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And meantime while we look into the M K M house's story, I became interested in li'l 8417 Sunset, sitting forlornly with its additional "1/2" on its single line between the other, multi-line, addresses on Hoss's list. But Research didn't bring me much: https://i.postimg.cc/fR5cXXbc/8417-S...LAT-26-5-2.jpg LA Times, May 2, 1926 https://i.postimg.cc/FKRjxRf2/8417-Sunet-LAT-60-4-8.jpg LA Times, April 6, 1960 So 8417 went from being a "palatial home" to being where cocktail waitresses lodged (no disrespect to cocktail waitresses intended). |
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Here is more info on MKM Motion Pictures 8411 Sunset Blvd. and Lea Knox Marlow.
https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/...1c6391b1_b.jpg Film Bulletin May 18, 1953 This is Lea Knox Marlow as seen in the 1956 edition of the Film Daily Yearbook of Motion Pictures Courtesy Bison Archives https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/...893ffe19_k.jpg and some background on one of her proposed TV show "Peter Angel" starring Chinook, the wonder dog. https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/...3905a255_k.jpg The Radio Annual, 1954 MKM MOTION PICTURES, Inc. Laveen, Arizona In Preparation on New Television Series "PETER ANGEL" The Gripping Adventures of a Wandering Man of God and his dog Direction, Story and Screen Play by LEA KNOX MARLOW Produced by DON KEITH Starring JOHN BROMFIELD and Chinook (Academy Award Winner Wonder Dog) All Television Supervision by CARL HUGHES CONS All rights and privileges of use of title and story "Peter Angel" Exclusive property of MKM MOTION PICTURES, Inc Address all communications to: L K. MARLOW Hollywood Representative 8556 Hillside Ave., Hollywood, Calif. Phone: HOllywood 9-5110 Full text of "The Radio Annual and Television Yearbook, 1954" https://archive.org/stream/radioannu...0radi_djvu.txt Quote:
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First, in the 1949 view of Sunset Blvd. above, am I correct that the "M K M" (to be) house is there (white or light color) on the hill behind/under those trees? Also, in the Ciro's photo that shows the "real estate" (8423) house, I was assuming for the longest time that Ciro's, shown being painted, was being painted beige/pink, but then it dawned on me it actually might be being painted brown. Now I'm not sure at all which. Most all of Ciro's exterior photos I've been looking at online are not dated, nor do most all of them show the "real estate" (8423) house. HossC's photo of the area from July 19, 1957, shows Ciro's, obviously, but I can't really tell what color it is in that photo. (By the way, Ciro's closed in Dec. of 1957.) Below: I believe this particular photo (only noted as possibly 1955) seems to show the M K M house (to be) with the trees and painted white, and no "real estate" (8423) building yet. CLICK ON THE PHOTO FOR LARGE SIZE. https://i2.wp.com/www.martinturnbull...size=640%2C426Pinterest This previously seen photo below on NLA does show the "real estate" (8423) building, though it's behind the car. Ciro's color is not the same brown as above... https://i2.wp.com/www.martinturnbull...trip-1950s.png ... and the sides of the "real estate" (8423) building look to be painted gray, not white as in the picture below: https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/1...923/JTYtry.jpgdetail Also, in the above photo, to the left of E_R's red arrow, what is that on the pole sticking up from the sidewalk. It looks like a street sign, but if it is, it's quite aways away from the street. Quote:
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I have a question. (maybe we've already covered it) Did Ciro's utilize the old Club Seville building or did they build a completely new building? https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/1...922/yL0iVx.jpg LIFE :shrug: info: "The first nightspot to occupy this site was Club Seville, opened New Year’s Eve 1935 by 12-31-35 Marcel Lamaze and Al “de Freitas” (Alfred B. Freitas). Both had long associations with Sunset Strip clubs: Freitas had run a previous Club Seville at 8428 Sunset that was raided during Prohibition; LaMaze, lately arrived from Miami by way of New York, would have ties to 9039 Sunset as well as the Clover Club at 8477 Sunset. The highlight of Club Seville was its Crystal Marine Room, featuring a crystal dance floor with subsurface fish, fountains and colored lights." __________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ The Crystal Marine Room sounds like a real trip. A dance floor with live fish underneath! Am I reading that right? . |
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E_R, while reading various things about Ciro's the past few days, this is something I read on the Playground to the Stars website: HERE. Louis Adlon, son of the proprietor of Berlin’s Hotel Adlon, opened Hollywood’s first iteration of Ciro’s in 1934. Located on Hollywood Boulevard, the club was informally part of a chain with locations in London, Paris and Berlin. The Hollywood Ciro’s was not a success, apparently, because it soon folded. [I HAVE A QUESTION...HAVE WE EVER SEEN A PHOTO OF THIS 1934 CIRO'S ON HOLLYWOOD BLVD.?] In 1935, the building at 8433 Sunset Blvd. that would later house the Sunset Strip’s Ciro’s was completed. The first tenant was Al De Freitas’ Club Seville, where the gimmick was a dance floor made from sheets of glass over a giant aquarium. But dancing on fish proved not to be popular, and the club closed within a year. In 1940, six years after he successfully launched Cafe Trocadero down the street in Sunset Plaza, Hollywood Reporter publisher Billy Wilkerson acquired the former Club Seville building, redesigned the interior in his trademark Hollywood style and opened a new Ciro’s in the space on January 31. Wilkerson created Ciro’s as a “celebrities only” club, but by the summer of 1942 he had lost interest in it. In November, he leased it to Herman Hover, who reconfigured the layout and opened it up to the public as well as the stars. In June, the building was nearly destroyed by fire. It was closed for four months, after which Hover purchased the building from Wilkerson. See this post about the fire: https://skyscraperpage.com/forum/sho...ostcount=35844 |
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There are three building permits for 8433 Sunset from 1940, all listing the owner as W R Wilkerson: August 19th - "Enlarging present cafe to make more storage and kitchen space." September 4th - "Add third floor to existing bldg, install new fire escape." September 10th - "Enlarging present cafe to make kitchen & storage space - supplementary valuation No increase in size. Add partition." BTW. The 1940 CD lists 8433 Sunset under 'Restaurants and Lunch Rooms' as "Knew & La Maze". |
In 2016, there were some posts concerning a tenant of Ciro's neighbor, the Hacienda Park Apartments aka Coronet Apartments aka Piazza del Sol.
The Hacienda Noir cast of characters. Cast: Paul Ivar Wharton Mrs. W. A. Wharton William McCauley Howard N. C. McDermott Henry E. Bolte Virginia Bolte There were newspaper photos of Paul, Henry and Virginia. https://skyscraperpage.com/forum/sho...ostcount=35843 https://skyscraperpage.com/forum/sho...ostcount=35932 https://skyscraperpage.com/forum/sho...ostcount=35933 https://skyscraperpage.com/forum/sho...ostcount=35945 I discovered a recent (2019) and more detailed article about this story on WeHoVille, which includes a couple different photos and also one of "William McCauley Howard" (Billy) whom we hadn't seen. LINK: The Strange Men Murder This is part of a series of articles, all linked below: Hacienda Park and the Origins of the Sunset Strip Part 1. Riviera in the Foothills Part 2. An All American Tragedy Part 3. The ‘Strange Men’ Murder Part 4. Out of the Ashes Part 5. Coronet Apartments: Villa of Vice? |
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Thanks, HossC. The notation that the Hollywood Blvd. Ciro's was "informally part of a chain with the others in London, Paris and Berlin..." There's this British Pathe reel from 1932 about the London one: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EJ5NKL7QqfA |
Hello all. I believe that in the early days this thread someone posted an early photo or two of Nichols Ranch in West Hollywood but I can't find them now. Can anyone point me to that post, or if you know the photos I mean, re-post them? Thanks in advance.
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A bit of a mystery. (mislabeled?) LAFD Firehouse Inspection, 1956 https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/1...924/62WAME.jpg eBay SUBJECT: A 1956 view of Fairfax Avenue and firefighters from the Los Angeles, California Fire Department - Station No. 58 taking a break before inspection. FILM FORMAT: 35mm. FILM TYPE: Kodachrome. MOUNT: 2" x 2", Cardboard, Red Border, written notations. DATE: Written date - FEBRUARY 1956. Mount is consistent with those used at that time. WRITTEN NOTATIONS ON MOUNT: See scan. (below) https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/6...922/elb0CI.jpg "A 1956 view of Fairfax Avenue and firefighters from the Los Angeles, California Fire Department - Station No. 58" But Station 58 wasn't located on Fairfax Avenue. Station 58 was/is located at 1556 S. Robertson Boulevard....Nowhere near Fairfax :shrug: Possible clue: There is a swim school down the street. https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/xq90/924/hB6TbY.jpg detail eBay Link . |
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Ah yes, the fire station at Robertson and Pickford: https://www.google.com/maps/@34.0505...7i16384!8i8192 |
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Has anyone heard of Spectrum 2000? As you can see it was located in a heavily remodeled Ciro's building. https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/1...922/VdO02o.jpg links coming I thought it was an entertainment or media company until I happened upon the ad shown below. https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/1...924/jHW0R8.jpg no date . |
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I found that Spectrum 2000 picture the other day at abcdvdvideo.myshopify.com, but didn't get around to posting it. They date it at 1967. Strangely, it never appears in the CDs (and neither does It's Boss). Here are the listings for 8433 Sunset Boulevard from 1967 to 1973. Note that Ciro's is included even when The Comedy Store first appears in 1973: 1967 Ciros The Store 1968 Sennes F Enterprises Ciros Living Room The Store The 1969 Sennes F Enterprises Ciros Frasen Corp Living Room The Store The 1973 Sennes Frank Jr Ciro's Comedy Store The Below is a video dated as both 1967 and 1968. You can see the Spectrum 2000 sign in color at about 42 seconds in. Just before the band at the end, the sign for the recently discussed Haunted House on Hollywood Boulevard can be seen. |
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This past week I've been trying to figure out the names of the places located at 8433 Sunset Blvd. location after Ciro's closed in 1957 until The Comedy Store from 1972 - present. There's a lot of mis-information online, much of it from random memory. I found that photo you posted E_R online, too. I'm beginning to think that whomever or whatever the owners of it were, that it was often rented out for periods of time under different names, because nothing seems to have lasted there for very long, 18 months at most from my findings so far, and on at least one occasion it was being shared by two different places...I think. Heh! I'll post what I have found so far, soon. Thanks for the CD info HossC. That lends credence to my notion that different entities were using it for club space with different names. |
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This photograph was taken during the same week in July, 1960. "Louis Riggio, left, accepts some Jehovah's Witnesses literature from Jim Waddington. Girls, left to right, are Deborah Zielinksi, Marcia Waddington and Carol Jack. The religious group is holding an assembly here."...... https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/1...922/IfxzU4.jpg calisphere It took me quite awhile to find the name "Jehovah's Witness" on the posters. https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/1...922/YWo7q9.jpg detail . |
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Some more of Ciro's/8433 Sunset Blvd in the mid-1960's. In 1965 as Frank Sennes' Ciro's Le Disc. https://i.imgur.com/SWIjkdL.jpg oldshowbiz.tumblr.com The excitement generated by the Byrds residency there that year accelerated the boom in clubs along the Strip. https://i.imgur.com/bouEshF.jpg earlyhendrix.com Unable to acquire a liquor licence the next move in 1966 was to become the 15+ hangout It's Boss. https://i.imgur.com/VQacyAp.jpg gettyimages In April and May of 1967 Ciro's hosted a few shows under the banner of The Kaleidoscope. This venture was later located in the Earl Carroll Theatre for about six months in 1968. https://i.imgur.com/EJczdRe.jpg hubpages.com Spectrum 2000 had it's official opening on August 17th 1967. https://i.imgur.com/9rJwod2.jpg gettyimages Spectrum 2000 interior on opening night. https://i.imgur.com/N8To3Vq.jpg gettyimages Poster for New Year's Eve's Mad Mod Party at Spectrum 2000 on December 31st 1967. https://i.imgur.com/bDHVQ3C.jpg rocktourdatabase.com |
Well, Noir_Noir, you've beat me with a couple photos below...I've been working on this post all week! I didn't know it was going to get so involved!
Prologue: Before I begin this post about what was at the Ciro's location after it closed, I want to correct a couple things. The wikipedia page on Ciro's says this: It was transformed into a rock and roll club in 1965 called Ciro's Le Disc and renamed The Kaleidoscope in 1967. In 1968, it became a Sunset Strip rock and roll club which was called "It's Boss". It became The Comedy Store in 1972. 1.) It was definitely Le Disc before 1965. 2.) The Kaleidoscope was a club at Frank Sennes' Moulin Rouge location. See a photo of it: HERE, from Hollywood Historic Photos. I don't know for sure if it opened in 1967, but they have the photo dated 1968. 3.) "It's Boss" was open as early as September 1965. A post on Tumblr by Nina Berry says at one time Ciro's was a place called Crazy Horse, before It's Boss. The only Crazy Horse reference I can find along these lines is that Neil Young played with a band called Crazy Horse at the Roxy in 1973. https://nina-berry.tumblr.com/post/4...-the-1940s-los ___________________________ Ciro's: 1940-1957 After Ciro's closed, I was trying to figure out all the names it had until The Comedy Store opened. There was an auction in 1958. https://jhgrahambooks.files.wordpres...-7-29-1958.jpgJHGraham The dates/years of what came next vary by a year or two any place you look, and many places who post about these years say "at some point" or "after such and such" or are "conflicting" so I hesitate to put any specific dates, but I believe what follows is the correct order. But as I learned just yesterday, there could even be more. Frank Sennes, who also operated the Moulin Rouge on Sunset Blvd., owned Ciro's for awhile. There's some writing that he called it The New Ciro's (I find no evidence of that in photos or ads.) He may have just used his name and the Ciro's name as in this photo. I can verify no information as yet as to what was going on at the location from 1960-64. It's easier to verify the timeline of the Hotel, which, as HossC noted in a previous post, opened in...1963. 1963-1966: Gene Autry's Hotel Continental. The photo below is dated 1964. I used this one to show the marquee of Ciro's which is at left below center. There are no acts listed on the white square, but above it, it says Frank Sennes Ciro's. (On the front marquee of the hotel facing Sunset Blvd., where it says Hotel Continental, the white strip you see off to the left a little says "Gene Autry's"... I saw it up close in a photo facing the other direction. Click HERE to see it.) https://scontent-lax3-1.xx.fbcdn.net...87&oe=5F3E9048 Then at some point the place was called, Le Disc, but Frank Sennes name and Ciro's name remained so you're apt to find acts and ads referring to the place as Le Disc, Ciro's Le Disc or all three: Frank Sennes' Ciro's Le Disc. Some ads and writers have spelled it Le Disque in reviews...and online posts spell it that way sometimes, I've noticed. Early references say that The Byrds got their start at Le Disc, most say in 1964, but this L.A. Times article, HERE says it was 1965. This photo shows the colorful marquee...and to the right the Hotel Continental sign. https://66.media.tumblr.com/1c17addd...321o1_1280.pngOldShowBiz The above is most likely dated 1964 as George & Teddy and the Condors released this Live album in 1964: https://img.discogs.com/5do9GnW34n4J...-8647.jpeg.jpgDiscogs Dick Dale & the Deltones also released a Live from Ciro's Album in 1965. This particular ad in the Friday, March 12, 1965, edition of the Valley Times has all three names listed: Frank Sennes Ciro's Le Disc: https://img.newspapers.com/img/thumb...77_972_909.jpgNewspapers.com (Jimi Hendrix may have played here with Little Richard. Jimi stated in the June 15, 1969, interview with Nancy Carter that he played Ciro's with Little Richard.) EarlyHendrix _______ In the June 18, 1965 edition of the Los Angeles Free Press, there's a small ad that only says: AFRO-BLUES QUINTET, The Living Room, 8433 Sunset Strip. LINK [The Living Room is noted in HossC's post of the names listed in the 1968 and 1969 CD's. Perhaps it's one of the performing "rooms" at this address.) _______ By the end of 1965 the place was called "It's Boss," as verified by this review of Sonny & Cher playing there: https://66.media.tumblr.com/f99a38a3...j321o1_500.pnghttps://64.media.tumblr.com/af35b507...j321o3_500.png https://64.media.tumblr.com/160f9218...j321o1_500.png OldShowbiz/Tumblr Here are some shots of the place with it's new moniker, IT'S BOSS: (According to the lineup ad above on the right, The Regents were a house band that played every night. Also note the address has an extra "4" in it.) https://64.media.tumblr.com/d1a34694...321o2_1280.pngOldShowbiz/Tumblr https://64.media.tumblr.com/1f55686f...o4_r1_1280.pngOldShowbiz/Tumblr https://garagehangover.com/images7/I...fulRegents.jpgGarageHangover https://64.media.tumblr.com/a55e662d...j321o2_500.png IF YOU CLICK ON EITHER OF THESE PHOTOS YOU'LL GET A LARGER SIZE. 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_______ Hotel name change 1966-1976: Continental Hyatt House. I had found a mention of Spectrum 2000, but E_R's photo post of it above has given me a great clue! That photo has a banner on it that says "Opening August 6th" (I believe it's a 6). What I had found out about "Spectrum" was from this poster: https://rocktourdatabase.com/sites/r...-31laspect.jpgRockTourDatabase It's for a New Year's Eve party that the link says was held December 31, 1966. So that leads me to believe Spectrum 2000 opened in August of 1966. _______ It was probably, but not definitely, Art LaBoe's after that. This photo is not dated, but has the Hyatt name and also the Ciro's location is now Art LaBoe's. Notice it uses the same large circle design on the front, and smaller ones on the side, as the "Spectrum" design. https://s3.amazonaws.com/media.citiz...t-20034-pm.png Citizine This photo is undated from the Ciro's Facebook page: CLICK ON IT FOR A SUPERSIZED LOOK. https://scontent-lax3-1.xx.fbcdn.net...4b&oe=5F406C42Facebook _______ A bit of history before the next notation here: In 1968 the gay dance club The Patch in Wilmington, 610 W. Pacific Coast Highway, covered elsewhere on NLA, was raided by police and there were subsequent riots and demonstrations. https://www.linktv.org/sites/kl/file...015005_002.jpgKoymaskyBlog That link above states that the owner of this establishment, Lee Glaze, subsequently opened Hollywood's first gay dance bar, "Patch 2" at the former Ciro's location in 1968. This is a 1969 advertisement in The Voice magazine: http://digitallibrary.usc.edu/utils/...XT=&DMROTATE=0Calisphere A 1970 ad from The Voice that supposedly is connected with Patch II, but not enough info given for verification. IT'S -- interesting that maybe it's related to, or a riff on "It's Boss"? http://digitallibrary.usc.edu/utils/...XT=&DMROTATE=0 Apparently the Patch II club had various entertainments including Mr. Valentine and Groovy Guy contests. Here's a 1969 photo from one of these nights: http://digitallibrary.usc.edu/utils/...XT=&DMROTATE=0 It's noted that the person on the far left is Jim Bailey. See other interior photos from here: Calisphere One is dated 1971, so if the 1968 starting date is correct, these were onging for at least three years _______ This is a snapshot from 1973. The marquee on the location does not look as though it says Art LaBoe's and all sources I've read, including their website, say that The Comedy Store opened there in 1972. https://live.staticflickr.com/6210/6...124c0edd_b.jpg NickFaitos/Flicker From The Comedy Store's website: The Store was founded April 7, 1972, on the Sunset Strip in West Hollywood by comedian Sammy Shore, his wife Mitzi and comedy writer Rudy DeLuca. The Comedy Store would become entirely Mitzi’s to own and operate as the result of her divorce settlement with Sammy in 1974. The Original Room, as the name suggests, was originally The Comedy Store’s single stage as the portion of the building which now houses the Main Room was rented to other establishments until Mitzi purchased the entire building on Sunset in July of 1976 and created the multi-stage venue which The Comedy Store is today. So from 1972-76 part of this building was rented out "to other establishments". On L.A. Curbed's "Mapping Radio Legend Art Laboe's Los Angeles Through the Years," their paragraph about 8433 Sunset Blvd. says: "Early in Art's L.A. career, he did a stint interviewing celebrities at this Sunset Strip restaurant. Later, in the 1970's, Laboe bought Ciro's (then an ailing special events venue) and turned it into the Art Laboe Club. Old photos make it look like he shared the building with a smaller version of the Comedy Store; the building is entirely the Comedy Store now." Source: https://la.curbed.com/maps/mapping-r...ough-the-years I do not find any source that LaBoe had purchased the Ciro's location. This source had a link to the website that it said "old photos make it look like he shared it with the comedy store", and two other sites I looked at have the website as a link but it is not working as of now. Defunct link: http://artlaboe.com/Art_60s_-_70s.html#12 To make matters more confusing: In 1974, Liza Minnelli married Jack Haley, Jr. there and the place was redone to look like Ciro's of yesteryear. I could find no photo's of the exterior that night. There's a couple interior ones from Getty. This LINK has a description of the wedding which says it cost $75,000 to transoform it into Ciro's again, incluidng a new neon sign to cover "Art LaBoe's Club" sign. This indicates the Comedy Store and Art LaBoe's club were sharing the place in 1974. The info above says Mitzi Shore had the building all to herself in 1976 when she bought the whole place. 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The banner in e_r's original Spectrum 2000 picture shows August 17th as the opening date. It also appears in the getty images picture. https://i.imgur.com/9Up7AW5.jpg I went with the banner on the club's wall - the getty images dating info is more often wrong than right. :) The Mad Mod Party poster mentions KRLA dj Rhett Hamilton Walker. He joined the station in the Fall of 1967, ruling out a 1966 date for the poster. https://i.imgur.com/bDHVQ3C.jpg Have you happened upon this version of the Ciro's timeline? Google Books - The Comedians: Drunks, Thieves, Scoundrels, and the History of American Comedy It throws some new names into the mix - [1957] - Ciro's badly damaged in a fire. Property foreclosed, sold at auction to a bank, handed over to Frank Sennes. [???] - Reopened as The New Ciro's. Short-lived. [1961] - Le Crazy Horse Dance Contests and European type showgirls. Short lived. [???] - The Bed-Room Singers and hypnotists. Short-lived. [1967] - Ciro's Booking black acts exclusively. [1970] - Ciro's Jr. Operated by comedian Duke Mitchell. Not sure how accurate it is but likely some leads to follow up. :shrug: :) |
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VIEWER ALERT.................... Tonight (7-25-20) Jacques Demy's Model Shop [1969] is showing on TCM at 11:45 E / 10:45 C / 9:45 M / 8:45 P. There are fantastic views of Los Angeles throughout this film. (1969/69) https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/1...924/nQ1sJS.jpg TCM Gary Lockweed . Lockwood spends an inordinate amount of time driving through the streets of L. A. in his foreign-made green convertable. https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/8...923/wccFBz.jpg tcm . |
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Hi, HossC, I know the snapshot photo is blurry, but it looked to me like black writing on top and bottom and red in the middle, so I thought it might not be. But it might be. :shrug: Quote:
Yay, that's what we need, more names! I wish these notations were sourced. There are so many things not sourced. That New Year's party, for example, is listed as 1966 in at least 5 places, including the Iron Butterfly website of appearances and the Rock Tour Database, so mis-information gets spread around. Also, there were different rooms with different names, so it get's called different things. However, when I have time I'll keep making notes. Today I'm going to watch MLB games! |
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Folks, I just found a contact sheet for Robert Frank's The Americans, 1955-1956. [see below] https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/1...924/lHUtbK.jpg https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/1...923/bh9Dl4.jpg eBay Along the top of the contract sheet there are several images of this same arrow. . . . .but, unlike the mystery photo, we can see over the roof (& beyond) the warehouse-like building. https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/1...924/wKYf7s.jpg detail Although it's blurry, here's a super-sized enlargement. https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/1...922/LCBvO4.jpg detail Does anyone recognize the area in the distance? I sure hope so. LINK |
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You beat me to it by seconds, Beaudry! There seem to be quite a few images showing the area around the western end of the Third Street tunnel/Hope Street and the Alta Vista. I've marked my guess for the location of the building with the X on the 1955 image below. It's on the sloped road that runs parallel to Hope Street joining Third Street to Second Street. The Alta Vista is the white building on Bunker Hill Avenue in the lower left corner. I think that the windows of the large white building on Cinnabar Street match the building in the background of the mystery photo. https://hosting.photobucket.com/imag...treetView1.jpg USC Digital Library |
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This 1956 LAPL image shows the building from a different angle (but no arrow). It was originally posted on page 2 of NLA, but the hotlinked image is now missing. https://hosting.photobucket.com/imag...treetView2.jpg LAPL |
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Excellent sleuthing Beaudry and Hoss. So do you think the neon arrow was pointing to the parking lot behind the building? and not some opium haze-shrouded subterranean Chinese Restaurant. . . like my overactive mind had imagined. edit: This lot. https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/8...922/AE5MdG.jpg originally posted by HossC . |
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I just watched Tarantino's Once Upon a Time ... In Hollywood last night, where Tarantino paid homage to The Model Shop with driving scenes (and a small British roadster) around Hollywood in 1969. :) |
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I realize we have seen the Cinerama Dome innumerable times on NLA but here are two original tourist' slides taken in 1964. This first slide caught my eye because the dome appears to be located in a fairly sparse area (& not in the middle of Hollywood!) https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/1...924/ugd2C7.jpg eBay In this next slide we're looking in the opposite direction towards the Sunset-Vine Tower (southeast corner of Sunset and Vine) https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/1...922/WHwyeJ.jpg eBay I remember going to the top of Sunset Tower for drinks back in the 1980s. I don't recall the name of the bar but I believe it was the 'in place' for a jazz. also. . there was an express elevator that took you to the top. (hmm. . .or maybe it was just a normal elevator that became an express at night) Does anyone know if there's still a nightclub at the top? . |
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https://i.pinimg.com/564x/e0/21/ba/e...dff547a901.jpg There was a fire in the building in 2001 and it was empty for several years and another fire occurred in 2005. It has since been turned into luxury apartments. Here's a link to a blog page called HERE IN THE HILLS, by a lady who lives in the hills who wrote some posts about the building and took photos of it from her place in the hills. There's a lot of photos. There's probably more about it, too, if one wanted to search her blog. http://sitteninthehills64.blogspot.com/2008/03/ What she wrote about Simply Blues: There was a rather nice restaurant on the top floor, back in the day, called Simply Blues....There you could hear pretty good music and have some fairly good food, too. I remember going there sometime in the late 60's early 70's after seeing the fabulous show "Jacques Brel Is Alive And Well" at the then Huntington Hartford Theatre, up the street on Vine...(Now called the Ricardo Montalban Theatre.....) Later, that same restaurant/bar/jazz place was known as 360, because of the fantastic views from all sides, encompassing 360 degrees. I ate there once with some friends before going to see a show at the Pantages in the late 1980's. This NLA post shows the menu cover of Simply Blues: https://skyscraperpage.com/forum/sho...postcount=5847 Quote:
.....http://www.maggiore.net/greenacres/images/ztheme2.jpg "I just adore a penthouse view..." To answer your question, E_R, the top floor is now two penthouse apartments. I read there are 63 Luxury Apartments now in the building. According to their website, there are only two available right now. A two bedroom on the 17th Floor and one of the two Penthouse Apartments on the 20th Floor. If you want to take a virtual tour or look at some photos: https://sunsetvinetower.com |
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That's it, M P! The two different fonts on this matchbook are Simply. . . . .:yuck: https://i.pinimg.com/564x/e0/21/ba/e...dff547a901.jpg There was a lot of bad taste in the 1980s. For example: I wore a pair of pink and green pastel cotton shorts to Catalina once. I also wore a Koala Blue sweatshirt from Olivia Newton-John's store on Melrose Ave. https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/6...922/SFJku9.jpg Korner of Australia Los Angeles = K O A L A (Blue) . . . . . . . . . . . . .(I thought it was clever) Other than that I was pretty cool. ;) . |
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Here's an article on the popularity of Melrose Avenue in the New York Times April 7, 1984 https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/1...924/z4GsGr.jpg https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/1...923/O1tjAq.jpg nytimes / timemachine I think you have to be a subscriber. . |
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