Gee whiz, I saw the billed It's a Mad Mad Mad Mad World at the Cinerama Dome during its premiere engagement (starting November 1963). The family's reservation was just about a week after the JFK assassination, and it was a question for several days whether the theater would be dark out of respect. But the show did go on, and I remember the occasion pretty well (I was a month or so past my 9th birthday; we may even have been doing this as a delayed birthday event). Something that impressed me: During the intermission, the speakers would be playing back and forth police radio transmissions about the status of the various characters in the movie, which I've always thought was extremely imaginative. But let's get to the important thing: I doubtlessly saw Norm's! (And I have a strong notion that we ate there one of the times the family saw a show at the Dome.)

Sigh... re my images not showing up... the link comes from Google Photos, same as I've been using for the past year or so. So what's the latest best way to get images on this thread these days? Never seems to have been easy to get them on the thread and to make them stay....

I've been using Postimage (alias Postimages) for about a year now.

https://postimages.org/about

Very easy to use, I've had no problems. They seem to have had a moment of dubiety about something a few weeks ago; but immediately made arrangements which, as it turned out, were not needed, and everything is fine. Recommended (and free)!

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Just to throw out another candidate and a little plug, I use Imugr. I had no photo hosting experience before taking the plunge here. It was free, easy to learn and I've had no problems whatsoever.

Thanks... I just replaced the image in post 46599 with the same one via Postimage...see if it shows up now: http://forum.skyscraperpage.com/show...ostcount=46599


PS And thanks Bristolian for the suggestion of Imgur

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Hmmm...nothing will change immediately...so some things(s) will change...

That photo I posted of it being built was in July. That was pretty quick.

I liked what you wrote about the police radio updates during the Intermission!

Yes for me, GW. :tup:

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Good to know... thx guys

Where RR traffic is infrequent the rails get rusty. A short train would not necessarily squish the rust, and dirt, away to make contact. The bead squishes cuz it is small and highly stressed, then the circuit can be completed. Think of the corrosion on your car battery terminals.

[QUOTE=Martin Pal;8170056]Thanks for your reminiscence about working at Wallichs BDiH. It gives all the photos of the corner of Hollywood & Vine a personal touch now!

Quote: "Most of the movie stars and recording artists came in after midnight when it was quiet." Do you have any stories of any people you saw? Or just name drop few?

I wish you had a picture of yourself in the "Beatle Wig!"

Your post is the first mention I recall of a Norm's Restaurant near there. I know the La Cienega one was built in 1957. I looked on Norm's website and they have some history about the restaurants, but no photo of the one you frequented. Their website said that Norm Roybark opened his first restaurant at Sunset & Morningside in 1949! From the Norm's site: "NORMS made its debut in 1949 when Norm Roybark, a Los Angeles native, opened his first diner near the famed Hollywood corner of Sunset and Vine. As one of the few spots open 24/7, it didn’t take long before NORMS became the place to be."

I've been trying to find a photograph of this Norm's, but to no avail. (So far?) You mentioned watching the Cinerama Dome being built. I did find this aerial photo of it under construction. (July, 1963.) Several photos like this have been previously posted. I am assuming the little place across the street from the Dome's "shell" pictured here is that particular Norm's?

https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-hloa6M3w7...L-00104525.jpgLAPL

If you watched the Cinerama Dome being built, did you also watch the NBC Building get torn down? As you may know, for several years I've been trying to locate a COLOR photo of the lobby mural inside the NBC Building. So I have to ask if you ever were inside that building and saw it in person? I have never come across anyone who's even seen it in person. Wouldn't it be amusing if I find someone who actually saw it and they say "No, it was painted in black & white." LOL!

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Yes, that is Norm's, just west of Wallich's.

You could enter Wallich's through the Morningside doors or the front doors on Vine Street, but you could not exit through the east doors. Notice how much parking was available back then.

I walked through the lobby of NBC many times and did see the murals. If memory serves, they were in color. That entire neighborhood was historic even in the early 1960s. The Moulin Rouge, Columbia Square, NBC and Wallich's were all part of Radio City. You could always find radio personalities around, like Dick Whittinghill, Jack Bailey and Bob Barker walking or shopping at Sy Devore's or Castles Cameras.

I waited on many actors and musicians in those days. Some would hang around late at night and shoot the breeze. We got used to seeing Johnny Mathis (who held the record for having his album, Johnny's Greatest Hits, in the top 40 for seven years), Sal Mineo, Rock Hudson, Burt Lancaster and many more on a regular basis. One afternoon, Ricky Nelson was shopping. After he left, someone turned in a set of car keys with a fob that said, "Rick." He came back in about five minutes later and I held them up in the air for him. A very nice guy. He and his brother David went to Hollywood High. I used to see their mother, Harriet at Hughes Market on Franklin and Highland.

It was too difficult to watch NBC being razed. Same with Music City. In the photo above, you can see the new RCA building being built on Sunset and the old one on Vine, just north of NBC.

Also, notice the Sunset & Vine tower on the south/east corner of Sunset and Vine. That was new, as well. The Room at the Top was a hot spot, with the unheard of cocktail price of $2.00. The CNN skyscraper was not built yet in those photos. It now sits on the site where the Hollywood Canteen once stood.

By the way, Morgan Camera Shop at 6262 Sunset Blvd rivals the old Spanish Kitchen for abandoned historic addresses.

For what it's worth, I created a "dummy" Tumblr blog that is basically hidden. But I can still upload very good quality photos, then copy the http address of any uploaded photo to share images here.

The original photos that I've posted here are on Flickr; from what I've been reading, this is probably a good thing. The Smugmug folk are really dedicated to photography, unlike Yahoo and Verizon. They will be moving all the account logins off Yahoo and over to Smugmug. I'm not sure they'll charge, they might. Smugmug's never had a free tier, so this might fill that gap, who knows at this point.

Works perfectly now, GaylordWilshire! :)

re: weld for conductivity
 

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Thanks for the explantions unihikid, Bristolian and Ed Workman. I appreciate it.



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"Patton’s grounds were expanded in the first decade of the twentieth century to include a 400 acre farm and ranch which provided nearly all the food the hospital required to feed its patients and staff. Patton had a dairy, piggery, and chicken farm by 1916, and grew almost all its own fruits and vegetables, had orchards, and eventually built a cannery. The hospital also constructed several industrial shops in its early decades and this further contributed to the hospital’s trend of self-sustainment. Patton added a mattress shop, shoe shop, furniture shop, and sewing room in 1912. Most patients worked alongside the staff on the farms and ranches, and in the shops, laundry, and kitchen. This was seen as therapeutic and came to be referred to as occupational or industrial therapy. As a self-sufficient town, Patton also had its own post office and, to this day, has its own postal code."
from ASYLUM PROJECTS

Thanks for the vintage aerial Hoss & the link to Thomas Kirkbride and his 'asylum architecture'.
-it reminded me somewhat of the Panopticon design for prisons.


I can't ignore the sterilizations that occured at Patton:

"California sterilized over 11,000 mentally ill state hospital patients from the passage of its Asexualization Act in 1909 through 1950. Sterilizations at Patton made up nearly half of that total at 4,585 patient sterilizations. No other state in the U.S. sterilized as many people as the state of California. Some medical practitioners believed that sterilization of mental patients was therapeutic, but most doctors who were involved in sterilizing patients did it for eugenic purposes. It was thought that sterilizing patients would keep them from passing on their illnesses to their progeny and would keep future generations from further overcrowding the hospitals. Sterilization of mental patients would decrease dramatically after World War II, but would not officially end in California until 1979."

from ASYLUM PROJECT

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A summary of Michel Foucault on Panopticism. (I had to read the book in college)

I came across this photograph while we were discussing the 70s/80s punk scene. (unless I'm mistaken this isn't too far from where I used to live)

1977
https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/1...923/3u7VRl.jpg
PHOTO BY RUBY RAY via NIGHTFLIGHT

What throws me for a loop is that small "Orpheum Theatre"

this one_________________heck of a place for a water heater.
https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/3...924/r6kAKk.jpg https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/3...924/Lz1CPW.jpg

sidenote: (this is five years before I arrived in L.A.)

The people in Ruby's photograph:

L.A. Line-up, (from L-R): unknown, Hellin Killer, Trudi, Pleasant Gehman, Bobby Pin, Nickey Beat, Alice Bag, Delphina, Lorna Doom, Pat Smear, Jena.

Pat Smear :lmao:

mystery location
 

I found this slide a long time ago on ebay.

If I remember correctly, the seller described the scene as "a street carnival in Long Beach" (sorry that's all I got)

https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/1...922/eKaKyZ.jpg
EBAY

Whaddaya think?

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Bobby Pyn (aka Darby Crash), Nicky Beat, Lorna Doom and Pat Smear were all members of the Germs (as shown on Doom's T-shirt). This would've been around the time that the group was formed.

The picture was taken outside Tower Records on Sunset. The building on the left, which housed the Orpheum Theatre, has been replaced by something much larger, but the others are still there.

http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...tShops2017.jpg
GSV

I think that the building under the billboard looked better in white, as seen here in 2009. The building on the right has lost its porthole windows.

http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...tShops2009.jpg
GSV