Welcome to the thread Horthos!
If you have photos to share...It would be great to see the interiors of the Alexandria Hotel. In it's time, it was arguably the most lavish hotel downtown. below: The Alexandria Hotel lobby after a 1936 renovation. http://img593.imageshack.us/img593/6...ellobbyren.jpg los angeles public library |
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sopas ej, thanks for the photo of Carmen Miranda. Coincidentally, earlier this week I listened to a very good three-part BBC radio documentary about Carmen. I think I need to look again at some of her movies. In fact there are a few I've never seen. |
a stumbled upon a blog page, Piedmont Avenue, that is hosted by a gentleman named Dorian.
he has a posting titled, Dorian's Bunker Hill Los Angeles Page My recollections of Bunker Hill, which has several color photographic images taken by him and his father on and around angels flight on it's last day of operation in may of 1969. what really caught my eye though, are these two images taken of the Castle and The Salt Box after being relocated to Heritage Square. Not only are they in color, but these are the only images i have ever seen of them at heritage square where they weren't on fire or smoldering ruins. http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6148/...f89ff854_z.jpg Source: Dorian's Bunker Hill Los Angeles Page http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6030/...1504a324_z.jpg Source: Dorian's Bunker Hill Los Angeles Page |
Jonathan Club
A beautiful 1909 postcard, currently on e-bay, showing the roof garden of the Jonathan Club when it occupied the top floors of the Pacific Electric Building (nee Huntington Bldg.) at 6th and Main.
http://img97.imageshack.us/img97/847...anclub1909.jpg e-Bay I would assume you accessed the roof garden through the ballroom (below) that was previously pictured in the thread. http://img96.imageshack.us/img96/501...nclubballr.jpg Unknown ~F3 |
^^^That is an excellent find Fab_Fifties_Fan!
I had no idea there was a roof garden atop the old P.E. Building at 6th & Main. The architecture surrounding the garden is surreal.....much more flamboyant than the staid exterior. The most surprising is the grand staircase leading down to the garden area. |
The JC, 1910.
http://jpg1.lapl.org/00078/00078587.jpgLAPL (Reminds me of the rooftop café of the old Madison Square Garden, where Stanford White was shot.) |
Wow, the rooftop of the Pacific Electric Building was nice!
Here's what it looks like now: http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2024/...62f5b3d9_b.jpg Photo Credit, Floyd B. Bariscale Meh. All cluttered and shitty. |
Thanks ethereal...
I only wish it looked that decent nowadays in the lobby. With the installment of the 2nd floor during WWll, you wouldnt have a clue that it at one time looked so nice, its very plain and dull now. The only upside is that they did keep all of the detailed ceiling work, only now you can only see it if you go into the "mezz bar". http://i19.photobucket.com/albums/b1...-/P1010212.jpg http://i19.photobucket.com/albums/b1...-/P1010215.jpg The average person here doesnt realize that this was once the ceiling of the lobby, they just think that it was some crazy overly detailed really low ceilinged bar. |
Parnassus and the Alexandria
http://jpg2.lapl.org/pics39/00054104.jpg
Back in the 60's I used to be a delivery boy in downtown and used to take envelopes to George Parnassus in his office at the Alexandria. He was Mister Big in west coast boxing and had no fear since his office was filled with the toughest bunch of mugs in LA who all bowed to him. The Alexandria was less than grand in those days and the bar downstairs looked like something out of a B-movie...you might very well see these two dudes holding up a couple of stools in there. And Thanks Christina for getting these scanned so I can ramble on about the olden days. |
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Originally Posted by Handsome Stranger Out of curiosity I've got a question for all and sundry here: do you regularly read and/or participate in other websites or blogs that focus on Los Angeles? If so, what are they? There are three or four others in my bookmarks that I look at now and then, but I don't visit them quite as often nor enjoy them as much as I do Noirish Los Angeles. NOT in any particular order, mind you Quote:
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Horthos-- the brick this little boy is laying is the first of the Alexandria Hotel, as seen in the Los Angeles Herald on April 9, 1905. Behind him are his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Albert Clay Bilicke. Mr. Bilicke and Robert A. Rowan, at right, were involved in many early-20th-century real estate develop- ments in L.A. (On his own Rowan developed Windsor Square-- Lorraine Boulevard is named for his daughter.) |
Horthos, thanks for sharing your photos of the Alexandria Hotel.
I am relieved the elaborate ceiling has survived, despite the fact the lobby was cut (horizontally) in half!! I honestly believe it will be restored to it's original grandeur some time in the future. |
Below is a postcard view of yet another renovation of the Alexandria Hotel lobby (perhaps the early 1950s).
http://img836.imageshack.us/img836/4...obbyredeco.jpg postcard/ebay below: A booth in the 'Gentlemen's Club' of the Alexandria Hotel, circa 1910 (very elaborate for a booth...looks more like a shrine). http://img717.imageshack.us/img717/324/sgrill1910.jpg postcard/ebay below: Years later, a view of the 'Masque Room', a step-down bar in the Alexandria Hotel. http://img827.imageshack.us/img827/6...hemasquero.jpg postcard/ebay Any ideas where this was located Horthos? ___________ |
Thanks for that link, Sebisebster. It'll be a good way for me learn a little more Spanish. ¡Qué Guay!
And I just found out this afternoon that I'll be starting a short job at the Dominguez Building on Wilshire next week! ¡Magnifico! http://digitallibrary.usc.edu/assets...T-BUI-083?v=hr [source: USC Digital Library] |
http://www.doctormacro.com/Images/Ba...Lucille_19.jpgdoctormacro
https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-h...8%252520AM.jpgHollywoodland Her first Hollywood home: 1344 N. Ogden Drive http://www.bonzao.com/mexho/images/c...cille-ball.jpgbonzao.com Her longtime Beverly Hills home: 1000 N. Roxbury Drive, now sadly destroyed by a generic '90s remodel |
My idol's 100th
Thanks for posting that great picture of Lucy clowning around and the pictures of her homes GaylordWilshire!!!
I am an admitted Lucy fanatic and have been collecting Lucy memorabilia for years! Being a child of the 50's, Lucy, in a sense, helped raise me. The moniker 'Fab Fifties Fan' is completely due to my obsession with Lucy and pretty much everything from the 50's. Here are some pictures of my idol that I love!!! Lucy 1942 http://img560.imageshack.us/img560/3835/lucy1942.jpg One of my very favorite I Love Lucy episodes http://img27.imageshack.us/img27/4223/ilovelucyf.jpg Beautiful Lucy 1963 http://img171.imageshack.us/img171/8...utifullucy.jpg And my absolute pride and joy of almost 17 years, my 1958 Cadillac Coupe deVille originally purchased on 11/07/57 at Lou Ehlers Cadillac by Mrs. Lucille D. Arnaz of 1000 N. Roxbury Drive Beverly Hills, Calif. My girl (also named Lucy :)) is always a hit at car shows:multibow!!! Can you just imagine how beautiful that redhead looked driving this car??? ~F3 http://img197.imageshack.us/img197/3108/58deville1.jpg I LOVE LUCY all photos personal collection |
I love Lucy and she loves me
We're as happy as two can be Sometimes we quarrel but then How we love making up again Lucy kisses like no one can She's my Mrs. and I'm her man And life is heaven you see 'cause I love Lucy Yes I love Lucy and Lucy loves me lucy and desi leaving the desilu stuidos on gower, the old rko studios 1958 http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6124/...a11bf5ae_o.jpg and of course, the fabulous view outside the recardo suite at the beverly palms http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5137/...e594a26d_o.jpg |
Speaking of which, the Hollywood Museum currently has an exhibit called "Lucille Ball at 100 and 'I Love Lucy' at 60." I'm thinking of going there today. I love me some "I Love Lucy"! :)
http://www.thehollywoodmuseum.com/ Aug. 4 - Nov. 30 THE HOLLYWOOD MUSEUM AND CBS CELEBRATE: “Lucille Ball at 100 & ‘I Love Lucy’ at 60” |
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The Big 3 (GM, Ford and Chrysler) didn't really come out with any new car designs until the 1949 model year, the facelifted pre-war designs they had sold like hotcakes for the first few years after the war so they didn't need anything new. |
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