I went to High School with a guy who lived in the house. He had no idea, and no interest in Little Richard lol. We would catch the bus together, and he would talk about how big the rooms we're, but overall the house is pretty average in size. His family sold it a few years ago i think, not much has changed to it in 20 years.

My dad knew and toured with LR in the late 50's and 80's. He came by our house with Etta James, i was a kid and didn't know who she was, but i knew for sure who Little Richard was. This was a few years after his crazy run in with Larry Williams and Johnny "Guitar" Watson (aka post his drug era).

Wow Unihikid....thanks for the memories, way cool.

Yes, it was a Spanish style home with a red tile roof and an ornate front door facade. Two story and moderately large. Not a tract house. I couldn't find a photo I could H/L. Maybe someone has it?

Johnny Guitar Watson.
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikiped...atson_1977.JPG
wiki image

UPDATE:
This is the home that LA Times says was long ago owned by Little Richard the Originator of Rock n' Roll.

https://ca-times.brightspotcdn.com/d...zhd-snap-image
LATimes

http://jamescolincampbell.com/wp-con...11/10/map1.jpg

I toured the area in the google limo-mobile....very upscale and well cared for. You'd be scratchin' to find a home less than one million dollars in that neighborhood.

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A rare glimpse inside the St. Germain Cafe.


"1916 UNION IRON WORKS DINNER BUILT STEAMERS LA BREA & LOS ANGELES"

https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/1...924/LsvNGx.jpg
eBay


At first glance I thought there was a large mirror on the left but as you can see, in the close-up below, it is actually a side room.



https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/1...923/cgI6V9.jpg

There is a fairly ornate ceiling, as well as filigree details along the upper portions of the walls. . .and art nouveau wallpaper.






Whomever owned the photograph knew someone named "Edwin". (see below)

https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/1...923/IqyOLk.jpg





& finally, here's a closer look at the information on the photograph.

https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/8...924/MtNidX.jpg
For search purposes:....Dinner given by the Union Oil Co. to the men of Union Iron Works who built the who built the steamers LaBrea & Los Angeles.....St. Germain Cafe...Jan. 18, 1916.






So here's my question:

Was the St. Germain Cafe located in the Germain Building on Spring Street, downtown? :shrug:


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While searching for the St. Germain Cafe I happened upon this image of a St. Germain Restaurant in the 3rd Street area.


https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/8...924/MgjvdT.jpg
googlebooks

Refresh my memory -have we seen this place previously on NLA?

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The details in the photo look a bit grand for the large bungalow in the photo. I'm guessing it's a different building:shrug:

Located in San Francisco.

https://i.imgur.com/K8vjRUS.jpg
cardcow.com


The La Brea and Los Angeles were built there.

https://i.imgur.com/nBZVTLG.jpg
Google Books - Marine Review Vol. 47

The house--originally addressed 269 S Mariposa--stood at the nec of Third & Mariposa until 1967. It appears to have been turned into a restaurant--first, the Cottage Dining Room--ca. 1945


https://i.postimg.cc/zGkVk8bh/stgermainad-bmp.jpg
LAT July 13, 1960


https://i.postimg.cc/66zjFGkb/stgermainsite-bmp.jpg
nec of Third and Mariposa today


https://i.postimg.cc/nzbgcb2d/stgerm...rhouse-bmp.jpg
Across the street: 269 S Mariposa, demolished in 2017

For a second there I thought this was Pasadena
680 Marengo with the same screen block:
https://i.imgur.com/KjXYxPA.png
GSV

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That's curious. It has the exact same grill work.

Perhaps it had the same architect too.

One is turned 90 degrees.

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mysterylocation.


The two following snapshots appear to have been taken in the 1970s or 80s.

They both show a band playing at a benifit to "Protect the Santa Monica Mountains". (per the sign)

https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/8...922/vTOHXa.jpg
eBay

I was busting my brain trying to figure out where this park was located, that is until. . .


I happened upon a this second snapshot.

https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/8...924/n7cq4Q.jpg
eBay

Then it dawned on me that the band might be performing in a burnt out house and the structure behind them is a large fireplace.



BUT THEN. . .I noticed the steps.

https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/1...924/krW29U.jpg
detail

I have no idea where they are.


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I was thinking it could be someone’s garden but then I noticed the uniformed officer in attendance.

My shot in the dark. Kind of funky, Topanga-ish. Will Geer's Theatricum Botanicum?

Will Geer's Theatricum Botanicum
 

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Nice shot!


https://hosting.photobucket.com/imag...080&fit=bounds

Lucy Pollack Public Relations

A few more pics at Lucy Pollack Public Relations

Also, those converging trails behind the stage in e_r's photos match those you can see here.

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Here's a snapshop of a nicely dressed young man standing proudly by his (new?) car in front of the Palladium in Hollywood.

https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/1...924/IhxNpz.jpg
eBay

How do I know this is his car?




. . .because he's standing next to it in other photographs as well.

Here he is in an undisclosed location.

https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/1...923/2w3BvP.jpg
eBay

The young man is traveling with a male friend. (he's the person taking the photographs) ....I have a photo of his friend but that pic. is in Indiana. (I'm currently in Illinois)





This next snap is rather remarkable in that it shows the young man and his car on the horseshoe pier in Long Beach.

https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/1...924/I6LQUP.jpg
eBay

This is a nifty view.


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I believe that's Ocean Blvd. in Long Beach. :shrug::shrug: Many of those buildings are still there.
[I'm currently in California.]

Interesting. Never heard of this place before!
1419 N. Topanga Canyon Blvd., Topanga 90290.

Looks like a very active place.

From the website:
https://theatricum.com

[In the 1950's]...for Geer and his young family, the McCarthy Era had arrived. Relocating to an acreage in Topanga, California, Mr. Geer established a theatre for similarly blacklisted actors and folk singers on the property. Because he held a degree in botany (one of his life long interests) the theater was named for a landmark botany text book, Theatricum Botanicum, which means, quite literally, “a garden theatre.”

There's quite a lengthy Will Geer Road, also in Topanga. ER, the website notes Will Geer was an Indiana native. Did you know that?

I hope he didn't buy tickets to Lawrence Welk and His Champagne Music.

I would hope he was more cutting-edge. :D

My son, the actor (until he came to his senses) did a few plays there in the 90's. How I know about it.

The Harvard Apartments were at 645 E Ocean Boulevard. The two buildings on the right of e_r's picture were both still standing in 2008 (below), but the one on the right had gone 2011, and the one on the left by 2014.

https://i809.photobucket.com/albums/...ardAptsLB1.jpg

The man's car is parked at the curb in front of the site which would later host the familiar cylindrical International Tower.

If the car's headlights were eyes, it would be looking at the even more familiar Villa Riviera.

https://i.postimg.cc/43fbzq1f/Intl-Tower.jpg
gsv

Hey Hoss, that street corner in your photo is the eastern edge of the Long Beach Grand Prix

Hollywood Bowl season canceled for the first time in 98 years.
So long, L.A. summer...

For the first time in its nearly 100-year history, the Hollywood Bowl is canceling its entire season — a loss that amounts to far more than opening night with Brandi Carlile, the film screenings and sing-alongs, the concerts starring Diana Ross, Yuja Wang and Janelle Monáe that were to have followed.

The Hollywood Bowl is summer in Los Angeles. It is running, dizzy, down Highland Avenue with friends after a drink at the Frolic Room or a chilled martini at Musso & Frank. It is barefoot and tanned just outside the gate, wearing a favorite cotton skirt, the scent of sizzling bacon-wrapped hot dogs and street corn slathered in mayonnaise blending with shouts of “tacos, tortas, aguas frescas!”

It is laughing in the $1 seats at the very top of the amphitheater, the sun melting like deep-yellow butter over the hills, stars blinking awake in the darkening dome of the sky.

https://joshwilltravel.files.wordpre...39399196_o.jpg

A nice article about a sad thing...
https://www.latimes.com/entertainmen...er-coronavirus

Literally 100s of YT vids @ Slab City. Part Artist/Burning Man, but overwhelmingly Skid Row in the desert.

Slab City is hardly an upscale mobile home park.

My impression was, it's the Ozarks meeting the California desert.

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"Boys in Car"

a mystery street corner. [c.1940s]

Here's a funny snapshot that someone doctored up with a ball point pen.

https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/1...923/ZjTDsO.jpg
eBay

.................................................................................................................."Hi Gramma. Where'd you come from?" ....lol

If I'm not mistakened there is a grill, no doubt a student hangout, on the corner.
To the left of the grill there appears to be a book store.



Here's an aerial of L.A.C.C. in 1938. ....I can guess where the photograph was taken. . .but I'll wait for more proof.

https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/1...922/SYEYZe.jpg
lacc




The back of the photograph simply says, "Boys in Car".

https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/1...924/lWIszE.jpg





Here's a closer look.

https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/1...924/o6rRHn.jpg
detail


I believe there is a second "boys in car" on the other side of the large car.



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Thanks for answering my question, Jungmann. I appreciate it, buddy.

It's quite interesting that Grandpa Walton was a bit of a hippy.

https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/6...922/wy2rYG.jpg
aatw

Earlier in his career he had been blacklisted by the House Un-American Activities Committee. :(

In the hills near Hollywood during the TV season he lives in a sort of bohemian cottage, complete with a garden filled with the 400 plants mentioned by Shakespeare in his plays. Geer was subpoenaed to testify before the House Commitee on Un-American Activities during Senator Joe McCarthy's reign of terror and intimidation in the 1950s, But Geer is not a man easily scared - he appeared in a bright red shirt and a purple plaid tie and good-humoredly called the questions "hysterical." Nevertheless, he was blacklisted by Hollywood for years."



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It's the corner of Vermont and Normal.
https://i.postimg.cc/JnNYHVV9/Annota...-14-093941.jpgvia GSV

ETA: It's kind of sad that there are no buildings left from the time when that was the Southern Branch of the University of California.

https://hosting.photobucket.com/imag...080&fit=bounds

Our correspondent (and a personal friend of many years) Alison Martino of Vintage L.A. sadly reports that Mike Gotovac, bartender at Dan Tana's for 50 years, lost his battle with the Covid virus today.....here's Mike and Alison....https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CZ5IR2qrh78&t=34s  

I knew Mike for maybe 30 years....closed the place on countless occasions, sat with him on the benches out front as he enjoyed his post-work smoke, and I nursed the nightcap I had walked outside....chatted about the evening and the characters we raised a glass with....

Mike saw everyone in Hollywood walk into Tana's over that half century, he told great stories but would always protect the confidentiality of the celebrities....

A wonderful guy, I never had a cross word with him over all those years....rest in peace my friend....

I can see lots of covid broke unemployed moving out to "Slab City", at least when it cools down. Free rent. Is the place open to anyone who wants to live there? Is it dangerous to live there? Any policing? Are there cliques, like bikers, Canadians, old, young? Are there vacant spaces? Are there services, like stores, mail delivery? Just curious, not planning a move. Does the place have a "Mad Max" vibe, or just Sad Max?

The boys' car is a very rare '40 Buick phaeton, aka a four-door convertible. I was curious about Burleigh's, but only came up with with a story bylined Irv Burleigh...

https://i.postimg.cc/0NFhJxNT/toplessbarmaids.jpg
LAT April 3, 1967

https://www.classiccarcatalogue.com/...40Buick-14.jpg
carcatalog

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I like that sage color.

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DAY & NIGHTcomparison photos.






Mystery vantage point.

"Santa Monica, Day & Night Original Photographs" .... eBay


https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/1...924/LgzQyS.jpg

https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/1...923/PFQyeM.jpg


The two photographs were probably taken by a tourist from their hotel room but I can't quite figure out where exactly.

So. . .umm. . what's the large building in the middle distance that resembles a GIANT theater? ....Is this really Santa Monica? :shrug:



Here's how the photographs appeared on eBay.

https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/1...923/672SuA.jpg



LINK

To answer your last question first, more like Sad Max. There are no services(electricity, police, etc.) and for the folk there, that's one of the reasons they like the place(Ya don't have to listen to Dah Man). However this may be short lived, the state owns the land and there's been some talk of selling it, probably to a power generation company for solar.

Here's another "then and now" with a Bevan Davies photograph. This time the subject is the 1956 Aqua Apartments at 219 S Alexandria Avenue, seen here in 1976.

https://i809.photobucket.com/albums/...AAquaApts1.jpg
www.artsy.net

Even in the picture above, the "S" was missing from the "APTS" part of the sign, and I can't see the name listed in the CDs. The 2009 GSV image shows the original number still present, but no text. The current number appeared by 2011, and the black fencing as recently as 2015/16. It looks like the original design had colored squares on the front, but these have gone over the years.

https://i809.photobucket.com/albums/...AAquaApts2.jpg
GSV

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Here are three curious negatives that I happened upon at worthpoint


#1
https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/8...922/YvHgR3.jpg






#2
https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/8...922/it5Wjs.jpg







#3
https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/8...922/8IREDY.jpg



As you can see, the three negatives show a hotel, pedestrians on a sidewalk and a circus (or midway).

The way the negatives were posted on worthpoint suggests they are from the same strip of film. (see below)

https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/1...924/3PX8j3.jpg

Link


At the moment I don't have the means to transfer the images to positives. :(
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Happy to oblige, e_r!

https://i.postimg.cc/HsV9gVzm/Neg-Yv-Hg-R3.jpg

https://i.postimg.cc/wBchVJqX/Negit5-Wjs.jpg

https://i.postimg.cc/bJm1Xh2d/Neg8-IREDY.jpg

So, basically just a big homeless encampment in 120 degree summer heat? Very noirish in solar glare.

318 S Los Angeles St / 215 Boyd St
 

https://i.postimg.cc/HsV9gVzm/Neg-Yv-Hg-R3.jpg

The 1896 Sanborn puts the Hotel Los Angeles at 318 S Los Angeles:

https://i.imgur.com/Bjk5j5h.jpg
lapl.org

But curiously the hotel seems to have migrated 90 degrees and a few lots over onto Boyd Street. The CDs put this move around 1902, just before the LADBS records start :(

https://i.imgur.com/naPDN1v.jpg
historicmapworks.com

A parking lot by the mid 50's, says the LADBS. Now, hard to say what it is:

https://i.imgur.com/w2xpkZv.jpg
GSV

:previous:

The Hotel Los Angeles is at the center of this 1934 aerial view. The three buildings to the left on Los Angeles Street and the wedge-shaped building on Wall Street appear to still be standing.

https://i809.photobucket.com/albums/...osAngeles1.jpg
mil.library.ucsb.edu

There was a pretty big boom down there(300 block of Boyd) last night and the news said several buildings were destroyed.

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Thanks for switiching the negs to positves, odinthor . . .and thx to Lorendoc and Hoss for the information, and aerial, of the Los Angeles Hotel.

Unless I'm mistaken we haven't seen this building on NLA. (I could be wrong)


Here's a somewhat larger look at the Los Angeles Hotel with the contrast adjusted.

https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/1...922/PglohZ.jpg
worthpoint





My kingdom :pimpdaddy: for anyone who can find out what's written on the plaque at the top of the building. [see below]


https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/1...922/8Rva1W.jpg
DETAIL

And I won't mention the ghost child in the window on the right. ..(he appears to be resting his cheek on his clenched fist)




And before I go; here's a closer look at the hotel sign.... (why not)

https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/1...923/TUQqId.jpg

No ghost child. . .but I do see a sheet doing double duty as a curtain.



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Here's an interesting rppc (c.1911) I recently happened upon at eBay. Link


https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/xq90/923/sJxU76.jpg
eBay

update: I believe we have seen a different angle of this LAFD demonstration several years back but we weren't able to figure out the location.

Here is what's written on the reverse.

https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/8...922/5ozKGi.jpg





A closer look at the action.

https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/1...924/LA9SGc.jpg

18,000 people. . .hmmm. .the bleachers look empty to me. Maybe this is a practice trial.


I'm still trying to find the location of this fire department benefit. The seller sets the date as 1911 but that might be a guess.

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Notice how the cars are parked. You had to leave your car keys with the Attendant. If you wanted your car, he had to move several to get your car out. Parking in downtown L.A. was hellish. I can remember it when I was five years old.....even in the 1950s.

When I was working as a gofer and sweeper at a car dealership in the late 1950s, I learned how to bounce cars in and out of a tight parking spot.

Let's say you had a spot that was just long enough for the car and open on one long side, like a parallel parking spot that was long enough for the car but not long enough to maneuver into. You back the car in all the way at the closest angle you can. Then you and two buddies start pushing down on the front in a rhythm, getting the car to oscillate vertically on the front springs. You keep at this until the front is really bouncing in the air, and then on a signal when it is at the top of the travel, you all shove the front of the car to the side. With the weight partially off the front wheels from the bouncing, and good timing, you can move the front a foot or so sideways. Repeat until car is nicely tucked in.

Another lost art.

Cheers,

Earl

:cool:

11 Firefighters Escape Through Ball of Fire in Explosion at Downtown LA Building
Some of the LAFD firefighters injured in Saturday's fire and explosion suffered critical injuries, but all are expected to survive.

https://i2-prod.mirror.co.uk/incomin...re_3471jpg.jpg

NBC news link and videos HERE.


300 Boyd Street later in the evening...

https://media.gettyimages.com/photos...e-id1225312690

Nobody in the car. Driver gets out before the bouncing starts. In those days it didn't matter which side had a door that could be opened because all the cars had bench seats (of fond memory :-))

Cheers,

Earl