The La Brea Bakery! Cool.

https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/-d...23911%2BPM.jpg
gsv

Aand this was Seymour's mother's house in opening shots of original B/W "Little Shop Of Horror"

And this was Seymour's mother's house in original "Little Shop Of Horror"

This tree once grew within the perimeter wall of the Lewis Bradbury mansion - across No.Hill is the Sarah Bixby house - next to Stevens Apts adjacent to top of Court Flight. The tree probably 4 stories in height- likely just a weed-like ash tree.

Yes, it's outside the LAX Flight Path Museum on Imperial Hwy!

http://i1165.photobucket.com/albums/.../Plaque2-1.jpghttp://i1165.photobucket.com/albums/...aque3small.jpg

- Photos by me

The building is still standing, albeit subsumed into a much larger complex:

http://img51.imageshack.us/img51/52/lamarket.jpg

La Dow, Then and Now?
 

http://i1165.photobucket.com/albums/...School1885.jpg

Photograph of a view of students posing in front of the La Dow School in Los Angeles, ca.1885. A large number of young children can be seen lined up along a wooden picket fence in the foreground. Several adults are visible as well, standing behind the group at left. The two-story schoolhouse is in the background. It is a clapboard building with a tall bell tower at center. Two large trees are visible, one of which partially blocks the view of the school.

Photoprint reads: "The La Dow School. District formed in the late 60's. Named in honor of S.W. La Dow who gave the first site for a schoolhouse. Boundaries -- east, Figueroa Street, north Jefferson, south Manchester, west Pacific Ocean. [Wow, just going to school every day was a field trip!] About 1873 acre purchased across street, southeast corner of Vernon and Normandie and two story building erected. Lower part classroom, upper hall for meetings, dances, etc. When two teachers were needed, a room was added about 1884. Also, as pupils increased new districts were formed in the old one to take care of them. In 1906, the district was within territory annexed by Los Angeles and it became a part of the L.A. City School system. In 1908 the old buildings were sold and moved away and a new building erected. This is now the Normandie [...] schools, 4416 S. Normandie Ave. The old school house is now located on Vernon just east of Vermont and looks about the same as this photo shows it. Bell tower removed". [my emphasis]

[Text and picture from USC Digital Library: http://digitallibrary.usc.edu/search...1353738219214]

# # #

With the above italicized text in mind, here's 970 W. Vernon Avenue, just east of Vermont and about a half mile from Vernon and Normandie:

https://hosting.photobucket.com/imag...chool_2012.jpg
- Photo by me

The LA County Assessor website says 970 W. Vernon was built in 1899/1900, which doesn't match the info with the old picture, but it's listed as a commercial/industrial building, which could be consistent with the reuse of a former school building.

Obviously there are differences between the buildings in the two photos (e.g., the rear half looks bigger now -- enlarged when the bell tower was removed? -- and the windows on the front half are closer to the roof in the old photo). But unless the info for the 1885 photo is wrong, or other similar-looking buildings were built in the area back then (and there's nothing else like it on either side of that block of Vernon), it seems like it would be a coincidence if 970 W. Vernon isn't the former c. 1873 La Dow School.

Los Angeles landmarks, 1891.

http://losangelespast.blogspot.com/2...landmarks.html

http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lr...sduo1_1280.jpg
http://tmblr.co/ZvK8Dx9Yzvpb

"...colder than a ticket taker's smile at the Ivar Theater..." (Tom Waits)

ca. 1980's, when I spent a lot of time exploring LA after business trips to the Honeywell facility in West Covina. In those days the company would let you fly night first class because it was the same fare as day coach, so after the last meeting I'd meander my way to LAX and the Western red-eye to Minneapolis. It left at 1 AM, and the last flight to Vegas left at midnight from the same terminal. Watching that plane board was better than a trip to the zoo. And no, that's not me in the picture :-)

Cheers,

Earl

Bif you're posting some great stuff of labrea,the only building im waiting for is the present 99c store which is across the street from this building going south,when i was growing up it was Bargain Circus,a redish building.I hated going there but my grandmother and parents loved the place,it was very dark inside and for a 8 year old you could get lost very easily with all of the junk in there.It had a huge clown face on the outside and just freaked me out.mind you i like clowns but this place was just creapy.catty cornered was KCOP it was a grey complex.

Bargain Circus
 

Bargain Circus was on La Brea from the late 1950's until at least the end of the 1990's. Can't find a still of it, but it's shown to good effect in the Angelina Jolie/Ryan Phillippe film "Playing by Heart" (1998). It was such a landmark, with its big clown face and vertical red and white stripes, I still get confused where I am on La Brea without it.

P.S.

Here it is:
https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-P...31822%2BPM.jpg
flickr

...and:

http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-OexDuEEKbs...+circus.2.jpeghttp://shirtofflame.blogspot.comhttp://www.loopnet.com/Attachments/9...CF08813D__.jpggoogle



I have a vague recollection of this business from the 1990s. I have no first hand knowledge of the place before that, e.g., the '50s - '80s. The address seems to have been 852 N La Brea, per the 87 -73 directories. Before that, it may have been a different business. However, advertising the telephone number beginning with an exchange "HO" suggests older. Notice Aaron Bros. was located at 900 La Brea (where Moderncraft was) in 1973, before it moved into its present location at was the Bell & Howell building. http://rescarta.lapl.org:8080/ResCar...us&submit=Find

Anyone care to join me at Edna Earle's Fog Cutter 1635 N. La Brea? Please bring an extra ID, in case they card us!

http://i.ebayimg.com/t/Edna-Earles-F...z+w~~60_58.JPGhttp://i.ebayimg.com/t/Edna-Earles-F...J9Q~~60_58.JPGebay

http://i.ebayimg.com/t/La-Brea-Tar-P...Fz!~~60_57.JPGebay

http://i.ebayimg.com/t/Los-Angeles-C...HFQ~~60_57.JPGebay

Bargain Circus
 

"Bargain Circus was founded in a different Hollywood location as a discount furniture repair shop. When it rained, owner Lee Dolf would erect a circus tent. A name was born. The store moved to its present location (once the site of a supply outlet for Charlie Chaplin's studios) in the late '50s and metamorphosed into an all-purpose knickknack shop."
LAT, 6-1-97
http://articles.latimes.com/1997-06-..._cheap-guitars

More Quonset-hut-esque for you all

Just one man's idea. Stiles Clements sketch for proposed Sports Arena, ca. 1954
http://digitallibrary.usc.edu/assets...BUI-631~1?v=hr
USC

http://digitallibrary.usc.edu/assets...BUI-628~1?v=hr
USC

http://digitallibrary.usc.edu/assets...BUI-633~1?v=hr
USC


Sports Arena nearer. Stiles Clements sketch for proposed Los Angeles Sports Arena, 1956
http://digitallibrary.usc.edu/assets...BUI-638~1?v=hr
USC

http://digitallibrary.usc.edu/assets...BUI-638~2?v=hr
USC

665 or 655 S. La Brea - Braverman Bros?

April 17, 1951 (or was it the 19th?) people converge on Braverman's window to view Gen. Macarthur on TV. (Or this is what happened when one of the Ivar's "entertainers" got lost on the way to work.)


http://digitallibrary.usc.edu/utils/...rea&DMROTATE=0http://digitallibrary.usc.edu/utils/...rea&DMROTATE=0http://digitallibrary.usc.edu/utils/...rea&DMROTATE=0
http://digitallibrary.usc.edu/assets...132-004~3?v=hr

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http://digitallibrary.usc.edu/utils/...rea&DMROTATE=0http://digitallibrary.usc.edu/utils/...rea&DMROTATE=0


Above images from USC Digital

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Remember to park at Tilford's! Try the "Broadbill Swordfish Saute," it's the Radio Special, after 4 PM!
http://i.ebayimg.com/t/1963-PC-Tilfo...Er6Gw~~0_3.JPGEbay

http://a.imageshack.us/img853/2253/l...sflickrjer.jpghttp://a.imageshack.us/img856/6518/l...ordstoday1.jpg
https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/-J...2520PM.bmp.jpg Credit goes to GW and ER. From: http://forum.skyscraperpage.com/show...postcount=6842

Bido Lido's/The Sewers of Paris/The Gaslight/The Opium Den
 

OMG, the Ivar. It was notorious when I lived in Hollywood between the late 70's up till about 1983. Guy got shot dead one night under the canvas marquee and no one called it in until dawn.

There was a gay bar in the back behind the stage, "The Gaslight", reached from the driveway to the right of the theater entrance (the drive was later closed in just leaving a long, narrow hallway). Before that, it was a club, "Bido Lido's", and later "The Sewers of Paris". By the 1990's it was a rock venue (I was a patron by then), "The Opium Den".

The always-legit theater itself was opened in '51, but the great two-level club space was much older. What went on over the years in tiny Cosmo Street, the alley which one could access from the back of the club, was the very definition of noir.

Columbia Drug
 

The long-demolished Columbia Drugstore, SE corner of Sunset & Gower, tucked into the corner of Columbia Studios (now Sunset-Gower Studios). It was gorgeous inside with wood phone booths and a soda fountain in back. They sold theatrical make up and all sorts of unusual things. It still had all its original shop fittings when I knew it in the 70's as my local drugstore when I lived in a 1915 craftsman on a forgotten strip of Beachwood Dr between Columbia Studios and Hollywood Memorial Park Cemetery (now Hollywood Forever). There was a great news stand too, outside, under the awning, on Columbia Drug's Gower St side.

http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-cVAG2VrYqE...and+Sunset.jpg
2719 Hyperion

Between the people working at Columbia Studios and at Bill Putnam's famous Western Recorders music recording studio (now split between Ocean Way & EastWest [Cello]), which took up the rest of the Sunset frontage on either side of the Columbia Studios gate, you'd never know what luminaries you'd see in Columbia Drug.

http://farm1.staticflickr.com/109/30...c9e43319_z.jpg
jody miller - flicker

Memories like this are priceless to the thread. Thanks for sharing.
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posted earlier by tovanger2
http://imageshack.us/a/img198/5746/a...ehhoyelwik.jpg
wikipedia

I circled the original portion of the Hollywood Hotel Hotel in gray at far right.


below: Here is a wonderful photograph of Prospect Avenue before it was renamed Hollywood Boulevard.
You can clearly see the original Hollywood Hotel (with strawberry fields across the street).

http://imageshack.us/a/img195/3235/a...ectaveebay.jpg
newly listed on ebay

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Mulholland Highway opening December '24
http://digitallibrary.usc.edu/assets.../CHS-9075?v=hr

1930 - Valley View from Mulholland Drive.
http://digitallibrary.usc.edu/assets...CHS-44632?v=hr Both from USC Digital

When will turkeys get a fair break?

Undated traffic infraction or violation of fish and game laws?
http://jpg2.lapl.org/pics04/00011657.jpg

1931
Police Turkey-shoot.
http://jpg3.lapl.org/pics17/00028050.jpg

1934
Women practicing for a turkey-shoot at Police Academy. Chief "two gun" Davis pointing the way.
http://jpg3.lapl.org/pics20/00029858.jpg

Undated. Chief Davis always get his bird?
http://jpg2.lapl.org/pics04/00011656.jpg

1930 Woman feeds Turkey at restaurant
http://jpg3.lapl.org/pics29/00064066.jpg
http://jpg3.lapl.org/pics29/00064065.jpgAll LAPL

While exploring via the google-mobile, I happened across this rather mundane American Legion Post 252 at 3828 West Slauson Boulevard.

http://imageshack.us/a/img203/1818/zambo3828slauson.jpg
google street view

Growing up in east central Illinois I knew Legion Posts were usually located in obsolete bars (where else?), so I decided to google the address, 3828 West Slauson Avenue.


Sure enough, this particular American Legion Post was once a popular nightclub.


ZAMBOANGA, "Home of the Tailess Monkeys"

http://imageshack.us/a/img706/9101/zambopc1.jpg
ebay

http://imageshack.us/a/img35/6808/zambog.jpg
google street view

above: notice that the horizontal line that stretches from the entrance and curves into the sidewalk is still intact.
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http://imageshack.us/a/img132/6835/zamboapemenu.jpg
http://www.arkivatropika.com/cgi-bin...gi?item_id=486







http://imageshack.us/a/img838/4391/zamboownerjoe.jpg
ebay

This was one of three bars owned by Joe Chastek. (we've already visited his Vagabond's House; see below)
http://forum.skyscraperpage.com/show...postcount=8022










below: Real tailess monkeys (behind glass) contemplating guest Spike Jones and owner Joe Chastek.

http://imageshack.us/a/img706/4735/z...ikspikejon.jpg
http://www.tikiroom.com/tikicentral/...rum=1&start=30







below: The Jungle Room Bar at ZAMBOANGA.

http://imageshack.us/a/img826/5633/z...kiroomsite.jpg
http://www.tikiroom.com/tikicentral/...rum=1&start=30





below: The Lounge Bar at ZAMBOANGA


http://imageshack.us/a/img525/6735/z...rpctikiroo.jpg
http://www.tikiroom.com/tikicentral/...rum=1&start=30



Below: The dining room at ZAMBOANGA.

http://imageshack.us/a/img204/7851/zambod1.jpg
http://www.arkivatropika.com/cgi-bin...gi?item_id=486



http://imageshack.us/a/img842/4153/zambomenu.jpg
http://www.tikiroom.com/tikicentral/...rum=1&start=30





http://imageshack.us/a/img825/2732/zambomenu1.jpg








http://imageshack.us/a/img705/7214/z...pentikiroo.jpg
http://www.tikiroom.com/tikicentral/...=30076&forum=2






http://imageshack.us/a/img818/3937/zambocolor6a.jpg

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Here's an even earlier view of ZAMBOANGA.

http://imageshack.us/a/img163/2041/zambopc.jpg
ebay

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Looks like Joe Chastek had two other nightclubs: the Trade Winds and Vagabonds House. The Vagabonds House was discussed here.

Another interesting restaurant is the Islander. More can be found here.

Another fine view of Pickwick Books that we discussed earlier here http://forum.skyscraperpage.com/show...postcount=9911


Hollywood Blvd. circa 1955
http://imageshack.us/a/img824/8118/h...lookingwes.jpg
http://photos.lapl.org/carlweb/jsp/F...olNumber=79640

I love the UNION PACIFIC marquee at left.

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Yessiree - When Prohibition ended the LAPD plowed into Cosmo and Selma's Jimmy's Backyard and BBB's busting the (to them) most flagrant clubs in Hollywood due to performers like Rae Bourbon , Billy the Male Harlow and the quasi L&G milieu - Malin,Haines and Tachman n Garbo lost their teensy haunts

After the monkeys grew tails and the Zamboanga had its run, it became the GINZA (below).

The GINZA - date unknown
http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/phot...1_ad_ginza.jpghttp://latimesblogs.latimes.com/thed.../05/ginza.html

Same building to the right
http://ladailymirror.files.wordpress...ng?w=554&h=416

To the left is the former location of the Wilshire Bowl, previously discussed in this thread by gsjansen http://forum.skyscraperpage.com/show...postcount=3770 and covered in this article: http://ladailymirror.com/2011/10/14/...wilshire-blvd/

http://ladailymirror.files.wordpress...pg?w=554&h=428
http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5261/...66dd823d_o.jpg

http://img269.imageshack.us/img269/4...irebowl1pc.jpghttp://forum.skyscraperpage.com/show...postcount=3772

http://imageshack.us/a/img18/921/aabzambok1a.jpg
ebay

The ZAMBOANGA dance floor is shown at lower right.


below: The dance floor today.

http://imageshack.us/a/img528/756/aabzambotdance.jpg
http://www.tikiroom.com/tikicentral/...1&vpost=583248

special thanks to John-O at tikiroom forum
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The ZAMBOANGA stage and famous mural.

http://imageshack.us/a/img713/8539/aabzambotstage.jpg
http://www.tikiroom.com/tikicentral/...1&vpost=583248



below: The stage today.

http://imageshack.us/a/img27/2470/aabzambotstage1.jpg
http://www.tikiroom.com/tikicentral/...1&vpost=583248

again....thanks to John-O at tikiroom forum.
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Some ZAMBOANGA-era bamboo still in place at a rear exit.

http://imageshack.us/a/img163/1131/aabzambotbamboo.jpg
http://www.tikiroom.com/tikicentral/...1&vpost=583248





below: 1930s tile work survives in the john.

http://imageshack.us/a/img338/8509/aabzambottile.jpg
http://www.tikiroom.com/tikicentral/...1&vpost=583248



One last view of the Dining Room at ZAMBOANGA. Notice the elevated area in the right foreground.

http://imageshack.us/a/img109/3797/aabzambotdining.jpg
http://www.tikiroom.com/tikicentral/...1&vpost=583248


below: The elevated area today.

http://imageshack.us/a/img109/3851/aabzambotele.jpg
John-O at http://www.tikiroom.com/tikicentral/...1&vpost=583248




exterior view/night time

http://imageshack.us/a/img545/1387/aabzamanoir.jpg
John-O at http://www.tikiroom.com/tikicentral/...1&vpost=583248
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1608 Cosmo Street, Hollywood
 

Regarding the club space behind the Ivar Theater, Curbed LA was recently mystified by it use:

"Walking around Hollywood, I see several older commercial and warehouse buildings that have been thoroughly and stylishly renovated but have no indication of who or what is inside. Mostly they look like they'd be architect's offices, but none has any nameplate anywhere. They are: 1603 Cosmo Street, 1608 Cosmo Street (the old back-of-the-Ivar club space), and 1715 North Gower. Does anyone know what is done inside these handsome but mysterious buildings?"

As late as 2011, 1608 Cosmo St was still a venue called The Brick Box.

But Cosmo Street is no longer the raucously entertaining pocket of seedinesss and vice it once was. The club marquee, which was over its main entrance in the Ivar Theater's facade (photo below), is gone. Cosmo Street has been gentrified. Hollywood's first building to get lofted is also on Cosmo. The tiny, one-block-long street is now kept clean as a whistle.

http://www.casenet.com/music/opden1s.jpg
casenet

http://kevinestrada.files.wordpress...._dgen_blog.jpg
Kevin Estrada
D Generation plays the Opium Den 1996

P.S. The aforementioned Rae Bourbon (1892-1971) once starred in a review on the Ivar Theater's main stage, "She Lost It in Juarez(?)", the title of which was a joking reference to Bourbon's widely-regarded-as-a-hoax 1955 sex-change operation in Mexico. Bourbon was arrested multiple times for impersonating a woman and once for impersonating a man.

Jimmy's Back Yard, named for the courtyard (now roofed over) at the back-of-the-Ivar club space, opened in circa 1928. It was joined on Cosmo by Bobby Burns Berman's BBB's Cellar. The 1932 police raid didn't bother them much. The Cosmo clubs were back running in the black by 1933. As well as the patrons mentioned by rick m above, Marlene Dietrich, James Cagney, Mae West, Ethel Barrymore, Talullah Bankhead, Joan Crawford and Jean Harlow hit the Cosmo clubs, the women as much to see themselves impersonated as anything else. Even Howard Hughes dropped by two nights in a row. (per Behind the Screen: How Gays and Lesbians Shaped Hollywood, 1910-1969 by William J. Mann, Penguin Books, 2001 and Out with the Stars: Hollywood Nightlife in the Golden Era by Jim Heimann, Abbeville Press, 1985)

Alhambra Edison Plant 1928.

http://imageshack.us/a/img687/4156/a...nplant1928.jpg
unknown

Rooftop sign for pilots enroute to Mines Field, which would eventually become Los Angeles International Airport.
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Your post is provocative and interesting too. I don't know if these places have been discussed on this thread, but I would love to learn more about the clubs you mention above and about the performers you mention. I think you might shed some light on "quasi L&G" nightlife in the 1930s and leading up to WW2. Would you care to give it a shot?

Ivar Correction
 

To keep the record straight (and in matters of sleaze, a straight record is essential), another blog lists the Ivar picture I posted as being from LAPL and dated 1977.

Cheers,

Earl

Holy cow, ER, that instantly became one of my favorite photos of old Hollywood! I may need to bid on it.

Cosmo St. Scene
 

I added a little more info re the Cosmo Street scene in a P.S. to my last post on page 522. Google will give you a lot more.

"Behind the Screen: How Gays and Lesbians Shaped Hollywood, 1910-1969" by William J. Mann, Penguin Books, 2001 and "Open Secret: Gay Hollywood, 1928-2000" by David Ehrenstein are full of info as is the delightful "Wisecracker: The Life and Times of William Haines, Hollywood's First Openly Gay Star", also by William Mann.

The Haines rick_m mentioned is film actor William Haines. (tovanger2 mentions him as well in her post :previous:)

http://imageshack.us/a/img141/9052/aabhaines1.jpg
http://lewistrimble.blogspot.com/201...ner-actor.html




http://imageshack.us/a/img254/5681/a...esswimming.jpg
http://lazycircles.blogspot.com/2008...am-haines.html


http://imageshack.us/a/img838/4485/a...azycircles.jpg
http://lazycircles.blogspot.com/2008_01_01_archive.html





below: Cafe Trocadero circa 1935.

http://imageshack.us/a/img405/2733/a...mystanding.jpg
http://www.maybellinebook.com/2011/1...ields-had.html

William (Billy) Haines is seated with the cigarette in his hand and his lover Jimmy Shields is standing at left....and we all know who the delectable blonde is.
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CC Pierce
 

CC Pierce (1861-1946) came to LA from Chicago in 1886 for the winter & stayed. He married Hattie Gower (Gower St in Hollywood is named for her family's ranch).

The LA Times published an article on C.C. Pierce and his 10,000 photographs in July.
http://articles.latimes.com/2012/jul...ierce-20120710

Here's Pierce's shot of the future Miracle Mile (diagonal at center) in 1920
http://www.kcet.org/updaily/socal_focus/CHS-7010.jpg
Title Insurance and Trust / C.C. Pierce Photography Collection, USC Libraries.

a little more on william haines

1930 film
http://imageshack.us/a/img844/1958/a...irlsaidnom.jpg

download here
http://lovvrpy.tumblr.com/post/17322041622









1929
http://imageshack.us/a/img515/4369/aabhainestheg.jpg
http://www.barewalls.com/pv-443388_1...ie-Poster.html

Billy Haines
 

Haines decorating business was a justified hit and continues to influence interior designers today.

Below is the bed Haines did for Carole Lombard. The tufted trim around the edges was a classic Haines touch and became a trademark.
https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/-A...65916%2BPM.jpg
architecturaldigestarchives

Joan Crawford's living room. Haines combined regency pieces with his own contemporary furniture into a new "Hollywood Regency" style. Original Haines furniture fetches high prices at auction. Some of his designs are still in production.
http://blog.circawho.com/wp-content/...anCrawford.jpg
circawho.com

Billy dazzles a client:
http://blog.circawho.com/wp-content/...esDesigns..jpg
circawho.com

Classic Haines armless chair:
https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/-a...70509%2BPM.jpg
http://<i>http://www.williamhaines.c...-chair-256</i>


http://blog.circawho.com/wp-content/...liamHaines.jpg
circawho
Haines' lab for his design ideas was his and Jimmy's home at 1712 N Stanley Drive. He once did a room in knotty pine, but thought there weren't enough knots, so had a faux-finish painter add more. http://www.architecturaldigest.com/g...-angeles-house



And if you haven't seen Haines in "Show People" (1928) with Marion Davies (directed by King Vidor), do it now. Show People is both Haines and Davies best film.
It features location shooting on the MGM lot.
http://www.doctormacro.com/Images/Po...0People_02.jpg
dr macro



e_r also touched on Randolph Scott and Cary Grant in the blog he quoted. There was a dreamy photo spread done on them at home. Google Images has the rest of the series.
http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_mb...eqjmo1_500.jpg
tumbr
http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_MdT92ZQvZ0...h%2526Cary.jpg
http://gayinfluence.blogspot.com

Who is the blond?:shrug:

That's Jean Harlow seated next to her honey, William Powell

P.S. Actually (according to altfg.com), the whole line-up is: Edith Gwynne Wilkerson (wife of Trocadero owner Billy Wilkerson), Jean Harlow, William Powell, William Haines‘ lover Jimmy Shields (standing), Anderson Lawler, unidentified man (standing), Haines, Edith’s sister Marge. (Anderson Lawler was a Paramount Pictures actor and the rumored paramour of Gary Cooper, but I digress.)

P.P.S.
The "unidentified man" is Wm Wilkerson (1890-1962), the owner of the Tracadero. Here he is at the club with Cary Grant
http://www.cirosbooks.com/wp-content..._Wilkerson.jpg
cirosbooks

Besides the Tracadero, Wilkerson owned Vendome and Ciro's. He founded the Hollywood Reporter and the Flamingo Hotel in Las Vegas.
Wilkerson also owned the Arrowhead Springs Hotel, here photographed by C.C. Pierce in 1938 just to bring that full circle.
https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/-z...21053%2BPM.jpg
eBay

Thx for the great photo e_r

Here are two 1950s slides I found on ebay earlier in the year.

http://imageshack.us/a/img35/8468/aa...naplosange.jpg

I am struck by this dashing young couple. Are they about to be married at City Hall?
The location (a small verdant patch near an overpass ) seems quite odd.




below: The companion slide.

http://imageshack.us/a/img443/5937/a...nap2dogwit.jpg

A little dog with multiple little hats (infrastructure in the background).

Anyone have an idea where these slides were taken? I've tried to figure it out for quite some time.
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If this vintage William Haines interior doesn't impress you.....

http://imageshack.us/a/img802/9124/aabhainesin2huge.jpg
http://www.williamhaines.com/history

...nothing will. :) At first I thought those little statuettes were 'Oscars', and that this must be Edith Head's living room.
I was wrong on both accounts.


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Thanks for the updates and William Haines information. Since I no longer live in LA it is hard for me to browse bookstores where I might find the titles provided by Tovanger. I plan to order online. I lived in LA in the 80s and remember going to the Gaslight (which was seedy as hell) on more than one occasion back then. I remember hanging out somewhere else in the same alley a short time later, or maybe I am thinking about the Spotlight. That does not speak well for my predilictions, but that is another story. I am a 12 stepper these days and no longer hang in such spots. I guess that is a story of redemption or something. I had no idea there was such an interesting history to that little alleyway.