Oh! You just reminded me of the old San Pedro St. / Hammel / Arcade Depot / Exposition Park / Colosseum Palm. 🌴
I had to go back and read up on all of it again.
B.T.W., did anyone ever figure out what the sign on the palm as it stood outside the depot said?

I think it boils down to fashion and the customs of the era. Marlowe's look was a part of who he was.

Here's another L.A. area private detective who's heyday was about 40 years after that of Marlowe. Jimbo's wardrobe seems much better suited to the Southern California climate but his ever present sports jacket is not something you see too often outside of a formal setting these days, another 45+ years removed.
I think also, the general auras of each character, despite being set in the same area are vastly different. One generally worked in the dark and the other lived at the beach.

https://i.imgur.com/lFOFAw0.png?1Pinterest

Also, mystery location anyone?

.Here's a sweet photograph of someone's mother in Long Beach. (c.1940s)

https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/8...922/O0PFI9.jpg
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. . . . . . . . .It says 'Mother' in the foliage.:previous:




Here's a better look.

https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/1...922/I1lZEh.jpg
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If you look closely you can see a couple of sailors walking in front of the Cinderella Ballroom. On the left we see the Alamo Apts.


OK, glance at the smaller photo again. I'm intrigued by the tall pole with all the spotlights. What are they lighting up? (what are they aimed at) :shrug:. . . I don't think it's the Cinderella Ballroom.


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e_r, that's my bailiwick--the lights are aimed at the front of the Municipal Auditorium:

https://i.postimg.cc/Dz0kzxC3/LBCivic-Aud.jpg
https://losangelestheatres.blogspot....rium-1932.html

https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-EF1UYtl3d...-LBPL_3730.jpg
1975 Long Beach
The stage part of the old auditorium was left in place and the new seating area auditorium/lobby was added on in the same footprint as the old building.

https://youtu.be/46s00KC812M

Here's a film from the later 1940s.....a time travel Trip in Burbank, California, Residential Area Ride late 1940s, we can clearly see what is happening in broad daylight,

We also see a lot of those old wet-garbage cans [lined with newspaper]. My mom taught me how to line the can when I was 4 years old. It was one of my boyhood chores.:tup: When trash burning was banned, everyone bought the large barrels we see today. Life changes.

From a Los Angeles Times article on small pieces of real estate.

Reference to 440 N. Figueroa is inexplicable; they're obviously talking about 440 N. Los Angeles St.:

https://i.postimg.cc/9Qs1bkFp/440-NL...AT-48-1-26.jpg
LA Times, 1/26/1948

Now let's go back to 1882. We're looking north up Calle de los Negros from that irregular piece of open land where Aliso St., the aforementioned Calle, and what was then the north end of Los Angeles St. come together. In the distance upper left we see the old Lugo house's peak. Just out of frame at mid-left is Coronel Corner. Is the walkway in front of J. Kennedy's humble structure at right foreground the sliver-parcel that the above article is referring to? The site is well-placed to have served as the public hay scales at that busy intersection.

https://i.postimg.cc/T2Q9F13h/440-NL...-USC-c1882.jpg
From the USC collection; detail

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On the 1921 Baist map the only building on a sliver of property in that location is numbered 410 N. Los Angeles Street.


https://i.imgur.com/dggsoJM.jpg
digitallibrary.usc.edu


Tie-in with Lucille P. Cate, there's this John R. Cate hay business at 410 N. Los Angeles Street .

https://i.imgur.com/DFtXX6h.jpg
rescarta.lapl.org



Look out!!!!!

Runaway horses and wagon near the hay scales in 1876.

https://i.imgur.com/DWwUrs5.jpg
cdnc.ucr.edu - Los Angeles Herald, 20 January 1876

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odinthor and Noir Noir's posts reminded me of this old post from 2013. To this day I've never been able to find #424 in any photographs of Calles de los Negros. (unless I did & forgot about it)

Be sure to read the long article. It's quite descriptive.

Glancing around for Ballerino data, I ran across the locations of some property he owned at the time of his death, which might be of interest:

https://i.postimg.cc/qvsYbpnM/Ballerino-LAT-09-7-14.jpg
LA Times, 7/14/1909

^^^ Note that the Sheriff had been for years a close friend of this King of the Cribs.

This adds some information:

https://i.postimg.cc/PxxR5Z7P/Ballerino-LAT-09-7-29.jpg
LA Times, 7/29/1909

A decade earlier, he had also owned this impressive tract:

https://i.postimg.cc/Jn2dD0wK/Baller...r-01-11-13.jpg
LA Herald, 11/13/1901

Bartolo Ballerino had been born in Chile ca. 1831, and was in L.A. by 1856, in which year he wedded Miss Maria Ampara Salcido in L.A.

That was a great video! Thanks

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Thanks for the additional information on Bartolo Ballerino, odinthor. . .very interesting. (the name Bartolo Ballerino sure rolls nicely off the tongue)



mystery location.


Armless lady visits Los Angeles.

https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/1...924/GZQy2R.jpg
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https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/3...923/CfHuAW.jpg


I thought the building at far left might be the old Queen of Angels Hospital but I don't recall a church ever being in front of it. (I think that's a church)

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Before we get too far removed from Samarkand/The Freezer posts I wanted to point out another unknown location.


It appears in a short film from 1927 titled Hollywood the Unusual. (which we have seen earlier in the thread)

I thought we might be able to figure out this particular location because of the various clues.

Here's a screengrab.

https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/1...922/4gl3JP.jpg






Watch the complete video below.

I just noticed the short film was directed by William Taylor. Do you think that is murder victim William Desmond Taylor?

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The video is truly wonderful.




Hollywood the Unusual was originally posted by Handsome Stranger back in 2011.
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I posted that video link because I thought ER would like it. He usually likes my posts.

[QUOTE=ethereal_reality;9234463].

It appears in a short film from 1927 titled Hollywood the Unusual. (which we have seen earlier in the year)

I just noticed the short film was directed by William Taylor. Do you think that is murder victim William Desmond Taylor?

Doubtful - if the film is from 1927. William Desmond Taylor was murdered February 1, 1922.

The clue is also in the bottom right picture. To me it RESEMBLES the viaduct for the recently demolished 6th street bridge. That viaduct was much higher than most others, had the same slight arching, and had 3 support piers in each row.

But it did NOT seem to have a lower viaduct immediately in front, which blows up that theory pretty nicely.

Here's a link with some old pictures: https://bridgehunter.com/ca/los-angeles/sixth-street/

It looks like 7th street to me, and it would have been a few blocks from this location.

Is it just me, or was that Zorro on top of the Egyptian Theater?
And perhaps I'm mistaken, but I think I saw Crossroads of the World identified as apartments?
Though, it has been about 10 years since I've walked through there.

I'm going to presume that they may have limited their presentation to locations that were in what is generally considered Hollywood.
IF that's the case, I'm going to just assume that it may have been the 7435 Sunset location.
I tried to find more information about "Barry's Battery and Ignition", if I'm reading that sign correctly, however in my admittedly breif search I wasn't able to find anything.
(I'm at work, and didn't bring my laptop with me, and trying to do that level of searching on my phone is somewhat more tedious than I have the patience for at this moment.)

Ah-ha!