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What'chu talkin' 'bout, Chillis?
I saw a couple interesting matchbooks recently.
Jane Jones' Little Club 8730 Sunset Blvd. https://photos.smugmug.com/GALLERIES...wood_ca-XL.jpg This location has been posted about on NLA. Tourmaline noted that before it was Jane Jones' Little Club it started out as the King's Club and was then the Club Marcel, before Jane took it over. One of the links on the post indicates the Little Club was known as a lesbian venue. http://forum.skyscraperpage.com/show...ostcount=35816 On this post Tourmaline found a very close-up LIFE Magazine photo of the facade, highlighting the neon sign seen on the matchbook. http://forum.skyscraperpage.com/show...ostcount=35807 At present, the Sunset Towers is at the 8730 Sunset Blvd. address: https://s3-media1.fl.yelpcdn.com/bph...p7cy3eCQ/o.jpgYelp _____________________________________ The other matchbook that caught my attention: THE CHILLIS CLUB 620 1/2 W. 6th St. Los Angeles I can find no information about this location at all, either written or photographic. The matchbook indicates the place might be in tune with horse racing in some fashion. A visit to 6th St. in the Googlemobile shows a newer building with several fast food restaurants on the street level, all with the same address: 630 W. 6th St.: Mitaki, Subway, Eko Eats and Ocho Mexican Grill. The building to the left of this is an old building, has the address of 614 W. 6th St. and this location has been posted about on NLA. The following post by HossC features a Shulman set of photos from 1967 and further information about that location with links from E_R, GW and Fab Fifties Fan. http://forum.skyscraperpage.com/show...ostcount=31766 As for the 620 1/2 W. 6th St. address and the Chillis Club: :shrug: |
just saw this on ebay
I believe this slide is new to nla. (I thought it was a repeat at first because of the familiar 'Shelter' sign)
"1957 Los Angeles, California, Street Scene, Coca Cola Truck, Orig. Slide" https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/1...923/dmQRmF.jpg EBAY Slide Brand: Red Border Kodachrome from 1957 Slide Film Size: 35mm Processing Date Stamp on Slide Mount: None Writing on Slide Mount: Los Angeles, Cal 6/57 ___________________________________ HELPFUL CHART 1941-58 https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/6...922/6KkOLz.jpg TRAINUTZ |
Historic fast food location
Oldest surviving McD in CA....Downey
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https://farm1.staticflickr.com/951/4...f084f7f0_c.jpg The GE Form 9 Novalux luminaires are currently lamped with LED. Originally, the 8-panel globes (I always called them "The Eggbeaters") would have been lamped with arc-lights. Later, they were converted to Incandescent, and still later the orange-glowing High Pressure Sodium. https://farm1.staticflickr.com/945/2...f28604d2_h.jpg The UM 1642 copper shafts were restored in conjunction with the City Hall renovation of 1998-2001. Here we see a bit of the shaft atop the base which is painted in the LABSL's standard color of "Spring Street Green." https://farm1.staticflickr.com/956/2...55ff2ee3_c.jpg The above three photos are mine, taken October 02, 2017. According to the 1924 Union Metal Catalog, the copper shafts were available at extra cost. The UM 1642 street light itself was priced at $303, excluding trolley pole & luminaires. Union Metal would gladly provide quotes for these items. https://farm1.staticflickr.com/972/4...728c318c_c.jpg 1924 Union Metal Catalog Reprint Union Metal Corporation Canton, OH |
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About 30 years ago, my boss and I were doing work at one of our locations in the area and were looking for a cheep place to eat. We ate at that McD, though the prices were a tad bit higher. A few nights ago, I was watching a police chase on the news and they drove right by it. |
Horticultural Pavilion, 1878-1882
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of the image exist. Here is a close-up of the Pavilion from the same photo at the California State Library. The two towers look unfinished on top. Left of center appears to be a steep stairway from Temple Street up the bluff face. The house cut off in the lower right corner is on the NW corner of Temple and Hill: http://i1165.photobucket.com/albums/...v.jpg~original stereo-0034 Although it is widely held that the Pavilion burned down, it was actually torn down due to a foreclosed mortgage, even though the land for the Pavilion was, as t2 noted, donated by Prudent Beaudry, whose offer was formally accepted June 8, 1878. In addition, the Pavilion, constructed by the Southern California Horticultural Society, was not completely built to plan. The SCHS also published the Southern California Horticulturalist. This is what the Horticultural Pavilion was supposed to look like, but never did (this image was printed many times, and this was the clearest copy I found): http://i1165.photobucket.com/albums/...v.jpg~original Sep 14 1878 Pacific Rural Press @ CDNC Here is a description of the above illustration from another newspaper (only the main central hall is being built, and the directors are firmly resolved to incur no indebtedness): http://i1165.photobucket.com/albums/...psdphktfep.jpg Oct 19 1878 LA Herald @ CDNC The ground floor plan; as far as I can tell, only A, B, C, D, E, and maybe I were built: http://i1165.photobucket.com/albums/...psqijgsd43.jpg Sep 4 1878 LA Herald @ CDNC The second floor plan; again, I don't think M or R were ever built. The upstairs galleries are described as being 18 feet wide here: http://i1165.photobucket.com/albums/...pshs2l3r0c.jpg Sep 4 1878 LA Herald @ CDNC More background and information on the Horticultural Society and the Pavilion: http://i1165.photobucket.com/albums/...v.jpg~original http://i1165.photobucket.com/albums/...w.jpg~original http://i1165.photobucket.com/albums/...i.jpg~original Sep 4 1878 LA Herald @ CDNC After the lot was sufficiently graded, construction of the Pavilion probably began on Monday, August 26, 1878. Here is an advertisement for the Pavilion's grand opening exhibition: http://i1165.photobucket.com/albums/...f.jpg~original Sep 1878 Southern California Horticulturalist @ Hathitrust The October 15, 1878, Los Angeles Herald described the events at the Pavilion from the previous evening and listed the exhibitors. In the spring of 1879, there was talk of finishing the Pavilion's towers: http://i1165.photobucket.com/albums/...ps3thyiatd.jpg May 4 1879 LA Herald @ CDNC The SCHS reported in December 1880 on the results of the 1880 Horticultural Fair, noting that the Pavilion could not be finished because of debts incurred the previous year. President Hayes was at the Pavilion during the fair on his one-day visit to Los Angeles on October 23, 1880. The mortgage that ultimately spelled the Pavilion's doom was taken out because . . . well, I'm not sure why, or when. But by the spring of 1881, things were getting dicey (the guy's name was actually Stinson, not Stensen): http://i1165.photobucket.com/albums/...psc9nbrkkg.jpg Apr 6 1881 LA Herald @ CDNC There was still some optimism, however: http://i1165.photobucket.com/albums/...psv7hyavfn.jpg Apr 7, 1881 LA Herald @ CDNC The Horticultural Fair of September 1881 was the Pavilion's last: http://i1165.photobucket.com/albums/...psibtujbw1.jpg Sep 9 1881 LA Herald @ CDNC After the 1881 fair, the Horticultural Society was still having money problems. I believe John H. Shields, one of the SCHS directors, wrote this description of and plea to save the Pavilion: http://i1165.photobucket.com/albums/...m.jpg~original http://i1165.photobucket.com/albums/...g.jpg~original Nov 15 1881 LA Herald @ CDNC The drama continued: http://i1165.photobucket.com/albums/...ps13jc5vz2.jpg Dec 7 1881 LA Herald @ CDNC A little more detail: http://i1165.photobucket.com/albums/...psiwoxqxac.jpg Dec 9 1881 LA Herald @ CDNC This shows the Pavilion lot going from Stinson to Hubbell, as described above (I guess): http://i1165.photobucket.com/albums/...psspxfwijx.jpg Dec 7 1881 LA Herald @ CDNC Eventually, time to save the Pavilion started to run out: http://i1165.photobucket.com/albums/...psmb6wcgn2.jpg Feb 16 1882 LA Herald @ CDNC This Thursday, March 2, 1882, LA Herald article is titled "The Doomed Pavilion": http://i1165.photobucket.com/albums/...pshv52q4jp.jpg CDNC I guess Mr. Hubbell had had enough: http://i1165.photobucket.com/albums/...psbkkcooxc.jpg Mar 4 1882 LA Times @ ProQuest via LAPL http://i1165.photobucket.com/albums/...psaldcmprf.jpg May 10 1882 LA Times @ ProQuest via LAPL So perhaps Hubbell sold some of his Pavilion land to Loomis: http://i1165.photobucket.com/albums/...pskgmzf4nt.jpg Jul 28 1882 LA Times @ ProQuest via LAPL It would be interesting to know which residences were constructed with materials from the deconstructed Pavilion: http://i1165.photobucket.com/albums/...pstizvq1lb.jpg May 25 1882 LA Times @ ProQuest via LAPL Perhaps this was one of them, although I'm not sure where it was: http://i1165.photobucket.com/albums/...psaxft1ceb.jpg Sep 2 1882 LA Times @ ProQuest via LAPL The 1888 Sanborn doesn't seem to show the actual site of the Horticultural Pavilion, which is just off the top of the map below. North is at the top. Temple runs left to right, and Olive ends at Temple in the center. Hill Street is at the right edge: http://i1165.photobucket.com/albums/...c.jpg~original ProQuest via LAPL The 1894 Sanborn shows what I'll call matching two-story double homes at the south end of the old Pavilion site, between Sand (in front of the school), Stockton, Pavilion, and the narrow drive on the south. Temple runs along the bottom: http://i1165.photobucket.com/albums/...r.jpg~original ProQuest via LAPL This photo is c. 1895 and looks west on Temple from about the same spot as the first photo in this post. In fact, the home in the lower right corner of the photo below -- on the NW corner of Temple and Hill -- is also in the lower right corner of the close-up of the Horticultural Pavilion that I posted above. Right of center and behind the buildings on Temple you can see the brightly lit south sides of those matching two-story double homes at the south end of where the Pavilion was: Quote:
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re: It Conquered the World house (and neighbor)
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only to be stopped several hundred feet from the house. :hell: https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/1...923/Dy2iUv.jpg gsv :hell: but at least I got to see that it's painted red just like UphillDonkey said. https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/1...923/3Kj1Ht.jpg gsv *Looking at Handsome Stranger's screen-grabs again..I think the house might have been red when they shot the movie. (if red looks gray in black n white) ________ While I was up there I noticed another house in the area that was wrapped like a big ol' birthday present. (fumigating) https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/1...922/d18QMg.jpg GSV so I decided to go take a look. Here it is. They should wrap it back up. https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/8...922/2zNBIy.jpg detail the triangular windows are all kinds of wrong. In my humble opinion. BUT....take a look across the street. https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/1...923/apBSDb.jpg GSV Wow. I likee. I drove around the corner to get the view from the other side, and the damn google-mobile STOPPED AGAIN. :hell: :hell: https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/8...924/Q6h81l.jpg ___ If only I knew someone with a camera that might drive up there and snap a few photographs of these two places. ;) I'm kidding. you don't have to go up there |
"The Loved One"
In the 1965 dark comedy/satire "The Loved One" (based on Evelyn Waugh book about L.A. cemetary & ex pat. British culture) the heroine sweet Ms. Thanatogenous swings precariously from a hillside stilt house. It looks like it might be in one of the stilt homes above Ventura Blvd, maybe Encino? Anybody have a location? If you haven't seen the movie, it is worth seeking out & often funny. Mr. Joyboy (Rod Steiger) & his huge 700 pound mom swallowing roast suckling pigs whole are especially hilarious in a grotesque way. Poor Joyboy dinner date Ms. Thanatogenous never recovered from seeing mom in action.
Second question--if you could time travel back to one decade in the past, in L.A. or elsewhere, which one? I'd love to spend a few weeks in the 1920s. Maybe catch a game with the Babe, buy some stocks in the mid '20s at the start of the Big Bull market and sell them & go short right before the '29 crash. Magic. |
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I was enraptured by the Nesbitt's promotional video. It inflamed my natural love for my home state. Plus, I love Ken Carpenter's voice. I'm a big fan of all the classic radio announcers, who took the spoken language to unparalleled heights. Thanks also for the link to the Soda Pop Stop. I share your aversion to HFCS, and while I nowadays drink sodas rarely, when I do it is a rare treat, and it had thus better be sweetened with sugar as God intended. |
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614 is listed as being the Harten building, built in 1920 and other than signage, the front appears unchanged. It is quite impressive |
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Here are a couple of views of Aimee Thanatogenous' condemned house. http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...ALovedOne1.jpg The precarious swing is on the far right. http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...ALovedOne2.jpg Both MGM According to IMDb and Wikipedia, the house is 3847 Oakfield Drive, Sherman Oaks. Rather than being condemned, it was under construction at the time. http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...ALovedOne3.jpg GSV |
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https://i.imgur.com/1ziu374.jpg I'm glad you liked the Nesbitt's video. I liked it, too. :) I guess(?) that most people can't tell the difference between real sugar and HFCS, or they simply do not care. Personally, I don't think that HFCS tastes as good as real sugar, but the thing that really bothers me about it is the weird "aftertaste", for lack of a better word. Whenever I drink something with HFCS in it, I feel like I need to spit (or brush my teeth) after drinking it. It feels like it leaves your mouth coated in a sort of fake, slimy “sweetness” you can't get rid of without brushing. Yuck! |
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I found a couple of building permits for that address in the 1920s. They refer to a 6-story building owned by I Eisner (I'm guessing Isidor Eisner). |
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...turf information and race results...sounds like The Sting. http://marvinhamlisch.us/wp-content/...g-The-Wire.jpg http://marvinhamlisch.us/wp-content/...-The-Sting.jpg |
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https://78.media.tumblr.com/dfb3298b...rtso1_1280.jpg [source:bing.com/maps] And I think you're right that the house may have been red in 1956 when the movie was made. It does appear to be two-toned in some shots. https://78.media.tumblr.com/8ea3672d...rtso2_1280.jpg https://78.media.tumblr.com/a5496105...rtso5_1280.jpg PS - The movie was shot in only five days! PSS - Mcdonald's in Downey has a humongous and fabulously archaic street sign that features a long since discarded mascot named "Speedee." PSSS - "The Loved One" is brilliant and weird. Most of the dialogue is looped, giving the movie a very otherworldly tone. Many location shots were filmed at the Graystone Mansion. Liberace is quite funny portraying a haughty and dismissive casket salesman. And if IMDb can be trusted (I know it can't), a cameo appearance by Jayne Mansfield was cut before release. |
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I originally read your comment about the photos being "taken at more frequent intervals" to mean that Bing's cars travel the streets more regularly. I then realized that the phrase was ambiguous, and that you probably meant that there's only a few feet from one photo to the next, which is definitely true. I'm glad that Google Maps has competition, but Bing Maps still has plenty of room for improvement (IMHO). |
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https://farm1.staticflickr.com/973/4...e4799e6d_o.png And then this: https://farm1.staticflickr.com/946/4...a4814293_o.pngall, CSL (Above, note the St Angelo at upper left for reference) |
I can't give enough praise to the CSL for embiggening their images. For example, I remember being thoroughly intrigued back in May of 2010 when gsjansen made this post, including this shot from the LAPL:
http://jpg1.lapl.org/pics19/00009360.jpg —and there was much eye-straining to gauge whether the structure to the right of the lady in white was in fact 601 West Sunset, as featured in Kiss Me Deadly. https://farm1.staticflickr.com/958/2...d4b3b73a_b.jpghuntington Now, at CSL is this image, which takes it to a whole 'nother level: https://farm1.staticflickr.com/954/4...6dd0bfc3_h.jpg https://farm1.staticflickr.com/824/4...ed1be619_o.png |
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http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...pleStreet1.jpg Google Maps The roads are about the only constant. |
Fascinating post on the HORTICULTURE PAVILION Flyingwedge.
https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/6...922/eGFkWu.jpg Nov 15 1881 LA Herald :previous: so was this fountain with the 25 ft upward leap and the small lake ("lakelet") located inside in the main hall or somewhere outside on the grounds? It isn't marked on any of the plans. _______ I also have a question about the building in the lower left corner of the images below. Quote:
It looks like several floors were added to the structure. (to be precise...to the bottom of the structure) https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/6...922/50msj0.jpghttps://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/6...923/11iL09.jpg It looks like it might have been turned into a hotel. Does anyone know? __ |
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