GaylordWilshire, I think you nailed the Criterion sign in Santa Monica. It looks to my eyes to be identical to the one that appears in The Outer Limits.
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A young shoeshine boy at Pershing Square
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Uploaded with ImageShack.us Source: LAPL http://photos.lapl.org/carlweb/jsp/F...olNumber=75680 Photographer: Herman Schultheis Another great Pershing Square scene from the past, early years of the 20th century. I thought it was a good picture to share with you. Happy new year to all of you!:tup: |
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Great shot, e_r...and the interior shots in your older post are spectacular. As for the revolving stage--I suppose all the dancing and tapping and music drowned out any noise from the mechanics, but it seems like there must have been alot of creaking and grinding to overcome! A few more pics of the works: https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/-t...2520AM.bmp.jpgHistoric Hollywood Theatres https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/-b...2520AM.bmp.jpgHistoric Hollywood Theatres Below is the underside of one of the elevators that lifted showgirls to the stage (in light of a recent elevator accident here in NY, there is no way I'd have gotten in this thing--reminds me of those old parking garage conveyors for the attendants, which used to scare me just looking at them). How did the girls avoid getting their feathers caught, not to mention legs and fingers? https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/-R...2520AM.bmp.jpgHistoric Hollywood Theatres Excellent site on the Earl Carroll, with alot more color pics, here: https://sites.google.com/site/hollyw...s/earl-carroll Gordon Kaufmann designed the exterior of the Earl Carroll and collaborated on the interior, and the billboard indicates that his firm Kaufmann, Lippincott and Eggers designed the new unbuilt theater too: https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/-J...2520AM.bmp.jpgLAPL |
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on to a '60s remodeling and has now been brought back to its 1940 look: http://jpg1.lapl.org/pics34/00036892.jpgLAPL September 23, 1940: The singer that night was Sinatra. http://jpg3.lapl.org/pics27/00063456.jpgLAPL I might have had a fit when the original was remodeled if I'd been paying attention then (or was old enough to pay attention), but this version now has its own charm.... wish we could have both versions! And ahead to the past: https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/-K...2520AM.bmp.jpgGoogle Street View |
Carthay Circle Theater
Torn down, of course: :koko:
http://img820.imageshack.us/img820/3909/carthay.jpg Los Angeles Times Story and more pictures here: http://framework.latimes.com/2011/03...ircle-theater/ Now we have this: http://img7.imageshack.us/img7/4809/carthaynow.jpg Google Street View Wow! Thanks a bunch |
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I remember a writer for Time magazine----possible around the late 1980s or early 1990s----describing hollywood as reminding him of a typical town in the midwest, with its mostly short, forgettable bldgs. So I give higher marks than you do for replacement devlpt like this, if only cuz they're not as typical of squat "smaller midwestern city" type bldgs & also cuz they include residential.... http://i302.photobucket.com/albums/nn89/Viewpark/HV.jpg maps.google.com |
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Interesting, citywatch. But I guess I wonder, why replace unexceptional with unexceptional? And I suppose I never saw anything wrong with Hollywood looking more like a small town in the Midwest (the Time reporter who said this was most likely from east of the Hudson, after all) than an accretion of generic examples of the design stasis we've been in for 20 years--much less like an ersatz Times Square (which is really just a shopping mall now). Are tourists leaving Hollywood these days any more dazzled by the architecture than they were in the '60s? I don't think so. The streetscape of '60s Hollywood was definitely ugly in large measure, but the current sameness is equally uninspiring... IMHO. Anyway, I'm really only here to look back. I miss the old, gritty Times Square too--I'm happy to have the personal memory of a much grittier New York because it was a much more stimulating place in about a thousand ways--but at this point I don't really mind being able to sit back and enjoy its safer if relatively boring and undiverse (is that a word?) energy. I know it's economics, its building itself up and out to the sidewalks, but I do hate seeing L.A. trying to Manhattanize itself. Stop trying! It seems like one day NY & LA will meet in the middle, and it'll all look alike Omaha. That's why I wouldn't mine having Wallich's back, even if it could have also been in '60s Omaha or Queens. (P.S. If none of this makes sense, please let me blame it on the bad head cold I have.) |
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https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/-D...2520PM.bmp.jpg These are from this fabulous youtube short. The restaurants! The cars! The color! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N7QUr7yIfts And here's a bit of an oddity... Actor Richard Carlson giving a tour of L.A. in his Packard convertible. Dinner on me at Chasen's to the first person who can identify the building in this pic.... https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/-i...2520PM.bmp.jpg It's in this video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IWEqv...eature=related |
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And here's a bit of an oddity... Actor Richard Carlson giving a tour of L.A. in his Packard convertible. Dinner on me at Chasen's to the first person who can identify the building in this pic.... https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/-i...2520PM.bmp.jpg I'll have a bowl of chili and a grilled cheese G_W. That's Sid's place, the Chinese Theater ;) ~Jon Paul It's in this video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IWEqv...eature=related[/QUOTE] |
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The Carthay Circle Theater has always been one of my favorite theaters FredH. http://img853.imageshack.us/img853/7266/carthaypc.jpg ebay Here's a link to an earlier post with some AERIAL photos of the Carthay Circle. http://forum.skyscraperpage.com/show...&postcount=719 This link is to an excellent post by sopas_ej. There is even a COLOR photo of the lobby. http://forum.skyscraperpage.com/show...postcount=2584 |
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I didn't realize the history of the place ethereal_reality. I should go back to the beginning of this forum and take a second look at all the posts. Anyway, here is a new aerial view of the area. It looks like the school at the back of the curved road might be the same. Also, the little park across the street is still there (it was probably too small to put in a Burger King, or something). http://img515.imageshack.us/img515/3...haycircle2.jpg Google Earth I wonder who Commodore Sloat was? :Titanic: p.s O.K., so I had to look it up. John Drake Sloat (July 6, 1781 – November 28, 1867) was a commodore in the United States Navy who, in 1846, claimed California for the United States. Not too shabby! |
I'm on the 190 page area right now, but wow, you guys are doing a great job! I love CA and I love history, this is fascinating. LA has such an incredible history that is unique to LA alone!
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Some famous Los Angeles diners at Chasen's
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Regarding the FOX, it happened that my parents and I were at a Lakers game at the Sports Arena back in 1968 and our car was on the edge of the lot. I looked over and saw a sight that still freaks me out all these years later. The entire front of the Fox theater had been wrecking balled away and you could look in and see the vast seats and all the ornamentation, curtain, etc. of the inside of the theater. I remember staring in wonder at it. It was truly creepy to me and I wondered (not for the last time) why something so beautiful was being torn down. I remember it being pretty spooky at night with the security lights on shining inside that vast space. If I close my eyes I can still see it. My little buddy dared me to go in there and I looked at him like he was from the moon. No way was I going to go into that haunted place.. |
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https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/-M.../dontaylor.jpgIMDB Well, I guess as Elizabeth Taylor's husband in Father of the Bride, he shouldn't be allowed to pass unnoticed. |
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That's quite a haunting recollection Steve. With your fine description I was able to imagine this unsettling scene. You gave me chills. |
I found this Arnold Hylen photograph earlier this year on ebay. It's a nice view of the west portal of the 3rd Street tunnel.
http://img11.imageshack.us/img11/612...streetcopy.jpg below: This is the description on the reverse. http://img694.imageshack.us/img694/4889/f3rdstreet2.jpg _____ |
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as for the Cathay circle theater, it will have to relive on in simulacrum, down at a disney park in the OC.... http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-UC_fGOGqOO...8carth1520.jpg Connie at Life is a Journey via filmic-light.blogspot.com |
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