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Returning momentarily to the discussion of trolley poles indicating direction of travel, there were exceptions. For short distance reverse moves, such as coupling to another car or moving through a switch from one track to another at a terminal or backing into a car barn, a technique called back polling could be employed. In these situations, the motorman of a conventional streetcar would generally lower the window in front of his operating station and hold onto the cord connecting the pole to the retriever. If the pole should leave the wire he could pull it down sufficiently to prevent it from snagging the overhead support wires. This technique was commonly used when backing a single ended streamline car such as a PCC. These cars were equipped with a control station at the rear of the car. The rear window could be opened to access the retriever cord. So, if you encounter a photo of a streetcar with the motorman leaning out the end window of a car holding the retriever cord and possibly even looking up at the end of the pole on the wire, there is a very good chance the car is back polling. Backing polling over longer distances was not uncommon with electric freight locomotives when switching. In such cases a brakeman would stand on the locomotive end platform and monitor the pole. The top photo on this page illustrates this type of operation. http://www.pacificelectric.org/pacif...-at-lone-hill/ Cheers, Jack |
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Glenn Ford is (I'm pretty sure it's him, photo is blurry) next to Robert Stack in the photo showing Al Ybarra and Bunny Waters. The guy in Naval Whites is clearer in this same photo, almost in front of Al Ybarra's stomach... pretty sure that's indeed Richard Ney. Can't say any of the photos look definitely like director George Stevens, but he is likely there - and yes, some of the other faces are likely other directors and various non-actors. Although most of these men's names would not be familiar to young people now, need I mention that there were a number of mostly-female stars then (Lucy, Crawford, Davis, Garland etc.) who are still pretty well-known names today. Books & articles are still being written about them. Who of today's "names" (though some are outstanding actors) will be remembered & written about 70 years from now? Probably none. The stars of the studio system were unique. |
Searched the thread and couldn't find anything about this newspaper headline I stumbled upon on the internet. Anyone have other info?
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Re the Great Air Battle Newspaper
Is that a prop from the movie 1941? Notice the lines around the article are broken only around that one story. [edit later] And I'm wrong. Oh well......
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then vary the search term to include "Ellwood" Nerves were edgy as all heck due to the torpedoing and sinking of SS Montebello off Cayucos [ Northwest of San Luis Obispo] in December 1941 Then in Jan submarine [IIRC I-35] surfaced off Ellwood, near what is now the UCSB campus, and lobbed several shells into the oil refinery, causing minor damage. The BoLA caused a few deaths and injuries- heart attacks traffic collisions and falls in the blackout, but underwear sales skyrocketed. No lives lost at Ellwood or Cayucos. In Japan colorized postcards were sold to celebrate I-35's exploits |
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IF there any similar conditions extant- probly there are- one can see grooves in the asphalt made by the flanges. As long as the speed was sufficiently slow that only one wheelset maybe two, had left the end, and not so far as to deprive the pole of wire contact, a car could be walked back to safety. The accessories from the wrecker truck might be needed to align things, but not always. Loss of electrical contacts would require a heavy tow. As seen in these pages, LARy had a special car for such duty |
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But see the lower right corner of the newspaper about spies and the submarine. No spies were involved; the sub's skipper had traversed the coast with a sharp eye in a surface ship before the war . |
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We're staying in West Hollywood for today's Julius Shulman post. This is "Job 5566: Arthur W. Larsen, Villa Madrid (West Hollywood, Calif.), 1978".
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I do think these two sailors are at The Crossroads of the World. It's not far from the Hollywood Canteen and the block lettering "OF THE" looks like lettering on several Crossroads signs. Also, I saw a photograph, that I can't locate right now, that mentioned, as we know, the design of the place was supposed to be like a ship coming in to port and the various shops were to be selling goods from all over the world. It was indicated there were display maps showing where the various goods came from and it occurred to me that might be what they're standing in front of. I always marvel that someone on NLA can nearly always find a location with the bare minumum of details! Quote:
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:previous: California Fireproof Storage at 2808 Pico. Building is still there being used for storage. Sidewalk clock is a nice touch.:) http://i357.photobucket.com/albums/o...psvbxfezkc.jpgEbay 1929 - From intersection of Ardmore and Pico http://i357.photobucket.com/albums/o...x.jpg~originalhttp://digitallibrary.usc.edu/cdm/co...ll170/id/33332 1926 - Bank occupied part of first floor. (2800 W Pico) http://i357.photobucket.com/albums/o...h.jpg~originalhttp://digitallibrary.usc.edu/cdm/co...ll170/id/26743 2800 W Pico http://i357.photobucket.com/albums/o...v.jpg~originalGoogleSV Storage at 2800 W Pico http://i357.photobucket.com/albums/o...k.jpg~originalGoogleSV http://i357.photobucket.com/albums/o...q.jpg~original |
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https://c7.staticflickr.com/8/7028/2...2833d30f_b.jpgLA Herald, Jan 11, 1895 newspapers.com By about 1898 Mills sells the house to attorney Roscoe Edwin Hewitt (Mills moves to 438 S Grand—a large residence that disappears between the 1906 Sanborn and the 1910 Baist—and after 1910 Mills & Co are lodgers at the Fremont) and the 1900 Census shows Hewitt there with his wife, son and daughter, and four boarders. In September of 1908 the Hewitts sell the "old-time residence of nominal value" to "a retired furniture manufacturer of Clinton, Iowa" and presumably it becomes a full-on boarding house after that. https://c7.staticflickr.com/8/7422/2...83bb0094_z.jpgLA Herald, Sept 12 1908, newspapers.com At some point 327 is sold to the Ems, because in 1948, the demo permit says "Demolition of existing building and conversion of site to expand owner's parking lot on adjoining property on the South." So let's talk a bit about this parking lot on the site of the former 327: https://c7.staticflickr.com/8/7696/2...e7480fda_c.jpg https://c3.staticflickr.com/8/7339/2...1d7ca04a_b.jpgmetmuseum So, as you all know, there's an entire book devoted to Bunker Hill as it appears in film and fiction. Every so often another movie pops up, previously undiscovered! I've discovered one, in which a bit of it takes place right in said parking lot! It's called The Narcotic Story, and you can watch it on YouTube right here. It's all worth watching, if you go for over-the-top period pictures about "hypes" who are "holding" and all that good stuff; at minutes 37:00 and 55:00 the side of the Ems is featured, and the big takedown of the pusher at 1:08 is something to behold. Then at the very end, as one of the ladies descends into prostitution to feed her junk habit, she propositions a john outside the May Hotel, at 209 S Olive. A cinematic masterpiece! https://c6.staticflickr.com/8/7542/2...96180d95_c.jpg https://c2.staticflickr.com/8/7408/2...71d7b873_c.jpg https://c4.staticflickr.com/8/7199/2...833a6ba6_c.jpg https://c4.staticflickr.com/8/7599/2...cb31c8bf_c.jpg https://c5.staticflickr.com/8/7037/2...3342f018_c.jpg |
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