The Blue Dahlia
 

Thanks helpful Hoss & CBD for the Trancas location. Now it is my turn to bring some Malibu noirish find.
In "The Blue Dahlia" (Alan Ladd & Veronica Lake 1946) we see the same Malibu Inn from the same point of view in the rain by night at 29:05 of the movie.

CBD-- There's one in every family.


Stick to LA History and leave other topics and personal attacks out of this forum. I do unless I see misinformation or am accused of ulterior motives.

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Mystery intersection, Hollywood California. [no date]

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

There are some interesting places along the right side of the street.





Let's take a closer look.

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I'm especially intrigued by the Italian restaurant located in a house. ... The sundry store is advertsing theatrical makeup among its many other items.
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"Woman Leaving the Hollywood Palladium. c1940"

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At first I was going to argue that this wasn't the Hollywood Palladium. .


. . .but on closer inspection it says so right under her feet.

https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/1...922/fWSr4a.jpg
CLOSER INSPECTION

Just think how much that Jimmy Dorsey broadside would be worth today!

I wonder if she's a big band singer. She looks like she means business (in a cheery sort of way)....Maybe the paper she's holding is her contract.

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Is the current Starbucks in this building?
 

[QUOTE=HossC;8903812]:previous:

Here's the Trancas Restaurant at 30763 Pacific Coast Highway.

https://i809.photobucket.com/albums/...LATrancas1.jpg
www.pinterest.com

As of May 2016 the building was still there.
https://imagizer.imageshack.com/img924/9666/nyaeI9.jpg

....:previous: THIS. ...

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The Naples Italian Restaurant was at 1508 N Gower Street in the 1956 CD. Here's a 1939 view of the intersection from the rooftop of CBS Columbia Square. The "Fountain Lunch" sign from e_r's picture is visible at the far left.

https://i809.photobucket.com/albums/...nsetGower1.jpg
hollywoodhistoricphotos.com

https://www.imcdb.org/i298428.jpg
Paramount Pictures

Hey Alvaro and Hoss thanks for the helpful links and info on this movie and its location shots. :tup:

:previous: THIS

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From a short video at framepool


Is anyone familiar with a drive-in called NUTBURGERS?

https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/1...922/11rHQG.jpg
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It doesn't ring a bell for me.

Hmm. . .nutburgers make me think vegetarian.








I'm familiar with the next venue.

The Vendome on. . .Sunset, I think.


https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/1...922/zkL0Fe.jpg
framepool

I am surprised by all the autographs seekers milling about. .....The elegant white car that just pulled up looks like Jean Harlow's car.


Here's a closer look at the sidewalk monkeys.

https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/1...924/PKXx9E.jpg
framepool

It looks like Broderick Crawford is signing some autographs.




The next scene is a gentleman walking into the fantastically designed Sunset Haberdashers.

https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/1...922/WlI9Ci.jpg
framepool

At first I thought it was a mausoleum at Forest Lawn! .... (either that or the Pioneer Memorial, downtown) Tne one with the waterfall.





Lastly we see an A & P Grocery Store with a Thrifty's.

https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/1...924/kzu4KS.jpg
framepool





To watch the 1:22 video click on the link below.

https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/6...924/hKUaPw.jpg
http://footage.framepool.com/de/shot...w-schuhabdruck


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Sunset & Fairfax
 

Very cool movie. The SW corner of Sunset and Fairfax has a RiteAid where you can still get Thrifty ice cream.

https://i.imgur.com/AGlJpgy.jpg
USC digital library

Looks like pretty much the same building:

https://i.imgur.com/ce2PUui.jpg
GSV

I'm sure we've seen the Sunset House Haberdashers on NLA before--it was later the Hollywood Reporter Building and that of the LA Weekly--but I couldn't find any old posts.


https://i.postimg.cc/bNvv9z2s/sunsethousefull.jpg
LAT Jan 3, 1938


https://i.postimg.cc/mZjnG4p3/sunsethouseas-HR-bmp.jpg
Martin Turnbull (which is why I'm sure we've seen the SH before)

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https://i.postimg.cc/FFjC43gb/LAWeekly.jpg
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Looking pretty scruffy these days, alas. The street arrow is saying, "Hey, look!"

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Wow! It's still standing and recognizable.

How did I not know this?

Jo !
 

Funny, she looks like Jo Stafford who sang the same years with brother Tommy !

It was slated for demolition as part of the enormous Crossroads of the World redevelopment project, but there was enough influence to save it. https://la.curbed.com/2015/5/29/9955...-redevelopment

https://4.bp.blogspot.com/-GjcTCNBde...tersection.jpg
http://abakusplace.blogspot.com/search/label/california

http://i.imgur.com/9feA9.jpg
http://abakusplace.blogspot.com/search/label/california

[QUOTE=Godzilla;8902178]:previous: Source indicates Eleventh and Flower Streets.

Meanwhile, in 1940, Malibu
https://3.bp.blogspot.com/-CqCVduA0O...beach+1940.jpghttps://3.bp.blogspot.com/-CqCVduA0OQ0/U30rsMQIK5I/AAAAAAAAPFc/wf2mLYV6pgY/s1600/Malibu+beach+1940.jpg]

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I could be wrong, but the station wagon in the parking lot on the left (below Trancas sign) looks early 1950s. Difficult to say for sure.

My original reply included a quote saying "The Trancas Restaurant was built in 1949 after the Malibu Trading Post, on the same location, burned down.", so the 1940 date for the Malibu photo appears to be wrong.

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https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/6...922/WzUyK0.jpg
framepool


NUTBURGERS is mentioned in Aldous Huxley's Brave New World.


https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/6...922/aBhFoB.jpg

https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/1...924/RjYEjk.jpg
Brave New World [1932]




I'm still looking for the NUTBURGERS address.
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