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CityBoyDoug, here it is in it's pre-Feed Rack days.(1920s)

"Home of The Cone"

http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/102...923/NttfbH.jpg
http://waterandpower.org/museum/Prog...hitecture.html

"Home of The Cone, an ice cream parlor with an oversized ice cream cone at each corner, located at 2626 Colorado Boulevard in Eagle Rock.
A house can be seen behind the parlor, on the right side." (c.1920s)

CBD, you were correct about the address. (well almost....one number off is all)
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Betsy Ann / Mother Ginger character
 

http://forum.skyscraperpage.com/show...ostcount=25624

http://forum.skyscraperpage.com/show...ostcount=25626

http://forum.skyscraperpage.com/show...ostcount=25649


None of us said "Betsy Ann" in the posts above.
She's pictured in Jim Heimann's book "California Crazy and Beyond: Roadside Vernacular Architecture" on pg 19 and identified in the index:

https://mail.google.com/mail/u/0/?ui...&sz=w1366-h638
jim heimann (amazon/look inside)

Meet 35 year-old John W. Hunt aka "John the Revelator" of the 'Father Divine Cult'. [c.1937]

http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/xq90/921/gcNVYN.jpg
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http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/800...922/ygou6M.jpg

"Buy yourself a soda pop."



http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/128...923/JG2xud.jpg
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http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/102...921/JB12bl.jpg

I'd slap his spectator shoes off that desk that's for sure.


http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/800...924/sXxkUS.jpgdetail

"Solid Comfort Trumbo, Keep Off".........."Parking 15 Minutes, Order of Trumbo."

I take it Trumbo works for the police department, right?







below: I've been trying to figure out where this photo with the typewriter was taken.

At first I thought the police station, but the pin-ups on the wall seem out of place and inappropriate for a police station.
(and I don't think he would have pin-ups like that in his 'religious' office)

http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/102...923/a4FlDw.jpg
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http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/800...924/27KkE9.jpg

Lunch at the 'Feed Rack' for anyone who can dig up the address of the 'Cult' mansion in Bev. Hills.




One last look at his ugly mug.

http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/800...924/vQAeFh.jpg

& here's the info for this particular photograph
http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/800...923/MwDyXE.jpg
http://www.ebay.com/itm/1937-John-W-...gAAOSwj85YOs9Z





And finally, here is 17 year-old Delight Jewitt.

"Cult victim Delight Jewett peering through blinds in U.S. Attorney Fleet Palmer's office, Los Angeles, 1937."

http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/128...924/vkecrB.jpg
http://lit250v.library.ucla.edu/isla...ilyNews%3A5969

Text from original nitrate sleeve:

Jewett, Delight; Jewett, Norman; Palmer, Fleet -- US Atty., Delight Jewett peering through blinds in U.S. Attorney Fleet Palmer's office.
The seventeen-year-old Delight Jewett, a follower of cult leader Father Divine, was to be a witness in the case against fellow Divine follower
John Wuest Hunt, who had molested Jewett under the pretense of immaculate conception.

:previous: "under the pretense of immaculate conception." Yeech!
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*"Prophet, seer, and revelator is an ecclesiastical title used in the Latter Day Saint movement."

I found a second photo of 'John the Revelator' in front of the girlie pin-ups.

http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/xq90/924/Ot1pbd.jpg

http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/800...923/8kmffT.jpg

So what do you guys (and gals) think.........is this the police station?
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Father Divine Cult
 

Huh. In the Father Divine Story, it says the cult purchased the Dunbar Hotel.
Is this the same Father Divine?

:previous:The plot thickens. :rubs hands in glee:

Could there have been two Father Divine Cults?

It wouldn't come as a total surprise since this is Los Angeles we're talking about. ;)

Human antenna?

And house antenna?

As fate would have it I was looking at this photo just last night that I had saved some years back. Apparently a converted "Home of the Cone"? Bet the neighborhood kids were disappointed! Address is easy to spot.......York and Ave 49, Highland Park.
https://c1.staticflickr.com/1/573/32...713a3c84_b.jpghttp://jpg1.lapl.org/00100/00100767.jpg
GSV shows us the carrots are gone, but the house behind Shy-Der's is still there- actually both houses.

https://c1.staticflickr.com/1/739/32...5573ac2a_b.jpg4854 YorkGSV

lol. Your post made me laugh Scotty. :)



I'm watching Perry Mason and they just showed a Medical Arts Building with an impressive sculpture of a woman holding a child.

http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/102...922/6oOI6W.jpg
screen_shot

Have we seen this building on NLA?

I'm wondering if anyone recognized it. I'm really hoping the sculpture hasn't been removed.

The episode is "The Case of the Sun Bather's Diary" [c.1958]

http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/102...924/ogPEeH.jpg
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0673405/...r/rm4234558976


You can watch the episode here:
http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x58fb8e

21st and Santa Monica Blvd, Santa Monica
 

The building survived but not the sculpture

http://i.imgur.com/ApeqBw0.jpg
GSV

Looks like the Tar Baby and the Briar Patch, unless Guy Fawkes brought his own bonfire




ETA. Oh, wait, I just remembered that guy. I ain't gonna spoil it.

Nope. Mudman.


Kim Jones, Wilshire Blvd. Walk, 1976.

Kim Jones introduced Mudman in a performance sponsored by Carp between sunrise and sunset Jan. 26, 1976,
amid his walk from east to west along Wilshire Boulevard spanning across a significant portion of the City of Los Angeles.

The exhibition included a second installment Feb. 4, 1976, while Mudman completed a round trip. Countless people observed Mudman's debut.


Used on the cover of a CARP brochure.
http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/102...923/HPgQxH.jpg
http://futurestudio.typepad.com/.a/6...5959624970c-pi

"Carp was an alternative arts program formed in Venice, CA in the 1970s for the exhibition of experimental artworks
in various public and private spaces, mass media, and other venues."


This rare color image pre-dates the Mudman's "Wilshire Walks, 1976"

http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/800...922/wKXNA6.jpg
http://www.theweeklings.com/jkabat/2...he-met/mudman/

Kim Jones as “Mudman,” October 1975, October Fest, Mt. Pinos, CA


Here's that program I mentioned earlier.

http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/640...923/PjjnY0.jpg
http://www.gangofcarp.com/archive

"Carp was an alternative arts program formed in Venice, CA in the 1970s for the exhibition of experimental artworks
in various public and private spaces, mass media, and other venues."




In the link below, Mudman looks like he's been run over by a Wilshire Express bus.
https://www.specificobject.com/objec...3#.WJF05RsrJPY

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21st and Santa Monica Blvd, Santa Monica
Oh man, it's gone. :(

Thanks for locating the building Lorendoc. I appreciate it.

(I have my fingers crossed that it was moved inside...into the lobby perhaps?)

:previous: Were you thinking of the Mudman t2?

(I believe you have some artists in your family, right?)

Nah, it's all the same one. Here's a write-up on the John Wuest Hunt trouble in LIFE magazine May 3, 1937

And a little more from the Father Divine Story:

https://mail.google.com/mail/u/0/?ui...&sz=w1366-h638

Here's a timeline of the Father Divine Peace Mission.

Rev Jim Jones tried to take it over




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I once ran into some of the "Mudmen" on Sunset near Dodger Stadium in the mid '80s. I told them to "get a job", and they threw mud at me. It turns out they had received some lucrative grants from the government, and their mudmen performance art was their job.

Yes, late 70s, Venice. I lived in an old frame house at 49 Brooks Ave. Lotta stuff was going on back then.

Lunch
 

Doesn't seem like there'd be much privacy:

http://i.imgur.com/a7L3lsX.jpg
Bing maps

Details:
http://i.imgur.com/SVQSnce.jpg
LAT 3/31/37

There was only one Father Divine (George Baker). John the Revelator's attorney was Hugh McBeth, an African-American lawyer who was very active in various civil liberty and civil rights causes in the 30s and 40s.

:previous: Excellent sleuthing Lorendoc!


It seems odd the google-mobile travels down all these streets except for that short stretch in front of the old 'cult' mansion.

http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/102...924/5tS9Lg.jpg

Why do you suppose that is?
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