Rib ends dinner from Mom's BBQ

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re: interior of the Abbotsford Inn.

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1887 city directory / detail

:previous: Wow, thanks for finding this Flyingwedge! It's so different than I imagined.
I wasn't expecting such an open space.
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This reminds me of when I first found out Pico House had a courtyard.

interior of Pico House
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Mark Peacock at https://www.flickr.com/photos/7623944@N03/4480881078

No, not the war, much earlier. Here it is, with the more austere sign, in 1931...(as they say 'scroll right')

https://farm2.staticflickr.com/1666/...84705a57_h.jpgBelmont Theater and the Rainbow Gardens, 1931

Looking north from 3rd Street from just east of Vermont Avenue.

USC Digital Library/Dick Whittington Collection

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In the early 1980's, IBM sold the building to Thrifty Corporation, parent company of Thrifty Drug Stores and other business. Thrifty renovated the ground floor, placing a drug store, a Big 5 sporting goods store, and a Crown Books around the corner. I worked in the building from 1989 until 1995-96 when Thrifty donated the building to the Los Angeles Catholic Archdiocese, the present owner.
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once more....
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http://forum.skyscraperpage.com/show...ostcount=34445

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Thanks for your help Wig-Wag and MK.





I just found another slide of the H-Line that has the Belmont Theater looming on the horizon.

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Ralph Cantos collection at http://www.pacificelectric.org/los-a...on-the-h-line/

This is from the last week of H Line service.
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I just came across this original negative for sale on eBay.



"ORIGINAL NEG LOS ANGELES TRANSIT LATL LAMTA 1551 ON PROW HIGHLAND PARK"

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http://www.ebay.com/itm/ORIGINAL-NEG...YAAOSwzvlW~VZ2

"LATL ON PRIVATE RIGHT OF WAY ALONG THE AT&SF IN HIGHLAND PARK."

I'm not sure where this r.r. curve is in highland park

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And here's another I just came across.

"B&W Negative: Los Angeles Railway 1548 Los Angeles, CA Undated"

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http://www.ebay.com/itm/616-B-W-Nega...sAAOSwzvlW~VoN

No location (other than Los Angeles) is given.

:previous: That looks like Dick Tracy's car.

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James Dean last fill up
 

http://time.com/4038581/james-dean-photos-anniversary/

http://www.flickriver.com/photos/neo...ll/4847140034/

Could not figure out how to post the photos at the above links, maybe someone on the board can do it. I think we've seen these or similar images before, it's James Dean gassing up the Spyder on 9-30-55, at Ventura Blvd. and Tyrone in Sherman Oaks. The 2nd image was taken at the site a couple of years ago, the photographer holds up the Dean photo with the site as it looks today for comparison.

Revisiting this now as an alert to anyone who wants to see the bldg, pump island and gas station canopy, as they will soon be demolished. The station, which has been used as a flower shop for many years, will be torn down along with the adjacent bldgs. I live in the area and drove by today. The various businesses, which include the Handy J Car Wash, are all now closed. Apparently a Whole Foods market will occupy the site.

An additional noir element is that this was the station that the Manson family killers stopped at to wash off the blood following the carnage up on Cielo Dr.

The above from the odinthor collection; the below from Los Angeles Public Library's photographic collection, #00061725. My mystery location/building has something of an air of having been inspired, if vaguely, by Prudent Beaudry's residence at 81 New High St. (below), but within the confines of a very strict budget:

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URL of Beaudry residence pic: http://jpg3.lapl.org/pics24/00061725.jpg

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and today-
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http://www.flickriver.com/photos/neo...ll/4847140034/

Thanks for the heads up riichkay.

I didn't know the Manson Family had a connection to this station. -very interesting.


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These are all in roughly the same location on Marmion Way. I think we've seen the color shot before.

Los Angeles Transit Lines car no. 1218 heads up the grade on W Line service in this undated photo.

http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...1.jpg~original
www.pacificelectric.org/Philipott and Baldridge Collection

Los Angeles Transit Lines (ex-Los Angeles Railway) W Line streetcar no. 1553 passes in front of tall spring grass heading northbound on Marmion Way on May 21, 1955.

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www.pacificelectric.org/Alan Weeks Photo-Collection

Two Los Angeles Railway W Line cars negotiate the steep grade in this dual-track shot. Car no. 1506 is growling uphill while no. 1558 stays on the brakes while proceeding downhill. The destination boards read "Rimpau & Washington."

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www.pacificelectric.org/Jack Finn Collection

Dean also owned the '55 Country Squire behind his Porsche. The gas station was part of the Casa de Cadillac complex we've seen here before...I for one posted pics of it in May 2012, but the images are all missing now....

They're here though: http://losangeleshistory.blogspot.co...istory_25.html

One of my favorite shots...

https://farm3.staticflickr.com/2874/...a01c43b5_b.jpgFairmount, Dennis Stock, 1955.

Jimmy with his cousin Markie. Fairmount, Indiana,1955.

Photo by Dennis Stock


And here he is with the Spyder at Competition Motors on Hollywood Boulevard...

https://farm6.staticflickr.com/5776/...99eff9e707.jpgCompetition Motors, Hollywood Boulevard, September 1955

Another satisfied customer. Jimmy had finished shooting George Stevens’ “Giant”– notice his hairline was shaved by the studio to play the older, slightly balding
Jett Rink. With the film in the bag, Jimmy was now free to race. Hard to know exactly the context of this pic, we know he picked the Spyder up for the last time
from the Competition Motors service department on Vine Street (opposite the Hollywood Ranch Market). Still a sad, compelling story after all these years.


https://farm6.staticflickr.com/5648/...de531b95_b.jpgCompetition Motors, Hollywood Boulevard, ca.1961


https://farm4.staticflickr.com/3699/...723ca70b68.jpgJimmy on the morning of that day, 1955

Jimmy behind the wheel of his brand-new Porsche 550 Spyder with friend (and Porsche mechanic) Rolf Wütherich riding shotgun. The '55 Ford Country Squire is
also Jimmy's. It is being driven by Bill Hickman with photographer Sandy Roth in the right seat. The Ford wagon is pulling a trailer which was intended to carry the
Spyder after Jimmy had enough seat time to insure the Porsche had sufficient miles on it to qualify for their intended class at Salinas. Of course, none of that will
happen. We're looking north on Vine Street at La Mirada Avenue. Jimmy is parked at the curb in front of Competition Motors at 1219 N. Vine Street, the building is
long gone. But that building in the background with the sidewalk awnings is still there doing business as a pawn shop. The Hollywood Ranch Market is
across the street to the right.)

Thanks to etheral and Gaylord for the follow up posts.

Regarding the Squire station wagon with the trailer, apparently the original plan was to tow the Spyder. But Dean wanted to put some miles on the car....a fateful decision, maybe he survives the crash if he's in the wagon...or they don't make the same time and are not even at the crossroads when the truck was there...you can go on and on with the possibilities.

It was a Ford two-door sedan.

Apparently, Dick drives a '41 Buick two-door sedanette. Does that ghost sign say 'London Apartments'?

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The Squire was driven by legendary stunt driver Bill Hickman, a close friend of Dean's. Hickman was the driver of the killer's car Steve McQueen pursued in the great car chase sequence in "Bullitt". Hickman's quiet gesture of clicking his seatbelt shut is one of the most iconic scenes in film. Pretty noirish, too.