as a friendly reminder: We discovered a different giant milk bottle a few years back. You can view it HERE |
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[QUOTE=ethereal_reality;8074735]and who can forget Andrew Stevens' real life mom.
https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/1...923/2jTwxF.jpg retrogirl Stella was good as Miss Purdy in the original "Nutty Professor" (1963), and so was Jerry. Jerry's best film in my opinion. Not sure if the "Buddy Love" character was based on Dean Martin, Mr. Hyde or was the real way Jerry Lewis was in real life. Buddy Love had confidence. The buck-toothed coke bottle-glassed super nerdy Professor Kelp was the inspiration for the cartoon Professor in "Futurama". Eddie Murphy remake was good, but the original is the best. |
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June 29, 1924: Members of the Ku Klux Klan gather at 5th and Olive streets in downtown Los Angeles for church service at the Temple Baptist Church. (Los Angeles Times photo below) http://www.latimes.com/resizer/vqKwh...K35UWJ2CBM.jpg http://www.latimes.com/resizer/vqKwh...K35UWJ2CBM.jpg More here of their nefarious activities. By the 1940s the KKK had decamped from LA. http://www.latimes.com/visuals/frame...825-story.html |
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This post is kind of ironic, as I am a graduate of USC and saw many USC football games at the Coliseum (as well as a few L. A. Raiders games). |
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Re: the women in hooded outfits. A sorority initiation? Women's association or club?
As to Klan, my dad, raised near Berdoo, told me of cross burnings in Devore in the 1920s. |
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The poster for Hal Roach's film The King of Wild Horses (starring Rex the Wonder Horse) and the pictured Ku Klux Klan brought to mind that I watched a Hal Roach film the other night and Adolphe Menjou was complaining about his wife to his secretary, talking about her coming to bed with creams on and her face covered and he says "When I woke up I thought I was in bed with the Ku Klux Klan." He also tells his secretary: "Telephone my wife. Find out what we're having for dinner. Tell her I don't like it." :) Inrteresting signs in this photo, one for a "Roof Auto Park" and I wonder what the billboard means with the young man on it and the line "For the Million Dollar Boy." |
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I don't know the interior details, but I know there's a gas main that runs in there to light the peristyle flame. ___ The guy in the video calls the Coliseum "ancient." I wouldn't go that far. |
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Snow? What's that? Back to the drought for L.A. Forecast today: 80's Last year we had one day where it hit 80° (exactly) in February. As of today, 5 out of the 7 days so far have been in the 80's. Average is around 68°. |
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Here we're looking north at the side of the scoreboard structure. There is a short flight of steps leading to a door. We later see police going through that door, showing wiring and what-not inside but it's not super-cramped: http://i1165.photobucket.com/albums/...s.jpg~original YouTube Here's Charlton Heston at the base of the torch, having just climbed that long outside ladder. Small holes like the one at lower left allow entry to the torch room. There's also a ladder running up the inside of the torch's chimney: http://i1165.photobucket.com/albums/...s.jpg~original YouTube There might be an inside ladder up to the torch as well: http://i1165.photobucket.com/albums/...m.jpg~original YouTube P.S. I've also been to Assembly Hall at the University of Illinois -- at a college basketball game on November 29, 1980. |
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Also, not sure Klansmen would hang at Temple Baptist. Baptists are not Protestants and I imagine were looked on as suspect to say the least. Rather, they're probably headed (if they're going to church at all, my guess is this more likely just before a parade) over to 12th & Flower to hear good ol' "Fightin' Bob". A typical 1924 Times ad: https://farm5.staticflickr.com/4675/...e1401b4c_o.png |
There are pictures of Mr. and Mrs. Kneen and daughter Katherine in Calisphere. Do a picture search of "Thomas W. Kneen" I can't post, or I would do it. There is also a video made by the daughter of Katherine Kneen describing living in the house and in Topanga generally. On the page with the video is a picture of a stone arch built by her grandfather in 1928 for a Mr Hanlon. The arch is located at 21255 Entrada Road.
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http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...1.jpg~original jhgraham.com The image above is dated 5/5/1926, but if you check out post #20852, you'll see that the garage belonged to the Yellow Cab Co later that year. |
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